Train Chaos at Jim Thorpe 

I'm from the top of the mountain in albrightsville I saw this every single day on our way to school with my sister's I still wish I still lived there

If your dad is old he didn't see stuff like this cause these used to be cnj tracks

@@cool1800lemonlaw I think he's just referring to the trains in general and not what company they operate under

@@fermitthekrog6318 I'm just saying it wouldn't be like this if his dad is older RBMN was founded in the 1980s this area used to be completely different it had way more tracks and was owned by CNJ

@@cool1800lemonlaw sure. that whole parking lot was a massive train yard

Well, Snow makes it even more beautiful. Wish I could actually go there when it snows, just too far away to make a dangerous trip like that

that and they are absolutely Railfan friendly.

Have a listen to the whistle on 3830 on 3813 Spirit of progress 1962

Back in the Golden age of Steam, our railroads made distinct whistles to differentiate themselves from other roads. They even tuned them to a point where if they were copies, they wouldn't sound the same. Class J 611 is a great example of this. Back in 2015 she wore a replica J Class Whistle, it sounded awful compared to her original. They tried to tune it multiple times and it would not sound like her original no matter what they did. So in 2016, she got another whistle, it was a similar whistle to her original, and the sound of it was closer, but it was still not the same as her original. to hear the original, you need to watch videos of her in the 90's. It's nicknamed a "Hooter" whistle because it sounds like a steamboat, but the N&W 1218 has the most distinct whistle yet. It's also a Hooter, but it also sounds like Steam Boat more so than 611 ever did.

wait till you hear the 4014's whistle. by far the lowest octave there is. and we dont realy have all bigger engines here, as most are the same size or even smaller then yours that run on the mainline, its just the main difference between us is that your engines were primarily used for passenger, so they needed speed, where ours were made for power to pull up and over the numerous mountain passes we have here. altho your trains will outrun ours, ours would flat out drag yours backwards down the tracks like they wernt even there. both of us however have some awesome and beautiful engines.

Luciano Gonzalez Me or him can’t understand that, we are English.

And 425!

Theres no run around for that train so they have two for push pull then 2535 was picked up to help with the RDC's

It was pulling up to the station to pick up the passengers it brought. They do this every year during the fall season. Basically what happened was: The switcher pushed the train back past the switch point so 425 could connect on her track while the switcher pulls away, giving time for the Tourist train that just pulled in to offload its passengers so it could clear the way for the 425 special to pull up the station platform to begin boarding. What you saw at the end of the video was 425 moving up to do just that, it wasn't leaving Jim Thorpe yet. This railroad is so professional at making all these moves to keep things moving without messing up the schedule. Oct-Dec 425 comes out to play alot on the mainline. It will be interesting to see what specials happen when 2102 comes back. I'm so excited, I never got to see it run.

Back in the old days yes

yes, unfortunately, it was renamed to honor an Olympic champion that was born there.

four different excursion trains and then the SW8 to help switch one of the excursion consist around. During this day, or almost every October weekend, there were 11 or 12 excursions a day

@@Norfolk7130 dang

Normal maintenance and all other things like that

absolutely, these are professionals. They have been doing this for years and all of it well communicated and planned ahead of time so they keep things moving.

The one broke down on the way to JT

Norfolk7130 Makes sense. But couldn’t the other one do it? Oh, they found a nother bud car. It’s being put on the other two. It’s a nice one from the susquana railway.

I mean even tho they're budd cars the grade is pretty steep, 9166 was the one that crapped out so they would of had to rearrange the two, and 9167 aka the NYSW one isnt restored yet

Norfolk7130 Yeah it is, I saw it pulling out of Pottsville by its self.

Norfolk7130 Oh, and at 7:25, I rode that one. Even in the caboose!

I've always preferred the Reading 6-chime.

yes, about 5 of them went to RBMN this year, and another 2 went to Smokies.

Not sure about that. They showed up from LTEX as GP30U's and RBMN did nearly nothing with them

@@Norfolk7130 the GP30 had 2250 hp. The PM had an upgrade to give it 2500 HP making it technicaly a GP39

@@Norfolk7130 So True

techneclly they are GP30u's. the R&N didn't upgrade them past what ATSF did and only gave them a new designation. they still have a gp30 prime mover just recieved the 645 power assemblies. these are the cylinders and cylinder heads which increases the cylinder capacity to 645 spec's while still using the 567D block and crankshaft. These prime movers are referred to as 16-645D's because they are "modified" versions of the 16-567D3 prime movers.

Daily railfanning I thought the same thing.

Thank you

Jim Thorpe Pa

fletch61 I don’t live far from here

I have been on the Great Smoky Mountain Railroad out of Bryson City ...that was fun

I drove on of the GP39rn’s

These tracks are only excursion lines. On the north side of the tracks across the river are the freight lines.

No, there is freight that rolls through on this side of the river. Go to 1:50 in the following video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-4se3Pov70Qc.html

Just this one time though

Have you ever heard of Google? You can answer your own question in 5 seconds.

Mike Smith is correct ..the reason most people were there were for the show, and the engineers didn't want to disappoint them.. ( especially the riders who paid for the show as well as ride)

this was technically chaos because that is the most I have ever seen Jim Thorpe move so many trains in such a short amount of time. 425 in the mix with her special makes it that much better.

It just really depends on tags, video title, keywords etc. Theres a lot of videos from jim Thorpe that have way more views then me

Norfolk7130 I see