Union Pacific's Overland Route: the Kearney Subdivision

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Welcome to the second segment in Union Pacific's Overland Route: America's Original Superhighway, by the Thornapple River Rail Series.
In this miniseries, part of our Superhighway specials, we're touring the entire Union Pacific portion of the first Transcontinental Railroad, long known as the Overland Route, nearly a thousand miles of railroad spanning from the Missouri River at Omaha, Nebraska to the Great Salt Lake at Ogden, Utah.
An incredible railroad, the original Transcontinental Railroad is today a superhighway of commerce, featuring dozens of freight trains of all types through the American heartland. From the lush framlands of the Midwest to the deserts of Wyoming and Utah, the railroad is as incredible and unique as any other.
In this second segment, covering the Kearney Subdivison, we'll begin at Grand Island and work to Brady, just outside the famed North Platte Terminal.
If you missed the first part, be sure to check it out, plus continue onto the following segments, which cover the remainder of the line in a similar fashion.
Locations featured in this video:
Grand Island
Gibbon
Kearney
Darr
Cozad
Gothenburg
Brady
LINKS:
Part 1: the Omaha & Columbus Subs: • Union Pacific's Overla...
Part 2: the Kearney Sub: • Union Pacific's Overla...
Part 3: the North Platte and Sidney Subs: • Union Pacific's Overla...
Part 4: the Laramie Sub: • Union Pacific's Overla...
Part 5: the Rawlins and Evanston Subs: • Union Pacific's Overla...
Thanks for watching! Don’t forget to share this video, like and subscribe to Thornapple River Rail Series!
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Videography Equipment:
-Primary: Sony HDR-PJ790V HD Camcorder
-Edited with: Cyberlink PowerDirector 13
Maps created using Google Maps base imagery, with additional annotations.
Track diagrams based on ATCS territory files.
Elevations based on a Union Pacific Passenger Timetable from 1969.
Copyright 2017 Thornapple River Rail Series by Alex Christmas, All Rights Reserved

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Комментарии : 91

@seandonovan4186 4 года назад

These are the best train videos because you provide some good facts and narration. My 2 year old loves these videos!! Thanks!

@rudolfreiter3089 2 года назад

Wonderful photography and thank you for the information about all these railroad locations.

@iusetano 7 лет назад

I'm lovin' your your Overland series. Excellent video Alex. Hans.

@jeffreymcfadden9403 5 лет назад

Lexington has a nice military vehicle museum. Been there. Worth the stop.

@scottsmith7051 Год назад

Beautiful views, fantastic narration, topnotch video!

@railfanmaximstill7279 Год назад

4:18 They have two places where the cross each other in Eastern Nebraska. Grand Island and Fremont Nebraska

@Mybody4life 7 лет назад

Great narration, lots of facts and figures which totally isolates your videos into a category of their own,great work.

@ThornappleRiverRailSeries 7 лет назад

That's the goal! Thanks for watching.

@mr.j2776 4 года назад

Great views and just the right amount of narration. Great job on the Overland series.

@Rich206L 7 лет назад

This is the best rail fanning channel out here on you tube. Excellent video production and HD quality. It should be on TV! The commentary is also excellent!

@ThornappleRiverRailSeries 7 лет назад

Thanks! Means a lot to have so many people appreciating the work I do even as just an amateur. I try to tell the story and how it all works, and it sounds like that's happening so I'm pleased to keep on doing it!

@railfanmaximstill7279 4 года назад

I live in Fremont Nebraska and I love your work thanks for coming to my hometown dude

@Pow3llMorgan 7 лет назад

Beautiful photography! There were so many great shots in this video ! Lovely work, Alex. You got yourself a new subscriber for sure.

@chuckwlodarczyk4501 3 года назад

Great video my favorite area

@Michiganrailfan 7 лет назад

Excellent. I was out in North Platte in 2015 but didnt spend a whole alot of time. So next trip I plan to go by myself and pace the line from Gibbon to North Platte

@bakerboat4572 7 лет назад

Watch one of his videos from 2 years ago and the difference is massive. Keep up the direction!

@ThornappleRiverRailSeries 7 лет назад

Even I have a hard time watching some of the old stuff! Embarrassing, but worth keeping. Does show the learning curve, and it isn't something you're just born with. Also the addition of quality equipment help tremendously. First camcorder did 360p. Now I shoot in 4K often.

@roberthepworth4149 7 лет назад

I would like to to thank you for great video's you produce over years, that I can watch on main TV here in.the Uk

@ThornappleRiverRailSeries 7 лет назад

Great to hear you enjoy it! More stuff in the pipeline, for sure!

@steelem422 7 лет назад

I really like your stuff you don't talk too much but just enough to help us understand what's happening. Keep it up!

@ThornappleRiverRailSeries 7 лет назад

thanks!

@jimmhenry657 4 года назад

@@ThornappleRiverRailSeries great catch and great video. Keep the good work coming

@babybelly1982 7 лет назад

One of the best train vids, ever!! Great work.

@briankemp5206 3 года назад

Nice one Casey!

@stevenikitas8170 5 лет назад

Best train videos on the web... lots of information.

@DavidIrthum 7 лет назад

Wonderful,entertaining and informative video.

@maxgraupmann9889 6 лет назад

Great video

@dalepeterson5609 7 лет назад

Fascinating.

@jonathanbaker4936 7 лет назад

Grand Island, Nebraska is a nice city to visit. It is about two hour drive east of North Platte. I have family who lives along the BNSF line about 90 miles northwest of Grand Island.

@jovetj 5 лет назад

The Stuhr Museum (formally the "Stuhr Museum of the Prairie Pioneer") in Grand Island is a great place to spend a day when you need a break from trains.

@irvinklugh8858 4 года назад

LOVE RAILROAD VIDEOS

@michaelrice8236 5 лет назад

Thanks for another nice video. By the way, "Kearney" is pronounced "Car-Knee."

@lancenewdinger4316 7 лет назад

i heard at the end you pronounced the name of the sub incorrectly, its actually pronounced Car-Knee. but as an omahan, i love the attention to this vital stretch of the UP line you have shown. excellent detail and narration is always informative.

@legaciesontherails3878 7 лет назад

Really like the way you add in the narration. Shared on my Railroad Bridges, Related Photos & Video, Union Pacific Flag Units, Railroad Auto Racks pages on Facebook.

@ThornappleRiverRailSeries 7 лет назад

Thanks! Sharing means a lot to us creators.

@legaciesontherails3878 7 лет назад

If you'd like to send me a piece about yourself, how, when you got interested in trains, when you started the video series, various places railfanning has taken you, any pics you want used, etc to legaciesontherails@gmail.com, I'd be happy to do a feature about you on my blog www.legaciesontherails.wordpress.com

@andraskertai4969 Год назад

From 16:54 what a horn!

@jeffreymcfadden9403 5 лет назад

DBGX 6634 is a former Southern SD24. I saw a few of these way back when. someone is getting old. PC/CR ran a train from Columbus to SR ry(Cincinnati) called COSR. SRCO was it's counterpart. Here in Ohio, on it's way to/from Columbus you would typically see 1 PC/CR loco(usually SD40)with 2 SR locos. through 1977 typical SR power was SD24s with an occasional SD35. Starting 1978 more SD35s with a lot of SD40s. SD24s were gone. NOTE, for this pool, PC bought new some U23Bs for this train and they were equipped with dual control stands. I did see a couple trains with PC/CR U23Bs leading, running long hood first, quite a sight.

@chuckwlodarczyk9961 4 года назад

Excellent video of my favorite area cudos

@EdEddnEddyonline1 3 года назад

they removed the horn at the 5th ave crossing in Kearney back in 2020 & Virtual Railfan has a camera in Kearney at the same crossing

@denisetindall1487 5 лет назад

I like train videos on you tube😊

@25mfd 7 лет назад

Pentrex has a really good two part vid series on the Marysville sub. I don't think it's on DVD though. It's only on VHS. For you younger rugrats, it'll be your chance to see what a VHS tape looks like. Kinda like going back to ancient Egypt. Nice vid.

@troygly 7 лет назад

I used to go there and watch when the diamonds used to be there before the fly-over tended to be a bottle neck at times.

@jovetj 5 лет назад

Grand Island is in central Nebraska. Kearney is pronounced "CAR-knee" (not kier-knee). Nicely-done video! Nebraska's 3MT doesn't get enough railfan love or recognition.

@ThornappleRiverRailSeries 5 лет назад

I've picked up on my pronunciation error...too bad one can't take one of this videos back to fix it!

@jovetj 5 лет назад

I see other comments have pointed it out as well. You can always come back! I suspect you enjoyed filming this.

@denisetindall3313 5 лет назад

I like train videos on you tube🎄

@YardLimit 7 лет назад

You did a really nice job on this!

@trainsofminnesota5375 6 лет назад

15:23 damn Wayside horns

@xrude7875 5 лет назад

is there a list of these first to last . i enjoy them , but would like to go in order

@ThornappleRiverRailSeries 5 лет назад

They're in a playlist in order on my channel page.

@EinsamerWolf86 2 года назад

what is the meaning of the different colors on the coal cars, which is attached to the corners? on the train at 5:00 you can see it quite well what I mean, in red, blue, green, etc..

@ThornappleRiverRailSeries 2 года назад

Those indicate which end of the car has a rotary coupler. In order to work properly with a rotary dumper, you need each coupling to have one and only one rotary coupler, so they’re marked for easy identification.

@EinsamerWolf86 2 года назад

@@ThornappleRiverRailSeries interesting, thanks for the info! yes that makes sense to me that this must of course be marked, I could not make the connection, probably because I also did not know that you have rotary clutches on the cars

@utubewatcher806 7 лет назад

the e-horns at 15:40-15:46 are clever

@trainsofminnesota5375 6 лет назад

utubewatcher806 Most Railfan's hate them, Even I do

@seabassz_197 7 лет назад

really wanna railfan at gibbon.

@jovetj 5 лет назад

I suggest you hop around the entire 3MT from Gibbon to North Platte. Always something to see, and lots of pedestrian overpasses to camp out on for a while. Those things are amazing for watching trains on!

@NS-ul7zh 4 года назад

What kind of camera do you use to shoot these shots? The quality is so nice!

@ThornappleRiverRailSeries 4 года назад

Camera in the description. I have since upgraded

@UnitedRailfan 5 лет назад

Did I hear you correctly? Did you say 150 Trains per day? like 1-5-0? 0_0 Thats insane

@ThornappleRiverRailSeries 5 лет назад

Yup, was up to around 150 a day about 10-15 years ago. Much more like 120 now, with coal traffic off its peak and longer manifest trains combining numerous trains into fewer longer ones.

@johnfitzpatrick3094 2 года назад

@@ThornappleRiverRailSeries One time, when I was driving to Colorado, I counted 84 trains in 2 hours from Grand Island to North Platte.

@Jaxanator25 7 лет назад

That CNW AC4400CW though

@cubbiejack6659 7 лет назад

Hey man this vid is great I just subbed! I have a question how do you identify where a train is headed and what cereal number it is??

@ThornappleRiverRailSeries 7 лет назад

A lot of the deal is knowing the territory which you are watching trains on. Most have patterns that can give you a pretty good idea. Some less busy lines can even be simply memorized and sighted based on train type. Additionally, it helps to both know people who work for the industry and can fill in the details, as well as listening in on a scanner - both CSX and NS call all signals, for instance, including their train symbol in their call. From a symbol, one can find the origin/destination usually through a google search, since most trains have been talked about on forums.

@cubbiejack6659 7 лет назад

ah ok thanks man, I'm sure i have a scanner in my house somewhere i just need to find it

@ThornappleRiverRailSeries 7 лет назад

Frequencies are somewhat readily available online and most consumer scanners pickup the required range, between 160-162 mhz FM. The American Assoc. of Railroads owns that spectrum and agrees on how to allocate frequencies so the industry has a firm standard to allow for interchangeability.

@TheLewistownTrainspotter8102 4 года назад

15:13 ...And they also sound terrible compared to the horns on trains.

@guyname8760 6 лет назад

This video has good qualities.(say something if you get the awful joke)

@nickygaming1911 4 года назад

27:41 what's with that locomotive over there?

@ThornappleRiverRailSeries 4 года назад

It’s owned/leased by the grain elevator to shuffle cars for loading

@SuperApplefan1 6 лет назад

what are them @10:41

@ThornappleRiverRailSeries 6 лет назад

Maintenance-of-way equipment

@jordanschoenenberger4397 4 года назад

So, is the bulk of Union Pacific's traffic on the overland route coal, because according to the numbers in the Evanston sub video that sub sees around 80 trains per day or so, and yet North Platte can see up to 150, meaning that the almost half of the UP's traffic would be from powder river and other fossil fuel sources, and to me this is depressing, on one level that it means that the OG transcon wasn't actually a good route and that other routes like the sunset were better, and on another level it means that the traffic on the overland will be crushed by another fossil fuel crash like in 2013, and that would further taint the mythical status of this line.

@ThornappleRiverRailSeries 4 года назад

Yes, a lot of the traffic around North Platte is/was coal and that is declining, however there is still plenty of merchandise, bulk and intermodal traffic. Train counts are down to perhaps 40-55 per day on the Evanston and around 90-100 on the North Platte, both from the decline of coal traffic as well as the railroad running fewer, longer trains. This still makes the OG Transcon the second busiest in the country behind the BNSF Southern Transcon. The Sunset Route is still only 30-40 trains daily.

@jordanschoenenberger4397 4 года назад

@@ThornappleRiverRailSeries I think it's high time UP finishes double tracking either the Vegas or Boise routes to better compete in Seattle or LA.

@TheLewistownTrainspotter8102 4 года назад

17:00 Are you sure of that? Because honestly, in my opinion, wayside horns just sound terrible. And I don't see how they improve "quality of life", seeing as the railroad existed long before the people who complained about the noise moved in next to them. And I'm like, "you chose to live next to a busy railroad line so you forfeit any right to complain about the noise that trains make as they pass through town". I say the same thing to people who live next to an airport and complain about the noise of planes taking off at night.

@ThornappleRiverRailSeries 4 года назад

They're highly directional so fewer people end up hearing them. Whether or not they sound nice to you has nothing to do with their functionality as a safety device. There's nothing out there tying people to giving up any ideas about wanting their neighborhoods to be quieter if they live next to the railroad. Sure they may not have the right to demand, but in this case, the people in the town worked with UP to find a solution that worked to cut down the noise.

@TheLewistownTrainspotter8102 4 года назад

@@ThornappleRiverRailSeries Well, quiet zones are only designed for those who live by the tracks and don't want to hear the horn, in other words, don't understand how rail safety works. And this is why I have this mindset towards those people of, "You chose to live by the tracks that were there years before you decided to move there." The one good thing about quiet zones is that you can hear those beastly engines better.

@MrMark85044 7 лет назад

do these trains slow down at night?

@ThornappleRiverRailSeries 7 лет назад

Nope. Railroads are not subject to speed reductions at nighttime, just like you don't have to slow down on the roads.

@MrMark85044 7 лет назад

I was think more of lesser amount of trains than speed. sorry for the confusion. you are finding GREAT places to view trains, mind sharing the GPS on some of them? keep up the great work. your narrations are perfect.

@ThornappleRiverRailSeries 7 лет назад

Ahh, well, some lines do, some lines don't. It just depends on overall flow to and from places. Chicago, for instance, receives more trains in the early morning and expels more throughout the early afternoon, in general. But on a line this busy and with so many unscheduled bulk unit trains, it doesn't really change much throughout the day.

@antonlewenhaupt357 Год назад

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@rachellynn1507 2 года назад

Learn to pronounce Kearney...."Kar-nee" not "Kiern-nee"‼

@ThornappleRiverRailSeries 2 года назад

Yeah I bumbled that one, but there’s no way to fix it now.

@Trainmaster1907 7 лет назад

i think the way kerny does the crossing is just weird.

@gobr2005 5 лет назад

That was UP doing, not Kearney but those horns reduced the noise of the trains considerably. I grew about 1 to 1.5 miles away from the track and could not hears the trains anymore.

@jovetj 5 лет назад

I've actually been to that crossing, and it was the first time I'd ever seen wayside horns. www.quietzonetech.com/index.php?q=content/how-automated-horn-system-works