@@BillHager1 same here and at the house I film at has been empty for a couple of years. It has an amazing front porch over looking the tracks. The wife said NO! 😆
I'm a locomotive engineer for BNSF and ordinarily I'll come to the comments and defend the operation of trains when commenters are wrong about something, but in this case I agree with most of you. No train should be going this fast while street running in a residential neighborhood.
@@sgt.gunslinger1532 that’s a great question because the speed limit is only 20 for vehicles and the trains do between 30 and 40 mph. I think track speed is 40 mph on that line
@@therailroadtiespiker We have one down near the port of Long Beach along McFarland St, but there's a 10mph restriction on it, plus some of the road crossings are 6.32 box 1s anyway so we have to stop frequently
@@sgt.gunslinger1532 They cannot. They have no jurisdiction over railroad operations. If they feel a train is exceeding some safe speed, they can report it to the railroad and have an internal investigation conducted, but they can't stop us for anything other than an emergency that I'm aware of. If someone has more knowledge and can correct me, I welcome it.
I can not believe the N&S is allowing this and I blame the officials of this railroad...! No wonder they have so much trouble.... I am a retired Engineer and did this for 42 years and I can tell you, I would be going through that area at restricted speed, literally creeping at no more than 10mph.... This is outrageous and the Engineers here should know better... That town should take them to court and force the N&S to slow those trains down...!
As long as the inspection crew is checking the rails, what's the issue? The parked cars are beyond the yellow lines. Train's going to stay between the yellow lines.
It's an uneasy feeling when sat in your car & dashcam shows train coming towards you really fast, you feel a bit trapped because you can't move!😱 Wow they really book down this street it's awesome. 😮👍
There is something about a train going by knowing you don't dare open that left door. With the exception of the GONX gondolas that first train was probably 75% cars for ADM in Decatur IL. Some impressive High wide loads from CAT. Those are the ones that really pay the bills but if you wreck it you just bought it. On occasion Algoma Steel in Sault Ste Marie ships some plate steel SB on the old Soo Line and they actually put orange or red flags on them as some go up to a foot over on the sides that's where Old Bridge supports can pose a problem plus closer to a crew member switching
I actually got to count cars in one of your videos. Now I am happy. 70 on the first train. 75 on the 2nd. 67 on the 3rd. I also love the dash cam angle. 😮
@@therailroadtiespiker I been away for a while, so I missed the last couple. I will have to go back and check them out. Of course sometimes, just sitting back and enjoying the trains themselves is awesome too. Thanks for all you do!
It’s Amazing how Large the Loads the Railroads are capable to Safely Move across the Country. With Various Cars and Personnel to Move almost Anything. 🤔👍
Railroads have speed restrictions and meet orders when hauling wide cars . hopefully they want meet another train on single track . Them guys know where the wide spots are on double track its all taken into consideration.
@@kens.3729 You need to travel the Interstates trucks haul lots of large loads they haul large transformers just like the railroads do trucks haul wind mill blades also and the large dump trucks that haul coal in the PRB are shipped by truck they are too large to go rail.
5:29 And busily working its way down the street is the garbage truck stopping and starting picking and placing those garbage pails. Must be a fun route for all concerned. 28 seconds from appearance to parallel with the garbage can.
I have an idea, don't buy a house with train tracks in the street at your front yard. It's like someone buying a house near an airport and complaining about the noise.
Yes but they can’t stop quick enough if there’s a problem on the street and the railroad has no problem sitting on C street for hours when they’re servicing Red Gold
Wonder how many parked cars have actually been hit cause they parked to close to the tracks.. or least side mirrors are probably a norm that have to be replaced. Lol
And I’ve taken some measurements so the max width of a train is about 10 ft 8 inches 11 feet max. I may be off a little but figure 5 ft 6 inch from center line.
As someone in the rigging supply industry, thankfully the one train crew dealt with tie down chains on the heavy equipment before the street running occurred. Image how much damage 1/2" or 5/8" diameter chains could do to life and property with that close proximity and speed involved - if a flailing chain at 2.5 to 4 pounds per foot were to strike an object!
I think you could say the same about basically every painting. Let's start with Rembrandt and his famous painting: De Nachtwacht. Or van Gogh and his famous painting: De zonnenbloemen. Or Hieronymus Bosch (if you know him. He was born in the city i live in here in the Netherlands. He is also known as Jeroen Bosch.) One of his famous paintings: The Garden of Earthly Delights. Or even the Mona Lisa. Heck, Leonardo should not have wasted his time painting that ceiling in in the Sistine Chapel. Waste of paint in my opinion, and time. Now, i am not going to say everything we see in this video can be considered art, but there are Graffiti artists out there who make beautiful art wasting paint. You know: You could actually make the argument that life itself is a waste of energy, oxygen, resources and all the rest. But my guess is that that will not yet convince you to end it all cheaply by stepping over the edge of a cliff, or will it? So why not let people waste a bit of paint?
LOL MUCH FASTER THAN LA GRANGE KENTUCKY, FOR STREET RUNNING!!!😮😮😮 DURING MY 30 YEARS TIME WITH SANTA FE MECHANICAL DEPT, I ONCE MET UP WITH AN GUY WHOSE JOB WAS WITH FIGURING CLEARANCES FOR WIDE, EXTRA HEAVY, OR UNUSUAL LOADS! AN HAIRY JOB, FOR SURE, IN THE BEST OF CIRCUMSTANCE !! KEEP THEM ROLLING BROTHERS!! 👍👍
@@therailroadtiespiker IN OTTAWA KS THERE USED TO BE 2 STREET RUN ROUTES,EAST -WEST, MISSOURI PACIFIC, OSAWATOMIE / PUEBLO MAIN LINE, AND NORTH/SOUTH AT&SF OTTAWA / TULSA OKLAHOMA, WITH THE CROSSING DIAMOND ALSO ON STREET! UNFORTUNATELY NOW ALL GONE! KEEP THEM ROLLING BROTHERS! 👍👍
This is a matter for the Federal Railroad Administration. Indiana has a number of places where a mainline railroad goes down the center of a street--including the South Shore commuter rail line through Michigan City, IN. But 30 MPH is absurd and unnecessary. I can't believe this has been going on forever.
He was some guy working on one of the neighbors car now just before the train got there they had a bump truck parked along the side of the street so I told them a train was coming soon and they moved it. They weren’t from there. Lol
If that ever happened just lets pray no Chemicals of any kind spill. That would be a disaster, if that happened. From the look at the train speed. It looks like it's going around 35 through here. That would be a pile up.
It's crazy how they will run hazard cars through town like that derail that would be a heck of a mess to clean up would suck couldn't get to your house for months unless you walked
No way in heck that I would own a home on that street. I too can't believe that trains go through a residential neighborhood that fast. I am a rail fan also and work in the industry.
The width is within the max confines of the car as set by railroad standards. Unlike trucks trains can't move over when going thru tunnels and such. If I remember correctly from my heavy equipment days it like 11 feet and you better be dead on center. We shipped a lot at maximum width. Speed in some shots appears fast but that is set by the town in most locations I know of. I know in my town there is one that is rather fast, my opinion, but normal freight train length is given only so long to clear a crossing so they roll it to that speed.
3:19 Omg how fast are they going 70? I can’t believe they go that fast on a street with houses and children possibly being outside. That’s kind of irresponsible. Usually, I thought they only go 5 miles to 10 miles an hour through areas like that.
@@AMTK90200 35 mile an hour in a tight residential area never seen that before usually I would figure trains like that would have to go slow like 10 miles an hour children play in that area imagine a derailment with oil tanks in that area. Remember that runaway train derailment when they lost their breaks and destroyed several homes and killed people. Things can happen just like that. Oil train in Canada that derailed and wiped out 1/4 of the town.
I can still remember Lac Megantic & it was almost 11 years ago, I'm not even Canadian either. I'm amazed they didn't ban trains in that area, but it probably would've been a legal nightmare.
Only 1 of the Cats was over the edge of the flat car and not by much. Not much of a need to slow down. Definitely not over the painted line on road. It is incredible how fast they fly thru the residential area. I'd live to have a vacation house on that road. Would be in heaven a few weeks out of the year, but not living there year round.
30 mph is fine for most people, but there have been fatal accidents at 30 and 25 mph. Young and old sometimes have trouble being able to react, which is why many speed zones are 20 and 15 mph. I'm assuming the 30 mph zone is from 75-85 years ago. These trains are definitely rolling too hot!
Great video...those long shots with the deep focus were fantastic to watch..with all the different visuals..Could you tell us how many trains a day pass there..?
Thank you so much for watching. They can have just one or two trains in a day then have six or seven. Right now they’re having a lot of the train traffic at night because of the tie gang
Well, I'm going to go out on a limb and say, "This doesn't help increase the property value of the houses on that street". Unless of course, you're selling to Jawtooth, Distant Signal, or The Railroad Tie Spiker. They might pay a little more for the house! LOL Fun to watch though. I grew up in New Jersey and there are a few old industrial towns that have lines like this.
I'm nowhere near as popular as these guys, but i would absolutely buy one of those homes and then host a dozen or more webcams for a channel or Virtual Railfan easily. as long as I can get something similar to what I get now where i am which is 5 Gbit Fiber, absolutely I could make that happen.
I've seen enough disaster documentaries involving train derailments to have an idea as to what would happen to those neighborhoods should the worst happen. It isn't worth the cheap housing to die that way. 😓
I completely understand the railroad was there first, and they have the right of way, but going that fast? Street running in Chicago was mostly switching, but they moved at barely above a walking pace.
Right down the middle of the street. Like Germany but with an American train instead of a trolley. That looks nuts in this little town. They don't have land for a street AND a set of tracks?
I wonder how they ever got to lay tarmac either side of the line. I guess it must have started as a couple of dirt tracks which then got progressively widened and then tarmacked
It started as a street back in the 1840 s then the line came through in the 1860s but this was common to see it made it easier to unload rail cars back then in these rule towns.
Those poor people that have to live like that....... I hope they don't loose too many kids or pets ... Slow the trains down or make a different line.... what about derailment ???
One of the neighbors lost their dog this past winter he was hit by NS 122 early in the morning. It was sad he had gotten loss from the backyard. A derailment would be horrible for the whole town
Those noisy trains are really annoying! How, or WHY, do people endure that? If one cannot see/hear a regular train approach, one must be inept beyond comprehension. Our trains don't do that where I live, and we have peace.
so how much "wider" is that load of caterpillars? like how much does it hang over the sides of the flat cars? I assume there's a limit of what is allowed. Excellent video production btw - would be fun to visit a town with such active street running!
Railroads use loading templates so that equipment stays within the minimum acceptable clearance of obstructions on their lines. Clearances can vary depending on the routes narrowest obstructions - these can be bridges, tunnels, structures, etc. This is really important for shippers and for interchanging loads from one railroad to another. Generally, east coast routes are more restrictive than mid west routes. Out of template loads may require special handling or routing to avoid obstacles.
Interesting that because it goes down a residential street, every driveway has to have a crossbuck. I also can't imagine they're allowed to run trains through here at night.
@@carlossanchez-kz4wh it was warm and muggy but I’ll take that over cold weather I was just hoping the storm would hold off and it did. It rained about 10 minutes after they came through
Once the engine is on outskirts heading out, may as well go ahead and speed up because that space in the middle of the road in town is currently occupied. Nobody can get in front of any of those train cars
That fast down the middle of a residential street?? A derailment at that speed, in that area would be absolutely disastrous. I wonder if the NTSB has any ideas on this. I'd bet they don't even know about it. I suspect they're going faster than a car would be a allowed to in the same neighborhood.
The street used to run all the way up to crossing they took out that little section about 10 years ago. I’ll have to point that out next time. Thank you for watching
There's one on my street. It means the street doesn't connect to another street. It's either a dead end, or it ends in a roundabout that just brings you back the way you came. People might think it's a shortcut, so they put up a NO OUTLET sign to tell people it doesn't go anywhere.
Hey what street are you on, I was going to go to Google Earth and look that up That's interesting to see a street that congested with cars on both sides.
Nice videos, but the situation is insane. It's 2024 and you have still trains in the streets and no safety fences? In my country, The Netherlands, it's all seperated. Along the tracks are fences and walls. And in most European countries it's the same situation.
Here in America we don’t want to cut into the profits of the big companies and upset the shares holders. You know greed and profit makes the world go round. Don’t get me started…. Thank you so much for watching
I wonder why in the world is a railroad track running in the middle of a street? Why are people even allowed to park on that street or even better, why be allowed to build next to a railroad?
What is the logic of putting a residential street parallel with a train line? This doesn’t exactly look like the kind of town where there isn’t any open land nearby. This does not seem like prime real estate. With all the risks involved with trains, I just don’t understand the appeal of doing this.
Great question…. Back in the 1860s before the streets were crowded with vehicles they would use street runs too load and unload goods. That’s why you see a lot of old street runs now a lot of them have been done away with over the past 50 years or so with only a few left on class 1 railroad lines they’re just dangerous.
Pretty sure that first train is breaking the speed limit for a residential street. Where are the traffic cops when you need them? It's blowing the branches on the tree even. Then the pan to the graveyard. You sure this isn't a preview of a new dark comedy coming to the theaters? How is this even still a thing?
Oh my gosh, I can’t believe people buy these and drive them in town, terrible vision, they wouldn’t even see a child if it ran out, let alone steer around it!
@@therailroadtiespiker from what I understand the limit in a residential area is 25 mph unless posted differently. I can't believe it would be higher than that. The second train was definitely well above 25.
