The only hump yard that humps in dynamics. The entire yard is down hill.

I saw one of your videos from 10 months ago which was the drone shot of the yard, I am planning on going there this weekend! do you know by chance where the deadline of locomotives is? i foun d a few on the maps but don't know which one

I lived by the Oakville Ford plant and we used to walk through the autoracks as kids lol. I want to see the 3 level ones being loaded

I love your videos and this is my favorite spot to railfan in the area. Commenting before I finish the video but Pepper Ave is another spot at the yard where most of us locals railfan from.

Choreographed organized chaos.

Macon was about the best yard vid yet. They were all good.

Life-long friend of mine is an NS engineer and works out of this yard. Didn't know the yard was this complex and huge

Great coverage of West Coltontown. I worked at WC on the first work train that laid the first cars of ballast. The original design of the yard was lacking because to depart west a train has to depart east and go around a ballon track. I used to hate pulling into the receiving yard with 9000 feet and then had to runaround the train and shove it into an emptytrack. Over the years WC had other nickname s such as malfunction junction. Most of the dead freight now is switched at Montclair yard several miles west of WC. The radio channel is always non stop . Great video!!

I love to see industrial operations still going and surprised the green blob has not try to shut this facility down. Go Bucks!

West Colton is my favorite yard to work in Run8 Train Simulator.

REALLY NICE VIDEO

Good job. If your getting noise on a scanner channel, the LOCKOUT button is your friend.

When this yard opened SP had 6 new SD38-2 mated in pairs to an alco C628 unit turned into slugs. That lasted for a decade before the slugs went away. UP SD40 yard fleet is overdue to get a rebuild to modern standards

I like that dispatcher! Hes always saying "BIG DOG" on the radio.

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PS. I wonder if Trump has any inkling of an idea that this is even occurring; people doing such complex and dangerous work running $2 million locos pulling and shoving $100 million worth products per train, keeping America humming while he sits on his ass in golf cart fart making believe he does and says things of any value whatsoever !!

With the fast-mo, the cars rolling past the hump look like HO models, usually the modern metal wheeled ones like Bachmann's, the way they'll roll unrealistically too fast down a grade when they get loose. 25:44 Those odd sections of track look just like snipped off pieces of Atlas flex ! Not until about 20 years ago did I even know that the 1:1 scale even had panel track ! I used to think all track was laid at the site; ties, then rails, then spikes/clips..like you'd see in westerns.. I suppose it WAS that way in the 1800s, but then sometime it became panels..I do though know the long main lines ARE ties down, then (what, 0.5 mi ?) ribbon rail dropped down on the tie plates (or, chairs, in Britain) then clips (no longer spikes) if concrete ties..

Pretty sure the security guard lied to you. I've shot video and stills all over LAUPT since 1976 and never been stopped or asked not to film. Once in 1982 I was given official permission to film a small Public Access segment in the station with filming lights, which blew out the station's circuit breakers, and they STILL let me film! Last time I did any shooting with a regular video camera there was 2012.

I assume this is a scanner to hear the radio chatter. How radio channels were being monitored?

KZbin is a visual thing. So I found the departing-track-part a bit boring. Nothing moved and only the radio was interesting. "Honey" is not what I hear often in such conversations... Thanks for the video.

Regarding asthethic engg design application and usage. @40:00 sec. Excluding CREST area • RECEIVING YARD application is best .👍👍👍......1track sorting =1 switching. •CLASSIFICATION YARDS application.........1 track sorting = 3+ switching. •Overall area consumption to usage/storage is under average.

Nice video! Its nice!

Some of the speeds and forming "collisions" seem way too fast. Surprised there aren't derailments within the yard. Fascinating to see things in action.

Nice video again! Also very nice impromptu shot of the UP passing train!

Great video , 👍😎

Joli vidéo, merci de toutes ces explications. Amicalement.

the dispatcher @ 29.55 is a hoot. his name is Todd harvey or TLH. here we go big dog keep em coming out.

Man that's some great Footage!!! Bridges make for a great shot! No trees to hit either. 😅 Keep Up the Tremendous Work!

Radio is real loud. I turn the volume down. Then have to turn it back up to hear the commentary.

Really good video with that drone at W. Colton Yard! Thanks!

Who has to walk the train and reconnect all the hoses? The pin puller certainly has a lot of walking, but reconnecting would be much more walking without really knowing which cars need the hoses connected.

That first train is "repo" train. Empty containers that need to get reposition to the LA basin from Phoenix. One can know this because of it being distributed power (DP) and that empty well car on the headend. For Cajon, you can't have an empty well car ahead of 3,000 tons; so the train is very light. The DP motors are there cause the train came out of Phoenix via the Phoenix Subdivision. It joins the Transcon at Williams Junction, AZ. The switch there only opens towards the east. So, trains going west towards Los Angeles off the Phoenix Sub need to either run around their train, or be DP and "swap ends".

I believe that SP “heritage” unit is just an old SP AC44 that is one of the few remaining in its original scheme.

Nice documentation and content. Have a wonderful rest of your evening. Steve

I-LBDI is at 19:04

I live in West Colton I have never saw the hump yard

So the sorting tracks slope down?

The unrestricted visibility typically indicates strong Santa Ana wind conditions, and I wonder how much of that smoke to the west is from wildfires vs the usual smog. Were you having any difficulty flying the drone?

at 4:45 you can see the end of the well car is jacked up, and the tuck is removed. Likely for a wheel replacement.

Always great videos! 👍

As a driver for Halcon, and i work in the yard. UP is slowly turning this into a manifest and Intermodal yard. Up in the receiving yard is where they are adding the intermodal. the bowl near the middle are being rerouted for the hump and the rail car shop or as its called onestop is being moved into the center.

Love the surfliner

What about the light rail?

There is so much potential for such a beautiful station. It's so empty. LA sky makes eny photo nostalgic. They need to bring back the flagship routes and upscale service. Amtrak is like a mass product being produced. A frist class coach, a nicely detailed lounge and sleeper would be superb to attract worldwide attention. Routes that you wouldn't mind a delay because the experience and time spent would be well worth the adventure.

I'd hate to be the kid who has to sweep to at night around there! 😂

Fascinating contraption they made there to dump the cars. Amazing what they made long ago. I'm afraid the last two generations of youth in America couldn't work their way out of a wet paper bag. So sad that America has lost her edge (due to the left and it education system) Great video production work!

Wonderful video 👏👏👏👏 Union Station will become busier when the Coachella Valley/San Gregoriño trains begin service to and from Palm Springs and the Brightline Bullet trains to and from Las Vegas. Amtrak has plans to restore train service to Las Vegas as well so, it will definitely get busier in the foreseeable future. I wish the tower were to be converted into a nice hotel. It would spruce up the area.

Those are hoppers, not gons

I've swapped many times at Burnside. A couple years ago NS moved their crew change from Burnside to Danville so all trains bound for Chattanooga, Cincinattii and Louisville now swap at Danville. NS abandoned the crew hotel, MSI, in Somerset and has since picked up a contract with a different hotel in Danville. To my knowledge the only thing working out of the Burnsiide office is a yard job or two and some MOW/signal crews every now and then.

Nice video work. I grew up in Cincy but before we moved there, my father worked for the C&O Railway in Coal Traffic Sales. We traveled quite frequently on the old passenger service back in the 60s and 70s. I have such clear memories that are treasured. Keep up the great captures.