My Grandfather worked as a machinist out of the old roundhouse in Kalamazoo. He started in 1916 fresh out of the Army in Bay City with what was then the Michigan Central RR. He retired in 1961 to care for my Grandmother who had Alzheimer's /Dementia. She passed away in August of '71 and Gramps died 4 months later in December of '71 and I believe it was from a broken heart.
@tigertiger16997 ай бұрын
Cheers for sharing…🙏 from an ex machinist in 🇳🇿
@cswproductions12069 ай бұрын
Good catch at a great spot bud
@michianarailfan9 ай бұрын
Why thank you!
@gda442569 ай бұрын
He was flying!
@TheMetGuy3 ай бұрын
That is sure FLYING fast!
@WesternMDRailfan9 ай бұрын
Dude i didn't know they could go that fast outside the nec
@AmandaClark-n9u8 ай бұрын
I think it's the *only* place outside the NEC that Amtrak owns the tracks completely, so they can run at these speeds.
@alwhalen34888 ай бұрын
Chicago-St Louis and around Albany, NY also have segments of 110 MPH trackage.@@AmandaClark-n9u
@keithchartrau19708 ай бұрын
State of Michigan owns the track between Kalamazoo, MI and Porter, IN. That ~100 mile stretch is limited to Amtrak only (no freight trains). That stretch was basically rebuilt as high speed rail between 2009 and 2012 (rail and grade crossings, etc). The Wolverine and the Blue Water do 110 mph on that stretch of track....and have been doing 110 mph for over a decade.
@ConrailQuality7758 ай бұрын
@@keithchartrau1970this is incorrect. Amtrak owns Porter to Kzoo. Michigan owns Kzoo to Dearborn. The entire stretch is in the process of being made 110mph if it isn’t done yet.
@bbtrainproductions12259 ай бұрын
Dam! 🦫
@michianarailfan9 ай бұрын
Ikr
@TheosTrainsWalesOfficial9 ай бұрын
Absolute HELLFIRE!
@tengoindiamike8 ай бұрын
I just booked ticket on this for a trip from PNT to CHI. It’s been like 11 years since I’ve been on this route, looking forward to it. Also love the video and sound!
@michianarailfan8 ай бұрын
Oh nice! I’m going to Chicago and taking one of the trains back to Kalamazoo, I’m going out of Bangor on P371. When are you going?
@tengoindiamike8 ай бұрын
@@michianarailfan Feb 23rd to Feb 26th
@michianarailfan8 ай бұрын
@@tengoindiamike oh nice! I’m going sometime in April to railfan for a couple of days
@wideworldofkevinstransport20029 ай бұрын
That's wolverine service 352
@michianarailfan9 ай бұрын
Thank you
@wideworldofkevinstransport20029 ай бұрын
@@michianarailfan anytime
@wideworldofkevinstransport20029 ай бұрын
@@michianarailfan on May 11 on national train day, I'll be Railfanning in Royal Oak, are you interested to come railfan in Royal Oak
@michianarailfan9 ай бұрын
@@wideworldofkevinstransport2002I wish I could man, i live a good 2 and a half hours away from there, maybe even 3
@tommyboy718 ай бұрын
We don’t care!
@westwasbest6 ай бұрын
A little problem with the LED ditch lights?
@darkman70108 ай бұрын
Wow!!! That Wolverine would have disintegrated anything that would have gotten in its way. Great footage!!!
@whammy33233 ай бұрын
I lived a lot closer to the Grand Rapids station/Pere Marquette route, but would make the extra effort to go to Kalamazoo to get the Wolverine or Blue Water.. I saved almost an hour
@nightowl57933 ай бұрын
Believable
@keithbrown88148 ай бұрын
Interesting how, as this massive, fast moving behemoth gets farther and farther away.....it looks like its barely moving!!
@bennygstrainvideos9 ай бұрын
Wow!
@douglasalan57838 ай бұрын
Very nice catch 🔥
@RailMan102_Productions2 ай бұрын
The wolverine route should be electrified at this point, and perhaps upgraded with class 7 tracks
@banksrail8 ай бұрын
That’s actually 110mph. Max speed of the Michigan line is 110mph and it hasn’t changed. Also seeing the fact that there is a railroad crossing and the FRA rarely certified crossings for speeds past 110mph, this is indeed 110mph. Still sort of fast though. Nice catch!
@danielh17088 ай бұрын
Fastest trains outside the NEC currently.
@banksrail8 ай бұрын
@@danielh1708 Actually, that would be Brightline Florida.
@danielh17088 ай бұрын
@banksrail Odd...I heard that brightline hadn't started operating at the full speed yet. I'll check it out.
@alwhalen34888 ай бұрын
Brightline IS operating at 125 mph on the new grade separated segment from Cocoa to the Orlando airport. There was a delay in the 110 mph segment of the FEC track until all the signal certifications were completed, but that only held the trains to 90 mph. FULL SPEED AHEAD now !@@danielh1708
@ELAlcoRS38 ай бұрын
BL does 125 mph Cocoa to Orlando (sealed corridor), up to 110 Cocoa to West Palm - same as here, grade crossings limit them (Hourly 16 round trips a day wish they could do it in MI). They are talking about 150 mph Orlando to Tampa (2029) in a sealed corridor but I don't understand how 2 Chargers can reach that speed. They're planning BL West from SoCal to Vegas by 2028 at over 180 mph, that'll be the fastest in the US. Can't wait! BL West started work this week.
@Fireball4099 ай бұрын
How did you know the speed was 115?
@michianarailfan9 ай бұрын
It’s track speed on the Amtrak Michigan line for all Amtraks
@Midwesttrains219 ай бұрын
@@michianarailfan they upped it from 110?
@michianarailfan9 ай бұрын
@@Midwesttrains21 from what I heard
@Midwesttrains219 ай бұрын
@@michianarailfan that's cool
@michianarailfan9 ай бұрын
@@Midwesttrains21 I enjoy it
@SCPEthicsCommittee7 ай бұрын
That's crazy! I see these types of Amtrak trains speeding through my town all the time. They should make this crossing have 4 gates so people don't try to go around them.
@mrvwbug44237 ай бұрын
My assumption is the gate goes across the full width of the road, it's probably a narrow road. Anything over 79mph line speed requires quad gates or that the gate go across the full width of the road if a narrow road.
@SCPEthicsCommittee7 ай бұрын
Definitely! Because where I live, all the railroad crossings have 4 gates, including signs saying trains may exceed 80 MPH and ignoring railroad crossing signals is a $500 fine.
@johnwebber64857 ай бұрын
That was awesome!
@jwilliams82103 ай бұрын
Nice!
@daphetidroberto7977 ай бұрын
That seems awfully fast to be going through level grade crossings!
@thegrowl22102 ай бұрын
In the UK we have places where trains go through level crossings at 125mph. Network rail is obsessed with shutting these places down for obvious reasons.
@jim51487 ай бұрын
Too bad the US isn't covered with fast trains like this. An 850 mile trip on Amtrak is 44 hours! And that's not counting the inevitable multi hour delays.
@erikgustafson14102 ай бұрын
Which train are you referring to?
@mccoy79productions667 ай бұрын
Awesome
@WH_Railfan848 ай бұрын
Awesome.
@fredericklockard38545 ай бұрын
That was actually 114 MPH 😂
@superdriver7777 ай бұрын
Yep, works out to 115mph by my math! I timed each carriage at around 0.5 seconds, and they are 85' 4" long (but I rounded to just 85'): 85/0.5 = 170 feet per second 170*3600 = 612,000 feet per hour 612,000/5,280 = 115.91 mph Although, if we are a bit more precise...and say the cars are 85.33 feet long, and they are going by in more like 0.53 seconds each... That yields 161 feet per second, or 109.77 mph Which is likely correct, as the "official" speed on that line is 110 mph...but who cares!
@jamesburnside30237 ай бұрын
WOW
@Benthetrainman9 ай бұрын
Amtrak is technically only supposed to be going 110 MPH
@michianarailfan9 ай бұрын
Amtraks Michigan line they bumped it up to 115
@Benthetrainman9 ай бұрын
@@michianarailfan oh
@tengoindiamike8 ай бұрын
@@michianarailfanWhere did you see that? I’ve been trying to find info on that
@alexbaker28518 ай бұрын
@@michianarailfanamtrak engineer here, i work blue water and wolverines. 110 is max. and depending on your definition of kalamazoo city limits, no trains are doing 110 near kalamazoo (at least in the downtown area. its all 45 and 30)
@Benthetrainman2 ай бұрын
@@alexbaker2851I've seen blue water 364 doing 112 west of Kalamazoo
@squibrail40148 ай бұрын
Wow! Fast.
@garfstiglz39816 ай бұрын
That's about 90mph. No where near 115mph. I work at track level where trains routinely run at 125mph. The noise of the cars passing is too slow.
@michianarailfan4 ай бұрын
Definitely not 90, trains at this part of the track run 110-115
@hollistherailfan3 ай бұрын
@@michianarailfansome people r blind lol
@elacorp8 ай бұрын
Do American trains really run this fast? Because everywhere I see is mocking American trains as slow compared to Chinese
@michianarailfan8 ай бұрын
Chinese trains do run faster, but Amtrak at this line runs 110-115
@elacorp8 ай бұрын
@@michianarailfan but why do the rail authorities reduce speeds at some places and not allow them run their best to meet up with modern demands like it's obtainable else where
@michianarailfan8 ай бұрын
@@elacorp Curves, small towns, restrictions
@danielh17088 ай бұрын
@@elacorp Not having the correct, updated track to safely run at those speeds.
@ELAlcoRS38 ай бұрын
@@elacorp Grade crossings too
@v6cole8 ай бұрын
I live in kalamazoo! :)
@midwest_railfan_officialАй бұрын
woah!
@garryferrington8117 ай бұрын
Geez, slow train to Palookaville. 😴
@TokyoNightGirlLofi7 ай бұрын
beats
@RedArrow738 ай бұрын
In better times, they used to make Gibson and Epiphone guitars here.