BNSF -Arizona .. RAW and Unedited, sorry.. Deadheading home on the 4 unit. Flagstaff, Arizona

Deadheading home from Winslow, Arizona back to my home terminal in Needles, California on the 4th rear facing unit.. BEWARE OF LOUD FLANGE SQUEAL when I open the front door !

[@fjb4932]

" A hell of a way to run a railroad..." Must have heard it a hundred times . . . ☆

[@TeamDonRacing]

I say that about myself when I need a shower...

[@RobertValinsky]

I like the video very much.Very good photos of the cab interior and the train.

[@TeamDonRacing]

Thank You !

[@maryanngrabo4378]

I love this video. My Grandfather, Dad, Brother and Uncle, were all Conductors. I heard Dead Head, many times when they came home.

[@TeamDonRacing]

Thank You ! I post is as exactly how it is on a train..

[@maryanngrabo4378]

@@TeamDonRacing I will definitely keep watching. It was a long time ago in the 60's, but I still remember asking my dad as he left for the Yard Office for the Crew Change, " Hey Dad, don't forget your Lantern, Switch Key and Time Table." We were definitely a Railroad Family.

[@TeamDonRacing]

@@maryanngrabo4378 Great memories huh ! Thanks for sharing that.

[@rael5469]

0:49 There's the Flagstaff PTZ rail cam. Very cool perspective seeing it from the train point of view.

[@maestromecanico597]

Like the old saying goes, if you're not the alpha dog the view never changes.

[@TeamDonRacing]

Getting paid the same as the 'head End' crew were being paid to run the train, My Deadhead home for the same money was a nice place to be.

[@JimMiller-lu2py]

Thanks for the view it’s been about 50 years since I’ve been there only it was with the UP. Riding trains is still in my heart ❤️

[@TeamDonRacing]

Glad you enjoyed it Jim. Only a former rail will " GET " my stick figure logo if you look closely...I found this drawing in the head of a locomotive and can only imagine that the Conductor had a rough night and was " Caught Short" and left the drawing to tell how he felt..

[@oubrioko]

Vry nice footage. Nice to see the perspective from the cab of a trailing unit 👍🏿 Cheers

[@TeamDonRacing]

Thank You, I hope your enjoyed our perspective of Flagstaff. We always get nervous there for fear someone not paying attention will get hit. We certainly don't want to see that.. You cannot hit rewind of your mind and forget what you've seen.

[@slserenader]

At first I thought this was a video of a hobo riding in a DPU until I read the full video title and saw "deadheading" looks so relaxing, nice footage.

[@TeamDonRacing]

Thanks.. It's just raw footage I did .. I once was a railfan and I was now being paid to ride in a locomotive.

[@slserenader]

@@TeamDonRacing thats cool. Railroading is a tough job, thats for sure. I wish I could get into it, but it's rare to find conductor openings.

[@TeamDonRacing]

@@slserenader If your willing to move there are plenty of openings in R.R.s. , google ' careers with BNSF"

[@robertreynolds1044]

I'm watching the background and I started thinking, this really looks like Flagstaff, and sure 'nuf there's the station with the name on it. My name is Bicycle Bob and I approved this message and I can spot locations in the west quickly.

[@TeamDonRacing]

I lived in Flag in the late 80's . This was taken while going to my home terminal in Needles,Calif. I lived near Bullhead City in Arizona to get away from the idiocy in California. I drove to Needles 15 miles away to go to work.

[@andrewthacker114]

Good clip, thanks

[@TeamDonRacing]

Thank You !

[@rael5469]

0:30 Seriously? A Crown Vic parked across from Randy's ? It was worth watching for that alone.

[@chickey333]

Heck one of those could have pulled a freight train train all by itself.

[@nhyardlimit]

love cab views! Nice vid. Liked & subbed!

[@TeamDonRacing]

Thank You..It's rough but exactly how it is on a train.

[@basketballspinner]

you got ‘DEADHEADS’ and you got “SHRUNKENHEADS”

[@steverudder3321]

Congratulations.

[@LanternSignals]

Ah yes… deadheading on a train instead of a cab. I’ve done that a few times for sure.

[@TeamDonRacing]

I preferred deadheading on a train as I felt safer than riding in a van with a crackhead driver working for a private contractor van company.

[@LanternSignals]

@@TeamDonRacing yeah some crazy driver stories for sure. Like the one that drove so fast I lost an hour of overtime.

[@andrewp6387]

So is there usjally a person in each engine in multiple engine trains?

[@TeamDonRacing]

Usually only a conductor and engineer on the head end unit. Crews deadheading ride in trailing units. Usually those deadheading tried to get their own unit to stretch out and have a unit to themselves.

[@Peter-mt6lg]

Nice, that sure ain't an RS-3

[@TeamDonRacing]

I started out on Sw1500's doing yard work in Memphis. Humid , Humid Memphis in the summer with NO cab A.C.

[@LanternSignals]

Ha ha. Saw that purple Wi-Tronix box in the nose.

[@TeamDonRacing]

The Barney Box..Round and purple.

[@SignalLightProductions]

What is it for?

[@LanternSignals]

@@SignalLightProductions it’s the system used to access everything about the locomotive. GPS, what throttle notch it may be in. How much air is being applied to the brake system. It even has access to the inward and outward facing cameras. As an RFE I could see everything the engineer was doing remotely.

[@SignalLightProductions]

@@LanternSignals gotcha thanks for the info! Think I'll stick with running my steam engines 😳

[@garyj1709]

Interesting view going backwards.

[@TeamDonRacing]

You get used to it deadheading on a train. Truthfully I'd rather go home on a train than in a highway crew van that is driven by shady outside contractors. Many of the outside contracted van drivers are questionable regarding their drug use.

[@Marcuswelby-nx2te]

Dude how did you manage to swing that?

[@TeamDonRacing]

I was called to deadhead back to my home terminal on a train. If too many crews at the away from home terminal they deadhead crews home. We love it, same pay as if working the train but you just ride home on a trailing unit.

[@Marcuswelby-nx2te]

Cool

[@jeffharper7579]

A mini payction?😆👍

[@davidvogel6359]

is there room to set up a cot so you can sleep on the way back?

[@TeamDonRacing]

The seats recline back quite a bit to take a nap. Not a flat bed but it beats sitting straight up the whole trip.

[@JediTev]

Wow! While this extremely cool, i thought there was a law you can't have cell phones out in a cab. I'm not knocking this person, i would hate to see them lose their job for this, thats all.

[@trains365]

Your right, there is a law / rule about no cell phones in the cab. That's why he clearly stated that he was deadheading home and he is in the last trailing locomotive. In this case the phone is allowed.

[@GordMerrick]

@@trains365 Why the cell phone prohibition with loopholes in the first place? Just asking. Probably due to a distraction. Like here where I live recently a young lady walking down main street concentrating on her cell phone walked into a open manhole with men working signs. She was injured [lost a few teeth] and now wants to sue the city.

[@RichardCox-bu6ps]

@@trains365 Your right, It's all good while deadheading. No one wants to ride in the lead locomotive and crowd the conductor in the brakeman seat, so the trailing units are where you want to deadhead. The 3rd or 4th units are best. The 2nd unit is usually reserved for the head end guys if they need to go do the #2.. You NEVER use your lead unit for that function unless necessary. Before the In-Cab cameras it was common practice for the conductor to run the train while the hogger " Hit the 2nd unit"...

[@TeamDonRacing]

@@GordMerrick The 2008 MetroLink commuter train crash . The engineer was texting and ran a Red block.It started the ban of train crews using a cell phone.

[@AllthingsVegas]

Cool footage, but do you have the entire ride from Winona to seligman?

[@TeamDonRacing]

Sadly no..