BNSF's Butte Subdivision

[@daleshipman7139]

Did the trip thru the Powder Rivere Basin and then east to Crawford in August. This area is a wonderland for railfans. I was able to spend one night along the tracks east of Crawford and the night sky is breath taking. The sound of the locomotives means little sleep, but that's secondary when you're in an area like this. Once again excellent production. This is worth watching several times.

[@Railroadracer49]

Great show Les BNSF is my favorite class 1 freight railroad

[@RailwayProductions]

Glad you liked the program!

[@mbta1000]

Yes, I remember seeing this on the television in your store.

[@RailwayProductions]

Great memory! I don’t even remember what was on when you were there lol

[@Brian_rock_railfan]

Great video 🚅🚅🚃

[@tatecarlson]

This was such a great showing for the State of Nebraska. I had family live up in that part of Nebraska and when I lived there I would saddle up one of the horses my grandfather owned and I would ride adjacent to the railroad tracks as trains roared past

[@RailwayProductions]

Thanks for the complement. I enjoyed my stay in western Nebraska.

[@ianphillips1455]

I went to fillmore and western railroad for a train ride and me and my family enjoyed the food in the dining car yummy yum 😋

[@BNSFfan1848]

Awesome video Les!

[@RailwayProductions]

I really appreciate the compliment!

[@J3scribe]

Excellent coverage, Les. Railroading as it should be, remote and picturesque. The drone footage made all the difference on Crawford Hill, not the most accessible place along the route.

[@RailwayProductions]

Thanks for the complement! Sorry so late n responding. Missed this somehow.

[@J3scribe]

@@RailwayProductions No prob. Wasn't looking for a reaction.

[@johnbuckles3300]

Excellent railway videos.

[@osmanhossain676]

I always like trains. 🚂

[@PCBill0622]

Great collection from a very scenic area. Some amplifications: the mixed freight symbol was a H KCKPSC (Kansas City-Pasco, WA); the manned helpers had that orange control mounted on the front porch railing-that’s for disconnecting on the move which you showed in action on Crawford Hill; if you stay in an Alliance motel, the local cable has a channel with the BNSF call board; this route also carries the Boeing trains-aircraft assemblies produced in Wichita, KS heading to the Seattle area for final assembly; the intermodal train was a Q ALTPTL (Alliance, TX-Portland, OR)

[@RailwayProductions]

Thank you very much for the added information. I tried the best I can to learn the areas that I am recording. But if any additional knowledge is certainly great.

[@ABALLAM3]

Actually it is PAS not PSC, so it would be the H-KCKPAS.

[@PCBill0622]

@@ABALLAM3-thanks for the correction-so I presume you agree with the rest of my comments

[@ABALLAM3]

@@PCBill0622 Yes I agree. It's funny though with the Q-ALTPTL. It used to travel through the Powder River Basin, but I guess there is no capacity there anymore.

[@derrickwong5337]

That's my favorite!!!!😇

[@RailwayProductions]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@derrickwong5337]

@@RailwayProductions Thank you!

[@brendanwilliams7291]

Great job, could you do Cab Ride Through the Rockies please?

[@RailwayProductions]

Working on Rockies. Will get to them soon

[@RailFanRob]

Wow this is like a full length railroad movie!! Well done!! Happy New Year...

[@maxwellwalcher6420]

Would you do CP 2816 please.

[@marv1405]

Enjoyed the trip but disappointed that you bypassed Toadstool Park north of Crawford. The track goes right by it and there are some nice views of the track from the park. We would stop at the crossing on the way into the park and leave some coins on the tracks. A couple hours (and several trains) later on the way out we would retrieve what we could; most would have fallen off the track into the ballast. One thing we learned was to NOT leave the coins on the track right at the crossing. Rattlesnakes liked to get in the shade and seclusion in the small gap between the rail and the concrete of the crossing. We'd go off to the side 5 or ten feet. In those days (1980s) coal was still a favored fuel and it seemed at least 3 trains rolled through every hour all day long.

[@ABALLAM3]

I railfanned this mainline between Gillette and Edgemont in October. I wish I spent more time watching trains on this mainline, but my father and I had ventured over to the Powder River Basin and then down south to the Overland Route, which is one my favourite transcontinental mainlines for railfanning. This line, though, is really interesting for traffic. Not only based on current traffic, but the potential for much, much more traffic. With BNSF's acquisition of MRL and then them eventually upgrading that line to accomodate for more double-track (which is desperately needed based on what I saw and what I have read) it could easily tie into this line for direct link of for shipping stuff between Seattle, Tacoma, and other places in Washington and Oregon to the midwest. There is a lot of ecomomic potential with this mainline, especially since a great deal of it is double-tracked.

[@RailwayProductions]

With the decline in coal it has the capacity and used to be one of the routes where the CB&Q and NP connected.

[@parkerjon29]

Did we really use the same music as the Route of the Southwest Chief? I love this music.

[@Aaronnanneman-c1q]

That sounds like those union pacific EMD sd9043max on those BNSF sd70ace locomotives because that is cool dude

[@osmanhossain676]

I always love California.

[@harrisonofcolorado8886]

55:25 Sounds like that locomotive is going through puberty with that horn.

[@kambour1]

Your railroad videos are absolutely spectacular. Broadcast-quality throughout. Any thoughts of expanding East and including the CSX and NS divisions at all?

[@RailwayProductions]

I’d like to go east. Somehow the Jeep ends up going west…

[@miner49er79]

Look at all those poor idle locomotives , they must feel so unloved ,,,,I wish I could have one ......

[@TheRailfanDan]

Very well done production. What's an average train count on this line within a 24 hour period?

[@RailwayProductions]

We were getting roughly 2 coal trains an hour 1 loaded/empty each way. Sometimes a manifest or other unit train in between. Then helpers returning from Belmont. I honestly don’t know what the traffic is today

[@TheRailfanDan]

​@@RailwayProductionsThat's pretty good! When did you film all of this then? I missed that info in the video if you said it somwhere.

[@RailwayProductions]

Shot in 2020!

[@slowb4lls1]

Wow that’s pretty darn good audio the camera is picking up on the first train for being 6 miles away from the camera 😂

[@osmanhossain676]

I always like beef meats.

[@cpr8959]

@RailwayProductions The bnsf 9237 is a SD70ace not a SD70m!!

[@Joseph-n4l9y]

Put your future in good hands your own.

[@Odelette-g1j]

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.

[@joshwalton133]

I'm surprised that they have helpers over there because I still don't like the whole dpu thing I liked it better when they don't have any remote control helpers

[@TimD1952]

You obviously have never been a railroad engineer...they are always welcome on my trains!

[@joshwalton133]

First off I wouldn't be a rare anyway cuz they won't hurt and push you're an idiot you know that my dpu is are just trying to get rid of people and I'm sorry that just I'm not that stupid to know what railroad is I'm just asking a question why they freaking have helpers man helpers and why they don't use CPUs on that UDP

[@joshwalton133]

And second I just wanted to know why they’re using a man helpers they’re not deep use on that certain main line because nowadays, wherever I see, I always see deep views, even on the mountains here while I live in Utah

[@devernepersonal3636]

BNSFs roster is looking as ugly and beat up as Union Pacifics at this point.

[@25mfd]

during the steam era, railroads had folks called wipers to clean up and wipe down the locos... that all stopped after the transition to diesel

[@slowb4lls1]

Yea clearly their not much worried about how their stuff look aparantly, we sometimes see em where the dash 9 turbo had let the genie out at one time and went up in smoke and burned the whole loco up from like waist high and up is charred and you’ll see it blow by a rr crossing like trailing 3rd and online and not even fixed the burn pile

[@jgilmore3499]

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[@jgilmore3499]

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[@dannyphillips-v4b]

Is this stuff fake I worked rails in chicago. I never see.n such a long train with so many of the Same company's. And so many L f your videos are shot fron such distance they look like those tiny red ants or smaller. Dan

[@RailwayProductions]

All this very real

[@andrewdiesel4014]

Awesome video Les!