Chasing the Grapevine Vintage rr ft FL-9

On Sunday June 18th, I chased the Grapevine Vintage railroad from Grapevine to the Fort Worth stockyards and back. I didn’t get as many shots as I hoped because I got stopped by multiple reds, but the chase was still fun I got lucky as FL-9 #2016 and GP7u #2199 were running when I chased it. At the Fort Worth stockyards, I was able to get multiple recordings of 2016’s boss K5LA due to the train unexpectedly exiting and re-entering the Fort Worth stockyards. Timestamps and locations are below, enjoy the video!
0:00-0:04 intro
0:05-0:58 GVRR cotton belt excursion near Ball Street railroad crossing Grapevine TX 12:56 pm
0:59-1:41 GVRR cotton belt excursion at Mercantile Center Texrail station Fort Worth 1:33 pm
1:42-2:44 GVRR cotton belt excursion at Deen rd Fort Worth 1:49 pm
2:45-5:01 GVRR cotton belt excursion at the Fort Worth stockyards railroad crossing 2:29 pm
5:02-6:36 GVRR Trinity river excursion returning to the Fort Worth stockyards (my mom’s angle) 3:55 pm
6:37-8:06 GVRR Trinity river excursion returning to the Fort Worth stockyards (my angle) 3:55 pm
8:07-9:54 GVRR cotton belt excursion entering Fort Worth stockyards (again) at 4:33 pm
9:55-12:03 GVRR cotton belt excursion departing Fort Worth stockyards 5:02 pm
12:04-12:49 Texrail at Holiday lane railroad crossing North Richland Hills 5:33 pm
12:50-13:36 Texrail at Mid-Cities blvd railroad crossing North Richland Hills 5:40 pm
13:37-15:06 GVRR cotton belt excursion at Mid-Cities blvd railroad crossing North Richland Hills 5:55 pm
15:07-16:39 GVRR cotton belt excursion returning to Grapevine depot 6:40 pm
16:40-end outro

[@RailsoftheUS]

Oh I didn’t know that GP7U still runs I only saw 2014 with 2016 when I saw the grapevine vintage railroad. I’m hoping to return here to visit the stockyards to get a good look.

[@Ferromexfan4081]

Yea the GP7u still runs. It’s always cool to see 2016 and 2014 paired together but I’m glad the GP7u ran instead of 2014 because even though I love the FL9s I don’t like the horn 2014 has. 2016 is my fav of the GVRR fleet

[@kingofnothing8668]

@@Ferromexfan4081 the 2014 still has the same two out of the five "bells" working on that horn that it did when it was still in service for Metro North. Probably just needs to be rebuilt, ti would sound great. It was the only FL-9 to have an RS-5T.

[@lashendawest7509]

Great video and cool catches

[@Ferromexfan4081]

Thx!

[@lashendawest7509]

You're welcome

[@Slipperyisimproving]

Grapevine Vintage Railroad has two of these FL-9s. They named them cookies and cream. Cookies is FL-9 #2014 and Cream is FL-9 #2016. Classic EMD FL-9. Chasing the GVRR with a former New Haven FL-9. The FL-9 has a K5LA which sounds good. Cream the FL-9 and Vinny the GP7U.

[@TexasRailfan21-RailfanRyan]

12:04 now there is a railroad crossing, worth visiting in future videos that I’m going to do. What makes it special is it is the last crossing on the cotton belt line that has mechanical crossing bells on both signals on both sides of the crossing, and they have been modified to only ring when the gates go down but when they’re in the down position or when they rise, the bells, don’t ring probably because they are very loud compared to an electronic, crossing bell

[@Ferromexfan4081]

I agree it’s a good crossing but I wish they made it ring till gates rise like Mid cities blvd. Mid cities Blvd is my fav crossing on the Texrail line bc the mechanical bell and it rings while gates are down

[@TexasRailfan21-RailfanRyan]

@@Ferromexfan4081 in the early days of Texrail the bells originally rang constantly I remember the first year I rode TexRail in 2019 I could hear the bells as I passed the crossing either going to Grapevine or back to Fort Worth. I guess later on the neighborhood started to complain, so they had to modify the bells to only ring once and stop for the rest of the circuit.

[@Ferromexfan4081]

@@TexasRailfan21-RailfanRyanwell it’s to be expected in a world ran by Karens

[@remsterrailroading2679]

I don’t know why but I get the sense of a slight rip off here especially from the name of this railroad 🤔🤔🤔 It’s probably just me though lmao 😂 😝

[@Ferromexfan4081]

Lol I see what you mean 😂

[@Ferromexfan4081]

@remsterrailroading2679 any updates on the restoration of the “new” kitchen car?

[@remsterrailroading2679]

@@Ferromexfan4081 no we haven’t touched it all. We’ve mainly been focusing on keeping our cars cool with the air conditioning units since it’s very hot outside recently. I don’t know if and when we’ll have any new updates

[@Ferromexfan4081]

@@remsterrailroading2679any updates on 72?

[@remsterrailroading2679]

@@Ferromexfan4081 nothing. Right 62 is pulling the small train for awhile and 70/5076 the big train. No idea when they’ll be any new news