COTTON BELT ENGINE! CENTRAL MAINE & QUEBEC ENGINE, F.R.E.D. GETS ATTACHED, PERFECT ZIPPER!

[@donnaj9964]

The zipper, the lightning, the rocket launch, and especially the continuing work at Barstow made this another great one. Very cool!

[@lynsmith]

Good Grab Bag ! Barstow is looking more better final we can see the rest of the yard and Signals! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[@peterjensen6844]

Needs the lightning strike that took out the La Plata PTZ camera. The strike on the East camera there was INSANE.

[@rogertemple7193]

Every time I watch each of the different states that the trains go through especially Oklahoma City i also always have to look at the beautiful scenery that they pass by as always Thank You VR Grab Bag.🚂🚃🚃🇺🇲🇨🇦

[@the-terrible63]

Wow! Excellent catching all the trains, I like them, they're awesome, @Virtual Railfan, thank you very much and have a nice day and night.

[@randydobson1863]

Hi Virtual Railfan & it's is Randy and i like yours video is Cool Thanks Virtual Railfan & Friends Randy

[@paullogan9960]

14:01 comment needs to be sent to UP. See even the crane stops for the train, you should too! Thank you for the videos!!!!

[@gp3829]

Great start at Rochelle with all those UP Locos. I liked the sound of the MOW Truck's Gears as it towed those 4 Ballast Hoppers at Oklahoma, I presume it has a Hydraulic Drive? The Bridge Finale was interesting. I wondered if the Piers will be retained, for a Pedestrian Crossing, for example? Watching the Bridge come down, using all that modern Equipment, I imagined how it would have been originally installed, when not much of that kind of machinery existed, or was in common use.

[@J3scribe]

Cranes have been around for hundreds of years.

[@gp3829]

@@J3scribe Yeah you right, but I was thinking more about the Cherry Pickers and Forklifts and Telehandlers.

[@chriscarlson7915]

Great "window of opportunity" ending.

[@donnaj9964]

That was cute!

[@gregginter5867]

Barstow has a huge track maize! A person could set up a picnic n watch trains all day!😇😂

[@ChainsawNW1218]

NS power in Wichita on Military train and worker in Roanoke putting EOT/Freddy on was good catches, nice video!🛤🚂

[@gregginter5867]

Barstow has a huge track maize! A person could set up a picnic n watch trains all day!😇😂…ps: digging that Liebharr T-Rex, too!😂

[@user-vh1uc6in7b]

Cool Catch!!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🚂🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@coreypeters4170]

6:12, It's so nice to see CSX 1869 back in service.

[@BadKruser]

Wow, they don't fool around in Barstow. They made short work of that project.

[@cadmanchannel]

Not how they do it in Japan. Godzirra would have kicked that bridge down in a few seconds.

[@microbusss]

bridge being replaced or what?

[@gregginter5867]

@@microbusss…so what happened to cause removal?

[@microbusss]

@@gregginter5867 idk thats what I was asking

[@davidbrown4823]

CM&Q had a unique paint scheme.

[@ghtaboma]

The grab Bag is great!!!

[@Riverside_Railfan417]

I've seen 1158 in person, in my home town, in Wisconsin a couple years ago

[@Dieselelectric1]

The greatest railfaning YT chanel in whole America!❤🎉🚆

[@MrBnsftrain]

0:06 starting with the Cotton Belt GP60! 1158 is one of six SSW gray units left on Union Pacific and was numbered 1943 before the Spirit Of The Union Pacific SD70ACe was revealed. This is part of a 10-unit lash-up 0:50 NS 1066 leading through Elkhart (tailing at the same spot at 7:47 between two DC to AC units) 1:00 Patrick Henry private cars 1:30 BNSF inspection train exiting the lower level of the SFJ bridge 2:05 mystery load being moved by barge. Apparently, it's a pneumatic pump for loading an unloading cement from boats 2:56 two GEVOs with airplane fuselages in Wichita 3:35 Pan-Am boxcar 3:48 hi-rail truck over Horseshoe Curve 4:00 RS 8922 4:34 ex-CMQ AC44CW. This unit was on long-term lease from CEFX and later purchased by Norfolk Southern 4:46 hi-rail truck pulling ballast hoppers 5:30 NS doubleheader on a military train through Wichita 6:11 CSX 1869 leading 6:37 two H2 SD70MACs and a boxcar on a flatbed 7:25 NS 4000, two CN locos, and an NS GEVO 8:25 two trains from the Willard sub go onto the Toledo sub towards Leipsic where it junctions with the NS Fostoria District and the Indiana & Ohio's DT&I North sub 9:30 It's been a while since we've last seen a space launch from Florida 10:15 as one train finishes passing, another passes with 8 locomotives, including ex-SSW 1158 11:33 more bridge removal in Barstow. Laying crossings for the big crane and cutting up the large span. Only then, do they remove the final section 20:41 doubleheading SD70ACes on a coal train. Nothing special, I just wanted to mark where the bridge removal part ends 21:32 Hi-rail truck pulling MOW vehicle-carrying flats passes a stopped Southwest Chief 22:19 ACS64 and P42 on the Pennsylvanian

[@mrron9]

There was a lot going on, on that Cotton Belt engine!

[@Projeect2008]

The clip with UP1158 also had a ex SP AC44CW trailing behind it on M-ALG3.

[@coreypeters4170]

22:54, I see you man!

[@Branddenthepinkgoldpeachfan]

*Awesome Video*

[@bowlinerailfan]

Just think that before big modern jets flew the skies, they first flew the rails

[@peterp1158]

0:33 For a moment there, I thought that was the famous "Onion Pacific" heritage unit.

[@SmokeyGoodness]

9:35...The booster that fell over on the drone ship last night!

[@jamesupchurch6037]

4:39 you forgot about that black and yellow box car (before the TTX one)

[@coreypeters4170]

20:57, Hey look, it's BNSF 8541 and 8546! Sister locomotives!

[@andyolin3988]

At 0:19 UNIOON PACIFIC? (replaced panels) Still looks funny. 😅

[@The_Dudester]

14:28 nom nom nom nom nom

[@alanosilva886]

Yesterday, there was a lot of lightning, wind, lightning and a lot of rain at Fort Madison. I thought it would be in this video.

[@yyzedd]

At 5:33 - strange to see all the howitzer vehicles without the howitzer

[@ChrisK-LTC]

Those are M992 Field Artillery Ammunition Supply Vehicles.....generally they are paired with the M109 Paladin SPG.

[@yyzedd]

@@ChrisK-LTC Thank you for the explanation!

[@Chescat124]

0:07 NOOOOO THEY’RE TAKING 1158 FROM THE HARVARD SUB 😭😭😭

[@RailsofTX1845]

Cotton Belt, T&L, a Denver Rio Grande.

[@colorado1088]

5:25 ...is that a lone gravel hopper rolling on its own toward the truck power and four hoppers?

[@J3scribe]

It's the same 4. The camera angle and zoom lens compression make it look like a single hopper.

[@Yormsane]

14:24 You have to wonder how fatigued and corroded those steel bridge sections are, after decades of service in Barstow's desert climate. A post-mortem metallurgical analysis would be interesting (to this engineering nerd, anyway).

[@gp3829]

Me too.

[@modeltrainsandtracks]

Given how hard it was to break up the truss bridge sections, I doubt metal fatigue was the primary issue. I suspect the bridge sections would have solved problems for some heritage railroads - shame they were too big to move. At least Barstow has a pretty new concrete bridge to carry all the extra traffic - I am guessing that there is lots of new development north of the railroad there?

[@J3scribe]

@@modeltrainsandtracks Not much development north of the railyard. I reckon they just wanted a 4 lane bridge for some reason.

[@BadKruser]

Love the yellow engine at 4:22. Any idea what it is?

[@Xpninjadan]

The model of engine or the company that owns it?

[@TheMCModEngineer]

​​@@Xpninjadan Railserve EMD NW2

[@BadKruser]

@@Xpninjadan Model

[@Xpninjadan]

Thank you for the info.​@@TheMCModEngineer

[@microbusss]

0:18 nvm the Cotton Belt look at the 2nd loco with the messed up letters Unioon

[@baracc10]

9:53 that must’ve been some thunderstorm

[@poowg2657]

2:37. Concrete pump?

[@J3scribe]

It's used to unload dry bulk commodities from ships and barges, so it's more like a vacuum. Van Aalst also makes something similar for loading, too, which may work like a pump. They have a KZbin channel with demonstration videos.

[@poowg2657]

@@J3scribe Good info, thanks much!

[@stephenhudson8739]

Did that gravel Hopper break loose from the rest of the train

[@janeordway4841]

Lot’s of UP iron not running in the consist. Wonder where there heading ?

[@stephenhudson8739]

I bet those fuselages are 737 Max 800 variant

[@baracc10]

8:01 odd sounding horn

[@Isiahs_Trains]

1158 was on the Harvard sub for Like a year+

[@MediumApproachSlow]

8:30 impossible

[@ernestorodriguez2547]

I I'm going to miss the north Barstow bridge I hope it will be saved by the construction site please let the parts of the North Bridge saved the ress of it please

[@TheMCModEngineer]

A Boxcar With Open Door On A Hospital Flat?

[@barry7391]

Will something be replacing the structure that is coming down?

[@reggiep671]

The new bridge is up already. It's the one in the background the cars are going by on.

[@barry7391]

@@reggiep671 Thanks!

[@velomorda]

американские танки! уходите домой из Украины! American tanks! Go home from Ukraine!

[@MattDaugherty-jd7my]

Any new locations coming soon

[@peterp1158]

8:36 Without guns, tanks look like they've been neutered. Going to the scrap yard?

[@J3scribe]

Those aren't tanks. They are M992 Field Artillery Ammunition Supply Vehicles.

[@richintalent]

What was the odd looking railcar at the front of the geometry train at 1:45?

[@J3scribe]

A well car with a power unit inside a container to provide electricity for the train.