DARWIN CANDIDATE, WINDSHIELD HITS CROSSING GATE! ANOTHER FIRE IN WICHITA, MOW PARADE, VIA RAIL

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Our VRF Grab Bags (GB) videos are compiled from content from our cameras as Mods and fans spot something neat while watching our cameras. In the GB you will, of course, find a variety of TRAIN content, special trains, maintenance, steam, diesels, interesting rail cars, cool paint schemes and more. You will also find fun people, city events, boats, planes, cars (sometimes going wild) and nature. Thank you for taking the time to sit back and enjoy these highlight reels that we call "Grab Bags"!

[@BNSFrailfan01]

Your smile will never sag when there’s a new Grab Bag.

[@bowlinerailfan]

Good way to describe it.👍

[@joepeach997]

Brought a chuckle out of me.

[@bowlinerailfan]

@@joepeach997 as a long time Coca Cola fan, I like your new profile picture.

[@poowg2657]

9:13. "Missed him by THAT much!".

[@TinkerTailor4303]

Talk about close!!😮

[@KT4RAM]

Wow! That was Hella Close for that Darwin Candidate. Every time I see the mow crew parade, reminds me of a few scenes of Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Especially the scenes where he's lost in Muncie Indiana at a rail crossing looking at a map.

[@Yormsane]

4:06 A giraffe hitching a ride on a bicycle... is this what acid trips are like?

[@J3scribe]

I like the editing of the work train at Ashland. Some of the critters looked like they came through from a different dimension. 🤣

[@vickie7490]

The pics of the rocket are fabulous!

[@charleswoods9938]

Now that was a great Ending to this video with Space Rocket going up in Space and this video was also a Good one as well

[@mstrawn69]

I always get The Main Street Electrical Parade theme stuck in my head when I see MOW parades.

[@Mcdaffodilhill]

The number of engines with a lot of smoke is amazing, but somehow NS seldom has an issue, until this weekend in Pa, two engines with substantial flames and halted on the tracks in anemergency. Our heat index quite awful. The one engine started a grass fire by the tracks, some rail fans doing a video became firefighters, successfully thank heavens.

[@louGriggs1944]

Love the MOW parade. I counted 28 pieces of equipment being moved, one less than the 29 that the Grab Bag showed being brought in on the train a week or two ago. The Spacex launch was beautiful and the music pretty cool too. Thank you.

[@donnaj9964]

I really did a double-take at the giraffe! The baby birds that were cheeping behind the Ashland cam must have fledged and flown away; I miss them but loved the MOW parade there. It was good to see 4822 again, and of course the launch and its music were beautiful. Thank you for another wonderful one!

[@TheEDFLegacy]

9:47 Yay! A brand new VIA rail rolling stock and power unit combo! If you're unaware, VIA rail is modernizing many of its trains for the Eastern corridor, and these units are being brought up using freight engines towing them from the manufacturer to Eastern Canada.

[@donnaj9964]

Neat--thank you!

[@milwaukeeroadjim9253]

Where are they built?

[@vickie7490]

If the drivers eyes were open AT ALL he would've seen that train!! That's just crazy!

[@EdKrebs-jb7vo]

Nice piece of music at the end.😍

[@donaldfaris4798]

Interesting lengths of rail on the Weld Rail Train

[@TheEDFLegacy]

3:52 I see what the train engineer did there with the horn. 😅

[@the-terrible63]

Wow! Excellent catching all the trains in multiple locations, especially the Heritage Units, Via Rail Canada in Rochelle, Illinois, and so much more, @Virtual Railfan, thank you very much and have a nice day.

[@lisabehe4546]

Hooray, a great MOW parade in Ashland! I love how the editing makes some of the MOW equipment look like they're Apparating onto the tracks a block or two away. I bet Darwin had to go home and change his boxers.

[@jamesmckenzie3532]

MoW train was missing the most important piece: The Blue Box.

[@benchedthatpiece]

Great video as usual, I enjoyed every minute of it!

[@bowlinerailfan]

At Tower 55, three transformers and a blue caboose! That's got to be the prettiest caboose I've ever seen to date. 😁 Plus, I've heard of getting a monkey off your back, but a giraffe?

[@Retired88M]

I like that sharp paint scheme on Amtrak 164

[@lynsmith]

Nice Grab Bag ! Well Thomasville ? That goof runs through the gate And NS was almost gone Fishing!

[@gp3829]

Thanks VRF. Please 'train' the Cameras to keep a lookout for that light-blue WV Caboose again, the one at Ft. Worth Tower.

[@jean-louisbarbier2677]

Beautiful captation !👍😎❤️

[@JacobWheeler-xr4ed]

Wow great Grabs bags as always and end was always awesome

[@ttvdevildog0326]

Welcome back NS 8102

[@kcsthebetterway]

Yes, Wichita is the firecam😊

[@davidhibbs6989]

Darwins R's us! Kinda wish they had cameras on the gates to read license plates.

[@williamlavelle7786]

That sure looked like the same train in Fort Madison going one way on the 24th and heading the other way 5 hrs later on the 26th. with no change unless it was the power

[@vickie7490]

Good videos! Thank you.

[@zacharycalgher3978]

Canyon Dreamscape by Lennon Hutton

[@randydobson1863]

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

[@ssweeps]

Why risk your life? That train engineer has to live with it too.

[@kenm3245]

You assume that one, people actually think, and two, that they give a rip about others.

[@The_goofy_railfanner]

8:53 that car couldn’t wait for a single train to pass, instead just cross the tracks thinking there’s nothing. What world are we living in 🤦‍♂️

[@jamesghiorzoe107]

Must have been on their phone.

[@The_goofy_railfanner]

@@jamesghiorzoe107 could be but we’re not sure about that (I could be right or wrong idk)

[@davidmaust1415]

1852 WM and RF&P heritage units needs to run on the Cumberland sub, preferably the Old B&O mainline

[@ren-uz2mz]

LOL spell check sign! TG no appointments that way for a bit..

[@Branddenthepinkgoldpeachfan]

*Awesome*

[@CHICKENRAN34]

8:49 for those who want to see the car almost get hit by the train

[@MiguelNavarreteCruz]

Me gusta que ustedes se preocupan por los durmientes del tren 🚂🚂🚂🚄🚄🚄

[@GodsloveJesushugs]

Rocket launch Heavy loader today 6/25 5:15 pm

[@PowerlinePlanet109]

What that car did that hit the crossing arm was very dumb.

[@beverlyalton432]

🚀Sweet

[@hunterwolfscar2287]

Ok!? Who's Set a Junk Yard on Fire at Night!?

[@whydoibother1632]

17:00 must be so much fun to be in a MOW parade. Do they ever lose the funness after many years on the job though?

[@donnaj9964]

I was just wondering that too. But it *looked* like fun!

[@whydoibother1632]

@@donnaj9964 I never knew they had so many different types of vehicles like that. Being in one of the regular truck types, in reverse, has got to be interesting.

[@WeenyBeanyHere]

9:49 Banana Train

[@VincentTheSirenChaser]

That's a big long train

[@Trainman-611]

0:12 THE TEXAS UNIT 😂

[@texastrainfan56]

All I see whenever I look at videos or photos of CSXT 1852 is the Texas flag.

[@filmer765]

Now that’s what I call a Darwin candidate. I will be in North Carolina for the 4th of July weekend, so I wonder how much craziness I’ll witness.

[@andyolin3988]

All that for a possible cracked windshield? Is it really worth it?

[@michellemcdaniel209]

🎉🎉

[@TheEDFLegacy]

4:23 You should _never_ stand that close to a moving train. A railfan of all people should especially know the dangers of kicked up debris, or - if particularly unlucky - a mechanical failure that has metal debris being flung at you. Or even a sudden derailment. I even know a guy who caught an amazing action shot of the tail car on a freight train suddenly failing and flipping on its side, only about a quarter kilometer away from the crossing he was filming from. He was using a tripod thankfully, and had that happened even just a few seconds later, that car could have landed on his tripod. If you want footage like that, get a tripod and step back. Don't be that guy.

[@user-vv8mk9rl1c]

darwin canididate is AKA natural selection

[@srrrb5953]

when the amfleets executive car will be replaced w/ the siemens one?

[@Ya_shooter_B]

YES IM ON A GRAB BAG IN THOMASVILLE

[@jimmyehlschlaeger3624]

Read this comment after seeing the Darwin Candidate. Didn't see the other Thomasville one until later.😂

[@Ya_shooter_B]

@@jimmyehlschlaeger3624 lol yes after I posted it I thought about it and said to myself well no one would take it that way right??? Lol

[@Lemoncake_X260X]

1:30 aint no way im in here 💀

[@CCT8070Productions]

Look Guys I Can See Via Rail Again With His New Paint Scheme

[@TheEDFLegacy]

Not just a new scheme, but a whole new unit! That freight engine is towing the new unit to Canada to be brought into service for the Eastern corridor.

[@user-xf7bo1up7s]

Bust a whistle

[@donnaj9964]

The Happy Honkers of Dalton, GA...well, they were honkers anyway.

[@ronwatkins5775]

Off topic... I did a google search regarding horn loudness, and according to google a Semi Truck, Train and Cruise Ship horn are all around 140db. It doesn't make sense to me that they would all be the same loudness.

[@colorado1088]

The train horns are a nuisance and should only be needed for unlighted/un crossing arm protected crossings. My town spent mucho bucks to have no horn crossings.

[@BurlingtonNorthern6778]

Hello

[@lancomedic]

Tell me fellow railfan photographers what is the purpose of standing 5 feet away from the rails 04:22 to photograph a 72 foot long locomotive? From my vantage point he could have stood behind the crossing arm and got a much better shot. I like that unit also but I’m not risking my life to get a blurry picture of it.

[@BNSF2018]

Norfolk Southern Almost Hit car

[@IGuessIDoThings]

9:54 anyone have any idea what’s going on with this trainset

[@kennethhanks6712]

Brand new VIA trainset, for their eastern services, being delivered from Siemans plant in CA to Canada.

[@ChainsawNW1218]

People in Thomasville NC are lucky they didn't meet there maker,close call, great video and lots of great trains and power!🛤🚂

[@rogertemple7193]

Grab Bag on a Tuesday afternoon with the best trains on the tracks thanks Virtual Railfan Grab Bag.🇺🇲🚂🚃🚃🚃🚃🇺🇲

[@user-vh1uc6in7b]

Grab Gag time.🇺🇸🇺🇸🚂🚃🚃🚃🚃🇺🇸🇺🇸