ETR. Rail fanning. Looking at Dump beds.

[@fatherjamiedennis1270]

I absolutely love this video. I love your descriptions. Since I am blind, your descriptions are very good at helping me with the things I can’t see. I also love your history knowledge.

[@trainsbignsmall]

I love the new logo it looks really good.

[@kevenlonsdale1354]

Ditto

[@fsctrucking]

You mentioned the ribbon rail. I noticed the rail line from where I was a kid, they didn't replace the rails. Rather removed the fish plates and welded the rails together. The holes from the bolts remain. Just like what you filmed.

[@williammorse8330]

during the summer of '69 a friend and I hiked the tracks through Waterford, Ct. to SS 110, a wooden tower with a coal bin and an outhouse..... the elderly operator (M-F) waved us up from the window row and we got to inspect the track diagram and lever bank.... we drank the coolest most tasty water from his water cooler and shared two Hostess fruit pies with him..... that fall, with Penn Central now in control, the tower was "deleted" and someone had kicked the outhouse down the ravine... like you, I believe something unique was simply discarded.... insurance makes this happen ever more often.... like these towers, your video narratives are very unique..... thank you from all of us Bill in Vermont

[@PRRGG1]

So glad to be a gandy dancer on the east terminal railway. Gram, VERY nice camera work. Smooth and fluid. Brian, love the narration in the video. You two are having great adventures together that can never be topped.

[@mrjoel59]

Miss you guys, this content is exciting, thank you for letting us be there

[@baassbooster]

I couldn`t wait till yer next video. Greetings from a former engineer on a EMD G26-HCW-2. Slovenia EU

[@originalm3233]

8:08 *My question got answered and my name got mentioned. I feel honored!* I figured you knew the business well and knew how you would get customers before you ever started this project. Some business owners take a "build it and they will come" approach. Meaning, they have no idea how to generate business but once they "build it" then they will figure out how to make money. That is definitely not you, you knew that you would utilize brokers before you ever got started.

[@jonglass]

Those two locos at 28:10 probably had to back past the signals, and then the switch could be thrown to the proper track. Notice they were on the other side of the other signals facing the other way at first.

[@jebock92]

I live within 5 minutes of watkins yard. The indiana and ohio line only gets used 2-3 times a week usually after dark. It was a real shame to see buckeye steel go. Lived in Columbus my whole life and buckeye steel was a true landmark for rail fans and non rail fans alike. Plus, I can't tell you how many times I been down corr rd and I never knew that. Thanks for sharing.

[@tommanion5504]

You talking about the welded rail joints. I spent much of the eighties in Alamogordo, New Mexico, which was on the So Pac Tucumcari line. At one point, the So Pac came through with a M.O.W. train that had a car on it for welding segmented rail. It would grab the rail, remove the fishplate, align the two ends, weld the rail, then grind the head of the rail smooth. The result was track that looked just like what you showed, every 39 feet. Didn't see it in operation, but the train spent the night on a spur by the Alamogordo depot. When welding segmented track, you don't have a lot of choice where to put the weld, you kinda have to put the weld where the joints are.

[@makylegoins8079]

Great logo!!! Whoever made it knows what they’re doing!!!

[@curailproductions7636]

Nice, I railfan all the time. Love the map. The new logo looks very good. I am looking forward to buying a shirt and a hat when you put out a store.

[@richardmead9225]

Car repair and storage reminds me of the tale of the LaSalle and Bureau County Railroad.

[@larrylawson5172]

Yep. They kept "borrowing" cars that needed repair. Paint them up with a new car number and collect the use payments. Some one did hard time for that little trick.

[@shonerik2036]

Baltimore is close to digging out the Howard Tunnel to finally allow double stacks EB to Delaware. What a huge improvement to help the port excel even further. Can't wait....

[@leshemingway3352]

Jaw tooth is the king if train video. You on the other hand are the king of rail and historical information. Good luck on your new venture. Rail car storage is good revenue

[@jonusle2937]

Good thing you passed on the Buckeye truck. Those wheel's are split rim widow makers. A lot.of tire companies won't work on those wheels and they are very pricey to convert to standard rim and lug nuts.

[@rearspeaker6364]

they make tubeless rims that mount 22.5's on that 20 inch hub.

[@jonusle2937]

@@rearspeaker6364 in California, most tire shops won't touch those wheels. 20 years ago, everyone worked on them, these days not so many.

[@jimanderson4495]

Thumbs up! Another great video.

[@cedarvalleyrail8419]

I'm incredibly impressed with the increase in production quality, great work!

[@DanielPRails]

This was super interesting! Great video

[@elsdp-4560]

THANK YOU...for sharing.

[@cjlaviation]

Hurray! You guys finally have a logo! It is so beautiful! Hope to see some amazing merch soon! :)

[@mikemealey1]

Pappy you are so amazing! Great Channel. Mikey

[@stevenmetzger3385]

Great video!

[@rickbelanger614]

Sure do miss you guys hope you have time to come back

[@ThePronkMVP524]

Awesome new logo! Looking forward to more from you guys!

[@OregonRailfan216]

You got some good action there.Alot of trains to.

[@phillipsredden6676]

You were giving some interesting facts. Here is one for you, sprint telephone system. It was originally southern pacific railroad internal network telephone. Finally bought by united telephone co.

[@martindoyle831]

Neat. Unitel on canada was the combined CN AND CP rail telephone network. Cp sold it to sprint in 92 ish then it became AT&T and was then bought up by rogers.

[@mischef18]

Made for a great video bro I enjoy looking at rail life up your way. I quite often view the live cam at Belen or Tehachapi loop. Hope you two track down something that will work for your needs. Many years ago I drove a switcher on a private siding, in NZ we call them shunters. They updated to a center cab so had to get my diesel electric ticket (license) to drive it. Safe travels

[@kens.3729]

Danny Harmon is a Pro and he can sleep late and still have ALL the Details he needs. 😬👍

[@jimjohnston7688]

Very nice video. My grandfather was an engineer for the B&O back in the days of steam. I wonder what he would think watching those long intermodal trains go by? I'm sure he'd be amazed.

[@IronSalli]

Logo looks great! I absolutely loved this railfanning fieldtrip. All the history and details and geography- great stuff! More of that whenever the mood strikes- every bit as interesting and entertaining as when you're working on your railroad. Great stuff!

[@eastterminalrailway5975]

Thank you very much!

[@southernindianaoutdooradve7783]

Love the new logo

[@drbbhiggins]

I love you guys took some time to do some rail fanning.

[@Letsgoexplore2468]

New sub man. Pretty cool content so far. In Lafayette, Indiana we got a caboose that gets pulled along for inter changing along yards!. Don't see them much in service anymore and it's always awesome to see one!!

[@firefightingemt41]

I love following your track and stock growth. If i lived closer i would love to work for you

[@hamiltonsullivan6563]

I'd do the same... its a cool little operation

[@hamiltonsullivan6563]

Awesome!!!!! Hope you catch some old emds

[@russelltrupia4479]

I noticed the new jacket right at the start of the video. Your videos are getting better and better keep up the good work.I agree with you just walk away.

[@richardbohlingsr3490]

I enjoy rail fanning too.

[@davicrocket7267]

I love the old history

[@peteg4978]

Love the new logo! I was in Columbus last February and couldn’t believe how much rail traffic there was

[@kens.3729]

Cousins Lived in Lancaster, OH. Uncle worked at Anchor Hocking Glass. Was there once/twice.👍

[@SonnyMcDonald]

I really like your videos Keep up the information

[@babiiblueboi]

Great episode. I mean I love watch y’all work on y’all’s terminal. But watching you two train watch and talk about industrials areas that y’all did a past clean up at, and explain other areas is pretty cool and interesting.

[@garysprandel1817]

Finally got an ETR herald. Nice.

[@CoalChrome]

ALCo, gotta get one

[@Bongofurry]

Just found you great job ! " I hear a train whistle " ha too cool.

[@somethingsomeonesaid6455]

hey you got one of those manual gps things that require no power...a map!

[@tomroise9426]

First one looked good. Especially with the coal shoot door. Perfect for ballast control between the rails. The third one is cosmetic. Sandblast the surface rust. Primer black paint. Ready to go...

[@dmorgan28]

Enjoyed the video 👍👍👍❤️

[@billmorris2613]

Good morning from St John Parish, Louisiana 27 Jan 21.

[@railanimal4380]

Like seeing all those rail served industries!

[@jameskeating6997]

Love the channel. You were in my general neighborhood too! Live in Lewis Center between Worthington and Delaware. Yes, I live next to the NS and CSX lines that parallel each other through Marion. Loved the Parsons Yard footage as I worked at a motel that housed the C&O crews from Russel KY. Picked them up and dropped them off on the track side of the brick building. The crew caller and register was in the basement. Thanks for the memory. Keep it coming. I am hooked!

[@farmerbill6855]

I went to high school in Delaware, those tracks went right past the end zone of our football field. Used to hop trains after school to get to a park a couple miles south of the school playing hooky. Damn, that was a long time ago.

[@jameskeating6997]

@@farmerbill6855 Those tracks are the original C&O line from Columbus and go up on west side of Delaware, yes? I live by what used to be the Pennsylvania ( now NS) and the CCC&StL (now CSX). CSX got the line following the closure of Conrail. Very ugly trackage at time of change over.

[@rkzooplays]

Watching in class!

[@hamiltonsullivan6563]

Crazy to see an NS train pull long hood forward

[@alcopower5710]

Thinking the same thing

[@hamiltonsullivan6563]

@@alcopower5710 right... what are we going old school

[@alcopower5710]

@@hamiltonsullivan6563 ....sure looks like it

[@hamiltonsullivan6563]

@@alcopower5710 o wonder if they will start to make that a normal thing?

[@zaneb3090]

I read something recently and saw a video where the old Jefferson Proving Ground north of Madson, Indiana is being used for car storage. They showed multiple tracks in a yard there with cars in storage. Being an old military base it is probably a good use of the old rails there.

[@charlessharrardiii7086]

The term you were looking for at the beginning is daily double.

[@charlessharrardiii7086]

Also check out Jawtooth. He does railfanning on roads in Ohio and Kentucky.

[@kens.3729]

Dick Tracy was a Popular Comic Strip of Railroad Workers and Gravel Gertie is the affectionate nickname of a part of the Clifton Forge Line of the C & O Railroad stretching from Hinton, WV, to Clifton Forge, VA, delivering limestone gravel quarried from Fort Spring to the iron furnaces of Virginia as s fluxing agent.

[@billmorris2613]

The Southern use to run long hood forward too. I use to get the Sou 315, bound for Houston, at East Bridge Jct. It’s on the east side of the Huey P Long Bridge over the Mississippi River, just up river from New Orleans. It was a real pain to run long hood forward for 233 miles. Also back then it was before engines and cabooses had the multi channel, all railroad, radios. All we had was our hand held radios, which only had a range of 1 to 5 miles. There were trips that I never spoke to the conductor after leaving EB Jct, until we arrived at our away from home terminal. Very often the Sou radio on the caboose would not work.

[@christopherescott6787]

WAY too much for the trucks of that vintage and visual condition. Logo is terrific. Love the hands on, get your hands dirty attitudes. Great channel guys!!!!!

[@andyl2221]

I live between Columbus and Marion right beside the CSX train tracks. I love the stuff in Marion next to the old Power Shovel Plant .

[@Mike-su8si]

Yeah that sawtooth would know all about those trains

[@earlschmitt884]

I love all the videos. Yep even the ones that I don't rate or comment on. Yeah even the not so good ones 🙄. I wish I could watch them all in the order that they were made. But I'm just a poor boy and couldn't afford all of that.

[@benjaminl3084]

Don't know if this was mentioned but when the long hood forward came by and just sat there he had to go past the signal block for the yard or dispatcher to throw the switch. The switch can't be operated until the system knows the train/engines are out of that block. You were sitting right in the middle of a signal block. (signals facing away from you at both ends)

[@Daddymouse-ny9cz]

When it comes to cutting the brush and smaller trees, the little chain saw looks like a lot of work. When I cleared some land at our lake home, I used a gasoline weed eater with a cutting blade instead of plastic line. Worked great! Has its limitations as to trunk size, but you can cut right at ground level. More done in less time! Thanks guys.....now get to work on the next video! ;-)

[@rkalle66]

23:50 I'm not wondering about the joints comming together. The rails on the crossing are grooved ones with steel ties. The joints are telling more about where one contractor was ending its job and another was starting.

[@minnesotaoutsider1083]

Yes a new video

[@25vrd48]

NS units come out of the siding on to the mainline and stopped past the signal , got a signal to come back and cross over to the other mainline . I hated running long hood forward blocking the view ahead . Back in the 70's when I worked for Missouri Pacific before Union Pacific took over I was working on the Plasser Tampers I maintained down near Ferriday Louisiana ( Home of ' Jerry Lee Louis ' and there was over 1800 mostly ' RailBox ' boxcars in storage on that subdivision before it was abandoned several years later . The rail cars that went down there went by barge over the river to Natchez , Mississippi . Two subdivisions connected just five miles from Ferriday , one stayed in service longer then the one where they stored the 1800 cars and I remember a very large grain company had to get a lot of empties and it took three days for the switch crew to pull several hundred cars so they could spot the empties and after the grain cars were loaded they had to repeat the same thing to get the loaded cars out . Later in my Union Pacific Railroad career I was a rail train operator as we kept our agreement union status ( we were agreement so we got paid overtime and double time unlike the UP railtrain guys were supervisors and were salaried , no overtime for them ) and we had to ride our rail trains any time we had rail on our rail trains . We stayed on our trains when there was a crew change and kept on going until we got to our location to unload the rail . My longest trip was from Alexandria , Louisiana where I picked up 18 strings of used curve rail and took it to Blackfoot , Idaho . 2015 miles and I was on duty 110 consecutive hours , from 7 am Saturday to 10 pm Wednesday night . Stopped for an hour in North Platte , Nebraska to fuel the engines and that was the only stop until I got to Blackfoot just north of Pocatella . The welded joints across from each other is common , the welded joint is stronger , the drilled holes are weaker . Great video , keep'm coming . Over and out from central Arkansas . Thanks

[@billmorris2613]

“Hurry up and wait,” made me a lot of money on the RR. We had a lot of, “Hurry up and wait,” in the Air Force too, but no extra pay.

[@richzahnle8198]

6918th?

[@billmorris2613]

Rich Zahnle What about 6918th?

[@richzahnle8198]

@@billmorris2613 Just wondering if you are the Bill Morris that was in the 6918th, Hakata Japan

[@billmorris2613]

Rich Zahnle No not me. I never got to Japan. Close though, I was in The Philippines.

[@eastterminalrailway5975]

Thank you for your service to our great country. None of this would be possible without brave men and women like you. God bless America

[@Paw95]

Buckeye yard is being sold and scrapped. I know someone that’s already asked the scrap dealer about all the railroad signals

[@alcopower5710]

Hate to hear that

[@Paw95]

Alco Power man who works for NS told me this. Said they are even selling it in separate parcels because they don’t want it in one big chunk of land. Why that I will never know.

[@alcopower5710]

@@Paw95 .....maybe selling it in separate parcels because they don’t want anyone to use it for any railroad purposes.

[@Paw95]

Alco Power that’s a good possibility. I have no idea what others connect to it.

[@rearspeaker6364]

@@Paw95 more money in lots than 1 big piece.

[@toddbrewer7911]

Where I'm from we love the c&o in between huntington wv and Russell ky we are in ashland ky great channel any neat c&o stuff definitely show it to us

[@captjamie9207]

Great job as usual. The logo looks ok, yeah just ok. You didnt pay homage to your Coast Guard days. Maybe inside the pocket watch you could put crossed anchors the still make the quadrant of the RR sign. Semper Paratus brother.

[@elvinferrell7266]

The CSX caboose has remote control equipment in it to control a locomotive that does not have remote control. Hook up the cables and set the locomotive to MU(multiple unit) and control it with the caboose.

[@jerrykinnin7941]

Love the history lesson. Sad the Governments dont care about Heavy industry. Im an intermodal trucker in Cincinnati. The Florida east coast is an interesting line. Got bought out by a Mexican outfit a few years ago. They handle alot of port work in Florida. Their cars are on CSX and NS both.

[@zpoppe]

Wait until these guy get a drone, be awsome video footage!

[@rgm4949]

Love what you are doing, Truly enjoy watching your Videos. Just a thought - buy a used dump trailer, take the wheels off and mount it !

[@25vrd48]

Those are called ' Well cars " therefore they stack them two high as needed .

[@truckrobo147]

Hey y'all got a new logo!

[@eastterminalrailway5975]

do you like it?

[@lowcountryplanespotter2816]

@@eastterminalrailway5975 I do!

[@truckrobo147]

@@eastterminalrailway5975 of course! If fits your company

[@matthewtaylor9452]

@@eastterminalrailway5975 Yeah it looks good

[@eastterminalrailway5975]

Well coming next is merchandise!!!

[@tmwinkler]

@39:21... that trash comes through my town on the OC. And I've been to that landfill. JS.

[@osrr6422]

4:20 Old bulk transfer yard. MoW makes more use of it these days.

[@jonathandreyer7943]

A two-fecta is called an exacta. Keep up the good work!

[@johnmitchell2094]

Heya man, COAL POLLUTES! Haven't you heard!

[@thomasjunkins6491]

There's a bunch of old diesel locomotives in north Connersville Indiana if you guys are looking for one. Located south eastern Indiana. Not to far away.

[@blitz0_rsps]

It always is funny to see a car like the FEC one in another state that's not even close to where it should be. I've always wondered why certain cars get migrated to other lines.

[@kamikazegad]

Check out the rail yard over by hillard and the ups facility. Its huge!

[@csx3298]

Instead of looking for or building a dump cart...could your railroad order in for long term lease or buy a gondola car type car from either connecting nearby railroads or a broker that will lease you one. Using the grapple truck,, You could push it around with the grapple or the trackmobile. You could load the car with the grapple and empty it with the small excavator that you own. Thoughts?

[@farmerbill6855]

My though almost exactly. One difference. Put a skid loader in the gondola to unload it. Push it up and down the track with the trackmobile.

[@jasonplatco7881]

If they rent a gondola It should hold all the material the high rail gradeall clears from the trench. Weight capacity is much less of a concern because it's not leaving the property. They can then use the gradeall to unload it.

[@johnmoar7658]

hi guys like your work, work on sleeppers during winter is silly,frozen ,,noway ,the only way is too drop a steam fire bbox on iit ,,if i lived their i would be a pest,always in the road,in the workshop is the only place in snow,talking trains over coffee.

[@ocsrc]

What about a 1200 or 1500 mover ? Those little engines seem very popular and are small.

[@SonnyMcDonald]

I think AAR requires railroads that have long backing moves to use a caboose so the conductor want have to ride on the end car a lot safer

[@jordanhelzer3306]

Would you be willing to say where you were looking at the GE industrial locomotives?

[@GeneralPurpose9]

How come you don't consider an old emd gp of some sort for your railway? I think it'd be cool to see an old high nose gp9 there.

[@beeble2003]

Buckeye Steel is why knuckle couplers are known as "buckeye couplers" in the UK.

[@TheyCallHimDietSeth]

Watching this video while I have the Elkhart, IN cam running silently on the monitor to my side... and an intermodal train comes running through with the same exact two locomotives passing in front of you at 28:20. That was a weird coincidence.

[@paducahandlouisvillerailro1694]

I have one of the original Pennsylvania Railroad spikes from 1950

[@mikedc3]

Isn't there a contractor you could find to work with the ditching crew to dump the spoils where you want them. It seems like a lot of time and effort to buy and adapt a rusty old dump bed to the rail cart. Really enjoying your vids!!

[@eastterminalrailway5975]

Coming soon in a future video!! We want to have the dump bed so that we can use it in the future rather than hire somebody to do it

[@stevestar657]

An old S Series International - The Buckeye Landscape truck. If it's got a DT466 series engine it would be a good buy. Too bad the body and cab are falling off the frame.

[@gamerkitty5153]

I live in east Idaho and Watco funnels grain-potatoes etc into Union Pacific

[@paulj1962]

Checked out roundhouse on Google earth you showed, turntable and tracks still there but no visible activity

[@jolietjohn8024]

The welded joint placement you saw is dictated by several factors. The crossing panel joints are sometimes near parallel, depending on the decisions made by the installing foreman. Usually I could achieve at least 3 feet of stagger, more if it was a three panel installation ( track panel, track panel for the crossing, track panel) achieved by removing anchors and sliding rails, then cutting in slugs to fill the gaps. It was recommended that welds be at least 18 feet apart, never less than 10 to avoid propagation of defects (Your rails fall apart). No welds were allowed in the crossing, we would use rail lengths up to 88 feet if necessary. Parallel joints end up occurring at rail and road crossings, and signal points where insulated slugs were cut into the track and welded. Parallel joints are not prohibited, just not recommended as longitudinal stress will affect track elevation (the weather humps your track) and rail fracture can affect track geometry (gauge, degree of curvature, alignment) when a rail breaks under tension in winter.

[@user-gc1iv6nv9z]

NS 9392 is a GE D9-44CW, and 1009 is an EMD SD70ACe