Grain Train Cab Ride Southern Illinois

[@kaylatravis8367]

I love these cab rides the view from the cab is so pretty even with the iced over trees and snow around the rails

[@Logan912]

Awesome video! Apparently IC had friendly defect detectors "Have a safe day."

[@LancesLens]

That's the nicest defect detector message I've heard. Lol Awesome! Love cab engineer POV!

[@reganrickson795]

I did not realize that this line had tunnels. No wonder it was built later. Nice to see a caboose on the northbound coal train. The trailing carbody unit does not give the engineer much of a view backwards. Thanks for posting this view of rare mileage!

[@dachauroad4517]

my dad used to run that line; I remember him talking about why the IC didn't use remote control pushers because the radio signals would get lost in the tunnels. you can find the tunnels on google maps with terrain turned on if you are persistent. one of the looks like it is a couple of miles long where the track goes under a big plateau...

[@stevec9102]

Just gorgeous scenery before and after the 2nd tunnel.

[@thomasfawcett9447]

Thanks for all the different views, going over bridge, tunnels, and inside the cab. I set the bell to get notified for more videos. Awesome job.

[@choochoo3985]

Being from Iowa and living in Wichita Ks. for many, many years, I'm no stranger to Ice storms. Beautiful, but cause so much damage. Thanks for the video.

[@FlyBikes089]

Wow this is so amazing video! I love it! ❤ 🔥

[@clam502]

Why at the 5:07 mark, the engineer kept blasting the horn till around 6:13 approx.?

[@7thsonofa7thson80]

Maybe workers around I saw lots of equipment .

[@GetsugaTensho85]

Man I don't even know why, but I could watch this magnificent crap for hours!

[@Timothy_D_S]

Right, rarararara

[@johnplandowski7680]

Foocheesiey Get a job May-be?

[@eugenkramaric1173]

Me too and i am a little bit jealous : )

[@kashfisharifuddin]

Hallelujah!

[@77hodag]

It's like riding through an enchanted forest - right out of "The Hobbit".

[@jameschristiansson3137]

Thanks for uploading this.

[@Timothy_D_S]

You're so welcome. Happy Jewday

[@genuineplains4651]

0:34 Illinois Central detector lives on!

[@lukasjames5452]

i guess I'm kind of randomly asking but do anyone know a good website to stream newly released series online?

[@jaxxonvivaan5249]

@Lukas James Flixportal :)

[@lukasjames5452]

@Jaxxon Vivaan thank you, signed up and it seems like they got a lot of movies there :D Appreciate it !!

[@jaxxonvivaan5249]

@Lukas James you are welcome :D

[@onceuponatimeonearth]

0:47 this train is inbound to the black mesa research facility. Have a productive day!

[@DarkTerritory71]

Love these trips!

[@cwby1978]

Good to hear his voice

[@railfanningjonah3981]

CN love it favorite Railroad

[@shaunchisholm11]

awesome video! hopefully there will be more?

[@youraveragejoe2]

@@Timothy_D_S Andrew the uploader ? How?

[@youraveragejoe2]

@@Timothy_D_S guess you don't know eh.

[@michaelwright8403]

As a former engineer on the I.C.'s Chicago Division, I never got the opportunity to run on the Edgewood Cutoff. Looks like I missed out on some pretty interesting trackage.

[@scoobycarr5558]

That would be the tracks heading to Metropolis, IL, home of SUPERMAN, with their final destination Fulton, KY from the Ohio River Bridge

[@michaelwright8403]

@@scoobycarr5558 Thanks! I'm familiar with Metropolis as the I.C.'s locomotive engineer training school was in Paducah. Can you tell me where the tunnels and the rock cuts are located? For Illinois, that's really cool scenery.

[@scoobycarr5558]

@@michaelwright8403 Actually never been near the tunnels or rock cuts before

[@eelb53]

@@michaelwright8403 You can find the tunnels on Google Maps in Terrain view. Find the bridge over US45 at Stonefort, and follow the railroad south. You have to zoom in close to see where the track disappears and reappears out the other side. There are 3 of them between Stonefort and Reevesville. The first 2 are close together in the vicinity of Ozark. The 3rd is between the IL146 underpass and Reevesville.

[@FDNY8231]

Another great video ...

[@brianburns7211]

Those SD70M are my favorite to run.

[@jakeearle9392]

Brian Burns this loco is actually an SD75i

[@josiahhorner6705]

What is the bell for on the trains?

[@alexmislevy7222]

Why is there a caboose?

[@nickt.2238]

The short answer is to save money. This device called an end of train device does the same thing a caboose does but you don't have to pay it wages.

[@AdamAuxier64]

Very fun to rewatch this

[@doug5959]

I thought they would sound the horn before entering tunnel

[@The3751FAN]

A person ???

[@hakeemsd70m]

@@Timothy_D_S Nice failed attempt at a joke...

[@daniels4227]

I was raised in Carmi, IL. I miss the old Illinois Central

[@boggy7665]

24:10 - What is the building sitting over the tracks?

[@kino1989]

a coaling tower for steam locomotives

[@donaldswink6259]

What does it mean when you hear the dispatcher say, total axles I always thought it was the locomotives but was wrong on that.

[@sc0tte1-416]

It's not the dispatcher that says that it's the defect detector on the back of the train. Total axles each car has 4

[@hakeemsd70m]

@@sc0tte1-416 So the Total Axle count on the detector is just for the cars aft of the locomotives and does not include the locomotives themselves?

[@Chasingrail]

Hakeem Sd70M it includes all the locomotives. Total axles on the train itself

[@hakeemsd70m]

@@Chasingrail Thanks for the info, I appreciate it greatly. Love learning something new about the railroad.

[@kaylatravis8367]

Its the axles of the consist that the defect equipment detecter counts including the locomotive axles

[@treckdimondback3253]

10:00 nice mesmerizing drone to put me to sleep

[@genesis070365]

Best job in the world 👍

[@Jake-edits7x]

Bonito viaje..👍👍

[@robertgift]

5:45 Why repetitive grade crossing horns when no grade crossings?

[@robertgift]

Joe Dohn Yes. So? Aini't no grade crossing. A couple of brief blasts not enough? Let's keep blasting the ears of MOW personnel.

[@andrewshafer4838]

I dont know why dont you ask the engineer

[@robertgift]

Joe Dohn Yaah. Working on the railroad we're all too stupid to think a train may be approaching. Without looking just two directions, we waltz right out into foul all the time.

[@andrewshafer4838]

I have had MOW guys walk right in front of me before, or been in the foul when I have come around a curve. My dad probably hit the sequencer because thats the rules kick they were in during the time.. It does not matter at all.

[@ct737]

No, this guys just out to attack everyone. I've seen him on TONS of videos nitpicking something. Literally anything.

[@donaldswink6259]

I love those Locomotives. I would like to have those horns on my car.

[@danielkennedy7845]

great video! thanks!

[@Virtuflight]

RS3K Horn?

[@mic8040]

K3l

[@NJT6050]

@@mic8040 it's a K3HA horn

[@hakeemsd70m]

It's a Nathan Airchime K3L, the sound of Canada.

[@scottm6227]

It must have been an job cutting through all that rock

[@hakeemsd70m]

@@Timothy_D_S Your response though 😂😭🤣😁🤣

[@HYPER973]

Why no use of horn before entering any of the tunnels? only seen you did the horn for your fellow co workers that were on the other track

[@Thegooderstuffs]

@@Timothy_D_S grow up

[@hakeemsd70m]

@@Timothy_D_S Dumbass

[@user-wg8mj5bz3o]

Where can you go to get to ride on a train in the locomotive I'd love to have this kind of experience I've been a train fanatic since I was a little kid

[@nickt.2238]

I think it may depend on who you know.

[@maxrshelltrack7443]

Unless you wanna be like hobos and transients and just hop on a dpu.

[@kddaniels5965]

awesome Andrew thanks!

[@derekrock3563]

what type of train and what type of horn is this

[@SteveO.1997]

derek rock grain and K3LA

[@AbelG8781]

derek rock K3H, Not K3LA

[@hakeemsd70m]

Lead locomotive is an EMD SD75I.

[@NJT6050]

@@AbelG8781 it's a K3HA

[@benmussolini2284]

caboose????

[@buoy77micmacmark]

I just said same thing I thought caboose were extinct years back

[@johnmills7459]

Why do the trains go so slow?

[@scoobycarr5558]

Perhaps it's the gradient

[@7thsonofa7thson80]

They have to follow instructions from signs, signals,dispatchers, the head of any repair crews. Some tracks the speed is higher, some it's lower. It depends on the rr, and govt rules too.

[@johnmills7459]

@@7thsonofa7thson80 Thanks

[@7thsonofa7thson80]

@@johnmills7459 no problem. Im.a railfanner and learned this stuff from others too.

[@Pilotguy251HC]

G888 possibly?

[@wastemanagementfan1161]

Sounds like a flat spot in the wheels.

[@ALL-bj7mj]

seems like last night I was running on this line....a pair of ex BN SD40-2s or ICG....hired out on the CCP....its sad to see CN with their deferred repair plans....even some of my EJ&E friends say their old line is torn up.

[@justinstoreforyou]

Nice video! I know it may sound like a silly question. I know this was uploaded in 2015 but was this shot in 2015?

[@AbelG8781]

Justin Millham nope filmed way earlier than that

[@AbelG8781]

Wasn't filmed 2016

[@csxbaltimoresubdivision7746]

one day can you show starting up the engine

[@robertbowman3406]

That's a secret. The problem here is they, the railroad, does not want the public to know how to do it.

[@dsfsdffdshdsf1875]

awesome

[@eddieknox9874]

are you holding the camcorder the whole trip?

[@ssweeps]

Should always have 2 lanes.

[@heavyhauler1000]

was that an old cn rail loco or some how a pilot??

[@EuropeanTrainDriver]

Nice video

[@EdmontonRails]

wow CN blue devil and IC SD70 at 7:30!

[@cbalducc]

Is this the Edgewood Cutoff? God bless.

[@andrewshafer4838]

Yes edgewood cut off

[@alex.k3166]

4:38 she sounds like a jet idk why ge fans think their shit sounds better bc it never will ge’s sound like linkin logs from when we were kids

[@sniper11506]

Love this Video, do not get many of these, Thanks

[@billybull1139]

this is good (Thanks for it!😃) cuz ya' know W/o thinking you always imagine "engineer-ing" a train 'd be a pretty easy job but; Damn really it ain' no cakewalk, -Rather just like being a (commercial) jet pilot... 😳 You got a LOT of mass there that you're responsible for / moving &... It aiN'T to be taken lightly➖‼____

[@thud9797]

Should leave the zoom alone, just keep it zoomed out and forget it. Makes for a more natural look.

[@jeffboansscannerweatherbox5553]

+ Andrew Shafer I'm ALSO on U-Tube . Nice Horn .HOPE to hear FM Ya Buddy J Boan

[@uraqtee]

Do you have someone run ahead of you in weather like this to make sure track is clear?

[@TrainMike2013]

+ken gossett I saw CTC signals, no need to do that.

[@tommytruth7595]

CTC signals cannot detect trees across the row. They probably had a high railer patrol the line before the train.

[@daveyboy_]

It's like Stobe said, it's the only way to see the USA . Even if it's a Canadian train.

[@ClinchValley_Railfan]

Do you cuss

[@40belowful]

cool

[@BrooklynPerson30000]

wow a caboose- what year was this?

[@eelb53]

@@Timothy_D_S Not with CN power it wasn't. CN didn't take over the IC until 1999.

[@clinthymes5067]

Gotta watch out for those Clay Co folks! Jk. Gods country down there.

[@PGCRail]

3:31

[@BossSpringsteen69]

Realy? Have a safe day. Lol

[@steveib724]

I wouldn't be good at this i would derail it every day

[@Belleville197]

Don't zoom in... it ruins the perspective and sense of speed.

[@jamesrivis620]

Boring as all hell.