Railroad Switching Industrial Customer, Short Line Railroad, Indiana & Ohio Railway, America Trains!

[@capersbull8042]

Thanks ever so much to you for posting a splendid video showing the COMPLETE switching operation from start to finish - you mentioned the line used to be busier. I may have missed it, but can you tell us some history of this track over the last several decades. Was there regular passenger service, do you know the years of it and the end points? Thanks again, and please post more similar in the future. Best wishes!!

[@JawTooth]

In the 70s there were about a dozen trains a day on this line including Amtrak. I lived next to it in the mid 80s when they still ran 6-8 trains a day but Amtrak got rerouted through northern Kentucky by then. In 1985 they dropped the caboose and all trains were rerouted off the line except one in each direction. The tracks were removed from Greenfield Ohio to the Ohio River area to the east and this became a branch line from Midland Ohio to Greenfield. Today this branch line is owned by the town of Greenfield and it has a few customers that keep the rails shined. The trains are all short with only one locomotive that is kept at Blanchester, Ohio. They only go as far as Greenfield a couple times a week at most to service that small customer. I was hoping that they were going to Greenfield on the day that I filmed this but no luck. I&O Railway leases this line but CSX still owns the old depot in this video. It was offered to a group for 5K to restore it. I'm actually thinking about putting in an offer for the depot myself and put a new roof on it. Just a thought at this time though. The last time I bought property next to a railroad line, the line shut down right when I was trying to make a railfan hangout.

[@maixiong5017]

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[@railroadingfan3681]

Jaw Tooth i love all Gennesse & Wyoming railroads like Indiana & Ohio. Ohio central Huron & Eastern Marquette Rail Mid Michigan Railroad

[@kofola9145]

@@railroadingfan3681 Except for the terrible uniform paint job.

[@larryarnold6738]

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[@robertdshannon5155]

Very good video. Shores complete operation so we can really understand how these small rr’s work. Good work!

[@libby5335]

Great video! You brought back a lot of memories for me. My dad's job was to go around to the lumber mills around Humboldt Bay and pick up the loaded cars and take them back to the main yard and and switch the cars around to make up the freight train that would leave the next day. Sure wish I had pictures of him doing his job but almost always he worked nights!

[@JawTooth]

Very cool! I love the railroad jobs. I bet your dad had some great stories to tell

[@captainsnack59]

Thank you for showing the complete operation! It illustrates so much clearly what is actually required to switch an industry.

[@danmathers141]

I love that station. It would be neat if someone restored it. No one builds structures like that any more.

[@jeffrumbach150]

Thanks to those customers that get rail service that keep those local short lines open .

[@JawTooth]

You got that right!

[@chuckeberth4370]

That was a great rail fanning experience watching the complete switching operation. Loved it!

[@nathanhouk402]

Good ol' I&O 5014, that engine is a workhorse.

[@jerrygreen9851]

Well done ,the showing an actual swap out at a customers place was fantastic ,thanks for sharing.

[@JawTooth]

Thank you!

[@austinyingst5902]

The Leesburg line extended from Cumberland through Parkersburg and Athens through Midland City where it junctioned with the B&O Pittsburgh--Cincinnati line of the B&O and both lines continued jointly to Cincinnati. Leesburg was on an upgrade westward that passes an approach signal with a "G" permitting a freight to advance at slowest speed rather than stopping on a hill. The signal was several miles east of Leesburg. Must have been a tough, long grade or both.

[@JawTooth]

Awesome! I rode a dinner train on this line in the 80s and I rode Amtrak across here in 1979. I also rode the Chessie Steam Special across here in 1978. Thanks for the information!

[@rdfoster2007]

Lo.ved this video! Liked the fact that you captured the entire switch job

[@talonpilot]

Holy crap! That was the longest switch in the world! Thanks for filming to the end though!

[@bluemtnsman]

One of the better switching videos around. Thank you.

[@BaltimoreAndOhioRR]

Love the old station, and seeing the artifacts. Great job as always! 🙂

[@mattanatior97studios]

They have a building with the station back in the day as a painting

[@walterfink9782]

Thanks for the video. This shows you, what has to be done, to pick up a cut of tankers, and drop off a cut of tankers, and how long it takes, on a normal day and normal traffic.

[@michaelhewitt258]

Love the blue graphics AWESOME job

[@disturbed1954]

Great video! Enjoyed the switching operation.

[@neil442]

Sublime-finding the unusual is your thing -so much information in such a short video ! Hats off to you again Brian -you are the Train Man !

[@nancyhodges444]

Awesome video JT, nice to see some old fashioned switching & swapping pretty cool.👍🏼🚂

[@thepozfromoz5166]

Once again...good one bud! I love the g&w paint scheme 👍👍👍👍

[@phippsrobert59]

Great job. I lpve to watch switching operations. Great overhead shot.

[@maxsunman7526]

Magnificent train railroad scene creation full of charm and beauty. You upload some interesting wonderful performance, so clear and very warm looking with all the wonderful places and event, that I enjoy. Greatly appreciated

[@firepower782]

Cool old depot there that someone needs to restore!

[@lesashiminski690]

Hey Jaw tooth happy birthday 🎂🎂🎉🎉🎈🎈 .A good way to celebrate seeing trains on your birthday. They should have gates at crossings. Must be alot of drivers not rail fans. Keep up live action. Have a great railroad day

[@robertpucci5019]

Nice video, thanks for showing the whole operation and Happy Birthday!!!

[@robertpucci5019]

In one of his replies he said something like his old bones turned 58 today so I assumed it was his birthday! @@@youraveragejoe2

[@vernonmatthews181]

That was quite intense with the cutting of cars to eventually getting both full cars & empty cars swapped to the right way around.😎👌👍

[@Howoldareweanywayyipes]

It's great to see the trains working.

[@JawTooth]

It sure is

[@billtimmons7071]

I wonder if the 151.265 T you were wondering about is the transmit frequency of their operations radio? Seems like it's a VHF frequency for something. I love those old worn out train stations ... made out of wood that endures but shows that time is a master of us all. When I look in the mirror and look at my 60+ body ... I see an old train station :) Another great video!

[@billtimmons7071]

I looked up the railroad frequency assignments and they go down to 159 MHz ... so 151 probably aint RR operations. Some documents about licensing state that 151.265 is forestry service frequency! Unless there is some kinda wood product/forest product industry nearby my comment would be considered a waste. Still a great video though!

[@JawTooth]

My old body just turned 58 today. I hate getting old because everything starts malfunctioning. lol

[@billtimmons7071]

heh .. found some frequency allocation information. The town of Columbia Ohio uses 151.265 as one of their police band radios. Maybe it's the same at your location that you filmed. 151 MHz is too low for RR use but maybe its used by RR crews to contact police/emergency services as needed? Maybe the control cabinet freq marking saw was just a reminder for the RR crews in case they needed police/emergency response? PTC is in the 200 MHz and greater freq range and voice is more towards 160 MHz range for RR's.

[@dutch2120]

Jaw Tooth I like all your videos! I sit here on Saturday & Sunday and watch them all! Your'e also funny a lot of times

[@adamcorn2004]

5014 is one of the most dirtiest engines ive ever seen great video Brian

[@jeffrumbach150]

Hey jaw tooth great pictures and video of tanker train going over that long train tressel

[@JawTooth]

Thanks 👍

[@austinyingst5902]

Someone asked about the history of the Leesburg line of road. The route through Leesburg was, at one time, the Baltimore and Ohio's main line from Baltimore to St. Louis. It was the route of B&O's National Limited (trains 1 &2) and the Metropolitan (train11).

[@rjl110919581]

thank you for share real operation video with other

[@JamesTyreeII]

Cool aerial shot of that siding!

[@bernierodriguez662]

Great video and im a subscriber. I love to see when railroads use siding. That are not often use. Thanks again awesome job.

[@jeffreygosselin1143]

I find the angle of the run around track unusual ( 9:00 ). It looks like it may have served another industry at one time but was modified to it's present use. Great video and very interesting Brian. Thank you!

[@beeble2003]

Agreed. It's also strange that there's a derail on the run-around.

[@rubenvillanueva622]

Excellent addition, the overhead areal view! Thank you.

[@thomplacier677]

I like how you spliced in the satellite view. Thanks!

[@gabrielshupe8927]

Great video Jawtooth! Love it!

[@JawTooth]

Thank you!

[@gabrielshupe8927]

@@JawTooth welcome ole buddy!

[@adriengadson3544]

Nice video , and the plant they are switching has some nice details I can use ...thx

[@chrisryan5339]

Thanks. Chris from England.

[@chuckeberth4370]

Enjoyed watching the switching operation. Great video!

[@jacobstraessle5874]

That was a good one. Enjoyed watching that very much. Thanks for sharing.

[@t.s.railfanning]

i enjoy switching videos with scanner audio. great video brian.

[@17leeward]

I really enjoyed watching that. Thanks for uploading

[@ThisHandleIsNotTaken.]

Nice model 5 siren. 17:03, lights die out for a sec

[@gabrielreliat6967]

Always good and interesting movies...Thanks:

[@dumdum7786]

This railroad used to be a busy mainline, but now its split up into small sections. Once CSX got their dirty little fingers on it, they abandoned certain sections of the line.

[@valeriebassett3107]

Thanks again for the great video!!!

[@curtnicholson7771]

I like the picture of the small old depot which as with most or a lot any way all had that bay type of window. When I think we were in second grade in Genoa, Il we were walked about one block over from Davenport Grade School to the Milwaukee Railroad Depot to see it. I cannot remember what you call a person who runs a depot anymore or his name but back then I actually knew him as he was friends of my parents, but the tells graph sat right in that bay window that way he could see a train approaching from either direction. We got to see a passenger train throw the mail bags out and catch the outgoing caught off of the hanger. I can't remember what they call that either. They also had to hand off a note to a passing train on a long pole made for that. Right across the street from the depot sat a little bitty shack that had a crossing guard for children walking to school to protect them from trains. There was another guarded crossing three blocks to the west for the same school and that one Mr Walter Naker was the watchman and back at the one across from the depot was Old Mr Scotty Butz who I had no idea in second grade then, but eighteen years later I married his granddaughter my wife Jill (Butz) Nicholson and she thought it was pretty neat that I new him. When I stayed at my grandmothers house I would walk to school in th morning and back and forth to lunch with her and back to her house after school. So I would see Scotty four times in one day then and if it was cold in the winter he would let you come in and warm before being on your way again. Everyone knew everyone in our little town back then. When I went to school from home I used that Wes crossing where Walter was and he would talk to all of us every day. They were good ole days maybe why I like railroads so much. We played on the Illinois Central embankment all the time we were growing up. We even took an idea I had and talked my buddies into building a dug out that we put up one wall of ties and a roof of ties we had all gathered and then thru dirt all over it. It grew over the next year and that railroad fort that we built and camped out in many times (would fit four people) was there for over twenty years but could not be seen after the growth on the roof after the first year. I know I'm long winded here but maybe somebody will like this including you Jaws.

[@jens_hatje]

Always find the way they do the switching to be the most fascinating. :)

[@craigymac5386]

Excellent video mate. That is a very time consuming operation and well planned out. 👍

[@Doing_it_right_the_first_time]

WHAT?!… as a former railroad Engineer myself I would certainly be disappointed if I was part of that crew doing all those multiple moves unnecessarily! I would have gotten that done in half the time and half those moves! I was shaking my head watching this video to see how inefficient these two guys were at switching! GEEZ!

[@jarroddark8560]

you have awesome train videos, my friend

[@Erick-ve1jx]

Nice video, it was very cool to see everything they had to do from start to finish

[@25mfd]

nice switching vid... @ 5:36 wonder why he blocked the crossing... he had plenty of room to clear... but I guess sometimes they wanna stick it to the goofy motorists who try to beat them at the crossing

[@beeble2003]

Probably because it's safer to keep the crossing blocked the whole time, rather than clearing it and then having to take control of it again. The locals will know that, when that industry is being switched, they should head up to the next crossing instead. Notice that there was nobody waiting on Jaw Tooth's side of the crossing at any point, and I don't think there's anyone waiting on the opposite side as the camera pans at 5:10 (though it's hard to tell).

[@surfercharliel7928]

When you zoomed in on that old station, “thought I saw a ghost”,

[@michaelmccarthy4615]

That little RR building for $5K doesn't sound too bad. I wonder how much land it sits on... it would make a nice Rail fanning club house with a little work.

[@wernerfleischer4436]

You only get the building . no land

[@michaelmccarthy4615]

@@wernerfleischer4436 rats, just a tad of land would allow outdoor RR club house BBQs...while trains go by...

[@wernerfleischer4436]

you buy it fix it up and rent it

[@404BOOMER]

My favorite loco. Cool old station

[@gmgustaf]

Great video, fine work there

[@MrPeerum]

yes Brian,that was not a railfan.passing red en he is daeth.that little wooden station is nice to rebild it to a small pub,sitting outsite with cold beer ,mabey koffie cola.how you like that?

[@JawTooth]

I think that would be an excellent idea! I could see myself sitting there with a drink in my hand and reading Trains Magazine. lol

[@MrPeerum]

@@JawTooth whe have manny trainstations with that with terras.nice in the summer ,lol.

[@danielgarrett6574]

Pretty neat to see how it all works.. back and forth, back and forth. Lol.. hey jaw tooth , since your kinda close to me.. know of any good rails around central Indiana.. Indy north. Peru and logansport are pretty good but know of any others or how I can find out when big freight come through.. awesome video bro. And hey I was there for the reds parade.. we stayed in Covington . Got to check out the Ludlow or whatever that little town is. It was just a mile in a half from are hotel. Good ol best western.. rail fans stay there.. great service and they feed you constantly.. lol

[@JawTooth]

Ludlow has that new railfan platform that recently opened. I made a video about it. You should check it out. Its two stories high and faces the busy NS Rathole Line. I'm still checking out Indiana but I like Michigan City. Its a little north but it has streetrunning, commuter trains and a lift bridge and a coaling tower and....

[@galaxyrailfanning7860]

Awesome video and sweet pictures!

[@austinyingst5902]

At one time early in the century I saw an I&O loco spending a Sunday opposite the depot as if it were stationed there. It was not there on subsequent visits.

[@jeffreymcfadden9403]

hey JT,,,is this IO a former BN loco. if so, I saw this in green paint with white face several years ago. looks to be a GP50, and Frisco ordered 10 just before BN merger, with only 1 making it to Frisco paint before the rest was BN green. I saw it just south of brookville,Ind on the now abandoned north end, whitewater branch. quite a big loco for such crappy rail.

[@jeffreymcfadden9403]

update, I&O has at least 10 former Frisco/BN GP50s,,,,but this 5014 is not listed as one of these. so, I did see one of the ex frisco locos, just do not know which one.

[@Doing_it_right_the_first_time]

In a response to some of you people saying what a great job it was as switching…As a former railroad Engineer myself I would certainly be disappointed if I was part of that crew doing all those multiple moves unnecessarily! I would have gotten that done in half the time and half those moves! I was shaking my head watching this video to see how inefficient these two guys were at switching! GEEZ!

[@michaelweilert1286]

Jaw Tooth that guy who runs the rail crossing would be the first one to complain he would say..... ho! the railroad crossing lights didn`t work or he didn`t honk his horn that`s why I got hit!! my back my back!!! what is the history of the track you said it used to be Busier? something like that? can you run it by me again? I got a big kick watching the switching all of it! now that`s live-action! fantastic video JT I like your work! keep it up!

[@JawTooth]

This use to be a busy B&O line. Amtrak ran on it in the 70s. But in the 80s it was cut a few miles east of this video at Greenfield. Today this branch to Greenfield is owned by the town of Greenfield and leased to Indiana and Ohio railway. They only run trains on it a few days a week. The branch starts at Midland. I remember when there were about ten to twelve trains a day over this line. I rode Amtrak on it , I rode the Chessie Steam Special on it and I rode a dinner train on it. The depot in Leesburg was just purchased by that town and it will be restored.

[@elizabethdowney2446]

That was sooo cool! Thanks for the video!

[@stevenlamb3971]

Nice. I've watched them switch Hutamaki and stop for ice cream.

[@JawTooth]

Good choice! You are watching my old classics. Thanks!

[@traindudeacw]

The seven digit number, six numbers and one letter, is the DOT crossing number. Every railroad crossing in the United States is assigned a unique number for the crossings database.

[@intotheabyss5528]

Awesome video, check out the railroad crossing signal when you rewatch the video, it acts weird by shutting off when the train is still on the island block and it'll come back on and then before they shove all the tank cars in it acts up again, idk if it's supposed to do that or not but I just wanted to mention it incase you didn't notice it or not

[@MeepBeep0670]

Another great video! keep up the good work! :)

[@cottonceena]

Awesome train my friend !

[@crushhardtack2870]

Another great video, Mr. Tooth!

[@curtnicholson7771]

Jaws I wrote so much I ran out of room but here is the most important things I didn't mention. That old Milwaukee Road depot the people of Genoa, IL got together and got enough money and moved it to Waterworks Park on on the west side of town on the main drag which is IL Rt.72 They completely redid it and turned it into a museum complete with the paving bricks from where the depot was on the railroad. Then they saved up the money and bought one of the old Illinois Central cabooses and totally redid it and put in rails in front of the Depot and the caboose sits on those just to the front of the depot. So if your ever up this way stop by sometime. You still have rather good size coaling tower on the Union Pacific in the town of DeKalb, Il about twenty miles away and the Illinois Railway Museum is maybe twenty miles north east also, which in the summer has street cars, diesel, and steam trains most weekends running a five to six mile route each way. That's where I took my kids when they were little and we got to ride in the top lookout seats in the caboose. The is also the Illinois Trolley Museum located in South Elgin, Il with rides available and the big one is the Double Diamond 24 hour Rail Park in Rochele, IL with the BNSF and Union Pacific main lines crossing there. I think there is a live feed you can look up also. With Union Pacific's Global 3 just west of town. So there you have it. Another great video Jaws!

[@JawTooth]

I want to visit Rochele and the Illinois Railway Museum. I almost went to Rochele last year to meet up with a friend of mine who went there. I have watched that live feed a few times

[@austinyingst5902]

Modeler stake note. It looks like that candle maker took that great long string of tank cars we saw at the beginning of the video and left with a few from the plant. Jaw Tooth reports the a windy day.

[@HuntGamingProductions]

my only fav ohio train fan 110% makes me happy

[@dmorgan28]

Another great video. Enjoyed it. Thanks

[@BorisLu]

Nice video!

[@louislokuta9617]

151265.T is likely the AAR or DOT ID of the crossing.

[@ronfogartyfogarty9362]

Very nice jawtooth that was interesting keep it up

[@WideWorldofTrains]

Cool looking Geep 50 there

[@flashcar60]

This shows that a lot of thinking and planning goes into switching efficiently.

[@Doing_it_right_the_first_time]

WHAT?!… as a former railroad Engineer myself I would certainly be disappointed if I was part of that crew doing all those multiple moves unnecessarily! I would have gotten that done in half the time and half those moves! I was shaking my head watching this video to see how inefficient these two guys were at switching! GEEZ!

[@flashcar60]

@@Doing_it_right_the_first_time My comment still rings true. Thinking and planning do go into switching efficiently, regardless of the quality of this effort.

[@train1962]

Thanks for the video Brian.That locomotive has been staged in Blanchester.It needs cleaned up or repainted.

[@MrPeerum]

Very nice video Brian.thanks again.

[@wildbill9919]

# 5014 has nice paint-Great Northern Jr.

[@sofreak6]

Outstanding video

[@curtnicholson7771]

Well Jaws if you have stuck with this long as this is the only way I know to communicate with you here is one more I remember. With the building of the Byron Nuclear Station something very large I'm not sure if it was the reactor core probably because the steam generators have been replaced and they are large but not as big as the reactor. Anyway it came thru Genoa, IL on the then still double tracked Milwaukee Road, but because it would not fit thru the Illinois Central overpass bridge. The took and tore out both sets of rails just west of the west crossing in town and laid a track down thru the center of the overpass and tied back into the north rail (westbound) before the bridge over the river. After whatever was moved (I did not get to see it when it happened) the centered track was removed and both tracks were rebuilt as they were. This item would then have been taken into Byron then was either switched over to the old Great Western tracks and if the river bridge and the overpass bridge over IL Rt.72 were wide enough and strong enough it would have been moved over those rails and on some of the old GW tracks to the point where complete new tracks wear built all the way to the plant. You can see these rails in Google maps overhead view showing where sidings go to each reactor building and each turbine buildings. If you ever look up the overhead view you will also be able to follow the old GW path both ways from Byron by looking at the landscape. Anyway another rail story of mine to a rail fan like you in another part of this great rail crisis crossed country of ours. I hop your able to buy and save a depot some day Jaws. Besides the saved Milwaukee Road depot I told you about the little old Illinois Central depot is still in our town. About the size of the one in your video but not as fancy and is more run down than yours in the picture but not vandalized yet because the railroad CN now does keep it locked up.

[@JawTooth]

They move really costs some big bucks. Too bad nobody got to film it. That would be a great video. I'm always on the lookout for an oversized load to film . I filmed one near Harrisburg Pa but it was nothing compared to that. I also filmed a hiway oversize load move. They had to raise the redlights and wires.

[@richkinseher298]

Awesome Thanks for the video.

[@kimberlyatwood5154]

Great video!

[@DouglasP201]

I enjoyed this, thank you for sharing JT!

[@carbon2983]

gateless crossing. no bells. just the kind of crossing i like

[@RodneyFlatt]

Love. The. Trains. On. Jawtooth

[@henryszubielski8601]

Nice post! Thanks!

[@Chessie1985]

Great switching!!!!

[@railyardfilms6491]

Good showing

[@markm6488]

👍cool factory too

[@faqihudinachyar1628]

Woaah nice sound train sir brian 👏👏👏

[@armageddon1981]

As a railroader i say this...there's only so many times you'll play with a train like that!!!

[@Closet_Jedi]

I reminded of the slogan, "If there's a tie at the crossing, you lose!"

[@armageddon1981]

@@Closet_Jedi I've heard one of my engineers say that so i agree with that.

[@jeromeschwartz3699]

5:41 The lights sometimes don’t appear on camera because they’re not always on. They turn on and off incredibly fast, many times per second. The reason why a human being can’t tell that they’re flashing is due to persistence of vision. During the time they’re off, they still appear to be on, to the human eye. A video camera is really just taking many pictures per second so, what’s happening is, when the flashing lights appear to be off in the video, that’s really just the camera taking it’s pictures in sync with the periods when the railroad signal is off. I’m assuming that the railroad signal pulses at a rate of *precisely* 60 cycles per second (ComEd is highly accurate), and your camera might be doing slightly more or less than that. That’s why the lights cycle back and forth in the video from being visible to not.

[@ocsrc]

151.265 most likely is an automated transmitter to alert local PD that a train is in town It is part of positive train control Most times when you see a frequency with the letter T next to it that is the transmit frequency and since there is no R frequency it is for broadcast only to a receiving station This frequency should be licensed to the railroad or the town most likely the town The crossings I have seen have new 222 megahertz transmitters installed at most locations They also have new visual activation lights that are wire directly into the flashers and face both directions of track to give a visual indication to the train that the flashers are working

[@JawTooth]

Thanks for the info! I put that in my scanner but I never heard anything on it.

[@ocsrc]

@@JawTooth it may not be turned on, but the writing is new, so I would scan that frequency just in case.