NOSE TO TAIL RACE IN ASHLAND, VA!

[@CentralPennRailProductions]

Definitely one of the best catches at Ashland! Even ended at the same time too!

[@BNSFBishop]

It’s eerie similar! But no one is gonna best Central Penn Rail’s race of those two hot shot NS intermodals!

[@lawrencewheeler8868]

Scale calibration car, 2nd go last on track,3

[@NOVARailandWeatherEnthusiast]

BNSFBishop i think that race is extremely similar to this one.

[@CentralPennRailProductions]

Thanks for the shout out!

[@TheOldMainGuy]

@@CentralPennRailProductions he's not wrong. Your race is the best ever!

[@kogo21]

You think they can lean out the window and have a conversation?

[@zachariassiefker9249]

Nice catch! I like the train race as well as the CSX EMD SD70MAC at 0:52! Really nice!

[@azmike1]

Imagine working there, downtown Ashland, VA. The rumble of trains every day . What a scene!

[@andrastetriformis6241]

It must feel like a small earthquake when two go through town like that. Love the biker cameo. 😄

[@zierewolfo46]

Bookitty Kittycat That’s Ken! He’s usually seen riding and dancing on his bike around town.

[@georgettedebuhr2660]

That's the first time I've seen two trains side by side. Awesome video!

[@MerriBrownwing]

Oooh! Wow that was fun to watch! Thanks 👍💞👍

[@reidselby2569]

That was quite a sight for a little town ! Thanks for posting VR !

[@EntertainmentWorldz]

great video

[@stevesoukup3273]

Would have love to seen that. Awesome video 👍 👍.

[@royreynolds108]

The second car from the rear on the near train @ 2:00 is a scale test car. The test weight is lowered onto the live rails by hydraulic rams. The total weight of the car is not used for this type car.

[@mikeythesoulace]

Would've loved to hear the defect detector go off for both trains

[@richkeeshan9757]

Now will one of those trains will have to slow to let the other get to the mainline first?

[@canoeguy]

Nope. Double tracks and sometimes a third in this area

[@stevorules1820]

nope they both just gonna race and smash into each other when it goes down to one line lol

[@BurtonSKnowles]

Well that's something you don't see very often. Very cool!

[@kens.3729]

Nice Drag Race and Catch. 👍

[@SMILEVIDEOTRAINS]

brilliant capture. so rare.

[@darlenemassey6161]

Another great video. Has anyone noticed the model train store at the end?

[@thomasboese3793]

It's been there in every video... I wonder if they sell N-Scale?

[@bradleymcwilliams6348]

I believe they sponsor this camera

[@azmike1]

Nice to see different rolling stock! I'm in the Arizona West here and all I see is shipping containers and the BNSF.

[@clodwolf]

Nice to see the clock is still in sync

[@katt-the-pig]

You cannot get a more perfect race!

[@Southeast_Trains]

I got the very beginning of this race at RVR Staples Mill/LAUREL today and didn’t think it’d continue to Ashland! Wow! Q410 on track 2 & Q416 on track 3!

[@davidmeek3104]

That was awesome. I see that sometimes here in Winchester ky.

[@taslimchaudhry1431]

Awesome Video 💝🇮🇳👍🌹🚂🚂🚂

[@cliffleigh7450]

Now that would have been a good time for someone to get stuck on the tracks!

[@THEATREofPAIN270]

Slow & steady wins the race. 👍

[@walterfink9782]

It's a race to the end. Keep track of your favorite. Will it end in a tie? (Puns included)

[@Cpr1234]

I found two of the puns - To the *end* and keep *track*

[@straycat2253]

They were going the same speed 😂 excuse me do you have any grey pupon?oh and I bet that really rattled the windows!

[@timberwolfpowler8747]

If trains ever stopped running there the whole town would go into a deep depression.

[@uprailroadkidthomas]

400th like! Nice race of 2 GEVO's

[@tybois74]

....and it's 886 by half a boxcar at the crossing! 886 wins the Ashland Derby! :)

[@weatherdude5129]

This happens in Chicago racetrack too

[@alamorailfan]

That's amazing how Q410 and Q416 got a perfect race!

[@michaelvoisey8458]

On the South Camera across the road a shop selling Toy Trains Also I have a question On the trains with multiple Engine units , is there only one crew?

[@jmeyer3rn]

What the....?!?!?! Just wow!

[@ItsSilke]

Can someone tell me what kind of car is the blue one at 2:00?

[@herinol]

ItsZinnia a scale car im guessing?

[@99Duds]

I saw that and thought, huh a pop up caboose. Kind of like the pop up camper.

[@TrainTrackTrav]

That is a scale test car. Used to calibrate the car scales at rail yards.

[@99Duds]

@@TrainTrackTrav Neat, should be easy to model.

[@royreynolds108]

It is a scale test car. The calibration weight is in the car and lowered onto the scale rails. The old style scale cars needed to be the last car in a train as the brakes are only hand applied to keep the car from moving. This new kind has a engine and hydraulics to lower and raise the weight which is independent of the car so the car has air brakes.

[@eligebrown8998]

England,Crete and Swift do this on the highway all the time. Hope that track doesnt turn into a single track anytime soon.

[@ausblue1]

what a beautiful race:)

[@donnebes9421]

You give those guys new locos and they go loco.

[@WhiteCamry]

I didn't know there were that many boxcars left in existence.

[@smokeyyunick2675]

Why one blinking and the other isn’t?

[@AGSGuy]

Ditchlights flash when the horn is being activated on CSX

[@rickygarcia7400]

Smokey Yunick I thank he kinda figured that the others right next to him.

[@locoluke4149]

AGS-Guy and if I recall correctly Ashland is a quiet zone

[@AGSGuy]

@@locoluke4149 It is but with the platform Construction underway, the QZ is overruled for work site safety

[@AGSGuy]

@@mauricelong4678 WC*

[@trainzguy2472]

1:59 Scale test car!

[@abbottcooper3243]

Wow. Almost the identical length.

[@gibbo9089]

Is it bidirectional working on both tracks then?

[@ThatGuySteveH]

Jonathan Gibson yes.

[@robertheinkel6225]

It would be interesting to hear the chatter between the engineers

[@brianeldridge3148]

The barriers were late coming down at the start with the trains that close to the crossing.

[@lelandrogers1078]

I assume they will diverge at some point.

[@rodrigoalves9857]

Awesome!!!

[@shmulikanglister]

That is very rare. Same speed and same length!

[@billsargent3407]

Do you have any Grey\ Poupon?

[@WRL13]

they're trying to see who can get to the single track first.

[@lazyrrr2411]

👌👍

[@JoeSmith-ip9yl]

Why put a rail line in the middle of town ?

[@royreynolds108]

The town grew around the tracks.

[@kyvbii]

Imagine not getting hit by 1 train but by 2 lol how unlucky would you have to be

[@janakiramnallamothu3020]

Can't they level off the difference and run exactly parallel, where Engineers of both the Loco's can look at each other.

[@MinimalImpossibe]

They could, but there's always one engineer with a big d*ck complex and needs to lead.

[@lizzie8561]

Which train was faster?

[@michaelcombs1348]

Track 3 was slightly faster

[@Southeast_Trains]

Q416 left second so I’d definitely say Q416

[@stevorules1820]

So if this happens only 1 train is required to use horn and lights? Also just imagine a car being stuck in between both tracks (only thinking of damage to the car no harm on any human)

[@MinimalImpossibe]

Ashland is a quiet zone, neither are required to use horn. The reason one did and the other no is because it was on a track next to a work zone.

[@stevorules1820]

@@MinimalImpossibe ok theoretically though if it wasnt a quiet zone would both be required to use horns and flashing lights? ( I expect lights are yes)

[@MinimalImpossibe]

@@stevorules1820 Yes, activating the horn would be required by both trains. The horn being activated is recorded in the black box and in the case that, for instance someone runs in front of the leading train and is hit by the second train had they not been sounding the horn it would be held against them. A train sounding it's horn next to yours is irrelevant. Each train is governed by the rules individually. Flashing lights on the locos are activated and stay flashing for 30 seconds. They are required on railroads operating under NORAC rules (Northeastern US), so you most likely won't see flashing ditch lights on trains on UP, BNSF, and other railroads operating in the mid-west and west. .

[@reddog-ex4dx]

How did that happen?

[@mattmoschkau2831]

CSX won...... No CSX lost!! But I bet on CSX with 2 to 1 odds. How did I only break even!

[@Husky1run]

Seems a little dangerous to me racing through a town like that imagine of destructions if they came off the tracks

[@WeathermanJohnBiggs]

That guy at the end.

[@bradhutchins9605]

Yeah 886 won by a lot

[@xyz--sd7pu]

how cool is that

[@tgfan458]

So nobody is going to comment about the person riding the bike at the end?

[@mickboakes7023]

Imagine trying to buy something in the shop when that happens.🇬🇧

[@normanschenck3091]

yay I'm the first one

[@supershadowwall]

They just need to put some Initial D music in the back ground.

[@VideoCyberspace]

Guaranteed one of the engineers was playing an initial D song.

[@jodypearce9515]

Or something by The Man In Black, Johnny Cash.

[@GeorgeJansen]

3 dislikes. Why? 😢😢😢

[@Yatsunari]

imagine if someone pulled out in front of them

[@youraveragejoe2]

Someone's headed to the scrapyard

[@canuckaviation3300]

K.O

[@janakiramnallamothu3020]

Total Annihilation!! 🚖🛤️💥🚂🚂

[@donnebes9421]

Brady McCullough hamburger.

[@thomasboese3793]

I'd imagine the driver would need a change of clothing as well as a new seat for the car.

[@georgecanham431]

Side-by-side not nose to tail.

[@JoeSmith-ip9yl]

Don’t like the wig wag on csx