Railfan outing in the Hudson River Valley. CSX/Metro North/Amtrak. 11/4/23

We got together with railfans/employee railfans and had a great day observing heavy action on both sides of the Hudson River. Lots of ribbing and castigating of things and a poor unfortunate railfan home with Covid. He was a good sport though and took it in stride. We got lucky and caught the MN Conrail Heritage engine #201 twice along with the Hickory Creek Observation Car on an Amtrak train. All trains indentified on all railroads

[@evangouldtransit]

this was a fantastic day. I'm really thankful to have you guys as my friends. we had some awesome catches.!!!!!!

[@ariesarethebest271]

I like when you do railfan videos with other railfans, it makes the videos more fun. Nice to see conductor Paul out with you guys.

[@robertcantore330]

Love the scenery along the Hudson especially in the Fall!!!

[@cnjrr1216]

Awesome, myself and the better half where on the Seastreek out of NJ heading to Milton, NY for a fall foliage cruise saw that train I162 and three more including the auto rack train. Plus metro north on the east side of the river. Awesome day.

[@scottyerkes1867]

Awesome rail fanning!! Both sides of the Hudson River. Thanks Tim and all the other railroad men👌👌💚💚

[@vincentzablocki4930]

It was a pleasure to meet you at Mine Dock Park. It looks like you all had a lot of fun which is what the hobby is all about. Sorry you did not get to see the pair of UP GEVO's on M434. It came through Dumont just after 5:00 PM which means it got up to Mine Dock around 5:45 or so. He got out of Oak Island really late...that's the way it goes. My son Jason posts his monthly videos on his channel 'JWZ Railfanning'...Enjoy and be well, Vincent Zablocki

[@3985uprr]

Quite a surprise to meet you. How did you know it was me or did you just recognize my voice? Would have been good to see those Union Pacific engines.

[@66kprdwd]

Another great video. Loved the footage you got in California. Conductor Paul and I are old friends and former coworkers. One day I hope to hook up with you and him.

[@PittsburghRailroader31]

Ahhh the yelling at Ian killed me🤣

[@3985uprr]

He took it in stride. I think if he couldn’t, he would’ve been in a padded cell by now. 😀😀

[@IanTasch]

Hmmph…….lol

[@loocpoc]

Looking forward to Thanksgiving weekend and getting out to see the Metro North heritage units

[@Libraryguy09]

That must be the bell that woke up Rip Van Winkle!

[@raycooney7632]

Great scenery, great trains and a great gang of fans.

[@MatthewSmith-cv7op]

That slow poke was most definitely a key train.

[@Jake_MHF_Videos]

Glad to see you back in my area! Wonder when you're returning to Poughkeepsie

[@jasongunther1929]

Great video, I noticed you have the same exact kind of scanner (uniden) that I have!

[@3985uprr]

The scanner is good and it’s very reasonably priced. The only thing I don’t like about us is that it eats battery power real fast

[@dutchvanderlinde154]

Great video

[@m7express774]

Awesome 👏

[@tlove3840]

Is this something unusual to the freight engineers to to see you guys out there

[@3985uprr]

There are always a lot of real fans on that line so probably not

[@roberttapken1139]

Is Penn Station still OK. Hickory Creek in Pensy territory. Nice car though. Great video.

[@evangouldtransit]

and my shoes are still muddy from when i got flooded out filming the SeaStreak boats but not as bad

[@christophercancel934]

So Conductor Paul wanted to a documentary on the private cars but he got pissed off and kicked the stump cause he missed them?

[@USArailfan2000]

Cool CSX-powered Autoracks @ 30:03 | 33:30 | 44:27!

[@carlossanchez-kz4wh]

Why did MNR name their cars example Half Moon

[@3985uprr]

Some of them don’t make sense to me

[@tlove3840]

A rail guy u having fun with the railroad guy themselves all it looks like u want to be sole lo

[@JoeyLovesTrains]

Are you part of a railfan Facebook group?

[@3985uprr]

Several

[@tlove3840]

Hey a real guy what name would you have for yourself if you was working on the railroad like the name you make up for the other guys

[@3985uprr]

Probably the Wine Engineer or Hornsey