This is very entertaining and exciting. Thank you. Regards John from Germany
@dcwarr145 жыл бұрын
The rail environment in the Omaha area was far more interesting then than it is today. I greatly enjoyed this look back.
@gailyncookMilwRR2 жыл бұрын
Great videos! History of Trains help us remember how things used to be. This reminded of growing up in Sioux City, Ia. I have been through most of those locations in the 60s & 70s. After a short career on the Milwaukee RR running from Sioux City to Mitchell SD couple of times. Until Milwaukee went away then, I enlisted in the USAF and have been in Texas since then. Most of my videos were shot in Dallas & Ft. Worth area. New Sub👍
@mikem759911 ай бұрын
Nice show. I worked West Iowa a lot in 93
@captainmorgan7575 жыл бұрын
At 13:33, "... a bottle neck trying to figure out where the trains are to go...". Twenty-six years later and still nothing has changed!
@tonyjanney16546 ай бұрын
Thank you for the upload. I noticed this was filmed in 1993. I noticed a lot of "Fallen Flags" on the rolling stock.
@lcar40008 жыл бұрын
Nice to see those CNW engines again
@garysprandel18174 жыл бұрын
9:43 former CGW company service tank car
@scoobycarr55584 жыл бұрын
Excellent observation!
@johnruskin43305 жыл бұрын
Informative and well presented...enjoyed cheers
@markgilbertson49176 жыл бұрын
Great railroading time machine. Love your video's. Great commentary.
@JohnZWetmore6 жыл бұрын
Thank you. Glad you liked it.
@josephjoestar32753 жыл бұрын
Pretty cool seeing my territory in the "old" yellow days. First trip I ever took I ran out of hours at the Boyer river crossing, lol.
@stevenmetzger33858 жыл бұрын
Thank you, John!!!
@JohnZWetmore8 жыл бұрын
You are welcome.
@OmahaTom6 ай бұрын
Great coverage! The zephyr used to be so much longer! I have a bunch of Omaha rail footage on my channel too!
@jalilmuhammad82702 жыл бұрын
This is now the Union Pacific line that connects to the original UP in Omaha.
@MrZeldalove6 жыл бұрын
Those raked out SD40-2's with the six long axles and stretched porches, look intimidating and are the best looking freight locomotives built. Union Pacific had over 600 of them (including the straight, shorter SD40's) and Burlington Northern had over 800. It proved itself a tough and reliable locomotive.
@cementer76654 жыл бұрын
Between Logan and Woodbine, the former Illinois Central (CCP) passes under the CNW (UP), and at Arion, IA, the little town, where I believe the trackwork was being done, was where the Milwaukee once crossed both the CNW and the IC, at one time there was a tower there. If you had went further east to Carrol, the Chicago Great Western once crossed the CNW there in town.
@martindoyle8317 жыл бұрын
Great video. Good commentary ☺
@JohnZWetmore7 жыл бұрын
Thanks.
@scoobycarr55584 жыл бұрын
I wonder if this stacking of reefer boxes from Omaha to Japan still happens on UP
@canyontiger40223 жыл бұрын
It does. Most of this is handled by TSL, UP and IAIS in Council Bluffs, IA.
@thairatcatcher7 жыл бұрын
A very well paced, informative video with a narration for a change from watching 110 coal cars rumble by. An obviously older video since most of the freight cars are graffiti free. job well done
@JohnZWetmore7 жыл бұрын
Thanks. It was filmed in April, 1993.
@stansmith40543 жыл бұрын
Railroads were far more interesting in the '80s and 90's as compared to today.
@johannesmohner86953 жыл бұрын
Okay , but why is this your sight ? Regards John from Germany
@stansmith40543 жыл бұрын
@@johannesmohner8695 It is simply my opinion. One of my reasons is that there were many more railroad companies around then. You also had some cool companies like Chessie and then ConRail.
@johannesmohner86953 жыл бұрын
@@stansmith4054 ah okay now I understand. Yeah heading to the 2000's the most smaller Companies went in to mergers to a cooperation. So they are only Giants left , am I right ? I saw a documentary about. Okay I got u now... Regards John from Germany
@stansmith40543 жыл бұрын
@@johannesmohner8695 Ja. You are correct. In addition, almost all locomotives (and autos for that matter) look alike these days. This is quite boring! I am sorry I cannot speak German. I can only speak English, Dutch, and Afrikaans. Your English is quite good by the way. Greetings from Michigan, U.S.
@johannesmohner86953 жыл бұрын
@@stansmith4054 Thank you stan. It doesnt matter. Have you immigrated from South Africa when you speak Africaans abd dutch ? Or did your Ancestors did so ? I have Familiy in London and Melbourne, so its necessary to own fluent language skills. I live in Mainz, Metropolitan of Rhineland Palatine :)
@nickygaming19115 жыл бұрын
11:18 what type of railroad crossing is that?
@garysprandel18174 жыл бұрын
Griswold. Same outfit famous for the rotating stop sign signals
@nickygaming19114 жыл бұрын
@@garysprandel1817 you mean it's kind of similar towards to the wig wag?
@garysprandel18174 жыл бұрын
@@nickygaming1911 similar rarity but it was kind of the next step in crossing protection. Easier to show you but if you search Griswold railroad crossing there's several other videos including the original form of the gate you asked about. kzbin.info/www/bejne/o3bbmqChgb9qjMU
@EdmontonRails7 жыл бұрын
Great production :)
@JohnZWetmore7 жыл бұрын
Thanks.
@stansmith40543 жыл бұрын
Do they still load piggy back cars like that today?
@stevechurch22224 жыл бұрын
please dhow us some more videos I really enjoyed this one
@JohnZWetmore4 жыл бұрын
Glad you liked it. We plan to do some more in the future. Perhaps late next year if Covid-19 is under control by then.
@admydragon4 жыл бұрын
Bless that little GP9, loudest unit in that coal train.
@moparguy10004 жыл бұрын
Great video. It was nice to see cars without graffiti
@JohnZWetmore4 жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it
@djcb41902 жыл бұрын
My uh whole hobby started with a passion of video games.
@rooseveltmccarter38947 жыл бұрын
What happened to the Caboose's? We're they retired or scrapped as well as transfer trains?
@canyontiger40223 жыл бұрын
BN still uses cabeese on many of their locals and transfer trains out of Gibson Yard. The shove showed in the video is still a nightly occurrence.
@scoobycarr55587 жыл бұрын
Does the loading of Nebraska beef in shipping containers to Japan on Union Pacific in Omaha still happen today?
@JohnZWetmore7 жыл бұрын
Yes, the Iowa Interstate loads them in Council Bluffs and delivers them to the UP.
@scoobycarr55587 жыл бұрын
+John Z Wetmore OK thanks for the info
@JohnZWetmore7 жыл бұрын
You're welcome.
@blueticecho56902 жыл бұрын
It was nice to see that old BN hog head.. Good job here..
@BNSF21844 жыл бұрын
Too many clips of him rambling and not enough clips of trains!
@kitiowa5 жыл бұрын
I get a kick out of the auto scribe writing yeah for the train horn.
@lydmik7 жыл бұрын
this must be before ditch lights were req'd
@JohnZWetmore7 жыл бұрын
This was filmed in 1993. The FRA issued their rules requiring ditch lights in 1996.
@lydmik7 жыл бұрын
thx...enjoyed the video!
@larryrwendelljr44657 жыл бұрын
Nice video, but you need to correct your spelling, LOL :o)
@tonderen16154 жыл бұрын
Poor subtitles!
@JohnZWetmore4 жыл бұрын
Those were the Automatic subtitles from KZbin, which can be quite unreliable when you have a noisy environment like next to a passing train. I have gone in and made manual corrections. Although I kind of hated to take out lines like: "KY in containers for Nebraska be for the west coast"
@stansmith40543 жыл бұрын
I'm guessing that you are not allowed to film train yards today due to terrorism laws.