This INVISIBLE CABOOSE was lost for HOW LONG?! | 3/4 Show S4e3

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[@Railman1225]

2:32 Wait a minute. D&RGW bought out SP, but took on the SP name. Then in 1996, "SP" bought out UP, and took on the UP name... Oh my word...do you know what this means?!(End of Golden Wind/il vento d'oro Orchestra ques) Southern Pacific, Union Pacific, neither of them made it to present day! THE WHOLE TIME, IT WAS THE D&RGW!! *_THE DENVER & RIO GRANDE WESTERN NEVER DIEEEEES!!!_* Edit: I am a moron. UP bought SP, not the other way around. Nevermind... Edit 2: Hyce confirmed it...it's all still owned by the Rio Grande...THE LEGENDS ARE TRUE!!!!

[@davidwhiting1761]

At least you corrected yourself before the comments did :)

[@Hyce777]

It's actually still all owned by Rio Grande holdings, if I recall properly. The D&RGW never died...

[@Railman1225]

@@Hyce777 HOOOOOOOOLY CRAP. So I WAS right! Neat! Also, mind hearting the comment again since YT is like "Oh, what's that? You edited the comment the creator favorited? Well then, say goodbye to that heart!!"?

[@whatusernameis5295]

​@@Hyce777LMAO the Rio grande never dies

[@KPen3750]

The rollercoaster of emotion this comment sent me on lol

[@94_Chevy_Z71]

Caboose: I've been everywhere, man. I've been everywhere....

[@ihatemylyfe1764]

Crossed the deserts bare, man I've breathed the mountain air, man…

[@culdeefp4817]

Can’t help bet imagine some dudes just walking down a right of way, tacking posters that say ‘have you seen this caboose?’ Onto signals & mileposts

[@Nderak]

cuz the the whole 3 months dozens of human hands would have had to uncouple and handle physiclaly touch that boxcar, right?

[@bobsmith2637]

That sort of happened in western Canada in the 1990s, CN kept running out of grain boxcars even though Manitoba had just paid to have a bunch of them repaired (the 'Buffalo Boxcars'). The Hudson Bay Route Association took out some newspaper ads in the form of a "Wanted: Reward" poster which asked readers to report the location and numbers of 40' boxcars they saw in out of the way sidings.

[@crazyguy32100]

"This car is your car, this car is my car. The models bought it, the SF lost it. It's been to all yards, except for Ca-stle-Rock. This car it used to be SP."

[@brianargo4595]

Took me far too long to put a tune to these lyrics

[@AnimeSunglasses]

@@brianargo4595 I grew up listening to so much Perter. Paul, and Mary, I don't think there's a power in the universe that could STOP me from putting the tune to that!

[@kingofthepod5169]

I read it to the tune of "this land is your land."

[@That_One_Guy_In_A_Band]

​@@kingofthepod5169 is that not the tune we were supposed to put it to?

[@EpicRails]

Can’t wait for this to devolve into: “On this episode of ‘A Group of Idiots Play Citation Needed’ Brett, is still the tallest man in Colorado, Leighton still is talking history, and I get ‘Northwest Passaged’ again. Let’s go to the studio”

[@bobsmith2637]

Even with computerized billing and AEI scanners everywhere we still manage to lose and misroute cars on a regular basis. One of the more egregious examples in recent memory happened during December 2008 and January 2009, Canadian National was supposed to move a damaged dangerous tank car with a cracked frame from the Union Pacific interchange in Chicago to the Procor car shop in Sarnia, Ontario. The waybill from UP not only contained the familiar "DO NOT HUMP" instruction, it required that this car only be moved on the very tail end of a train. CN of course did not set out the car in Sarnia, instead we sent it to Toronto where it went over MacMillan Yard's dual hump six (6) times over the course of a two week stay. Then we lost the waybill somehow and whipped up a new one which directed the car to Winnipeg instead (get it outta here!). After arriving at Symington Yard we humped it again. After several days in Loserpeg we finally remembered that it was supposed to go to Sarnia and drew up another fresh waybill, but this time we deleted the "move as tail end car" instructions. So it was marshaled in the middle of an eastbound manifest, which made it about 15 miles before the crack gave way and the first few feet of the car's centre sill were ripped off. This incident is the subject of Canadian TSB investigation report R09W0016 if you'd like to read more about it or see some pictures.

[@leechowning2712]

I cannot wait for this to show up as its own episode.

[@peregrina7701]

reading this comment, which sounds so very railroad, and completely lost it at "Loserpeg." lol. There's gotta be a traffic flow I don't understand for the poor thing to have been humped half a dozen times in two weeks.

[@mafarnz]

HOLY CRAP HOLD ON A SECOND!!!! I was born in Albuquerque NM, and lived there until 2000. I remember seeing a Rio Grande caboose come through going south (westbound) at some point, but I cannot for the life of me remember when that was. I wonder if that was this one?

[@CurtisFerrington]

The saga of that caboose could make a great comedy movie. 🤣 Add some spice by having crooks have hidden stolen loot in the walls of caboose and they're racing to find it to get it before it's scrapped. Then à la "Mad Mad Mad World" people overhear conversations about the loot so the number of people chasing down the caboose keeps growing. Finally it's tracked down to Barstow and they find Hunter S. Thompson living in the caboose and has spent all the money. 😁

[@Hyce777]

That'd be too good, lol! Good to see you here, Curtis!

[@JanTonovski]

Hello Hyce, this weekend I've been to a steam event in the city where I live. It was really cool to see the things you explain in person. I've talked a lot with the fireman of one of the BR23 locos. I am now thinking of doing the thing! I got some short clips of the train which I will post in real trains in the discord server next week

[@Hyce777]

Go do the thing! Do it!

[@chasesrailwaylinesrr6447]

I like how Mermaid man and Barnacle boy on the invisible caboose Like the invisible boat Mobile. Pretty obviously it's an invisible bobber caboose because of the lamps floating

[@larrylawson5172]

I know this is long before airtags. But it would have been fun to watch the airtag track and MRRC say, "We know where our caboose is!" and the railroads saying, "What caboose?"

[@MattTheEngineer.]

the invisible loose caboose? SONG 2 INCOMING

[@Brickticks]

Quick Barnacle Boy, to the invisible caboose mobile!

[@chasesrailwaylinesrr6447]

Yes

[@3ftsteamrwy12]

Isn't there also a legend about a RGS train that lost car(s) from a loandslide, and they didnt notice it until they got to the terminal?? (in other words, rockslide KNOCKS a car(s) out of the train it RECOUPLES and none notices...)

[@3ftsteamrwy12]

(BTW at the SP/D&RGW merger I REALLY wanted the merged company to be called "Rio Grande Southern"...)

[@nielsleenknegt5839]

Also then the air wasn't tied in then, otherwise they would have felt either that they couldn't move anymore or that there was a sudden brake

[@3ftsteamrwy12]

Oh i KNOW, but it WAS the RGS, and the more I learn about that line, the more the incredile seems to actually be true.......

[@sambrown6426]

I need to know more about that, do you know where I can find more info about it?

[@bobsmith2637]

This sort of thing has happened a few times over the years on different railroads, sometimes it's a hard run-in of slack that throws a car off the rails. Air brakes go into emergency and the train stops, then the brakeman walks back expecting to find a broken knuckle but instead sees the train separated with no obvious derailment or damage and two intact couplers. He couples the two halves back together, the train proceeds on its merry way and the missing car isn't noticed until the train arrives at its final terminal.

[@avanchnzel1230]

Hey Hyce! Fun fact, there’s currently a yellow D&RGW caboose numbered 01505 on display at the Chandler Railroad Museum in Arizona.

[@PowerTrain611]

This is another one of those stories that, hearing it and imagining it from the outside perspective, makes it sound like a Benny Hill sketch.

[@sudriansignalman9387]

We had a pair of platform cars (aka hoppers with a standing platform) disappear. One was found 8 miles from the yard, the other has NEVER TURNED UP AFTER WELL OVER A MONTH. it has completely disappeared. There was also a story I've heard of a prr engineer loosing a 100 car train.......

[@davidwhiting1761]

Sounds like something that would have happened on Penn Central...

[@ferky123]

There's a reason why Maine started shipping their potatoes by rail recently after 60 years of doing it by truck.

[@alexhajnal107]

Yea, Penn Central managing to lose the entirety of Maine's potato harvest, despite the cars' bold red, white, and blue livery and the words "State of Maine Potatoes" in huge letters on the sides.

[@frantasramota1359]

2:25 "Nobody expects the Southern Pacific."

[@alexhajnal107]

6:06 The comfy chair!

[@ViperZero523]

The invisible boat caboose

[@ViperZero523]

@hyce777 I was here before carl said anything

[@Austriantrainguy]

Oh yes! Also one of our most modern passenger carrages got stolen by the ÖBB when we used one of their yards to prepare a herratage train in the 80s or 90s because they thaught it was one of theirs. Don´t know if it is true but the older guys said it is.

[@JonsGarage89]

I once had a package that kept going from San Diego to wisconsin and back like 8 times. I got the package in a normal amount of time but the tracking info was apparently tied to the container or truck and never switched over. That was hilarious to see. This has Blue Caboose by Skiitour vibes, trying to chase down a lost caboose. lol

[@Johndoe-jd]

Drake, wheres the caboose?

[@T-14YT]

You Know Its A Good Day When 3/4 Has A New Video. Very Nice

[@AtkataffTheAlpha]

Invisible caboose? Invisa-boose!

[@Nabitz]

As a British person the intro is spot on!

[@KPen3750]

Thumbnail fucking kills me every time. Thank you whomever made it lol

[@IsaacDaBoatSloth]

the caboose without visibility

[@IsaacDaBoatSloth]

wait what the hell who gave me a membership

[@Hyce777]

Good question. A few hundred were gifted on last night's stream, so, who knows. lol!

[@stationshunter]

This is basically the story of closing counters and no one thinking to call management hoping they wouldn't deal with 6 months of bureaucracy.

[@solarusthelonghaulerrailfa3226]

Well a typical railroad situation 😊👍🦜

[@awildjared1396]

These stories never fail to make me laugh.

[@Zimmzamm]

And this is why we have ACI tags to put on equipment we ship to or from our railroad

[@bluescrew3124]

lol great story Brett

[@Nderak]

the 1980s and 90s in railraoding are … very strange to someone not alive then.

[@LoPhatKao]

Hyce: "I was born!" happy 30th whenever it is, you young whippersnapper 👴

[@BandanRRChannel]

The real question is "How many yards did it bop around on the Santa Fe--and did it end up on any other railroads--before someone called Pueblo to report it?" I guess we'll never know...

[@SchererProductionServices]

Did anyone check to see if magician David Copperfield had been hanging around? He loved making large things like RR cars, learjets, and the Statue of Liberty disappear!!!

[@YourLocalRailfan]

Jeez that a great one 😂

[@game_mode_z449]

Man.. Can't wait to take a nap in the caboose. Where's the caboose?

[@CanadianmeeseRailfaning]

That's got to be the crazies caboose story I have ever heard in my life lol. Ps hyce I sent you a email on 2816 3 days ago. Just thought I would let you know.

[@themanformerlyknownascomme777]

ahh, I love these stories, when the mountain of Logistics and Buracracy manage to make something, no matter how large and inconspicuous, disappear into thin air. Normally we see these with the Army (a particularly notable example is when they lost America's only Super Heavy Tank for 27 years) but occasionally we see exceptions like this.

[@suprisex4999]

I love these series but please use more pictures and for longer!

[@buckduane1991]

What the what whatity what whating what comedy of errors whated what?!

[@gundamwarrior]

What an absolute clusterfuck. Its the biggest game of keep away ever.

[@centralplainsrailfan831]

Well of course you can’t find it if it’s invisible. You’ll have to run a train head on just to find it. I literally read the title and wanted to put this down🤣

[@MachRacer4]

My Birthday is the 47th anniversary of the publishing of the first book of “The Railway Series” by the Rev. W. Awdry “The Three Railway Engines”.

[@carldebellis7310]

I was half expecting this to be about Penn Central to be honest

[@kingofthepod5169]

I remember this story vaguely. LaSalle and Bureau County RR right?

[@daniellewis1789]

So is this a bobber caboose, since everyone is Bob?

[@robdembski5648]

Perhaps a fun coincidence about birthdays... my father's birthday is October 13th. Does that help fulfill the birthday weirdness at around three minutes in? 🤔😄

[@steeljawX]

This is literally like Benny Hill on the D&RGW with a caboosen........I love our American History (namely the crap like this.)

[@Austriantrainguy]

When mainline next to my museum was being rebuilt, one of our cars (don´t know what it was but it had NO BRAKES for some reason and we wedged it between two cars that had them but they weren´t there at that time because of some shunting carnage) rolled out through the track that connects our museum to the mainline into the construction site where it eventually stopped. It was on a weekend so noone was working there that day and nobody noticed the car until monday when the constructionworkers found it half a kilometer away from the museum. We were lucky that this happened in the early 2000s when I was a kidand safety whasn´t taken that serious so we didn´t face any serious consequences so in the end everything was ok.

[@QuorkQTar]

4:08 - I thought it's one caboose, two cabeese? =P 9:15 - Sounds totally like a railway, yes. 14:00 - They threw the keys in the dirt "dayshift's problem!"? That's absolutely hilarious. Even with all the differences in system, technology, mentality, structure, social/political/economical conditions around - at the end of the day, the railroad is a railway, too. I have a feeling this story could happen in any system as soon as it has more than three stations.

[@Jabberwocky4k]

I saw CP 2816 going southbound in South Texas today at full speed, a very cool surprise for me. What is a good email for you so I can send you the footage that I have of it? I very much enjoy your channel by the way, as well as distance signal.

[@thetoontrain6073]

Lime appearance

[@hannahranga]

So how far off missing whatever inspection requirement's the FRA has for rail cars and adding another angry party to the mix was it?

[@NathanielStauber]

From the thumbnail, I half expected a video about FREDs. What a wild story!

[@jeremyjohnson457]

6:29 blue box kits cost in California $5.95 for a box car in 1995

[@Hyce777]

I was close! Haha.

[@mateokuo7502]

0:33, does this mean that season 4 episode 4 you'll have found your fourth quarter?

[@Hyce777]

Perhaps... lol!

[@jerrysgardentractorsengine2243]

Why do I have the underlying feeling that the YTPers are going to have WAY too much fun with doofus_arrow.png?

[@rshackelford4445]

I can imagine if they saw the Caboose going to Pueblo as they were leaving Pueblo like that scene from the umbrella academy.

[@trainmaster844]

Just like there is no war in Ba Sing Se, there is no caboose on the Santa Fe train lol 😂

[@LarryCassar]

That was a pretty funny

[@samgineer9857]

This is some Keepaway/Hot Potato hybrid bullshit game they played and I would happily just sit back with a bucket of popcorn and watch this unfold in real time. XD

[@spiercephotography]

I love these shows so much, they are SO fun to listen to!

[@jacobdurbin5480]

I love how the first half of this story is just some crew enacting castle doctrine on 01427, “this is ours now!”

[@CSXP408x]

The funny thing is that on my fictional railroad, cabeese are still in main use as the last car of the train so that you can have the same two crews manning the train effectively (saves the time of waiting for another crew to get to the train)

[@mikekuschka998]

Don't forget, you could always have episode 33 of season 44.

[@rdreher7380]

Holy crap my birthday is also 10/13!

[@kleetus92]

Who's on first?

[@RockPointSouthernProductions]

I cant explain why, but Brett's commentary at the end got me laughing...I'm autistic gimme a break. The way he said "Barstow" with such a DUN-DUN-DUNNNNN tone and the answers leading up to it just had me crying lol.

[@laphonys1096]

One could say that the train was hauling cabeese

[@4ntig3n]

I look forward to every single one of these :)

[@doubleutubefan5]

So to set it straight, did SP and UP MERGE or get BOUGHT OUT? I keep telling my buddies that the DRGW which merged into SP, was never bought outright by UP but rather merged and kept board members

[@cbhomemusic]

Why in Pueblo?

[@kellingc]

3/4 inception!

[@Dannyedelman4231]

The Albany and Eastern railroad, a small regional railroad, uses SP 4716, and my local church owns SP 1891

[@KidarWolf]

What an adventure that caboose went on!

[@David-xl8zf]

That is such a classic railroad story 😂

[@angusbrack5003]

The phantom Cabos 😂🤣❤️❤️

[@someprofessonalname2008]

Dont walk away for 5 seconds you will miss everything lol.

[@garysprandel1817]

For a second there I thought we were getting the Bob version of the Monty Python Bruce sketch

[@utahrailfan1946]

The UP has 2 cabeese based out of Roper Yard near West Valley, Utah. Used on locals to make shoving easier.

[@Dan_Gyros]

This whole thing played out like a hallway sequence from Scooby-Doo lmao

[@PlayerPianoFavorites]

At that point, they should have just built a new caboose

[@AnimeSunglasses]

The Most Yakety Sax Railroad Event Ever?

[@CedarLakeRailfanner]

This is so funny 6:06😂😂

[@262.productions]

The 94’ El Cajun accident 2 of the 3 accidents on the grade

[@James-the-idiot]

QUICK, TO THE INVISIBLE, CABOOSEMOBLIE!!!!!!

[@michgeeson278]

New Motion Picture "One of our Caboose is Missing"

[@davegameplay6709]

con la fotocamera Why? In Italy I cannot apply to volunteer for railway preservation 😢

[@knightryder6068]

Who ya gonna call... BOOSE BUSTERS!

[@thehunterinplay]

It's the ghost caboose

[@NORTH_WESTERN]

3:49 THERE IS NO WAY YOUR 30

[@AugustusTitus]

That was really fun.

[@Micah_Turner]

We call the ES&DT

[@kainhall]

3:51 94 gang gang!

[@KyleTheGamer574]

What a story!

[@kainhall]

16:25 LOL!!!

[@andrewholmes8337]

Am I crazy or did I hear the T1 was getting rotory valves 😮

[@godlugner5327]

T1 is not only a replica but supposed to be the most modern steam engine ever created so I'd believe it