BNSF Puts on a Show In Ludlow,CA- Count The Meets!!!

[@TestTest-fm2cu]

This is why I admire BNSF. First thing you notice is the road bed. It’s immaculate. In the middle of no where too. No other railroad has roadbed like that. Secondly, the volume of trains and how fast they are moved and how closely together they follow behind one another just shows the proficiency and hard work of the railroad and it’s crews. BNSF is just awesome.

[@debrasalathe3581]

Imagine each one of those cans being transported on our highways. Rail transport is the best!

[@highbrass3749]

We need it all.

[@donnebes9421]

How do you think those containers get to and from the railhead?

[@sontungle2641]

Same, cheaper, safer and more weight

[@daercego]

I can't believe there were so many trains in one place. Thanks for sharing and for outstanding filming. Hope to see more from you.

[@dharmrajpathak1012]

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[@dharmrajpathak1012]

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[@brandonreeves5979]

Awesome video! It’s pretty cool too see that much train traffic on just two sets tracks! Very cool!

[@MariaOliveira-zr3fw]

Muito legal estes vídeos

[@MariaOliveira-zr3fw]

Ja andei de trem mais esse e magnífico 😂

[@dianastuart7693]

Just stumbled on this epic video - mesmerizing! Now I wanna find that spot and watch the real thing. Thanks for sharing!

[@aztraingranny7015]

Watching for the umpteenth time under my new YT name. This is the very first video that got me hooked on railfanning. And this one is still the gold standard. A work of art.

[@franksita4719]

Outstanding video. I could watch this all day!

[@sushilkumarjha7846]

,sbhi

[@DaveWVideo]

Awesome video. You found some great POV's to shoot from, and also encountered some friendly crews who greeted you with some horn action. Ludlow is one of the best places in CA to railfan if you can put up with the extremes in the weather. It can get damn hot out there, as well as pretty cold. Good job all around!

[@otis311]

One of the best train videos I've ever seen. Unbelievable amount of cargo.

[@williamchristian8389]

I spent 18 hours in a crappy little motel waiting out a sand storm in Ludlow 43 years ago. I was on my motorcycle heading to Little Rock, Arkansas. Crappy little town but great video. Love railfanning!!

[@tronaboron_99]

Nothing has changed in Ludlow!🥴🍻

[@judefernandez827]

This really is a show .By golly never been so excited watching so many trains in such an amazing location .

[@tyiscool777]

All of those "BEEP BEEP , CLICK CLICK" shows that he is a multi tasked rail fanner. Shows respect of both video and pictures. Nice video again! lol

[@johnpenny5638]

As a Brit watching this it just blows my mind! Mind you, tip to tip England is only 603 miles as the crow flies. Somewhat different to the States! Fantastic vid - thanks for sharing. (p.s. Had some fab holidays in the States, very hospitable people!)

[@cdavid8139]

Same for the UK. I travel there whenever I can.

[@Scaw]

Your 603 miles includes Scotland. England, tip to tip is much less. This is why the English view Scottish independence as a disaster: they see "England" as much diminished.

[@butthurt8]

This is why we don’t have high speed train because the land is massive here, they rather to take airplane.

[@bob1412]

butthurt8 and the turns you can’t go fast on turns

[@sergeyp5297]

Отличное видео, смотрел много раз. Как на другой планете...) Спасибо автору...,

[@thomastarwater6035]

Man, that’s some serious freight train traffic at the ghost town of Ludlow, California, in the middle of nowhere. And while you were recording with the cellphone (?), you were also shooting pictures with your camera. As far as I know, no other railfan ever does that! I am impressed!

[@samsrailventures1961]

That's a great spot, and you captured what we on the rail call a "cluster." Railfans love them, but railroaders hate them. What you have is a bunch of trains held for 2 Z's. It's what the customer pays for, but challenging to dispatch.

[@Furnessvale1]

Great long shots showing several trains moving at the same time. Very impressive. Thanks.

[@MrSnowy79]

Wow, thats incredible dispatching. And a very well presented video. Love the location and sound too. Big thumbs up. Lost count of how many times I watched this now.

[@bruceroberts8640]

Artistic and almost ballet-like! Absolutely stunning! Great job, Trains232!!!

[@davidbarnett9312]

Spectacular. Great job! The BNSF separates the south 40 from the north 40 at MP 231.6, but not like that. I see trains all the time, yet here I am on a very cold blustery day in central Texas watching trains. Go figure. Again, great job!!!!!

[@Tcostello105]

You have some of the best train videos on youtube! Great locations to and I cant believe the amount of trains in one area at a time!

[@ciudadanoindignado1347]

Disfruto mucho con estos largos trenes que me hacen recordar cuando yo viajaba. Excelente vídeo.

[@blackkimba851]

This is an AWESOME place for watching trains. You are so lucky. I'm JEALOUS

[@upbnsfrrfan]

Right place at the right time!!! 😎👍👍👍

[@roboftherock]

It is not fanciful to compare your use of the camera lens with the use of the paintbrush and oils by the great masters of the art world. The sequence at 11:00 of two trains moving left to right on the screen, but heading in opposite directions is superb. The concluding sequence is stunning with the rear of the train rounding the curve in the dying rays of the sunset leading your eye to the front of the train - so far in front. While the operation of the railway is an essential part of the whole, it was a poor second to the images captured by your camera work. My appreciation of your art knows no bounds.

[@ConradSpoke]

This is awesome. On Google Earth I found the exact hillock you were perched on. I've never seen this kind of action outside of a train yard. I had no idea there were consecutive passing sidings out in the boondocks like this.

[@skydancerforever]

can you point it out. i can't seem to locate it?

[@NOTHEOTHERGUY]

Am I the only one who thinks 11:30 looks like a model train set? Amazing footage!

[@easternsprails]

Looks like this video was captured from a small hill about 1/2 mile west of downtown Ludlow on the north side of the track. Nice vantage point.

[@MainTrack]

Awesome train video! I love to see trains rolling through the desert scenery.

[@DaveWVideo]

Ludlow is about 52 rail miles east of Barstow, CA on the BNSF Needles Subdivision. It is accessible from I-40, and has a small motel that caters to railfans. The reason it is so busy is because this is BNSF's mainline between Barstow and Chicago. Barstow hosts BNSF trains to and from the Bay Area via the San Joaquin valley/Mojave line, as well as Los Angeles and the ports of San Pedro, San Diego and Long Beach. This guarantees a steady stream of trains day and night.

[@redshoesgirl]

we shot 9-10 trains, 3-23-2018 in 75 minutes, standing in one spot east of Ludlow. and missed many more just driving from barstow.

[@skydancerforever]

where is the hotel? where were you standing for these video's? thanks amazing.

[@raymondmartucci2049]

This is one long train. It's amazing how two locomotives are able to move all those cars. It look like a mile long

[@daniellaubach7544]

Just amagine what the axel count would've been?

[@rayopeongo]

I like the Distant Signal channel. He often tapes the defect detector reports and replays them, so you get the axle count and train length down to the feet.

[@jurassicrailfan]

i love this videos fo lots of large freighters trhough deserts or similar places. in spain is difficult to see this, because of the lenght of the trains and the places where they pass

[@tudieu-qng6817]

Very nice video train, love from Vietnam.

[@johnathanlewis7059]

Busy Busy Busy Transcon Route. Too many meets to count. Great Video!!

[@Grainexpress]

Who needs signals when you can see the train you'll be meeting! :) Awesome scenery and video! GREAT JOB! I love that part of the country.

[@cats0182]

The scenery is starkly awesome. The length of the trains defies the imagination. The railroading knowledge and skill needed to make sense and safety of all of this is amazing.

[@billfrank3573]

Holy Toledo. This is the coolest awesome video I've seen in a long time. Great work on this u did. Wish I was out there seeing all of this nonstop movement and recording them myself. Glad I watched this because I sure enjoyed very much.

[@peacefulmind1559]

This video gives new meaning to the term " wild wild west " wish I could have been there!

[@scoobycarr5558]

Peaceful Mind Only this time it's BNSF and not notorious outlaws like Jesse James, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid with a six gun

[@slug96]

That's how you run a railroad! 4:00 minutes into the video and I can tell this is a hell of a video Great light, great actions and great shots, Robert!

[@tractorsmachinesro1405]

Thank you for sharing....Absolute great video

[@lawrencestaeden3145]

Westbounds into Barstow sometimes may be held out online due to the yard congestion therefore the dispatcher tries to hold them hold them back at a location that won't get a log jam going. It happens quiet often especially during heavy traffic and when a yard has to work the train on arrival so they run other priority trains around that do not have yard work at the crew change yards. Also the destination of the train may be having mechanical or congestion problems so they hold em back.

[@erickrosin97]

I spent a few night in Ludlow. I was driving truck. I would like to take a vacation one year and spend some actual time here checking out the town.

[@booksbenji]

I live in Midland TX and we have these container train going and coming. From Allen Tx to Long Beach, CA and back. Pushers and middle helpers, art deco on the cars, 1 or 2 hobos!!!!

[@nudist0885]

I was just looking at the google map "satellite" view for this immediate area.............. I don't know man, can someone explain to me where the "sitting trains" are. The one @ 2:08 looks longer than the siding that it can fit into.

[@lawrencekeesler7369]

I can't imagine the amount of truck traffic taken off the highway the trains here represent. Fun video!

[@ianbrown7327]

that's what I wonder sometimes when I am able I always count how many containers are being transferred by train

[@ojandgreg]

Great camera work. Thanks for sharing.....

[@DeanPropps]

They use signalling, high red, high green, let's them know what sidetrack they should wait on and what train has priority over the other. Sometimes they wait for hours on a sidetrack until the other train passes, clearing the way until the next time.

[@mochamadsagaf4689]

Dean Propps lomba telanjang

[@johnburns3582]

This video has got to have the most containers I have ever seen, stack trains rule... thanks for posting.....

[@challenger179]

Wow!!!! Amazing video!!!!! I´ve fallen from de chair!!! That´s something impossible at Spain. Greetings from hundreds of kilometres!

[@yolandajohnson8685]

if I would see this in person, I would need a box of tissues, this is so cool!!!!

[@uawildcat50]

i drove past this yesterday coming home from bakersfield its cool too see!

[@kraigkasten]

Awesome! Talk about being in the right place at the right time! Another great video!

[@UNIONPACIFIC3606]

Hands down the best train video I've ever seen!

[@chingchungchang3533]

Warren Buffett paid an estimated 26 billion dollars for the Burlington Northern Santa Fe would be in a Cell so I wish them good luck it's a very beautiful railroad to watch operate the backbone of America along with the Union Pacific CSX and I hope this helps our economy rebound

[@petersaupe7455]

That is how goods should be moved around a country.Viva American railways.

[@jerryhibler7670]

Great video, one of the best I have seen.

[@megaphonejeff]

Great job getting such a cool video of all these trains passing by.

[@uawildcat50]

now i want to go here just to sit there for a day and watch the trains seems like they get a good flow through here

[@julietwhiskey01]

You mean the War Bonnet with BNSF on the side? I have seen several around the Denver area, and it might be that since they had trouble getting the crews to strip the Bonnets and paint them, they figured to just put BNSF on there and get them on the road. I talked to a guy at the shops several years ago who grinned and told me they just never seem to find time to paint them.

[@bnsfeng]

The Z trains are Highest priority and they have the JB Hunt containers and UPS trailers. The customers pay a premium to get their goods across the country faster than regular S train customers so, yeah, the lower priority trains wait. I'm an engineer on a commuter train and sometimes I wait for a Z.

[@scoobycarr5558]

Dennis Shogren I would suppose J.B. Hunt does contracts for mail and express like DHL, FedEx and the U.S. Postal Service

[@TheMadNorsky]

Sometimes one just has to have a little luck, and WOW! Did you hit the jackpot! What a traffic jam, and what luck to be there when it happened. Superb video, well done!

[@nigelcaine3061]

Absolutely awesome video and even better ending as you listen to and watch the train go into the distance. A*

[@N41haul]

A good example to illustrate the massive amounts of China imports coming into this country and to consider how many US manufacturing jobs are exiting.

[@jimdep333]

Cast Away not for long. MAGA

[@davidbarnett9312]

Not to mention the fact that if you want to do business in Communist China, you must have a Chinese partner who owns 51% of the company, as well as giving up all the secrets a foreign company has spent millions in r&d thus saving and catapulting the Communists into the fast lane.

[@kiDkiDkiD12]

Cast Away - Thats not how economics work you dumb fuck

[@lookingcastle]

@@davidbarnett9312 I own since 2010 3 companies in Mainland China and all of them are held 100% by foreign companies. What you describe is not the reality...

[@TheTrainMan570]

It’s disgusting. As a teenager in the 90’s. I watched the Baby Boomer generation absolutely DESTROY the manufacturing economy in the states and ship everything over seas all in the name of some yuppie on wall streets stock portfolio.

[@johnfellows2867]

Stunning !! Only the Americans can put on a show like this !! And why have I got the line from that old song " little boxes, little boxes made of ticky - tacky " going round in my head ??!!

[@howielane8406]

Wow Non stop! LOL! Not one Amtrak...All day? Great views; Landscape, Trains, Wildlife. Awesome show! Thanks.

[@bnsf1311]

You guys are great, thanks again.

[@momoperez7173]

Gracias compa por tus videos y tiempos de esa época .....super bueno .

[@jnutt2351]

Holy crap. What's with the 2 tank cars with the power move and gp60?

[@USArailfanner3448]

Aweosme bro! I remember watching this as a young kid!

[@ojandgreg]

I love the welded rail. So smooth!

[@lynneleader6267]

Wow what a show this video awesome and one of the best.

[@BUNCHofxs]

Looks like my flat screen and toilet paper is on its way.

[@bdailey8065]

BUNCHofxs Yea true and I bet you cut the trucker off in traffic who deliver your goods to the stores lol!

[@Goofy653]

BUNCHof

[@DougCeleste]

Is that Interstate 40 in the background???? Sure looks like it since I have traveled on it many times in this area. And watch your step when filming in this area since it is mojave green rattlesnake country and that snake is one of the most venomous in this country.

[@thomasf.giella5359]

Yes it's I-40. I passed through Ludlow in September 1992 and saw allot of train action. I had never seen such wide open spaces and desolation as I did then. The temperature was 110 deg that day.

[@jsstudystation1897]

Loving it,,,From Pakistan.

[@Locomotive450]

Incredible video! You have to wonder why train crews like that last one leave the nose door open. It must cause a total cyclone in the cab at 70 MPH.

[@rickdawg73]

WOW! Thats one busy stretch of track...lol. Great catch..too many trains to count:-D

[@heavydutyrepair64]

That's the transcontinental route from Los Angeles to Chicago

[@bricub72]

You missed my whole point, the camera has a menu that you can turn the sounds off with, or it SHOULD have anyway. Also, I was referring only to the sounds, that's all, takes away from the serenity of waiting for the oncoming train. It is a great video in my opinion. Afterall, I do keep watching it.

[@AlexKhvedor]

It's just wonderful!!!

[@Finetales]

Wow, what amazing shots! I definitely haven't seen this many trains in one place before...awesome video!

[@denray6783]

This is the best railfan I've seen yet. Wonder how he was able top hop to place to place to video all of this. That dispatcher really had his hands full. Sincgranazation is the key. Just like air traffic controler.

[@user-bx7nw1ve6y]

One would think horn blowing would be standardized. Some guys seem to blow them prior to corners and some don't.

[@chuckfink7419]

Heck with counting meets. I couldn't count the trains without noting the lead unit numbers.

[@TheViper53]

Excellent Video,man what i would give for a day like that!! Thanks

[@railwayism1993]

Nice capture 👌👍👍👍👌

[@noelkotela]

S**T !! I thought there would be a maximum of 20 trains passing there every day! Is there any passenger traffic or is it just freight?

[@zacharywalker1126]

I wonder what the yards and freight terminals are like o.0

[@charlietrece7958]

What is this place freight central? Where all the trains moving stuff right and left meet?

[@MustangsTrainsMowers]

Is there much of a grade there? If they could triple track this area I think they might be able to eliminated having trains stop.

[@SuNnYaAsH]

How they got signal of clearance because I didn't saw any signal tower along with railway track

[@Ad_Valorem]

With only a few exceptions, towers have been eliminated in America. Almost all of BNSF's trains are dispatched in an office in Fort Worth, Texas.

[@mateusfelipe448]

que show!!! otimo video parabéns!!! eu tenho uma pergunta qual e a distacia de um trilho ao outro?

[@terrygraham3609]

Love it be beautiful ❤️ from Indiana ☮️

[@ivanreis1538]

FANTASTIC, VERY GOOD.

[@Trenibycarmefastfurious]

Sono Italiano appassionato di treni. Quanto sono lunghi quei convogli? Bel video. (I am passionate about Italian trains. How long are those convoys? nice video)

[@Ischaue]

Immer wieder schoen anzusehen. Wohl das beste Video bei YT :) Einfach ein Volltreffer!

[@johnmoore8016]

I though I saw a couple of trains one being the other on the same rack. do they do that very often or not? why are some of the trains stopped and some moving?

[@cerealspiller]

Some trains have priority. Trains with less priority get to wait on a siding (or alternate track) and let the priority trains pass.

[@boscodog4358]

Is there a limitation on the number of cars that can be pulled by a train?

[@JohnnysTrainVideos]

Nice catch....

[@SMILEVIDEOTRAINS]

Hell, It's like giant worms crossing the dessert.. Brilliant quality, scenery, video'ing and compilation.. The best.. Thanks so much for sharing. Makes our UK trains look like toys and I love then too.

[@andross51]

Robert i don't know how you do it but your videos are the BEST on youtube. This action at ludlow proves it!

[@magnox8841]

Me pregunto. Porque las linias ferreas en estas zonas son con tantas curvas? Porque no las hacen mas rectas? No ahorrarían combustible, tiempo y podrian aumentar la velocidad

[@robertgambling502]

Curves are not as sharp as it looks. The telephoto lens exaggerates the effect by compressing the scene.

[@SimonKinsingerMountainReigns]

Im not hard to please! I think you did a great job! Thanks for sharing! Is Ludlow near the Ship container port coming out of San Diego?