TWO TRAINS GO INTO EMERGENCY! DON’T MISS THIS LOADED GRAB BAG! GREAT ENGINES, 4 SANTA FE ENGINES!

[@gary1anderson]

Thank you for including the weather scenes.

[@tytn9978]

I like it that train engineers know where the cameras are!

[@joepeach997]

We we first started it was rare, as time went on, little by little the waves started. We are honored so many give us a honk or a wave now days! Glad you enjoy it too!

[@donnaj9964]

@@joepeach997 Yes indeed--it's always fun!

[@tranmere292]

The weather scene at the end was terrific. Nature's fury! Thanks.

[@BNSF8500yt]

Great video as always, it’s really cool how cameras all over the country can see all of these cool and rare engines

[@suziw758]

Liked the two rail trains but the Cordele was the best with the SD40s leading 🤩 have been lucky to be in Skykomish when the Boeing train goes thru, awesome sight.

[@gp3829]

Thanks VRF. At Waycross CSX 328 had taken a Clobber from that tree. The early morning light at Skykomish was nice to see and contrasted with the evening light at Revelstoke. Good to see all those Trains.

[@donnaj9964]

I was thinking "But you shoulda seen the other guy" about the tree. I'll bet it was a pretty intense moment.

[@jeffeastmond8481]

*early morning - at Revy in the potash separation clip

[@gp3829]

@@jeffeastmond8481 Hi Buddy, thanks for that. I'm in the UK, so that's my excuse. But the two views were a nice contrast to one another, i thought.

[@rogertemple7193]

It's Thursday afternoon Grab Bag filled with a lot of awesome trains and it doesn't get much more better than this thank you.🇺🇲🇨🇦 🇨🇦🇺🇲🚂🚃🚃🚃🚃🇺🇲🇨🇦

[@ivoneboettgerbatschauer2242]

WOW😮VRF Thanks

[@trfarmer3869]

Great Harriet Tubman portrait on the box car. Also nice to see the Tropicana cars coming back in some form.

[@CFalcon-ff7yu]

I love these videos 😊😊❤❤

[@ronaldrondeau7870]

Thanks always awsome

[@jefhow22]

Thank you....this was awesome ❤

[@bowlinerailfan]

Lots of action from Cordele here. And the Tropicana juice cars there were a nice surprise. As was Atlantic Coast Line hu 1871.

[@the-terrible63]

Wow! Excellent catching all the trains in multiple locations, I like them, they're awesome, @Virtual Railfan, thank you very much and have a nice day and night.

[@ChainsawNW1218]

Always enjoy seeing all the different power,consist,and distributed power!1🛤🚂😄

[@user-vh1uc6in7b]

Wow 😲 VRF is fantastic.

[@donnaj9964]

Some really pretty catches in this--another great one!

[@daveintucson8541]

Wow, fast work, just saw that CN grain train going by La Plata live!

[@Branddenthepinkgoldpeachfan]

*Awesome Catches*

[@paulw.woodring7304]

The smashed up CSX unit at 10:06 was certainly headed into Rice Yard to be removed for repair, as the restricting signal they had would indicate. They didn't just hit a branch, they hit one massive tree with that much nose damage. There's two large crash pillars in the nose, just inside the nose door. The CP grain train that parted and went into emergency shows why we're taught to keep pulling when an unplanned emergency application happens. The rear of the train might keep moving far enough to crash into the front part if you stop too fast. The storm at Deshler near the end was part of a system that generated at least two tornadoes, straight-line winds of nearly 100 mph, and over 300K without power in NE Ohio.

[@WhiteCamry]

I'm old enough to remember when Tropicana reefers were painted bright orange.

[@paulw.woodring7304]

I'm old enough to have been a conductor on a couple of those trains.

[@Metraelectric222productions]

Nice

[@owancejackie]

Awesome Videos. 👍🏼

[@TrainguyNCL]

WHOA! Look at all those 737s

[@kennethlacewell1517]

One of these days, you're going to catch a tornado.

[@robchit1]

We watch a funnel cloud drift over Cordele I think almost 2 years ago

[@Dreamworld986]

The double rainbow and the lightening were really cool.

[@raeward8092]

It was quite a lot of noise when the potash train separated at Revy, the locals are used to the crossing being blocked for minutes or so, not over 30! made a fun talking point at the time :)

[@whew5]

Nice double rainbow at the end.

[@peterp1158]

15:08 Impressive telephoto lens.

[@jimwinchester339]

11:22 At first I though it was the brake coupling hitting the pavement at the crossing, but a closer look shows it's about 2 cars beyond the crossing. The brake line separation emergency stop was about the most orderly I've ever seen. If it was a coupler or coupling pin, they must have had spares on board.

[@Tina-v4g]

It makes me sad to see those wonderful Santa Fe Warbonnets looking so rough; sure wish BNSF would give them a fresh coat of paint, in their original color scheme of course.

[@joepeach997]

THAT, would be great but don't wait for it to happen.

[@AppalachianMountaineer1863]

It’s amazing they are still in their Santa Fe scheme. Also I like those beacon lights they’ve put on the roofs first wide cabs I’ve seen with them. Are those radio controlled units?

[@lone-starrailfan7877]

​@AppalachianMountaineer1863 they are. BNSF has already converted quite a few of them for RCL duty in Galesburg, Barstow, and Northtown, MN which is where these 4 were headed.

[@shawnlanders2034]

They should freshen them up. They would look awesome with new paint and new engines!!

[@gregginter5867]

Agreed! Those units look like cancer survivors. And BNSF has hundreds of sevl dozens of old paint scheme SF units. As such, it’s a built-in heritage stable…ready made for sprucing up the ol units!

[@lynsmith]

Good Thunderstorm in Belen & Deshler ! Bye Roy Rogers in Cumberland 😂😂

[@HighSpeedHauling]

11:23 is the train going into emergency!

[@rufusfirefly4161]

"Don't tell Mom!"

[@glenbrown3011]

Yes because it came apart. As soon as it separates, the air dumps completely.

[@The_Dudester]

27:10 Rain in Belen? That's pretty rare. An inch of top soil and six feet of compact clay. It doesn't take much to have street flooding.

[@donnaj9964]

Wish we'd gotten some of it up here in Utah--it looked like a real gullywasher.

[@Andrewleedy133]

28:13 is it just me or does that look like a white mushroom cloud

[@klesmiley]

20:40 the two yellow "stacks" on the barge in the river look like a pencil with an eraser and a ruler.

[@donnaj9964]

Jinx!!

[@williamflowersrailfannerpr3808]

Nice taco bell VRF

[@jamestappin4741]

10:11 Must be a branch line

[@joepeach997]

Excellent, lol.

[@donnaj9964]

OUCH!!! and lolol!!!

[@andyolin3988]

Wait....Nothing happened in La Grange? Weird!🤨😃

[@joepeach997]

Sure, 9:26

[@andyolin3988]

@@joepeach997 You know, cars on the tracks, fender benders...?

[@EltonInott]

from what i found those for warbonets are going up to northtown yard for ptc testing

[@RailsofTX1845]

NO WAY! 2 birthday trains and Virtual Railfan Video! AWESOME!!

[@hempchimp]

The 'Branch' arrow was interesting. Was hoping you would follow up with an arrow on the other side that read "Dents from Rest of Branch".

[@joepeach997]

The Grab Bag was pretty big today and left little time to creative, great idea though.

[@Cipher160]

Honestly at this point if they STILL have Santa Fe engines sitting around and are putting upgrades on them for mainline use... Might as well just repaint them in original Santa Fe colors. It's not like having them repainted that way is magically gunna split the railroad back into the ATSF and BN.

[@NJT4014Productions]

I saw 14:35 At La Plata

[@tytn9978]

@ 9:54 ... when a freight train goes through downtown La Grange without any accidents @ 10:15 ... if a tree falls on a moving locomotive, it branches out. @11:37 ... it is Revelstoke, so perhaps there is a wandering bear or two on the tracks? @23:15... military machines on the rail-cars: I think I have seen over the past few months at least one of these trains with military cargo on each video release and I begin to realize just how much war-related equipment America really has. As a resident of a NATO country, I am glad to see such preparedness, even as I pray that it will NEVER be needed for actual warfare, but could be available to help out when natural disasters strike.

[@joepeach997]

Nice to have you Neighbor.

[@glenbrown3011]

11:27 the train came apart. Pretty obvious.

[@Mauscmkwk]

16:22 heracy 😢😢😢😢

[@robchit1]

At least the forward half looks normal

[@wayneneher6362]

Looks like CSX328 won the fight with the tree but needs a little bodywork. Not seen much from Chehalis, did the camera give out?

[@desw9146]

AIUI, the Chehalis camera is still operational, but it's been moved from VRF to another channel. No idea why, nor whose decision that was.

[@susanwahl6322]

I had to go back and forth to figure out what was on the front of that engine at 10:30. It turned out to be a large piece of a tree!

[@randydobson1863]

Hi Virtual Railfan & it's is Randy and i like yours video is Cool & Thanks Virtual Railfan & Friends Randy

[@ChamplainDivision]

Whatever happened to Pan Am's Office Cars Fleet?

[@MrBnsftrain]

0:08 CSX 1871 leading solo 1:12 MOW machine moving by itself 2:14 NS 38 2:30 CP unit pulling a UP welded rail train 3:20 airplane parts train in Skykomish 4:58 MOW ramp flatbed and loco on the rear of a train 5:22 CSX welded rail train 6:38 Heart of Georgia train, followed by a single CSX GEVO without any cars 7:54 nine-unit NS lash-up 8:50 BIP 678, a GP40 heading to the Belpre Industrial Parkersburg railroad 9:27 CSX ET44AH, RS(SX) SW1200, and RJ Corman GP38-2 10:07 damaged front on this lead unit. Notice how the ditch light never goes completely off when flashing 11:18 train breaks in half in front of the Revelstoke camera 13:33 the tail DPU on that same train is KCS 4009 14:00 wow, four warbonnet dash 9s trailing! All of them 600-series ones (again at 17:40) 16:12 Franken-GEVO trailing 16:56 NS 4003 as mid-train DPU 18:07 CSX 1875 trailing 18:20 UP 1996 18:44 BNSF 15-car OCS pulled by one GEVO 19:33 Wow! Guilford and Pan Am geeps! 20:03 CSX 1776 trailing with its nose door open 20:28 barge with a giant pencil in it! 21:48 12-axle flatcars 22:02 nS 4002 leading 22:28 Loram grinders 23:15 CP and KCSM gray doubleheading a military train on UP tracks 25:43 CN run-through in Ft Madison. All the hoppers are plain gray and the locos are all CN 28:39 storm cloud timelapse in Deshler 30:45 double rainbow in the Rcoky mountains

[@isaiahdejesus5123]

11:30

[@SangNguyen-ic8sr]

This away trough Canada

[@trainman2k]

My first 'love' is trains. My second 'love' is weather. You gave me the most extreme of both in this video!! Thanks, "VIRTUAL RAILFAN" for the countless hours of relaxation, amazement, and entertainment

[@poowg2657]

11:18. Doggone hitch hikers!

[@BruceMielke-h1b]

What?

[@stephenhudson8739]

Those Santa Fe engines used to be bright red on the nose

[@leonardovalladares4315]

Look like those santa fe warbonnet heading to scrapheap

[@robchit1]

Still in service

[@KimiWallrus]

3:50 The rail cars have a bulkhead for crash protection? Based on track record-(pun/phrasing) they knew these things were trying to crash before they bolt the wings on! They even spelled “Boing” wrong.😊

[@CBUS_RR_KING]

Ok I saw the emergency at Revelstoke but what was the other emergency stop?

[@joepeach997]

23:55

[@donnaj9964]

@@joepeach997 Both of them looked as if they ruined somebody's day, but how do you get a train together after it separates like the one in Revy did? Is it automated? I didn't see any people go near it.

[@jeffeastmond8481]

@@donnaj9964 The conductor of the Potash train at Revy is hidden behind the large bush. Just after the train was coupled together he crossed through the rear of the TCMX hopper (not shown on the clip)

[@donnaj9964]

@@jeffeastmond8481 That helps--thank you!

[@BruceMielke-h1b]

This might be a silly question, but Canadian crew on the CN train thru Ft Madison?

[@robchit1]

New crew in Galesburg

[@johnstafford4304]

BNSF crew on CN power, CN has no trackage rights on the Transcon

[@ale.3463]

Did that guy in the white truck wait 3 hrs for the train to get going again?

[@squarebodycasewademckenney6190]

4:16 guess u cpuld say "planes, trains, amd automobiles"

[@donnaj9964]

and you just did lol!

[@Specialist1Aim]

Who else misses the old signals they used to have

[@pzkw6759]

I do.

[@Specialist1Aim]

@@pzkw6759 the searchlights

[@roxxma]

I'm going to venture to guess that the barges were carrying graphite

[@danc3488]

I must ask (and I'm an amateur with railroads), how do they load such a long welded rail onto that big of a train?

[@robchit1]

From the end

[@jamesmckenzie3532]

3:29 nice show of the complete passing of the Boeing 737 plane train.

[@pzkw6759]

1946: I see plenty of those in western Mass.

[@JohnTPyle]

Any bear sightings at Revelstoke?

[@jeffeastmond8481]

Not since the first couple of sightings in April

[@janeordway4841]

Hopefully those warbonets aren’t headed for the cutting torch.

[@robchit1]

Nope

[@AppalachianMountaineer1863]

Still so sad seeing KCS running on the CP.

[@joeypopowics6351]

11:20 Did the grain train lose half of its train?

[@jeffeastmond8481]

Not a grain train, Canpotex Potash train separated.

[@curtismeskus504]

What is in the tall covered cars at the front and end of the Boeing train

[@Andrewleedy133]

BRICK

[@spaceship092v3]

If anyone has a video of the full ATSF war bonnet train lmk

[@kamcaree2493]

Hi

[@kens.3729]

Santa Fe Units look like they are taking their Last Ride on the High Rails before they go to the Big Junk Yard in the Sky. 🤔☹️👎🙏

[@robchit1]

Nope just transferring

[@Galaxy2517]

Wow...The BIP is in my neck of the woods.About the only trains left around here anymore.Were they getting some new equipment or just getting some repaired?

[@alanosilva886]

24:59 What did he do here?

[@joepeach997]

23:59 was an air loss, followed by the Train going into an Emergency stop. He was checking to see where the problem was.

[@alanosilva886]

@@joepeach997 Thanks

[@richintalent]

Some questions about the grab bag: 1) what type of MOW equipment was that at 1:41? 2) at 10:17, that train at Waycross must have been on a branch line! 3) 24:15, Godzilla noise! 4) what was the green and white sticker on the nose of the CN engine at 25:44 on the Ft. Madison cam?

[@J3scribe]

1:41 Plasser American dynamic tamper. 25:44 It indicates First Aid kit inside.

[@donnaj9964]

@@J3scribe Cool--thank you!

[@robchit1]

I never thought of Godzilla, but now it's a perfect fit lol