I like it that train engineers know where the cameras are!
@joepeach9972 ай бұрын
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!
@donnaj99642 ай бұрын
@@joepeach997 Yes indeed--it's always fun!
@tranmere2922 ай бұрын
The weather scene at the end was terrific. Nature's fury! Thanks.
@BNSF8500yt2 ай бұрын
Great video as always, it’s really cool how cameras all over the country can see all of these cool and rare engines
@suziw7582 ай бұрын
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.
@gp38292 ай бұрын
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.
@donnaj99642 ай бұрын
I was thinking "But you shoulda seen the other guy" about the tree. I'll bet it was a pretty intense moment.
@jeffeastmond84812 ай бұрын
*early morning - at Revy in the potash separation clip
@gp38292 ай бұрын
@@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.
@rogertemple71932 ай бұрын
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.🇺🇲🇨🇦 🇨🇦🇺🇲🚂🚃🚃🚃🚃🇺🇲🇨🇦
@ivoneboettgerbatschauer22422 ай бұрын
WOW😮VRF Thanks
@trfarmer38692 ай бұрын
Great Harriet Tubman portrait on the box car. Also nice to see the Tropicana cars coming back in some form.
@CFalcon-ff7yu2 ай бұрын
I love these videos 😊😊❤❤
@ronaldrondeau78702 ай бұрын
Thanks always awsome
@jefhow222 ай бұрын
Thank you....this was awesome ❤
@bowlinerailfan2 ай бұрын
Lots of action from Cordele here. And the Tropicana juice cars there were a nice surprise. As was Atlantic Coast Line hu 1871.
@the-terrible632 ай бұрын
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.
@ChainsawNW12182 ай бұрын
Always enjoy seeing all the different power,consist,and distributed power!1🛤🚂😄
@user-vh1uc6in7b2 ай бұрын
Wow 😲 VRF is fantastic.
@donnaj99642 ай бұрын
Some really pretty catches in this--another great one!
@daveintucson85412 ай бұрын
Wow, fast work, just saw that CN grain train going by La Plata live!
@Branddenthepinkgoldpeachfan2 ай бұрын
*Awesome Catches*
@paulw.woodring73042 ай бұрын
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.
@WhiteCamry2 ай бұрын
I'm old enough to remember when Tropicana reefers were painted bright orange.
@paulw.woodring73042 ай бұрын
I'm old enough to have been a conductor on a couple of those trains.
@Metraelectric222productions2 ай бұрын
Nice
@owancejackie2 ай бұрын
Awesome Videos. 👍🏼
@TrainguyNCL2 ай бұрын
WHOA! Look at all those 737s
@kennethlacewell15172 ай бұрын
One of these days, you're going to catch a tornado.
@robchit12 ай бұрын
We watch a funnel cloud drift over Cordele I think almost 2 years ago
@Dreamworld9862 ай бұрын
The double rainbow and the lightening were really cool.
@raeward80922 ай бұрын
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 :)
@whew52 ай бұрын
Nice double rainbow at the end.
@peterp11582 ай бұрын
15:08 Impressive telephoto lens.
@jimwinchester3392 ай бұрын
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-v4g2 ай бұрын
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.
@joepeach9972 ай бұрын
THAT, would be great but don't wait for it to happen.
@AppalachianMountaineer18632 ай бұрын
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-starrailfan78772 ай бұрын
@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.
@shawnlanders20342 ай бұрын
They should freshen them up. They would look awesome with new paint and new engines!!
@gregginter5867Ай бұрын
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!
@lynsmith2 ай бұрын
Good Thunderstorm in Belen & Deshler ! Bye Roy Rogers in Cumberland 😂😂
@HighSpeedHauling2 ай бұрын
11:23 is the train going into emergency!
@rufusfirefly41612 ай бұрын
"Don't tell Mom!"
@glenbrown30112 ай бұрын
Yes because it came apart. As soon as it separates, the air dumps completely.
@The_Dudester2 ай бұрын
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.
@donnaj99642 ай бұрын
Wish we'd gotten some of it up here in Utah--it looked like a real gullywasher.
@Andrewleedy1332 ай бұрын
28:13 is it just me or does that look like a white mushroom cloud
@klesmiley2 ай бұрын
20:40 the two yellow "stacks" on the barge in the river look like a pencil with an eraser and a ruler.
@donnaj99642 ай бұрын
Jinx!!
@williamflowersrailfannerpr38082 ай бұрын
Nice taco bell VRF
@jamestappin47412 ай бұрын
10:11 Must be a branch line
@joepeach9972 ай бұрын
Excellent, lol.
@donnaj99642 ай бұрын
OUCH!!! and lolol!!!
@andyolin39882 ай бұрын
Wait....Nothing happened in La Grange? Weird!🤨😃
@joepeach9972 ай бұрын
Sure, 9:26
@andyolin39882 ай бұрын
@@joepeach997 You know, cars on the tracks, fender benders...?
@EltonInott2 ай бұрын
from what i found those for warbonets are going up to northtown yard for ptc testing
@RailsofTX18452 ай бұрын
NO WAY! 2 birthday trains and Virtual Railfan Video! AWESOME!!
@hempchimp2 ай бұрын
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".
@joepeach9972 ай бұрын
The Grab Bag was pretty big today and left little time to creative, great idea though.
@Cipher1602 ай бұрын
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.
@NJT4014Productions2 ай бұрын
I saw 14:35 At La Plata
@tytn99782 ай бұрын
@ 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.
@joepeach9972 ай бұрын
Nice to have you Neighbor.
@glenbrown30112 ай бұрын
11:27 the train came apart. Pretty obvious.
@Mauscmkwk2 ай бұрын
16:22 heracy 😢😢😢😢
@robchit12 ай бұрын
At least the forward half looks normal
@wayneneher63622 ай бұрын
Looks like CSX328 won the fight with the tree but needs a little bodywork. Not seen much from Chehalis, did the camera give out?
@desw91462 ай бұрын
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.
@susanwahl63222 ай бұрын
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!
@randydobson18632 ай бұрын
Hi Virtual Railfan & it's is Randy and i like yours video is Cool & Thanks Virtual Railfan & Friends Randy
@ChamplainDivision2 ай бұрын
Whatever happened to Pan Am's Office Cars Fleet?
@MrBnsftrainАй бұрын
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
@isaiahdejesus51232 ай бұрын
11:30
@SangNguyen-ic8sr2 ай бұрын
This away trough Canada
@trainman2k2 ай бұрын
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
@poowg26572 ай бұрын
11:18. Doggone hitch hikers!
@BruceMielke-h1b2 ай бұрын
What?
@stephenhudson87392 ай бұрын
Those Santa Fe engines used to be bright red on the nose
@leonardovalladares43152 ай бұрын
Look like those santa fe warbonnet heading to scrapheap
@robchit12 ай бұрын
Still in service
@KimiWallrus2 ай бұрын
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_KING2 ай бұрын
Ok I saw the emergency at Revelstoke but what was the other emergency stop?
@joepeach9972 ай бұрын
23:55
@donnaj99642 ай бұрын
@@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.
@jeffeastmond84812 ай бұрын
@@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)
@donnaj99642 ай бұрын
@@jeffeastmond8481 That helps--thank you!
@BruceMielke-h1b2 ай бұрын
This might be a silly question, but Canadian crew on the CN train thru Ft Madison?
@robchit12 ай бұрын
New crew in Galesburg
@johnstafford43042 ай бұрын
BNSF crew on CN power, CN has no trackage rights on the Transcon
@ale.34632 ай бұрын
Did that guy in the white truck wait 3 hrs for the train to get going again?
@squarebodycasewademckenney61902 ай бұрын
4:16 guess u cpuld say "planes, trains, amd automobiles"
@donnaj99642 ай бұрын
and you just did lol!
@Specialist1Aim2 ай бұрын
Who else misses the old signals they used to have
@pzkw67592 ай бұрын
I do.
@Specialist1Aim2 ай бұрын
@@pzkw6759 the searchlights
@roxxma2 ай бұрын
I'm going to venture to guess that the barges were carrying graphite
@danc34882 ай бұрын
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?
@robchit12 ай бұрын
From the end
@jamesmckenzie35322 ай бұрын
3:29 nice show of the complete passing of the Boeing 737 plane train.
@pzkw67592 ай бұрын
1946: I see plenty of those in western Mass.
@JohnTPyle2 ай бұрын
Any bear sightings at Revelstoke?
@jeffeastmond84812 ай бұрын
Not since the first couple of sightings in April
@janeordway48412 ай бұрын
Hopefully those warbonets aren’t headed for the cutting torch.
@robchit12 ай бұрын
Nope
@AppalachianMountaineer18632 ай бұрын
Still so sad seeing KCS running on the CP.
@joeypopowics63512 ай бұрын
11:20 Did the grain train lose half of its train?
@jeffeastmond84812 ай бұрын
Not a grain train, Canpotex Potash train separated.
@curtismeskus504Ай бұрын
What is in the tall covered cars at the front and end of the Boeing train
@Andrewleedy1332 ай бұрын
BRICK
@spaceship092v32 ай бұрын
If anyone has a video of the full ATSF war bonnet train lmk
@kamcaree24932 ай бұрын
Hi
@kens.37292 ай бұрын
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. 🤔☹️👎🙏
@robchit12 ай бұрын
Nope just transferring
@Galaxy25172 ай бұрын
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?
@alanosilva8862 ай бұрын
24:59 What did he do here?
@joepeach9972 ай бұрын
23:59 was an air loss, followed by the Train going into an Emergency stop. He was checking to see where the problem was.
@alanosilva8862 ай бұрын
@@joepeach997 Thanks
@richintalent2 ай бұрын
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?
@J3scribe2 ай бұрын
1:41 Plasser American dynamic tamper. 25:44 It indicates First Aid kit inside.
@donnaj99642 ай бұрын
@@J3scribe Cool--thank you!
@robchit12 ай бұрын
I never thought of Godzilla, but now it's a perfect fit lol