Union Pacific's Overland Route: the Kearney Subdivision

[@seandonovan4186]

These are the best train videos because you provide some good facts and narration. My 2 year old loves these videos!! Thanks!

[@rudolfreiter3089]

Wonderful photography and thank you for the information about all these railroad locations.

[@scottsmith7051]

Beautiful views, fantastic narration, topnotch video!

[@iusetano]

I'm lovin' your your Overland series. Excellent video Alex. Hans.

[@jeffreymcfadden9403]

Lexington has a nice military vehicle museum. Been there. Worth the stop.

[@Mybody4life]

Great narration, lots of facts and figures which totally isolates your videos into a category of their own,great work.

[@ThornappleRiverRailSeries]

That's the goal! Thanks for watching.

[@mr.j2776]

Great views and just the right amount of narration. Great job on the Overland series.

[@Rich206L]

This is the best rail fanning channel out here on you tube. Excellent video production and HD quality. It should be on TV! The commentary is also excellent!

[@ThornappleRiverRailSeries]

Thanks! Means a lot to have so many people appreciating the work I do even as just an amateur. I try to tell the story and how it all works, and it sounds like that's happening so I'm pleased to keep on doing it!

[@railfanmaximstill7279]

4:18 They have two places where the cross each other in Eastern Nebraska. Grand Island and Fremont Nebraska

[@railfanmaximstill7279]

I live in Fremont Nebraska and I love your work thanks for coming to my hometown dude

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Best train videos on the web... lots of information.

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Even I have a hard time watching some of the old stuff! Embarrassing, but worth keeping. Does show the learning curve, and it isn't something you're just born with. Also the addition of quality equipment help tremendously. First camcorder did 360p. Now I shoot in 4K often.

[@briankemp5206]

Nice one Casey!

[@chuckwlodarczyk4501]

Great video my favorite area

[@Michiganrailfan]

Excellent. I was out in North Platte in 2015 but didnt spend a whole alot of time. So next trip I plan to go by myself and pace the line from Gibbon to North Platte

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[@Pow3llMorgan]

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Great to hear you enjoy it! More stuff in the pipeline, for sure!

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One of the best train vids, ever!! Great work.

[@DavidIrthum]

Wonderful,entertaining and informative video.

[@dalepeterson5609]

Fascinating.

[@andraskertai4969]

From 16:54 what a horn!

[@philliplee980]

awesome video.

[@michaelrice8236]

Thanks for another nice video. By the way, "Kearney" is pronounced "Car-Knee."

[@legaciesontherails3878]

Really like the way you add in the narration. Shared on my Railroad Bridges, Related Photos & Video, Union Pacific Flag Units, Railroad Auto Racks pages on Facebook.

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Thanks! Sharing means a lot to us creators.

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[@jeffreymcfadden9403]

DBGX 6634 is a former Southern SD24. I saw a few of these way back when. someone is getting old. PC/CR ran a train from Columbus to SR ry(Cincinnati) called COSR. SRCO was it's counterpart. Here in Ohio, on it's way to/from Columbus you would typically see 1 PC/CR loco(usually SD40)with 2 SR locos. through 1977 typical SR power was SD24s with an occasional SD35. Starting 1978 more SD35s with a lot of SD40s. SD24s were gone. NOTE, for this pool, PC bought new some U23Bs for this train and they were equipped with dual control stands. I did see a couple trains with PC/CR U23Bs leading, running long hood first, quite a sight.

[@jonathanbaker4936]

Grand Island, Nebraska is a nice city to visit. It is about two hour drive east of North Platte. I have family who lives along the BNSF line about 90 miles northwest of Grand Island.

[@jovetj]

The Stuhr Museum (formally the "Stuhr Museum of the Prairie Pioneer") in Grand Island is a great place to spend a day when you need a break from trains.

[@chuckwlodarczyk9961]

Excellent video of my favorite area cudos

[@lancenewdinger4316]

i heard at the end you pronounced the name of the sub incorrectly, its actually pronounced Car-Knee. but as an omahan, i love the attention to this vital stretch of the UP line you have shown. excellent detail and narration is always informative.

[@EdEddnEddyonline1]

they removed the horn at the 5th ave crossing in Kearney back in 2020 & Virtual Railfan has a camera in Kearney at the same crossing

[@denisetindall1487]

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[@troygly]

I used to go there and watch when the diamonds used to be there before the fly-over tended to be a bottle neck at times.

[@25mfd]

Pentrex has a really good two part vid series on the Marysville sub. I don't think it's on DVD though. It's only on VHS. For you younger rugrats, it'll be your chance to see what a VHS tape looks like. Kinda like going back to ancient Egypt. Nice vid.

[@YardLimit]

You did a really nice job on this!

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[@trainsofminnesota5375]

15:23 damn Wayside horns

[@jovetj]

Grand Island is in central Nebraska. Kearney is pronounced "CAR-knee" (not kier-knee). Nicely-done video! Nebraska's 3MT doesn't get enough railfan love or recognition.

[@ThornappleRiverRailSeries]

I've picked up on my pronunciation error...too bad one can't take one of this videos back to fix it!

[@jovetj]

I see other comments have pointed it out as well. You can always come back! I suspect you enjoyed filming this.

[@utubewatcher806]

the e-horns at 15:40-15:46 are clever

[@trainsofminnesota5375]

utubewatcher806 Most Railfan's hate them, Even I do

[@xrude7875]

is there a list of these first to last . i enjoy them , but would like to go in order

[@ThornappleRiverRailSeries]

They're in a playlist in order on my channel page.

[@NS-ul7zh]

What kind of camera do you use to shoot these shots? The quality is so nice!

[@ThornappleRiverRailSeries]

Camera in the description. I have since upgraded

[@seabassz_197]

really wanna railfan at gibbon.

[@jovetj]

I suggest you hop around the entire 3MT from Gibbon to North Platte. Always something to see, and lots of pedestrian overpasses to camp out on for a while. Those things are amazing for watching trains on!

[@EinsamerWolf86]

what is the meaning of the different colors on the coal cars, which is attached to the corners? on the train at 5:00 you can see it quite well what I mean, in red, blue, green, etc..

[@ThornappleRiverRailSeries]

Those indicate which end of the car has a rotary coupler. In order to work properly with a rotary dumper, you need each coupling to have one and only one rotary coupler, so they’re marked for easy identification.

[@EinsamerWolf86]

@@ThornappleRiverRailSeries interesting, thanks for the info! yes that makes sense to me that this must of course be marked, I could not make the connection, probably because I also did not know that you have rotary clutches on the cars

[@Jaxanator25]

That CNW AC4400CW though

[@UnitedRailroader]

Did I hear you correctly? Did you say 150 Trains per day? like 1-5-0? 0_0 Thats insane

[@ThornappleRiverRailSeries]

Yup, was up to around 150 a day about 10-15 years ago. Much more like 120 now, with coal traffic off its peak and longer manifest trains combining numerous trains into fewer longer ones.

[@johnfitzpatrick3094]

@@ThornappleRiverRailSeries One time, when I was driving to Colorado, I counted 84 trains in 2 hours from Grand Island to North Platte.

[@cubbiejack6659]

Hey man this vid is great I just subbed! I have a question how do you identify where a train is headed and what cereal number it is??

[@ThornappleRiverRailSeries]

A lot of the deal is knowing the territory which you are watching trains on. Most have patterns that can give you a pretty good idea. Some less busy lines can even be simply memorized and sighted based on train type. Additionally, it helps to both know people who work for the industry and can fill in the details, as well as listening in on a scanner - both CSX and NS call all signals, for instance, including their train symbol in their call. From a symbol, one can find the origin/destination usually through a google search, since most trains have been talked about on forums.

[@cubbiejack6659]

ah ok thanks man, I'm sure i have a scanner in my house somewhere i just need to find it

[@ThornappleRiverRailSeries]

Frequencies are somewhat readily available online and most consumer scanners pickup the required range, between 160-162 mhz FM. The American Assoc. of Railroads owns that spectrum and agrees on how to allocate frequencies so the industry has a firm standard to allow for interchangeability.

[@nickygaming1911]

27:41 what's with that locomotive over there?

[@ThornappleRiverRailSeries]

It’s owned/leased by the grain elevator to shuffle cars for loading

[@TheLewistownTrainspotter8102]

15:13 ...And they also sound terrible compared to the horns on trains.

[@SuperApplefan1]

what are them @10:41

[@ThornappleRiverRailSeries]

Maintenance-of-way equipment

[@guyname8760]

This video has good qualities.(say something if you get the awful joke)

[@MrMark85044]

do these trains slow down at night?

[@ThornappleRiverRailSeries]

Nope. Railroads are not subject to speed reductions at nighttime, just like you don't have to slow down on the roads.

[@MrMark85044]

I was think more of lesser amount of trains than speed. sorry for the confusion. you are finding GREAT places to view trains, mind sharing the GPS on some of them? keep up the great work. your narrations are perfect.

[@ThornappleRiverRailSeries]

Ahh, well, some lines do, some lines don't. It just depends on overall flow to and from places. Chicago, for instance, receives more trains in the early morning and expels more throughout the early afternoon, in general. But on a line this busy and with so many unscheduled bulk unit trains, it doesn't really change much throughout the day.

[@jordanschoenenberger4397]

So, is the bulk of Union Pacific's traffic on the overland route coal, because according to the numbers in the Evanston sub video that sub sees around 80 trains per day or so, and yet North Platte can see up to 150, meaning that the almost half of the UP's traffic would be from powder river and other fossil fuel sources, and to me this is depressing, on one level that it means that the OG transcon wasn't actually a good route and that other routes like the sunset were better, and on another level it means that the traffic on the overland will be crushed by another fossil fuel crash like in 2013, and that would further taint the mythical status of this line.

[@ThornappleRiverRailSeries]

Yes, a lot of the traffic around North Platte is/was coal and that is declining, however there is still plenty of merchandise, bulk and intermodal traffic. Train counts are down to perhaps 40-55 per day on the Evanston and around 90-100 on the North Platte, both from the decline of coal traffic as well as the railroad running fewer, longer trains. This still makes the OG Transcon the second busiest in the country behind the BNSF Southern Transcon. The Sunset Route is still only 30-40 trains daily.

[@jordanschoenenberger4397]

@@ThornappleRiverRailSeries I think it's high time UP finishes double tracking either the Vegas or Boise routes to better compete in Seattle or LA.

[@TheLewistownTrainspotter8102]

17:00 Are you sure of that? Because honestly, in my opinion, wayside horns just sound terrible. And I don't see how they improve "quality of life", seeing as the railroad existed long before the people who complained about the noise moved in next to them. And I'm like, "you chose to live next to a busy railroad line so you forfeit any right to complain about the noise that trains make as they pass through town". I say the same thing to people who live next to an airport and complain about the noise of planes taking off at night.

[@ThornappleRiverRailSeries]

They're highly directional so fewer people end up hearing them. Whether or not they sound nice to you has nothing to do with their functionality as a safety device. There's nothing out there tying people to giving up any ideas about wanting their neighborhoods to be quieter if they live next to the railroad. Sure they may not have the right to demand, but in this case, the people in the town worked with UP to find a solution that worked to cut down the noise.

[@TheLewistownTrainspotter8102]

@@ThornappleRiverRailSeries Well, quiet zones are only designed for those who live by the tracks and don't want to hear the horn, in other words, don't understand how rail safety works. And this is why I have this mindset towards those people of, "You chose to live by the tracks that were there years before you decided to move there." The one good thing about quiet zones is that you can hear those beastly engines better.

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[@Trainmaster1907]

i think the way kerny does the crossing is just weird.

[@gobr2005]

That was UP doing, not Kearney but those horns reduced the noise of the trains considerably. I grew about 1 to 1.5 miles away from the track and could not hears the trains anymore.

[@jovetj]

I've actually been to that crossing, and it was the first time I'd ever seen wayside horns. www.quietzonetech.com/index.php?q=content/how-automated-horn-system-works

[@rachellynn1507]

Learn to pronounce Kearney...."Kar-nee" not "Kiern-nee"‼

[@ThornappleRiverRailSeries]

Yeah I bumbled that one, but there’s no way to fix it now.

[@maxgraupmann9889]

Great video