UNTREATED TIE TRAIN (RARE)! YREKA WESTERN CAR, REIX SWITCHER, SPERRY TOOT! & MORE

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Our VRF Grab Bags (GB) videos are compiled from content from our cameras as Mods and fans spot something neat while watching our cameras. In the GB you will, of course, find a variety of TRAIN content, special trains, maintenance, steam, diesels, interesting rail cars, cool paint schemes and more. You will also find fun people, city events, boats, planes, cars (sometimes going wild) and nature. Thank you for taking the time to sit back and enjoy these highlight reels that we call "Grab Bags"!

[@Smilecollector120]

I love how the train conductors know that the camera are there and salute us. Sending love back to them❤❤

[@joepeach997]

And Engineers! They started way back a little leery of the cameras, after seeing themselves on our cameras and the commenters giving hellos and favorable comments, it became a daily thing. We are so glad to have gone from the little kid giving the crew a vigorous pull the horn and wave to an affectionate, family like exchange of greetings.

[@Majicstick]

Woohoo made the grab bag with my fiancee on the way to DC in Elkhart! VRF are the best!

[@parailfan]

1:48 That was close with the landing gears on that trailer almost scraping the road.

[@the-terrible63]

Wow! Great catching all the trains, especially the CSXT9969, Geometry Train, in Covington, Kentucky, and other Heritage Units and the adorable animals in Wichita, Kansas, @Virtual Railfan, thank you.

[@jamiesuejeffery]

When my father was a young boy, steam was still commonly used on the UP lines. I'm 52, and as I look at some of these locomotives, I realize how old they are and remind me that I am not a young man any longer. Great grab!

[@sanddabz5635]

Right there with ya!😱

[@maynardcarmer3148]

@jamiesuejeffery, I'm in my 70s, and can recall seeing steam in revenue service back in the early to mid-50s on NKP, C&O, and N&W, and yes, it was quite a show while it lasted.

[@walterpalmgren6873]

Wow! What a smoky train. 17:20

[@georgettedebuhr2660]

Love Amtrak going across the bridge at the end. Awesome grabag. Have a nice day 😊🌈

[@ricktopeka7981]

7:17 - and thank you for showing HH’s birthday salute to his mom!!!

[@TheMetGuy]

Love these grab bags

[@gp3829]

That CSX Cab was nice to see, in such good condition and I liked the Musical Duo at intermission. The Yreka and Western is not so rare on my HO layout, I like the Logo.

[@donnaj9964]

Hooray for the Happy Honker and Happy Birthday to his mom! Beautiful foxes and a terrific eagle. I always love the rocket launches, but I wish I could have heard what our railfanning instrumentalists were playing--I couldn't make it out even with my volume cranked. And didn't the Fort Madison footage with Ferromex and the Amazon piggyback appear twice? The final footage from Burlngton looked like another world after all that snow; it was almost like a mini-vacation. Thanks for another great one!

[@lynsmith]

Nice Grab Bag ! New Chargers on CZ 6 at Burlington Awesome!

[@albertvieira6635]

❤ I love this video I will tell a friend about it guaranteed he will pass it on to the person that did the camera work double thumbs up

[@DebS819-TeamKentucky]

This was a great grab bag today. Foxes, eagle, two musicians, some great train cars and engines and a caboose, no cupulo on top but still a caboose, my favorite of all train cars.❤🦅🦊🪕🚃❤

[@Yormsane]

Brrrrr, so much snow around already! I hope there are powerful heaters in the locomotives' cabs, to keep the train crews warm and toasty on days like these.

[@Branddenthepinkgoldpeachfan]

*Nice Catches*

[@MrBnsftrain]

0:08 8-unit lash-up with two Ferromex units 0:36 Yreka Western hopper cars 0:50 Sperry Car 2:36 two SD40-2s and a GEVO on a welded rail train 3:28 ALC42s 331 and 310 on the Capitol Limited. I like that they're facing away from each other 4:12 BNSF units sold to Wells Fargo and KCS 4:40 ALC42 301 "Blackout" trailing behind a P42 6:10 new ALC42s 351 and 350 on the California Zephyr. (again at 18:44) I hope this is the next route that gets ALC42s. 6:31 REIX 3001 seems to be an SW1500 7:55 NS green slug and SD32ECO set and SD40E (rebuilt from ex-Conrail SD50) trailing 8:40 CSX bay window caboose 8:51 BNSF untreated tie train 9:38 Herzog well train under its own power 10:26 those KCLX hoppers are for Kansas City Power And Light, who has multiple coal power plants being served by UP 10:48 P42 161 "Arrow" and ALC42 322 along with the brown FRA car 11:06 CSX 9969 on an inspection train 11:22 rain and wind so hard in La Grange, that a light cover fell off 11:42 also made something in Wichita go kaboom in a flash of blue! 13:08 LTEX F40PHs 401 and 407 along with concrete ties 14:40 Wisconsin And Southern loco in Elkhart 15:01 CP plow train 15:17 three SD75Ms on a trashtainer train 15:57 Amtrak 130 running to Harrisburg without any passenger cars! 16:50 KCS, Ferromex, BNSF, and NS in a 4-unit lash-up

[@FH99]

I was watching the La Plata cam when the race happened. At first, I thought the light I was seeing around the curve was from the DPU from the manifest. Then the Z just appeared.

[@user-hz7pi1gm2x]

Wow! Thanks! Unbelievable

[@davidbrown4823]

I think the train with the CSX caboose had 7 cars of wall board from Saint John N.B. Great catches.

[@slbronkowitz77]

2:17 What's written under the window of NS 3412?

[@cmac9029]

My local shortline up here in Barrie, Ontario transloads new untreated ties in their yard. Interesting to see the differences as they just load them into old coal hoppers and send them off, whereas here they’re carefully placed (in bundles?) and special flat cars. We’ve even had some old Sultrans cars, and an old woodchip car or two.

[@joepeach997]

We love catching the Sultrans and other fallen flag cars too. We hope to get more locations in Canada.

[@taslimchoudhary1253]

Nice footage! 👍🌴🇮🇳🌴👍

[@ren-uz2mz]

Grand as usual, might be some fox kits in a couple months 😉

[@Joeztrainz]

Nice shots! I’d love to see more of those tie trains

[@ricktopeka7981]

Does anyone else remember when you could use that rainbow gradient in certain chat rooms back in the 90s, like CryoTrans used on the Brophy typeface on their reefers. (At 1:31). Boy, does that seem dated now!!! And BTW: those old Yreka Western 5-bay hoppers could also have been Oregon Pacific & Eastern as well.

[@IowaGrandpaTrain]

For those who don’t know, the event at 11:44 is called thunder snow. Same as a thunderstorm with rain, only snowing instead. Not very common and can be scary if you’ve never experienced it before.

[@wayneyadams]

10:25 What the heck is all that white stuff on the ground and flying through the air, dust, ash? LOL (Wayne in South Florida)

[@csxisaiahjonesproductions2290]

Those's Bnsf Locomotives Are Different In 4:14

[@kennethhanks6712]

Notice one now ex-BNSF unit lettered WFRX for new owner Wells Fargos leasing division and other ex is lettered for new owner KCS-now CPKC.

[@baedenwilliams8291]

17:20 NS 4506 wants to be a steam engine

[@pierpaolopensa310]

Fate sempre un bellissimo lavoro per la comunità 👍

[@joepeach997]

Benvenuto e grazie.

[@randydobson1863]

hello Virtual Railfan & it's is Randy and i like yours video is cool Thanks Virtual Railfan Friends Randy

[@paulpietruszewski4226]

Surprised you didn’t get the snow plow driver in flagstaff who got his rear tire stuck between the inside track and platform, gunned it, jumped the track and spun out on the platform.

[@joepeach997]

wish we could get everything....

[@paulpietruszewski4226]

@@joepeach997 completely understand. While I was watching it, I said to myself… I bet those guys get that one. It was crazy.

[@csxisaiahjonesproductions2290]

The Race In 12:21

[@marykvlogs]

7:44, a Bald Eagle.

[@buddyrailfan9856]

Did p40 816 get repainted

[@jacquesleroux5069]

I would have expected to see more snow...?

[@nolanharder167]

What happened to the snow in Pennsylvania?

[@peterp1158]

0:07 & 5:14 Same video, but no Golden Swoosh

[@OMRA]

That "rare" tie train goes through OKC at least once a month.

[@joepeach997]

And rare in OKC is once a month at another location.

[@OMRA]

They run about monthly through La Plata also, the tie plant is in Galesburg.@@joepeach997

[@thomream1888]

So does qualify as a Yreka Western Unit Train (0:37)?

[@Dag_Nabbit_]

I've seen a bunch of cool stuff on VRF, how can I save and submit vid clips?

[@joepeach997]

Tell a Mod at at one of our chat locations, just make sure it's special and read up to see if it's been suggested already, thanks.

[@FlightAndTrack]

P42 or ALC 42 which is better?

[@buddyrailfan9856]

P42

[@FlightAndTrack]

@@buddyrailfan9856 agreed

[@That_One_Trimet_guy]

P42DC

[@FlightAndTrack]

@@That_One_Trimet_guy yes

[@zacharycalgher3978]

Genesis vs Charger is more like it.

[@smgeisler]

Why don't the Grab Bags have Santa Fe Jct. Kansas City anymore?

[@user-fc6pg9kr2y]

First comment

[@FlightAndTrack]

Bro why are there weird bots on this channel? I thought they only commented on Mr beast

[@ChainsawNW1218]

Lots of great trains in the snow and freights booking/highballing, nice mid helper distributed power in Roanoke on empty coal hopper train, Conductor riding welded rail train, seen the EMD SD70ACE VA HU on 13Z earlier on Jonesboro cam trailing!🛤🚂

[@oliverrr7587]

[@rogertemple7193]

When Grab Bag is on it is the best part of my day to watch these awesome trains here around the country thanks. 🚂🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🇺🇲🇨🇦💨