THIS GRAB BAG IS ONLY 16 MINUTES LONG, BUT IT HAS SOME OF THE BEST CATCHES IN A WHILE! 5/17/2022

[@glenwitteman2585]

The final scene and the music were......just top notch. Thank you.

[@nate4745]

I agree.

[@cliffflud7283]

Love, Love, Love the music at the end. Its so relaxing, thank you and keep bringing it.. !!

[@joannecarpenter8725]

WoW…. A beautiful show of lightning and ending colors 🤗 Many thanks.

[@victorvega9396]

Coming home from a long difficult day to watch another cool grab bag, it makes the day feel not so bad🙏

[@keithgrafton3067]

What a beautiful soulful musical ending to another great Grab Bag video

[@Yormsane]

Outstanding work, Team Grab Bag, that was a rail-ercoaster from start to finish!

[@casey5711]

Just a wonderful video , thank you 😀👍🏾🚂🚂🚂

[@keonikaig9247]

GREAT GRAB BAG again.....do Love the ending...

[@mikeyoungblood1706]

Is it just Me or are Railfans some of the nicest People You'd ever want to meet ?

[@BrendanPerkins]

An excellent 16 minutes, and some awesome lightning! ⚡⚡

[@tanyahouston5635]

Loved the trains of engines!

[@karafaunt4386]

There are a lot of locomotives owned by companies like gatx, that's some bright lighting. Great video!

[@68dart]

Awesome , Thanks V.R.

[@jordonfreeman166]

I wish BNSF’s OCS was pulled by a matching GP60M-GP60B-GP60B-GP60M set in matching Warbonnet paint.

[@parailfan]

That would be nice to see.

[@scottl.1568]

Whut

[@minkie7284]

New camera at Hesperian is feeding some awesome pics!

[@suziw758]

Great EMD festival on this grab bag, and the lightning awesome!

[@jasonpotter8037]

Nice moment captured in the last scene guys 👍🏼👍🏼.. Thanks from Australia for sharing..

[@jerrysinclair3771]

Thank you for the explanation on the flashing aspect in Springfield, MA @1:55

[@MatthewMello]

Those are used when cab signal fails enroute. Unless, it is a wreck or work train.

[@jovetj]

LOVE that ol' BN caboose!!

[@paullindberg9230]

Looks like the conductor might have set the lead(trail) sw and set the throttle position witch caused the smoke !!! Super lightning photo was a real professional job and beautiful and. , how powerful nature is ; THANK. You guys are all great!!!

[@ren-uz2mz]

nice as always, ty for another gb fun, and as far as we know no darwin tryouts, bumped bears or spills, good day...

[@ricktopeka7981]

13:50 - ok, F-650 hi rails are always fun to watch. But tell me more about making a gondola by clamping a bathtub onto a flatcar! Great kitbashing idea!

[@williamjacobs236]

O look at 7048 in new paint @11:35 Shiny . Another great Grab Bag video VRF .

[@Cpr1234]

4:27 This is an example of bead lightning which can also be called chain lightning, when the lightning splits into small bits before fully disappearing. Usually the thunder from these bolts are very loud

[@jlet4ever]

Thank you Mr Wizard.

[@jlet4ever]

These Train Bags are pretty good!

[@markrobinson3830]

Doesn't matter how long it is, the grab bags are getting better and better.

[@Xpninjadan]

There are so many amazing trains in these grab bags.

[@markrobinson3830]

@@Xpninjadan That's why I love them. You never know what you're going to get.

[@60bui]

WOW!! Great video!!! 👍👍👍

[@owenmortensen607]

Love the warbonnets out front!

[@MatthewMello]

7:48 BNSF crews like blinding other train crews. Dim your lights man.

[@kilt2024]

Thanks always enjoy 🚂

[@jop4649]

13:59 Interestingly, lightning can travel from the ground back up into the thundercloud. There are certain conditions that need to happen, and most upward lightning seem to involve a nearby cloud-to-ground lightning strike and tall objects such as radio towers.

[@jamesghiorzoe107]

Seems like the neighborhood lost power.

[@anthonyangelici2963]

Jo P: Electricity takes every path available to it. There's no limits.

[@MatthewMello]

At 6:12, whoever it was didn't start the locomotive. They just put it online.

[@HarryPalmer-P.I.]

I never get tired of virtual railfan.

[@MrBnsftrain]

1:20 so that's why it was running with only one half! 2:32 I've seen a few of those. I like that the white paint matches the screens 2:48 11-unit light power move 3:53 two GE locomotives to move on FRA Metroliner inspection car 4:00 this 6-unit lash-up is cool too 4:52 wow! I'm surprised that's all the way out on the old ATSF mainline 5:12 these two units are also unusual catches, but more common than the previous clip 5:52 PRR and NYC private cars together. Eat your heart out, Rodney Kantorski!!! 11:10 double CN and a Trans-Global Solutions geep 11:30 ex-NYSW unit on Horseshoe Curve 12:00 an SP RPO and an Illinois Central-colored coach 12:53 three units, 19 cars 13:43 Hi-rail truck pulling seven cars. The 4th one is really unusual 14:32 P40 on a Cacasdes train of Horizons 14:55 ex-FURX unit

[@SonnyMcDonald]

I really like these short grab bag’s

[@fattoumaachebli1459]

Love your videos

[@railnut8453]

I didn’t think you could start a loco from inside the cab I’ve always seen it done from inside one of the side panels. My guess the loco was idling but isolated and he went in the cab to put it online. I could be wrong. If I am my apologies.

[@MatthewMello]

You are correct, just put it online. Takes longer than that to start a locomotive, even if it has in cab starting capabilities.

[@jordonfreeman166]

Shouldn’t UP 1976 be a bicentennial unit?

[@arkansasrailproductions5507]

Those Providence & Worcester autoracks are all over the place. Caught one yesterday on UP manifest MNLLI heading south through McGehee, Arkansas.

[@TheActualKingOfRailfanning]

I see at least one of them every time I see an autorack train

[@MatthewMello]

I believe they own the WRWK ones also. Warwick (RI) railroad is one they bought out.

[@Railfan6675]

That last clip was great!

[@TCHE-2-Likhobory-Okruzhnyye]

13:43 We have a truck with cars in our country, this is very unusual, we only sometimes attach wheels to pickups that check the railway track for the train so that they drive along the railway to where the car cannot drive

[@glennjohnston2267]

Nicely done

[@julieannwozniak2264]

8:03...perfect shot!

[@parailfan]

I've been waiting for something like this to happen at 1:41. Thank you for providing information about it as well. Now if only we can get the Signals at Leaman Place to do that with the C light flashing.

[@MatthewMello]

Cab signal failures are pretty rare. Can't remember the last time I ran C lights due to a cab signal failures. Last time I ran C lights, I made a move with my DP running Long Hood Forward

[@thomaskowalcky4553]

At 2:36 it is not "Providence & Worechester" but "Worcester". And if one grew up in central Massachusetts, one might pronounce it as if it was "Wista" and the actual pronunciation is more like "Wooster" - rhymes with rooster.

[@CR7659]

0:20 Loco 789? Who put the decals on that? Same Wichita clip twice 3:56 where is that Metroliner car going? (I see it's not Amtrak but can't make out if it's CDOT or what) 5:24 CEFX 3721 is interesting because it was originally a Southern GP38 that seems to retain SOU or NS paint where it's still black. It's now a GP38-3. Not sure who had it previously CEFX 3803 is also ex-Southern, 2788, now a GP38-3 also, by way of I think Railtex-Rail America-G&W ECRX 2005 is so new I can't find what it was. GMTX 9059 was a replacement for a wrecked unit for the Susquehanna, originally an Oakway Leasing unit same number. Still can't believe that NS DC-to-AC conversion that led past Tower 55 didn't make a bag.

[@RebeccaMundschenk]

Thanks for trying to explain what some of those things are. I really only watch for Amtrak trains, so I skip through 95% of these grab bags, but I will stop and watch if there are captions. I don't understand what you are talking about, but thanks. Oh, and more Amtrak, please! Not all of us like commercial rail.

[@michaelg.damons6229]

The music was good kinda like slow Bluegrass. I heard guitar,mandolin, dobro.

[@jdinhuntsvilleal4514]

WHAT rail grinder collision? Is there a link?

[@MatthewMello]

Happened in Spencer Ma. Rail Grinder hit the DP of a stopped freight train. Several brief news articles about it if you search. 3 crew members with injuries. It was a bad night.

[@jdinhuntsvilleal4514]

@@MatthewMello Thanks, the location helped me find it.

[@trainlover123trainsrock]

@@MatthewMello I was just looking for it. How on earth did that happen?

[@MatthewMello]

@@trainlover123trainsrock That is all I can say at this time. Just the facts that the media presented.

[@earlmorey5284]

Great shots!! Not familiar with SKOL though.

[@WindCityRailfan]

Man Yesterday (May 16th) i could have been on a grab bag when BNSF 647 came through (I went Crazy at Rochelle)

[@TheMetGuy]

These grab bags should get bigger and longer with more trains

[@eddingtonrailroading]

4:27 and 14:00 AND THEN ALONG CAME ZEUS

[@harrisonofcolorado8886]

HE HUUURLED HIS THUNDERBOLT!

[@chillydaysyt4421]

i caught 1069 and 8105 in Cresson PA today

[@aldotrCAMBORIUBEACHBRAZIL]

GOOD NIGHT MY FRIEND

[@beckster181]

atleast the Strasburg water tower didnt break this time as re watering LOL

[@USArailfanner3448]

Where was the lightning storms at 4:20

[@plisskenationbackfromthede3657]

I dont question the ability of the hi-rail to pull that many cars, but i do wonder how well he can stop at that speed lol

[@MatthewMello]

Apply the air brakes to the cars.

[@SanFrancisco49erFan]

Early for a virtual rail fan video

[@chaosdemonwolf1]

Nah it's never too early, or too late.

[@rickski3769]

Thumbs up for "shorter" videos !!

[@harddriveusame7248]

I liked seeing the full train. It ain't right to cut off the train cars!

[@RailsofCaliV2]

0:35 my favorite fakebonnet 789 went lead oh yes

[@chaosdemonwolf1]

How's it fake?

[@RailsofCaliV2]

@@chaosdemonwolf1 bruh do you not know what a Fakebonnet is?

[@chaosdemonwolf1]

@@RailsofCaliV2 Being from the UK, no I don't

[@RailsofCaliV2]

@@chaosdemonwolf1 oh I get it

[@chaosdemonwolf1]

@@RailsofCaliV2 🤨

[@stimpypimpy7392]

Dope

[@kensbackshop6399]

At 2:18 that was the skol bandit

[@thetruckingrailfan4449]

There was something wrong with this video: KZbin didn't play any commercials in the middle of the lightning strike clips... 🥴

[@NpSamara]

So?...

[@davidkelley1488]

1st

[@Xpninjadan]

It's not a competition. It doesn't matter if you are first or last as long as you enjoy the video. These grab bags have so many interesting trains in them.

[@davidkelley1488]

Lol 😂

[@Xpninjadan]

@@davidkelley1488 I wasn't joking.

[@parailfan]

@@Xpninjadan I agree with you.

[@jamesghiorzoe107]

Love it!