Car Stuck On Track, Hybrid Locomotive and More in this Grab Bag!

[@PaulCashman]

Kudos to those police officers who helped get the car off the tracks. They saved at least a vehicle and quite possibly lives.

[@johncamp2567]

Fantastic sequence at Kearney!!!🛤️

[@patsidley9388]

The guys pushing the car at 5:50ish made the local news here in Cincinnati. One was a Glendale police officer and the other was from Glendale's service department working to clear the snow. Good work as usual from VR.

[@peetduplessis7796]

The Grab Bag always makes my Saturday morning better! Greetings from a Virtual Railfan in Namibia! Thank you for all your effort to give us this fine video!

[@ck4426]

The foxes, the boxes, and the tumbleweed were all stunning!!!

[@ThePhilmaywalt]

Great work as always, gentlemen (and/or ladies). Quick wish for Joe to get better!!

[@colefd]

Seems to me NS 1099 makes many appearances on Grab Bag...Work Horse! Great video.

[@ren-uz2mz]

Cool stuff as usual! A flying machine at FMD! They finally got 'em all!! Bless the guys pushed the silly rear wheel car to safety! Snowman was fun. Smarter person, true grey foxes or reds in grey phase, hard to tell and yes they are different... Best wishes to Joe for recovery🙏🙏🙏 and thanks to the team picking up the slack😉😇🥰🥰

[@1361057]

It looked like that quad crossing was a smart crossing when the exit gates started down then went back up when it realized somehow that there was a vehicle stranded inside the crossing … hmmm, AI technology? Good catch VR!

[@texasboykc09]

The opposite side never went down until they cleared it. Nice to see that they have that in place.

[@wayneyadams]

2:34 We used to have the Tropicana Train, it was a train that had nothing but refrigerated Tropicana cars, and they were orange. It was symbolic of Florida.

[@Eric5ohhh]

There’s still a juice train it’s just nothing compared to what it was in the 90s

[@the-terrible63]

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

[@highlife0586]

Ah yes...between 10:36 and 10:50 a few cars from the Steelton PA Plant of what is now Cleveland Cliffs (used to be Bethlehem Steel) loaded with rails...worked there for 35.5 years. Oh wow cool three-way with a shove!

[@Tina-v4g]

Loved all the trains, the foxes and snowman. Thanks VRF! For the folks who keep track of BNFS'S "Golden Swoosh," it did pass through Flagstaff this week as a rear DPU on a westbound stack train.

[@STEPHANIEH70]

Good stuff!!!! ❤

[@cammieg4381]

Whew, there were a couple of border-line heart attacks in there! Loved the snowman & foxes too!

[@KatieWilk]

Awesome video! Made my Saturday morning. Have a nice day 😊

[@J3scribe]

5:00 That weird little battery powered locomotive is headed to New York's MTA. I assume it's a yard goat. It was built by Wabtec, at Erie, PA.

[@jeffdayman8183]

This was a great grab bag. I really enjoyed it. Nice job by the fellas that got that car off the line. I heard that snowman conductor in Oklahoma could be a cold hearted so and so...8^) Just kidding, loved that! Cheers.

[@Allen-k1t]

One of the bystanders that pushed the car off the tracks is a police officer

[@trevorcooke8129]

Mega awesome freight & commuter trains 🚆 video 📹 👌 brilliant captures awesome viewing 👍👌

[@MichaelMitchRailfan2009]

This is a amazing grab bag video, thanks VRF!

[@AZqyc]

Always a fun show!! Thanks for sharing! [Greetings from Tucson ... a UP and Amtrak town]

[@Itz_MaxTheCat]

I love the dual mode locomotive for the subway because one time a diesel work train passes through Jay street metro tech in Brooklyn and after the train passes, the fumes lingered in the station for more than 2 minutes. I love the smell of diesel but not everyone likes it and I’m glad they buying dual mode locomotive for cleaner air. Man seeing that white 300 make my heart sank seeing it struggles through the snow and the signal came down, that person is lucky to have these two helpers

[@Xpninjadan]

Have you seen the video of it at the test track?

[@AmtrakNJTCSX_MTAfannerNYC]

5:08 That’s the MTA’s New York City Transit Authority Subway Work Locomotive

[@Eric5ohhh]

Yes. Specifically designed for the subways which is why it’s so short. I don’t really like being in the subway but I do like seeing their work locomotives lol

[@chloegroat6262]

They got that car over the tracks in time before the train came rolling by

[@JoinMyAdventures_YT]

Glad to see another video!

[@whydoibother1632]

I am really enjoying watching the multiple cam live videos of the storms 2025

[@whydoibother1632]

6:00 I was watching that one live! That was so close within seconds!

[@GeeDubya1]

Love the Chessie System heritage unit ❤

[@zacharycalgher3978]

9 Canadian National SD75IACCs, they’re rebuilt SD75s with their DC traction motors replaced with AC traction motors.

[@thephantomeagle2]

Thank you. Nice to see units getting rebuilt. I’ll keep as n eye out for them on the CN main that goes through thd town I live in.

[@baracc10]

Where I live in Alberta Canada, I’ve only seen the CN 8307 rebuild last October and haven’t seen it since or the other 8 rebuilds

[@MidWesternRegionalRailfan]

6:11 Just seeing that car across the snowy grade Crossing while there's a green clear signal for a train that's in the block heading towards that Crossing, just shocks me. That car also looks like it only has two-wheel drive active. I'm just glad he made it over that crossing with help without incident, that could've gone terribly wrong. I actually timed the Crossing when it activated and the driver had plenty of time to cross. The Crossing must be set at about thirty-five seconds.

[@brandontrent4392]

The car made it across the tracks but there was a police car with its lights on, so it backed across the tracks to wait for the police and then after something was said that is when the car had the issues I saw it happen live,

[@chloegroat6262]

Long and fast trains I like that hybrid train

[@Trainman-611]

Mo-Pac on NS is cool!

[@CandMgirl]

safety snowman there in oklahoma city. nice work! also nice to see going through rochelle on . kudos to those two guys for pushing that driver out of harm’s way

[@rogertemple7193]

This is another great Grab Bag of awesome train action from around the countryside on the tracks from Virtual Railfan Thank You.🚂🚃🚃🇺🇲🇨🇦

[@FurthermoreJack]

So nice, on my way to seeing all these places

[@cpbethlehem6548]

That subway engine went through Bethlehem, PA today headed east. I miss the chance for a picture.

[@MD76MAC]

05:50 Glendale cam

[@Railfan1806]

Wow I saw this video 3 minutes after release! Fantastic timing!

[@jimnicholas7666]

8:45: Jaw Tooth?!

[@Godofrailspro]

Yep

[@sharkey086]

Was that a Fordson tractor towards the end?

[@richardbause2453]

The VR Safety Snowman ⛄ needs his Hardhat and toolbelt 🛠 😮😂

[@Canuck1000]

We can see Jaw Tooth in Glendale. On his latest video, we can see the heritage locomotive from his perspective.

[@KyleSmith-d3u]

Fox's doing track inspection/ darwin patrol

[@joeypopowics6351]

I haven't seen locomotives or rolling stock on a flatcars.

[@HyojinonRoblox]

it looks like a rebuilt version of an australian dash 8

[@TheGrover1968]

I've seen a few foxes in Oklahoma myself.

[@gregthompson3274]

I see you have the same problem in the States,we do here in Australia wagons and hoppers covered in mindless graffiti,SSR a private freight haulage company in Australia recently took delivery of some brand new blue hoppers ,they didn't last a week clean

[@MrBnsftrain]

1:08 Not long after we saw 9969 trailing on a freight train, it's back to its normal duties 4:27 GE-Wabtec New York City subway locomotive behind a Western Pacific hopper. 5:50 Chrysler 300s are not made for snowy roads! 7:00 SRS 129 was built in 1938 for the Lehigh Valley Railroad 9:10 CN is the 2nd railroad to have EMD DC to AC Units. NS has a fleet of 52 SD70ACCs, but it's been awhile since the last one was converted 16:27 this old Ford tractor on the other hand can easily travel the same, snowy road 17:47 I've never seen a DOTX automated inspection boxcar before! Only the markings and solar panels set it apart form any other boxcar 18:10 these Amtrak boxcars carried mail and express parcels, which the freight railroads considered to be competing against their freight trains! Amtrak discontinued mail and express handling by 2002

[@EltonInott]

9:57 EMD SD40-2F Built As: CP 9011 (SD40-2F) Serial Number: A4817 Order No: C469 Frame Number: A4817 Built: 0/1988 Notes: DRF-30y

[@mikedrown2721]

What kind of people enjoy vandlelizeing trains with paint? I don't get it. They must have splinters in the windmills of their minds or their playing hockey with a warped puck.

[@KyloKellen]

Im hoping, I waved to a camera today (Docs caboose), maybe, just maybe, I will get featured

[@WorthlessGollywogs]

Driving a rear drive criminal culture car in the snow proves the lack of intelligence.