New NS "TAG" Heritage, Stuck Brakes and More In This Grab Bag

[@bobbondi7191]

I know everyone is trying hard and doing their best, and thanks for that, but sure do miss Joe.

[@jacktaggart2489]

Great to see the new NS 'TAG' Heritage Unit on Horseshoe Curve with a seasonal dusting of snow. Great Grab Bag. The wayward Ashland driver continues to be the recurring feature.

[@edbob3480]

Love the commentary for each video .helps us part time viewers keep up . Thank you for the great grab bags .

[@joelinpa185]

Agreed on the commentary.

[@donnaj9964]

Loved seeing Revy, Hesperia, and Horseshoe Curve--I've missed them. The new heritage unit is gorgeous and the hot brakes were scary; I hope they got things fixed without injuries or damage. Thanks for another good one and best wishes to Joe Peach!

[@Lambo.Hobbies]

The TAG unit is awesome, saw it in person at the Altoona RR Museum for its unveiling. Much better than the CSX ones could ever dream of being, great video VRF!

[@JoinMyAdventures_YT]

Great Grab Bag!!

[@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.

[@trevorcooke8129]

Awesome freight and commuter trains 🚆 video 📹 great captures, apart from the two numptys driving on tracks & reversing through the barrier 🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈

[@BenjaminAllen-c1e]

Nice job catching that "TAG" hertiage unit

[@Railfan_Austin]

I love the triclops

[@margiecooper6045]

Great Grab Bag VRF. Thank you.

[@user-vh1uc6in7b]

Awesome Grab Bag Time!!! 🚂🚃🚃🚃🎄🇺🇸

[@jackieheidorn5875]

Love seeing the Southern Belle in Revelstoke with the MW engine. Great GB. Thank you.

[@ryanfrogz]

That CP SD60M was an amazing catch! I didn’t know they still had any. Thought they were all sold or cut up.

[@1208bug]

Great shots VRF!

[@joelinpa185]

Very handsome new heritage unit. Good job, NS.

[@rogertemple7193]

Great to see more of Grab Bag and all of the awesome train action from around the country this is always exciting to watch have a very wonderful Merry Christmas and Thank You Virtual Railfan.🎄🚂🚃🚃🇺🇲🎄

[@bluebutt1243fly23]

Wish you would show more off the stuck vehicles and how they get them off the tracks like you used to do

[@b3j8]

Kinda surprised me Revelstoke isn't already snow-covered as Winter often comes early there. Wont be long tho.

[@BenjaminAllen-c1e]

Very good grab bag

[@Branddenthepinkgoldpeachfan]

*Awesome Video*

[@Dreamworld986]

Thanks for adding the info on some of this. Just a few of us are beginners trying to learn about trains. Would like to see a little more of that. Just learning the difference between the locomotive's is very hard.

[@lynsmith]

Nice Grab Bag

[@tmeyer2022]

00:25 My Grandfather called that a "Hot Box". Don't knos what they call an axle with a grease fire today.

[@J3scribe]

That was a stuck brake, not the roller bearing.

[@matthewrinehart9514]

Tag is handsome❤❤❤😊

[@railyardfilms6491]

Happy holidays

[@davidbrown4823]

Do people ever learn? The TAG unit is cool. Thank You.

[@csrrjefflloyd6496]

I wonder how long it took for the train In Elkhart to notice the fire and stop.

[@pootispiker2866]

It's near a station so if someone didn't see it a detector probably grabbed it

[@jett3143]

Cool

[@wmoscati]

My first thought before watching video and seeing thumbnail- "I wonder if that shoe on fire will be NS?"

[@MrBnsftrain]

0:52 HRMX 9120 was sold off by the Mt Raineir Scenic Railroad in August. It's an ex-Illinois Central GP10 which was acquired in 2018. Turns out Mt Raineir didn't need a 3rd diesel to run excursions, as they have five steam locomotives they could use, but only one is readily available to run. I believe the Abilene & Smoky Valeey Railroad got this unit to power their new dinner trains 2:24 Illinois Central SD70 still in its original paint 2:36 I thought Canadian Pacific no longer had triclops SD60Ms! CP only has five of them, and they're all ex-Soo Line 5:29 NS 4851 is the Tennesee, Alabama, and Georgia heritage unit. The 92-mile TA&G became part of the Southern Railway in 1971 8:44 this whole train is interesting! CN100 leader, ex-Citirail trailing, welded rail train, and a snowplow on the rear 9:30 amazing to see four Ferromex units together! 10:33 Railroads have recently gotten MOW locomotives that are externally different from regular locomotives, but are the same internally so that nonunion MOW workers can operate them. 14:02 locomotives from both major Mexian railroads trailing

[@WesternPaTrains]

2:15 definitely came from Erie

[@jamesghiorzoe107]

Amtrak 3 at 08:18 nice.

[@ThatKentonRailfan]

17:36 BGSU SPOTTED

[@railfan9428]

I expect another GB Sunday

[@philipjesse2271]

What was the Mount Rainer Scenic Rail unit doing in Missouri ?

[@pootispiker2866]

Someone figured out that you can break the crossing gate! Bit of an overreaction though

[@csrrjefflloyd6496]

Hey VRF. You need to remove the notice about no audio at HSC. There’s plenty of audio.

[@pootispiker2866]

It was added in post

[@csxtraincountingrailfan4452]

0:43 Of course it’s Norfolks Southern

[@pizzasubs]

Strange question, but whenever there is a train that has more than one engine, do laws require that there must be a operator in each one of the additional engines?

[@PetesPrettyGoodTrains]

No, all controlled from the front unit. There are cables running between the engines to make them basically operate as one.

[@pizzasubs]

@@PetesPrettyGoodTrains Nice, that makes it easy for the front operator of the front engine, so for instance if the train need to go up a steep mountain, that is pretty much why they have all those other engines hooked up together, think I was advised this but forgot but if you dont mind me asking, are all the engines running at the same time, or can the operator of the front engine startup any of the other engines when needed, and lets say if the front engine operator has to add a little more power he can control the power in all the other engines too right?

[@413TomaccoRoad]

AN operator...

[@pootispiker2866]

​​@@pizzasubsThe engines all run at the same power as the front one. There is no case in which this wouldn't happen unless one was shut off. The conductor can start up more engines but that's usually not allowed in order to save fuel

[@PatriotAndAlbanyProductions]

One of the exceptions being the manned helpers through the Horseshoe line.

[@brucybabyy7355]

is Jonestown going to be available to non members?

[@evanf1293]

0:53 they no longer own that engine.

[@lowellvillerailfanproductions]

So it turns out that the vote was pointless because apparently from what I heard from my friend Norfolk Southern is planning on doing all the Heritage units that they had set out for

[@richardbause2453]

Dang 😅😢, it's been a while I lost the score card count for the DARWIN drivers at Ashland 😢. I think it's 6 for the year 🤔? Lagrange is still in the lead for the Railroad DARWIN AWARD for the year 👍👏 😂😏🤔😊

[@jamesghiorzoe107]

Darwin awards are only given to those who take a dirt nap due to their foolish actions.

[@dennisc6716]

0:29 So what should you do if you see a train like that? Call 911?

[@KansasCityRailfan]

Call the RR's incident number. It should be on their signal box or crossing box.

[@Dickpeterballs6969]

Call the emergency # only if you see flames, but even then a detector will probably pick it up quicker

[@anjellicadavis1958]

Can you put two more cameras in adger/ white oak in Winnsboro SC

[@richardmclaughlin8345]

Oh, I get it now, I have to stop the video myself. I have to create my own freeze frame. I'm glad I'm not paying the 4.99 a month.

[@danc3488]

Ahhhhhhh rats, you missed my wave at Strasburg on 12/1 (Sunday morning) :( Still a pretty cool Grab Bag, though. I hope the engineer of that train with the burning brakes noticed it and stopped.

[@rtz549]

Bizarre BNSF borrows so many locos from Mexico.

[@pootispiker2866]

There's no reason not to

[@jimihendrix1575]

Elkhart Indiana needs a better camera.

[@maureenolin199]

I can’t get it to do anything

[@joshausterlitz3798]

Looking at NS heritage engines vs CSX heritage engines just makes CSX ones look so dumb, wish they'd never painted them. 3/4s a engine is like 3/4s the effort, and the best part is, CSX won't respond at all as to why, only removing comments they don't like. UP paints the whole engine, why CSX has to be the odd one just baffles me.

[@richintalent]

What incident in SC???

[@ebf82234]

"Military secret" Shhhh...🤫