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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"!

[@m.r.3510]

The C&NW Heritage 1995 engine. I started my RR career with CNW and retired from the UP. (41 total years between both railroads)

[@OfficialTracksideTreasures4001]

321, the first Charger in Roanoke, was the first Charger I saw in person! Good job, 321!

[@James89378]

Mine was 313 and 318 in the lead

[@OfficialTracksideTreasures4001]

@@James89378 I’ve seen both 313 and 318. Those are just two of the… maybe 25, 30, chargers I’ve seen so far.I don’t know. I think I lost count after I saw 345.

[@ronniewatkins]

You need some VR Georgia shirts in the merch store! Love seeing all the heritage units! Thanks for sharing!

[@Black_cats_rule]

Quite a surprise when I was looking for actual cats … ha!

[@briankemp5206]

Nice heritage parade!

[@ChainsawNW1218]

Nice lash up with the N&W GE and EMD high hood, nice catch on Caterpillar bulldozers and wide loads in Altoona, great Grabbag as always!🛤🚂

[@donnaj9964]

Ohhh, *that* kind of cats!! I was expecting furry creatures with four legs and a tail each lol. As a newbie, I had to look up switchers and slugs, but once I knew what they were it was cool to see them. And Wabash always looks beautiful...Thanks for another great one!

[@Rob-tr1st]

I absolutely love seeing those 90MAC Rebuilds working the shoe and still working today!

[@PresidentFillmore-bd2xq]

Man, the Kansas City Southern paint scheme is so beautiful

[@stephenhudson8739]

Somebody was a darn good artist with that girl on the right side

[@donnaj9964]

That was gorgeous! I kind of got the impression that she was a saint or something...

[@johnlang4198]

That's Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai.

[@donnaj9964]

@@johnlang4198 Thank you!

[@donnaj9964]

@@johnlang4198 I looked her up, and her story is so amazing and inspirational--I'm delighted to know who she is. Thanks again!

[@the-terrible63]

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

[@bowlinerailfan]

After Tropical Storm Debby and a bad night at work, a grab bag full of heritage units is most enjoyable.

[@JacobWheeler-xr4ed]

Nice job on video nice power as well

[@BeensEpicYt]

Always makes my day to see a new grab bag!

[@MrBnsftrain]

0:10 what a neat NS lash-up 0:25 hopper on a flatbed 0:55 CSX 1877 trailing. This is the Chicago & Eastern Illinois heritage unit. C&EI was split between Missouri Pacific and L&N in the 1960s, and UP and CSX still share some ex-C&EI trackage 2:00 RS 8922. It's owned by RSSX but doesn't have the whole marking 2:57 one of the most impressive pieces of graffiti I've seen on a freight car 3:40 CSX 1897 leading (again at 8:53 with a Cedar Rapids & Iowa City hopper) 4:24 one SD70ACu with a train of large machinery, both mobile and static 6:20 NS slug built out of an RSD12 originally built for the Pennsylvania Railroad 6:57 hi-rail excavator at Paradise. Might be the same one that 475 smashed into 7:20 Amtrak MOW train of concrete ties (again at 11:30) 7:49 uP 1995 leading while a CPKC transfer passes behind it 9:38 CSX, KCS, and BNSF triple-header 10:00 CSX 1853 10:20 BNSF MOW train with mostly large equipment, but some on flatbeds 11:05 Wisconsin Central boxcars. They merged into CN in 2001 11:22 CSX 1877 again, this time as mid-train DPU 11:53 caboose and heavy haulage car 12:06 CSX 1982 leading 12:14 I'm surprised they put ALC42s on the Roanoke train before the Southwest Chief and California Zephyr 12:37 large tube tanks being moved by barge

[@csrrjefflloyd6496]

Sometimes I wonder if it’s smart to let people move the wigwag signal in FMD. I think it’s going to break some day.

[@donnaj9964]

We needed a "doink" when he really swung it though.

[@btd2516]

Looks like it could use some oil on the swing arm, doesn't look like it moves very freely.

[@kensbackshop6399]

AT 4:07 THATS MY NEW LIONEL TRANSFORMER I ORDERED

[@poowg2657]

Great buy, that'll run a few trains!

[@stephenhudson8739]

What's with that blue tint at Altoona color seems off

[@jackulmen5791]

12:06 1982 first, and then 1877, 6 minutes later.

[@gp3829]

Some good rarer Freight stock tonight, thanks VRF. Also, I enjoyed seeing RS 8922 at Deshler and UP CNW 1995 at SF Jct. Mostly, the WC Boxcars at Ashland. I have 5 No. Athearn B/Box models with Peak-roofs and again - I can now run them just legit.

[@SangNguyen-ic8sr]

The Northern Wetern train

[@paulbergen9114]

@11:05. The ranks may be thinning but salute to the Wisconsin Central @11:30 poor unit stuck on taking out the trash

[@Nderak]

11:56 this was here for hours i saw it twice yesterday while driving

[@HamidovaFeruza-qt2wb]

Cute letter 08

[@user-ff2iz5qc6l]

Wow an MT6 slug (ex PRR/PC/CR Alco RSD12)

[@chrislongbeard]

I was hoping to see an RS-3 or better yet a RS-1

[@PowerlinePlanet109]

Another great Grab Bag.

[@poowg2657]

When you said RS in the description I thought you meant an ALCO........

[@Retired88M]

Come to Scranton Pa if you want to see Alco heaven. Especially at the Steamtown museum The Delaware Lackawanna has a whole fleet of numerous models on their active roster

[@braydenrailfanner710]

Nice video

[@Branddenthepinkgoldpeachfan]

*Awesome*

[@Retired88M]

As much as I hate graffiti on trains whoever painted that woman’s face on the boxcar needs to be found and given a job at an art studio

[@IowaGrandpaTrain]

What’s the construction at Santa Fe Junction?

[@jackulmen5791]

0:55 1877 on M410

[@RandomRailFan405]

Aggreed

[@PlanesandTrainsofBuffalo]

Did you see WEBX 2058 at Fairport?

[@randydobson1863]

Hi Virtual Railfan & it's is Randy and i like yours video is Cool & Thanks Virtual Railfan & Friends Randy

[@carolinarailvideos1]

I waved on the Thomasville cam why wasn’t I on here ??

[@Mateo_Railfans]

coo

[@trainsinCornelialivestreams]

First and coolest video

[@Mateo_Railfans]

@@trainsinCornelialivestreams your not first I’m second

[@trainsinCornelialivestreams]

@@Mateo_Railfans nah na

[@bagsyseagel6259]

Alive man 77

[@rogertemple7193]

Another awesome day of watching trains on VR Grab Bag on Tuesday afternoon thanks.🇺🇲🇨🇦🚂🚃🚃🇺🇲🇨🇦

[@FishKepr]

Clicked looking for CATS. 😾

[@AndyK7JKAPKVL]

@FishKepr Meow!!! Lol

[@donnaj9964]

Oh good--I'm not alone lol!

[@AndyK7JKAPKVL]

@@donnaj9964 lol yep

[@user-tn9vr6rs3g]

How do you get to trains from looking for cats?

[@Swetlota]

Black beaver 67

[@richintalent]

What were the two huge white things on the barge at the end?

[@ren-uz2mz]

Tanks for liquid nitrogen.