What Your Favorite Railcar Says About You

[@BNSF1458]

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[@TrainKid2024]

I wont

[@NYCproductions12]

Ok

[@why2223]

Ok

[@SilverThunder710]

Don't worry I won't Don't worry tho I'm just not able to use dizzy

[@Seaboardsystem-t7e]

Bro why do you never go railfanning up in places like superior or on the lakes sub?

[@EdmontonRails]

Loaded centerbeams are peak, smelling that fresh timber slowly rolling by

[@Joeztrainz]

This may sound weird but a nickname I give loaded centerbeams is ice cream sandwiches. The white wrapping in the middle of the car for some reason reminds me of the ice cream in an ice cream sandwich and the surrounding of the car reminds me of the outside of it

[@AlanWiltsie]

How could you not mention tank cars or covered hopper cars?! You absolutely have to do a part 2!

[@leafeon_gtr9223]

and log cars (unless usa stopped moving logs by rail)

[@superfamilyallosauridae6505]

@@leafeon_gtr9223 Logs probably move mostly by semi truck now due to how uncommon a freight it is becoming. Low volume, high dispersion of destination. I don't know if I've seen logs on a train in years, but I see it on trucks a few times a month.

[@paulbergen9114]

Escanaba & Lake Superior still carries logs to a plant that produces Smart Siding in Sagola MI.. Also Canadian National gets logs for a mill in Kaukauna WI along with some vintage would ship cars that are 51 years old so they all have FRA waivers to stay in service and they are basically graffiti free ​@@leafeon_gtr9223

[@414cyclerider2]

Low key a train of just tankers hits different for me.

[@minnesotarailfan12]

“Doublestack intermodals just hit the spot” Hell naw, pigs is where it’s at. I miss the days of solid strings of TOFC…

[@RyanBruno24]

Mixed manifest trains are king because they are sometimes unpredictable with what they'll have on them like an awesome fallen flag or a high and wide.

[@SignalMan9292]

Bro I saw a Western Pacific box car with the feather. I didn't even know any of those still existed on main line service

[@cxmx3295]

A few days ago I saw a SCL and rock island hopper

[@thereptilianrailfans6495]

@@cxmx3295there are a sizable amount of those family lines hoppers I have been seeing a lot of rock hoppers too which surprises me because of where railfan

[@ethanhatcher5533]

There's still an NYC gondola rolling by me

[@TheConfluencePArailfan]

I’ve seen a few old chessie system auto-parts boxcars come past me

[@thereptilianrailfans6495]

@@TheConfluencePArailfan I see those occasionally

[@iftheseoldbeastscouldtalk7796]

I'm not going to lie. I'm a gondola guy, but not for the derailment reasons, but because every old road, NYC, CR, IC, and loads of other vintage ones roll by, usually trailing behind equivalently old locomotives.

[@ulstercountyrailfans7717]

I enjoy seeing the big 60 and 80 ft boxcars on mixed freights! Dont see them all the time and its just amazing

[@imightormightnot]

a fallen flag 80 footer. yeah...my day is definitely complete!!!

[@ulstercountyrailfans7717]

@@imightormightnot we have a train that comes through my town with a small cut of them, some you can even see the logos on them. The chessie kitty, a worn out Conrail logo, and a couple Csx ones.

[@imightormightnot]

@@ulstercountyrailfans7717 kinda feel the nostalgia seeing those old guys still getting the work done.

[@Mr6stringchaos]

My favorite freight car is a reefer car. Always loved seeing the old 57’ PFE mechanical reefers.

[@DavidWsTrainVideos]

Even my 4 year old son calls coal trains boring. So I can’t argue there

[@TracksideTyson]

Amen brother

[@slr_393p]

The stab at NS around the 2 minute mark had me laughing.

[@SignalMan9292]

Me liking autoracks and not seeing my answer

[@drewzero1]

Same, it's fun when you catch a glimpse of some cars inside through the vent holes, and I like seeing the huge loading doors on the end when it's the last car in the train.

[@j.a.rrailworks9968]

My favorite railcar is any with a bad bearing! It's amazing what ONE bearing can do to derail a whole train that consists of Hundreds of bearings!

[@VGACGAEGA]

I like Coil cars and you explained everything completely, and we go absolutely ballistic when we catch one on camera.

[@AlanWiltsie]

I'm one of those odd people who likes the freight just as much as the locomotives. Without the freight you wouldn't even have a train!

[@TracksideTyson]

I can certainly agree with this as the more I railfan the more I appreciate the cargo. Although somehow I once loved coal trains since they were rare to see where I began railfanning, but where I live now coal trains are at the bottom of my list! Mixed freight and Double stacks are where its at. Excellent video my friend!

[@jacoblyman9441]

Tank Cars: "You work in the industry and your employer pays you to know about tank cars, so you now know a lot about tank cars and have nervous dreams about making sure to demonstrate the HM-201 qualification process in your next FRA audit."

[@ebnertra0004]

I keep a copy of the ERG on my phone just so I can see what they're carrying (this only works if it's bazardous)

[@jameskoskinen6763]

Canadian grain hoppers, because then you get to look for hobos on them 😮

[@hatem8909]

empty centerbeams and boxcars for me. Absolutely insane you didnt cover covered hoppers in the first episode.

[@judebrereton9747]

airslide hoppers 💪💪 (but like the gatx ones look the best)

[@TheConfluencePArailfan]

Real

[@TrainMedia00]

Vintage freight cars: You choose these because you hate graffiti on those modern freight cars. Schnabels: Oh boy, Foam city here I come.

[@BrokenFootRailfan]

Autoracks are my favorite. I like cars and I'm also an artist so I enjoy the unique graffiti on them.

[@GRS504videos]

Woodchip Hoppers. Honestly, is there anything better than the smell of fresh cedar and pine chipped up?

[@dasdadwaswad7358]

Schnabel cars will never get boring to see as there are only 30 of them in the U.S

[@jasongunther1929]

Military flatcars with tanks and other military equipment!

[@ilikesound]

Love the double stacked well cars. I moved to Canada from the UK and loved how BIG it was comparatively.

[@blackhillsandeasternrailroad]

Yes. Empty centerbeams. At low speed, being swapped out for a loaded car with that fresh lumber smell. Hand-to-hand railroading. Part 2 of this is gonna be good!

[@DK-nv9zu]

I heart Thrall all-door boxcars because I’m not with the times and have a soft spot for the underdog.

[@lukenolts4]

Loaded centerbeams are way better than you think. It's cool to see how their loaded and the different lumber sizes on them

[@condrumnumberone9456]

I'm a boring old guy that likes steam locos pulling empty flat cars, super long tankers, coil cars, and a bay window caboose.

[@North_Cascade_Railfan]

I like double stacks and auto racks, if they are together on one train I’ll be happy, I also like coil cars and trailers but not as much as double stacks and autoracks.

[@Tesseract1887]

So for reference I am a truck driver, specifically a steel hauler, so most of what I haul is steel and aluminum coils, bars, and what we call slinkies. Now as a result of that I end up around a lot of rail yards, there's a place I go to alot in Kansas city, where I have to go through a rail yard. Quite frankly I have to say boxcars are amazing because there is so much variety, so many brands companies, the timeless style of them, it is so cool, last week I saw a Panam boxcar that was pretty cool. But second would be cars with slinkys those are pretty cool too because unlike the coil haulers you cab actuakly see them

[@rapcreeperproductions3269]

I really like old time stuff, i wonder how this list would look if it was era specific. Early passenger cars are my favorite though.

[@crsrdash-840b5]

My best friend has a name for those emptied 72ft centerbeam flat cars: She calls them naked cars!

[@tesleywhompson9555]

Personally, i enjoy the Shorty tankers, that and my all time favorite being the trough-train from back in the 90s

[@TheATSEnthusiast]

My favorite type of rail car is the flatbed railcars with the semi trailers on top because I think it looks cool and I like semi trucks....

[@JDERailCorp]

Your talking points on coal trains are spot on for me! haha but I like unit trains in general cause their uniformity is oddly satisfying

[@LEVIRISLEY-j2i]

Manifest trains are the goat

[@sierramountainsrailfanning2114]

Fr

[@TheConfluencePArailfan]

Fr

[@foraminuteforaminute4056]

I like coil cars because they look like the 8,000 gallon tank cars of long ago from a distance.

[@bradjtrains]

I look out for the fallen flag boxcars along with the new ones. I saw a brand spanking new UP boxcar on a CSX train that still had the manufacturers stickers on it recently. Coal drags never get old and i live near a coal pier!

[@CornhuskerRailRoundup]

I don’t necessarily have a favorite, but like you said with coal hoppers, it’s like you read my mind. I do in fact have OCD so if I see a train with only one type of car, it makes me feel more satisfied than usual. But personally, boxcars and autoracks are more appealing to me… idk why.

[@RandomRailfan828]

You gotta love box cars man, they have literally been the railroads day one stay ones

[@WillyGoat54]

Bro forgot autoracks, and a part 2 of this is part of the reason I subscribed.

[@ryanfrogz]

“Coal Hopper”, yet those are all gondolas…

[@Track_Side]

You should do a “what your favorite type of train” like manifests or intermodals etc

[@MichiganRailfanEnthusiast]

Flatbed cars with windmill blades, are the G.O.A.T of all time...🔥🔥🔥 If only if they're not the most RAREST to catch💀💀💀

[@FoxLover2005]

stock cars, cabooses, and log cars are some of my favorites

[@thetrainhopper8992]

I like the coal metal cars and a string of Superliners.

[@fluxthelycanroc9603]

I like boxcars because 1) they are quite easy to ride next to tank cars and hopper cars and 2) when i tell the engineer to swing it on a cut of boxes and hes dragging the slack outta each of those cushion underframes it almost sounds like thunder right before the bottom moves and we get going

[@jasonschoenmann2308]

No love for the high and wides. The gem of foaming?

[@AbelG8781]

60' modern high cube TTX boxcars will always be king of railcars

[@ZeldaTheSwordsman]

Regarding single containers in well cars I'd like to add "Or you're British/an Anglophile".

[@KatyPacific382]

One of my favorite railroad cars is the Sloan Yellow 40FT double door boxcars made for the Missouri Kansas Texas railroad from 1937 to the 1940s by American Car & Foundry. These were primarily used for mail storage on passenger trains like "The Katy Flyer" "The Katy Limited" and the joint Frisco and Katy passenger train "The Bluebonnet" Last favorite car I like is Railway Express Agency's green 53' wood express reefer cars used on passenger trains during the steam era. What would these say about me?🤔

[@Transitfan2022]

I like double stack well cars, and we actually drive 125mph. :P

[@RobertValinsky]

My favorites are both open and covered hopper cars.

[@hankz7510]

my favorite railcar is the 1970s designed hoppers

[@rhodeislandonrails2]

WE NEED TANK CAR!!!! I NEED TO KNOW HOW HE WILL ROAST ME THIS TIMEEEEEE

[@844SteamFan]

0:45 - The only coal trains I really like are the OMAX trains with their blue hoppers. 1:15 - They’re okay for when another train is passing on the other side, they can also have some cool railroads on them. 1:37 - idk why you separated these 1:42 - Gondolas can have some cool railroads on them. Are you going to mention Woodchip Gondolas? 2:08 - Double and Single stacked wellcars are basically the same to me, though baretables are good for trains on the other side. 3:30 - Coil cars can have some cool railroads on them. I think FM was the best diesel builder lol, ALCo second. 3:46 - Boxcars can have some cool railroads on them. 4:18 - Why was such a short video split into two parts?

[@tutong3050]

Tank car: I will crash into my house Dash9: I will crash into north Korea

[@deathdealer_xiii1055]

Well cars are bae. *I work at an intermodal ramp so I see every type every single day*

[@RonKStevens]

Passenger cars. Amfleet, Superliner, commuter

[@superfamilyallosauridae6505]

My favorite railcar is intermodal and I do, indeed, go 90 every day for my morning commute. It's not that hard at 3AM. When you live more than 50 miles from your workplace it gets kinda necessary.

[@missouriandmidwesternrailfan]

I once saw an old mopac boxcar and an old Rock Island grain hopper on the same train, but I posted that on my main account.

[@SPRailfan4449]

My favorite out of this video is probably a boxcar. They’re timeless and look good in almost any train they’re put in. Also nice video by the way. ❤️👍😎

[@HSETM]

The "Coal Hopper" sums up the BNSF Ottumwa Subdivision. Alao I like Well Cars and Autoracks.

[@justanotherghost4589]

For me, 1st is boxcars, tons of variety and fallen flags, best catch was probably a very mint N&W boxcar I saw at the Horseshoe Curve, 2nd is grain hoppers, and 3rd would be gondolas, because, once more, old and cool, probably the oldest railcars I've seen tbh, hell I've seen Penn Central gons still bearing PC logos around, plus a very worn Chessie gon and P&LE gon side by side somehow, can't imagine how many P&LE gondolas are still on the rails, the one I saw was barely readable lol

[@Herman1776]

there was a bunch of coil cars sitting at Brook Park for a while. Gone now though

[@presto569]

In the image for the Tesla joke that’s actually an oil power plant from Simcity 4, not a coal plant lol

[@RailfanLandon8271]

I like boxcars and hoppers, the fallen flag railroads you can find on these things are great

[@tjmfarming9584]

No grain covered hoppers? Tank cars? Flatcars? I always get excited when I see grain covered hoppers in a train because I know that if the grain trains are rolling, then so are combine harvesters, and if combine harvesters are rolling there's a guarantee that somewhere some madman out in the middle of nowhere is trying to drive a 45ft draper header over a level crossing to beat the oncoming train. Those who have played Farming Simulator and have encountered SD41-2 No.5844 know what I'm on about.

[@ArkansasTrainz]

I’ve been waiting for this return hope more comes soon

[@ridemtbbc9409]

Finally someone mentioned the wind from the damn center beams 😆

[@k.b.5079]

I love a good manifest. But my favorite car are the older NS/Southern open top hoppers.

[@thereptilianrailfans6495]

I see so many double stacks on the NS CNO&TP line and CSX LCL sub that I am just sick of them

[@MuscleLineRailfan]

2:27 my dumbass leaving home as soon as my old town's locale local departed Proviso (I lived 3 hours away from Proviso and 1 minute from the tracks):

[@YukariAkiyamaTanks]

I like piggyback cars with trailers. They are just really nice to see.

[@Bayarearailphotos]

This is an amazing video!! We needed something like this! Also got to ask you, how did you make your channel logo? I want to try to do my logo like that but don’t know how to. Thanks, keep the great content up!

[@SAXTProductions]

What about Schnabel cars? Not only have I been able to get video of several but I also own two. I also like those high and wide loads as well. I was able to footage of WECX 800 before it was scrapped.

[@trainfan4449]

I'm not so much a fan of the individual railcar type, as I am specific builders. Whitehead & Kales, Evans, Portec. Absolute yes. I guess if I had to choose a favorite railcar itself, it would have to be either Coil Cars, or specialized MOW cars. Unique and different cars are cool. And thier are so many different kinds.

[@delightfultrains4675]

You know its a good day when BNSF 1458 drops a new vid

[@railfan104]

My favorite railcars are the boxcars and the Intermodals

[@AWSmith1955]

Loaded centerbeams without product wrap. So i can see if they are carrying what us contractors work with. Oh there goes a bunk of 2x10x14', There goes an entire car of half inch oriented strand board! bunks of 2x8 twelves! your typical first floor joists ! 2x8 sixteens! Rafters!! yeah i guess i foam over lumber! I cover a short line that moves mostly lumber twice a week with 68 year old GP-9 and 54 year old GP-38 power.

[@SD40-2]

2:08 why the fuck is this so damn true 😭

[@SD40-2]

Yes Well cars are my favorite

[@jimmyseaver3647]

In regards to single-stack, one might also be European if they like those. The overhead clearances across the pond are _awful,_ even though they'd get more bang for their 20-wagon long bucks if they fixed that and learned the joy of the double stack, too.

[@Watch-n-Pray]

Man, you forgot about the autoracks 😂

[@RailfanAvgeek48]

Coal train, hopper cars, covered hoppers, open top hoppers does not matter. I am a hopper kind of guy

[@csxtrainfan319]

Bet: that I’ve never graffitied a box car because I haven’t, I would get into trouble with my mom if she found out

[@TheSouthAustralianrailfan]

I don't really see double stacks much because there are small tunnels in the Adelaide hills

[@Metra161productions]

New upload 🔥

[@Trainsnbnsf]

Yeah finally

[@Avid_CJ4_Enjoyer]

Boxcars make it stand up, and by, “it” I mean my peanits.

[@littlejoe1633]

Don't know why but I like depressed center flat cars. The heavy duty ones especially. Not sure why but I think they are neat. Yes I did order one of the new batch of Class One Model Works heavy duty flat cars XD

[@TrainTrackJackProductions]

I foam over BCOL centerbeams lol

[@user-zw6mp2ko5v]

I love seeing opera windows.

[@kyleshape8645]

Real answer: DM&IR Taconite jennys. Joke answer: I was talking to a former Class 1 yard guy, and he told me about the tiny tanker cars. They are smaller than any other tanker; I forget what they carry, but he described the chemical as "put one of these cars on the ground, everyone in a five-mile radius of it dies."

[@ebnertra0004]

I've never seen a baby tank in person, but I've seen a picture of one carrying bromine

[@SynchroScore]

Yup, that's me on coil cars

[@Minnesota_Rails]

Bro has all of the most random ideas ever to post😂

[@memphiscoe9410]

My favorite railcar is any of them with a fallen flag reporting mark

[@CentralPALocos]

NRLX 5953 is my favorite rail car

[@ZerWubbie]

2:12 that’s my favorite

[@usa_rail_productions]

Great video man!!