The BNSF former Santa Fe 'Transcon' Railway in Western Arizona
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- Опубликовано: 26 июл 2024
- The BNSF “Santa Fe” Transcon Railway in Western Arizona (and Needles!) in 4K!
UPDATES: This video has updated new scenes from Seligman, Nelson Tunnel, Lhoist Nelson Plant, as well as more coverage of the east side of Kingman as well as the famous Happy Jack Wash bridge near Haviland!
The former Santa Fe “Transcon” across Arizona is both STUNNINGLY active (up to 90 trains per day although the latest average is perhaps 70 or so!) as well as incredibly scenic. It literally is a running conveyer belt of the world economy.
The epic scenery from the ancient walls of Kingman Canyon, the amazing crossing of the Colorado River into California, to the brand new breathtaking $36,000,000.00 crossover at Truxton.
The line is steeped in Santa Fe history, with Santa Fe Railway stations & Santa Fe emblem painted bridges still in abundance nearly 30 years after the Santa Fe was merged with Burlington Northern. 
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Your videos are the best. No unnecessary narration, no loud music, just beautiful scenery complimented by outstanding drone work
Thanks 👍. We agree. Until we can afford James Earl Jones or Morgan Freeman there will be NO narration. 😂😂😂🙏. So many great videos are posted on RUclips are ruined with narration.
Like many people, I deal with an inordinate amount of stress in my life. Your videos are so soothing and brilliantly put together. It allows me to to forget the crap in my life and escape for an hour. Thank you...
You are so welcome!!!!! Thank you so much !!!
Simply the best train video I've ever had the pleasure to experience. Incredible cinematography!
Thank you very much Johnny!!!!
Freakin' beautiful!
Thanks!
Thank you for this video of the BNSF southern transcon along the former Santa Fe Railroad from Seligman, Arizona to Needles, California. I enjoyed the trains and the scenery that they travel through. Thank you for the updates that you included in this version of the BNSF's Seligman Subdivision. I really enjoyed the information that you gave us about the Lhoist Nelson Lime Plant. The information about the uses of lime in our daily life was enlightening. Including the Nelson Tunnel was a bonus. The reason for the existence of the Nelson Tunnel was interesting. Thank you for also pointing out the former roadbed of the Santa Fe Railroad before the building of the Nelson Tunnel.
Thanks Thomas!!! We didn’t want to update the video so soon again but the Lhoisen Nelson plant is so important to the economy of the west that it really needed to be included and the tunnel I think is the only one on the Transcon at least thru Arizona?
Parabens! The fantastic Arizona landscape in partnership with Chick-fil-a ads is quite a prize. It's pure speculation, but imagine dining car cuisine with a partnership of Fred Harvey and Chick-fil-a. The Chief would still be serving the public. More videos please.
West of Seligman I was pressed into service during a work stoppage once as a conductor. I was too busy with track charts, the timetable, calling signals, monitoring the train, etc. to enjoy the trip, but, oh the memories!
Actually we ate at Popeyes today. Shhhh. Lol. Thanks Bill!!!
I have come to expect artistry from Acme, and this video does not disappoint!
Thanks again Bill!!
Absolutely awesome. Your cinematography is just outstanding. Love the extra footage of Nelson and Kingman! You have certainly helped my project (modelling this area as it was in 1952). Thank you!
You are so welcome!!!!
Your videos are the best.❤❤❤❤🤩🤩🤩🤩
Thanks!!!
Something about this video makes me smile. It shows the beauty of America’s railroads, the calm music with no narration is awesome. Amazing work, it’s perfect
Thanks so much !!!
Beautiful ! My old stomping grounds from years ago!
The best! We love this area!
If ever I hired out a cinema for an evening, to test things out I'd roll the footage from 12:05 on. I'm watching this on a 27" monitor and it looks amazing. On a cinema screen I'm not sure I'd be able to breathe. Words cannot describe how beautiful that is 😍
Be sure to invite me!!! :)
Absolutely outstanding!! Great blend of video and music!!
Thank you kindly!
I completely lost myself in this video - mesmerisingly beautiful, and the visuals and music really do complement each other! Outstanding!
Thanks so much!!!
Amazing video, l love how the music with the video brings this hospitable land, beauty. The snow scene, brought a dynamic I have never seen in the Arizona desert. Had to watch a couple of times to see all the details of this parched land. Again what a amazing video. Can’t wait for the next one.
Thank you very much!!!! A refreshed EASTERN Arizona video will be up next weekend!
Impeccable work as always. I especially love the rising shot at 17:25 of the train driving toward that enormous sun on the horizon. Awesome!
Thanks!!! An early sunrise. I remember we got there around 5 am for those shots!
a challenge for @AcmeCinematography: how each locomotive is connected and controlled; how loads are loaded and unloaded; how to deal with broken trains on the tracks; what if the load is animal; what is the view from the driver's room. etc, from your sight. So far, your videos always show views from a distance, but they're pretty good. (sorry for english from gg translate)
We are working on something like that actually!
@@AcmeCinematography that's why I say: "from your sight", maybe everything will look beautiful, like your other videos.
Watching the flyover was incredible! Mad respect 🫡🤜🏼🤛🏻
That flyover is an engineering marvel!!
Every one of your video is a work of art !!!!!!! They are absolutely fantastic, thank you for sharing them.
Thanks!!!
Great video truly showing the scale and color of the land, and the scale of the trains in the land... Fantastic drone work.
Thanks again!!!!
A Great Job With Video I cried the music Compliment the Freight Train going by ! Outstanding 👏🏽🎥
Thank you!!!
For the life of me, I cannot fathom why your videos haven't gone viral yet. Or, categorized as therapeutic videos.(fell into a nice nap lately) My word, you've managed to flawlessly mesh movement, scenery, drama and music into a fabulous work of art.
Thank you so much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
outstanding footage!!
Many thanks!!!!
@@AcmeCinematography you are welcome!
One of my railfan "Happy Places" is Kingman Canyon, part of my ashes are to be spread here, just off of Rt. 66 near the west main, on the rocks! Thank you for making this tremendous video some of my sacred places in Arizona! This are is really a rail fan paradise! Keep up the fantastic work.
It is truly a magical place !!!!
Love that part of our country, you really captured the scenery and the history. Excellent job, love the integration of the music - thank you.
Thanks again!
What a great video , just incredible how you navigate the drone and the scenery is spectacular ! You captured many beautiful views including the bridges and canyons. I also liked seeing the CN GE Dash9CWL with the North America map scheme at around 43:50 crossing the bridge. Noce music too.Well done and good work ACME Cinematography .😊👍
Thank you so much!!!
Another amazing production -and so relaxing that I fell asleep! I just completed watching it a second time and, in addition to the artistic value, you shared some great information such as the lime factory. I was also highly impressed with your close-up shots of the flood-control structures at East Truxton. Other coverages of the flyover have never detailed those necessary structures. The Nelson Tunnel info was also great. I could could go on but will end with: anxiously waiting for the next one. Wishing you God’s blessings to stay safe and be well.
Thanks!!! The lime operation is just a few miles from Route 66!!!
Thank you so much for another outstanding video. Very Enjoyable.
Thanks so much!!!
Another great video. Thank you so much for your magnificent videos. They are perfect. Every element that you have put in them adds so much. You do excellent work!
Thank you so very much !!!
Best train videos I've ever seen, keep it up, greetings from Austria .🤸👍🚂
Thank you very much!
Oh here is the Seligman sub.
I worked this run for 6 months. Man I loved going to work there.
Go past Kingman East, there is a winding canyon, I think it’s on the Indian reservation. You won’t believe a train can climb up that way.
Thanks. And yup!!!
Stunning as usual
Thanks!!!
Each of your videos is a work of art!!!!!!! They are absolutely amazing, thanks for sharing them. HELLO TURKEY....
Thank you!!!
Beautiful !
Thanks!!
Alright, new video! Thank you.
Hope you enjoyed it!
So good to see the channel back! Great videos! Love the cuts and angles and flow with informative graphics and no unnecessary talking.
Much appreciated!!!!!! We agree so much on the talking. America is so beautiful!!!!
Thanks for that video. Its so beautyfull to big for a model railroader to replicate
it would be a challenge!!!!! :)
REPORTAJES maravillosos sobre el Ferrocarril y les animo a que sigan deleitándonos con esta maravilla de paisajes, como pocas veces los he visto. Muchas gracias y adelante.
Thanks!!!
Gorgeous👍
Thanks 🤗
Wow ! To go from selling rocket pacs & roller skates & parachutes to Wylie Coyote to this ! You guys are amazing ! Please, tell us who you are, other than the Tim Janis of trains that is ! Nice work.
Thanks!!!!! Just a group of railfans that love trains of course :)
Parabéns por trazer esse lindo video da locomotiva e belas paisagens sou fã de trens e locomotivas sou aposentado na ferrovia aqui no brasil. Congratulations for bringing this beautiful video of the locomotive and beautiful landscapes I'm a fan of trains and locomotives I'm retired on the railroad here in Brazil
Obrigado !!!
First and foremost, please accept my Heartiest Greetings, Congratulations and Best Wishes on Your Mind Boggling Presentation. It's indeed an Excellent Enterprising Extraordinary Emerging Evolving Railfanning Endeavor with lots of patience in every parameter. The visuals are continuously stunning and the live acoustics and the soothing music sound tracks are beyond the range of words or sentences. Hearty Greetings from Kakinada/Hyderabad, India 🇮🇳
Thank you so much!!!!!! ❤️
Excellent video!
Thanks !!
Really nice and picturesque video AC! Living up here in Canada I also just discovered a pretty good video posted by Josh White which was taken in the canyons
of British Columbia. Look for: Rail Fanning In The Thompson And Fraser River Canyons. Enjoy!
Thanks so much !!!
Ah, real railroading!!!! The territory looks so different from the air than through a windshield 🤣. Kingman is a quiet zone,shouldn't hear too many horns. The tunnel at Nelson is the only one on the entire transcon. The curve at Truxton is a huge waste of money, none of us agree with it. Should have used it on track maintenance. I'll be out there working tonight 😅👍. Fantastic video!!!! Santa Fe all the way!
Thanks so much!! Yes kingman is quiet zone for sure which is probably a mistake safety wise ! The flyover I am guessing is for when traffic comes back ? Seems to me traffic is down last few months. Was just out there last week and seemed very slow :(
@@AcmeCinematography it was actually installed for the Gallup Sub so trains would be lined up properly into belen. It's on our sub because the other areas were too expensive lol.
interesting! it is a really incredible place though visually! :)
Nelson Tunnel is the only tunnel left on the old ATSF Transcon after BNSF daylighted the two tunnels on Cajon Pass back in 2008
Thanks! Wonder how long this one will last???
Outstanding work once again...photography, drone, production and choice of music.
What kind of drone and computer editing software are you using?
Thanks! We use DJI drones. Mostly mavic but there is some old phantom footage from a few years ago in that show. Our studio uses the full Adobe suite of products. Premiere. After affects. Illustrator and photoshop
Terrific job your golden hour shot are top shelf. Great job.
We thank you!!
great video
Thanks !!!
Superb
Thank you so much!!!
Perfection
Thanks!!!
Simply beautiful!! I wonder if you go thru Lamy, New Mexico to Raton? Would love to see that. In the 90s we lived in a house just off the tracks and my kids and I would run to the tracks when we heard the train coming and wave.
Someday we hope to!!!
@22:28 , Whispers “do it again”
Someday!
Ahhhhhmazing😉👍😎
Thanks so much !!!
Love the BNSF videos....but why did you delete the CSX and NS videos... I loved those very much
Thanks! Working on music licenses before we can repost ! Thanks!!!
@@AcmeCinematography I sure hope you can repost the CSX and NS videos shortly... The CSX was simply beautiful indeed and miss it
several are posted.. please download as they won't be up long due to music copyright issues!
Dude, how high can you drone go up? Kingman Canyon is spectacular.
400 feet! :) YES WE LOVE KINGMAN CANYON!!!!!
Beautifully done, thank you. However I have to admit, about 10 minutes in and after seeing the tops of the hills chopped off I simply could not take any more. Perhaps I am just not that strong but the destructive human effect on our beautiful country and world is sickening. Peace be with you.
Thanks !!!! Understand but those products are essential for human life!
Still not a huge fan of the music. Train sounds are music enough in train videos for me... I have 50 acres just east of the Nelson plant. It's just south of the grand canyon caverns airport. I go camping out there from time to time although not nearly as often as I'd like to. That's a long way away from Michigan 😕 in the background of your shots looking east it would be right at the edge of the green trees right along the rail line. After being harassed by the police in flagstaff for watching trains I just bought property so no one can chase me off. The same thing I ended up doing here in Michigan. I would love to put a cabin or something on my land in Arizona so I can set up a live stream similar to what I've done here. Next time you're in that area take some shots from the Crookton bridge on Rt66. Last time I was there they still have the old rt66 bridge there next to the modern one. I have a shot of an eb tail end dpu with the snow capped volcanos in the background as the lock screen on my phone. Your videos are giving me great ideas for new places to visit next time I get out there. I'm pretty sure I could walk to that Nelson tunnel from my property without too much trouble. A lot of the north side of the tracks through there is privately owned but the south side in that area is public hunting land or something to that effect. Property it wouldn't be a big deal to wander around anyway. Having a side by side out there could be a blast!
Thanks!!! Amazing so close. Would love to get access to the east side sometime !!!
@Acme Cinematography If you ever want to film from my property I'd be happy to grant permission, just give me credit in the description or something. My email is in the description of my live stream. Just drop me a note if you'd like to go out there. You will need a 4x4 though, especially if there's any moisture on the ground. It's pretty remote! I had set up a cellular game camera out there just to see what kinda cool stuff was running around and get some shots of the trains but it quit working after a few months. I haven't been able to get back to trouble shoot it yet sadly.
someday we hope!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! please download this video for your personal use.. sadly the music license issues will require it to be removed by the end of this month..ugh.
What is that beautiful music in the video? Does someone know?
Thanks!!!