BIG Trains & TINY Speeders in Alabama

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  • Опубликовано: 3 окт 2024
  • There are several railfanning hotspots where you can see train after train in Alabama. On this trip, we'll check out a few of them in Birmingham. Then, we'll head to a small town outside Montgomery to ride the rails!
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  • @OceansideRailfan
    @OceansideRailfan 2 года назад +9

    BROOO that’s where the Pacific Sun units went!!!

    • @drewb5571
      @drewb5571 Год назад +2

      I love that someone else noticed that! They’re the company I work for and I dearly love it!

  • @keenan4795
    @keenan4795 2 года назад +4

    I love going to irondale. Every time my grandma comes down we head over there.

  • @Rebel9668
    @Rebel9668 2 года назад +2

    I didn't know she wrote that! I'm more used to seeing her on reruns of Match Game from the '70's.

  • @atlantaterminalproductions5167
    @atlantaterminalproductions5167 2 года назад +2

    Great video, check out Bessimer AL, 70MPH for freights, 80mph for amtrak

  • @JackCarsonsRailroadVideos
    @JackCarsonsRailroadVideos 2 года назад +4

    8:45 Correction. that is actually a Nathan K5HA since it's ona. high profile Manifold

  • @EricSmith-ve7qi
    @EricSmith-ve7qi 2 года назад +3

    Great Video! Loved all the auto cars! Im jealous! Lol..........

  • @Train_Master_4014
    @Train_Master_4014 2 года назад +2

    nice video with the UP long hood forward and the other trains

  • @jacobwalker6092
    @jacobwalker6092 2 года назад +2

    Very nice. Y’all should head up here to Sheffield AL and Decatur AL for railfanning

  • @SlaterDozierRailroadMedia
    @SlaterDozierRailroadMedia 2 года назад +6

    Very good video. Irondale, AL is definitely the most well known hot spot in the state. Decatur, AL gives it a run for its money though and it's close to Huntsville as well. I have a good recommendation for a hotel in Huntsville should you decide to go.
    The NS line going through Maplesville was the NS 3B North. I used to live on the 3B South before I moved to South Carolina. The only time I got the Autauga Northern was, ironically, on a trip to Irondale a couple of years ago.
    Alabama is my home state so I can't help but talk about it. Great job and glad you had a good time.

  • @Kansas-Trains
    @Kansas-Trains 2 года назад +2

    The old FRISCO brings back memories to when my dad worked for the FRISCO prior to the BN merger in 1980ish when he was a tie inspector and I got to ride his little motor car 40+ years ago.
    Thanks for the ride Brother 😊🙏🇺🇸

  • @kens.3729
    @kens.3729 2 года назад +2

    Motor Cars look Fun and I bet are Fun. There are so many of these ALL around the World and most people have never even seen these things on the Rails. 👍

  • @AGSRailfan
    @AGSRailfan 2 года назад +2

    Great Video in my home state!

  • @MoodyBlue42..
    @MoodyBlue42.. 2 года назад +2

    Decatur, Bridgeport and Stevenson AL. Neither one will disappoint. Very cool video Charlie 😁👍

  • @KenanTurkiye
    @KenanTurkiye 5 месяцев назад +3

    I love them and I have a folder about them
    🚅🚈🚞🚝🚂🚃🚄
    trains, trams, aren't they all beautiful
    come take a ride! (at folder 2) :))

  • @drewthetrainlover5652
    @drewthetrainlover5652 2 года назад +1

    Mind coming to Columbia, SC. I'll show you all sorts of good locations and interesting trains.

  • @bnsfbandit9807
    @bnsfbandit9807 Год назад +1

    That K5HA is super underpowered. Sounds like a truck horn.

  • @johnpotts39
    @johnpotts39 2 года назад +4

    Thanks for the history, most informative. I road in a speedster thing back in the 70's near Blairstin ca. With my gramps following coal trains looking for fires. They lived 100 yards below the tracks in a green double sided house the train company provided and burned Cole in the cook stove. We went thru tunnels and over giant trusels over the feather river quilt scary.

  • @JackCarsonsRailroadVideos
    @JackCarsonsRailroadVideos 2 года назад +2

    Excellent Coverage

  • @trainsmachineryldegmtrains3509
    @trainsmachineryldegmtrains3509 2 года назад +1

    Interesting video, nice images with trains! Good work! Thumbs Up & Subscribe
    All the best from Romania
    Andrew

  • @Texan_red_panda
    @Texan_red_panda 2 года назад +1

    I remember being there in Irondale 😊

  • @marietarallo3403
    @marietarallo3403 2 года назад +2

    Alabama is a nice state. I have been there. My maternal aunt lived there until she passed away in 2001. I used to visit her often. I also saw trains there.

  • @jamesolthof8286
    @jamesolthof8286 2 года назад +1

    The high hood SD40-2 is ex NW all of the ex southern versions have been rebuilt with admiral cabs

  • @Chi2901
    @Chi2901 Год назад

    Pre 9/11 when I was still a small child my mother used to drive into the Norris yard and we'd watch the train cars roll down the hump.

  • @nancy8521
    @nancy8521 2 года назад +2

    It's all good 👍

  • @beaneo_the_1
    @beaneo_the_1 Год назад

    Irondale is definitely the hotspot, but the nearby town of Leeds has some good ones too. Leeds has two lines (ex-Central of Georgia) and (ex-Southern). The ex-Southern line is the Norfolk Southern P-line which runs through two old tunnels.

  • @chickencrapoperator
    @chickencrapoperator 2 года назад +2

    Interesting, seeing things that are this close to home. With a totally different perspective. Thanks

  • @truckinpoppop6777
    @truckinpoppop6777 2 года назад +1

    Looks like a fun day!

  • @maikitoole5197
    @maikitoole5197 2 года назад +2

    Nice! Jackson, Alabama has a little rail action where a Norfolk southern local sits and work the Industry And the Alabama gulf coast railway runs threw on that line from Mobile

  • @beverlymichael5830
    @beverlymichael5830 2 года назад +2

    How cool to be able to ride the rails like that.

  • @danielneeley5480
    @danielneeley5480 2 года назад +1

    What fun! Great video! Love the k5la!

  • @DebbieSuttle
    @DebbieSuttle Месяц назад

    Totally awesome video specially the railfans 😊

  • @bengone3349
    @bengone3349 2 года назад +1

    Well done video. I have always wanted to tag along with a speeder group.

  • @alanswafford9964
    @alanswafford9964 Год назад

    Decatur, Alabama has a lift span rail bridge across the Tennessee River that CSX and NS share. A good number of vantage points for viewing and a restored station.

  • @mikehudsonrocks9585
    @mikehudsonrocks9585 2 года назад +1

    Outstanding!

  • @randallcarney1216
    @randallcarney1216 Год назад

    Uab on the south side, is what Birmingham ,Alabama is known for now! It is a major medical school and hospital system.

  • @joshuangoje9363
    @joshuangoje9363 2 года назад +2

    Sounds like an Amtrak horn

  • @RobertAshtonism
    @RobertAshtonism 2 года назад +1

    Very rad!

  • @johnclements8549
    @johnclements8549 Год назад

    Love those speeders!

  • @williamflowersrailfannerpr3808
    @williamflowersrailfannerpr3808 2 года назад +1

    Your videos are awesome as always 👏 ❤️

  • @charlieharper981
    @charlieharper981 Год назад

    Beaver Car? Dang! I haven't seen one of those since the late 1980's when we built the prototypes in Barrie Ontario! I made a bunch of parts for those buggies as an apprentice machinist. The hydraulic drives were pretty smart for their day. The most fun was rolling the silicone sand filled copper pipes for fitment over the exhaust pipes to heat the coolant for cabin heat. Good times, fond memories

  • @jamessimms415
    @jamessimms415 2 года назад +2

    Tuscaloosa isn’t bad. The NS AGS-South crosses the ex-KCS (ex-GM&O, ex-ICG, ex-MidSouth), now Alabama Southern RR (Watco). Can find any locomotives from CSX, KCS, CN, occasionally a NS or BNSF; plus Watco’s locomotives, including the two ‘Pulling For The Tide’ locomotives in their 15th St/TY Rodgers yard.

  • @Chi2901
    @Chi2901 Год назад

    There also used to be some really nice model trains shops across the street from the viewing platform near Irondale cafe

  • @wrangler70jkujeep74
    @wrangler70jkujeep74 2 года назад

    Wow nice view of form GM&O without doubt that had to be fun ride.

  • @charleswoods9938
    @charleswoods9938 2 года назад +1

    Can you visit Moble Alabama and look at all areas of where rail lines there goes I like to see the CSX operations there of course

  • @jjrailfan2024
    @jjrailfan2024 2 года назад +1

    4:18 Nice I just caught 4003 today

  • @nsrailfangaming5313
    @nsrailfangaming5313 Год назад

    CSX #235 is looking good and shiney

  • @pruittiii
    @pruittiii 2 года назад +1

    Great video, Charlie. I have always wanted to ride in a speeder. Seems they are becoming rare.
    Did you ever check out the water tower in Hogansville?

    • @v12productions
      @v12productions  2 года назад

      Thanks! I still need to find that water tower.

  • @gloria6229
    @gloria6229 2 года назад

    Autuaga Northerns fleet consists of former Pacific Sun locomotives.

  • @williammacdonald3173
    @williammacdonald3173 2 года назад +1

    Huntsville Alabama is great.

  • @Csxdothansubrailfan
    @Csxdothansubrailfan 2 года назад +1

    Very informative 👏

  • @CSXSD70MAC_Productions
    @CSXSD70MAC_Productions 2 года назад +2

    Nice video 👍, and first

  • @jacobdubielak2699
    @jacobdubielak2699 2 года назад +2

    How long will you be in Alabama state because we are going to brimngham Alabama and irondale Alabama for railfanning

  • @the101stdalmatian8
    @the101stdalmatian8 2 года назад

    Did you happen to catch the BR Funeral Train in Monroe Georgia last month? Incredible situation and the first time that I know of a boxcar being used as a hearse in the 21st century.

    • @v12productions
      @v12productions  2 года назад

      I did not, but wish I had. He seemed like a really interesting guy.

  • @jacobdubielak2699
    @jacobdubielak2699 2 года назад

    I was just on that same bridge the other day I was with daddy we were trying to catch Amtrak heritage unit

  • @Island_Line_Rail_Productions
    @Island_Line_Rail_Productions Год назад

    Looks like a fun excursion.

    • @v12productions
      @v12productions  Год назад +1

      It was a blast! I just did another one in TN. That video is coming soon.

    • @Island_Line_Rail_Productions
      @Island_Line_Rail_Productions Год назад

      @@v12productions Great! I've taken videos of my motorcar excursions but as I dont always have someone to film for me I just stick my gopro on the front of my car and get time lapse videos. I really like your narrated videos,

  • @brunomarion7151
    @brunomarion7151 2 года назад

    Great video, keep up the good work!

  • @Gmbutler52
    @Gmbutler52 Год назад

    Huntsville!

  • @AlanMullen-w1f
    @AlanMullen-w1f 5 месяцев назад

    Nice show 4_25

  • @jacobdubielak2699
    @jacobdubielak2699 2 года назад

    We caught a few trains they both were fright trains

  • @Foxymorris9236
    @Foxymorris9236 2 года назад

    Hey V12 there has been a train derailment here in Michigan, near Warren. Railway officials are thinking it could have been a track failure or a railcar failure, I do know after clearing the railcars off the single track mainline, there is some repairs that needs to be done to be reopening. And this happened today around the morning time

    • @v12productions
      @v12productions  2 года назад +1

      10-4 thanks for the heads-up.

    • @Foxymorris9236
      @Foxymorris9236 2 года назад

      @@v12productions no problem, the train was bound for Detroit about a hour drive were I live

  • @miajoe4259
    @miajoe4259 2 года назад +2

    WHY ARE WE SEEING MORE LOCOS FROM OTHER RAIL LINES ?

    • @ontariorail1251
      @ontariorail1251 2 года назад

      It’s called foreign power/run through power. Railroads do this for simplicity and efficiency. Here’s a video that explains it: ruclips.net/video/Rs4oNLiB0vw/видео.html

  • @larryrussell4905
    @larryrussell4905 Год назад

    Is there any place to sign up for a tour on these things? I would pay for one of those tours!

  • @25mfd
    @25mfd Год назад

    nice vid... wouldn't mind having one of those things... also @ 8:56, anyone know the lineage of that 3513???... the patch in the nose got me wondering, maybe an ex SP unit????

  • @tiaedge562
    @tiaedge562 2 года назад

    Have you ever been to Manchester GA good railfan spot there & Model train show Oct 22nd

  • @gloria6229
    @gloria6229 Год назад

    That someone is Norfolk Southern "Red Mane" DC to AC AC44C6M #4003.

  • @theoldbayrailfan
    @theoldbayrailfan Год назад

    Nice

  • @Gunnartucker9
    @Gunnartucker9 2 года назад +2

    Go to indiana

  • @RailPreserver2K
    @RailPreserver2K 2 года назад

    What became of the old steam shop facility in Irondale because I know the steam fleet was headquartered there for years

    • @yourrailhistory676
      @yourrailhistory676 Год назад

      The steam shop buildings are still there but they repair diesels now

  • @NKP_Railfanning_Productions
    @NKP_Railfanning_Productions 2 года назад +1

    What the heck is that car in the background at 3:45???

    • @v12productions
      @v12productions  2 года назад

      That's a good question! It looks kind of like an unusual covered hopper.

  • @felonius_gru7312
    @felonius_gru7312 2 месяца назад

    sloss industries is haunted i saw it at 4:40

  • @leonardadamson3257
    @leonardadamson3257 6 месяцев назад

    Montgomery railfanning please

  • @DesiTrain91
    @DesiTrain91 2 года назад +1

    Take love From your new friend ❤️❤️❤️

  • @RuralTrainsOfIdahoYT
    @RuralTrainsOfIdahoYT 2 года назад

    What drone do you use?

    • @v12productions
      @v12productions  Год назад

      For this I used a DJI Phantom 4, but I have since upgraded to a DJI Air 2S.

  • @JulianWatsonThe400
    @JulianWatsonThe400 2 года назад +1

    Ribbon rail is what you would see on those long freight trains right?
    ruclips.net/video/O4kC262exiw/видео.html

  • @gamblinggooberhere
    @gamblinggooberhere 2 года назад +1

    God freaking damn you finally upload

    • @freedomfan4272
      @freedomfan4272 2 года назад

      Check your pants or shorts because you might have wetted them a bit with kind of a comment

  • @buyuang_palala
    @buyuang_palala 2 года назад

    keren . Salam dari Indonesia 👍👍🙏

  • @MotoTvWoodsFarm
    @MotoTvWoodsFarm 2 года назад +1

    🚂💚💯👍163

  • @noneshere
    @noneshere 2 года назад +2

    Bunch of Foamers