Could someone go back to 1995 and reset the wipers to “medium” at least hehe , but I enjoyed the snow covered scenery for sure. Surprised that engine noise inside the cab was so low and controls and gauges so modern with a clean looking design. Very nice.
I spent years boating up and down that pool of the Mississippi, especially in that era. I’ve been under that bridge hundreds of times. It’s nice to finally see it from a perspective that I’ll never get to experience. Thanks for posting that.
This brings back memories of Pentrex’s footage they shot of the Soo Line on this bridge back in 1993!! While the awesome sights of the Soo-liners are gone, this is still a bridge I’d love to go see a train on in person someday during the winter!!
I worked that same territory during the IMRL days. I actually worked with Tom when I worked out of Davenport and went north. My final year was working coal trains out of Ottumwa. I actually have some videos on my channel of a few trips that I ran down there.
Thanks for your comments! I've watched your terrific videos a few months ago regarding your trips out of Ottumwa. I'm glad you took the time to record them during that period and eventually upload to RUclips as now it's verboten to do so.
Dan, I worked with a guy on the GTW in Michigan that worked for the Soo! This was back in 1994-5. Can't remember his name.He told me he worked out of Chicago. In 96 i moved on to Conrail.
Roger, I can only think of one person I knew at Bensenville who worked for the Soo and then went to the Grand Trunk Western (GTW) about the time frame you mentioned. I seem to recall his first name was Tim.
Pretty cool, I remember you making trips with me on the D&I. I have almost no photos or video of me at work, either on the RR or in the USMC, so it is pretty cool to see. Thanks for posting this.
+emlokbr01 Glad you like it! I gather you're either a conductor or train driver (what we call an engineer in the U.S. and Canada) for the German Railroad.
Thank you so much Dan, the shots of the bridge and the river are amazing. Grew up near Rice Lake and remember the Soo Line running through. Ever get to Blueberry Crossing south of Rice Lake?
Was that on the bridge a gantlet track where two tracks merged into single? The CNW had something similar on its bridge over the river in Cedar Rapids in Iowa.
The railroad bridge at Sabula - Savanna is single track, no gauntlet. I was employed over ten years for the C&NW back in the 1980's. I rode over that gauntlet bridge at Cedar Rapids quite a number of times either as an ultra-sound rail test car operator, riding on NorthWestern freight trains and on two rare occasions, running the NorthWestern's Budd RDC-3 #430 track geometry car. As a gauntlet bridge, the two sets of tracks (four rails) don't merge into one set (two rails) like at Sabula. Instead, they cross onto a single track bridge with four rails occupying pretty much the same area as a single track bridge. This is done using switch frogs at either end of the bridge. I wonder if the Union Pacific has or will replace that gauntlet bridge at Cedar Rapids with a double track bridge making for faster and safer passage of trains. Thanks for your interest!
This was never a double track bridge. In the late 70s, the Milwaukee abandoned its E-W main line from Green Island thru Marion (Cedar Rapids), Tama, Manilla, to Council Bluffs. The western end still exists as a BNSF local service line. The E-W main from 1955 until Amtrak day in 1971 carried the UP City Streamliners. Today, the bridge only carries traffic from Chicago toward Davenport and Kansas City, and north along the Iowa side of the MIssissippi River toward Dubuque and Marquette, where another former Milwaukee E-W main heads toward Mason City.
What a great video thanks I remember these locomotives Kenwood Albany New York in 1995
i walked across the river at savanna in early 1982. a day or so later, i discovered how dangerous that was.
The wind shield wiper clanking noise would have driven me INSANE!
It sounds worse (louder) on the recording than in real life.
Could someone go back to 1995 and reset the wipers to “medium” at least hehe , but I enjoyed the snow covered scenery for sure. Surprised that engine noise inside the cab was so low and controls and gauges so modern with a clean looking design. Very nice.
I spent years boating up and down that pool of the Mississippi, especially in that era. I’ve been under that bridge hundreds of times. It’s nice to finally see it from a perspective that I’ll never get to experience. Thanks for posting that.
Love the video spend lots of time catching trains at sabula and it’s neat to see a vid of a train crossing the bridge
absolutely amazing
this is just killer. No better time of year to experience the mississippi river crossing here than in winter.
Very cool! Thank you for sharing this!
This brings back memories of Pentrex’s footage they shot of the Soo Line on this bridge back in 1993!! While the awesome sights of the Soo-liners are gone, this is still a bridge I’d love to go see a train on in person someday during the winter!!
Used to live in Carroll County IL (Savanna side) it's a sight to see trains take it in winter or in summer.
I worked that same territory during the IMRL days. I actually worked with Tom when I worked out of Davenport and went north.
My final year was working coal trains out of Ottumwa. I actually have some videos on my channel of a few trips that I ran down there.
Thanks for your comments! I've watched your terrific videos a few months ago regarding your trips out of Ottumwa. I'm glad you took the time to record them during that period and eventually upload to RUclips as now it's verboten to do so.
Dan, I worked with a guy on the GTW in Michigan that worked for the Soo! This was back in 1994-5. Can't remember his name.He told me he worked out of Chicago. In 96 i moved on to Conrail.
Roger, I can only think of one person I knew at Bensenville who worked for the Soo and then went to the Grand Trunk Western (GTW) about the time frame you mentioned. I seem to recall his first name was Tim.
I could notice the space just outside Sabula where the second track used to be west of the bridge
I can remember these trains taking up and over Red Barn Hill between Mount Carroll and Wacker.
Pretty cool, I remember you making trips with me on the D&I. I have almost no photos or video of me at work, either on the RR or in the USMC, so it is pretty cool to see. Thanks for posting this.
Glad you enjoyed it. I recorded this trip about a week before we both attended the Soo Line's locomotive engineer's school at St Paul, MN.
Interesting and exciting video - it reminds me on my job in Germany (DB), well done Dan ***
+emlokbr01 Glad you like it! I gather you're either a conductor or train driver (what we call an engineer in the U.S. and Canada) for the German Railroad.
+Dan Uscian: I had been 35 years locomotive engineer (1974 - 2009) by the German Railroad in Bremen!
Thank you so much Dan, the shots of the bridge and the river are amazing. Grew up near Rice Lake and remember the Soo Line running through. Ever get to Blueberry Crossing south of Rice Lake?
The only road territory I operated freight trains on as a locomotive engineer was between Bensenville, IL to Davenport, IA (Nahant yard).
OK, thank you.
Now the Canadian Pacific Railway.
Legally still the Soo Line RR.
Was that on the bridge a gantlet track where two tracks merged into single? The CNW had something similar on its bridge over the river in Cedar Rapids in Iowa.
The railroad bridge at Sabula - Savanna is single track, no gauntlet. I was employed over ten years for the C&NW back in the 1980's. I rode over that gauntlet bridge at Cedar Rapids quite a number of times either as an ultra-sound rail test car operator, riding on NorthWestern freight trains and on two rare occasions, running the NorthWestern's Budd RDC-3 #430 track geometry car. As a gauntlet bridge, the two sets of tracks (four rails) don't merge into one set (two rails) like at Sabula. Instead, they cross onto a single track bridge with four rails occupying pretty much the same area as a single track bridge. This is done using switch frogs at either end of the bridge. I wonder if the Union Pacific has or will replace that gauntlet bridge at Cedar Rapids with a double track bridge making for faster and safer passage of trains. Thanks for your interest!
Dan Uscian Okeedokee thanks for the info 😀
This was never a double track bridge. In the late 70s, the Milwaukee abandoned its E-W main line from Green Island thru Marion (Cedar Rapids), Tama, Manilla, to Council Bluffs. The western end still exists as a BNSF local service line. The E-W main from 1955 until Amtrak day in 1971 carried the UP City Streamliners. Today, the bridge only carries traffic from Chicago toward Davenport and Kansas City, and north along the Iowa side of the MIssissippi River toward Dubuque and Marquette, where another former Milwaukee E-W main heads toward Mason City.
Hey, Dan. I love this video. Do you by any chance have footage showing views of the river in snow?
Andy, sorry, I don't have any shots of the Mississippi covered with snow. Glad you liked the video!
@@WAL_DC-6B No worries. Thanks, Dan!
Great, my one shot at fame and it is a video of me climbing out of the nose...
Here's some more "15 minutes of fame" for you! ruclips.net/video/62r3XwHMnWA/видео.html
Is this line still active?
Yes. In fact, if the CP-KCS merger is approved freight traffic will really increase on this line.
Do you by chance know Robert Traum?
Sorry, don't recall him.
Was he a milwaukee road employee or soo line
Soo Line.