For those of you commenting about a certain timestamp around the 2 minute mark, I said "NICKERSON", as in a town along my line, what is wrong with you guys💀 Captions prove it
As a person who railfans the CSX Philadelphia subdivision and has many of this stuff happen to me as much as reroutes and missing a bunch of good stuff i needed this video in my life… thank you.. 🙏
I have a story of bad luck. A few months ago, I got word that CP 8876 was on a northbound around Kalama, WA so I thought it arrive around my area in like 30-50 minutes. Turns out it must've been waiting for Amtrak and other priority trains so that failed.
I very much appreciate your dedication to bringing us such quality work. The photography and graphics are professional, the narrative informative and your sense of humor wicked. Thank you!
I have an interesting story. In January of 2024, my city (Vancouver, Canada) had quite a lot of snowfall, which is not very common. My sister and I headed out to a railway crossing to see the Amtrak Cascades plowing through a pile of snow. After an hour of waiting, the train finally passed through very late. What happened is that a truck got stuck in some snow, blocking a railway crossing further down the line, causing the Amtrak to have to wait until it was clear. The waiting was worth it though, as I got an amazing picture of the Cascades plowing through the snow. New subscriber too!
This is so relatable! I once went out with my friend to see a CSX grain train, but couldn’t make it to the side of the tracks with the better lighting, so I ended up with the most backlit shot I’ve ever recorded.
Even before you mentioned Starch Rd. I was very surprised to see local (to me) shots in this video - Bruno, HWY 23, and the Intersection of Starch and Jackson were immediately recognizable to me considering I drove that stretch of road between Kerrick and Askov every day for 23 years lol. I hired on with BNSF in 2015 as a Conductor and took my share of trips up and down the Hinckley Sub, even rode the Rapids Turn about 20 times - that one was actually one of my favorite locals because we could usually out-and-back in about 7 hours if we didn't have many setouts at Sappi, Brookston, etc. The longest train I ever Conducted was a Northtown-Superior "freighter" that had 7 units on the front (only two were fully functional, 3 were nearly dead with mechanical problems and the other two were CN's that we ended up bringing online to climb the uphill Nickerson Grade because we were 7500' long and loaded with freight - by Duquette we were barely holding 25mph and knew we were just starting the uphill climb but with their help we managed 35 mph until we were over the hump. Interesting fact - one of those CN's was the old wide-body "Draper Taper" units, with the walkways entirely inside the engine compartment - before leaving Northtown I had to walk through it to knock the hand brakes off and it was hot as hell in there and so loud you couldn't hear yourself yell - at idle lol - that was the only one of those I ever saw during my stint. Ended up resigning my position in 2018 due to a never-ending furlough cycle and now am a full-time RUclipsr still living just outside of Kerrick. I could tell you some good stories from those 3 years with BNSF, it was an experience I'm glad to have had but don't think I would ever do again - there was a lot of bad mixed in with the good.
Bro same, I took all summer off to try to catch as much as possible, and I stg nothing of real big interest came, especially on my local line. Then, of course, the one weekend I'm out of town for a college visit all hell breaks loose. In a matter of 3 days at my favorite railfan spot, CSX 1852 lead twice, CSX 1875 lead twice, CSX 1897 trailed through, that weird wrapped CPKC engine came through, the last WFRX mac came through, a REAL Rio Grande unit lead through (this unit NEVER comes anywhere near me, Wheeling 5412 I think it was), two Pan Am Geeps, including 1 in Guilford Rail Paint, came through on their way to scrap, a real and recently restored New Haven FL9 came through on transport to a museum, and to top it all off, on my dead local line next to my house (3 trains a day, 2 are nights and always gevos) had NS 1072 leading a SW9. Like wth, HOW DID IT ALL COME AT ONCE. My luck sometimes lol
Good news Capitol City Rail Productions the railfannar who caused a train derailment got sentenced to 10 years in prison and his Channel got terminated
Take it from an old geezer who's been doing this stuff for over 40 years, it's bound to happen, which makes the successful encounters all the sweeter and the stories you'll tell the younger fans from your rocking chair someday.
Man that’s always a bummer waiting for a train and the daylight starts to disappear. Great share enjoy the videos keep them rolling. Have a great rest of your day and weekend
Minute - 4:33 On top of cars or people passing in front of frame, is the small dust spots on the censor or the lens that annoy the hell out of me whenever photographing or filming.
The Big boy was headed through Nebraska recently and I took the opportunity to get a couple of pictures with my pickup, I gotta say they came out pretty good especially with my phone.
Road shots in general arent great like 80% of the time, but its even worse when your at a restrant or something, and you hear a train from the tracks across the 6 lane road, and you catch it, but theres a billion car's blocking your shot.
This is so relatable the Train In UP's Del Rio Sub Takes FOREVER to Come and Sometimes I Miss the train because of the Stupid Scanner! (Note there is no ATCS Coverage there)
Same for the Glidden Sub. The Houston sub and the Glidden sub has the same dispatcher, and I get confused sometimes when a train is cleared to leave whatever line it was on.
2:42 this just happened to me. Tried beating an Amtrak train but got overconfident with how much time I had and failed miserably. By the time I got to the crossing, I couldn’t even see the marker lights and I had only missed it by a minute. Then I took the drive of shame home. Amtrak 172 was leading with a hybrid K5LA.
My buddies and I call the KCS Southern Belle business train "The Cockblock Express" mainly because even just trying to catch one runby in the Kansas City region was next to impossible. It seemed to purposefully troll us every time we heard it was coming north. Sometimes we'd wait hours for it and not show, even though scanner said it's at a location not that far away. Other times, it would just teleport to Knoche Yard and suddenly turn around and bolt south before we can even get out the door.
I caught 8099 a few days ago (Southern Railway heritage unit for those unaware) and I arrived at the spot thinking “it should be here in 30 to 45 minutes.” Nope. Four hours. Usually it takes a train to get from Chattanooga, TN to Decatur, AL about 4ish hours, but by this time it was supposed to be pretty close. The train took about 7 and a half hours to go that relatively short distance, leaving me with a lot of time to just sit around. I eventually caught it, and the shots I got were phenomenal. Still a pain in the but though.
The common phrase in railroading is always “hurry up and wait.” I used to sit 4 miles from the beginning of the st Joe sub. And SD40-2 trios would sit in the yard all day on a freight while the brand new 5800 series gevos would all flock in south with loads of coal all day instead. I get that. It kinda sucks variety is down so much that back to back aces is all we have most places. I had an SD60M/Oakway set I was sure to get in 2011 and it had a hazmat issue before it even left. So that was annoying. Usually that one guy driving toooo slow will keep us from videos. Right? The traffic thing happened to plenty of times too.
Man, about a year ago, there was an SD70M leader on the ITAG4 - and as we all know, those things are getting DAMN rare nowadays, but ESPECIALLY on intermodals, this was my first time in about two years seeing one leading any sort of non-local freight in my area. So, with a few hours left until sunset and the train nearing the crew change point in Nampa - about thirteen miles west of where I'd set up - I decided to stick it out. Finally, after a TON of lollygagging, with about an hour of sunlight left, UP 4159 East tones up Dispatcher 3 to depart... and the response was dire - "I've got a train coming west out of Orchard, so I'm gonna hold you at Fox to wait for them." Orchard siding is about 20 miles EAST of where I was waiting, and Fox, seven miles west. Still, it's 60 MPH track, so I decided to wait it out, and maybe I'd be able to get the 70M right at sunset. Unfortunately, UP and their slow land barge mentality won out - the westbound passed me at 7:04 PM, basically right at sunset, right when I'd been hoping to see the other train. Over the next 25 minutes, I just watched as the sky and surroundings grew darker... and then finally, I nabbed UP 4159 East leading the ITAG4 at 7:29, a full 34 minutes after sunset. There was just barely enough usable light left for me to take a video along with a pan shot on my camera, but... man, as rare as those things are, that really sucked.
Yeah yesterday I saw a KCS ace duo on my line right after the sun went down…. And they are coming back this way as I speak with peak lightning but I’m heading to work 😂
This is so relatable dude. Espically missing the train/not making it in time. One day I was chasing NS 6W4 loaded ethanol tanks eastbound in NC. The train had all UP power. SD70M leader and two AC4400s. I missed the train in my favorite spot because the signal was red yet the train was two minutes away so I thought the thing was in a siding. Yet as soon as I left, I heard the horn. So I chased it and followed the mainline in my car trying to get ahead of it. Every time I would approach an intersection the traffic light would turn red as soon as I got there. Like the traffic light turned red just to screw me. As a result by the time I could move again, the train was already 10 miles ahead. So the traffic lights ruined my whole opportunity for foreign power. As I was heading home I looked at the light that screwed me and I gave it the middle finger
I just had similar luck with NS D41 in Urbana. I waited all day in Champaign for it, and after taking forever to switch cars at The Andersons, they were done for the day at 6:40 PM. I never saw it. Waste of time.
Bro this is so relatable. It’s worse when you don’t have your license yet and someone takes you out and then it’s false info, or the train breaks down, that awkward moment when you gotta walk back and tell them it ain’t coming…😅
Lol, my work is right on our mainline, and occasionally very rarely to do we get streetrunning in the DAY. So I’m lucky. Yesterday I filmed streetrunning at 2PM when CSX literally does this shit at night mostly. I don’t have to leave work when I get off to film, I just stand in the front of our building and let the PTC fitted 70M‘s from our railroad do their thing. Meanwhile the units on CSX do their thing, as stated before; RARELY during the day.
Oh do I have a story to share about terrible luck. May 3rd, 2021. I get a heads up from a friend that New York & Atlantic Railway was running a train to Port Jefferson for the first time since 2008 (two GP38-2s, 261 and 268 were running lite to pick up a centerbeam). I eventually convince my dad to drive me to Port Jefferson by 10:45PM, just a few minutes before this test train is about to arrive. But right as I was pulling into the station, my friend, who was giving constant updates from the scanner at this point, informed me that the crew ran around at Stony Brook, the stop right before Port Jeff, and was heading back to Fresh Pond yard, since the lumber cars that the crew was supposed to pick up weren't there. I later found out the next day that another NYAR crew already picked up the centerbeam the day prior, with no footage of this move either. Likewise, I was the only railfan who was out along the branch that night, and NYAR has ran practically no service to Port Jefferson ever since, thus making their last recorded instance of them at Port Jefferson still being in 2008.
Finally went railfanning, been about a year or so since my last capture, got some foreign power, which is rare where I'm at. Got lucky, two trains at once. 1 CN Manifest train went into the siding, and the other was NS Manifest train, leaving. It was nice to see. There on my channel.
I often try to railfan at UP Warm Springs Subdivision. No matter what time I'm there, nothing comes by, even though the days/hours I'm not there I hear a train horn ambience coming from that area. I waited 3 hours for a train one time, I even had the scanner on, and yet... Nothing.
I went out to catch the Conrail heritage unit once, by using a virtual railfan camera I was able to see it coming my way, dude got put in a siding 9 miles south of my location and had to wait for 3 separate trains to pass, what should have been a 45 minute wait turned into almost 4 hours
My biggest pet peeve is the weather. It will be nice or at least dry all week long. The day I have scheduled to go out trackside? That's the day it decides to pour down rain.... all day long. Doesn't help that I live in Western Washington where it rains or snows for ten straight months out of the year.
I've fallen victim to both the breakage/mechanical issue (hotbox) and not getting to my spot in time kind of bad luck in the last month. The latter sucked a little more because the consist I was after was something that I'll probably never see again, but I've made peace with it.
0:05 When I asked someone what the power for that day’s H-LINLIN was and they say “GEVOs”, when the leader was a BNSF 25th, and other people in the group knew. (I still caught it, being my first 25th) While it isn’t technically incorrect, I’d think it’d be worth mentioning.
Trains that come by when railfanning: Gevos, gevos, gevos, and more gevos Trains that come by when not railfanning: fallen flags, heritage units, aces, foreign power, etc.
My unlucky occurrences. Train breaking down before has happened to me around 3 times, and when I gave up, I missed it by minutes. Usually the train was stopped for like 1 hour. The fix took 1 to 2 hours. I have walked empty handed before, mainly my battery was at home, and I have arrived when the train went by
1:37 omg I hate this so much, it was about 3 and a bit years ago and there was an incredibly rare train with TWO VERY RARE AND OLD locos on transfer, and it broke down about 5km away from me, near no road or pathway. I never saw that train😢
The first thing literally happened to me last night where one of the trains that passes me was 2 hours late leaving toronto and it decided it would finally have ONR SD40s and would show up at 20:20
For those of you commenting about a certain timestamp around the 2 minute mark, I said "NICKERSON", as in a town along my line, what is wrong with you guys💀
Captions prove it
I was just about to comment this 💀💀💀💀
at least RUclips knows what your talking about @BNSF1458
@@BNSF1458 I’m very sorry if I said anything wrong in the comments
@@BNSF1458 That's what I thought you said.
Whats wrong with us??... Everything fr
2:30 SOUTH OF WHERE 💀💀
I just realized what you all think I was saying and I'M NAMING A TOWN WHAT-
Hmmm, Intersting way to say Nickerson
💀💀💀
South of Detroit💀
I turned on CCs and I think it said Nickerson.
2:30 Shit hit me like a nuclear bomb
south of WHERE
South of whatson?
@@West_Coast_MainlineNickelson.
*_(LAUGHING WITH MY EYES OPEN EMOJI)_*
Roses are red, my great-uncle is a fisherman, 2:30
As a person who railfans the CSX Philadelphia subdivision and has many of this stuff happen to me as much as reroutes and missing a bunch of good stuff i needed this video in my life… thank you.. 🙏
Even when you have a bad day filming, you are still fun to watch and listen to. Keep it going dude, you're the best!!
I can relate HEAVILY to leaving empty-handed. Happens not too rarely to me, the trains usually go when I’m sleeping, at home, or at school.
5:09 WHY IS BRO ON THE LEFT THATS THE WRONG SIDE☠️☠️☠️😭😭
broken npc prolly
CNW Blood
2:41 bro I hate it when this happens
When you’re too late to film the train 😭
This has happened to me before
This happens to me a lot. I waited 4 hours on a BNSF line and only caught a Hi-Railer in those 4 hours.
Railroads will deadass using there cosmic power to delay a train by 23 hours I swear 😂
I have a story of bad luck. A few months ago, I got word that CP 8876 was on a northbound around Kalama, WA so I thought it arrive around my area in like 30-50 minutes. Turns out it must've been waiting for Amtrak and other priority trains so that failed.
I very much appreciate your dedication to bringing us such quality work. The photography and graphics are professional, the narrative informative and your sense of humor wicked. Thank you!
Thank you, I really appreciate that
I have an interesting story. In January of 2024, my city (Vancouver, Canada) had quite a lot of snowfall, which is not very common. My sister and I headed out to a railway crossing to see the Amtrak Cascades plowing through a pile of snow. After an hour of waiting, the train finally passed through very late. What happened is that a truck got stuck in some snow, blocking a railway crossing further down the line, causing the Amtrak to have to wait until it was clear. The waiting was worth it though, as I got an amazing picture of the Cascades plowing through the snow.
New subscriber too!
2:30 that got me 💀💀💀
The highway one is way to relatable💀
That car was casually driving on the wrong side of the road 😆 5:07
I got a new camera and Tripod for my birthday yesterday! You are a goated channel thank you for inspiring me to be a Railfan content creator
All of this is so accurate to me! I hear that a heritage unit is near, and I MISS IT!
Man, you gotta make one of the "All your railfanning pain in one video" kind of videos
This is so relatable! I once went out with my friend to see a CSX grain train, but couldn’t make it to the side of the tracks with the better lighting, so I ended up with the most backlit shot I’ve ever recorded.
2:30 who gave bro the pass?
Not me bro
3:57 Relatable af for every V8 owner lmao
Even before you mentioned Starch Rd. I was very surprised to see local (to me) shots in this video - Bruno, HWY 23, and the Intersection of Starch and Jackson were immediately recognizable to me considering I drove that stretch of road between Kerrick and Askov every day for 23 years lol. I hired on with BNSF in 2015 as a Conductor and took my share of trips up and down the Hinckley Sub, even rode the Rapids Turn about 20 times - that one was actually one of my favorite locals because we could usually out-and-back in about 7 hours if we didn't have many setouts at Sappi, Brookston, etc. The longest train I ever Conducted was a Northtown-Superior "freighter" that had 7 units on the front (only two were fully functional, 3 were nearly dead with mechanical problems and the other two were CN's that we ended up bringing online to climb the uphill Nickerson Grade because we were 7500' long and loaded with freight - by Duquette we were barely holding 25mph and knew we were just starting the uphill climb but with their help we managed 35 mph until we were over the hump. Interesting fact - one of those CN's was the old wide-body "Draper Taper" units, with the walkways entirely inside the engine compartment - before leaving Northtown I had to walk through it to knock the hand brakes off and it was hot as hell in there and so loud you couldn't hear yourself yell - at idle lol - that was the only one of those I ever saw during my stint. Ended up resigning my position in 2018 due to a never-ending furlough cycle and now am a full-time RUclipsr still living just outside of Kerrick. I could tell you some good stories from those 3 years with BNSF, it was an experience I'm glad to have had but don't think I would ever do again - there was a lot of bad mixed in with the good.
Bro finally cooked something after ages
Bro same, I took all summer off to try to catch as much as possible, and I stg nothing of real big interest came, especially on my local line. Then, of course, the one weekend I'm out of town for a college visit all hell breaks loose. In a matter of 3 days at my favorite railfan spot, CSX 1852 lead twice, CSX 1875 lead twice, CSX 1897 trailed through, that weird wrapped CPKC engine came through, the last WFRX mac came through, a REAL Rio Grande unit lead through (this unit NEVER comes anywhere near me, Wheeling 5412 I think it was), two Pan Am Geeps, including 1 in Guilford Rail Paint, came through on their way to scrap, a real and recently restored New Haven FL9 came through on transport to a museum, and to top it all off, on my dead local line next to my house (3 trains a day, 2 are nights and always gevos) had NS 1072 leading a SW9. Like wth, HOW DID IT ALL COME AT ONCE. My luck sometimes lol
If there’s any formers that I enjoy, it’s definitely this guy.
Good news Capitol City Rail Productions the railfannar who caused a train derailment got sentenced to 10 years in prison and his Channel got terminated
Play stupid games win stupid prizes
He hasn’t been sentenced yet… next court date is September 26 2024…………
How do you know I saw 👀 a video that he got sentenced by he is now a dead RUclipsr and yes if you play stupid games you will win stupid prizes
@@LEVIRISLEY-j2i because yesterday the news reported his next court date is September 26th…
Bro we fucking know he went to jail 😂
Take it from an old geezer who's been doing this stuff for over 40 years, it's bound to happen, which makes the successful encounters all the sweeter and the stories you'll tell the younger fans from your rocking chair someday.
Same with me! I railfan in Rosenberg Texas, and I miss 2 special trains, CP 2816 and NS 1065.
Man that’s always a bummer waiting for a train and the daylight starts to disappear. Great share enjoy the videos keep them rolling. Have a great rest of your day and weekend
Worse for me because the Railway Shutdown in Canada since August 22nd 2024
Nice one . Some of these are wayyyy to relatable 😂 I hate that traffic one it sucks
Okay
@@iatif1995 Ok
0:05 that's a new one I've never heard. Good one bnsf1458
Minute - 4:33 On top of cars or people passing in front of frame, is the small dust spots on the censor or the lens that annoy the hell out of me whenever photographing or filming.
I saw a beansniff gevo and SD70 all the way in western Michigan AND I’m gonna be pulled by a P42
I Heard that, but I knew what you were saying since I’ve watched your channel for a while
You're not alone my brother.
The Big boy was headed through Nebraska recently and I took the opportunity to get a couple of pictures with my pickup, I gotta say they came out pretty good especially with my phone.
1:21 I see no problem?
I to think the shot was gorgeous even if there was no light on the locomotive
Yep
I love this
Road shots in general arent great like 80% of the time, but its even worse when your at a restrant or something, and you hear a train from the tracks across the 6 lane road, and you catch it, but theres a billion car's blocking your shot.
This is so relatable the Train In UP's Del Rio Sub Takes FOREVER to Come and Sometimes I Miss the train because of the Stupid Scanner! (Note there is no ATCS Coverage there)
Same for the Glidden Sub. The Houston sub and the Glidden sub has the same dispatcher, and I get confused sometimes when a train is cleared to leave whatever line it was on.
2:42 this just happened to me. Tried beating an Amtrak train but got overconfident with how much time I had and failed miserably. By the time I got to the crossing, I couldn’t even see the marker lights and I had only missed it by a minute. Then I took the drive of shame home. Amtrak 172 was leading with a hybrid K5LA.
This is the best RUclipsr I ever watched
My buddies and I call the KCS Southern Belle business train "The Cockblock Express" mainly because even just trying to catch one runby in the Kansas City region was next to impossible. It seemed to purposefully troll us every time we heard it was coming north. Sometimes we'd wait hours for it and not show, even though scanner said it's at a location not that far away. Other times, it would just teleport to Knoche Yard and suddenly turn around and bolt south before we can even get out the door.
I caught 8099 a few days ago (Southern Railway heritage unit for those unaware) and I arrived at the spot thinking “it should be here in 30 to 45 minutes.” Nope. Four hours. Usually it takes a train to get from Chattanooga, TN to Decatur, AL about 4ish hours, but by this time it was supposed to be pretty close. The train took about 7 and a half hours to go that relatively short distance, leaving me with a lot of time to just sit around. I eventually caught it, and the shots I got were phenomenal. Still a pain in the but though.
rule 1 of the railroad, hurry up and wait.
My luck can either be getting nothing while railfanning...
OR GETTING A TRAIN THAT SEPARATES RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME (Circa August 21st, 2024).
The common phrase in railroading is always “hurry up and wait.” I used to sit 4 miles from the beginning of the st Joe sub. And SD40-2 trios would sit in the yard all day on a freight while the brand new 5800 series gevos would all flock in south with loads of coal all day instead. I get that. It kinda sucks variety is down so much that back to back aces is all we have most places. I had an SD60M/Oakway set I was sure to get in 2011 and it had a hazmat issue before it even left. So that was annoying. Usually that one guy driving toooo slow will keep us from videos. Right? The traffic thing happened to plenty of times too.
Man, about a year ago, there was an SD70M leader on the ITAG4 - and as we all know, those things are getting DAMN rare nowadays, but ESPECIALLY on intermodals, this was my first time in about two years seeing one leading any sort of non-local freight in my area. So, with a few hours left until sunset and the train nearing the crew change point in Nampa - about thirteen miles west of where I'd set up - I decided to stick it out. Finally, after a TON of lollygagging, with about an hour of sunlight left, UP 4159 East tones up Dispatcher 3 to depart... and the response was dire - "I've got a train coming west out of Orchard, so I'm gonna hold you at Fox to wait for them." Orchard siding is about 20 miles EAST of where I was waiting, and Fox, seven miles west. Still, it's 60 MPH track, so I decided to wait it out, and maybe I'd be able to get the 70M right at sunset. Unfortunately, UP and their slow land barge mentality won out - the westbound passed me at 7:04 PM, basically right at sunset, right when I'd been hoping to see the other train. Over the next 25 minutes, I just watched as the sky and surroundings grew darker... and then finally, I nabbed UP 4159 East leading the ITAG4 at 7:29, a full 34 minutes after sunset. There was just barely enough usable light left for me to take a video along with a pan shot on my camera, but... man, as rare as those things are, that really sucked.
Yeah yesterday I saw a KCS ace duo on my line right after the sun went down…. And they are coming back this way as I speak with peak lightning but I’m heading to work 😂
I swear trains like to run when you leave it's so true even at dark
I waited 2 HOURS for a train that it jad STALLED
The sd70s are the only exeptional modern train in my opinion
One time I was railfanning and the CP mixed freight broke down, twice.
This is so relatable dude. Espically missing the train/not making it in time. One day I was chasing NS 6W4 loaded ethanol tanks eastbound in NC. The train had all UP power. SD70M leader and two AC4400s. I missed the train in my favorite spot because the signal was red yet the train was two minutes away so I thought the thing was in a siding. Yet as soon as I left, I heard the horn. So I chased it and followed the mainline in my car trying to get ahead of it. Every time I would approach an intersection the traffic light would turn red as soon as I got there. Like the traffic light turned red just to screw me. As a result by the time I could move again, the train was already 10 miles ahead. So the traffic lights ruined my whole opportunity for foreign power. As I was heading home I looked at the light that screwed me and I gave it the middle finger
As a fellow railfan I relate
I hope this channel blows up I love this shit 😂
Your not the only one that all of these happens to
I just had similar luck with NS D41 in Urbana. I waited all day in Champaign for it, and after taking forever to switch cars at The Andersons, they were done for the day at 6:40 PM. I never saw it. Waste of time.
Bro this is so relatable. It’s worse when you don’t have your license yet and someone takes you out and then it’s false info, or the train breaks down, that awkward moment when you gotta walk back and tell them it ain’t coming…😅
That's highly specific..
Because that’s how it is..
@@EaglePointRails true.
A Black F150 is the ideal railfanning vehicle...js
BNSF 1458 is the best railfan youtube
His squeaky voice is annoying
@@heatherjenkins1009 and I took that personally
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@@heatherjenkins1009 we don’t care we all like him
FRRRRR
Pov that one slow manifest blocking the heritage unit:👁🫦👁
Lol, my work is right on our mainline, and occasionally very rarely to do we get streetrunning in the DAY. So I’m lucky. Yesterday I filmed streetrunning at 2PM when CSX literally does this shit at night mostly. I don’t have to leave work when I get off to film, I just stand in the front of our building and let the PTC fitted 70M‘s from our railroad do their thing. Meanwhile the units on CSX do their thing, as stated before; RARELY during the day.
Hey man , i just wanted to ask what equipment do you use and (prefferably) the price
2:30 who gave BNSF1458 the pass
He stole drake’s pass
@@West_Coast_Mainline i did
Oh do I have a story to share about terrible luck. May 3rd, 2021. I get a heads up from a friend that New York & Atlantic Railway was running a train to Port Jefferson for the first time since 2008 (two GP38-2s, 261 and 268 were running lite to pick up a centerbeam). I eventually convince my dad to drive me to Port Jefferson by 10:45PM, just a few minutes before this test train is about to arrive. But right as I was pulling into the station, my friend, who was giving constant updates from the scanner at this point, informed me that the crew ran around at Stony Brook, the stop right before Port Jeff, and was heading back to Fresh Pond yard, since the lumber cars that the crew was supposed to pick up weren't there. I later found out the next day that another NYAR crew already picked up the centerbeam the day prior, with no footage of this move either. Likewise, I was the only railfan who was out along the branch that night, and NYAR has ran practically no service to Port Jefferson ever since, thus making their last recorded instance of them at Port Jefferson still being in 2008.
At this point I feel like all of the bnsf heritage is being drowned out by gevos😢😢😢
Tbh who ever wins the presidential election this year will decide if coal trains dissappear, or not.
Finally went railfanning, been about a year or so since my last capture, got some foreign power, which is rare where I'm at. Got lucky, two trains at once. 1 CN Manifest train went into the siding, and the other was NS Manifest train, leaving. It was nice to see. There on my channel.
everytime I go railfaning when I leave cause I’ve been waiting for so long the train always pops up as I’m leaving
Frick here comes drake. Lock the doors
Great content, I was wondering how you where listening to the radio chatter?
I had some lit luck today. Saw NYS&W with SD70M-2 leading, and some HU’s from jersey transit
4:08 this stupidity happens almost every time to me man
I often try to railfan at UP Warm Springs Subdivision. No matter what time I'm there, nothing comes by, even though the days/hours I'm not there I hear a train horn ambience coming from that area. I waited 3 hours for a train one time, I even had the scanner on, and yet... Nothing.
I went out to catch the Conrail heritage unit once, by using a virtual railfan camera I was able to see it coming my way, dude got put in a siding 9 miles south of my location and had to wait for 3 separate trains to pass, what should have been a 45 minute wait turned into almost 4 hours
y'all- HOW are you able to hear the radio chatter of trains?? I have been trying to figure that out for a while now how do you do it ;-;
Scanners exist
5:09 why is bro on the wrong side of the road?
Bro thinks it's Europe 💀
typical andy 😂
Chevy thinks Europe is America
Like NS 255 or 256 I wanted to catch one of these but I’m in Arizona and it’s on the east side of the U.S and I can’t try to catch it anymore 😢
4:08 UK moment
Yup, this shits funny. Subscribed.
2:29 HUH WTF
My biggest pet peeve is the weather. It will be nice or at least dry all week long. The day I have scheduled to go out trackside? That's the day it decides to pour down rain.... all day long.
Doesn't help that I live in Western Washington where it rains or snows for ten straight months out of the year.
yea same here my luck has been 💩 recently.....
Beautiful video
Congrats on 13k Subs 🎉
I've fallen victim to both the breakage/mechanical issue (hotbox) and not getting to my spot in time kind of bad luck in the last month. The latter sucked a little more because the consist I was after was something that I'll probably never see again, but I've made peace with it.
I always have bad luck when a train comes. I get good video quality when amtrak arrives but when csx comes. My camera acts up.
Am here on membership :D
0:05 When I asked someone what the power for that day’s H-LINLIN was and they say “GEVOs”, when the leader was a BNSF 25th, and other people in the group knew. (I still caught it, being my first 25th)
While it isn’t technically incorrect, I’d think it’d be worth mentioning.
2:44 Walking home? Dude, you're in a vehicle!
4:08. I kind of relate to this, but it wasn’t on a highway some idiot decided to back out of his driveway in to my shot.☠️
Relatively uncommon……
*the BNSF/UP Colorado joint line*
Also I relate to like…. All of these
Trains that come by when railfanning: Gevos, gevos, gevos, and more gevos
Trains that come by when not railfanning: fallen flags, heritage units, aces, foreign power, etc.
My unlucky occurrences. Train breaking down before has happened to me around 3 times, and when I gave up, I missed it by minutes. Usually the train was stopped for like 1 hour. The fix took 1 to 2 hours. I have walked empty handed before, mainly my battery was at home, and I have arrived when the train went by
Nice video bnsf 1458.
1:37 omg I hate this so much, it was about 3 and a bit years ago and there was an incredibly rare train with TWO VERY RARE AND OLD locos on transfer, and it broke down about 5km away from me, near no road or pathway. I never saw that train😢
The first thing literally happened to me last night where one of the trains that passes me was 2 hours late leaving toronto and it decided it would finally have ONR SD40s and would show up at 20:20