Norfolk Southern Local Switching with a Caboose!
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- Опубликовано: 25 июн 2015
- In 2015, a Caboose on a mainline could be considered an uncommon sight, but on June 25th 2015 NS B73 is out and about switching on the Norfolk Southern Wabash line with an ex-Norfolk and Western Caboose. This little red caboose brought up the rear of the local freight which would later use it for a couple mile shove into the Rawsonville Spur. This was a neat operation to watch as the caboose is a dying specialty car. In this video we follow them from Romulus Michigan to Belleville and end up at Rawsonville.
First view is B73 coming off of the Romulus industrial track with its fresh Operation Life Saver GP38-2 pulling long hood forward. They have 3 empty center beam flats that will be left on the end of the spur for retrieval later. This spur was recently reactivated by NS, which is why the currently flag the crossing. It had likely been years since trains crossed this road, so the locals may be surprised to see the trains rolling over it again. This spur also includes a very tight curve to get back onto the mainline.
After watching them pull out of the spur I headed west to Belleville Michigan to get a shot of them rounding the classic curve past the Feed and Pet supply building. Here we get a view of the caboose trailing on the mainline.
We then arrived at the Rawsonville spur where we watched them pull up and stop before starting their back up move. We ventured down to Rawsonville road to watch the Caboose lead the shove with a little bit of class. The caboose is banged up and tattered, but its little air whistle was still music to my ears. We finish up with a shot of the nice sunset as B73 continues to shove into the Rawsonville plant.
Overall it was an enjoyable night on a perfect evening. The sun cooperated towards the end giving the caboose a nice look as it passed.
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My favorite car is the caboose's love train horn sound
Nice video! Always good to see a caboose.
+arejay54 Thank you!
That is awesome seeing a caboose and Operation Lifesaver on the same train. Good job!
On our BNSF locals here in Winnipeg, Canada, we have an Operation Lifesaver caboose!
Man doesn't seem to matter which NS local frt you catch they all end up w/a poor GP-38 working it's guts out!😄
1st crossing WRRS 8 inch incandescents, one with a General Signals Type 1 Electronic bell, and the other with a Federal Signals, Griswold, Safetran or Western Cullen Hayes mechanical bell
Nice video! Where I live in Canada, a Class I short line called "BNSF Manitoba" which has a white, OLS-painted caboose for reverse moves.
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Wonder if they still use it. Here in Aus they use 'Shunt Floats" either a wagon with a proper shunters platform or a dedicated wagon with a platform on it so the crew does not have to hang off the cars for when its too far to walk.
Wow so Beautiful Very Beautiful video very nice i watched full you have awesome video thanks so much
I remember when that crossing in Romulus was not being used and it's cool to see it in use again
As a said last time, another amazing video!
Nice ending to a great video, well done!
The maroon colored tanker contained the stuff dreams are made of. Timeless nostalgia.
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Has anyone ever saw a green caboose before? Here where I'm from in Columbus,Ga, back in the early 80s when I was a young kid, we were watching a train and at the end was a green caboose. That's the only time I've ever saw one. Never forget about it.
Burlington Northern Railroad (BN) used green cabooses. That would be the largest railroad to likely use them. THere are probably others, but that was the most likely source.
Columbus, Georgia was home to the Central of Georgia under the Southern Railway and then NS. The Green caboose you likely saw was a Penn Central caboose as the CofG occasionally ran them on the end of their trains. It depended on where the freight originated from and how it was interchanged. I have heard of other accounts of Penn Central cabooses on CofG manifest freights in the 1970s.
Awesome train horn!
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THAT is a rare and beautiful thing to see a caboose on a train and not to mention those are a dying breed
they used to pay their way by sorting and deliving mail all along the line.etc etc.
Man someone ordered a LOT of boxes of Epic!
thenekom lol
EPIC load Waits for the ordering man 😂
Nice video my friend. Happy weekend! *Like570*
The ones without placards are normal waste. The ones with placards are usually hazardous waste. Normally pcb contaminated dirt that has been cleaned out of a EPA zone bound for treatment
Great video, love that caboose. Just sad that the rail company had to stop using them.
In Grand forks I saw Bnsf using a non patched bn caboose
Nice video
What a catch!
Look it's not a Dying Breed unless we make it that I mean when they first started coming out with the Fred's I figured why not just put them on the Caboose and not take the Caboose off at all that's what my question was even as a little kid why not put the end of Lights On The Caboose itself and have someone back there just to be back there I mean they took a molehill and made it the biggest mountain for no reason I'm taking the Caboose off the tracks was making a mountain out of a molehill
Feb 9, 2023. Still operational.
I think that caboose I have seen before sitting in. Small siding with a unlettered sw9
What music did u use for the intro? Nice catch btw
Even had a "FRED" on it. Bummer.
man u do awesome here!!
+Tim Daugherty Thank you very much!
Epic.
Tank car TILX 110064 within the manifest at 10:01 contained "the stuff dreams are made of."
where did the cabooses go? 🚂🚃🚃🚃🚃?
What are all the little container cars? Great video!
+Taaaarail Those are trash containers for transloading trash down in the spur. They are little two packs of cars and can apparently hold 3 containers per car. They were very similar to spine cars. Thanks!
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What is shipped in the open top 20' containers? I have never seen that type of stacking in the South or California
Those are trash containers, for transloading at Rawsonville. That is just west of the crossing they were shoving across with the caboose.
Being trash containers, and hauling garbage, appropriate that they don't give a rat's butt how they look, and would be good if they were rough with the trash containers as much as they could get away with without spilling the garbage from them. Since the containers are hauling garbage, they don't deserve handling with respect beyond what's needed for obvious safety, and deserve to get the crap utterly beat out of them in daily handling, being refuse containers.
@@MichiganCentralLines trash containers are just like trash cans
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people forget the shovel fulll of coal the fireman used to throw on to the drive during the depression for the old railway widows,etc,wink wink
i think the conductor needs a louder whistle
Is that shoving into the Ford plant again or another customer?
Bryan Losen this is shoving into the rawsonville transload. Previously it would have served rawsonville Ford, but that service has been discontinued.
Rip the caboose
What is the name of the freight cars used before 4:00?
I believe you are wondering about those center beam cars. They are for loading wood products.
Michigan Central Lines Thank you. I didn't know what they were called.
Michigan Central Lines House smell like no
So why did they go backwards ❓❓😎
They needed to shove their cars in to switch the other cars. Due to how the train comes from Detroit this was the best way to handle this switching maneuver
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what was up with that
+73 SUPERGLIDE They use the caboose for a couple mile shove back onto a branch line to service various customers on the NS Wabash line
i worked this line
grey ghost what's with the Caboose?
My nephew says at 5:40 that's what all railways should have done in the first place. Install the end-of-train-device on to the caboose instead of replacing it. Use the old and the new.
+Joanna Chadwick I agree. Corporate America would rather make a buck by reducing staffing instead of preserving it's heritage, though. Apparently their CEO's don't make enough.
There's just not much of a point in them anymore. No need to watch for problems on the rear of the train anymore. Hotboxes aren't a problem since the axels where swapped from journals to roller bearings. You have hot checkers to tell any other problems and the conductor can do his paperwork etc from the cab. Technology killed the caboose not corporate America. With this positive train control stuff being put in, it will eventually eliminate the conductors job.
Thanks for the reply, my nephew makes all these comments under my name we don't let him have his own account, he will enjoy reading the feed back,Thanks!
+smokayman when ptc is put into place nationwide they will replace conductors with utility men at all major switching points. There will be one man trains, people like warren buffet who's owns bnsf are already pushing for one man trains.
+smokayman that's why you will find a majority of the old men on the railroads don't like ptc. Most are trying to retire before it goes full swing.