@@djstrainsyou ought to see if you can overlay satellite imagery with old aerial photos. The department of agriculture website lets you download them for free, especially the old photos.
Another excellent presentation. The contrast between the 4000+ hp modern locos on the double stacks to the ore & coke cars and 50 year old 1500hp switchers is what makes the US rai system so fascinating. and lead me to visit 5 times in the 80's and 90's. Thank you from Australia.
I love seeing cabooses. I am always looking for them. That was the coolest thing ever seeing two of them on moving trains next to each other! Wow, that was awesome!
Longest trains allowed here in ireland are 18 42 ft flat cars. Because alot of track is single line and the passing areas only hold a train of 18 wagons in length.
Hello DJ, --- You do great cinematography work with your drone. Your eye for trains, landscapes, industrial complexes, bridges and city-scrapes is wonderful. Super well done. --- Big appreciation. I grew up in Monessen-PA and worked an extended summer at the USS Irvin Works Hot Rolling Mill, in West Mifflin, so I know these places that your are showing from my life growing up in the Mon-Valley and you sure do give some wonderful views of the landscape and environment. Getting the geology of an areas correct is so import for that "Sense of Place" feeling and you capture it well with your drone video captures. Anyone modeling anything in Western PA or W-Va would benefit from closely observing the land forms in your videos. The juxtaposition of Kennywood and the Edgar Thompson Works is always fun to see. It is great to have you doing your wonderful train videos again. Welcome back and Thank YOU !
It is great that you are having fun making the videos again. We are blessed with your drone view images and journeys. Thank you ! I also want to thank you for your analysis and insight into railroad operations. Your perspective on the realities of railroad ring true with deep clarity. So much so I was inspired to rewrite my design guidance lists and take my layout design in a very different direction. I realized that I loved watching moving trains with special focus on the locomotives that make the motion happen. I changed the name of my layout from the Mon-Valley Railroad to the Locomotion Theater celebrating "Time Traveling Trains on Vacation" in the Twilight Zone Rail Division. The presentation is now more of a theatrical production and/or a moving sculpture Art Exhibit. I just said NO to reality and YES to maximum FUN. You are so correct that real life trains take stuff from one place to another. I instead chose 6 continuous loops of constant motion that can run on their own. There are things to play with and different routes to explore, but if you just want to "Set-It and Forget-IT", you can sit back and just enjoy. If you did not so clearly define true railroad operations, I may have combined things that are not compatible and ended up with something that would be a lot less fun. My trains are always rolling and on time, but they never get there. You know that Twilight Zone kind of thing. Also, no train sounds. I play music while running the trains. It is just more fun. Everything is simple DC power and it is set in Winter, for extra contrast and to make dealing with dust easier. Thank you so much for your words of wisdom and insights as well as the excellent drone video over-flights ! --- John
@@djstrains Amen Brother ! It centers your heart and soul to watch trains rolling down the tracks. We have us a Train Party going on and I think I may even dance the Locomotion ! before I get on the Love Train !!!
First off Happy thanksgiving 🦃. Second awesome drone footage. What a great place. I have an elevated track on my layout. Glad to see things and op’s like what I want to run on my layout. Thanks so much DJ for your time making the videos.
So if you modeled this with the two large bridges, switches on bridges, multiple wyes, under over under bridges, a dam on the river, retaining walls with multiple levels, and a large curved yard you'd be critized for putting too much in a small space!!
Wow, capture of the year. It was thrilling to watch. Greetings from France... p.s. I've subscribed. I loved the 4 industrial sidings (spurs?) diamond video too.
For someone with a bit of space, this would be a fantastic interchange to model. So much going on in one area. The tight radii with short motive power and rolling stock would help to make it doable and realistic. With a few adjustments one could model almost any time period, too. It's an iconic image of the heavy industry that built modern America, a history covering 150 years that is slowly winding down. If you did model it and had three trains running at once, no one would think that was realistic. You'd have to bookmark this video to prove it's prototypically correct!
Thanks! So happy that you are back and producing new content. A major B&LE fan; great to see footage of the newer rolling stock which I think are Versa-flood Aggregate cars vs traditional ore cars. Great footage and loved seeing the dual shove overtop the NS.
Thank you so much Greg! I am still a big B&LE fan too. Hopefully when weather improves I can catch more good stuff. I'd like to catch one of the few remaining orange units with a drone. #bucketshot
LIKE 765 First week of December... quite the 'money-shot' catching cabooses and intermodal at the same time. As if you set it all up. Lucky deal! Well spoken video volumes. Thank you. John BC Canada
Lots to look at! Thanks. Did you ever see what kind of power was pushing at the head end of that longer gondola train? Does your drone have any sort of detection and warning sensors to alert you to the power lines you might be backing into? ... Happy Thanksgiving! And thanks for sharing.
That's a one in a million shot with two cabooses and a NS train going underneath. And if I keep watching your videos I will never get back into the basement to work on my layout. I do have lots of cabooses as I see their importance over FREDs.
Awesome video. Thanks for posting. There's so much going on there, even without the train movements. I loved all the different types of bridges mixed together as well as the maze of tracks and pipes crossing the river. Although the scene would be pretty much impossible to model, even in N scale, it is a great inspiration for combining many different elements to make a busy scene.
Hi Dj hey thanks for posting this video........very interesting and educational wow..............I've traveled through this state many times in my life and never realized that was there like that............amazing...............love this video please post more 👍
Hi DJ, Have a Safe and Happy Thanksgiving. You are correct, it's the canopy over the tracks at the station. I believe but not 100% sure, but I think the tracks in "The Trench" on the North side were either lowered or the bridges raised to allow clearance for the double stack trains. I had thought I'd heard something about raising the canopy at the station, but not sure why that hasn't happened, unless it's because of the traffic levels and the bottle neck it would cause? But that is just a guess on my part and not an official answer. But that brings up another question which I cannot answer, can double stack trains run the Conemaugh line? Did you notice on the maintenance road at the double wye, NS has stop signs where the road crosses the tracks, but where it crosses the Union, there does not seem to be any signs? Another great drone video. I'm loving these drone videos DJ, thank you for uploading them.
OMG its my favorite so far i was writing notes as fast as i could amazing footage thanks man .Was cool to see some of those BLE hoppers with limestone ,now i need to make some loads like that .
Problem I ran into is file size vs what a dvd can hold. I have nearly 400 videos for free on RUclips. This video was like 11 gigabytes. Most are around 3-5 gigabytes. But last time I purchased blank dvds, they could only store a small number
What fantastic footage and information on the area! Thank you!!! Do you know why URR doesn’t use dynamic brakes? Fantastic catch, thank you as always for sharing this!
Awesome video, You are living the life I wanted but I went a different direction. I live in Nashville all we have is CSX and a couple of short lines run by RJ Corman but the N&E and it sister line the N&W, they carry a lot of plastic, propane, sand, and limestone gravel. They can move all at cost lower then it would to truck it in. They move it in larger quantities.
I'm not sure if Physical Clearances are the reason N&S can't run double stackers through Pittsburgh. There was talk maybe 2 years ago about allowing doubles to go through the Northside and it was voted down due to NIMBY complaints. Do I think this is more about just local neighborhood issues.
Numerous clearance restrictions between CP wing and island ave yard is the reason. Work is already being done to allow stacks to remain on the shorter and faster main through the city, eliminating bottlenecks at port Perry and the OC bridge.
@@woods840 I knew I saw something about clearance here... 12. WORK CREW REMOVING CROSS BRACE AT U2, PART OF CONRAIL'S PROGRAM TO INCREASE CLEARANCE ON ITS BRIDGES AND OVERPASSES FOR DOUBLE-STACK TRAINS. - Conrail Port Perry Bridge, www.loc.gov/resource/hhh.pa2947.photos/?sp=12 or search at LoC
Excellent videos DJ! Would a viewer or yourself be able to explain why there are single containers place strategically amongst double stacked containers. Thanks again for great videos.
Dj: 3 questions 1 how long are the pipes the train is carrying? 2 does the coal, coke and lime need to be covered or can it be left out in all kinds of weather? 3 i know that tank cars can't be behind a locomotive but are they allowed behind if there are 2 or more locomotive?
1. Don’t know for certain 2. Coal can sit for long periods of time in elements, coke can not. That’s why coke cars are often coke express. They go from freight car to blast furnace. 3. Doesn’t matter how many unoccupied engines, the rule is same.
Got to Love that Norfolk Southern GE AC44C6M Stack train AC Taction power 4,400hp. Pennsylvania is really the only state with countless Cabooses everywhere around, most people don't know that there are more Railroad Cabooses in Pennsylvania than there is in all of the United States example of some places that have a lot of Cabooses - Lancaster - Strasburg "Red Caboose Motel" Catawissa - "Catawissa Railroad and Caboose Rentals" - Hamburg, "Reading Railroad Heritage Museum" Great Video I especially like the on-screen info showing areas of interest, could you perhaps film Conway yard and or the never seen Western yard front lead of Conway most people don't ever film the Front yard of Conway Not really sure why.
Great video! Are the URR schematics you showed available to view somewhere? Working on a URR-based layout and would love to see their track plans. Thanks fir any info.
Is the stack train coming from Conway or headed towards. Your videos are so informative to this recent transplant. I came from the town of the Oregon Ducks. Yinz know who they are ?
you know DJ you'd think they'd have come up with a camera system to replace the shoving platforms by now! seems like it'd be easy to adapt some of the drone camera stuff and put a screen in the cab! you beat me to the pipeline! but i do have a day job question if you don't mind, i've been seeing a new car the past couple months it looks like those trash cars that come out of the new york area and head to landfills around Columbus and west of here but they have a hard top on them where the trash cars i'm used to are open top and use a mesh over the load, do you know if those are those a new kind of trash car?
Every time you're traveling backwards and wires pop into the frame I'm wondering how you avoided them. Is there a secondary "pilot's view" on the drone?
A big WOW! If only you could have made a drone video of this area 60 years ago. I would imagine the action would be immense.
I think that same thing often!
@@djstrainsyou ought to see if you can overlay satellite imagery with old aerial photos. The department of agriculture website lets you download them for free, especially the old photos.
I was born and raised in this area . To me , this is the ideal spot for some great train shots .
It sure is!
Another excellent presentation. The contrast between the 4000+ hp modern locos on the double stacks to the ore & coke cars and 50 year old 1500hp switchers is what makes the US rai system so fascinating. and lead me to visit 5 times in the 80's and 90's. Thank you from Australia.
My pleasure! Glad to have your support
I love seeing cabooses. I am always looking for them. That was the coolest thing ever seeing two of them on moving trains next to each other! Wow, that was awesome!
Glad you enjoyed it
Wow! What amazing timing to catch all 3 trains and 2 with caboose AND reversing @ that!
I admit, I geeked out filming it!!!
Longest trains allowed here in ireland are 18 42 ft flat cars. Because alot of track is single line and the passing areas only hold a train of 18 wagons in length.
Thank you DJ and family! Happy Thanksgving '24!
Same to you!
Som alle dine filmer, er også denne fantastisk bra. Å se 3 tog i 1 opptak, var kjempeflott! Takk for at du deler det med oss 🤩
Fantastic share DJ love the overhead view awesome share all the way. Have a great Thanksgiving and have an awesome day enjoy
Thank you! You too!
Hi DJ 's Trains & it's is Randy and i like yours video is Cool & Thanks DJ'S Trains & Friends Randy
MP15s always liked the look of that type of engine, I run mine in pairs at this time.
Happy Thanksgiving to the Channel and ALL the Viewers. 👍🙏
Same to you!
15:40 OMG! So cool.
Hello DJ, --- You do great cinematography work with your drone. Your eye for trains, landscapes, industrial complexes, bridges and city-scrapes is wonderful. Super well done. --- Big appreciation. I grew up in Monessen-PA and worked an extended summer at the USS Irvin Works Hot Rolling Mill, in West Mifflin, so I know these places that your are showing from my life growing up in the Mon-Valley and you sure do give some wonderful views of the landscape and environment. Getting the geology of an areas correct is so import for that "Sense of Place" feeling and you capture it well with your drone video captures. Anyone modeling anything in Western PA or W-Va would benefit from closely observing the land forms in your videos. The juxtaposition of Kennywood and the Edgar Thompson Works is always fun to see. It is great to have you doing your wonderful train videos again. Welcome back and Thank YOU !
I’m glad you liked the video. I’m enjoying creating them again!
It is great that you are having fun making the videos again. We are blessed with your drone view images and journeys. Thank you ! I also want to thank you for your analysis and insight into railroad operations. Your perspective on the realities of railroad ring true with deep clarity. So much so I was inspired to rewrite my design guidance lists and take my layout design in a very different direction. I realized that I loved watching moving trains with special focus on the locomotives that make the motion happen. I changed the name of my layout from the Mon-Valley Railroad to the Locomotion Theater celebrating "Time Traveling Trains on Vacation" in the Twilight Zone Rail Division. The presentation is now more of a theatrical production and/or a moving sculpture Art Exhibit. I just said NO to reality and YES to maximum FUN. You are so correct that real life trains take stuff from one place to another. I instead chose 6 continuous loops of constant motion that can run on their own. There are things to play with and different routes to explore, but if you just want to "Set-It and Forget-IT", you can sit back and just enjoy. If you did not so clearly define true railroad operations, I may have combined things that are not compatible and ended up with something that would be a lot less fun. My trains are always rolling and on time, but they never get there. You know that Twilight Zone kind of thing. Also, no train sounds. I play music while running the trains. It is just more fun. Everything is simple DC power and it is set in Winter, for extra contrast and to make dealing with dust easier. Thank you so much for your words of wisdom and insights as well as the excellent drone video over-flights ! --- John
Sitting and watching them run is a guys version of relaxation. It's a time to clear your head from the day. Here's to you! Enjoy.
@@djstrains Amen Brother ! It centers your heart and soul to watch trains rolling down the tracks. We have us a Train Party going on and I think I may even dance the Locomotion ! before I get on the Love Train !!!
Love this footage DJ; thanks for posting all this great stuff 😊
Glad you enjoyed it
HAPPY THANKSGIVING ! Now this is a fun video to watch.
You too!!
Love the hearing all the history, I wish my granddad (career URR engineer) was still alive so I could show him your videos!
I understand
The stars aligned DJ
They sure did!!!!
Wow what an immensely busy intersection. Great footage
It sure is
I see a CSX intermodal stopped and holding at @12:17. This is a great outing you had. Happy Thanksgiving!!
Yeah, his rear end is probably still in Demmler yard,since these trains are always 2 miles long
Where I work. We have MP-1500 and SW-1500 locos. And yes the turns are sharp
Great DJ, thank you for sharing this great catch and especially for describing what is going on.
Very welcome
First off Happy thanksgiving 🦃. Second awesome drone footage. What a great place. I have an elevated track on my layout. Glad to see things and op’s like what I want to run on my layout. Thanks so much DJ for your time making the videos.
Thank you, more to come
Outstanding photography! That is so neat seeing all these trains in one area. Thanks for sharing this and have a happy Thanksgiving.
Thanks, you too!
Happy Thanksgiving
Same to you!
Thanks DJ that spot will be some of a job to model it but very impressive
DJ! Incredible footage! You're awesome.
Dj... This video is so good!! Man you are killing it bro! Happy Thanksgiving!
I get to see the B&LE ore trains every day going past the house, usually around 100 cars with 2 CN SD-70m's leading and 2 SD's pushing.
Fantastic action, Happy Thanksgiving!
Spectacular footage, DJ. We're so glad you're sharing railroad content again.
HAPPY THANKSGIVING to you and yours sir.
Same to you!
Awesome video love the local action with the drone !
Glad you enjoyed it
@ the footage and detailed narration is top notch !
Appreciate that!!!!
Very cool catch with the ore and pipe trains.
Glad you enjoyed
Wow! This is like something you'd only see in a model railroad diorama. What a unique catch.
Indeed!
Real cool video!!!
Another great vid. So many know so little about URR. Thanks for all the fantastic overhead shots. Enjoy the holiday, Happy Thanksgiving.
Same to you!
I'm thankful for videos like this! Happy Thanksgiving!
I'm thankful for your support
Very nice filming and commentary. Happy Thanksgiving.
Thanks, you too!
That's a great shot
Thank you! Thank you! Just beautiful! Topped off my T'giving weekend. Almost made me want to cry. Thanks, again.
You are so welcome!
Just amazing with three trains at the same time! Thanks for sharing.
So if you modeled this with the two large bridges, switches on bridges, multiple wyes, under over under bridges, a dam on the river, retaining walls with multiple levels, and a large curved yard you'd be critized for putting too much in a small space!!
Hahahaha
HAPPY THANKSGIVING DJ!!
Same to you!
I really enjoy the videos. They give a totally different perspective of operations.
Glad you like them!
Pretty cool! 👍
Happy Thanksgiving 🦃 excellent video
This is one of the best train videos I've seen yet, great work! So cool to see caboose in 2024!!!
I was so excited to catch this but it's not getting the views I was hoping for. Its one of my all time favorites!
Great video DJ! Happy thanksgiving!
Thanks! You too!
Awesome Drone footage especially to see the Y.
it was even windy those days too. I am happy with how it turned out! Thanks.
WOW, what a great video! So much action going on. I miss the days of the caboose.Thanks for the fantastic drone footage.
Glad you enjoyed it
Love the videos! Not only great modeling ideas but I realize that I need to go check out Western PA!
Please do!
Very nice video.... Loved it!
Awesome
Wow, capture of the year. It was thrilling to watch. Greetings from France... p.s. I've subscribed. I loved the 4 industrial sidings (spurs?) diamond video too.
Thank you very much!
For someone with a bit of space, this would be a fantastic interchange to model. So much going on in one area. The tight radii with short motive power and rolling stock would help to make it doable and realistic. With a few adjustments one could model almost any time period, too. It's an iconic image of the heavy industry that built modern America, a history covering 150 years that is slowly winding down.
If you did model it and had three trains running at once, no one would think that was realistic. You'd have to bookmark this video to prove it's prototypically correct!
I agree!!!!!
Thanks! So happy that you are back and producing new content. A major B&LE fan; great to see footage of the newer rolling stock which I think are Versa-flood Aggregate cars vs traditional ore cars. Great footage and loved seeing the dual shove overtop the NS.
Thank you so much Greg! I am still a big B&LE fan too. Hopefully when weather improves I can catch more good stuff. I'd like to catch one of the few remaining orange units with a drone. #bucketshot
LIKE 765 First week of December... quite the 'money-shot' catching cabooses and intermodal at the same time. As if you set it all up. Lucky deal! Well spoken video volumes. Thank you. John BC Canada
Thank you John
EXCELLENT FOOTAGE DJ 👏 👌 👍
Thanks for watching buddy!
I’m glad you’re back!
DJ, that’s pretty spectacular!!!
The right place at the right time 👍🏻👍🏻
Thanks for sharing
You’re right. It really was!
Wishing you and your family a Happy Thanksgiving, I enjoyed the video.
Same to you!
Another great one DJ. Happy Thanksgiving from the great white north.
Same to you!
Excellent video!
Thank you very much!
Well, I see the caboose is not out of the picture even here in Pennsylvania. Thanks.
Lots to look at! Thanks. Did you ever see what kind of power was pushing at the head end of that longer gondola train? Does your drone have any sort of detection and warning sensors to alert you to the power lines you might be backing into? ... Happy Thanksgiving! And thanks for sharing.
That's a one in a million shot with two cabooses and a NS train going underneath. And if I keep watching your videos I will never get back into the basement to work on my layout. I do have lots of cabooses as I see their importance over FREDs.
Glad I could inspire you, you're right, cabooses are important!
You really out did yourself today. Great video !
Thank you!
Great Action video!!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Top notch video...as always! Happy Thanksgiving, DJ.
Awesome video. Thanks for posting.
There's so much going on there, even without the train movements. I loved all the different types of bridges mixed together as well as the maze of tracks and pipes crossing the river. Although the scene would be pretty much impossible to model, even in N scale, it is a great inspiration for combining many different elements to make a busy scene.
Thank you very much!
Happy Thanksgiving DJ
That was an epic shot DJ! I've really been enjoying your videos lately.
Thank you and more to come
Beautiful imagery. 👌
Thank you! I'm glad you liked the footage.
Hi Dj hey thanks for posting this video........very interesting and educational wow..............I've traveled through this state many times in my life and never realized that was there like that............amazing...............love this video please post more
👍
Hi DJ, Have a Safe and Happy Thanksgiving. You are correct, it's the canopy over the tracks at the station. I believe but not 100% sure, but I think the tracks in "The Trench" on the North side were either lowered or the bridges raised to allow clearance for the double stack trains. I had thought I'd heard something about raising the canopy at the station, but not sure why that hasn't happened, unless it's because of the traffic levels and the bottle neck it would cause? But that is just a guess on my part and not an official answer. But that brings up another question which I cannot answer, can double stack trains run the Conemaugh line? Did you notice on the maintenance road at the double wye, NS has stop signs where the road crosses the tracks, but where it crosses the Union, there does not seem to be any signs? Another great drone video. I'm loving these drone videos DJ, thank you for uploading them.
OMG its my favorite so far i was writing notes as fast as i could amazing footage thanks man .Was cool to see some of those BLE hoppers with limestone ,now i need to make some loads like that .
Now you understand how excited I was to share this with you!
New car shop video soon
@@djstrains oh my !
very cool...you should consider creating dvds of footage etc, or downloadable , id purchase them
Problem I ran into is file size vs what a dvd can hold. I have nearly 400 videos for free on RUclips. This video was like 11 gigabytes. Most are around 3-5 gigabytes. But last time I purchased blank dvds, they could only store a small number
@@djstrains thank you for sharing them...love the locations you get and especially love the SW and mp15 switchers
What fantastic footage and information on the area! Thank you!!! Do you know why URR doesn’t use dynamic brakes? Fantastic catch, thank you as always for sharing this!
The mp15s didn’t have them I think, not sure. Good question
@ That is kind of what I was thinking, too. Thanks!
Imagine this use to bigger and busier when Duquesne works was there and Happy Thanksgiving DJ and be safe.
Same to you!
Incredible
Thanks! It’s a ultra rare shot!
Awesome video, You are living the life I wanted but I went a different direction. I live in Nashville all we have is CSX and a couple of short lines run by RJ Corman but the N&E and it sister line the N&W, they carry a lot of plastic, propane, sand, and limestone gravel. They can move all at cost lower then it would to truck it in. They move it in larger quantities.
Cool
wonderful footage, and so stable ! Pity those drones didn't exist in the early 90ies...
Or earlier, oh how I would have enjoyed it in the 80s
Really cool video DJ.
Thanks 👍
i thought my helix was cool, one could only wish to have this train over train beside train action on a layout
Haven't chased it in quite a few years but the Dubois local ran a caboose up to the Brockway glass plants
Do you think they still do today ?
oh Boy !
I'm not sure if Physical Clearances are the reason N&S can't run double stackers through Pittsburgh.
There was talk maybe 2 years ago about allowing doubles to go through the Northside and it was voted down due to NIMBY complaints.
Do I think this is more about just local neighborhood issues.
I’m not sure
Numerous clearance restrictions between CP wing and island ave yard is the reason. Work is already being done to allow stacks to remain on the shorter and faster main through the city, eliminating bottlenecks at port Perry and the OC bridge.
@@woods840 I knew I saw something about clearance here...
12. WORK CREW REMOVING CROSS BRACE AT U2, PART OF CONRAIL'S PROGRAM TO INCREASE CLEARANCE ON ITS BRIDGES AND OVERPASSES FOR DOUBLE-STACK TRAINS. - Conrail Port Perry Bridge,
www.loc.gov/resource/hhh.pa2947.photos/?sp=12
or search at LoC
Excellent videos DJ! Would a viewer or yourself be able to explain why there are single containers place strategically amongst double stacked containers. Thanks again for great videos.
No idea
Are you still working?
Yes, even on Thanksgiving
I thought steel was dead and gone in the region. Neat to learn a mill still works in Pennsylvania.
I have a whole playlist called steel mills. So much great videos you'll love!
Fantastic video! If I were to get a drone over 250 grams, would I need a FAA license no matter what or is there any way to get around it?
Part 107 license is if you make Any kind of profit from using it.
But at least watch some study guide videos to learn about the laws though
Dj:
3 questions
1 how long are the pipes the train is carrying?
2 does the coal, coke and lime need to be covered or can it be left out in all kinds of weather?
3 i know that tank cars can't be behind a locomotive but are they allowed behind if there are 2 or more locomotive?
1. Don’t know for certain
2. Coal can sit for long periods of time in elements, coke can not. That’s why coke cars are often coke express. They go from freight car to blast furnace.
3. Doesn’t matter how many unoccupied engines, the rule is same.
ruclips.net/video/Zb5gsEKs1r4/видео.htmlsi=Ff3KQ1oKbxDYEre6
Got to Love that Norfolk Southern GE AC44C6M Stack train AC Taction power 4,400hp. Pennsylvania is really the only state with countless Cabooses everywhere around, most people don't know that there are more Railroad Cabooses in Pennsylvania than there is in all of the United States example of some places that have a lot of Cabooses - Lancaster - Strasburg "Red Caboose Motel" Catawissa - "Catawissa Railroad and Caboose Rentals" - Hamburg, "Reading Railroad Heritage Museum"
Great Video I especially like the on-screen info showing areas of interest, could you perhaps film Conway yard and or the never seen Western yard front lead of Conway most people don't ever film the Front yard of Conway Not really sure why.
My previous Conway yard video was filmed with old drone and while I was learning. I will reshoot when the weather gets better
It's a shame this would take a warehouse to model this spot exactly, even in N scale.
It was a problem I ran into as it was my favorite to model
Great video! Are the URR schematics you showed available to view somewhere? Working on a URR-based layout and would love to see their track plans. Thanks fir any info.
You would not believe all that’s available at the steel city chapter of the railway & locomotive historical society
www.steelcityrlhs.org
Is the stack train coming from Conway or headed towards. Your videos are so informative to this recent transplant. I came from the town of the Oregon Ducks. Yinz know who they are ?
Going to Conway
you know DJ you'd think they'd have come up with a camera system to replace the shoving platforms by now! seems like it'd be easy to adapt some of the drone camera stuff and put a screen in the cab! you beat me to the pipeline! but i do have a day job question if you don't mind, i've been seeing a new car the past couple months it looks like those trash cars that come out of the new york area and head to landfills around Columbus and west of here but they have a hard top on them where the trash cars i'm used to are open top and use a mesh over the load, do you know if those are those a new kind of trash car?
Unsure
@@djstrains thanks anyway it';s just one of those annoying things that gnaw at you til you find an answer!
Every time you're traveling backwards and wires pop into the frame I'm wondering how you avoided them. Is there a secondary "pilot's view" on the drone?
That miss was because I knew I was higher than wires, but using a little zoom made it seem closer
Why didn't the 4 loco's just simply run round the train? As it left from the same direction it came from!
That is a great question but the track arrangement and the need to shove out still requires a conductor to visually see and protect the route I guess.