We got the left side, we got the right side, even got a top view and to top it off, we got to listen 501 pull the grade. Another outstanding video, hope you have a great weekend. Stay on the ladders. 🙂
That was a great video Jason, thanks so much for sharing all your videos for railfans near and far. Your cell phone takes excellent videos Jason, thank you for that segment on the bridge. Great video and beautiful sound.
Another great video! Loved the overhead shot! Looking forward to you doing one on the rock hunting. I bought one of your rocks for my daughter and she loves it!!
that is also used in paint as a type of modifier to the base for the oil paint , makes it a harder when dry. more UV resistance too. that diisocyanate is used in urethane coatings.
You recorded a nice show, but the video was quick toward the end. I was trying to read the numbers on all the freight cars as much as possible. I have liked freight cars since I was a child. I still watch you, Wide World Of Trains, and JawTooth, because I am not near a railroad site.
Maybe he was a Railfan and he showed up late due to traffic or something. Lol. I like how they capitalise the word Railfan when I type it. They must really think we are important. It does that every time. The other day I had the police show up at a crossing when I was filming. He thought I was having car problems and said someone was concerned that I was stranded. Lol
They do the same thing down here in Central North Carolina. I have several Railfans who film the trains at the diamond in Selma, NC and cops seem always around visiting. I would love to see what they write in their reports, "People watching and filming, we know they are suspected terrorists, LOL, LOL." A Biden Admin quote from Homeland Security, LOL.
I once had a police officer stop to speak to me while trackside. Somebody had called in my presence worried I was planning “suicide by train”. I assured him I had no such intention so he wished me a good day and was on his way.
Thanks for chasing ELS 501. It was serene to see a nice slow train pace. I agree with others who think the first crew timed out. Also like a little shorter train. Some railfan videos show these long N/S, U/P or CSX freights with multiple locos and DPUs but not the entire length is interesting. After the first 50 car racks I need a change. Thanks for the video Jason.
There was an incident with NS, a hobo, and a loose piece of lumber several years ago in Salisbury, NC. Hobo was up under a Railroad underpass, sleeping just under the bridge deck for main street or whatever. NS has a double track main at that location. A long chunk of wood decided to leave its car it was riding in under the bridge.... Bounced up and killed the hobo. Very sad situation, but when you have a 1 in 1000 chance...well, it happens. (Speared by what might have been a switch tie.) Engineer had no idea what happened, but the next train found the mess. Be careful out there!!
As an engineer while working the high speed double main line run betwedn Garret, IN and Willard, OH on the Chicago Divosion of the Great Lakes service lane, my train (60mph) passed an opposite direction train (60mph). In the oncoming train, far enough back from the train crew's visual onboard inspection, a flat car, ladden with huge steel I-beams came unsecured. One of those I-beams turned sideways on the car, overhanging my main line. We slammed into it at nearly 120mph impact, causing significant damage to my locomotive and several cars in their train. Imagine if someone had been walking the main with their back to that car. It would've decapitated them.
Watching those couplers shift like that at the road crossing reminds me of the Milwaukee Road back in the very late 1970's on their Chehalis Sub south of Tacoma, WA. The track was in such bad shape that sometimes the cars would sink low enough for the coupler knuckles to actually slip past each other, separating the train and causing it to go into emergency stop. Their Morton sub was in slightly better shape there due to the lighter traffic and lighter car weights, mainly all log trains. However, the Chehalis Sub suffered much worse because it, too, was lightweight branch line rail that was never upgraded nor was it better maintained despite 3 or 4 daily Portland trains that consistently had 100 ton capacity cars running over it.
I lived in Wauwatosa on the west side of Milwaukee across Underwood creek from the MILW main and I can tell you it wasn't in much better shape. Had a big wreck in '77 from a car that had been off the rails for 2 miles and piled up 47 cars into a 4 story heap down in the village along State street. One empty covered hopper got sandwiched between 2 loads and compacted down to about 4 feet and was glowing red when I got there. That wreck wiped out both mains and a siding for about 1/2 mile and kept the main out of action for 3 days. By '79 that 80mph main was rated for 35.
@@poowg2657 yes sir, what a mess! With the slow track speed, not too many cars came off the track where we were. But some kids accidentally set fire to the timber bridge lighting fireworks on the deck on July 4, 1978 down at McKenna on the Nisqually River bridge. The inspector ok'd it after the fire was out. It survived a little over a month until a train out of Portland ran a section of copper concentrate from the Southern Pacific over it. The bridge collapsed and the spilled concentrate poisoned the river clear to Puget Sound. Then in '79, Wednesday night before Thanksgiving, the engineer had a Portland train heading south (Railroad West) going what sounded like a little over 30mph on 10mph slow order track when there was a long crash and bang. He managed to get a 100 ton Pullman hopper mid train to bury its front trucks into the dirt and run 13 cars behind it into a huge pile. That was their last major derailment before the 1980 Embargo of Lines West and I guess they wanted to exit with a hum dinger. I sure miss the Milwaukee, though. It's hard to believe they've been gone from the west 42 years!
I drove by the site of the Electro-Motive Division plant in McCook Illinois where DPUs were manufactured for many years. All that remains is piles of rubble from the demolished buildings.
I live in a Steel town and we have some loooong trains and those are no fun waiting on but I love the sound of a train in the night. It's comforting. I've been sub'd to your channel for a while now but your videos don't come up on my feed. I just noticed I don't have the bell marked. Doing that now. Wanted to say I am always hunting for rocks if I am where they are. After one of the floods we had on the Mississippi, I found several Indian artifacts. I don't want to give them to a museum. I'm too attached to them. I have one that's a specified snail that I'd say is about as big as a Silver Dollar. I hope you have some good luck hunting rocks. It's so much fun!
Jason nice video. I'm youtube famous now. 😊. I can assure you the police car being there was a coincidence and nothing to do with us talking at the crossing.
It makes for a great screen shot though.. No worries. I take advantage of everything, it was either going to be that or the engineer waving.. ha ha Nice to see you again.
Awesome video today, Jason! 501 is certainly putting in work today. I like to top view shot. That guy was cool. The graffiti on the grain cars are interesting.
It's odd that you almost expect a derail in your area, CN and CP run a tight ship up here in Northern Alberta, mind you it's not a spur line 👍. Your shares show me how bad tracks can get 🇨🇦🇺🇸
6:50 ish... Jason, you asked about the width of the railroad's right-of-way. It varies, could be as narrow as 10' or as wide as 150' each way from the center of the track. It all depends on how the various property lines were drawn and how the railroad way back when was first laid out. Pull up any good real estate sales map and go down until you see where the "online" property lines are drawn. A nice neat pattern in the city of a town built before the railroad is disrupted by the railroad passing through, and it can look like a mad man's jigsaw puzzle. In towns that were built around the railroad as the rails were being laid, the pattern is neat and makes sense. On a falling wood side note. Way back in the olden days 'pulpwood' cars had floors that were a 'V' shape, and each log was only half the length of today's logs. You will note that the sideless cars have a 'flat' floor, so any logs that aren't absolutely straight like a baseball bat are going to cause problems getting a nice neat loading pattern.
Be careful with some of these guys. They like ruining days for a trespass citation. In sw Oklahoma, we now have police at every crossing. They will jail you on the spot being less than 20 feet from an active crossing in use. I can understand the concern, but we don't have crossing arms, and it's optional for horns at night. Even the track in my yard has seen its share of people jumping the knuckles while the train stopped to bump a car. Within the last week, they replaced the crossing control box damaged by the tornado last month, and now it has several cameras that are being watched by the rail road or police. I've had multiple chances to chat with the engineers here, but they barely horn for teen rail fans in my yard. Maybe I'm paranoid, but I've seen some videos of how nasty they can be.
Well that engineer definitely needs to go back to school to re-learn the correct horn usage approaching a crossing because it is supposed to take about 22 seconds if it is done correctly… Four seconds on, two seconds off, four seconds on, two seconds off, two seconds on, two seconds off then four seconds on just as it is approaching the crossing(s). Edward H. …former Conrail railroad engineer/trainman/brakeman/conductor in the northeast region.
Law is to start the horn sequence AT the whistle post, of at least 2-longs, a short, and a long, prior to occupying the crossing. Depending on the maximum authorized speed of the track, the post could be between 1,200 and 1,500ft. At slower speeds (less than max auth speed) the bell must be activated at the post, and the horn sequense at the engineers discretion so long as the minimal L-L-S-L sequence can be achieved before the crossing is reached with the last blast lasting until the entire crossing is covered. -CN locomotive engineer.
They mystery train sitting in the weeds overnight. Car 2 had some good sized logs that slid off and car 3 had an odd "V" in the middle in the case of the lost logs. Wonder if the price of glue is going up with 3 cars being shipped but does NOT include the bigger middle tanker which is lacking haz mat placards. By tradition sawdust by rail goes in boxcars or old hoppers\chip cars. Down in Georgia there are places that compress sawdust into pellets which were shipped in 4 bay covered hoppers to the Port of Savannah for export to Europe as fuel. Sorry to say the hearty wave was for the co-worker and since we haven't had a previous sheriffs encounter of the first kind we'll chalk it up as a random passing..if they watch you paint or collect rocks then I'd worry 😞
Excellent video, especially cool talking to that employee. Yeah, the track is definitely lousy but it will have to get worse before it's unusable. Thanks much, really appreciate it.
Yeah, the old SD40-2s were ubiquitous in their day, but they’re hardly ever seen on class-1 roads anymore; nice to know some still earn a living pulling the tonnage. 😎
In 2004-2008 they were pretty common on UP through freight between Chicago & Dallas/New Orleans. I was a conductor for UP and in that time frame they ran lots of leased power on their trains as well as their own. The SD70M and GE 44ACCTE became the most common on trains after that.
Horsepower is horsepower... Big railroads were forced to transition to modern equipment to meet the ever-changing air quality standards. Granted, big equipment changes in how little stuff is made so everything is better, but in the end, it all boils down to horsepower and traction effort. Now if you want to talk about fuel economy between an SD40-2 and an SD70ACe, well that's a way different story...
In Iron Mountain I noticed that they still have "open wire" Go back to the railroads using telegraph for dispatch, then they local battery magneto telephones and signaling for rail crossings. 6:01
Is that THE Matt that you had words with on the corner of E Sagola and Henford a year or two ago? If it is, he's a lot less hostile now. Maybe the RR is learning the futility of it all.
25ft is a reasonable number but may vary from location to location. I would think that the RR would only want to own the least amount of land possible to keep down taxes.
@@douglasskaalrud6865 I buy most of my furniture second hand from thrift stores. I bought a $1200 Pulaski curio cabinet from Habitat Restore for $75, delivered! Solid wood, lighted, full plate glass front and it will easily outlive me.
You aughtta see if your RR buddy knows if ELS has any volunteer positions for flagging etc, win, win for everyone you'd be happy to help assist and they wouldn't have to send out a mechanic to babysit a crossing
Hardwood goes one way for one type of end product, and softwood goes the other way for a different type of product. Cars are owned/leased and are held in captive service for the owner/lessee. So they can only be loaded for the owner/lessee's needs.
They probably, ran out of driving time, and that was the best place, to spot the train.. without blocking crossings. 12 hours maximum, and they have to shut down
This weekend I will be going home after visiting with my family in Lima Ohio I did get A awesome train video I got 2 trains at the same time that will be out on Sunday or Sunday evening for now I am visiting with family that don't have wifi.
PTC talks to the locomotive and tells it and the engineer that the equipment is working or if something is not working It is solid light on the bungalows to indicate utility power is on Flashing light on the bungalow tells engineer that the bungalow is on emergency battery backup and Utility power is off No light on the bungalows means utility power is out and battery backup is dead and nothing is working on the crossing With ATCS the bungalows transmit a POK ( Power Off Bit ) indication that utility power is out and bungalow is on emergency battery backup power PTC tells this information to the train as it passes but doesn't have a way to send the data to dispatch unless they have a data link at the bungalow to dispatch The locomotive can store the faults in memory and transmit the faults to dispatch when a data link is available
When they run the engine " backwards ", when the cab is at the rear of the engine, does the engineer have cameras on the front facing part of the engine, always wondered
all i can think of in that second scene is what a horrible place for a fire station that is. imagine a mile long train hits someone half a mile down the track and goes into emergency, ambulance is now blocked by the train itself. LOL
Some who had been hanging round outside a concert venue in Manchester U.K. was not asked. What are you doing here. He was carrying a bomb which he detonated killing & wounding. Why did nobody question him ?
Train crew probably was going to Law Out & left the train. Probably wouldn’t hurt to get a Hi-Viz vest so drivers can see you; maybe put something (Railfan? Or ‘Photographer’) on the chest & back. Does the E&LS use radio? Probably be nice to pick up a portable scanner like the Bearcat/Uniden BC 125AT & a good magnetic roof mount to keep up w/the chatter. Will try to get some yard work done this weekend before it get unbearably hot/humid again next week. Being Disabled & a 40% Disabled Vet, it’ll take me a while.
This man has good advise I see more and more of the rail fans donning those greenish-yellow vests, because sometimes we blend in with the back ground for what ever reason and it can startle an engineer and he may put the train in emergency and run the risk of derailment, I've seen some videos by others that just that happened.
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We got the left side, we got the right side, even got a top view and to top it off, we got to listen 501 pull the grade. Another outstanding video, hope you have a great weekend. Stay on the ladders. 🙂
That was a great video Jason, thanks so much for sharing all your videos for railfans near and far. Your cell phone takes excellent videos Jason, thank you for that segment on the bridge. Great video and beautiful sound.
Another great video! Loved the overhead shot! Looking forward to you doing one on the rock hunting. I bought one of your rocks for my daughter and she loves it!!
Thanks conductor and engineer. And maintence worker main flim worker good
Thank You for a great video! It was great that you got to see and talk to Matt.
that is also used in paint as a type of modifier to the base for the
oil paint , makes it a harder when dry. more UV resistance too.
that diisocyanate is used in urethane coatings.
You recorded a nice show, but the video was quick toward the end. I was trying to read the numbers on all the freight cars as much as possible. I have liked freight cars since I was a child. I still watch you, Wide World Of Trains, and JawTooth, because I am not near a railroad site.
Great overhead shots! The man's keeping an eye on that dastardly Jason. Another item for the lawsuit me thinks.
Wow this was a massive wood and combo transfer great video to watch thanks Jason love this video
Maybe he was a Railfan and he showed up late due to traffic or something. Lol. I like how they capitalise the word Railfan when I type it. They must really think we are important. It does that every time. The other day I had the police show up at a crossing when I was filming. He thought I was having car problems and said someone was concerned that I was stranded. Lol
They do the same thing down here in Central North Carolina. I have several Railfans who film the trains at the diamond in Selma, NC and cops seem always around visiting. I would love to see what they write in their reports, "People watching and filming, we know they are suspected terrorists, LOL, LOL." A Biden Admin quote from Homeland Security, LOL.
I had one check on me in Little Suamico WI a few weeks ago. Saw my truck on the side of the road and me sitting waiting.
Why are those RR employees so hateful
I once had a police officer stop to speak to me while trackside. Somebody had called in my presence worried I was planning “suicide by train”. I assured him I had no such intention so he wished me a good day and was on his way.
@@Bhil3 People today are plum crazy, horse sense went out the door when Biden walked in. LOL
Thanks for chasing ELS 501. It was serene to see a nice slow train pace. I agree with others who think the first crew timed out. Also like a little shorter train. Some railfan videos show these long N/S, U/P or CSX freights with multiple locos and DPUs but not the entire length is interesting. After the first 50 car racks I need a change. Thanks for the video Jason.
A nice video today. Glad your conversation was good. Have a great weekend Jason. 👍🙂🇺🇸
There was an incident with NS, a hobo, and a loose piece of lumber several years ago in Salisbury, NC. Hobo was up under a Railroad underpass, sleeping just under the bridge deck for main street or whatever. NS has a double track main at that location. A long chunk of wood decided to leave its car it was riding in under the bridge.... Bounced up and killed the hobo. Very sad situation, but when you have a 1 in 1000 chance...well, it happens. (Speared by what might have been a switch tie.) Engineer had no idea what happened, but the next train found the mess. Be careful out there!!
As an engineer while working the high speed double main line run betwedn Garret, IN and Willard, OH on the Chicago Divosion of the Great Lakes service lane, my train (60mph) passed an opposite direction train (60mph). In the oncoming train, far enough back from the train crew's visual onboard inspection, a flat car, ladden with huge steel I-beams came unsecured. One of those I-beams turned sideways on the car, overhanging my main line. We slammed into it at nearly 120mph impact, causing significant damage to my locomotive and several cars in their train. Imagine if someone had been walking the main with their back to that car. It would've decapitated them.
Watching those couplers shift like that at the road crossing reminds me of the Milwaukee Road back in the very late 1970's on their Chehalis Sub south of Tacoma, WA. The track was in such bad shape that sometimes the cars would sink low enough for the coupler knuckles to actually slip past each other, separating the train and causing it to go into emergency stop. Their Morton sub was in slightly better shape there due to the lighter traffic and lighter car weights, mainly all log trains. However, the Chehalis Sub suffered much worse because it, too, was lightweight branch line rail that was never upgraded nor was it better maintained despite 3 or 4 daily Portland trains that consistently had 100 ton capacity cars running over it.
I lived in Wauwatosa on the west side of Milwaukee across Underwood creek from the MILW main and I can tell you it wasn't in much better shape. Had a big wreck in '77 from a car that had been off the rails for 2 miles and piled up 47 cars into a 4 story heap down in the village along State street. One empty covered hopper got sandwiched between 2 loads and compacted down to about 4 feet and was glowing red when I got there. That wreck wiped out both mains and a siding for about 1/2 mile and kept the main out of action for 3 days. By '79 that 80mph main was rated for 35.
@@poowg2657 yes sir, what a mess! With the slow track speed, not too many cars came off the track where we were. But some kids accidentally set fire to the timber bridge lighting fireworks on the deck on July 4, 1978 down at McKenna on the Nisqually River bridge. The inspector ok'd it after the fire was out. It survived a little over a month until a train out of Portland ran a section of copper concentrate from the Southern Pacific over it. The bridge collapsed and the spilled concentrate poisoned the river clear to Puget Sound. Then in '79, Wednesday night before Thanksgiving, the engineer had a Portland train heading south (Railroad West) going what sounded like a little over 30mph on 10mph slow order track when there was a long crash and bang. He managed to get a 100 ton Pullman hopper mid train to bury its front trucks into the dirt and run 13 cars behind it into a huge pile. That was their last major derailment before the 1980 Embargo of Lines West and I guess they wanted to exit with a hum dinger. I sure miss the Milwaukee, though. It's hard to believe they've been gone from the west 42 years!
I hear ya stephen. I like the Milwaukee Road so much I got married in the cab of of MILW 265 and it was my wife's idea!
@@poowg2657 that's great!
@@poowg2657 Lucky man, to have such an understanding girlfriend/wife!
Hi Jason! Great, beautiful and relaxing railfaning video. Even Jason has friends on ELS. LOL. Wave and say hi to cops next time.
Keep on filming 🎥 Trains on the ELS Railroad Jason
OMG, and after such a good day too!! You just have to laugh, 🤣🤣👍👍👍👍
I drove by the site of the Electro-Motive Division plant in McCook Illinois where DPUs were manufactured for many years. All that remains is piles of rubble from the demolished buildings.
I live in a Steel town and we have some loooong trains and those are no fun waiting on but I love the sound of a train in the night. It's comforting. I've been sub'd to your channel for a while now but your videos don't come up on my feed. I just noticed I don't have the bell marked. Doing that now. Wanted to say I am always hunting for rocks if I am where they are. After one of the floods we had on the Mississippi, I found several Indian artifacts. I don't want to give them to a museum. I'm too attached to them. I have one that's a specified snail that I'd say is about as big as a Silver Dollar. I hope you have some good luck hunting rocks. It's so much fun!
Thank you, Matt! Great community relations for the ELS. Much better than the frame job they did on you, Jason.
I wonder why the E&LS doesn’t get some 132 lb second hand relay rail? They could also try some recycled ties, and definitely more wood ties!
Another nice video. So pretty with all the greenery. Nice chat with the rr employee. Did see the engineer wave. Be safe on the painting ladder!
Yes, thank you
Jason nice video. I'm youtube famous now. 😊. I can assure you the police car being there was a coincidence and nothing to do with us talking at the crossing.
It makes for a great screen shot though.. No worries. I take advantage of everything, it was either going to be that or the engineer waving.. ha ha Nice to see you again.
Jason your doing a fantastic job chief . Keep on training and be safe 👍🏻🇨🇦Robin over and out .
Awesome video today, Jason! 501 is certainly putting in work today. I like to top view shot. That guy was cool. The graffiti on the grain cars are interesting.
Signals have had those little windows on the light housing for many years so the train crew can verify if the signals are operating properly.
It's odd that you almost expect a derail in your area, CN and CP run a tight ship up here in Northern Alberta, mind you it's not a spur line 👍. Your shares show me how bad tracks can get 🇨🇦🇺🇸
Search for videos of the former Maumee and Western if you want to see some bad tracks.
Good afternoon to all from SE Louisiana 15 Jul 22.
6:50 ish... Jason, you asked about the width of the railroad's right-of-way. It varies, could be as narrow as 10' or as wide as 150' each way from the center of the track. It all depends on how the various property lines were drawn and how the railroad way back when was first laid out. Pull up any good real estate sales map and go down until you see where the "online" property lines are drawn. A nice neat pattern in the city of a town built before the railroad is disrupted by the railroad passing through, and it can look like a mad man's jigsaw puzzle. In towns that were built around the railroad as the rails were being laid, the pattern is neat and makes sense.
On a falling wood side note. Way back in the olden days 'pulpwood' cars had floors that were a 'V' shape, and each log was only half the length of today's logs. You will note that the sideless cars have a 'flat' floor, so any logs that aren't absolutely straight like a baseball bat are going to cause problems getting a nice neat loading pattern.
Be careful with some of these guys. They like ruining days for a trespass citation. In sw Oklahoma, we now have police at every crossing. They will jail you on the spot being less than 20 feet from an active crossing in use. I can understand the concern, but we don't have crossing arms, and it's optional for horns at night. Even the track in my yard has seen its share of people jumping the knuckles while the train stopped to bump a car. Within the last week, they replaced the crossing control box damaged by the tornado last month, and now it has several cameras that are being watched by the rail road or police.
I've had multiple chances to chat with the engineers here, but they barely horn for teen rail fans in my yard. Maybe I'm paranoid, but I've seen some videos of how nasty they can be.
Well that engineer definitely needs to go back to school to re-learn the correct horn usage approaching a crossing because it is supposed to take about 22 seconds if it is done correctly… Four seconds on, two seconds off, four seconds on, two seconds off, two seconds on, two seconds off then four seconds on just as it is approaching the crossing(s).
Edward H. …former Conrail railroad engineer/trainman/brakeman/conductor in the northeast region.
Correct. My GCOR manual says 2 longs, short, long. I’m a former UP conductor from Arkansas. Survived the head on Hoxie train crash of 2014.
Law is to start the horn sequence AT the whistle post, of at least 2-longs, a short, and a long, prior to occupying the crossing. Depending on the maximum authorized speed of the track, the post could be between 1,200 and 1,500ft. At slower speeds (less than max auth speed) the bell must be activated at the post, and the horn sequense at the engineers discretion so long as the minimal L-L-S-L sequence can be achieved before the crossing is reached with the last blast lasting until the entire crossing is covered. -CN locomotive engineer.
They mystery train sitting in the weeds overnight. Car 2 had some good sized logs that slid off and car 3 had an odd "V" in the middle in the case of the lost logs. Wonder if the price of glue is going up with 3 cars being shipped but does NOT include the bigger middle tanker which is lacking haz mat placards. By tradition sawdust by rail goes in boxcars or old hoppers\chip cars. Down in Georgia there are places that compress sawdust into pellets which were shipped in 4 bay covered hoppers to the Port of Savannah for export to Europe as fuel. Sorry to say the hearty wave was for the co-worker and since we haven't had a previous sheriffs encounter of the first kind we'll chalk it up as a random passing..if they watch you paint or collect rocks then I'd worry 😞
Great viewing !!
Excellent video, especially cool talking to that employee. Yeah, the track is definitely lousy but it will have to get worse before it's unusable. Thanks much, really appreciate it.
Thanks 👍
I always enjoy watching your videos
I appreciate that!
Again, great job on the mowing
Hi Jason, plan for the weekend is practicing my 6oz curls, great video!
Another awesome video Jason always enjoy it God bless you stay safe buddy
Thanks 👍
Yeah, the old SD40-2s were ubiquitous in their day, but they’re hardly ever seen on class-1 roads anymore; nice to know some still earn a living pulling the tonnage. 😎
In 2004-2008 they were pretty common on UP through freight between Chicago & Dallas/New Orleans.
I was a conductor for UP and in that time frame they ran lots of leased power on their trains as well as their own.
The SD70M and GE 44ACCTE became the most common on trains after that.
Be careful out there! Seems like a long train for a single locomotive.
Another great and interesting video Jason. Thanks and have a great weekend too.
You said YEP there's definitely some WOOD hanging there!!! lol 😂 😂 😂 You are Thee Man 💪 Jason...
The small lights on the sides of the crossing lights facing down the tracks were called bullets on our RR.
use to do this in Pinole-Hercules and got checked out a lot by the Police and Railroad cops, told me as long as I was 10 ft away it was legal.
It still amazes me that a single old SD40-2 can pull all of that.
Horsepower is horsepower... Big railroads were forced to transition to modern equipment to meet the ever-changing air quality standards.
Granted, big equipment changes in how little stuff is made so everything is better, but in the end, it all boils down to horsepower and traction effort. Now if you want to talk about fuel economy between an SD40-2 and an SD70ACe, well that's a way different story...
Keep on Jason, love your videos, thanks
In Iron Mountain I noticed that they still have "open wire" Go back to the railroads using telegraph for dispatch, then they local battery magneto telephones and signaling for rail crossings. 6:01
Jason, I saw on another persons video that ELS 500 was in the yaed at Escanaba. This was a 6/22 video.
Another great video Jason, keep them coming 👏 🚂👍
Thanks 👍
Just staying in because of the heat in Yuma AZ. and the temp will be 115 on Sat.
Awesome top view
@ John Harpster,I worked with a Bob Harpster at CSX.Any relation?
@@akaray3524 ???? Probably distant.
Thanks 👍
Great video my friend! The end was hilarious!
Always great action on Short line railroads, Keep it up Jason, you do a good job and make sure you film the cops, too. lol.
Is that THE Matt that you had words with on the corner of E Sagola and Henford a year or two ago? If it is, he's a lot less hostile now. Maybe the RR is learning the futility of it all.
GOOD FILMING Jason
One reason why the crew left the cars overnight is that the crew met their time limit, so had to rest.
He has no idea about railroading, just sits and bitches about them. People working. Sad, really.
25ft is a reasonable number but may vary from location to location. I would think that the RR would only want to own the least amount of land possible to keep down taxes.
Going Yooper lite hunting Saturday
Great Video !!
Thanks!
Have you ever seen or filmed the logs falling off or hitting a sign or something?
He has go through his channel videos. Their are a couple in their from a while back.
All the time.
I counted 38 cars on the third pass, from the over pass.
They mix the glue and the saw dust together, press it into panels, cover it with contact paper and have the nerve to call it furniture!
If all you could buy was real furniture there would be a lot of empty houses.
@@douglasskaalrud6865 I buy most of my furniture second hand from thrift stores. I bought a $1200 Pulaski curio cabinet from Habitat Restore for $75, delivered! Solid wood, lighted, full plate glass front and it will easily outlive me.
The way I understand it the manufacturers or the loggers our responsible for their loads not the railroad
You aughtta see if your RR buddy knows if ELS has any volunteer positions for flagging etc, win, win for everyone you'd be happy to help assist and they wouldn't have to send out a mechanic to babysit a crossing
Railroads never use 'volunteers' in day-to-day operations.
Nice video Jason,cops? There might be a BOLO on you...lol
They think they own every road... there are bunch of lies what railroad said
railroads think they are a police state.
Don't trucks own the roads.
On the last pass are they climbing a grade coming around the curve?
Why do loaded and empty cars of wood go in both directions? Different mills?
Hardwood goes one way for one type of end product, and softwood goes the other way for a different type of product. Cars are owned/leased and are held in captive service for the owner/lessee. So they can only be loaded for the owner/lessee's needs.
I enjoyed that video👍👍
love your videos jason
They probably, ran out of driving time, and that was the best place, to spot the train.. without blocking crossings. 12 hours maximum, and they have to shut down
Are you a picture of a old area locker on a bridge that I took earlier today
This weekend I will be going home after visiting with my family in Lima Ohio I did get A awesome train video I got 2 trains at the same time that will be out on Sunday or Sunday evening for now I am visiting with family that don't have wifi.
Yes, yes you are. Their watching you. Moo ha ha ha. 😁😁😁🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🚛
Well that's good good video thanks Jason
Really liked the overhead view, Jason. Was dangerous for you to make. I really like your "chasing" the train. Quite a few trolls in these comments.
PTC talks to the locomotive and tells it and the engineer that the equipment is working or if something is not working
It is solid light on the bungalows to indicate utility power is on
Flashing light on the bungalow tells engineer that the bungalow is on emergency battery backup and Utility power is off
No light on the bungalows means utility power is out and battery backup is dead and nothing is working on the crossing
With ATCS the bungalows transmit a POK ( Power Off Bit ) indication that utility power is out and bungalow is on emergency battery backup power
PTC tells this information to the train as it passes but doesn't have a way to send the data to dispatch unless they have a data link at the bungalow to dispatch
The locomotive can store the faults in memory and transmit the faults to dispatch when a data link is available
When they run the engine " backwards ", when the cab is at the rear of the engine, does the engineer have cameras on the front facing part of the engine, always wondered
No, you either sit sideways or just use the side mirror to look down the long hood. No big deal, same view as an old steam locomotive.
Awesome video 👍😎🇺🇸🚂
Any idea where the lumber is from and maybe where it's going?
all i can think of in that second scene is what a horrible place for a fire station that is. imagine a mile long train hits someone half a mile down the track and goes into emergency, ambulance is now blocked by the train itself. LOL
Would you say the loco "logged on" to its trains?
TREE mendous thought but it WOOD nt be accurate
Great video Jason. Yes, I’m a subscriber. How about you folks reading this? Maybe the cop lives on other side of the tracks?
An orange freddy on back of train Good guess Jason!
Awesome video Jason
Those tilx hoppers have grain in them
Some who had been hanging round outside a concert venue in Manchester U.K. was not asked. What are you doing here. He was carrying a bomb which he detonated killing & wounding. Why did nobody question him ?
Usually it’s 50’ ROW , the RR was there first .
Train crew probably was going to Law Out & left the train. Probably wouldn’t hurt to get a Hi-Viz vest so drivers can see you; maybe put something (Railfan? Or ‘Photographer’) on the chest & back. Does the E&LS use radio? Probably be nice to pick up a portable scanner like the Bearcat/Uniden BC 125AT & a good magnetic roof mount to keep up w/the chatter. Will try to get some yard work done this weekend before it get unbearably hot/humid again next week. Being Disabled & a 40% Disabled Vet, it’ll take me a while.
This man has good advise I see more and more of the rail fans donning those greenish-yellow vests, because sometimes we blend in with the back ground for what ever reason and it can startle an engineer and he may put the train in emergency and run the risk of derailment, I've seen some videos by others that just that happened.
James, thank you for your service!
Very good advice.
Cops might becoming rail fans too 😂😂
Thanks for helping your friend…
Kindness goes such a long way these days
Never heard the couplers called connectors
38 rail cars. Is it a train without a locomotive? Or is just a cut of rail cars?
Be careful someone over there has got it in for you
Make sure you don’t trespass on railroad property they are looking for any little thing
@ernestpassaro what does this reply have to do with my comment?
Great video Jason. Just blow off the haters and the sorry @$$ panhandlers
Still 38 cars on the last pass.
I enjoy that video👍👍
Thanks 👍
That’s weird why they left in on the mainline
More than likely the crew ran out of time and could not legally work any longer. 14-hour days do get to you in the end.
Are the tracks are jointly rails?
They are jointed
It's funny tsb says truck drivers have to safety strap a load down but a train doesnt..why..
good train video
Only way to find out is to stop and ask him.
Dumped a load of wood here and there...been saying it for some time.