Honestly, nothing at LaGrange can surprise me anymore, unreal. Where is the Happy Honker @ Horseshoe Curve? Happy Memorial Day or “Decoration Day” as it is called @ our Home Place. Time to recall all of those who passed and left us sweet memories and the thoughts of “just one more minute, hour or day together.”
Or understand the white. If it comes through the center of your car, your gonna get rub rash from something very, very BIG!!! Even Dr. Sholles Cream can't fix 😮😂
There would be no where to park in town. Very little space as it is. I hope we get better at parking. It seems to be non-locals most of the time that end up like this
La Grange on the thumbnail two days in a row?! This is bound to be good! 0:27 four CP EMD narrow nose locomotives 0:58 BNSF and new livery Ferromex SD70ACes doubleheading 1:20 ten cars of John Deere tractors 2:03 P40 815 and Beech Grove business car at the front of the Capitol Limited 3:00 WOW! California Zephyr detoruing over UP tracks with Patrck Henry cars! It will miss Holridge, McCook, and Akron stations but would pass through Grand Island and North Platte which don't see Amtrak services 3:15 the one coming back the other way has the gray private cars 4:14 12-unit power move 5:03 a CN train on BNSF tracks 5:46 11-unit lash-up with two warbonnets 6:42 unusual Tetra-Tech car. Never seen one before 7:36 NS 8099 leading 7:56 combined Cascades trains of Horizon cars. The first one has a Phase V F40 cabbage 8:27 Hub Group Cause Container 8:36 ex-Citirail and Vancouver West Coast Express units 8:54 GPTM's small blue diesel pulling F45 93 and a caboose to the paint shed 11:00 the start of the La Grange clip 14:00 large mOW equipment 14:49 Ferromex boxcar in a new livery! I'm surprised they even bothered to repaint it as boxcars aren't used much anymore
Perhaps La Grange's entire street running section needs to be operated as one big crossing, so that all the barriers are down and traffic stopped before the train enters the section.
I agree. The crossing barriers were way too slow, creating an impossible situation for the driver. Tourist aren’t aware of the danger in this unusual situation. No one expects a train to be allowed in the same space as a vehicle. Remove all the parking stalls adjacent to the tracks before someone gets killed, please!!
That Loram Ballast Cleaner unit at 14:00 is always interesting to see. Those 2 wheels look like giant water wheels on the side of a historic cider mill or paddle wheels on a side wheel steamboat or whatever! And at 11:10 it looks like La Grange is beating Ashland for motorists screwing up around railroads! 😁
One of the things I also really like about this channel is the always changing scenes and the great Train workings and watching those Powerfull Locomotives do their stuff. Like I have said once before, Love The Content and thankyou so much for providing such a viewing platform for those whose love Rail and also thankyou to those who go out of their way to film such great Train movement, And always very high quality Video action. Regards.
@@BradRains Eliminate the parallel parking, and the traffic lane that overlaps the rails. Make it a one lane one way street, with a curb to keep the cars out of the rail space while allowing people to walk across to access the businesses. But then what would we do for entertainment? We'd go find some other trouble spot.
@@Soundersfan84 Parking would only be eliminated on one side. The diagonal parking would still be there. Unfortunately, people will have to walk farther.
Something better needs to be done at LaGrange, to many vehicles getting hot boxed downtown 11:20 they can't always see that train coming once they commit to going in that direction. There are not that many Darwin's around, looking to get their vehicle hit.
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Norfolk Southern 8099 looked very smart in its Heritage livery. BNSF 9780 Executive livery was also nice to see and after their trauma at La Grange, at least the Crew got a smile from the Wedding photos. I hope no-one in the car was seriously injured.
Nice lightning 🌩 and train footage in Colorado, I hope to catch the SRR GE ES44AC 8099 next week if I get to go film trains around Radford and Christiansburg VA maybe on the head end of a hopper train headed back towards Bluefield WVA!🛤🚂
I find myself agreeing with a comment made by a Railfan a few weeks ago about LaGrange. That section of the street with the parallel parking should be eliminated to allow for traffic flow only. Seems way too many accidents in that block. Loved the Grab Bag.
Great parade of EMDs on the ballast train at Revelstoke 🤩 People at La Grange need to learn to park and walk... might just save them money and embarrassment!!
Their is a limited number of beds over here in Australia for those who continue to flirt with train's in this manner and that's the local asylum. Another Great Video and Thanks.
So a train is coming towards you and you cannot get your car far enough to the right to get out of its way. The train is slow and yet there is nothing coming on the left hand side of the road, and plenty of space to avoid the railway tracks. I wouldn't have thought that the solution would be that difficult
2:46. Appears to be another part from Komatsu. Does the LaGrange paper have a column for the weekly wrecks on the street? Probably no empty storefronts right there because insurance agencies need to get the adjusters there quickly
Surprisingly, there aren't that many issues in LaGrange, the locals know what's going on and what to do and not to do with regard to parking and sharing the road with the railroad. It's just that the occasional collision will ALWAYS show up on camera since LaGrange is a favorite view on Virtual Railfan, and from there, highlight reels, compilations, etc. The set up in LaGrange has worked since 1830, which is when the railroad was laid down, and continues to work fine, as long as you aren't an imbecile. The person driving the car in the video is an imbecile.
Lol. I live here and you are right about there being no empty storefronts, but it's a bunch of shops set up to cater to people who don't actually live here and don't know how to behave around trains.
they just need to make adjustments there. No parking on that side would fix it. I think drivers panic in that situation. they could have possibly gunned it and gotten to the next street and taken a right to avoid the train. Instead, they froze.
Out of towner? Never been here before? It's rare to have rails in the streets. During the first month of operation of the city of Milwaukee's 'Hop", drivers kept hitting the street car even though it was the biggest news in Milwaukee for 'YEARS" as it was being built.
Okay that makes sense. I wonder about the people who had stops between Denver and Omaha? Were they bused to their stops or did they have to wait for the next train that went threw? Steven Sipes
Do any of you recall Isadora Duncan and her demise? Watching the happy, clueless bride in LaGrange, note her dress flitting into the roadway of a few tons of metal moving towards her. Imagine the flounce mixing with the wheels of the train, and Isadora revisited.
La Grange really needs to rework that road. It wouldn’t be very difficult to do something where the railroad is in a median and vehicle traffic only goes on the sides
Not enough room for two separate lanes with a center median. Local businesses and the town itself have resisted, and will likely continue to resist, anything that restricts access to the storefronts along the street. The railroad right-of-way's land rights pre-date the existence of the town, so the town, or more likely the state of Kentucky would have to foot the bill to move the rails and pay any lost revenues to CSX. Whish, yes, has been looked into. Total bill works out to a bit over half a billion dollars, and thats assuming that all parties involved can buy land for the new right-of-way to bypass the town, which is ..... questionable.
I've said this a few times: Eliminate the parallel parking and the lane on that side. Move the rails towards where the parking was. Then make the left side a one-way street, with a curb to keep the cars out of the rails while allowing pedestrians across for the businesses. It is either give up the parking and a little accessibility, or continue to deal with regular wrecks in this section.
saw that ex-BNSF KCS loco Saturday May 27th that PPEX coal train I will see this week reason Amtrak was going thru Kearney, NE was that the BNSF line was washed out in SE Nebraska
Liked that steam loco! Liked it all well not so sure about the parked cars at LaGrange and I love those endings!! Greetings from UK. Can I also say how much I like the Iowa camera Fort Madison is it?
I'm sorry, hazard lights will not stop a train. Newton's first law applies here: Every object will remain at rest or in uniform motion in a straight line unless compelled to change its state by the action of an external force. This tendency to resist changes in a state of motion is inertia. So basically, if a train is rolling, it takes a very long time to stop.
I'm with the folks who say La Grange needs to fix the parking. Can't blame every driver who turns that corner before the gates come down and then sees a train coming. Bringing down the gates earlier would help for starters.
Let me see if I got this right? A car double parked again and get bopped and a Wedding Party comes out and shows off ! And poor CSX saying nobody paying any attention to me ! Why LaGrange KY😂
The car was not double parked. It was looking for a parking spot. Driver not from around there so had no idea of this unusual situation where trains and cars share the same space. Also, if the barrier at the corner had worked correctly the driver never would have made that turn. Bad situation all round and just a tragedy waiting to happen.
I am amazed at how often I see long consists of military vehicles. Would they be shipping new vehicles to depots or transferring units for reallocation. This is something I don't think I have ever seen here in Australia, and I lived a great many years beside the railway bridges over the Brisbane River. The other thing I was wondering is about the double stacked containers. Is there a specific protocol in weight allocations so the wagons are never top heavy?
Military units in one region have their equipment transported to training bases in other regions, especially in California. It's very routine and commonplace. Well cars are designed with weight distribution in mind. The lower container is essentially a platform for the upper container, regardless of individual weights. As long as the gross tonnage of the overall car and its load aren't exceeded there is no problem.
0:52 Wow, Klemme hasn't shipped by rail in a long time now. IIRC, Uncle Pete pulled up their siding a year or two before trying to abandon the entire segment from Belmond, IA to Forest City, IA.
Same as last time, the car turned into the road with no warning there would be a train there (the alarms started right as they were doing the turn, not before) and no immediately obvious method of escape. They could have backed into one of the carparks on the westbound side of the road and waited for it to pass, but one doesn't always think of things like that in moments of stress such as being face to face with a train and no room on your side of the road to dodge it. Really they need to do one of 3 things, close the road to eastbound traffic altogether, remove the carparks on that side of the road or install a no turning arrow that comes on when the train is about halfway along the siding so turning cars have enough of warning to not turn in front of it without having to activate the main crossing too early. They have those arrows in Ashland. The Ashland ones do activate with the main crossing, but there's no reason why they couldn't program a set at La Grange to activate in advance of the crossing.
@@richardbause2453 And get a ticket for driving on the wrong side of the road? One could argue that getting a ticket is better than getting hit by a train, but having a road layout that forces you to make that choice isn't really acceptable.
2:02 That's an odd arrangement for an Amtrak train. I've never seen the baggage car in the middle of the train/ Maybe they want to isolate the first car from the rest of the passengers.
Actually, it's great railcar management. The Amtrak shops are located in northern IN, so the car is either going to be repaired or is being sent back to its normal home yard. This is somewhat rare, but, it happens all the time.
Once again the driver of highlighted car, people will risk a head on collision rather than god forbid hit the mirror on the passenger door , darwin person for sure
I’m confused. Is there not enough room on the right hand side? If not, what is a driver supposed to do if they take the right hand turn and the train is coming toward them and they can’t get far enough right?
Small town USA twith a freight line smack down mainstreet where people deal with 21st century time stamps. It's not the 1800s anymore. Nobody drives around in a horse and buggy.
I don't understand, why the car driver in La Grange hold the line? On the other side, no car coming. So would i change the side his car would be alive....
Humanity must question the logic of even allowing this to be possible. It’s not the driver’s fault for making a perfectly legal right turn, only to see there is a train coming at them and no place to go. Could have been so much worse…
the car turns while barriers are up. How does he know a train is coming? His only option is to flip in reverse and start the action movie. Could have made a U turn if he was quick. Probably get a ticket for that. 😀 Barriers need to come down as train makes the turn. Better to stop traffic a little longer. Then is definitely drivers fault if he runs the barrier.
Really ? An ambulance was needed ? For a Sideview mirror ? I know the RR was there first, but, why didn't they make the road wide enough for driving, and parking on both sides ???
Theirs really no place for the driver to go once they turn right and find out the train is coming towards them! And you really can't tell until after you make the turn. I wonder how many times this has happened?
Notice driver could have made a U-turn to other side, pulled into one of open park spaces on other side or even backed up to open space at intersection they had just come from. Also you could see that once they finished turn and saw train they did worst option, slowing to stop and doing nothing, sign of a possibly normally hesitant and unsure driver (going ahead and turning right at next intersection was probably too much to expect or even wise).
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The folks recently rehomed from Ashland to La Grange are settling in really well.
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This is peak channel lore and I love it.
Well, both states are in the south. That is enough explanation.
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Ok that wedding picture or whatever it was. Was kinda cool. Love to see the picture
Revelstoke has such a beautiful view :)
Even prettier when Revy comes around!🐻🤎
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Is La Grange another name for the Twilight Zone..just asking..
Honestly, nothing at LaGrange can surprise me anymore, unreal.
Where is the Happy Honker @ Horseshoe Curve?
Happy Memorial Day or “Decoration Day” as it is called @ our Home Place. Time to recall all of those who passed and left us sweet memories and the thoughts of “just one more minute, hour or day together.”
if they just didn't allow parking on that side of the street in La Grange, it would solve 99% of the problem.
Personally, I just think that people need to realize that they should back up when they're going that way and see a train coming.
Or understand the white. If it comes through the center of your car, your gonna get rub rash from something very, very BIG!!! Even Dr. Sholles Cream can't fix 😮😂
There would be no where to park in town. Very little space as it is. I hope we get better at parking. It seems to be non-locals most of the time that end up like this
@@ShakinHipsBustinLips or, and that’s a weird thought, park at the edges of this small town and walk? It’s not that hard?
@@pjotrtje0NL I was going to say the same thing it's like they can't even walk two blocks over there.
La Grange is a quiet little town. They jazz things up by having the locals and locomotives swap paint here and there with a wedding to follow.
Was a bit sad the moment I was about to walk around the corner it cut to the train starting to move 😂
That one with the tractor-trailer making a left turn at La Grange was epic, hard to beat that.
La Grange on the thumbnail two days in a row?! This is bound to be good!
0:27 four CP EMD narrow nose locomotives
0:58 BNSF and new livery Ferromex SD70ACes doubleheading
1:20 ten cars of John Deere tractors
2:03 P40 815 and Beech Grove business car at the front of the Capitol Limited
3:00 WOW! California Zephyr detoruing over UP tracks with Patrck Henry cars! It will miss Holridge, McCook, and Akron stations but would pass through Grand Island and North Platte which don't see Amtrak services
3:15 the one coming back the other way has the gray private cars
4:14 12-unit power move
5:03 a CN train on BNSF tracks
5:46 11-unit lash-up with two warbonnets
6:42 unusual Tetra-Tech car. Never seen one before
7:36 NS 8099 leading
7:56 combined Cascades trains of Horizon cars. The first one has a Phase V F40 cabbage
8:27 Hub Group Cause Container
8:36 ex-Citirail and Vancouver West Coast Express units
8:54 GPTM's small blue diesel pulling F45 93 and a caboose to the paint shed
11:00 the start of the La Grange clip
14:00 large mOW equipment
14:49 Ferromex boxcar in a new livery! I'm surprised they even bothered to repaint it as boxcars aren't used much anymore
Nice to see NS 8099 heritage unit back in service after being repaired from the rockslide derailment
Thank you for the update keep up with the good work virtual railfan I give you a two thumbs up
I lived near SRR for years. I never get tired of seeing the passenger paint scheme.
Perhaps La Grange's entire street running section needs to be operated as one big crossing, so that all the barriers are down and traffic stopped before the train enters the section.
I agree. The crossing barriers were way too slow, creating an impossible situation for the driver. Tourist aren’t aware of the danger in this unusual situation. No one expects a train to be allowed in the same space as a vehicle. Remove all the parking stalls adjacent to the tracks before someone gets killed, please!!
How frustrating for the train engineers having to deal with some of these humans.
The residents all blame the trains
That Loram Ballast Cleaner unit at 14:00 is always interesting to see. Those 2 wheels look like giant water wheels on the side of a historic cider mill or paddle wheels on a side wheel steamboat or whatever!
And at 11:10 it looks like La Grange is beating Ashland for motorists screwing up around railroads! 😁
Saw the Loram Ballast Cleaner in action live at La Plata, MO. Dusty as all get out and I wish one could be built and operate in N scale...
i mean you cant blame them, its a really tight space for the cars
One of the things I also really like about this channel is the always changing scenes and the great Train workings and watching those Powerfull Locomotives do their stuff.
Like I have said once before, Love The Content and thankyou so much for providing such a viewing platform for those whose love Rail and also thankyou to those who go out of their way to film such great Train movement,
And always very high quality Video action.
Regards.
Thank you, glad we give you some enjoyment
That lightning was awesome!!
La grange just needs to make that road one way already
Cars would STILL get hit.
@@BradRains Eliminate the parallel parking, and the traffic lane that overlaps the rails. Make it a one lane one way street, with a curb to keep the cars out of the rail space while allowing people to walk across to access the businesses. But then what would we do for entertainment? We'd go find some other trouble spot.
@@renegadeoflife87 and where are people g0ing to park
@@Soundersfan84 Parking would only be eliminated on one side. The diagonal parking would still be there. Unfortunately, people will have to walk farther.
Surely the real solution is to build a bypass or tunnel and not have all these accidents? (Let alone what the residents are breathing in)
Something better needs to be done at LaGrange, to many vehicles getting hot boxed downtown 11:20 they can't always see that train coming once they commit to going in that direction. There are not that many Darwin's around, looking to get their vehicle hit.
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Norfolk Southern 8099 looked very smart in its Heritage livery. BNSF 9780 Executive livery was also nice to see and after their trauma at La Grange, at least the Crew got a smile from the Wedding photos. I hope no-one in the car was seriously injured.
One of the best! How often do you get a bride & groom in the mix? My wife cracked up.
They could saved hiring a wedding photographer and just used the shots from VR!
I showed that part to my Wife. She ignored the Wedding group and just watched the train! I guess I trained her right…
No matter where you go in the world, there will be no shortage of Darwin Candidates!
The gift that keeps on giving.
Methinks you are mistaking the US with the world
Wow, that first place podium spot sure is quite crowded. 🤔🙄
10:58 for the "La Grange Lunacy" to unfold.
Nice lightning 🌩 and train footage in Colorado, I hope to catch the SRR GE ES44AC 8099 next week if I get to go film trains around Radford and Christiansburg VA maybe on the head end of a hopper train headed back towards Bluefield WVA!🛤🚂
I find myself agreeing with a comment made by a Railfan a few weeks ago about LaGrange. That section of the street with the parallel parking should be eliminated to allow for traffic flow only. Seems way too many accidents in that block. Loved the Grab Bag.
I think LaGrange needs to ban parking on that side of the street
The crossing arms should go down sooner at LaGrange...maybe would avoid this.
Great parade of EMDs on the ballast train at Revelstoke 🤩 People at La Grange need to learn to park and walk... might just save them money and embarrassment!!
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8099 back in business FTW 👍🏻
What the heck are they smokin' in La Grange ???????
I cant believe how a car driver can not see a large locomotive coming towards them and not get out of the way
I ain't a-movin'! I was here FIRST!
The train clipped off the car's mirror, but could have to bumped hard enough to fire the airbag?
Why not make a quick left turn into one of the parking spaces on the other side of the street? Or is that too simple?
I thought of that too, but it might not come to mind so easily when you're staring up at that biiiig engine!
The inspection car at 2:06. I believe I fought that one in Royal Oak, MI. We should get a camera there.
Their is a limited number of beds over here in Australia for those who continue to flirt with train's in this manner and that's the local asylum.
Another Great Video and Thanks.
So a train is coming towards you and you cannot get your car far enough to the right to get out of its way. The train is slow and yet there is nothing coming on the left hand side of the road, and plenty of space to avoid the railway tracks. I wouldn't have thought that the solution would be that difficult
2:46. Appears to be another part from Komatsu. Does the LaGrange paper have a column for the weekly wrecks on the street? Probably no empty storefronts right there because insurance agencies need to get the adjusters there quickly
the Adjusters come by train.
Surprisingly, there aren't that many issues in LaGrange, the locals know what's going on and what to do and not to do with regard to parking and sharing the road with the railroad. It's just that the occasional collision will ALWAYS show up on camera since LaGrange is a favorite view on Virtual Railfan, and from there, highlight reels, compilations, etc. The set up in LaGrange has worked since 1830, which is when the railroad was laid down, and continues to work fine, as long as you aren't an imbecile. The person driving the car in the video is an imbecile.
@@pietersleght6905 Lololol!!!
Lol. I live here and you are right about there being no empty storefronts, but it's a bunch of shops set up to cater to people who don't actually live here and don't know how to behave around trains.
@@dharmaqueen7877 the perfect summary!
Pretty good camera to slow lightning down like that.
that westcoast express engine use to be on the vancouver to mission run 8:43
Competition to Ashland
Some people really need to have their licenses permanently revoked. This was 1 of those.
10:55 it's almost as if the driver has no idea what the white line is for.
Or the rail tracks. Or the horn on the train. 🤣🤣
@@Siege69m OR the train
they just need to make adjustments there. No parking on that side would fix it. I think drivers panic in that situation. they could have possibly gunned it and gotten to the next street and taken a right to avoid the train. Instead, they froze.
Out of towner? Never been here before? It's rare to have rails in the streets. During the first month of operation of the city of Milwaukee's 'Hop", drivers kept hitting the street car even though it was the biggest news in Milwaukee for 'YEARS" as it was being built.
@@kevinfan726 yes , many of these are people panicking.
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Okay that makes sense. I wonder about the people who had stops between Denver and Omaha? Were they bused to their stops or did they have to wait for the next train that went threw? Steven Sipes
7:37 NS southern railway heritage unit 😊
Tractors!!! 🚜
Do any of you recall Isadora Duncan and her demise? Watching the happy, clueless bride in LaGrange, note her dress flitting into the roadway of a few tons of metal moving towards her. Imagine the flounce mixing with the wheels of the train, and Isadora revisited.
La Grange really needs to rework that road. It wouldn’t be very difficult to do something where the railroad is in a median and vehicle traffic only goes on the sides
I think you mean La Grange?
Not enough room for two separate lanes with a center median. Local businesses and the town itself have resisted, and will likely continue to resist, anything that restricts access to the storefronts along the street. The railroad right-of-way's land rights pre-date the existence of the town, so the town, or more likely the state of Kentucky would have to foot the bill to move the rails and pay any lost revenues to CSX. Whish, yes, has been looked into. Total bill works out to a bit over half a billion dollars, and thats assuming that all parties involved can buy land for the new right-of-way to bypass the town, which is ..... questionable.
@@vishnu79 Thanks for the info!
I've said this a few times: Eliminate the parallel parking and the lane on that side. Move the rails towards where the parking was.
Then make the left side a one-way street, with a curb to keep the cars out of the rails while allowing pedestrians across for the businesses.
It is either give up the parking and a little accessibility, or continue to deal with regular wrecks in this section.
Well maybe our local government might consider it after they are done unnecessarily building a new courthouse for themselves to larp around in.
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Okay, who's spiking the water supply in La Grange?
I bet the divers that have problems in La Grange are not from La Grange
saw that ex-BNSF KCS loco Saturday May 27th
that PPEX coal train I will see this week
reason Amtrak was going thru Kearney, NE was that the BNSF line was washed out in SE Nebraska
The N&W heritage unit was also in Roanoke to because me and my dad and I saw it
Because me and my dad and I saw it???
Doesn't makes sense, should say *because my dad and I saw it*
@@railfanningmichael3970 far enough
*Nice Catches*
Liked that steam loco! Liked it all well not so sure about the parked cars at LaGrange and I love those endings!! Greetings from UK. Can I also say how much I like the Iowa camera Fort Madison is it?
Hesperia needs some rain again!
3:30 saw those cars in Milwaukee yesterday and today
I'm sorry, hazard lights will not stop a train. Newton's first law applies here: Every object will remain at rest or in uniform motion in a straight line unless compelled to change its state by the action of an external force. This tendency to resist changes in a state of motion is inertia. So basically, if a train is rolling, it takes a very long time to stop.
Bet the auto body shops in town do real well!
Why was there two Amtrak trains on the UP line in Kearney NE? Steven Sipes
#5 and #6 rerouted due to flooding
And the score card is:
Lagrange 2
ASHLAND 2
I'm with the folks who say La Grange needs to fix the parking. Can't blame every driver who turns that corner before the gates come down and then sees a train coming. Bringing down the gates earlier would help for starters.
What was Amtrak doing in Kearney Nebraska?
He's just on his route to Chicago. Not sure where it's going.
Maybe the California Zephyr was rerouted due for some reason. Just a thought.
@@parailfan very heavy rains along the Route in that part of Nebraska the day before
@@paulbergen9114 Okay, you pretty much have explained why Amtrak went through Kearney. Thank you for sharing that with us.
@@paulbergen9114 Thanks for the explanation. I was surprised to see the Zephyr pass through Kearney (3:00).
"I'm thinking he's going to swerve first..."
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Who owns the dune buggies? Are they the same guys that patrol the border?
Let me see if I got this right? A car double parked again and get bopped and a Wedding Party comes out and shows off ! And poor CSX saying nobody paying any attention to me ! Why LaGrange KY😂
The car was not double parked. It was looking for a parking spot. Driver not from around there so had no idea of this unusual situation where trains and cars share the same space. Also, if the barrier at the corner had worked correctly the driver never would have made that turn. Bad situation all round and just a tragedy waiting to happen.
@ 3:00 Amtrak passed the Kearney webcam. Was that a reroute?
Yes, because of washout on regular route
I am amazed at how often I see long consists of military vehicles. Would they be shipping new vehicles to depots or transferring units for reallocation. This is something I don't think I have ever seen here in Australia, and I lived a great many years beside the railway bridges over the Brisbane River.
The other thing I was wondering is about the double stacked containers. Is there a specific protocol in weight allocations so the wagons are never top heavy?
Military units in one region have their equipment transported to training bases in other regions, especially in California. It's very routine and commonplace.
Well cars are designed with weight distribution in mind. The lower container is essentially a platform for the upper container, regardless of individual weights. As long as the gross tonnage of the overall car and its load aren't exceeded there is no problem.
A lot of the military equipment is either going or coming from National Training Center (Fort Irwin) California.
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0:52 Wow, Klemme hasn't shipped by rail in a long time now. IIRC, Uncle Pete pulled up their siding a year or two before trying to abandon the entire segment from Belmond, IA to Forest City, IA.
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Same as last time, the car turned into the road with no warning there would be a train there (the alarms started right as they were doing the turn, not before) and no immediately obvious method of escape. They could have backed into one of the carparks on the westbound side of the road and waited for it to pass, but one doesn't always think of things like that in moments of stress such as being face to face with a train and no room on your side of the road to dodge it. Really they need to do one of 3 things, close the road to eastbound traffic altogether, remove the carparks on that side of the road or install a no turning arrow that comes on when the train is about halfway along the siding so turning cars have enough of warning to not turn in front of it without having to activate the main crossing too early. They have those arrows in Ashland. The Ashland ones do activate with the main crossing, but there's no reason why they couldn't program a set at La Grange to activate in advance of the crossing.
How about crossing over to the other side where there is plenty of room 🤔 😮 for the little common sense for the driver could not comprehend.
@@richardbause2453 And get a ticket for driving on the wrong side of the road? One could argue that getting a ticket is better than getting hit by a train, but having a road layout that forces you to make that choice isn't really acceptable.
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2:02 That's an odd arrangement for an Amtrak train. I've never seen the baggage car in the middle of the train/ Maybe they want to isolate the first car from the rest of the passengers.
Actually, it's great railcar management. The Amtrak shops are located in northern IN, so the car is either going to be repaired or is being sent back to its normal home yard. This is somewhat rare, but, it happens all the time.
That is the Amtrak office/inspection car "Beech Grove" behind the loco on a ferry move.
Once again the driver of highlighted car, people will risk a head on collision rather than god forbid hit the mirror on the passenger door , darwin person for sure
I’m confused. Is there not enough room on the right hand side? If not, what is a driver supposed to do if they take the right hand turn and the train is coming toward them and they can’t get far enough right?
back up, turn around.
If you look carefully, there are cars parked on the right hand side.
@@nycfeat but my question remains, what are you supposed to do when you take a right and a train is coming.
@@devtrash Not a great plan. LOL. I'd imagine a visitor would think backing up on Main Street is not legal.
8:17 "Hy-rail vehicles lift frog"?
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Why was there Amtrak at Kearney?
7:37 Norfolk Southern 755
6:17 Just for anyone's info, that's a steel coil car.
Senc when does Amtrak go through Kearney
Heavy rains washed out its normal route.
Amtrak goes through Kearny?
No. They do the BNSF from Lincoln to Denver. This was a reroute.
Heavy rains washed out the normal route.
Why is there an Amtrak train in Kearney, Nebraska?
Inclement weather detour.
Flooding on the BN in south Nebraska.
Small town USA twith a freight line smack down mainstreet where people deal with 21st century time stamps. It's not the 1800s anymore. Nobody drives around in a horse and buggy.
1:06 Sand?
I don't understand, why the car driver in La Grange hold the line?
On the other side, no car coming. So would i change the side his car would be alive....
The crew at Lagrange had to be questioning humanity ay some point
Humanity must question the logic of even allowing this to be possible. It’s not the driver’s fault for making a perfectly legal right turn, only to see there is a train coming at them and no place to go. Could have been so much worse…
ok i have seen about everything
the car turns while barriers are up. How does he know a train is coming? His only option is to flip in reverse and start the action movie. Could have made a U turn if he was quick. Probably get a ticket for that. 😀 Barriers need to come down as train makes the turn. Better to stop traffic a little longer. Then is definitely drivers fault if he runs the barrier.
Driver of car could have gotten out of the way but decided to stop. The train could have stopped in time but didn't.
Why was amtrak running in Kearney
Weather/flooding issues on normal BNSF route.
So weird to see Amtrak at Kearney.
It's part of the California Zephyr route. The stop is in McCook, NE.
@@jackieheidorn5875Amtrak takes the BNSF from Chicago to Denver. This was a reroute on the Overland Route.
Why were they rerouting?
I think there was some flooding thst forced the rerout.
@@cwshawk Amtrak needs to take over the Overland Limited
So from a car getting hit by a train to someone gping to the ER to someone in a wedding dress 😐
Must have been a very interesting day there at La Grange.
You didn't notice the carshow going on at the square too.
@@thud105f there was?!
Yet another reason not to blink. If you do, you miss half of what is going on.
I'm sure every engineer dreads Lagrange. 🙄
Really ? An ambulance was needed ? For a Sideview mirror ? I know the RR was there first, but, why didn't they make the road wide enough for driving, and parking on both sides ???
Pure speculation, but perhaps the driver had a panic attack and the authorities decided to send him/her to the hospital to rule out a heart attack.
@Sarah Renz True, or a concerned citizen called just in case. Or maybe, it's RR rules. Who knows.
@@SarahRenz59 I know I would panic if I had that kind of a close encounter!
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Theirs really no place for the driver to go once they turn right and find out the train is coming towards them! And you really can't tell until after you make the turn. I wonder how many times this has happened?
Notice driver could have made a U-turn to other side, pulled into one of open park spaces on other side or even backed up to open space at intersection they had just come from. Also you could see that once they finished turn and saw train they did worst option, slowing to stop and doing nothing, sign of a possibly normally hesitant and unsure driver (going ahead and turning right at next intersection was probably too much to expect or even wise).
@@kennethhanks6712 I was kinda wondering why the ambulance was there!
@@kennethhanks6712 Probably a driver that doesn't know how to drive without a navigation system telling them where to go.