Merry Christmas to all the wonderful people of VRGB!! I trust you all have a blessed Holiday with family and friends!! And thank you for another superb video!! Great ending to this one!!
Oh, wow! I love 1309 and rewound the first clip just to hear her voice again--and then to see her at the end with that terrific music was just perfect. The rainy lights in Virginia looked like an Impressionist painting, and I never realized till you sped up the footage that the tips of those wind turbine blades flex like that. This GB was amazing, and I really needed it tonight--thank you!
Some nice Freight Roster Rarities tonight, thanks VRF. Big Sandy @0:38 a Boston & Maine (I presume) Hopper slipped-by and at 0:28 there was Coil-Car with an Angled Hood, I'm pleased to note. I have collected 14 No. of the old Walthers kits.
Guess I'm old fashioned. Why weren't the "gentlemen" ensuring the ladies were safely off the track? I'm not saying the women aren't capable. I'm saying they are more valuable. I'm proud to be a dinosaur.
0:50 I thought you couldn't get to that spot easily, hence why we haven't seen anybody 0:58 MoPac boxcar 1:14 Darwin High class of 2024. The long-haired one in the black was voted "Most likely to get hit by a train." although all seven were nominated 1:54 CP heritage leader with KCS unit trailing 2:16 two H2 dash 9s, an H3 SW1500 with large logo, and six geeps in H3 2:36 CSX inspection boxcar 2:40 the Grinch on a motorcycle! He already stole some doorstep decorations! 2:50 CSX 1973 as mid-train DPU 3:13 Brightline BrightGreen train 3:22 Reading and Northern hoppers 3:38 Chessie boxcar 4:08 Amtrak 301 "Blackout" trailing behind a P42 4:30 Amtrak proceeds then stops as another passes by 5:24 both Amtraks stop at Ashland 6:33 2-6-6-2 1309 has a horn? That was more common on the Southern Pacific and Milwuakee Road 8:12 lots of wind turbine blades (again at 10:12) 9:11 NS 4415 with inspection coach 33. This car is usually paired with inspection slug NS 34 9:28 lots of MSC containers as well as MOW equipment on the same train 9:47 geep with MOW train 11:20 Ferromex unit on a Military train slowing to a stop 12:33 double warbonnets 12:50 this practice of drawbarring freight cars together is more common on intermodal trains. Each car does not have an A or B like the C1 cars we saw in a previous grab bag 13:20 P&W train in Springfield as an Amtrak with a P42 at each end pulls in 15:20 Guilford, KCS, and Pan-Am boxcars. ending the video with B&W footage of 1309
CSX911 would've came through Cumberland between midnight and 1am this morning as second DPU on coal drag, went by my house near Plane#4 old main at 3:30am
Those green things are Boeing 737 fuselages. They're coming from McConnell Air Force Base, KIAB, on the east side of Wichita, KS. The base is also a Boeing manufacturing plant.
Watching trains is great any time of the day or night whether it is sunny, warm, cloudy, rainy or snowy outside as long as you watch them at a safe distance Thank You and Merry Christmas Virtual Railfan Grab Bag and to all of the people who like watching trains.🚂🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🇺🇲💨
Does anyone out there know why there was a stop order at the grade crossing in Chehalis by chance? It was enacted all night and every train had to stop n have the fireman get out to watch for traffic. The cross gates and lights were fully functioning and all too. Very, very weird.
Earlier that night an SUV went around the gates at that crossing and got hit by the train they were down for, then about two minutes later an Amtrak coming from the other direction hit it as well even though it was slowing down in emergency stop mode. They had to "protect the crossing" until they could get a crew out to check that none of the sensors were damaged by the accident and that the crossing was working properly.
@davehughesfarm7983 In most cases you would be correct an no big deal but there are enough instances every year where people, inadvertently or otherwise, do themselves in by "train accident". When you are in the cab of a train, even at a slower speed, when there are people on the tracks ahead you can't help but have the doubts as to whether they will move in time or should you be considering the brakes along with the horns and bell. Enough people don't move in time that you might not be aware that most larger railroads have counselors on retainer for operating crew who have ridden into a tragedy beyond their control and have to live with it. You might want to check out a recent You Tube video by True Crime Zone called "They decided to take a photo with a train" that resulted in the death of three teenage girls some years back. So yeah-you never know.
6:00 "City Christmas lights, railroad signal lights, blink a bright red and green, and on every street corner you hear: Silver bells (silver bells), Silver bells (silver bells) …"
The fire holes in CO 1309 firebox sides are Exactly that bec. OK!! ause they allow Extra air to mix with the gasses above the coal and give better combustion!! OK!! LETS GO 1309!!!!! ALL ABOARD,!! TOOT-TOOT,!! HIGHBALL,!! 👋 CLEAR THE TRACKS,!!!!! GIANT COMPOUND ARTICULATED MALLET COMING THROUGH,!!-!🚂🚂🚂🚂🚂🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃. GOD ✝️✡🕎BLESS🙏 AMERICA🇺🇸🦅🕊🗽⛪!!!!! GLORY ALLELUIA!!! AMEN!! PRAY FOR PEACE ALL AROUND THE WORLD, 🌎🌍🌏🌐🧭!!!💒 MERRY CHRISTMAS 2023 A.D.!! 🧭🌎🚂🚃🕛🌜❄☃️. 🦌🦌🦌🦌🦌🦌🦌🦌🎅🤶🧑🎄👼🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 🌜🌜🌜🌜🌜🌜🌜🌜🌜🌜🌜🌜🌜 ❄❄❄❄❄❄❄❄❄❄❄❄❄ 🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄 🎁🎁🎁🎁🎁🎁🎁🎁🎁🎁🎁🎁🎁 🏡🏡🏡🏡🏡🏡🏡🏡🏡🏡🏡🏡🏡 😃🥳❤🤟✌🏻☝🙏👶👦👧🧑🏿👨🦰👩🦰👱♀️👴👵🧑🦼👨👩👧👦🥰😇😊🤗😲💞💗!!! OK.MON.DEC.17.2023A.D.
Lead in their drinking water? Can't say "No harm, no foul", because train crews are suffering pyschological harm over a "cute" photo or publicity stunt.
Notice that CSX "boxcar" is lettered Do Not Hump. It is actually a track geometry monitoring car with instrumentation inside and the red glow underneath are laser sensors relaying data to the recording devices inside.
What's really tragic about defective-gene beneficiaries playing on the track is the train gets it's schedule messed up. Plus they have to waste time giving the locomotive a good hosing. Inconsiderate! 🙄
At least your Darwin's were smart enough to have a look out! FYI, the MOW gang that had been working on the UP along US 79 in Hutto moved on to UP main 2 in Buda, TX today.....at 11 MPH, which is apparently their max speed. They left about 3 PM for what I am guessing was a 60 mile jog. I hope they made it before dark. Move was due to UP not wanting to shut down the line through Hutto, which is a single track main, anymore than they have to, since this line is used for both ingress and egress by Amtrak.
At 2:37 that is not a buffer car as it is in a regular freight consist and not between locos and hazmat cars (usually tank cars of flammable liquids). This is a CSX car that can be a misleading-note the "Do Not Hump" lettering. This is a track geometry testing car used by CSX to evaluate track conditions and the red glow you see underneath is from a laser detection system used to gather roadway data.
Odd seeing containers not being stacked.. i mean most don't stack except USA and India.. rest are single containers and Short trains. is the US shifting to cut down on stealing or these was just something that happens from time to time..?
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THe closing black and white of the steam locomotive was very nice.
Hardly anything more forlorn-sounding than that horn.
yes
The closing snippet of Cumberland Maryland in B&W and music was superb!
Music tempo went well with steam driven wheels turning.
My Muse by Benjamin Carey covering the stream engine was so so good!! Thank you.
To me picking music is the most natural thing, but the hardest if that makes sense. Benjamin is so good that he makes me forget what I’m doing.
Watching Virtual Railfan at the end of the day always does the trick! Happy holidays to everyone who puts these wonderful videos together.
Merry Christmas to all the wonderful people of VRGB!! I trust you all have a blessed Holiday with family and friends!! And thank you for another superb video!! Great ending to this one!!
Besides the big Darwin Candidate party, I just can’t get enough of Western Maryland 1309! It’s amazing that they brought that locomotive back to life!
How Treating.
For their polar express thing
Western Md 1309 ride on 10/29/2023 was my gift from my kids for my 79th!
8:00 Must have been a sale on black & white gingham/plaid pants in Cumberland MD 😄👍
WM 1309 has a beautiful whistle, love the wind turbine blade train, those were definitely Darwin candidates
Love the night shot and the B&W shot of Western Maryland 1309.
That Flagstaff double-shot of double-stacks at 11:00 was pretty neat!
06:50, beautiful steam scene @ Cumberland. 👍
Oh, wow! I love 1309 and rewound the first clip just to hear her voice again--and then to see her at the end with that terrific music was just perfect. The rainy lights in Virginia looked like an Impressionist painting, and I never realized till you sped up the footage that the tips of those wind turbine blades flex like that. This GB was amazing, and I really needed it tonight--thank you!
Nice production, annotations, variety of location, landscape and cargo, train types , slowing to look at items - fun to watch!
Great train action, thank you
The the parting shot was beautiful and the music was a perfect fit.
Thank you and Happy Holidays!
Wow! Great catching all the trains, especially people dressed up as Santa Claus, @Virtual Railfan, thank you.
And don't forget the Grinch!!
Another good grab bag and another awesome ending, good show VRF!
Some nice Freight Roster Rarities tonight, thanks VRF. Big Sandy @0:38 a Boston & Maine (I presume) Hopper slipped-by and at 0:28 there was Coil-Car with an Angled Hood, I'm pleased to note. I have collected 14 No. of the old Walthers kits.
Great "Grab-Bag"...thank you!!
Beautiful steamer ❤ Great work!
It's halarious, the hand wringing here when people get too near the tracks...
The seven, count them, SEVEN, Darwin Award Candidates. That has to be a record here on Virtual Railfan.
Certainly were casual about it.
The train was 100's of yards away.....you guys panic because of the angle of the camera. RELAX FRANCIS!!
@@dfphillips1433No one's panicking. They're disgusted.
Wow they was casket ready
@@godofdestruction4636😂😂
I ❤ The Grab Bag.
The ladies were even slower at clearing off the tracks, come on gals!
Guess I'm old fashioned. Why weren't the "gentlemen" ensuring the ladies were safely off the track? I'm not saying the women aren't capable. I'm saying they are more valuable. I'm proud to be a dinosaur.
Found and downloaded artist, Bejamin Carey, from the end. Music and visual - doesn't get any better. Nice VRFGB!
Yep, he’s all that! It only took a few seconds to say, “that’s it!”
0:50 I thought you couldn't get to that spot easily, hence why we haven't seen anybody
0:58 MoPac boxcar
1:14 Darwin High class of 2024. The long-haired one in the black was voted "Most likely to get hit by a train." although all seven were nominated
1:54 CP heritage leader with KCS unit trailing
2:16 two H2 dash 9s, an H3 SW1500 with large logo, and six geeps in H3
2:36 CSX inspection boxcar
2:40 the Grinch on a motorcycle! He already stole some doorstep decorations!
2:50 CSX 1973 as mid-train DPU
3:13 Brightline BrightGreen train
3:22 Reading and Northern hoppers
3:38 Chessie boxcar
4:08 Amtrak 301 "Blackout" trailing behind a P42
4:30 Amtrak proceeds then stops as another passes by
5:24 both Amtraks stop at Ashland
6:33 2-6-6-2 1309 has a horn? That was more common on the Southern Pacific and Milwuakee Road
8:12 lots of wind turbine blades (again at 10:12)
9:11 NS 4415 with inspection coach 33. This car is usually paired with inspection slug NS 34
9:28 lots of MSC containers as well as MOW equipment on the same train
9:47 geep with MOW train
11:20 Ferromex unit on a Military train slowing to a stop
12:33 double warbonnets
12:50 this practice of drawbarring freight cars together is more common on intermodal trains. Each car does not have an A or B like the C1 cars we saw in a previous grab bag
13:20 P&W train in Springfield as an Amtrak with a P42 at each end pulls in
15:20 Guilford, KCS, and Pan-Am boxcars.
ending the video with B&W footage of 1309
*Nice Catches*
To the magnificent seven the more you mess around with trains the quicker you find out about them 😮😮
The Amtrak silver service train with the day 1 alc 42 I saw that out my window!!!
CSX911 would've came through Cumberland between midnight and 1am this morning as second DPU on coal drag, went by my house near Plane#4 old main at 3:30am
2:45, It's the Grinch! You're a mean one Mr. Grinch!
♪♫ I wouldn't touch you with a.... 39 and a half foot pole!!! ♫♪
Those green things are Boeing 737 fuselages. They're coming from McConnell Air Force Base, KIAB, on the east side of Wichita, KS. The base is also a Boeing manufacturing plant.
Spirit Aviation builds them in Wichita
Watching trains is great any time of the day or night whether it is sunny, warm,
cloudy, rainy or snowy outside as long as you watch them at a safe distance
Thank You and Merry Christmas Virtual Railfan Grab Bag and to all of the
people who like watching trains.🚂🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🇺🇲💨
I've sat at The Hammond Whiting Amtrak station in a Chicago BLIZZARD watching trains. It was awesome, lol
You saved the best till last!
Love it.
Those 7 people in Washington last camera pic would had turn out dangerous & deadly
Great Grab Bag. Merry Christmas!
Does anyone out there know why there was a stop order at the grade crossing in Chehalis by chance? It was enacted all night and every train had to stop n have the fireman get out to watch for traffic. The cross gates and lights were fully functioning and all too. Very, very weird.
Earlier that night an SUV went around the gates at that crossing and got hit by the train they were down for, then about two minutes later an Amtrak coming from the other direction hit it as well even though it was slowing down in emergency stop mode. They had to "protect the crossing" until they could get a crew out to check that none of the sensors were damaged by the accident and that the crossing was working properly.
@@FrozenRose816😢 Did the people or person survive ? Did they have time to get out ? 😮
Thanks for the information about that . 🖖
1:20 What exactly are that group posing on the tracks for? School pictures?
wedding photos?
Awesome Video!
🌼💮🇮🇳💮🌼
I can really see someone telling you to cut the train between those two cars. "We can't cut it here. The cars are drawbared together."
And we got to see the Grinch on a motorcycle
Will the Burgermeister Meister Burger be next? 🙂
Was that a "Gold Wing" or another bike? Please correct me.
Oh and love the steam train breathing and running clean and efficient, I don't need a dirty show, just sayin...
The Darwin pack mentality at its finest
Getting a picture is one thing, but gosh, those two really lingered and didn't really show any hustle.
@@andrewl9191 Getting a picture on private property is NEVER a good idea!
1:29 come one people! Think of the engineer!! He probably had a heart attack! Don’t mess with trains, train ALWAYS wins.
Really? Train was 500 yards away not 50 feet!
@davehughesfarm7983 In most cases you would be correct an no big deal but there are enough instances every year where people, inadvertently or otherwise, do themselves in by "train accident".
When you are in the cab of a train, even at a slower speed, when there are people on the tracks ahead you can't help but have the doubts as to whether they will move in time or should you be considering the brakes along with the horns and bell. Enough people don't move in time that you might not be aware that most larger railroads have counselors on retainer for operating crew who have ridden into a tragedy beyond their control and have to live with it.
You might want to check out a recent You Tube video by True Crime Zone called "They decided to take a photo with a train" that resulted in the death of three teenage girls some years back.
So yeah-you never know.
@@davehughesfarm7983It can cover that distance in less than 30 seconds.
😮 Oh.. that Steam engine! How could those Cars NOT STOP to watch that . 😊 Must be normal . 😅
Those people on the tracks reminds me of the family playing on the train tracks nearly got hit on the Greencastle pa cam a few years ago.
Same
I dont think the sunshines in Elkhart, IN...Gloomiest place always..
16:30 = Priceless!
That one woman who saw the train coming, crossed the tracks to join her friends, then took her time crossing back, tho ... 😮😮
Wow 1:48 this is why shoools needs OLS back in to show what not to do
Why is there a CN with the KCS car?
Should be CP.
Good shots of WM 2-6-6-4 fire 🔥 box at night, good action in Roanoke and Merry Christmas!🎄🛤🚂
6:00 "City Christmas lights, railroad signal lights, blink a bright red and green, and on every street corner you hear: Silver bells (silver bells), Silver bells (silver bells) …"
At least they got dressed up to get their awards
Apparently happened in chehalis last night is a train hit the car on the tracks and got hit by 2 trains on the each track
Re: the 7 Darwins... so suits and ties don't make you smart???
AWESOME GREAT VIDEO😊😊👍👍🚂🚂🚂🚝🚝🚝🚞🚞🚞
What were or what are the "fire holes" on the side of the huge steam engine for?
The fire holes in CO 1309 firebox sides are Exactly that bec. OK!! ause they allow Extra air to mix with the gasses above the coal and give better combustion!! OK!! LETS GO 1309!!!!!
ALL ABOARD,!! TOOT-TOOT,!!
HIGHBALL,!! 👋
CLEAR THE TRACKS,!!!!!
GIANT COMPOUND ARTICULATED MALLET COMING THROUGH,!!-!🚂🚂🚂🚂🚂🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃.
GOD ✝️✡🕎BLESS🙏 AMERICA🇺🇸🦅🕊🗽⛪!!!!!
GLORY ALLELUIA!!!
AMEN!!
PRAY FOR PEACE ALL AROUND THE WORLD, 🌎🌍🌏🌐🧭!!!💒
MERRY CHRISTMAS 2023 A.D.!!
🧭🌎🚂🚃🕛🌜❄☃️.
🦌🦌🦌🦌🦌🦌🦌🦌🎅🤶🧑🎄👼🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
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🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄
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🏡🏡🏡🏡🏡🏡🏡🏡🏡🏡🏡🏡🏡
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OK.MON.DEC.17.2023A.D.
Where is that H3 SW1000 3606 going? It looks to have a small white patch underneath it. How come it's not been marked GN yet?
Vancouver, WA for it's new assignment. Interbay Roundhouse where is was assigned is closed. It is GN.
@@chrissalmonson6561 Okay
Lead in their drinking water? Can't say "No harm, no foul", because train crews are suffering pyschological harm over a "cute" photo or publicity stunt.
I doubt it.....
What was that on those trucks at 2:39?
Notice that CSX "boxcar" is lettered Do Not Hump. It is actually a track geometry monitoring car with instrumentation inside and the red glow underneath are laser sensors relaying data to the recording devices inside.
Buddy you missed the Boston and main Cement Hopper in the beginning
Someone should clean the camera at the TVRM at Chattanooga. There's a dead bug caught in a spiders web that's been there for weeks.
What a dolt that last Darwin is taking her own sweet time. Must be nice to be totally invincible and have total control over all things.
1:14 😮
What's really tragic about defective-gene beneficiaries playing on the track is the train gets it's schedule messed up. Plus they have to waste time giving the locomotive a good hosing. Inconsiderate! 🙄
And think of the paperwork...!!
Ready To Railfanning In 2024 New Generation Was Coming 😁😁
1:15 you probably should've called the cops
1309 ❤❤ 🚂
What was one (1) of the Female Darwin’s looking 👀 for, her Contact Lenses ? 🤪👎
The seven Darwin's should be exposed
Good grief.....Relax....
🎼A rainy night in Ashland...🎶 (not Georgia...😊)
I can't even nope -
I wonder how much one of those turbine blades weighs
About 70 tons, depending on overall length.
what is NO PAC
At least your Darwin's were smart enough to have a look out! FYI, the MOW gang that had been working on the UP along US 79 in Hutto moved on to UP main 2 in Buda, TX today.....at 11 MPH, which is apparently their max speed. They left about 3 PM for what I am guessing was a 60 mile jog. I hope they made it before dark. Move was due to UP not wanting to shut down the line through Hutto, which is a single track main, anymore than they have to, since this line is used for both ingress and egress by Amtrak.
Train at Deshler crossroads buffer car had a major issue
At 2:37 that is not a buffer car as it is in a regular freight consist and not between locos and hazmat cars (usually tank cars of flammable liquids).
This is a CSX car that can be a misleading-note the "Do Not Hump" lettering. This is a track geometry testing car used by CSX to evaluate track conditions and the red glow you see underneath is from a laser detection system used to gather roadway data.
@@kennethhanks6712 Didnt realize CSX was using these cars for track geometry,looked like a wheel was dragging and throwing sparks
Did someone say 7 🤔😏 🙈
15:27 No, Nope, Never, Error!!!
CN did NOT merge with KCS, the CP did. CN tried and failed.
I came here to see if anyone else noticed this.
@@nsu2112 Many entries down others also make the statement, I'm late to the game.
"The Happening"
I saw a loco with antlers yesterday. Very strange..🙄
Odd seeing containers not being stacked.. i mean most don't stack except USA and India.. rest are single containers and Short trains. is the US shifting to cut down on stealing or these was just something that happens from time to time..?
Most singles come from eastern ports, and not all have tunnel clearance, CSX/NS
Don’t forget. To be a Darwin Award candidate, ones foolishness must result in ones demise. Look it up.
We're using the "Urban Dictionary" version, lol.
1:35 those seven guys needs to stay off the tracks when there's a BNSF train coming
40 seconds in and you guys missed one a Boston and main hopper
1:14 -1:50 what in the name of god! do they think they can tank that ore train or something?
The 7 dummies..what if there been another train the other way.. what if someone fell.. Merry Christmas to all.
CN/KCS??? REALLY!!
Yeah, i was like "No, it's the other CN, the one that used to end with a 'P'."
Noticed that too. WTH?
Me three!
I hate seeing those diesels at the end of a steam engine
FRA rules, should the steam loco fail the train has a way off the mainline.
I know about the FRA rules. But I would rather see the steam engine pulling it
@@stephenhudson8739 The Steam Loco "IS" pulling it. Just like if you had an FT A-B set and an SD70ACe in the lash-up.
hello Virtual Railfan & it's is randy and i like yours video is cool Virtual Railfan friends randy & Merry Christmas & Happy New Year's
1:40 They aren't Darwin Candidates any more than a person crossing the tracks at the road a few feet away!
Darwin candidates was a stretch.
7 aint nothing couple of years ago metra in Chicago smacked 9 cars in one pass😂
I think those Darwins had it under control. They knew that train was coming. Not recommended though.
Hmm idk man, they moved out of the way of the train. Feel like this is false advertising 👎
One way to get killed lol
What I want to know is how those Darwin nominees got away without being arrested for trespassing?
Tens of thousands of people walk on railroad tracks everyday.....What? Ya want life without parole?
1:35 What's wrong with people