Glad you enjoyed it Paul. It was a pretty neat view, first time I ever showed a video at that location. Thank you so much for taking the time to go rail fanning with us my friend.
Glad you liked the train Randall. That's a short train, typically here the coal unit trains are 110 to 120 cars. Thank you so much for taking the time to go rail fanning with us my friend.
What still amazes me about old RR bridges and over crossing, is I bet the designers or civil engineers had absolutely no idea of the trains that would be on them today... and those structures are not even blinking an eye on what is on them today. We have several RR structures around my area built in the early 1900's that look old and decrepit... and then I see a huge BNSF manifest pounding along its way, and you could almost hear the old boy saying "no problem, I'm not even breaking a sweat".
You are absolutely right about that Henry. In 1919 there is no way they could have known the trains would be so heavy or so long as they are now. And back then they had small 40 foot cars. If you search NS has a weight chart on every one of their bridges, the bridges on the Mon Line have exceptional weight ratings compared to some of the one they have in their system. Thank you so much for taking the time to go rail fanning with us my friend.
Hi Dave its Lair here another great video you are one of the best trained guys out there I love watching all your videos I haven't missed any and I'm glad I'm part a both your channels
Excellent Lair, great to have you join in with us here on the 2nd channel too. Really glad you are enjoying all the home movies. Thank you so much for taking the time to go rail fanning with us toady my friend.
Dave, they sure built things to last. I live near the Thomas Viaduct and I’m humbled by the structure and how trains never envisioned by the designers and builders still use it
Your right about that Jim. Back when that bridge was built they had all 40 foot cars and never imagined the heavy weights trains would have now. Thanks so much for rail fanning with me and hope you have a really good day.
Your welcome Al Ro. Someday I'll do a video on google earth and follow the tracks from Shire Oaks to Baily Mine, it follows 88 for a long way as does the river. Thank you very much for watching and hope you have a really good day.
Many of the train crews on the Mon Line know me Beverly, although I have no idea who the crew was on this train. I get a lot of salutes and a good many of the NS crews watch my videos. Thank you so much for taking the time to go rail fanning with us my friend.
The topography out there sure is more interesting than my part of Texas. Beautiful part of the world you live in, Dave. Thanks for sharing that with us as well as that empty coal drag.
This Mon Line has a ton of cool places to watch trains from Shane, you would love it here, but about the only SD locos we ever see are 70 series. 80%of the locos here are GE. Great to have you join us here on the channel too my friend. Thank you so much for taking the time to go rail fanning with us.
@@ThatsDavesOtherDoings EMD's are my favorite as you know but watching trains in a beautiful location is something I have yet to experience. I could live with a few ES44AC's, lol.
Solud Bridge, Definitely some cool rock formations, that was a long train. To bad we didn't get to see the Graffiti car, I bet we miss alot of that when we rail fan, but we just don't know it.. good stuff Dave
My buddy sent me a pic of the car, but it came heic file. Phone could read it but computer wouldn't, or else I would have included it. Will text it to you. Thank you so much for taking the time to go rail fanning with us my friend.
Hi Dave, hopped over here to your other doings ( subscribed 😊) great video. Guess the train operators ( engineers, conductors) should know who you are ,and justly given a salute. Railroading, Love the videos My friend, you all take care Thanks Mark UK
Excellent. Great to have you join in with us here Mark. Some of the train crews do know me, but I can't see in the cabs to know who they are. Thank you so much for rail fanning with us.
The scene of an aging underpass/bridge, closed off to traffic with bright, modern orange/white barricades, might be something to create on a model railroad!! 🚧🚧🚧
I did a similar scene many years ago on my Garden Railroad. Had an old wooden bridge that had deteriorated and was falling apart. The side braces had broken and the bridge looked like it hadn't been in service for 70 years. Made a small gravel style road under the bridge and into a pond. I had flashing yellow barricades and even STOP Signs with a red L.E.D. on top and one at the bottom that alternately flashed. I took some of the old bridge pieces and let them fall randomly on the road under the bridge and around the road on each side of the bridge. It looked really cool and when I took video of it, at the right angle it looked just like it was a 1:1 real train and not a G scale model train. Also had sounds in the locomotives and sound cars along the trains rolling stock that emulated wheel and brake squeals, clickety clacks of jointed rail and I always had a trip to set the loco bell and crossing horn as it rolled over that decrepit old haunted, creepy, and abandoned looking bridge. Sadly, when my computer did its nightly backup routine one night, something happened and I lost the only video footage I had created of the abandoned bridge/road closed setup I created. I'm still looking through thousands of old CD DATA DISCS I usually made of my photos and railfan experiences, and my Garden layout over the years, but seems I may not have created data discs of everything.🙁 And some that I did find were corrupted and wouldn't load the photos or play the videos. Ugh. I really would have loved to show you how I had modeled such a scene. I would have uploaded it on my RUclips Channel if I would've found it. Who knows, I might find it someday, or I might not.
And not far from that place they also have snattlers here Jughead up near the mountains. At least we don't have cobras or pythons. Thank you so much for taking the time to go rail fanning with us my friend.
Someone I saw not long ago was saying how is concrete so poor these days, the things they made years ago are still strong and new buildings get demolished in no time. Here's a perfect example. Nice engineer, wonder if he though Hey that's Dave down there! I wondered if that was a cave there, looked like it went in further at first. Have a Good Day Dave
I have done structural repair to concrete for twenty five years and have been told by a batch plant operator that if high quality cement, sand and rock were used the concrete would last a long time. I think part of the problem is all the additives that are used . Like water reducer, superplasticizer, fiber, air entrainment, accelerator, retarder etc. I bet the old timers just mixed it on site, dumped it in the form and called it good.
@@scottleidenberger4401 I think you are right there My school was built with hi alumina cement which was later banned. It set faster but quickly deteriorated and part of a roof collapsed. My school needed extensive repairs and closed 2 weeks after I left when they discovered that roof was in a very bad condition. We have a concrete railway viaduct, Glenfinnan, built in 1897 to 1901, said to be the first structure of its kind in the world. It is having some repair work done at the moment but still structurally sound. Last time it was given an extensive survey, using some imaging device, they found a rumour to be true, a horse and cart really did fall into one of the piers.
Very interesting reply Scott made to your comment Cedarcam. There are a good many old concrete bridges on the Mon Line here. Who knows about the engineer, many of the train crews do watch my videos and know me, but I am unable to see in the cabs to tell who is operating, I do get a good many horn salutes around here which is nice. Thank you so much for taking the time to go rail fanning with us my friend.
@@ThatsDavesOtherDoings Yes I found Scott's reply interesting too. Some nice engineer. I see a few give a wave to railfans on VR cams so hard to say if it was one of your watchers. I had a good day out watching a couple of steam trains and got an invite in the cab on both
Thanks veil67, yes it is. Went back to work on Monday but it's not back to normal yet, at least I could go to work. Thank you so much for taking the time to go rail fanning with us my friend.
I had a big foot last week, foot swelled up pretty bad Teddy. Monday before I couldn't walk, much better now so you were right in call me big foot....LOL Thank you so much for taking the time to go rail fanning with us my friend.
You are right about that Stefan, NS has a good many of these old concrete bridges on this line and they are holding up. Thank you so much for taking the time to go rail fanning with us my friend.
Bout the only thing has changed it the trains have gotten longer, and less frequent and now we get some sand trains. When Emerald, Blacksville 1 and 2 and Federal shut down that cut off a lot of the gravy for NS. Thank you so much for taking the time to go rail fanning with us my friend.
Dave, with your recent health reminder on your foot, maybe it is a sign that you should "Retar" and become a full-time train spotter. Get some spray cans and develop a "DAVE WAS HERE" tag that would forever be on train cars. Just think about how much the paint some of those taggers use has saved the RRs from having to paint cars to keep them rolling. Maybe they should have various sidings where they actually invite those artists to paint neat stuff on the cars. No gang crap, just art that travels the nation. Encourage them to use actual spray guns for their art. It sure would be better and more lasting than Burning Man when the wooden man and other art are burned on the last day of the show.
Dave was here.... LOL If I spray paint anything it will be defects in the track.... LOL What I've noticed around here is we get a good many Conrail cars. Almost none of those have graffiti on them for as old as they are Big Un. Thank you so much for taking the time to go rail fanning with us.
@@ThatsDavesOtherDoings We ride Amtrak from SO, IL, to Chicago numerous times. We do not see ConRail, the rail line that Amtrak is using, cars on many sidings. Kind of a hard thing to tag moving cars. When Amtrak has to take a siding for a Conrail train, they go whizzing by. And, when both are running at speed on parallel tracks in opposite directions, some passengers get queezy and have to look away. Glad you got back to work.
Chartiers Southern owned by the PRR built the track in 1919 to Mather, after that Monongahela RR owned the track, then Conrail, now NS Mike. Thanks so much for watching the video my friend.
Now that's a cool idea Mack! They make kits where you can put a steam loco whistle on a pick up. But since I already have a whistle, just need a compressor and tank and some plumbing and I may have to send the truck out to you in order to get it all plumbed in? Hey wait a minute, road trip to do some train watching in your area! 'm liking this idea more and more. Racor switch stand illumination is planned to be next video out on ccrx 6700. Thank you so much for taking the time to go rail fanning with us my friend.
Scotty sent me a pic, it came as an heic file. My phone has no problem viewing it Robin, but my computer will not read it or else I'd have shown it in the video. How do I change an heic file to a jpeg file, I'll have to find that out. Thank you so much for taking the time to go rail fanning with us my friend.
Well Dave, love the coal train on the bridge. But my interest is more peaked on that closed road below. I have always liked to explore areas like that, only if legal, or I have permission to do so. I don't violate NO TRESPASSING or DO NOT ENTER signs. So my interest is several things: #1. Where did that road actually go when it was open and useable? What is its history? #2. Any actual houses or buildings in the closed off area? #3. Is there access to the other side from another road, and is it also barricaded off? Or are there homes or businesses accesible from the opposite side. What's really in the closed off section of the road, swamp, lake, pond, woods? #4. Any idea why the road was closed, and never reopened for use? It would really be great to know what the history of the road is, why it was put there, what purpose it actually served, and why it was abandoned and closed. I know you sometimes know a bit about the areas you railfan in, so just thought I'd ask. Old abandoned roads and paths have always been a passion of mine, providing I can find any information on them.
Over 45 years ago I went up that road when it was open and bought an old hay wagon off the farmer up there. It was a dilapidated old farm at the time and rough road, I do not know when the road was closed but believe there was only that farm on it and believe it dead ended if memory serves correct Mr. Bones. We do thank you so much for watching and may you have a really good day.
@@ThatsDavesOtherDoings thanks for the info Dave. I've run into some very strange and odd things, investigating old roads that had been severed. You're going to love this true story of my trek into a wooded area, found an old road that was severed a very long time ago, no idea when. But the road seemed like it just started where the tree line ended. It was kind of eerie and creepy. It ended at a clearing, which had fencing around it at some point, but the fencing had been broken down, crushed, and damaged from falling trees around the area. Rumor was it was some type of military think tank or highly secret military research facility. To this day, no one has any real clue what was there. When it was abandoned, all buildings were demolished, and land cleaned up. But here's the part you're going to love, there were railroad tracks across that severed road and 2 spurs that went into the facility. The switches and rails were still there, along with 2 crossing signals and gates. And those signals were still getting power from somewhere, but the tracks on either side of the road did extend out for quite some distance in each direction, but I did find them severed and overgrown by trees, shrubs and weeds. I shorted the rails together and the gates lowered and signals worked normally, even their bells rang, that's how I found they still had power going to them, but no idea why. Kind of eerie, an open area, shielded by dark shadows from the trees and overgrowth, and railroad tracks to nowhere, but with fully functioning signals. What was even more surprising is that they somehow missed getting damaged from fallen trees and debris. They were a little rusty looking, but weirdly fully functional. And I had found this area quite by accident, sort of stumbled into it. No signs, no details, absolutely nothing to even give a hint why that road was there, or the area that had the cut spurs going into it. It was very surreal, and sort of a little unnerving, as it was also deathly quiet in the area, no birds chirping, no animals skittering around, not even a snake in sight. I tried to go back out and find it again, but seems I just couldn't relocate the exact area. I even asked a couple of old timers that lived in the area, and kind of got a ghost story about it. That most people that have found the area, can never seem to ever find it again once they leave and come back. I had a digital camera with me and a lot of spare, fresh charged batteries, none of the photos I took, which looked perfect in the area, were even tangible once I left the perimeter of the area. I went to put in a new battery in my camera to go back and try again, but it was dead. I had 8 spare batteries, just removed fully charged the same morning, yet the camera showed all 8 spares and the 9th one, the main battery in the camera were all 100% depleted, drained of all power. So the photos I had taken were blurred, skewed and distorted. Videos were unreadable. So no point going back with dead batteries and a non-functional camera. I tried to relocate that area for many years, but finally gave up on ever finding it again. But this would have to be one of the strangest and unique experiences I have had in an area, and that also was train related to a point. BTW: no one has any clue who the tracks belong to, or what railroad had serviced that hidden facility deep in the woods. It's still a mystery to be uncovered and solved. Hope you enjoyed this strange, actual event I experienced many, many years ago. To this day I still wonder what that area's purpose was really for. All I know is you can come across some of the eeriest, strangest places when you least expect it.
The crazy thing about the grafffiti Dave that I've noticed is there is some real talent that is doing it if they would only channel it to something less annoying then we'd have something. Dave D.
You are totally right about that Dave, I've thought to myself also many times, all that talent going to waste. Thank you so much for rail fanning with us
Often they make no sense at all do they Tim. Shame tho all that artistic talent is being wasted. Thank you so much for taking the time to go rail fanning with us my friend.
*_WOW! That bridge has seen better days. You need a DJI Drone. I need a DJI Drone! LOL. You could get some really cool shots of the CSX with a DJI. Or, you could stick a Go Pro to a kite and fly the kite._* 👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣
Kites are cheaper, but your right I need to get a drone David. Drone shots are way too cool, but I don't like it's all silent films. One of my friends does indeed clamp a GoPro on his drone, but all you hear is the whirring of the blades. He once flew it down into a volcano in Iceland, he showed me the footage, totally totally cool but it melted some parts on his drone too. At least kites don't melt parts but a bit harder to control. Thank you so much for taking the time to go rail fanning with us my friend.
Dave dont mess around. No O gauge or HO gauge trains for him. His trainset is full size!! Thanks for bringing us along.
1 to 1 scale .... LOL Glad you liked the train Jeff. Thank you so much for taking the time to go rail fanning with us my friend.
Nice 👍🚂 show.Sure was pretty county . Thanks Dave , Freddie too.
Glad you liked the train Alan. Thank you so much for taking the time to go rail fanning with us my friend.
Dave, you're a great example of loving what you do thus never working a day in your life!!
Appreciate the nice comment Jeff. Thank you so much for taking the time to go rail fanning with us my friend.
Awesome horn salute from the CSX empty cole train. Thank you Dave for sharing it with us...
Glad you liked the train Steve. Thank you so much for taking the time to go rail fanning with us my friend.
Just squeaked in that train as the Autumn foliage disappears and the days get shorter. That old concrete bridge certainly makes for a great photo prop
Glad you enjoyed it Paul. It was a pretty neat view, first time I
ever showed a video at that location. Thank you so much for taking the time to go rail fanning with us my friend.
Thanks Dave! 😊❤👍
Your welcome 1208Bug. Thank you so much for taking the time to go rail fanning with us my friend.
99 cars, 2 engines. Great train watching.
Glad you liked the train Randall. That's a short train, typically here the coal unit trains are 110 to 120 cars. Thank you so much for taking the time to go rail fanning with us my friend.
Loved that train salute.
It was pretty nice of them, Thanks so much for watching the
video.
What still amazes me about old RR bridges and over crossing, is I bet the designers or civil engineers had absolutely no idea of the trains that would be on them today... and those structures are not even blinking an eye on what is on them today. We have several RR structures around my area built in the early 1900's that look old and decrepit... and then I see a huge BNSF manifest pounding along its way, and you could almost hear the old boy saying "no problem, I'm not even breaking a sweat".
You are absolutely right about that Henry. In 1919 there is no
way they could have known the trains would be so heavy or
so long as they are now. And back then they had small 40 foot
cars. If you search NS has a weight chart on every one of their
bridges, the bridges on the Mon Line have exceptional weight
ratings compared to some of the one they have in their system.
Thank you so much for taking the time to go rail fanning with us my friend.
Hi Dave its Lair here another great video you are one of the best trained guys out there I love watching all your videos I haven't missed any and I'm glad I'm part a both your channels
Excellent Lair, great to have you join in with us here on the 2nd
channel too. Really glad you are enjoying all the home movies.
Thank you so much for taking the time to go rail fanning with us toady my friend.
Dave, they sure built things to last. I live near the Thomas Viaduct and I’m humbled by the structure and how trains never envisioned by the designers and builders still use it
Your right about that Jim. Back when that bridge was built they
had all 40 foot cars and never imagined the heavy weights trains
would have now. Thanks so much for rail fanning with me and
hope you have a really good day.
Very cool spot and bridge and a train salute WOW Dave you got it all in one video awesome doings thanks Dave great video
Glad you liked the train Gary. Thank you so much for taking the time to go rail fanning with us my friend.
Thanks for the PA 88 mention!
Your welcome Al Ro. Someday I'll do a video on google earth
and follow the tracks from Shire Oaks to Baily Mine, it follows 88 for a long way as does the river. Thank you very much for watching and hope you have a really good day.
Nice horn salute. Cool bridge.
Many of the train crews on the Mon Line know me Beverly,
although I have no idea who the crew was on this train. I get
a lot of salutes and a good many of the NS crews watch my
videos. Thank you so much for taking the time to go rail fanning with us my friend.
Thanx, Dave.
Your welcome Nort Detroit. Thank you so much for watching and may you have a really good day.
Glad you're feeling better Dave.
Thanks Clark, not out of the woods yet but am improving. Was
at work all week.
Nice catch on a great old bridge. Have a great weekend Dave.
Glad you liked the train Lewis. Thank you so much for taking the time to go rail fanning with us my friend.
The topography out there sure is more interesting than my part of Texas. Beautiful part of the world you live in, Dave. Thanks for sharing that with us as well as that empty coal drag.
This Mon Line has a ton of cool places to watch trains from Shane, you would love it here, but about the only SD locos
we ever see are 70 series. 80%of the locos here are GE. Great
to have you join us here on the channel too my friend.
Thank you so much for taking the time to go rail fanning with us.
@@ThatsDavesOtherDoings EMD's are my favorite as you know but watching trains in a beautiful location is something I have yet to experience. I could live with a few ES44AC's, lol.
Hiya Dave
Stay safely blessed
Awesome video, thanks so much
Appreciate the kind words Clark. Thank you so much for taking the time to go rail fanning with us my friend.
Solud Bridge, Definitely some cool rock formations, that was a long train. To bad we didn't get to see the Graffiti car, I bet we miss alot of that when we rail fan, but we just don't know it.. good stuff Dave
My buddy sent me a pic of the car, but it came heic file. Phone
could read it but computer wouldn't, or else I would have
included it. Will text it to you. Thank you so much for taking the time to go rail fanning with us my friend.
Awesome catch and video. Loved the scene and have a great upcoming weekend Dave.(Steve)
Thank you so much for the nice comment Steve. Really appreciate your rail fanning with us
@ThatsDavesOtherDoings you're very welcome.
Hi Dave, hopped over here to your other doings ( subscribed 😊) great video. Guess the train operators ( engineers, conductors) should know who you are ,and justly given a salute. Railroading, Love the videos My friend, you all take care
Thanks Mark UK
Excellent. Great to have you join in with us here Mark. Some of
the train crews do know me, but I can't see in the cabs to know
who they are. Thank you so much for rail fanning with us.
The scene of an aging underpass/bridge, closed off to traffic with bright, modern orange/white barricades, might be something to create on a model railroad!!
🚧🚧🚧
Hey now that's a cool idea John, your right it would be! Thank you so much for taking the time to go rail fanning with us my friend.
I did a similar scene many years ago on my Garden Railroad. Had an old wooden bridge that had deteriorated and was falling apart. The side braces had broken and the bridge looked like it hadn't been in service for 70 years. Made a small gravel style road under the bridge and into a pond. I had flashing yellow barricades and even STOP Signs with a red L.E.D. on top and one at the bottom that alternately flashed. I took some of the old bridge pieces and let them fall randomly on the road under the bridge and around the road on each side of the bridge. It looked really cool and when I took video of it, at the right angle it looked just like it was a 1:1 real train and not a G scale model train. Also had sounds in the locomotives and sound cars along the trains rolling stock that emulated wheel and brake squeals, clickety clacks of jointed rail and I always had a trip to set the loco bell and crossing horn as it rolled over that decrepit old haunted, creepy, and abandoned looking bridge.
Sadly, when my computer did its nightly backup routine one night, something happened and I lost the only video footage I had created of the abandoned bridge/road closed setup I created.
I'm still looking through thousands of old CD DATA DISCS I usually made of my photos and railfan experiences, and my Garden layout over the years, but seems I may not have created data discs of everything.🙁 And some that I did find were corrupted and wouldn't load the photos or play the videos. Ugh.
I really would have loved to show you how I had modeled such a scene. I would have uploaded it on my RUclips Channel if I would've found it.
Who knows, I might find it someday, or I might not.
@HolidayDecorator sounds really cool 😎👍😊
In my neck of the woods that rock formation would be a dandy place to find a big ol' snattle rake!
And not far from that place they also have snattlers here Jughead
up near the mountains. At least we don't have cobras or pythons.
Thank you so much for taking the time to go rail fanning with us my friend.
That was cool, thanks
Glad you enjoyed it Bill. Thank you so much for rail fanning with me and wish for you a very good day.
Good train videos
Appreciate your very nice comment Eugene and glad you
enjoyed. Thank you so much for watching and may you have a really good day.
Someone I saw not long ago was saying how is concrete so poor these days, the things they made years ago are still strong and new buildings get demolished in no time. Here's a perfect example. Nice engineer, wonder if he though Hey that's Dave down there! I wondered if that was a cave there, looked like it went in further at first. Have a Good Day Dave
I have done structural repair to concrete for twenty five years and have been told by a batch plant operator that if high quality cement, sand and rock were used the concrete would last a long time. I think part of the problem is all the additives that are used . Like water reducer, superplasticizer, fiber, air entrainment, accelerator, retarder etc.
I bet the old timers just mixed it on site, dumped it in the form and called it good.
@@scottleidenberger4401 I think you are right there My school was built with hi alumina cement which was later banned. It set faster but quickly deteriorated and part of a roof collapsed. My school needed extensive repairs and closed 2 weeks after I left when they discovered that roof was in a very bad condition. We have a concrete railway viaduct, Glenfinnan, built in 1897 to 1901, said to be the first structure of its kind in the world. It is having some repair work done at the moment but still structurally sound. Last time it was given an extensive survey, using some imaging device, they found a rumour to be true, a horse and cart really did fall into one of the piers.
Very interesting reply Scott made to your comment Cedarcam.
There are a good many old concrete bridges on the Mon Line
here. Who knows about the engineer, many of the train crews do
watch my videos and know me, but I am unable to see in the
cabs to tell who is operating, I do get a good many horn salutes
around here which is nice. Thank you so much for taking the time to go rail fanning with us my friend.
@@ThatsDavesOtherDoings Yes I found Scott's reply interesting too. Some nice engineer. I see a few give a wave to railfans on VR cams so hard to say if it was one of your watchers. I had a good day out watching a couple of steam trains and got an invite in the cab on both
A shave and a haircut horn salute would have been also very fun for you Mr Dave ,hoping your foot is getting better !
Thanks veil67, yes it is. Went back to work on Monday but
it's not back to normal yet, at least I could go to work. Thank you so much for taking the time to go rail fanning with us my friend.
Big boy, are you the real Bigfoot 👣or just a big old teddy bear?🧸😂😂 Anyway, sure do enjoy your 🛤️🚂📽️. Happy Thanksgiving 🦃 to you and the family.
I had a big foot last week, foot swelled up pretty bad Teddy.
Monday before I couldn't walk, much better now so you were
right in call me big foot....LOL Thank you so much for taking the time to go rail fanning with us my friend.
That old concrete bridge has had its visitors, looked like cars did take a bite there.
You are right about that Stefan, NS has a good many of these
old concrete bridges on this line and they are holding up.
Thank you so much for taking the time to go rail fanning with us my friend.
Wooow Dave, I used to rail buff the heck out of that area,few things have changed, but it's all good, see ya next time 😊
Bout the only thing has changed it the trains have gotten longer,
and less frequent and now we get some sand trains. When Emerald, Blacksville 1 and 2 and Federal shut down that
cut off a lot of the gravy for NS. Thank you so much for taking the time to go rail fanning with us my friend.
@ThatsDavesOtherDoings your very very welcome my good friend 😊
@bigmackstruckstop9213 😊👍
Dave, with your recent health reminder on your foot, maybe it is a sign that you should "Retar" and become a full-time train spotter. Get some spray cans and develop a "DAVE WAS HERE" tag that would forever be on train cars. Just think about how much the paint some of those taggers use has saved the RRs from having to paint cars to keep them rolling. Maybe they should have various sidings where they actually invite those artists to paint neat stuff on the cars. No gang crap, just art that travels the nation. Encourage them to use actual spray guns for their art. It sure would be better and more lasting than Burning Man when the wooden man and other art are burned on the last day of the show.
Dave was here.... LOL If I spray paint anything it will be defects
in the track.... LOL What I've noticed around here is we get
a good many Conrail cars. Almost none of those have graffiti
on them for as old as they are Big Un. Thank you so much for taking the time to go rail fanning with us.
@@ThatsDavesOtherDoings We ride Amtrak from SO, IL, to Chicago numerous times. We do not see ConRail, the rail line that Amtrak is using, cars on many sidings. Kind of a hard thing to tag moving cars. When Amtrak has to take a siding for a Conrail train, they go whizzing by. And, when both are running at speed on parallel tracks in opposite directions, some passengers get queezy and have to look away. Glad you got back to work.
Which railroad originally used this route Dave. Great catches as usual Dave.
Chartiers Southern owned by the PRR built the track in 1919 to Mather, after that Monongahela RR owned the track, then
Conrail, now NS Mike. Thanks so much for watching the
video my friend.
Dave, got to chuck up your steam Whistle somehow to your truck so you whistle back.
Now that's a cool idea Mack! They make kits where you can
put a steam loco whistle on a pick up. But since I already have
a whistle, just need a compressor and tank and some plumbing
and I may have to send the truck out to you in order to get
it all plumbed in? Hey wait a minute, road trip to do some train
watching in your area! 'm liking this idea more and more.
Racor switch stand illumination is planned to be next video
out on ccrx 6700. Thank you so much for taking the time to go rail fanning with us my friend.
Thank you for this video!
Do you have a link to your (or someone else's) video or photograph of the graffiti that you mentioned?
Scotty sent me a pic, it came as an heic file. My phone has no
problem viewing it Robin, but my computer will not read it
or else I'd have shown it in the video. How do I change an heic
file to a jpeg file, I'll have to find that out. Thank you so much for taking the time to go rail fanning with us my friend.
Google
convert heic to jpg
@tzadik36 😊👍
Well Dave, love the coal train on the bridge. But my interest is more peaked on that closed road below.
I have always liked to explore areas like that, only if legal, or I have permission to do so. I don't violate NO TRESPASSING or DO NOT ENTER signs.
So my interest is several things:
#1. Where did that road actually go when it was open and useable? What is its history?
#2. Any actual houses or buildings in the closed off area?
#3. Is there access to the other side from another road, and is it also barricaded off? Or are there homes or businesses accesible from the opposite side. What's really in the closed off section of the road, swamp, lake, pond, woods?
#4. Any idea why the road was closed, and never reopened for use?
It would really be great to know what the history of the road is, why it was put there, what purpose it actually served, and why it was abandoned and closed.
I know you sometimes know a bit about the areas you railfan in, so just thought I'd ask.
Old abandoned roads and paths have always been a passion of mine, providing I can find any information on them.
Over 45 years ago I went up that road when it was open and
bought an old hay wagon off the farmer up there. It was a
dilapidated old farm at the time and rough road, I do not know when the road was closed but believe there was only that farm on it and believe it dead ended if memory serves correct Mr. Bones. We do thank you so much for watching and may you have a really good day.
@@ThatsDavesOtherDoings thanks for the info Dave. I've run into some very strange and odd things, investigating old roads that had been severed.
You're going to love this true story of my trek into a wooded area, found an old road that was severed a very long time ago, no idea when. But the road seemed like it just started where the tree line ended. It was kind of eerie and creepy.
It ended at a clearing, which had fencing around it at some point, but the fencing had been broken down, crushed, and damaged from falling trees around the area.
Rumor was it was some type of military think tank or highly secret military research facility.
To this day, no one has any real clue what was there. When it was abandoned, all buildings were demolished, and land cleaned up.
But here's the part you're going to love, there were railroad tracks across that severed road and 2 spurs that went into the facility. The switches and rails were still there, along with 2 crossing signals and gates. And those signals were still getting power from somewhere, but the tracks on either side of the road did extend out for quite some distance in each direction, but I did find them severed and overgrown by trees, shrubs and weeds. I shorted the rails together and the gates lowered and signals worked normally, even their bells rang, that's how I found they still had power going to them, but no idea why.
Kind of eerie, an open area, shielded by dark shadows from the trees and overgrowth, and railroad tracks to nowhere, but with fully functioning signals. What was even more surprising is that they somehow missed getting damaged from fallen trees and debris. They were a little rusty looking, but weirdly fully functional.
And I had found this area quite by accident, sort of stumbled into it. No signs, no details, absolutely nothing to even give a hint why that road was there, or the area that had the cut spurs going into it. It was very surreal, and sort of a little unnerving, as it was also deathly quiet in the area, no birds chirping, no animals skittering around, not even a snake in sight.
I tried to go back out and find it again, but seems I just couldn't relocate the exact area. I even asked a couple of old timers that lived in the area, and kind of got a ghost story about it. That most people that have found the area, can never seem to ever find it again once they leave and come back.
I had a digital camera with me and a lot of spare, fresh charged batteries, none of the photos I took, which looked perfect in the area, were even tangible once I left the perimeter of the area.
I went to put in a new battery in my camera to go back and try again, but it was dead. I had 8 spare batteries, just removed fully charged the same morning, yet the camera showed all 8 spares and the 9th one, the main battery in the camera were all 100% depleted, drained of all power. So the photos I had taken were blurred, skewed and distorted. Videos were unreadable. So no point going back with dead batteries and a non-functional camera.
I tried to relocate that area for many years, but finally gave up on ever finding it again.
But this would have to be one of the strangest and unique experiences I have had in an area, and that also was train related to a point.
BTW: no one has any clue who the tracks belong to, or what railroad had serviced that hidden facility deep in the woods.
It's still a mystery to be uncovered and solved.
Hope you enjoyed this strange, actual event I experienced many, many years ago. To this day I still wonder what that area's purpose was really for.
All I know is you can come across some of the eeriest, strangest places when you least expect it.
@HolidayDecorator awesome reply, thank you for sharing that story, very interesting😊👍
The crazy thing about the grafffiti Dave that I've noticed is there is some real talent that is doing it if they would only channel it to something less annoying then we'd have something. Dave D.
You are totally right about that Dave, I've thought to myself also
many times, all that talent going to waste. Thank you so much for rail fanning with us
Dave do you ever try to figure out what the grafitti artists sayings are ? i can never make out the spelling in most cases
Often they make no sense at all do they Tim. Shame tho all
that artistic talent is being wasted. Thank you so much for taking the time to go rail fanning with us my friend.
Dave, is it possible that I can contact you privately?
Please let me know. Thank you.
email me New Guy: peppypetsdaily@yahoo.com
@@ThatsDavesOtherDoings Thank you. I'll email you Sunday or Monday.
Thanks again.
Hey Dave.
Howdy AP. Good see you again. Corrie, Freddy, the Doggies and myself thank you so much for watching and may you have a really good day.
*_WOW! That bridge has seen better days. You need a DJI Drone. I need a DJI Drone! LOL. You could get some really cool shots of the CSX with a DJI. Or, you could stick a Go Pro to a kite and fly the kite._* 👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣
Kites are cheaper, but your right I need to get a drone David.
Drone shots are way too cool, but I don't like it's all silent films.
One of my friends does indeed clamp a GoPro on his drone, but
all you hear is the whirring of the blades. He once flew it down
into a volcano in Iceland, he showed me the footage, totally
totally cool but it melted some parts on his drone too. At least
kites don't melt parts but a bit harder to control. Thank you so much for taking the time to go rail fanning with us my friend.