Montana Rail Link: Mullan Pass Helpers & The ML (4K) | MRL 3rd Sub | April 2, 2022 | DJI Inspire 2

Поделиться
HTML-код
  • Опубликовано: 28 апр 2022
  • Presenting a day on the MRL's 3rd Subdivision on and around Mullan Pass. This production features MRL helpers on both sides of Mullan Pass and the Missoula to Laurel (ML) manifest train. Specifically everything takes place between Helena and Garrison MT.
    These scenes were filmed with the professional DJI Inspire 2 and DJI Osmo Action.
    Music is used from Artlist and Soundstripe
    Please like and subscribe if you enjoyed!

Комментарии • 69

  • @rolpfeiffer4011
    @rolpfeiffer4011 Год назад +1

    Thanks airing and sharing the outstanding video with magnificent locomotives. Endeavors are preponderating. Bliss

  • @stevenvirdenrasmussen-jone4671
    @stevenvirdenrasmussen-jone4671 2 года назад +4

    As a long time rail fan and rider, your work is the best

  • @cyrenaica1967
    @cyrenaica1967 2 года назад +1

    Come for the exquisite video…..and stay for the great music. You’ve done justice to the MRL. Great work!

  • @user-lz4uo6nr4g
    @user-lz4uo6nr4g 4 месяца назад

    This is a very special video to me. I use to live Between Garrison and Avon Montana in the mountains. This was like seeing "home". Always was amazed by how long the coal trains were that headed to Helena and all the Engines that were on them to get up over the pass. Thank you SO MUCH for this fantastic production and for what it mean to me personally to get to see this area again. Age and health had caused me to move to the south east of the country and where I'm at here in the NE corner of Tennessee, there aren't even any rails closer than an hour away from me. I miss hearing the trains.

    • @TheRailfanDan
      @TheRailfanDan  4 месяца назад

      Well hey thanks again for your comment! I'm glad this could bring you back to "home!" That is too bad you aren't close to any rails anymore but it's great you have RUclips at your fingertips to watch and endless number of videos that everyone here has to offer.

  • @franzbrunner499
    @franzbrunner499 2 года назад +1

    was in this area mid-June 2021 -just have a simple camera, unable to produce such imagines -mostly just stand along the tracks and enjoy the moments of passing trains with their roaring sound -very happy there are people like you that let me relive those moments with such perfect videos -thank you, excellent work

  • @hcrun
    @hcrun 2 года назад +1

    Magnificent country, magnificent train and a magnificent video. Superb, as usual, Dan. Thank you.

  • @hotportugal2786
    @hotportugal2786 2 года назад +5

    Love your videos Dan. Creative visuals. Super high quality. You almost tell a journeys story. You set the benchmark for others to aspire to.

    • @TheRailfanDan
      @TheRailfanDan  2 года назад

      Thanks a lot I appreciate that! Just enjoying the hobby I love. 😁

  • @bruceritchie3874
    @bruceritchie3874 2 года назад +2

    Dedication shown here, snow and wind. Another great video thanks Dan. Love MRL it’s an awesome railroad in a great State

  • @TZrailfaning
    @TZrailfaning 2 года назад +1

    I love how you use the drone! It looks so cool seeing a long bnsf train up that high!

  • @PharaohDeathMask
    @PharaohDeathMask 2 года назад +1

    What a great video. You are a Master of your craft. It was fabulous at 16:43, when the locomotive was disappearing into the tunnel and you faded the music out....Just magnificent!

    • @TheRailfanDan
      @TheRailfanDan  2 года назад

      Well thank you very much I really appreciate that!

  • @trainmaster9323
    @trainmaster9323 2 года назад +3

    Beautiful !

  • @richblacklock
    @richblacklock 2 года назад +1

    The drive and fly is outstanding. Love the close pacing of the helpers.

    • @TheRailfanDan
      @TheRailfanDan  2 года назад

      Thanks Rich! That part was a lot of fun.

  • @ronmcdonald754
    @ronmcdonald754 2 года назад +1

    Another “exceptional capture” of this massive 8 Unit Grain Train in the amazing Mullan Pass Dan!🤩👍🏽

  • @ammayapper
    @ammayapper Год назад +1

    great great super video coverage👏👏👏👏👏👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

  • @ptitrainrouge
    @ptitrainrouge 2 года назад +2

    absolutely beautiful video; thank you for featuring the MRL. Love this blue monsters

  • @StormySkyRailProductions
    @StormySkyRailProductions 2 года назад +2

    Excellent video Dan, very well done and professional!

  • @Railfan6675
    @Railfan6675 2 года назад +1

    Another spectacular video. Thanks for posting!

  • @CM-ARM
    @CM-ARM 2 года назад

    Wow Dan I was just mesmerized. I'm actually working on building a small section of the Mullan Pass. The Greenhorn Trestle. I think I might add the tunnel too after watching this. Thank you so much for what you do.
    Chris

  • @FishplateFilms
    @FishplateFilms 2 года назад +1

    Bloody hell Dan...I think you've outdone yourself on this one Sir! Some spectacular shots paired with stunning audio! The tunnel shot at 16;30 is right out of a feature film! I was lucky enough to visit and shoot trains on Mullan Pass on my trip to the US , so your footage takes me back and shows the Pass in an amazing view.
    Cheers Gregg.

    • @TheRailfanDan
      @TheRailfanDan  2 года назад +1

      Thank you Gregg! It sure was a lot of fun. I'll be back there at the end of the month for a much longer trip and hope to get all the MRL locals I possibly can.

    • @FishplateFilms
      @FishplateFilms 2 года назад

      @@TheRailfanDan Well I look forward it Dan🙂
      GRegg.

  • @Atsf1976
    @Atsf1976 2 года назад

    That was an awesome video. Great locations and different weather and different scenes. Keep it up.

  • @7ideaproductions
    @7ideaproductions 2 года назад +2

    Fantastic Dan!

    • @TheRailfanDan
      @TheRailfanDan  2 года назад

      Thanks a lot Aaron! I'm honored you think so!

  • @romanvasiliev3021
    @romanvasiliev3021 Год назад

    *This is something amazing!💣*
    The whole story of the journey in one video🤩
    If someone had shown me this video before I found it myself, I would have thought it was some kind of corporate video of the MRL railway company.
    Keep up the good work! 👍

  • @billmorrison3714
    @billmorrison3714 Год назад +1

    Absolutely stunning!

  • @timothymclaughlin6860
    @timothymclaughlin6860 Год назад

    Wow! Just discovered this. With the imminent dissolvent of my beloved MRL I have been binge watching everything I can find on U Tube of MRL running west of Helena , MT. About to build a trip out there to see the helpers for myself . I have modeled MRL on O-Gauge here at home in Kansas. Our Lionel pre orders are about to arrive #4407 & #4404 Veterans and Essential workers engines. Thank you for this . Just needed a little push to pull the trigger on a trip that needs to happen . What a great railroad . Your video is phenomenal!

    • @TheRailfanDan
      @TheRailfanDan  Год назад

      Thanks a lot I appreciate it! If you scroll down my channel a bit you will find a MRL playlist of all of my videos I have uploaded of my time there. I just also recently took another trip there and am currently working on those videos which are a real treat because it was almost all action caught in the snow! I will be uploading those over the next couple of months. It is definitely worth the visit! You won't regret it.

  • @thomasmackowiak
    @thomasmackowiak 2 года назад +3

    Thank you for documenting these trains on the Montana Rail Link in the Mullen Pass area, Dan! The trains were magnificent to watch traveling through the area. The BNSF grain train had eight engines powering it! Seeing the grain train going around Iron Ridge Horseshoe curve and coming out on the left side of the screen was magnificent to see on my 32" computer monitor! It was interesting to see the snow flurries you ran into in the Continental Divide area on 2 April 2022. But running into snow flurries in the high Rocky Mountains in early April is nothing unusual. I have distant relatives living in Colorado Springs, Colorado and a couple of weeks ago they were posting snow on the ground in early April. Do we have any more videos of the Montana Rail Link coming? I sure hope so!

    • @TheRailfanDan
      @TheRailfanDan  2 года назад +1

      Thank you Thomas! Yes indeed the weather was all over the place during the two days there. I was lucky there wasn't more rain. I really didn't miss out on more than a couple shots because it was raining a little too much to fly. There will be one more shorter video from this trip and then I am taking one more much longer trip back out there the whole week of the 22nd of this month to capture as much MRL action as I can. Hoping to get all the local trains and more scenic locations. Hopefully I'll have a whole handful of videos to work on and post here from that trip.

  • @bruceskehan6189
    @bruceskehan6189 Год назад +1

    Thanks enjoyed this as with all the MRL video’s B.

  • @Marks_Station
    @Marks_Station 2 года назад +1

    Spectacular video!

  • @Zsolti0NYM
    @Zsolti0NYM 2 года назад +3

    I'm a fan of MRL and I really like this video. The swing helpers are true workhorses. The locations are very pretty everywhere and the light snowfall is asweome too. I assume Montana is a cold place in the winter months. Excellent update again Dan. Keep up the great work, I really appreciate your uploads. :)

  • @RonStanek
    @RonStanek 2 года назад

    Dan, I could watch videos like these, til the cows come home.
    Thank God, we have something to look forward to.
    That's when you go back to that horseshoe with a full Battery 🔋.
    Thanks Buddy, Enjoyed this one!!!
    Brahma Bulls on the silver Ribbons!
    P.S. liked the louver action on the side of the engine at 13:20.

  • @JohnNyren65
    @JohnNyren65 Год назад +1

    Fantastic video! wow!

  • @juliovanderleibuenodecamar2312

    Very good! I LOVED IT!

  • @joshimitsu96
    @joshimitsu96 2 года назад +1

    Impressive.

  • @juanpabloruizleal1833
    @juanpabloruizleal1833 Год назад

    Woo! Espectacular excelente

  • @komsomolac
    @komsomolac 2 года назад

    My god, this is epic!

  • @wizardofodds8239
    @wizardofodds8239 2 года назад +2

    This video is historic because BNSF has purchased the Montana Rail Link, because it needs an alternate route across Montana. Beautiful, well planned video from Railfan Dan. I have spent time in the Mullan Pass area chasing MRL trains. I think MRL's Logo and Paint Scheme is perfect and superior to BNSF's 'Pumpkins.' The deal cost BNSF a large chunk of money to get it back into their system. Details are online.

    • @TheRailfanDan
      @TheRailfanDan  2 года назад

      That was the whole reason I hurried up and got here to film. I'll be back one more time at the end of the month.

  • @click4mrh
    @click4mrh 2 года назад

    Another excellent vid Dan. Love the low angle at 13:37. MRL is a personal favorite. Do you have anything over Greenhorn Trestle? I'm impressed with how well the Inspire flies in the inclement weather. Too bad the wind cut the flight short. Until next time...M

  • @argeesart8567
    @argeesart8567 3 месяца назад

    Another great video...love the snow it was an extra treat! I have a question I have always wondered about, I've always loved trains but don't too much about the mechanics of them, can you tell me how the power is allocated between all of the engines? How do they push or pull with just the right amount of power?

    • @TheRailfanDan
      @TheRailfanDan  3 месяца назад

      Most modern locomotives are 4400 horsepower and the ratio of how many engines to have for how many cars on a given route and where to place them in the train (middle or rear units) is all calculated by some system on the railroad.

  • @LeitoCristofoli9022
    @LeitoCristofoli9022 Год назад

    I wonder what will happen to all the Montana Rail Link locomotives once BNSF retakes control of those tracks, whether they will be leased from BNSF or purchased directly by BNSF.

  • @ragnarsbrother6049
    @ragnarsbrother6049 2 года назад

    How long does it take to cut-out the helpers?

  • @bkriegel95
    @bkriegel95 Год назад

    I suppose it won't be long until those SD70ACes have PTC installed now that BNSF bought MRL

  • @DL541
    @DL541 2 года назад

    Why was there an extra MRL unit behind the headend power?

    • @TheRailfanDan
      @TheRailfanDan  2 года назад +1

      To be dropped at Garrison.

    • @DL541
      @DL541 2 года назад

      @@TheRailfanDan ok, just curious if they were adding a extra unit for the grades. Seen a few coal buckets with an extra unit up front.