Oregon Coast Scenic Railroad First train to Batterson, OR since 2008 Part 2
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- Опубликовано: 22 июн 2012
- OCSR's GN 274 and POTB 101 ran from Garibaldi, Oregon to Batterson, OR Sunday night June 17, 2012. There were 2 tank cars, 1 side dump full of dirt and trees and 3 Flat cars that needed to be moved back to Garibaldi. Some preliminary brush and tree removal was done by an industrious group with motor cars to make the trip easier, but it was still tough slogging through the wet brush and trees covering the tracks. This is some of the trip. All but one of the cars was able to be moved, strange to think of that long of a time and the air pumped up and the brakes released.
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Just imagine walking through the woods and you see this train🤣🤣🤦
@BrackynMor Being a volunteer at this railroad, that can happen. we were working in batterson a few months ago on the switch and further East there was someone with a tent pitched in the middle of the tracks.
Wahahahaa funny wahahaha funny...
I was just gonna post that lol
This was cool! Off reading on a train.....
😆😅
love this video its great its like off roading with a train
Haha true
Never thought of it quite like that. I like it! (a 40 year retired locomotive engineer)
Tim enjoyed the comment that's looks like a familiar trip.
Funny as shit! I hadn't thought about that...lol
Hey as long as they're not off track😂🚂
I think what's so fascinating about trains on old overgrown railroads, is that this giant piece of machinery, this artificial object, floats through the untouched nature and all while at the same time leaving hardly any damage to nature behind.
that's a thing about railroads... they get along so well with nature....
@@fsrr4409 yep, even the old ALCo's, once the turbo's spooled, it's one with Nature almost
Oh trust me it Will be leaving some damage cos its probably snapping branches off somewhere along the line
Yes, they chop down trees for miles, grade the land into a berm and have to install culverts for drainage, they bring in ballast and ties, and then lay rails. They abandon it for years to let the plants grow back enough to hide the scars they created. A crew comes out and slashes away the most intrusive growth, and then the train appears to magically float through nature without doing any harm at all. Sure.
I like it when they nuke everything with chemicals. to be giving Amateurish county road crews around the country seem to have been given similar leave to desecrate the countryside with chemical agents giving little regard to the long term effects either on the environment or the people who dispense the stuff.
Fantastic video! Hard to believe there are actually tracks underneath all that vegetation.
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There aren't.
Hard to believe that the tracks weren’t checked before they sent a locomotive down them with ll the vegetation all around
I thought the train was one of those multipurpose trucks with the train wheels on it so ignore the tracks broke it would be fine.
Sounds like the loco has turn signals lol!
FRA regs state "An Engineer MUST signal when changing lanes"....
Robert Gardner that's the windshield wipers.
It's actually the engineer rhythmically shifting through the train's 6,000 gears.
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Cape Main Rail Photography, where in the video do you see wipers?
It sucks this is the only angle we get to see. It would be fun to watch the wheels running over branches and weeds to see them cutting them in half.
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Hey everybody, thanks for all the fun comments. I added the date for all three parts, Sunday night June 17, 2012. Glad you are enjoying the videos. I'll try to find scanner frequencies for OCSR. The track has been rehabilitated and excursions are run with steam and diesel
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any updates?
Engineerrick Has the second track (siding) been brought online too?
Updates?
Hi please can u tell me how long time a train don't run that track
Man mother nature sure takes things back real quick if given time.
Where they get that much rain, you bet.
Juanblue85
It probably hadn’t even been that long. Plants spring up fairly quickly. Had it been like say a year, I doubt it could have make any progress down the track.
You just contradicted yourself
4 years
Mother nature isnt as frail as we are often led to believe. She has suffered much worse than us.
I love to see things like this! Great to see old lines being brought back to life!
I worked for POTB in 1996, during the rehab projects between Salmonberry and Cochran. We went on duty at Salmonberry road and got our Track Warrants off a fax machine hooked up to a car battery in the old concrete phone booth. Then hopped in a speeder car or hightail truck to get to our train at Enright. You never knew what you’d see in a day on the POTB. I went to work for BNSF a year later where I am today-sitting in the hotel at the AFHT as I type this. Boy this brings back memories! Even the sound of that old EMD reminds me of those days.
Excellent job on camouflaging the super ultra top-secret railroad line to the super ultra top-secret rebel base.
"Honey, a train just went by on those old abandoned rail tracks!"
"Sure it did...now Ethel, you gotta lay off the booze, it's makin' you hallucinate!"
😳😂😉
Ha ha
the train arrives late but on schedule.
That shit happened to me, there is a track in our forest and my mother was not believing me there were trains driving on it. One evening, there was loud honking (for the street crossings), later we heard a steam locomotive and I think she now believes me.
Honey didn't hear the engine noise and train horn? I think honey is the ine dead drunk! He was oblivious to the outside world!🤷🏿♂️😁
Ok Martha I’m getting too old this shit
What's wrong with me. Could watch this for hours, lol. Great stuff!
This is so cool, there's something immensely satisfying about this to me, I don't know what. I'd love to see a video of behind the train and what it looks like after or from the outside
It’s just how it can navigate through the unknown, as long as it has 2 firm rails under it I can go anywhere
The Oregon coast is essentially a cool rainforest. The growth up there in such a short time is staggering.
The rain is the culprit 😂
When the guy got out a 4:07 it put a perspective on how big the loco was.
yeah that was surreal I was think are the tracks there it's going to derail go off any second.why did they stop there is there a longer video they should if when to the end of that rail line.
Allen A, you are absolutely correct. The track crew was out for weeks with chain saws and all of the track was inspected by walking it. You can't let it go too long up there or the aldrers will take over. I have a little bit of video from the walkway of the gp 9 behind the f 7 , the brush was so high you couldn't see the cars when we coupled from back there. I will do a part 3 even if it's short.
+Engineerrick I was amazed that they would go out on it without checking it. Now I'm happy to know that they at least did it safely.
I kept ducking my head each time a low branch appeared! Cool video!
Same here :)
Low bridge... Headache!
Way cool! How freaky to be piloting an old diesel through the weeds like that! It's like a weird dream or something!
*piloting really
@@Kaithelegoguy actually, driving. Piloting is a term used in aviation (planes and stuff)
@@therosijedha that's why I said really
@@therosijedha i know what it means
@@Kaithelegoguy sorry
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Love it I hate seeing rail lines being abandoned
They will definitely regret it in the future
Alders grow pretty fast. As much as 3 feet a year if they get a lot of rain and in western Oregon they do get a lot of rain. Blackberry vines can grow 10 feet in that same time. Add in all the other undergrowth that is common in an Oregon forest and you get quite a tangle. The brush crew would have had to do a lot of chain saw work to get the tracks as clear as they did for this move. At the same time they could check the track conditions to be sure that the line was safe for the move.
Wow! Here in the UK, they cancel trains when there are too many dead leaves on the track!! Great video :)
4 wheelin' in a train! thats a new one for me ;-)
Technically 8 wheelin'!
That old 567 sounds wonderful!
Great cab ride. At times you expect a T-Rex or some Velociraptors to come charging out of the trees. This is a national treasure and I hope it survives. - Another Oregon Treasure. Well Done !
just drove through Garibaldi and saw some of the locos and rolling stock. beautiful town.
Testament to good engineering in the first place. " If you go down to the woods today, you're in for a big surprise", more like a magical mystery tour. Nothing a few trimmers wouldn't cure though. Great film.
This is like trailblazing with a locomotive haha! Cool video! It’s amazing that there are actually tracks, it’s as if this huge piece of machinery floats above the ground!
Got to work as a maintenance of way employee of the Southern Pacific R.R. on a portion of this line in 1980 when it ran from Tillamook OR. to Hillsboro OR. Very beautiful country.
Loved seeing this! Thank you. I had the opportunity in my last marriage to ride by highrail along some overgrown tracks along the Oregon coast - the rainforest was gorgeous and the beauty of this and the 20 tunnels we passed through is etched in my mind forever!!
This video brings to mind my ride on The Oregon Coast Scenic Railroad 9 months ago from Rock Away Beach to Garibaldi while vacationing in Oregon Wonderful !
Whatever the next stop is, I don't think anyone will be waiting for the train anymore.
But there will still be a couple of good old boys on the platform just a-sittin' and a-whittlin'.
So cool! I’ve always daydreamed about running a engine through growth like that. Thanks!
Don't understand why anyone would think this is a bad video🤔. Pretty cool train 4X wheeling. Lol
4:00 that switch... ten years of more awesome end-of-the line dreams. Beautiful stuff.
I never seen something so cool like this before. Thanks for uploading this very cool awesome train video 👍😉
I imagine that there would be a lot of scratches to the paintwork, the window wipers sound a lot like a turning indicator being left on. I have never seen a train use a track in that sort of condition before, well done and thanks for sharing the video.
OMG! Can't believe it is staying in the tracks! I love this view!
fun video - beautiful rainy scenery, and has a real "you are there" feel - thanks for posting
Wow was surprised the rail was ok to go over....
Looks awesome
From some of the conversation I overheard it sounds like they inspected it previously and cut back some of the vegetation. It would still be a hairy ride through this territory
This is fantastic. I'd like to see what the track looked like after the train passed through.
Amazing footage! Hard to believe there's train tracks there.
Railroads own their own property and there is no obligation or rules on how they should maintain it. If an accident occurs they pay for any damage. At such slow speeds if the engine were to derail nothing significant would happen. It would just end up wheels on the ground. A crane would come in to pick it up and put it back on the rails. The track is actually in very good condition from what I can see. Trees might scratch the paint on the engine but unless they are huge would not likely cause a derailment. Rock slides are more dangerous, though I've seen trains moving at speed hit boulders and turn them into gravel.
This is crazy 8 up!! So curious and fascinating, with a brave engineer, and videography.
I LOVE TRAINS! Can’t wait to see all of these old tracks come back to life with new technology
GOD I LOVE VIDS LIKE THIS. long forgotten rail line and BAM out of nowhere a huge beast
Wow. The line has come a long way. Wish I could've been on that f7.
Locomotive sounds like a dream you guys take good care of that engine
This is freaking awesome......why am I just now seeing this? Thanks for sharing
This is really a marvellous nice fabulous journey full of natural beauty love to watch this
Great video! Love the railroad my whole life always wanted to be an Engineer on a train. This would be my dream job
Pure Craziness ! As A Son of a railroader of 42 years , He would of called you nuts ! But Exciting!
beautiful landscape. thanks for posting.
my dream railroad
El paisaje luce hermoso impresionante,y lo mejor de todo el sonido del motor de la locomotora y la conversación de la tripulación fantástico video gracias por compartir.
This train crew has way more guts than I do! that was a derailment just waiting to happen half the time you couldn't even tell if there were any tracks left there. I would had been too scared to try it.
Ridding thru the jungle on the wabash cannonball
I wonder what it looked like after the train passed....That tickin'....drove me nuts!!!
Thank you for your time and effort in making these videos
Love it, and that awesome Mars light!
I know its an old video now but I just found and subbed to your channel. Definitely hasn’t been traveled in a bit. Beautiful country tho. 😃👍
Neat video , thanks for posting it , I live in Oregon 🌲and I hope to ride on a train someday .
Nuttin' that a little RoundUp can't fix!
Love watching these come by. Keep the tracks alive!!
It’s cool seeing a massive price of machinery being able to navigate through nature harmlessly with only two firm rails underneath it
The fact that they’re in an F-Unit makes this video 10x better.
it's amazing, you are like an explorer
Love the sound of that old locomotive.
Sounds like a an old emd locomotive
Love the 567. All the GPs I worked with were gone before I retired.
Loved it even though I couldn’t see the rails most of the time 🤗
I can see it now:
Urban explorers: "Cool! An abandoned railroad! Let's explore!"
(Train horn heard in the distance. Train rolls by a short time later.)
Urban Explorers: What on earth?!
Good job on clearing the line! Looking forward to following the progress you guys keep making. Keep up the good work!
I was thinking that too. Can you imagine like a homeless person who set up camp, etc. then suddenly a train is almost on top of you 😳
It would most likely be Ghost Hunters, and they would say it was a ghost train😂
Thanks for the video. Im from western illinois .I plan on modeling the pacific north west. Hope to get to your part of the country in a year or two
Amazing footage. Hard to see the rails a lot of the time. How long had this line been unused to grow up that much? Amazing the train made it through all that. Thanks so much for posting this. Very interesting footage. Don't think there is anything else on the internet showing a roadbed this grown up with an actual train passing on it.
I see they still run this ( temporarily closed for Covid)I am going to do it the next chance I get. Trains are cool, and Oregon is beautiful
It's like driving through the jungle, quite incredible
If you have an empty flat car erects frame you can stand on at different levels the get a crew together volunteer or paid with trimming saws and chainsaws to cut back the excess vegetation or get a logger that has a Tigercat with a log claw that has the hydraulic chainsaw on it that would be the easiest way to cut back vegetation several feet higher than the normal 17 foot clearance required for freight cars. Ideally if you can get one an old 85 foot single level piggyback car would be the ideal choice. It would allow the Tigercat to move back and forth without moving the train a few empty gondola cars one on either side of the pig would be useful to haul out the marketable logs to entice the logger to minimize he cost.
Food for thought
Jim Retired Locomotive Engineer
James Shanks Why not just use a MOW dept. brush cutter? It's made for this very purpose. Looks like a ballast regulator, but has a cutter derived from a brush hog mounted on a hydraulic arm that can cut horizontal and vertically.
michael novak I'm familiar with the brush cutter and have run work trains working with them to remove downed wood from fouling switch stands .
I made my earlier recommendation based on what I saw following a brush cutter on a branch line that hadn't seen one in over 40 years. Mow crew had to use chain saws as we ran into a lot and I mean we hauled the next day over 40 flatcars loaded with logs. Foreman knew a logging company owner and he provided a excavator fitted with a logging grapple and started out on the last flat working his way forward. We filled 34 1/2 flatcars with the remainder occupied by the grapple. In just under 12 hours. Got called by name by the foreman for the same job for five straight days. The branch was 57 miles long and had last been brushed in 1956 and a lot of trees were 20 to 30 plus inches in diameter mostly pine but hardwoods were mixed in as well. The mow brush hog failed 7 hours after we started all the cutting blades were bent or broken trying to cut Dow timber which it isn't designed to do. When the foreman found out repairs would take two weeks he went with the mow logging train solution and it worked like a charm. We had 6 fellers onboard that cut the trees down then bucked them. Didn't have any poles to support the logs on the cars so one feller made them from trees he cut down. Was a very interesting week.
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Brilliant...would have loved to see what the track looked like after the train went through though
2:28 I saw the rails for the first time.
For rampant vegetation this OCSR track makes the Maumee & Western look tidy.
The geometry of the track is far better though.
I like the gyro light which is what Southern Pacific had for years on their locomotives. I assume tracks were inspected before running a train over them. Very risky running over tracks not used in a long time.
Is there any more video beyond part 2 such as arriving at Batterson, coupling up, etc and then the return trip? Definitely would be interesting. Enjoyed what video there was!
As of 2017, the train only goes from Garibaldi to Rockaway Beach because of all the rock slides between Nedonna and Wheeler.
It certainly is scenic but traveling on this track is an act of faith. Great recording!
Wow, glad you got through without any equipment damage.
That was just plain cool 👍🏼👍🏼
I remember seeing a freight train along the 101 back in the summer of 98, and even then the tracks didn't even look like they were still in use. I was very surprised to see the train actually !!!!
Amazing. What an act of faith on the part of the driver that there is even any track under that vegetation. If there were metal bars or objects that could cause derailment there is no way that the driver could even see before it was too late. Would love to have seen how the track looked after the train had passed.
Good point. It would be cool seeing the plant and object that where under there but the train still navigated it
I wonder how long since the last train had run through. Never seen anything like this. Thanks for sharing.
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❤ It's so nice to be able to see and enjoy this Beautiful part of Oregon WITHOUT the trash, graffiti, and the homeless!! 🇺🇸👏👏👏
9/10ths of the time I can't even see the track..Fantastic!!
My mind keeps focusing on the mars light...
Speaking of which, what type of loco was that?
The positions of the mars and th overall hood shape says "F" to me, but who knows.
America needs to resurrect passenger rail. Here in NY they took good rail beds and turned them into walking trails. Even a small gauge rail on those tracks would’ve helped to span the entire county quickly. I’m really happy to see this.
wow, great adventure with train on forest tracking hehe
I was on support team in Columbus Ohio CSX and I found 15 spine cars trapped for over 5 years in the abandoned NS Buckeye yard next door. They looked fresh out of shop even after sitting so long. The cars were pulled soon after a quick set and release and they were rolling. The SCT were only out by 5 years....
Please post more vidoes about this line. This is a great video...
Loved watching this!
Love this video - I love trains 😊💕💕
The journey would be a meditation for me.
Is there a video of what the tracks look like now afterwards in 2018 ?
Definitely NOT the type of RR video we see frequently, well done Engineerick ! Poor line could use a ton of MOW volunteers to do even more veg clearing. Hope the nice rounded F-Type head end didn't get scratches on her face. BTW, loved the flashing "Mars" light reflecting on the foliage . Five thumbs up. Subscribed.