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Great action at Altoona 👍🏻

SD40E''S( EX SD50 'S just getting into Service in Helper Set v

Great action, love the GP-15 at Willow Creek

and not a single C6M in sight this is nice

I was there back when they still has an operator there. Chessie/NW The operator had a mural of the American Freedom Train on the side of his van. I should have photoed it. (Could have been the Chessie Steam Special) Just a couple years ago, they tore down F tower here. Unable to sell it off. I did photo F tower though.

So much power variety in the first few minutes. Also, amazing K5L on NS 9336

30:21 Cool to see 7504 with the Leslie RS3L. I got a few videos of it later that year and they were my first uploads to get decent views, lol

Love the clip at 20:25... fantastic audio. That quilling, distant K5H with the GE prime mover chugging and flange squeals growing closer. I live for these kinds of sounds Cool to see the layout in Chicago again too, I went there and saw it on a family vacation in 2005.

It's nice to see video of engineers not blarring the horns.

Awesome trains Scotty 👍🏻

25:14 there's a few sd50 that are still active on the CSX roster but I think they're upgraded to SD50- 3

11:38 and 41:05 I always have to mention it... nice K5H

50:47 is that an SD70M or a 59MX.

So many 80MACs! I only caught two of them while they were in service, back in 2015. Obviously, both were repainted by that point. One of them was 7200, which shows up in this vid.

Ex Seaboard SD40-2 leader with it's original RS5T, man I wish it was even possible to see that today Lol great catch!

16:48 Loved the sound of the GE chugging and the K5H echoing under the bridge.

what street are the videos taken at 4:20 and 5:35

20:29 9818 has since been rebuilt into I believe an AC44C6M It still serves Union Pacific today

4:50 Heritage II paint on a Dash-8. I wondered why it looked strange at first. I'm so used to seeing all of the Dash-9s that BNSF has.

2:05 No hi-viz vests. I guess these were still the good ol' days. 21:22 Cool FMC Chemicals hopper 22:50 GP40 leading a full-size manifest

Awesome 👏 trains, great job 👍🏻

The Doppler at 0:38 is beautiful it almost seems really sad, miss those SD50-2s

does anyone know what the horn name at 9:32 is?

The good days

I’ve seen 53 on Texas Eagle 21 before, but the good horn that it had since 2008 was turned into a bad horn

Wow, LOTS of power variety in this one.

It's interesting how the little details have changed over the years such as crossing, locomotives, and signals. Great video!

That was taken the day after I was born. Back when railfanning was exciting when you see Classic Power, Foreign Power, and Fallen Flags. Surprising that they were once common on Class 1 Railroads back then.

At one time, a great place to watch trains.

Always weird to see a CSX ACe, that was a short lived phase. I was almost exclusively railfanning NS lines until about 2018 so I never caught one. They're almost like an urban legend to me 40:48 I caught 9049 a couple years later in Terre Haute... ditch lights were messed up and flashing in sync when I got it. 42:19 Amazing sight, sure do miss seeing those around. 47:30 Great lashup

6:27 That poor P5 is in a world of trouble As always, man does this make me miss the variety in motive power. You never knew when you'd get a classic EMD, widecab EMD, narrow cab GE, etc. Nowadays you get a GEVO or, if you're lucky, an ACe. And that's just on the NS. CSX seems even more limited.

It seems like the crossing bells at Columbus Ave. don't ring most of the time.

2:32 Amazing Doppler 8:20 I saw the same unit just a few months before this clip. Apparently it has a K5LAB, which is a super rare horn. 19:54 Another K5LAB. Maybe they used to be a little more common 45:57 Classic K5H 53:56 Possibly the crown jewel of the whole thing. Appropriate that it's at the end of the video If the traffic in Fostoria is still anything like that, I need to get over there someday

Awww man the gevo-lution has begun

9:20 My Favorite Shortline 🎉❤ That horn sounds just like the recent Michigan Shore Engine: MMRR #2170 back in 2020 m.th-cam.com/video/pYkkHuphTic/w-d-xo.html&t

32:30 As an EL nut, very cool to see these. I'd assume those hoppers are out of service by now. 55:06 Amazing lashup

Some real nice variety in this one buddy thanks for posting.

Several great K5LAs in this one. Also, sounds like you caught an e-bell glitch on that crossing just before the 23:00 mark

I was 9 years old that year

Awesome

Thank you for these older videos, can't believe 2008 is 16 years ago already. So much interesting stuff on the rails in 2008, these videos are a treasure trove.

Nice K5L around the 4:00 mark! (I assume K5L and not a K5H?) One of my favorite horns and definitely a rarity on Amtrak. 161 also ended up becoming the Phase I heritage unit. 30:49 Also rare... C39-8E third out. NS only ran 25 of them and retired them in '09. I was lucky to see a few back in the day. 34:32 Amazing RS3K Doppler 44:00 I didn't think UP SD70Ms still had K5LAs by this time. Also a rarity

8:30 Poor crew that got stuck with that horn. Sounds like a P3... and if it is, that's about the sickest one I've ever heard. 26:37 I caught that unit a couple years earlier and even as a kid who didn't know horns yet, I knew something was different about that horn. Pretty rare for an NS Dash 9 to have an RS3L (Even rarer is the C40-9 with an RS5T just a couple trains after) Anyway, there were still some great lashups in those days

52:08 The Milwaukee Road

Screaming SD40s, very nice 👍🏻

Cool stuff from 2008 !!

Cool video are you familiar with Newaygo county?

I didn't think it was humanly possible to see that many trains in a day... from what I hear, it sounds like traffic on the Chicago Line and Garrett Sub isn't quite what it was in those days. Also I knew that horn at 53:49 sounded familiar... I caught that same unit in '09.

Those KCS SD40-2s in the primer paint ended up on the Panama Canal railroad system. KCS 653 went to PCRC 1866 and KCS 663 went to PCRC 1867.

Empty coal train to the Porter Branch at 5:14 - quite a rare sight.