BNSF's Mojave Main Line

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  • @andrewcrumb8027
    @andrewcrumb8027 ปีที่แล้ว +42

    Ash Hill was named in honor of Ben Ash. He was a railroad surveyor who died from lack of water while working out in the Mojave Desert.

    • @glennfoster2423
      @glennfoster2423 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thanks. I did not know that. I work with several track gangs between Barstow and Needles in 1980. Took many lineups on the DS phone at Ash Hill.

    • @andrewcrumb8027
      @andrewcrumb8027 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@glennfoster2423 You're welcome. I learned that fact about Ash Hill from watching the Pentrex program, "Santa Fe's Mojave Mainline - The Needles Subdivision".

  • @orrenlane
    @orrenlane ปีที่แล้ว +24

    I've driven between San Bernardino and Needles countless times in my life, going out to the Colorado River with my family a few times a year. I've spent so many car trips pacing the massive freight trains racing across the desert, and stopping at places like Ludlow, Goffs and Amboy to get out and watch them speed by. It's awesome to see a video like this capturing my favorite part of the desert and my favorite stretch of rail in detail. My particular favorite location is Amboy, the old motel there is a true gem in the middle of nowhere. There's a small bridge about a quarter mile west of the crossing there that I like to stand under when one of the trains goes by overhead, even though it's probably not the safest thing to do, haha! Thank you for documenting this part of desert rail, and I hope it wasn't too hot out there :)

    • @7ideaproductions
      @7ideaproductions  ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Thank you for watching! It wasn't too hot as it was done in the spring (March or April, I believe). Yes Amboy is a cool place. My favorite was up near Klondike.

  • @vsaprissa
    @vsaprissa ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Extraordinary cinema photographs of the trains in these areas. They are apparently lonely, desert lands, which are suddenly traversed by long and powerful freight trains.

  • @BobSmith-mj7ik
    @BobSmith-mj7ik ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Love your videos. Beautiful scenery, well filmed and professionally narrated.

  • @macseymour2575
    @macseymour2575 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Great video, awesome angles. Well done ! Very familiar with Cadiz; retired after 17 years with ARZC. G&W scheme also called "pumpkin paint" & " candy corn color." ARZC green & cream had way more class...

    • @7ideaproductions
      @7ideaproductions  ปีที่แล้ว

      Thank you! I was glad to catch the old colors. Too many short lines look alike due to the G&W.

  • @sanmarlogistics5928
    @sanmarlogistics5928 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Out of all programs this one gives a great detail of the subject and makes the viewer understand how the system works- We all drive and seen the trains go by and just ignore
    the way they work thanks for a trip explanation.

  • @SteveFullerBikes
    @SteveFullerBikes ปีที่แล้ว +7

    First video that I've seen that really gives a sense of how long some of these trains are. It's hard to capture an entire train within a frame. Well done!

    • @7ideaproductions
      @7ideaproductions  ปีที่แล้ว

      The wide open spaces and big curves help. Definitely one of the plusses to visiting the Needles Sub.

  • @LouT1501
    @LouT1501 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Wonderful videography! I like the line, "...the dynamics should hold." Said that myself some, didn't always work out that way.

    • @7ideaproductions
      @7ideaproductions  ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Thanks Lou. Had a BNSF engineer tell me all about coming down "the Chute." Of course this grade is tame compared to what you dealt with on your run. At least your railroad had more curvature.

  • @tomcarroll6744
    @tomcarroll6744 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    You have a really nice eye for the photographic arts.

  • @johndowner2196
    @johndowner2196 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Love the various names such as Siberia, Klondike, and Baghdad 👍✌️🇨🇦

    • @7ideaproductions
      @7ideaproductions  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I could just imagine living and working at one of those old stations. Might has well been Siberia. You're out there in the middle of nowhere.

  • @jimratliff2753
    @jimratliff2753 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Great video, clear images, super narration and wonderful scenery. Your knowledge of the train numbers and cargo/freight types helps the viewers. Very well done. Looks like a great place to spend the day out in the wide opens! Thanks!

  • @rolpfeiffer4011
    @rolpfeiffer4011 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Thanks airing and sharing the outstanding video with magnificent locomotives. Railfanning endeavors are prominent. Bliss

  • @williamchristian8389
    @williamchristian8389 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I was stranded in Ludlow for 24 hrs, in a sand storm on my motorcycle 51 years ago. Stayed in a flea bag motel. What a Nothingville. LOL!!!

    • @392nightrunner
      @392nightrunner ปีที่แล้ว

      Ludlow motel is still there if that's the one

  • @adriaanboogaard8571
    @adriaanboogaard8571 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Excellent program. I can't afford to travel. So your the next best way of getting out and about via rail. I love trains so it's even better.

  • @TigerDominic-uh1dv
    @TigerDominic-uh1dv 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The Views Are Gorgeous 😊

  • @haroldishoy2113
    @haroldishoy2113 ปีที่แล้ว

    I lived in Mojave in the summer of 2015. I recall seeing the trains coming and going as they crossed the desert having just crossed over or were about to ascend the Tehachapi Pass and then Bakersfield. Earlier in my life I lived near Sacramento and Roseville. Back then Southern Pacific trains were either heading to or had just come down the Donner Summit grade. My hiking and fishing trips near Blue Canyon and Soda Springs were always so much more memorable as the locomotives made their journey.

  • @Oregontrailblazin
    @Oregontrailblazin ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Awesome scenery! that most of us just glance at on the way by from the freeway. Thanks for sharing. It looks very warm too!

  • @heavydutyrepair64
    @heavydutyrepair64 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I love seeing norfolk southern & CSX locomotives in the drag

  • @nickjanssens3413
    @nickjanssens3413 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great footage and narration as always, thank you so much for making these. I'm amazed that Genesis can be pulled like that as the link between four locomotives and the rest of the freight train, would have guessed the passenger equipment would be built light and not rated for those forces. Neat catching that one for sure

  • @joe-qo3qi
    @joe-qo3qi ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Good vid on desert rails. Knew very little of trains road grades out on the high desert. Awesome knowledge 👍

  • @conradcovington119
    @conradcovington119 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Nothing worse than getting ran around. Some great shots! Hope you stay cool out there!

  • @lifelong5425
    @lifelong5425 ปีที่แล้ว

    Winters in Needles..away from rain etc in the North....The trains that never stop, are amazing giants traversing a desert so stark, yet beautiful. They seem made for each other.

  • @paulfrederick8902
    @paulfrederick8902 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    It's been awhile, but I've ridden my Harley over to Needles and stayed at the Best Western in the east part of town for a couple days just to watch the trains

  • @Nethanel773
    @Nethanel773 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great video production and narration! Thanks for putting this up!

  • @wayneyadams
    @wayneyadams ปีที่แล้ว +2

    3:53 That train is flying, so I looked up max speed along there, and it is 79 MPH, which it looks like this train must be going.

  • @armandoperez7967
    @armandoperez7967 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    To me it will always be the Santa Fe!

    • @macmedic892
      @macmedic892 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      All the way!

  • @theNeptun
    @theNeptun ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Ich liebe die Mojave Wüste. Schöne Aufnahmen. Vielen Dank

    • @7ideaproductions
      @7ideaproductions  ปีที่แล้ว

      Vielen Dank, dass Sie sich mein Video angesehen und einen Kommentar hinterlassen haben.

  • @gatblau1
    @gatblau1 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love driving down old Route 66 instead of I-40 whenever I can. Driving through those long stretches of desert on a two-lane road and hardly anyone for miles is amazing. Amboy is my pit stop for buying something to drink and seeing how the old motel is doing.

  • @denisetindall1487
    @denisetindall1487 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I like train videos on TH-cam 👍

  • @55nimrod55
    @55nimrod55 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Great work!

  • @richardweaver9682
    @richardweaver9682 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Amtrack's Southwestern Chief uses the same tracks but only at night. BNSF is building a new sorting yard between Barstow and Victorville in Helendale.

  • @Guokas0422
    @Guokas0422 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Nice production. You just earned another subscriber.

  • @bigglilwayne7050
    @bigglilwayne7050 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    It would be cool to see UP844 rolling through there with the hammer down

  • @TheStupidone4
    @TheStupidone4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Nice catch!

  • @TigerDominic-uh1dv
    @TigerDominic-uh1dv 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I❤ Seeing 2 Trains 🚆 Pass Each Other 😊

  • @timothyxv171mmmpertinentgamer
    @timothyxv171mmmpertinentgamer ปีที่แล้ว

    Pronunciation for BNSF autorack train is Burlington Northern Santa Fe vehicle VBLU SBD and the initial SBD stan for San Bernardino and meaning of initial BLU Blue Island Illinois. They always running through Ben ash and they making great progress slowly crossing Klondike bridge and another eastbound IM meets and I think they meant to remove milepost from the BNSF timetable.

  • @johnledhalen2903
    @johnledhalen2903 ปีที่แล้ว

    I shoot photos out there once in a while , you put a lot of hard work into this , thank you !

  • @williammunford476
    @williammunford476 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Wow great videos thank you

  • @RRBOB
    @RRBOB ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Great videos!

  • @ChrisJones-gx7fc
    @ChrisJones-gx7fc ปีที่แล้ว

    30:11 Roy's Cafe has also been featured in the computer game Trainz.

  • @hawkeyeted
    @hawkeyeted ปีที่แล้ว

    There's a lot of LOOOOONG grades out there. I've caught a few trains at Kelso and Cima. There's a LOT of nothing out in these remote places.

  • @hamesh3474
    @hamesh3474 ปีที่แล้ว

    What beautiful ❤️ country

  • @KendallTNRailfans15
    @KendallTNRailfans15 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I like it!

  • @bradleyjanes2949
    @bradleyjanes2949 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Nice video

  • @AndreiTupolev
    @AndreiTupolev ปีที่แล้ว

    Graffiti from 1928 etched into the concrete at13:03! 😀

  • @jamescerone
    @jamescerone ปีที่แล้ว

    Done this route many times… in Run8 lol

  • @trains908
    @trains908 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I love bnsf 😍😍💘💘💘

  • @MaverickTG86
    @MaverickTG86 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    As a still photographer, i appreciate the wide-open shots on occasion as in the video at the 17-minute mark. There is a time and a place for the tight shot and a time and place for the wide panoramic shot. I am a recent convert to your videos and like them a lot. Keep up the good work Do you have a video on the Main line between Pueblo and Denver , Colorado??

    • @7ideaproductions
      @7ideaproductions  ปีที่แล้ว

      Thank you for your kind words and for watching!
      I don't have a Joint Line video yet but it is on my list.

  • @michaelmorgan7893
    @michaelmorgan7893 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I've heard that Genesee and Wyoming orange paint scheme referred to as the "Reese's Cups" scheme.

  • @babydriver8134
    @babydriver8134 ปีที่แล้ว

    I work for the guys that run them.
    A group of very fine fellows, and ladies.

  • @Jack-xo2zp
    @Jack-xo2zp ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I wonder how hot the temperature becomes inside the containers, especially at this time of the year. I have to believe that some products and merchandise don't hold up very well under the heat.

    • @AndreiTupolev
      @AndreiTupolev ปีที่แล้ว

      If it was sensitive to temperature it would be refrigerated

    • @Jack-xo2zp
      @Jack-xo2zp ปีที่แล้ว

      @@AndreiTupolev I'm not so sure about that. For example, a pair of sunglasses from China, which may have a special coating on the lens, such as a polarizing film, can be ruined by the heat in a car in the summertime. The heat causes the coating to craze. Also, this is true of regular eyeglasses which may have a special coating on the lens. I can imagine a whole container of sunglasses from China would become worthless after crossing the desert in July or August.

  • @trackside_branden
    @trackside_branden ปีที่แล้ว

    12:13 Ex conrail NS locomotive

  • @stanfullerton8485
    @stanfullerton8485 ปีที่แล้ว

    Ludlow pics remind me that old Spencer Tracy movie Bad Day @ Black Rock---ha ha

    • @glennfoster2423
      @glennfoster2423 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      That movie, a classic, was filmed in the desert North and East of Mojave

  • @feminazislayer
    @feminazislayer 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Can you do a video on panhandle texas. It has fantastic history.

  • @davidpearson3304
    @davidpearson3304 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Maybe it’s just the perspective with the filming (which is spectacular by the way), but the BNSF and UP locomotives just look bigger (longer) on those western trains than what CSX and NS have/use here on the east coast.

    • @HotDogLaws
      @HotDogLaws ปีที่แล้ว

      these desert trains get INSANELY long, wouldnt be surprised if they needed beefier locomotives

    • @Guokas0422
      @Guokas0422 ปีที่แล้ว

      That's funny I'm in JAX FL and NS horses have always looked bigger than CSX to me....but I'm told they're not.

    • @glennfoster2423
      @glennfoster2423 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Just like the Santa Fe passenger trains years ago Paint 'em a bright color, like orange with speed stripes, or red and silver with flashy bright metal passenger cars - - - makes 'em go faster!

  • @AndreiTupolev
    @AndreiTupolev ปีที่แล้ว

    The ghost town is a little eerie. Were those trucks in the abandoned gas station just left there or are they kept as a kind of memorial? Interesting trompe l'oiel artwork (it's more than graffiti) on that derelict hut @4:53.

    • @392nightrunner
      @392nightrunner ปีที่แล้ว

      Cafes open and the gas station across the street is open as well, trucks are there as a hint to the past, not abandoned

  • @kishascape
    @kishascape ปีที่แล้ว

    Hey I live close to this! Do Seligman sub next too plz.

  • @philipvandyke5980
    @philipvandyke5980 ปีที่แล้ว

    Look at all that barren open spaces ripe for development

    • @larryjanson4011
      @larryjanson4011 ปีที่แล้ว

      too far from everything to develop. everything must be brought in. then just trying to buy the land from the mega corps that want to strip mine the land. as they own the land. any water (polluted) and gas, oil, etc, and any and all minerals under the surface.
      this area is way too hot. people will not move there. as all services need to be built from scratch. water in, water out, power...lots of it.
      schools, fire control, police, prison, stores, need class one fiber optic for tv and the web. just everything needed for off work hrs.
      will any trucking company want to place a depot for there company there?
      company towns tend to fail very quickly.

    • @carygrant8796
      @carygrant8796 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Lots of failed dreams have been consumed by that very thought. It’s desert for a reason. Best to leave it that way.

    • @davidpearson3304
      @davidpearson3304 ปีที่แล้ว

      You have never actually been out there have you? I used to drive a truck in/out of Southern California on I15 and I40 and it’s some of the longest stretches of absolute nothingness you can imagine.

    • @spikespa5208
      @spikespa5208 ปีที่แล้ว

      Providing you can find a reliable source of H2O. And not all can handle that kind of heat.

  • @denault3985
    @denault3985 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    It seems to be a rehash of Pentrex, same people involved?

    • @7ideaproductions
      @7ideaproductions  ปีที่แล้ว

      No I do my own thing. I did sell some footage to Pentrex once many years ago.

  • @Tony-1950
    @Tony-1950 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

  • @stevensons78
    @stevensons78 ปีที่แล้ว

    Way Rad

  • @OregonCrow
    @OregonCrow ปีที่แล้ว

    Not seen a loco before with only 3 digits before. Any info on those or what?

    • @macmedic892
      @macmedic892 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Unusual for BNSF maybe, but not really unusual at all. CSX even has some active 2-digit units, and Mexican railroads go up to 5 digits on their locomotives.

  • @DaaYay
    @DaaYay ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Why do you remind me of the voice author of Pentrex? Are you his son? LOL, either way I love it regardless and appreciate the content!!

    • @7ideaproductions
      @7ideaproductions  ปีที่แล้ว

      Thank you! I will take that as a compliment. In truth, I'm just a former radio Deejay who hung up his cans and picked up a camera. When I started making videos I could not afford "professional" voice talent, so I did my own narrating. That was 70 videos ago!

    • @DaaYay
      @DaaYay ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It is a compliment!! I subscribed because of that and the content is top notch Bud! Thanks

  • @edwardmmanns7454
    @edwardmmanns7454 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    It must be hard to pay attention in a non-descript landscape.

    • @larryjanson4011
      @larryjanson4011 ปีที่แล้ว

      after X number of any miles anywhere on the planet. and in space when/if we get there. is all the same and very boring. who's got time to sight see? and with a cam watching you. hows getting fired for not doing your job?
      why lots of "drivers" get drunk.

    • @davidpearson3304
      @davidpearson3304 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I drive a truck and used to drive to California often. Once you got to the top of the Cajon pass it’s pretty much nothing until either Las Vegas or starting up to Flagstaff (depending on which route). Very boring (and insanely hot in summer). Driving it at night definitely helped a little, at least then you didn’t see all the endless emptiness

  • @pinecone01
    @pinecone01 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The older Arizona & California paint scheme looked good, shame they did away with that.

  • @firebear4
    @firebear4 ปีที่แล้ว

    What are Norfolk Southern locomotives doing on the BNSF in the Mojave??

    • @7ideaproductions
      @7ideaproductions  ปีที่แล้ว

      Pool power

    • @gordmerrick7336
      @gordmerrick7336 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@7ideaproductions Locomotive pool power is also in widespread use by all Class 1 North American railroads. Also in use is directional running which means railroads running parallel often increase capacity by entering into agreements whereby all trains running in the same direction [east for example], will use one railroad and [west for example] use the other railroad. This increases capacity and eliminated the need to double track.

    • @bigglilwayne7050
      @bigglilwayne7050 ปีที่แล้ว

      And it's not just limited to the United States, I see FeroMex, CN, and CP on the UP main in NE Texas from time to time

    • @7ideaproductions
      @7ideaproductions  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You are both correct.

    • @glennfoster2423
      @glennfoster2423 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@7ideaproductions And the Kansas City Southern has all the connections

  • @troyr57
    @troyr57 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Narrator sounds a lot like the original Pentriex guy.

    • @7ideaproductions
      @7ideaproductions  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I'll take that as a compliment. I have never met Dave Drui but he has a radio background as do I.

  • @jameswhite1159
    @jameswhite1159 ปีที่แล้ว

    If u seen someone riding on the train would u call train police

  • @Chuck_Carolina
    @Chuck_Carolina ปีที่แล้ว

    Klondike CA: No Gold, No Snow....

    • @7ideaproductions
      @7ideaproductions  ปีที่แล้ว

      It would be interesting to know why they came up with that name.

    • @Chuck_Carolina
      @Chuck_Carolina ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@7ideaproductions It would indeed. My response was because I kicked a lot of that same dirt in my younger days. At age, I had to make a delivery to a residence in a small town in North Carolina. I could not find it on my map and called the home owner and asked where she was at. She answered me this before she gave directions, "I live in Rockfish -No rocks - No fish." She was in the little sandhills of North Carolina, and when I got there I reckon it so.
      My guess is there maybe fools gold in the area, Mica comes to mind, or It could just be the perceived hole they go down into - it sounds like a mining term regarding the duality of tools and supplies it took to get to the Klondike.

  • @wayneyadams
    @wayneyadams ปีที่แล้ว +1

    It always makes me laugh when I hear the (mis?)pronunciations of cites named after old world European cities. Like here, I thought he was saying Kateys, then I realized it had a D so then I thought maybe it was Kaydeys, never in my wildest dreams did I expect it to be Cadiz. It isn't even close to the Spanish pronunciation of the city it was named after. This is even worse than Madrid. LOL

    • @7ideaproductions
      @7ideaproductions  ปีที่แล้ว

      It's an occupational hazard when pronouncing the names of all the places I go. When in doubt, I rely on how I have heard it said on the railroad. Sometimes the "correct" way isn't the right way.
      If any rails want to chime in on whether I pronounced it correctly, I would love to hear it.

  • @joepeach997
    @joepeach997 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Dang, if this isn't really good! Following Google Streets and Satellite with you because of your clarity! I have no problem liking and Subbing to with these credentials!