Gorgeous lightning in several places but of course the Burlington storm stole the show--especially that last freeze-frame! A couple of excellent MOW trains, and the meet on the bridge was beautiful. This one was jam-packed--thank you!
I was in North Dakota for a few years and saw summer thunderstorms like the Burlington one where the sky never quite gets dark before the next lightning bolt. Very Sci-fi feeling. Especially when the sky is tinted kind of red because of the setting sun. Cool memories.
That Storm front that marched out of Iowa, across Illinois, then Indiana was intense! Several tornadoes, and widespread wind damage! Took the Rochelle IL cam off the air-no power!
3:05 Ex Florida East Coast Budd built '39 tavern/lounge/observation "Bay Biscayne" and ex Sou Rwy coach 829 heading to their new home on the US Sugar Express in FL.
20:17 How cool it was to see Simon in the Revelstoke chapter of the Sydney chapter of the La Plata Lurkers Lounge on the Rocky Mountaineer! I hope he's having a great trip
Those Electric Storms were like the Sky's of old Biblical Paintings. Great shot of Exec. SD70MAC 9661 on the Bridge art Burlington and later, Illinois Term. on The Curve. Meet me on the Bridge was good and the Amtrak Catenary maintenance loco at Paradise was interesting to see, thanks VRF.
I would really love to see those wind generator blades and their wagons reproduced in HO scale on a layout, that and some of those wagons carrying Boeing aircraft fuselages. I know there would be difficulties, specially with the tighter radius tracks, but still ...
0:08 CSX MOW train 1:35 CP doubleheader in Rochelle 1:47 two ex-Santa Fe units trailing 2:26 CSX 1976 leading and two automated inspection boxcars on one freight train! (again at 4:01) 3:02 old passenger cars on a freight train 3:17 wind turbine blade train (again at 8:58) 4:40 CSX SD40-3 leading an intermodal 5:15 Loram grinder at night 6:55 BNSF 2042 switching over the bridge! 7:56 CN doubleheader on a mixed freight with gravel hoppers on the front 8:25 10-unit power move of all active dash 9s 10:20 the clip that made the thumbnail 12:37 Santa Fe hoppers 12:56 NS 1074 leading. 6338 is an ex-Conrail SD50 that was rebuilt into an SD40E 13:50 CSX OCS (again at 18:30, three locos and five cars) 14:25 BNSF MOW train crossing the river 15:16 NS 4822 15:28 RJ corman units trailing, all tunnel motors 18:52 N&W business car placed after the tail DPU 19:45 DODX car in the middle of an intermodal 19:56 KCS 4859 as mid-train DPU. Glad it was caught at Elkhart so we can see both sides 20:18 Rocky Mountaineer 21:33 Amtrak catenary MOW vehicle. It has European buffers and chain link couplers 21:55 unloading ties on Horseshoe Curve. The train that passes this one has NS 1072 on it 24:40 MRL 4316 is one of the ex-Australian units
If you are referring to BNSF unit at 6:50 those are not black and white. Age and dust mask what is actually a "creme" color and a dark "Brunswick green" (not unlike the old PRR freight scheme color) that was known as "Grindstein Green" after the then BN Pres.
The boxcar, lettered "Do Not Hump" is equipped with instrumentation to read track conditions and the red glow you saw is a laser sensing scan. The No Hump is a warning to crews to handle car carefully to protect its instruments.
Compliments to the editors, the coordination of music & the storm were brilliant.
That derecho-producing, tornado-producing storm gave one crazy lightning show.
Gorgeous lightning in several places but of course the Burlington storm stole the show--especially that last freeze-frame! A couple of excellent MOW trains, and the meet on the bridge was beautiful. This one was jam-packed--thank you!
Love the lightning shows!
As always an excellent Grab Bag. Nice catches and really love the storm and music at the end.
What makes that lightning show even more impressive is that it wasn't sped up. That's at *normal*. It was amazing.
Hooray to Simon from Australia waving aboard the Mountaineer; he is "one of us."
Awesome lightning show
Great to see Simon still enjoying his adventures on The Rocky Mountaineer, and wow - awesome lightshow and sounds track at the end!
Lightning at the end... Yeah, there's more light than dark. Almost looks sped up, but I've experienced the same in upper Wisconsin. Crazy stuff! John
WOW 😮 VRF Thanks 👍
Staggering to think that Burlington storm was in real time, not in time-lapse. Totally insane!!!
20:32ish Way cool Simon got to wave!!
There was a 10 unit power move with all of them bnsf h2? I called them the jack-o'-lanterns, where were they going? Awesome light show!
Excellent Closing Musical Over Burlington & Galesburg on the Last GB ! Those Severe Thunderstorms Were On Fire !
I was in North Dakota for a few years and saw summer thunderstorms like the Burlington one where the sky never quite gets dark before the next lightning bolt. Very Sci-fi feeling. Especially when the sky is tinted kind of red because of the setting sun. Cool memories.
That Storm front that marched out of Iowa, across Illinois, then Indiana was intense! Several tornadoes, and widespread wind damage! Took the Rochelle IL cam off the air-no power!
1:37, Wow! CP 8935 and CP 8152 in Rochelle pulling coal cars! Awesome!
Great footage, trains, power and lightning 🌩, nice video as always!🛤🚂
GREAT SHOW TONIGHT 👏 👍 👏👏👏👏👏👏!!!!
The Mighty Mississippi is EXTREMELY high!!
The music at the end with the storm was EPIC!
Excellent catch, @Virtual Railfan.
Thanks for the thunder and lightning. About the closest to the real thing we will get here in Southern California.
5:40 The rail grinder put on quite the light show!
A Great Lighting display in Burlington Iowa on this this days Grab Bag
The Spongebob is hilarious!🤣🤣🤣🤣👍
Another Rocky Mountaineer With A Wave & Holding The Flag Of Australia?
Yes, Australia.
Loved the ending - great music to accompany the very active lightning flashes 🌩
11:20 gotta love emd noises
3:05 Ex Florida East Coast Budd built '39 tavern/lounge/observation "Bay Biscayne" and ex Sou Rwy coach 829 heading to their new home on the US Sugar Express in FL.
That was one incredible lightning show at the end. NS planning lots of work on the Horse Shoe?
20:17 How cool it was to see Simon in the Revelstoke chapter of the Sydney chapter of the La Plata Lurkers Lounge on the Rocky Mountaineer! I hope he's having a great trip
If only Revy had been there it would have been complete!🐻
24:37 I saw the MRL in person right at the camera! Couple of Louisiana railfans saw it too.
Bermuda shorts and knee high socks. 😊
That's a heck of a storm at Galesburg
Those Electric Storms were like the Sky's of old Biblical Paintings.
Great shot of Exec. SD70MAC 9661 on the Bridge art Burlington and later, Illinois Term. on The Curve.
Meet me on the Bridge was good and the Amtrak Catenary maintenance loco at Paradise was interesting to see, thanks VRF.
Another great Grab Bag video from Virtual Railfan!
finally a Conductor that is clean shaven!
Looks like the diamond at Rochelle needs some work. The BNSF engines were noticeably rocking back and forth going across it.
I would really love to see those wind generator blades and their wagons reproduced in HO scale on a layout, that and some of those wagons carrying Boeing aircraft fuselages. I know there would be difficulties, specially with the tighter radius tracks, but still ...
You can find the blades and fuselages and the special cars that haul them online.
*Awesome Video*
0:08 CSX MOW train
1:35 CP doubleheader in Rochelle
1:47 two ex-Santa Fe units trailing
2:26 CSX 1976 leading and two automated inspection boxcars on one freight train! (again at 4:01)
3:02 old passenger cars on a freight train
3:17 wind turbine blade train (again at 8:58)
4:40 CSX SD40-3 leading an intermodal
5:15 Loram grinder at night
6:55 BNSF 2042 switching over the bridge!
7:56 CN doubleheader on a mixed freight with gravel hoppers on the front
8:25 10-unit power move of all active dash 9s
10:20 the clip that made the thumbnail
12:37 Santa Fe hoppers
12:56 NS 1074 leading. 6338 is an ex-Conrail SD50 that was rebuilt into an SD40E
13:50 CSX OCS (again at 18:30, three locos and five cars)
14:25 BNSF MOW train crossing the river
15:16 NS 4822
15:28 RJ corman units trailing, all tunnel motors
18:52 N&W business car placed after the tail DPU
19:45 DODX car in the middle of an intermodal
19:56 KCS 4859 as mid-train DPU. Glad it was caught at Elkhart so we can see both sides
20:18 Rocky Mountaineer
21:33 Amtrak catenary MOW vehicle. It has European buffers and chain link couplers
21:55 unloading ties on Horseshoe Curve. The train that passes this one has NS 1072 on it
24:40 MRL 4316 is one of the ex-Australian units
I wonder if they have to look at wind conditions when moving those big turbine parts.
I've seen them flex on the flatcars when the wind was strong enough.
4:48, Hey look, it's SpongeBob SquarePants!
Hi Virtual Railfan & it's is Randy and i like yours video is Cool & Thanks Virtual Railfan & Friends Randy
8:42 rare all dash 9s
Great video
I'd always wanted to see the connection system for those multi-unit skeleton cars
The CSX SD40-3 that has a SpongeBob-shaped rectangle on the front is a fun fact.
The black and white BNSF engines arent that rare since i see one in my local train yard almost every time i go there
If you are referring to BNSF unit at 6:50 those are not black and white. Age and dust mask what is actually a "creme" color and a dark "Brunswick green" (not unlike the old PRR freight scheme color) that was known as "Grindstein Green" after the then BN Pres.
hey JW 👋
We need some of that rain the Strasburg had in Ohio.
That steam train in the rain was like something out of an old movie--just beautiful
Is that a KCS Heritage Unit or KCS Special Unit?
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Hi
3:08 Bizzare
At 17:10, looks like a Turkey Vulture...
Starting off with a MoW train that included an old Conrail boxcar was nice.
I wonder if someone would restrain a tagger and tattoo a railroad logo across their forehead.
4:47 ooooohhhh I get it
3:30 more bizarre
Decatur Alabama clean your lens bird poop all over it
What ask not for me
how about that hot bearing show at 2:40! What happened to the Car or did anyone notice.
The boxcar, lettered "Do Not Hump" is equipped with instrumentation to read track conditions and the red glow you saw is a laser sensing scan. The No Hump is a warning to crews to handle car carefully to protect its instruments.