Train Chaos at Jim Thorpe
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On October 14th, Jim Thorpe was a absolute mess with the amount of Reading and Northern excursion trains going in and out. Trips included hourly LGSRY trains with R&N 2534, high bridge trains with R&N 2531 & R&N 2532, RDC Budd Car trips with R&N 2535 R&N 9166 R&N 9168, JTEX with R&N 800, and R&N 425 on the railfan excursion.
Man that guy got out of town in a hurry! Always did have a soft spot in my heart for GP-30's.
They really went all out!!
like love the atmosphere.
Brings back memories of when as a kid - early 1950s - I used to ride trains like this - steam engine and old cars - from Concord, NH to Boston, MA and back twice or so a year for medical checkups at Children's' Hospital.
That’s a lot of action with all the diesels and 425 running around everywhere!
Great video, I enjoyed watching. My father grew up in Jim Thorpe, Pa. now I can see a little of what he saw as a child :-))
I'm from the top of the mountain in albrightsville I saw this every single day on our way to school with my sister's I still wish I still lived there
If your dad is old he didn't see stuff like this cause these used to be cnj tracks
@@cool1800lemonlaw I think he's just referring to the trains in general and not what company they operate under
@@fermitthekrog6318 I'm just saying it wouldn't be like this if his dad is older RBMN was founded in the 1980s this area used to be completely different it had way more tracks and was owned by CNJ
@@cool1800lemonlaw sure. that whole parking lot was a massive train yard
Great shots, I love the amount K3s I'm hearing! Especially 2534's!
Superb video- i could smell the smoke and the diesel oil! Cheers from UK
Wonderful train activities here! Great video
I miss the Poconos it's a beautiful place even with three feet of snow 247
Well, Snow makes it even more beautiful. Wish I could actually go there when it snows, just too far away to make a dangerous trip like that
6:20 and 9:25 Boy, am I all steamed up! BTW wonderful work on this video!
I like how you organize your video, I love your shots, the scenery is amazing, you don’t power like this too often I look forward to the day I get to film there at the museum!!
0:05 Tony Scott Used that Train for her movie "Unstoppable"
Looks great! Busy is excellent!
Great video Norfolk7130 Reading & Northern knows how to put on multiple shows all at once and that is why they are getting their trips sold out..
that and they are absolutely Railfan friendly.
They sure do know how to run things
This is an awesome video!
All trains are running on time. A good trainoperator!
Clueless Locomotive guy clicks on video expecting CHAOS. Sits there and waits...
and waits...
lol
@ 10.02 this reminds me. As a Brit can I just say one of the things Americans actually do best on railways (rather than bigger) is steam train whistles. What a haunting sound echoing down the valley....
Have a listen to the whistle on 3830 on 3813 Spirit of progress 1962
Back in the Golden age of Steam, our railroads made distinct whistles to differentiate themselves from other roads. They even tuned them to a point where if they were copies, they wouldn't sound the same. Class J 611 is a great example of this.
Back in 2015 she wore a replica J Class Whistle, it sounded awful compared to her original. They tried to tune it multiple times and it would not sound like her original no matter what they did.
So in 2016, she got another whistle, it was a similar whistle to her original, and the sound of it was closer, but it was still not the same as her original.
to hear the original, you need to watch videos of her in the 90's. It's nicknamed a "Hooter" whistle because it sounds like a steamboat, but the N&W 1218 has the most distinct whistle yet. It's also a Hooter, but it also sounds like Steam Boat more so than 611 ever did.
wait till you hear the 4014's whistle. by far the lowest octave there is. and we dont realy have all bigger engines here, as most are the same size or even smaller then yours that run on the mainline, its just the main difference between us is that your engines were primarily used for passenger, so they needed speed, where ours were made for power to pull up and over the numerous mountain passes we have here. altho your trains will outrun ours, ours would flat out drag yours backwards down the tracks like they wernt even there. both of us however have some awesome and beautiful engines.
Awesome Big Boy! Mechanical marvel still.
I love this video !
Not chaotic, just busy
3:48 This GP39RN tries to be a steamer, but alas, it lost.
Great video .
SO FAST TRAINS
Que vídeo espectacular!! Saludos desde Argentina!!
Luciano Gonzalez Me or him can’t understand that, we are English.
Yes snow does make it more awesome i wish I still was up there but things don't always work but maybe someday
Is this a loop ? Or is it out and back?
How long did the steam engine ring its bell?
love it! subbed
Awesome video!
Why was the excursion pulled by 425 empty?
It was pulling up to the station to pick up the passengers it brought. They do this every year during the fall season.
Basically what happened was:
The switcher pushed the train back past the switch point so 425 could connect on her track while the switcher pulls away, giving time for the Tourist train that just pulled in to offload its passengers so it could clear the way for the 425 special to pull up the station platform to begin boarding.
What you saw at the end of the video was 425 moving up to do just that, it wasn't leaving Jim Thorpe yet.
This railroad is so professional at making all these moves to keep things moving without messing up the schedule. Oct-Dec 425 comes out to play alot on the mainline.
It will be interesting to see what specials happen when 2102 comes back. I'm so excited, I never got to see it run.
I been there I loved it.
Wasn't Jim Thorpe, PA called "Mauch Chunk", PA?
Back in the old days yes
yes, unfortunately, it was renamed to honor an Olympic champion that was born there.
They must have gotten a good deal on GP-30's.
Cool shots
I drove one of the GP39’s
Why did they stop doing steam all October?
Normal maintenance and all other things like that
Are those locomotives ex santa fe???
yes, about 5 of them went to RBMN this year, and another 2 went to Smokies.
6:12 😃
0:55 Must be a lotta of pax in those two pax cars. It takes three locomotives to move them.
Theres no run around for that train so they have two for push pull then 2535 was picked up to help with the RDC's
So how many excursions were happening then?
four different excursion trains and then the SW8 to help switch one of the excursion consist around. During this day, or almost every October weekend, there were 11 or 12 excursions a day
@@Norfolk7130 dang
Why is that one train pulling the RDCs??
The one broke down on the way to JT
Norfolk7130 Makes sense. But couldn’t the other one do it? Oh, they found a nother bud car. It’s being put on the other two. It’s a nice one from the susquana railway.
I mean even tho they're budd cars the grade is pretty steep, 9166 was the one that crapped out so they would of had to rearrange the two, and 9167 aka the NYSW one isnt restored yet
Norfolk7130 Yeah it is, I saw it pulling out of Pottsville by its self.
Norfolk7130 Oh, and at 7:25, I rode that one. Even in the caboose!
I'm so happy 2534 is out! I got a shot of her too!
And 425!
love it sweet
Is this just a excursion train line or does freight go through it also?
These tracks are only excursion lines. On the north side of the tracks across the river are the freight lines.
No, there is freight that rolls through on this side of the river. Go to 1:50 in the following video:
th-cam.com/video/4se3Pov70Qc/w-d-xo.html
nice to see a geep 30 that aint a road slug.
It’s in Jim Thorpe
Gp30 a cool locomotives.
Where is this at please ?
Have you ever heard of Google? You can answer your own question in 5 seconds.
Sucks that LVSGRR is closing..
Not from the US....Where is this ?
Thank you
Jim Thorpe Pa
fletch61 I don’t live far from here
I have been on the Great Smoky Mountain Railroad out of Bryson City ...that was fun
I drove on of the GP39rn’s
Up 1982 leaving ft worth eight now
Beautiful Jesus loves you
Say, looks like I made a cameo. You'll see me at 4:21 I'm wearing a blue shirt, walking to the right of 425.
anybody else thinking that nice lady in the green tshirt should have a flourescent vest , maybe a hat, something that indicates officialdom......
Who likes the whistle 425 has on now more than she did on memorial day?
I've always preferred the Reading 6-chime.
Those are GP39RN's not GP30's. Two completely different locos. They WERE GP30's but were given a GP39 prime mover. Remember that.
Not sure about that. They showed up from LTEX as GP30U's and RBMN did nearly nothing with them
@@Norfolk7130 the GP30 had 2250 hp. The PM had an upgrade to give it 2500 HP making it technicaly a GP39
@@Norfolk7130 So True
techneclly they are GP30u's. the R&N didn't upgrade them past what ATSF did and only gave them a new designation. they still have a gp30 prime mover just recieved the 645 power assemblies. these are the cylinders and cylinder heads which increases the cylinder capacity to 645 spec's while still using the 567D block and crankshaft. These prime movers are referred to as 16-645D's because they are "modified" versions of the 16-567D3 prime movers.
The person in the green shirt at the crossing is standing way too close
Daily railfanning
I thought the same thing.
why a "mess"? - looks very organized to me
absolutely, these are professionals. They have been doing this for years and all of it well communicated and planned ahead of time so they keep things moving.
Too bad the RDC"S apparently no longer work. Pulled by a regular loco.
Just this one time though
Been there
6:18 I CANT SEE
1:23 don’t you just wanna smack that female.
How come you get more views then my and my friend "Trainfan5202" went up to Jim Thorpe since last year, like the hell?
It just really depends on tags, video title, keywords etc. Theres a lot of videos from jim Thorpe that have way more views then me
Norfolk7130 I see
Does anyone else get annoyed when steam engineers open the cylinder cocks for show instead of only when starting after standing?? Drives me bananas when they wash out the sound of the locomotive with all that bullpucky hissing!
Mike Smith is correct ..the reason most people were there were for the show, and the engineers didn't want to disappoint them.. ( especially the riders who paid for the show as well as ride)
nice vid, great scenery - but CHAOS is something completely different than "a little bit of traffic" ...big airports handle take offs and landings every 45 seconds .. as an example :-)
this was technically chaos because that is the most I have ever seen Jim Thorpe move so many trains in such a short amount of time. 425 in the mix with her special makes it that much better.
Choke bait !
Click bait title. Busy does not equal "chaos".