Hello Mark! We’re very pleased you’re so Welcoming to meet your loyal viewers from all around the World. You’re a Great Guy with Lots of Railroad Knowledge. Thx! 👍
Mark - You are a gracious host! Awesome trains! Interesting how the trains in Australia are shorter (?) and not as heavy in tonnage. Great day for rail fanning.
My dad was on a troop train in 52 heading to Fort Irwin right after the earthquake. He says the tunnel was completely uncovered except for the concrete tunnel which they could still pass through. He was in the California National Guard and the troop train would start at the north end of the state and head south picking up all the Guardsmen at each town for their two weeks of yearly training at Fort Irwin. Their equipment would follow on freight trains.
Very cool. Great time nice ya had a hang and made friend Wish I still trucked out west not done over 12 yrs. Use to love going to tehachapi pass when had down time if over weekend no delivery til mon by Fresno still got old 35 mm photos from old SP days in early 90s.
Very cool Mark! Daryle is from a railway town that I have been to a few times to watch trains. Junee has a working Roundhouse that is used for loco servicing and rebuilding. Good to see a fellow Aussie at Tehachapi chasing trains...like I did in 2015 and an't wait to get back. Thanks for sharing mate. Cheers Gregg.
😂😂😂🤣I thought you showed us your boots to remind us to wear sturdy shoes when out there😁😄😃Thanks for showing the scenery and all the history when you go there with subscribers.
Hello Mark. As usual another great video. There were lots of trains and mostly all long ones. Most all of them gave you a horn salute. It was good to meet your friend from Australia. Take care and have a good one. 👍❤️
I thought there was no longer public access to the loop area /Walong? Ive avoided it on the last few visits, paying attention to the No Trespassing signs!
I am a retired UP employee in good standing with a valid company ID. They know I am out there and am not going to get in the way or do "hit" pieces. In this case, we hadn't planned on stopping at Walong as we were just getting on the right of way. The train just showed up as we arrived. Thanks for checking it out.
Ah, the wind. Sometimes a breeze, sometimes a "whisper" of a wind, sometimes gusty, and... Years ago in Northern Arizona one spring day, the windy season, I ewas following a small pickup with a large camper. He was really fighting for control over the wind. He took an exit ahead of me, pulled over and flagged to a stop. As we walked toward each other, we braced against each vehicle, and leaned into the wind . We had to get closee to hear, and he asked, "Does the wond always blow like this out here?" With a pause I answered, "No, sometimes it blows really hard!"
You don't want empty cars in front of loaded cars which causes "string Line" the main causes of derailments. Especially if you pulling a long heavy train through curves. Weight distribution its important on trains.
The dock at the museum usually has railfan regulars as well as visitors out waving, and many of the trains (especially BNSF crews) are honking for them.
UP running lots of EMD SD70's on lead motive power...11:40 loop shows a decrepit siding on wood ties, is that a remnant of the Sufferin' Pacific?...no unofficial Aussie anthem in the outro?...it goes like this: Once a jolly swagman...
That's the old spur track. It was disconnected when the siding became the #1 track in 2015...."camped beside a billabong, under the shade of a coolibah tree..." Is that even close? It's all I can remember. I should have had Daryle sing it!
@@MarkClayMcGowanA few good friends from Down Under are worth their mettle. Waltzing Matilda is just about the equivalent of Yankee Doodle Dandy and you did a fine job on the lyrics.
Thanks Mark for a good show. Is their a track going to LA from Bakersfield over the mountain they call the Grapevine I don't know the name of it I think their is but I don't know what they call it. Thank you for your time. Paul
HI Mark ! Congratulations for your video! I'm Italian, passionate about trains, I wanted to ask you what type of wagons are those in the first initial video, what do they transport? Thanks!!😉🤚🤚👍
@@MarkClayMcGowan : Thank you, very kind for your prompt reply! I had never been able to understand the use of those wagons, I like your US trains very much, they are incredible, enormous and for us Italians they are practically absurd, unimaginable compared to ours! I'm just a model maker, and I'm making a large-scale SD 40 2 SOO, 1 meter long! This is to tell you how much I admire your trains! Thanks again !! My best greetings from Italy !! 😉🖐🖐👍👍
@MarkClayMcGowan yeah thats a real shame. They should partner with local law enforcement to monitor that stuff a little more might help if there are police by the tracks watching.
A mild disagreement, sir . A "green" aspect can be called a "clear signal" by anyone. Any other signal aspect is restrictive in some way. The Dispatcher may "clear" a signal, but the signal can only display the least restrictive aspect the logic can permit. I suppose one could say that the signal can display an aspect cleared by the DS, but that would not then be a "clear" signal Welcome to the weeds.
Hello Mark! We’re very pleased you’re so Welcoming to meet your loyal viewers from all around the World. You’re a Great Guy with Lots of Railroad Knowledge. Thx! 👍
Thanks! I love hanging out with such enthusiastic and friendly people!
The long, long train with lots of POWER. thank you stay safe
Hello Mark, yep we over here in Australia do love your train videos, I live about 150 kilometres east of Junee where Daryle is from
Thank you, and I love my Australian visitors and hope to drag more around with me in the future!
Mark - You are a gracious host! Awesome trains! Interesting how the trains in Australia are shorter (?) and not as heavy in tonnage. Great day for rail fanning.
My dad was on a troop train in 52 heading to Fort Irwin right after the earthquake. He says the tunnel was completely uncovered except for the concrete tunnel which they could still pass through. He was in the California National Guard and the troop train would start at the north end of the state and head south picking up all the Guardsmen at each town for their two weeks of yearly training at Fort Irwin. Their equipment would follow on freight trains.
Very cool.
Great time nice ya had a hang and made friend
Wish I still trucked out west not done over 12 yrs.
Use to love going to tehachapi pass when had down time if over weekend no delivery til mon by Fresno still got old 35 mm photos from old SP days in early 90s.
You got a rare catch, 2 GE B40-8W's, looks like the fairly new paint on them. When they were is War Bonnet paint they were my favorite Locomotive
Very cool Mark! Daryle is from a railway town that I have been to a few times to watch trains. Junee has a working Roundhouse that is used for loco servicing and rebuilding. Good to see a fellow Aussie at Tehachapi chasing trains...like I did in 2015 and an't wait to get back.
Thanks for sharing mate.
Cheers Gregg.
He's sent me some pretty cool video from his cab, and cool stills of their power. Be sure to let me know when you're headed this way!
@@MarkClayMcGowan Will do sir! .
P.S Thanks for not talking over the power 🙂
That autorack train looks so strange with just the one unit on the head end.
see them occasionally, and yes, it looks odd!
See that often on other railroads too.
What a great job your doing at the loop. You really are the premier u tube channel for train action and local history.thank you😊
Thank you very much!
😂😂😂🤣I thought you showed us your boots to remind us to wear sturdy shoes when out there😁😄😃Thanks for showing the scenery and all the history when you go there with subscribers.
I like train videos on TH-cam 👍
Hello Mark. As usual another great video. There were lots of trains and mostly all long ones. Most all of them gave you a horn salute. It was good to meet your friend from Australia. Take care and have a good one. 👍❤️
I thought there was no longer public access to the loop area /Walong? Ive avoided it on the last few visits, paying attention to the No Trespassing signs!
I am a retired UP employee in good standing with a valid company ID. They know I am out there and am not going to get in the way or do "hit" pieces. In this case, we hadn't planned on stopping at Walong as we were just getting on the right of way. The train just showed up as we arrived. Thanks for checking it out.
Good job ❤❤❤
Thx Mark and friend for the great video as I have dinner watching it...
What a beautiful place!
Ah, the wind. Sometimes a breeze, sometimes a "whisper" of a wind, sometimes gusty, and...
Years ago in Northern Arizona one spring day, the windy season, I ewas following a small pickup with a large camper. He was really fighting for control over the wind. He took an exit ahead of me, pulled over and flagged to a stop. As we walked toward each other, we braced against each vehicle, and leaned into the wind . We had to get closee to hear, and he asked, "Does the wond always blow like this out here?"
With a pause I answered, "No, sometimes it blows really hard!"
Nice video mark love the lnteresting people 👍🏻😎 keep up the great work 👍🏻😎 Robin out .
super great video sir ❤❤😍😍
Excellent presentation Mark 👍😊😎
Your Subscriber was very lucky The DS was flooding the Main at both Directions 😊
Big Mark follower..must visit here.
Bob from the Yukon.
Let me know if you head this way! Thanks for checking it out!
You don't want empty cars in front of loaded cars which causes "string Line" the main causes of derailments. Especially if you pulling a long heavy train through curves. Weight distribution its important on trains.
35:45 Loving that pair of B40-8Ws in H4 paint. I miss being out there Mark and really cant wait till the next time whenever that may be.
Was looking for The Z Factor railcar.
4 Conrail and SP Auto Racks still in revenue service. Blast from the past
Second train is Probably our ztrain… noticed all units are online… Yeap it’s a ztrain… ups makes it a ztrain… those pay Union Pacific bills
Picturesque video.
Hola saludos desde Costa Rica 🇨🇷 excelente video
Gracias!
Why do they keep sounding the horn after they have crossed the crossing ?
Great film ,hope to get there one day
The dock at the museum usually has railfan regulars as well as visitors out waving, and many of the trains (especially BNSF crews) are honking for them.
UP running lots of EMD SD70's on lead motive power...11:40 loop shows a decrepit siding on wood ties, is that a remnant of the Sufferin' Pacific?...no unofficial Aussie anthem in the outro?...it goes like this: Once a jolly swagman...
That's the old spur track. It was disconnected when the siding became the #1 track in 2015...."camped beside a billabong, under the shade of a coolibah tree..." Is that even close? It's all I can remember. I should have had Daryle sing it!
@@MarkClayMcGowan Russell Crowe lead the sing along at Steve Irwin's funeral comes to mind...
@@MarkClayMcGowanA few good friends from Down Under are worth their mettle.
Waltzing Matilda is just about the equivalent of Yankee Doodle Dandy and you did a fine job on the lyrics.
What's all that prower going to storage??? nice catch.......
It's usually just being moved around, but I can't say for sure.
Thanks Mark for a good show. Is their a track going to LA from Bakersfield over the mountain they call the Grapevine I don't know the name of it I think their is but I don't know what they call it. Thank you for your time. Paul
There is no line running over the Grapevine. Santa Fe did a survey in the early 1900s, but that's as far as it went. Thanks for checking it out!
How dose Amtrak get to Bakersfield and north from LA. They don't go true Tehachapi? Paul@@MarkClayMcGowan
You have to take a bus from LA to Bakersfield and vice versa.
U r doing good.
The BNSF with all the Locos, were they all under power or did u say just 4, thks, nice video
Just 4. It appeared to just be a power move.
HI Mark ! Congratulations for your video! I'm Italian, passionate about trains, I wanted to ask you what type of wagons are those in the first initial video, what do they transport? Thanks!!😉🤚🤚👍
Those are called "autoracks" and they haul new vehicles. Thanks for checking it out. I always love to hear from my international viewers!
@@MarkClayMcGowan : Thank you, very kind for your prompt reply! I had never been able to understand the use of those wagons, I like your US trains very much, they are incredible, enormous and for us Italians they are practically absurd, unimaginable compared to ours! I'm just a model maker, and I'm making a large-scale SD 40 2 SOO, 1 meter long! This is to tell you how much I admire your trains! Thanks again !! My best greetings from Italy !! 😉🖐🖐👍👍
40:42 did you catch that open door Mark?
They're so common now, I don't generally pay attention. The tracks are littered with the stuff they throw off and don't keep.
@MarkClayMcGowan yeah thats a real shame. They should partner with local law enforcement to monitor that stuff a little more might help if there are police by the tracks watching.
Well, people told the governments to de fund the police. This is what they get.
Hey Darrell
36:05 looks like some idiot was in the process of stealing the horn and got caught or spooked … as it’s sitting freely up top lol
That one may be headed for the scrap yard!
A mild disagreement, sir . A "green" aspect can be called a "clear signal" by anyone. Any other signal aspect is restrictive in some way.
The Dispatcher may "clear" a signal, but the signal can only display the least restrictive aspect the logic can permit. I suppose one could say that the signal can display an aspect cleared by the DS, but that would not then be a "clear" signal
Welcome to the weeds.
You're confusing operating indications with signal language.
Yes, but for confusion's sake, name, aspect and indication are not without purpose in the rule book.
You'd argue with a fencepost.
BNSF best
What do they put in the cars on the first train,is it livestock?
Automobiles