Great footage! 5:00 That thing was really leaning over! 6:00 I like the cat that goes running. 6:44 Another angle of the same cat running. I always wondered what it was like for a train to roll over tracks that had been overgrown and crossings where the flangeways had been filled with gravel. You can see a cloud of probably crushed limestone around 6:00.
HA HA HA THIS IS MY FAVORITE DIESEL LOCOMOTIVE ENGINE I LOVE THE WAY YOU HAVE THE HORN SOUNDING OFF, IT MATCHES THE TERRITORY, AND REMINDS ANYONE IN THE AREA TO KEEP AWAY FROM THE MOVING TRAIN.
This train runs by my house in Woodburn,IN once or twice a week. I still remember when the MA&W used to run this line on cnur7 would run this part of the line. While 16 5 and 4 ran between defiance,OH, and liberty center,OH
I know how this feels. I was the Conductor on the last rain to go to North Vernon Indiana and pick up the only cars left down there.We went thru a forest of growth in the tracks which taken a few months to accumlate.We even plowed thru some road crossing which had been paved over since the last train ran down there. Quite an experiance. .
Geez.. 3:30 in is really bad track! Miracle the engine didn't flop over. Just before the end it looked like a coyote running down the track and crossing the road just ahead of the engine. All in all interesting video. Two thumbs up.
AzureWind91 and at 6:38 we see the 1606 trying to catch its prey the cat there are many foods that 1606 likes to eat such as cars or trucks because everyone thinks the line is abandoned from the look of the weeds
Nice video. Good job by the crew in buffering the haz mat and tip toeing over the grade crossings. However, one of the crew, the kitty, was not wearing it's required reflective vest.
By the way the rails look he's probably been doing the inspections for the last 10 years. He was probably running because he thought the train would likely derail.
Man oh man, I really would not want to haul a big tank of explodey stuff down a railway like that. "Oh God...please don't tip over, please don't tip over, please don't tip over..."
You would think one would have been invented by now. Take an old scrap-heap switcher and plop a large brush cutter on it and hit the rails. Then spray weed killer out the back.
I don't know how much distortion there was as a result of the camera zoom, but the ride from 4:55 to 5:10 was insane, and would have me asking danger money to drive that section of track. I'd love to hear a sound track of 'Slow Train' (Flanders & Swann 1963) dubbed (quietly) on to this video. That, or 'Anything Goes' (Cole Porter). No rules for rails.
This railroad is called the Napoleon, Defiance and western railroad and has been inservice for a number of years after being abandoned by B&O a long time ago.Most of the line runs over ground that is part of what's called the great black swamp of NW Ohio. This line has been called the worst railroad in the U.S. Still,they are continually upgrading things but it takes a long time when you are a short line and a small company. Personally, I am glad to see a line being used after not being used since before 1970. I know... I used to ride the school bus over this track when I was a kid. The U.S. government has money for every scumbag country on earth but can't help maintain it's own infrastructure...
in my hometown there used to be a railroad used to supply the Wurlitzer factory and many other factories on the road (yes i lived where the Wurlitzer factory was) and the line became mostly abandoned after Wurlitzer closed seeing at most 3 trains a year, all only about 2 or 3 cars long, once no train ran on the line for 3 years before the final train went on the line (which i got to see, but i was only 7 at the time sadly) it was just a hopper and a tanker going to a factory that closed later that year, but when the line was unused for 3 years before the final train the line grew into serious disrepair, some small trees even grew in the tracks, if you could even see them, it was just grass and weeds everywhere, the siding to the Wurlitzer building (the train didn't pull into here though, kinda impossible) had a tree growing right in the middle of the tracks, with the roots planting the rails into the ground, today the entire railway is now ripped up, you can still see where the line used to go but the Wurlitzer siding is now completely unrecognizable, i think the tracks are still there for the siding but they were naturally buried from having decades worth of organic matter fall and turn into soil on top of the tracks, as for the other factories a bypass route was put in place, which was kinda necessary, since the original track had a crossing right at the intersection of 2 very busy highways
Justin Noker. That's sad, all if the people in the area that lost their jobs. Hopefully, these jobs will return back to the USA. I am going to Google Wurlitzer and see what I can find out about them. I was just watching the news and Samsung is having to recall their exploding washing machines, can you believe that. Between their exploding phones and now exploding washing machines, we had better quit depending on foreigners building products for us. From what I understand 9 people have been injured so far by the washing machines, junk crap. Ok.
tkguyok incompletely understand, and there's now a reliability issue of cars that are made in Mexico, what is American made these days though? Honda's and Toyota's mostly :/
Justin Noker. Yes, you are right they have plants here in America making their cars and that does give us jobs. And yeah, the exploding car crash bags made in Mexico by the Japanese company. Oh, I went and Googled Wurlitzer Company, they manufactured more than just organs, which is what I always thought about is Wurlitzer organs. Do you know what they made at the plant there? If you like Google them and check them out, very interesting. Ok.
Great kid story of an old train leaving the big city for the country side, joy riding out in the fields, looking for adventure and finding his old friend Mr. Kitty
Damn! The most surprinsing thing perhaps is that, in spite of the awful tracks, the train hasn't derailed... But this is a great video, and such a rare occurrence out here, in Europe, where derelict tracks are more often than not left to rot.
The engine is an EMD GP-7 or 8. It would be 1500 hp or 1600 if a GP-8 it has 4 exhaust stacks to lower Exhaust gas pressure and an slight increase of fuel delivery. Illinois Central pioneered the GP-8 .
7:00 - Hmm...a _Yield_ sign right below the _Railroad Crossing_ sign. I would think it would be unnecessary. I mean, I guess you can choose not to yield but it's not advisable. LOL
There was an ad campaign in Ohio a while back about ungated railroad crossings, the counties usually won't have enough money to put gates on every crossing so they only put them on high traffic intersections, the yield sign is supposed to be the cheap way out, even though the county and state know that gates save lives.
Looking like the rock island line in it's last hour . Gandi once called for homespun got him a bullet but he was right .looking at this maybe a little homespun would help just a thought.😎
Here in canada , I think they some places they spay the rail so the weeds do not grow. Even tracks that are not used a lot, seem the weeds don't grow very well.
So, without being able to see the track ahead, does the conductor know if there are any breaks or gaps in the rails? Was the rail looked at previous to this train running on it? It looks crazy!
Scott Taipale The Customer ought to get a bottle of weedkiller and a lawnmower then! I just ask because a day or 2 ago I saw a cab video of a locomotive wade through foliage and branches to recover some wagons on an abandoned line. Most of it you couldn't see the track. I was wondering if it was like that. Gets a lot of traffic this route does it?
@Scott Taipale, what you're doing is a great service for keeping the trains safe, some of these engineers and conductors have to go in the worst seedy areas imaginable to pick up graffiti abandoned cars, so monitoring them closely on film means more witnesses, including in case of a hazardous load spill emergency.
Great footage!
5:00 That thing was really leaning over!
6:00 I like the cat that goes running.
6:44 Another angle of the same cat running.
I always wondered what it was like for a train to roll over tracks that had been overgrown and crossings where the flangeways had been filled with gravel. You can see a cloud of probably crushed limestone around 6:00.
HA HA HA THIS IS MY FAVORITE DIESEL LOCOMOTIVE ENGINE I LOVE THE WAY YOU HAVE THE HORN SOUNDING OFF, IT MATCHES THE TERRITORY, AND REMINDS ANYONE IN THE AREA TO KEEP AWAY FROM THE MOVING TRAIN.
This train runs by my house in Woodburn,IN once or twice a week. I still remember when the MA&W used to run this line on cnur7 would run this part of the line. While 16 5 and 4 ran between defiance,OH, and liberty center,OH
I know how this feels. I was the Conductor on the last rain to go to North Vernon Indiana and pick up the only cars left down there.We went thru a forest of growth in the tracks which taken a few months to accumlate.We even plowed thru some road crossing which had been paved over since the last train ran down there. Quite an experiance.
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Charles Clark *Experience
dagrandchamp25 !
On which line, Charles? When was this?
Now that's a loud horn
6:00 that cat is like "What the hell kind of dog is that ?"
googleboyny really? I thought it was a polar bear.
Geez.. 3:30 in is really bad track! Miracle the engine didn't flop over. Just before the end it looked like a coyote running down the track and crossing the road just ahead of the engine. All in all interesting video. Two thumbs up.
And here we see the 1606 in its natural habitat. Lets go in for a closer look without scaring it off!
lol dude I just imagined Steve Irwin from crocodile hunter saying that!
And knowing him he'd probably try to jump on it.
Chris Teet lmao! true
AzureWind91 and at 6:38 we see the 1606 trying to catch its prey the cat there are many foods that 1606 likes to eat such as cars or trucks because everyone thinks the line is abandoned from the look of the weeds
Haha. Those are some good comment right there. :)
And i also like how you got 2 angles of the cat
why not get two angles lol
A certian nostalgia about old old rail lines.
I agree.!
Great, they finally got the High Speed Rail up and running!
Wow that is an awesome amount of grass on the track. Love it!! lol :)
Nice video. Good job by the crew in buffering the haz mat and tip toeing over the grade crossings. However, one of the crew, the kitty, was not wearing it's required reflective vest.
It's probably a very wet area that supports fast grass growth. My lawn can get that high in just a week.
That cat said "I can't remember if this is the 9th time I tried this so I better scram".
TheRantingCabby. Hello, yes lol.
Former Wabash main from Ft Wayne to Toledo. Became NS to Indiana Highrail to Maumee and Western to the current ownership.
Those head on shots look like the locomotive is coming out of a forest with no rails. Lol
Just brilliant. Thank you..................from Perth in Australia
Thanks for watching!
Chessie system was in front of the train at the railroad crossing.. I saw the cat running!!
I liked the set up on your shots, interesting look as if it was going through an abandoned overgrown track
Thank you. The track was really overgrown at the time of filming but no longer
Weeds? What weeds?
5:00 That lean!
6:00 MOVE CAT GET OUT DA WAY!
Well, you certainly placed the 2nd camera in the right place. Thanks.
Thanks for watching!
We used to have 60lb branches all over Manitoba on the CN back in the 90's/80's, they used light-rail A1A GMD1's
The running car is very funny! :)
CAT! :)
Was the Cat doing the track inspection?
Lol keeping rodents from undermining the ties.
kxsteve I
By the way the rails look he's probably been doing the inspections for the last 10 years. He was probably running because he thought the train would likely derail.
no i think the cat is on the wrong track because that was never owned by the chessie system
Rare glimpse of Chessie's ghost @6:38!
Chessie cat at 6:02 and again later crossing the street. The cat outran the train! LOL
Great video!
Cwmbran
6:38 RUN KITTY RUN!!!!
lol
lmao
I set the camera up by the tracks but when they pass I'm a good 20 feet away.
Hard to set the camera anywhere where the rails can be see without it getting hit by the train! Thanks!
Man oh man, I really would not want to haul a big tank of explodey stuff down a railway like that.
"Oh God...please don't tip over, please don't tip over, please don't tip over..."
phuturephunk. Hello, it was rocking from side to side. That's enough to make you seasick.
Thanks! Between Antwerp and Cecil Ohio.
Very nice video. I love American trains ;) All the best from Polish ;)
Thank you!
+Scott Taipale what kind of horn is that ?
Looks like a Leslie RS3L but sounds like one or more of the bells are fouled
If only they could put a giant weed trimmer on the front of the locomotive
You would think one would have been invented by now. Take an old scrap-heap switcher and plop a large brush cutter on it and hit the rails. Then spray weed killer out the back.
can't think of a better weed whacker than a train.
Great video ! Awesome ! Good job ! Thanks for sharing ! Martin
I don't know how much distortion there was as a result of the camera zoom, but the ride from 4:55 to 5:10 was insane, and would have me asking danger money to drive that section of track. I'd love to hear a sound track of 'Slow Train' (Flanders & Swann 1963) dubbed (quietly) on to this video. That, or 'Anything Goes' (Cole Porter). No rules for rails.
This railroad is called the Napoleon, Defiance and western railroad and has been inservice for a number of years after being abandoned by B&O a long time ago.Most of the line runs over ground that is part of what's called the great black swamp of NW Ohio. This line has been called the worst railroad in the U.S. Still,they are continually upgrading things but it takes a long time when you are a short line and a small company. Personally, I am glad to see a line being used after not being used since before 1970. I know... I used to ride the school bus over this track when I was a kid. The U.S. government has money for every scumbag country on earth but can't help maintain it's own infrastructure...
It's always exciting to see when I'm in the Defiance and Napoleon area.
in my hometown there used to be a railroad used to supply the Wurlitzer factory and many other factories on the road (yes i lived where the Wurlitzer factory was) and the line became mostly abandoned after Wurlitzer closed seeing at most 3 trains a year, all only about 2 or 3 cars long, once no train ran on the line for 3 years before the final train went on the line (which i got to see, but i was only 7 at the time sadly) it was just a hopper and a tanker going to a factory that closed later that year, but when the line was unused for 3 years before the final train the line grew into serious disrepair, some small trees even grew in the tracks, if you could even see them, it was just grass and weeds everywhere, the siding to the Wurlitzer building (the train didn't pull into here though, kinda impossible) had a tree growing right in the middle of the tracks, with the roots planting the rails into the ground, today the entire railway is now ripped up, you can still see where the line used to go but the Wurlitzer siding is now completely unrecognizable, i think the tracks are still there for the siding but they were naturally buried from having decades worth of organic matter fall and turn into soil on top of the tracks, as for the other factories a bypass route was put in place, which was kinda necessary, since the original track had a crossing right at the intersection of 2 very busy highways
Justin Noker. Hello, did Wurlitzer go out of business, move to another location, or go overseas?
tkguyok went out of business long ago, the factory has just been an empty shell for as long as I can remember
Justin Noker. That's sad, all if the people in the area that lost their jobs. Hopefully, these jobs will return back to the USA. I am going to Google Wurlitzer and see what I can find out about them. I was just watching the news and Samsung is having to recall their exploding washing machines, can you believe that. Between their exploding phones and now exploding washing machines, we had better quit depending on foreigners building products for us. From what I understand 9 people have been injured so far by the washing machines, junk crap. Ok.
tkguyok incompletely understand, and there's now a reliability issue of cars that are made in Mexico, what is American made these days though? Honda's and Toyota's mostly :/
Justin Noker. Yes, you are right they have plants here in America making their cars and that does give us jobs. And yeah, the exploding car crash bags made in Mexico by the Japanese company. Oh, I went and Googled Wurlitzer Company, they manufactured more than just organs, which is what I always thought about is Wurlitzer organs. Do you know what they made at the plant there? If you like Google them and check them out, very interesting. Ok.
Great kid story of an old train leaving the big city for the country side, joy riding out in the fields, looking for adventure and finding his old friend Mr. Kitty
Damn! The most surprinsing thing perhaps is that, in spite of the awful tracks, the train hasn't derailed... But this is a great video, and such a rare occurrence out here, in Europe, where derelict tracks are more often than not left to rot.
I think the cat dropped a deuce when he heard that horn!
That horn sounded great. Those tracks with the weeds might have some animals living in them!
The engine is an EMD GP-7 or 8. It would be 1500 hp or 1600 if a GP-8 it has 4 exhaust stacks to lower
Exhaust gas pressure and an slight increase of fuel delivery. Illinois Central pioneered the GP-8 .
I hope that poor old kitty Cat made it to safety.
TheShospitali. Hello, I am quite sure that it did.
Has any of these trains ever derailed? If so, how do they clear it and who pays for it? Wouldn't it be cheaper to fix the track than tack the risk?
They derail frequently. The former owner decided it was cheaper to fix derailments than upgrade the track
They ran a brush cutter this winter/spring but brush grows fast!
The train was chasing that cat!
I think the guy with the weed whacker got fired,,,,lol nice video
+David Frobel lol
lol, where's the track!😛 oh there it is reminded me of that Leslie Nielson movie "Wrongfully Accused"
Nice video of the GP16!
With all that greenery, I was hard pressed to believe there was a track there.
Reminds me of the classic shortlines of the early 50's
I always feel like I need to mow the lawn after watching some of these trains.
Thanks for watching! Cat was faster!
7:00 - Hmm...a _Yield_ sign right below the _Railroad Crossing_ sign. I would think it would be unnecessary. I mean, I guess you can choose not to yield but it's not advisable. LOL
There was an ad campaign in Ohio a while back about ungated railroad crossings, the counties usually won't have enough money to put gates on every crossing so they only put them on high traffic intersections, the yield sign is supposed to be the cheap way out, even though the county and state know that gates save lives.
stop and listen. You dont need to be driving. if you cant hear that beast comming
if you can't hear and feel that beast commmmmming
Aleatha Vogel To
I like the opening shot where the train is going through the weeds and you cant see the track .almost like the train is floating.
They get hard to film in high summer due to the high weeds!
Looking like the rock island line in it's last hour . Gandi once called for homespun got him a bullet but he was right .looking at this maybe a little homespun would help just a thought.😎
In the jungle... the might jungle... the GP's roar tonight!
Why is the same cat running away from the train at 5:59 and 6:38?
@ 6:00--cat is like "awww HELL no, not that thing again!!!"
LOL
thats a railroad? it could use some new rails
+waxedtaters It's half railroad, half weed-road...
+waxedtaters you don't say
+Mtndew Technology a form of dry humor my friend
Ties and roadbed. Eons ago, it was a mainline.
Unless it’s an abandoned railroad and A train might have had to go on that rail to another place and they should really put crossings up again
Starting at about 4:55, imagine walking by, unfamiliar with the area, and looking up to see THIS coming. "Eek, it's a ghost train, in the daylight!"
Here in canada , I think they some places they spay the rail so the weeds do not grow. Even tracks that are not used a lot, seem the weeds don't grow very well.
Good stuff, some track replacement work wouldn't go amiss, if they can afford it.
Not sure, sorry. Their slow movers so I usually just follow the line til I find them.
PREX GP16#1606
always was wanting to know if the old lines were be put back to use
Nice work! I love these weedy branch lines. Some serious hazmat tanks. Must be 90 lb rail at best. Where is this?
The part at 0:18 reminds me of the train in the woods from the movie
The Naked Gun: the final insult - Train chase scene.
Do they run mud tires on those locomotives? Looks like they need to.
Well done on the vid man. Bet this was a fun chase.
Thanks! I always like chasing vintage power!
cat is a speed cat 6:38
cheche. Hello, it's mama didn't raise a fool. It knew when to scat, lol.
cheche is that the same cat in your picture?
dry time of year you might start a brush fire, just takes a spark sometimes. love the video though
That cat at 6:00 lol
So, without being able to see the track ahead, does the conductor know if there are any breaks or gaps in the rails? Was the rail looked at previous to this train running on it? It looks crazy!
leave the poor cat alone...... he was just railfanning like all of us
+TheRocklander lol
What a beast nothing can stand in its way.
I am guessing the engineer was sticking his head out at 1:49 to vomit from seasickness. Is the cat a FRA inspector?
whats the history on this line?
6:00.cat.running out.....holy shit. what is it!!!
6:38 there was a cat runing across the tracks wow
Anyone else notice at 6:02 that a cat ran out as if it was like wtf? There is a railway here? But I can't see the tracks
I think everybody noticed the cat.
6:01 I want to know what the cat was thinking? Ha ha ha!
Was this an abandoned line that reopened?
Thanks!
They need about a tankers car's worth of Round-Up! LOL. They should install nozzles on the front of the loco to spray for weeds as it travels.
Maybe the tankers were full of round up. Probably the only time the train runs is to spray the weeds.
Jeez! Was this line originally abandoned?
This section has never been abandoned, just neglected.
It is a good thing that no thieves stealing some rail parts or rails or trespassers trespassing the line....
Model Railroad clubs should build a replica of one of these railroads. It would be interesting and educational.
The train would burn up getting stuck on all the junk.
The vegetation is certainly overgrown. How did you get the cat in 2 different scenes?
I use 2 cameras, it was 2 angles of the cat fleeing the train.
What is that horn on the diesel engine ,why does the train track look grassy at 2:41
Not sure on the horn. They don’t spray the weeds often
5:22-5:26, 5:35, 5:39-5:46: you can hear that faint horn sound like it's the last train on the railroad going out into the distance
Looks like one of those 10 mph speed restriction lines crews hate to run over. Wonder if the guys inside got a swayathon.
Was this a rescue/recovery mission on a mothballed branchline?
Nope just another load of freight heading to a customer
Scott Taipale The Customer ought to get a bottle of weedkiller and a lawnmower then! I just ask because a day or 2 ago I saw a cab video of a locomotive wade through foliage and branches to recover some wagons on an abandoned line. Most of it you couldn't see the track. I was wondering if it was like that. Gets a lot of traffic this route does it?
Yes they move roughly 3000 cars a year from roughly 8 shippers plus storage cars.
Scott Taipale really????
They run 2 crews 5-6 days a week
What the hell?Why was there a cat in the brush?
+FECSD70M2 PRODUCTIONS probably hunting for mice.
Zebra finch Aw.What if it's a crewmember's pet?
The real question is why is there a train in the brush?
Why was this train on this track. And it sucks you had to zoom out before we got to see the train hit the branch.
Where's this at? Nice video, btw!
Great video, did they ever fix the track on that line?
Thank you. They've been working on it. Still a rough line. I went looking for them this morning and found them derailed. 3rd time I know of in 2 weeks
@Scott Taipale, what you're doing is a great service for keeping the trains safe, some of these engineers and conductors have to go in the worst seedy areas imaginable to pick up graffiti abandoned cars, so monitoring them closely on film means more witnesses, including in case of a hazardous load spill emergency.
Kyle R
Kyle R
Placarded with 1993...Diesel
Are they even using those cars? Or just pulling then for fun
The tank cars were loaded with a chemical byproduct going to be incinerated
Scott Taipale Oh thanks
that cat was chessie
Does this route not get much traffic?
A few dozen cars a week
Over in England that route would be kept clear and in reasonable condition.