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Be very careful using Copyright free music. There are unscrupulous people out there that will file a complaint that will make you share revenue with them. And even if they are shutdown by TH-cam they will start under a new name and do it all over again. So, try to imagine the segment in this Grab Bag with the mobile home being moved with the alternative “Benny Hill” music we used to use. Thanks to All!
There a weird suspicious looking person in a scream horror movie mask stopping in street crossing faraway of where I rode my bike home from railfanning in NorCal
"Yakety Sax" is a pop novelty instrumental jointly composed by James Q. "Spider" Rich and Boots Randolph. Saxophonist Randolph popularized the selection in his 1963 recording, which reached number 35 on the pop charts. Comedian Benny Hill later made it more widely known as the closing theme music of The Benny Hill Show. The piece is considered Randolph's signature work.
4:02 2650, the engine that ran with 844 and 4014 at the 150th Anniversary Event at Ogden, Utah in May 2019. I was there myself, and stood right next to 2650 when it was sitting there. 12:46 291, one of the engines which hauled the five Tri-Rail F40PHs up for rebuild at Progress Rail back in July 2018.
I watch Virtual Railfan Grab Bag mainly for the trains but an occasional Darwin Candidate livens it up a bit here and there,Thank You.🤠👍✌️ 🚂🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🇺🇲💨
LaGrange now prepping for the next wave of Darwin drivers. Have the ambulance ready and no doubt some attorney with a briefcase is also ready for Mayhem
Good Reminder as to Why you need to Secure Pallets even inside Trailers on Rail Cars. This happens on Tractor Trailers if Trailer Locking Mechanism Breaks.🤪😬
I had hoped once the construction was done in Ft. Madison that parades would be held on that street and we could watch them better instead of reflection on building.
Well, not a good sight hitting too close to home. I work for T Force (25 yrs since the Big O days) and am very, very sure that skid, while not loaded by our dock guys on this particular trailer, originated at my barn. Its a skid of rolls of padding, either 7 or 9ft long and weighs about 1150lbs. There is no way anybody is moving that pallet that far off that trailer without a dock and at least a long fork pallet jack. My feelings are slack action, and knowing the condition of our door latches, bars, lack of load securement tools and dunnage, and an overall indifference to load quality by many in management, this doesn't surprise me a bit. Sad and embarrassed to see this and hope nobody was hurt fixing this mess!
High tech communications equipment, etc so execs on the road can stay in constant contact with all functions of the railroad (and rest of the world!) while out and about.
Question: I'm not a expert at railroading but if your camera peeps see thinks like that open transport door with palette of goods sticking out, do you contact the engineer or train folks with details, being the helpful viewer?
I volunteer to help stop the trailer trashing. Those people make my blood boil. But so many easy ways to stop it. Cost few dollars almost 100% if they really wanted it stopped
Nope theft TPS and all railroad TOFC shipments have bolt seals on the doors and the doors literally have cam style locks into the frames. If the pallet coming out was due to slack action the door would have looked like a pretzel.
@@haroldbenton979slack action or not, my guess is that the door hinges couldn’t stand the force of the pallet. Once the hinges go, the cam latches are useless. I agree that this is an unusual failure, but any anything is possible
@stauffjt wrong I had a door literally get ripped off by another driver when I was closing it one day after getting loaded with grass seed in Oregon. Company shop was in Illinois. I asked for some help from the shipping company to get my door in place. We got it back on the trailer. I removed the broken hinges while the door was held in place by the cam locks. Then removed 2 hinges from the other door to give it some support for the rest of the trip. Ran for 3 more weeks like that hauling everything from grass seed to MN to frozen pizza back to Oregon to apples to St Louis then the trailer was dead line tagged for repair back to the shop. Those door locks are designed to withstand 46k pounds of products hitting them in order to meet FMCSA regulations for load securement when closed. They are not just going to fail unless you cut them off in order to break into the trailer. On a modern OTR trailer here's the areas that have parts made of steel or iron in them and the rest are either aluminum or plastic. Door frames and locking mechanisms. Axles and suspension components includes wheels and brakes assemblies. Fifth wheel plate and kingpin on the nose of the trailer and the last is landing gear legs and bracing. The rest is made as lightweight as possible but still to hold the weight of the cargo.
What do we see on the locomotive of the Herzog train at 11 minutes that does not appear during the passage the day before (at the beginning of the video)?
Back up and go into emergency that done fall out for you. Someone tell me it was sealed all doors and places? And a cable seal between doors and or real high delay hold them up. They find easer frieght to grab.
It is their OCS whenever it runs, composed of cars from their heritage fleet used for executive inspections, customer promotions, employee specials, etc. Not used for general passenger service except occasional "special" excursions (many times fund raisers for charitable orgs., etc.). Notable as funeral train for Bush 41 several years ago.
If your referent 5:45 that was the UP Office Car Special consist of some of their fleet of their heritage passenger cars used for executive inspections, customer promotions, employee excursions, public relations trips, etc. The train at 20:05 is the passenger consist of the SAM Shortline tourist operation out of Cordele, GA on ex Seaboard trackage. The name comes from the heritage name of the line: Savannah, Americus, and Montgomery. The primary cars are Budd built ex MARC (Maryland Area Regional Commuter) transit coaches, the olive colored heavy weight platform car is 1925 vintage office car Dearing and the rear baggage type car is ex- army hospital car (as now painted) and now outfitted as an HEP generator car. The SAM operation will be the host for the Railroad Passenger Car Association (RPCA) annual convention in January.
28:42 - 28:50 The driver of the yellow car apparently likes to live dangerously -- he grabbed the right of way from two other drivers. Another Darwin wannabe.
I am surprised to see how many UP engines are still in the old paint scheme. They are taking off the HUGE U.S. flags on the side (because they are decals) and going back to having the old school Union Pacific painted down the side with a flag on the front side of the cab. (From what I have heard, is that the HUGE flag decals were/are just miserable to maintain.)
Well if the current scheme on a loco still fairly good it can wait a bit for a redo. When you consider the cost of a repaint can easily be $10,000-15,000+ per loco depending on number of colors, complexity of scheme, quality of paint, etc plus time loco out of service while in shop, etc you don't want to abuse your bottom line too much at one time!
I'd love to see CSX do a Heritage version of a New Haven unit, but in Green and Gold livery, instead of the more common Orange, Black and White livery.
Be very careful using Copyright free music. There are unscrupulous people out there that will file a complaint that will make you share revenue with them. And even if they are shutdown by TH-cam they will start under a new name and do it all over again. So, try to imagine the segment in this Grab Bag with the mobile home being moved with the alternative “Benny Hill” music we used to use. Thanks to All!
Hey love the grabs
Thank you 4 heads up on that info
There a weird suspicious looking person in a scream horror movie mask stopping in street crossing faraway of where I rode my bike home from railfanning in NorCal
This is why we can't have nice things.
"Yakety Sax" is a pop novelty instrumental jointly composed by James Q. "Spider" Rich and Boots Randolph. Saxophonist Randolph popularized the selection in his 1963 recording, which reached number 35 on the pop charts. Comedian Benny Hill later made it more widely known as the closing theme music of The Benny Hill Show. The piece is considered Randolph's signature work.
That deer at Ft. Madison: "I always feel like someone is watching meee!"😂😂
Heritage Units galore,meets,deer 🦌, lots of nice power,great stuff!🛤🚂🇺🇲
6:27 A deerwin candidate.
Aww the close up of the doe was nice.
Thanks Everyone, for an awesome Grab Bag, Trains, and especially the close up of the Deer( A+ for photo work). Be blessed, YA'LL.
19:12 Uh-oh, looks like somebody is taking the ZZ Top "Eliminator" out for a spin. Wouldn't it be cool if three hotties got out and started dancing?
Yakkety Sax ....... you are right that most people know it as "benny hill music" because he made it popular. I was playing it in my head too.
Superb ballast cleaner and good to see all that action at Fostoria, thanks VR
I am impressed with a lot of the video captures...but the reflections of the parade at Ft. Madison was pretty darn cool!
3:48 That old coalporter gondola sure has seen better days.
27:00 I believe those riders are part of a posse heading to La Plata to round up the hooligans down there.
Love these longer grab bags
4:02 2650, the engine that ran with 844 and 4014 at the 150th Anniversary Event at Ogden, Utah in May 2019. I was there myself, and stood right next to 2650 when it was sitting there.
12:46 291, one of the engines which hauled the five Tri-Rail F40PHs up for rebuild at Progress Rail back in July 2018.
24:45 Seeing as this all happened in Texas, I was hearing the "King Of The Hill" theme playing in my head.
I watch Virtual Railfan Grab Bag mainly for the trains
but an occasional Darwin Candidate livens it up a bit
here and there,Thank You.🤠👍✌️
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I played the benny hill music in my head as I watched. I don't think you tube can monetize what's in my head. Yet.
When you think you saw everything, the house movers took the prize.
No, I think the Oscar Meyer Mobile..
@@AidenSexsmithI suddenly have a craving for a hot dog...😋😋
@@AidenSexsmithIt will forever be known to me as the Weinermobile...😉
Our house in middle of the street I kept singing that song
@@TinkerTailor4303 Let's see now...🌭🌭 Enjoy, but I'd love to see this on the video!! 🛸 🤓
Awesome Herzog train !👍😎😎
We made the grab bag!! Thank you!😊❤
LaGrange now prepping for the next wave of Darwin drivers. Have the ambulance ready and no doubt some attorney with a briefcase is also ready for Mayhem
Very fun grab bag
So many heritage units in this video!!!
89' Chessie Hi-Cube @ 3:29 . Very rare anymore....
Great seeing the Lehigh Valley
That Scrap Gondola looks like it needs to be scrapped
3 shots from Paradise, very cool and a meet too. Let's have some New York State coverage too. Thanks.
Good Reminder as to Why you need to Secure Pallets even inside Trailers on Rail Cars. This happens on Tractor Trailers if Trailer Locking Mechanism Breaks.🤪😬
Excellent Video VR
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Amazing grabs
How many things did they run over with that shed, garage building. 🤨
5:14 looks like GTA IV train
3:31 Chessie 😁
I had hoped once the construction was done in Ft. Madison that parades would be held on that street and we could watch them better instead of reflection on building.
I'd swear a significant portion of BNSF traffic is in hauling locomotives around in power moves.
And I rolled, rolled so far away but I couldnt get away.
Flock of CN
Looks like some people got a five finger discount on some of that payload 😮
Well, not a good sight hitting too close to home. I work for T Force (25 yrs since the Big O days) and am very, very sure that skid, while not loaded by our dock guys on this particular trailer, originated at my barn. Its a skid of rolls of padding, either 7 or 9ft long and weighs about 1150lbs. There is no way anybody is moving that pallet that far off that trailer without a dock and at least a long fork pallet jack. My feelings are slack action, and knowing the condition of our door latches, bars, lack of load securement tools and dunnage, and an overall indifference to load quality by many in management, this doesn't surprise me a bit. Sad and embarrassed to see this and hope nobody was hurt fixing this mess!
8:00 That's Spirit Air Super economy class flying going by.
where did the building being moved come from & where was it going?"
If it's any help- the Benny Hill theme was really called- Yakity Yak, or Yakity Sax depending on the artist. Would be a perfect fit!
What is all the box HF antennas for on all the Office cars?? You can see a bunch of them in the OCS shot at Kearney Nebraska
High tech communications equipment, etc so execs on the road can stay in constant contact with all functions of the railroad (and rest of the world!) while out and about.
@@kennethhanks6712 Thank you 👍😎🇺🇲
I wonder how many Darwin's will be in this grab bag.
Oh dear, he is posing for a photo shoot? // Aircraft fuselages, looks like an Boeing Airbus?
They are boeing yessir
Boeing...Must be going to South Carolina...if that is an eastbound train..
1:20 Looks like empty coal hopper going the other way. Cool.
Question: I'm not a expert at railroading but if your camera peeps see thinks like that open transport door with palette of goods sticking out, do you contact the engineer or train folks with details, being the helpful viewer?
Normally as a mod, yes, we contact the railroad police and tell them what trailer number, train, and direction
*Awesome*
I really curious as to what type of camera's you use. Thanks!!
Axis.
I volunteer to help stop the trailer trashing. Those people make my blood boil. But so many easy ways to stop it. Cost few dollars almost 100% if they really wanted it stopped
ZZ Top.
WHAT! The oscar meyer mobile is still around?
Man, I watched this video twice,n missed the thumb nail both times!!! Bummer! 😢
hello virtual railfan it's is randy and i like yours video is cool thanks friends randy
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23:45..."My car is hot! Dawg!"
24:47 At first it looked like the dude was being chased by a runaway building.
A full pallet knocked half way out the back of the container looks to me to be more of a case of slack action than theft.
Nope theft TPS and all railroad TOFC shipments have bolt seals on the doors and the doors literally have cam style locks into the frames. If the pallet coming out was due to slack action the door would have looked like a pretzel.
I concur, and it looks a lot like a pig, which would have even more slack action
@@haroldbenton979slack action or not, my guess is that the door hinges couldn’t stand the force of the pallet. Once the hinges go, the cam latches are useless. I agree that this is an unusual failure, but any anything is possible
@@haroldbenton979If someone broke into the trailer, they had help because there's no way a single person could pull that pallet out by themselves.
@stauffjt wrong I had a door literally get ripped off by another driver when I was closing it one day after getting loaded with grass seed in Oregon. Company shop was in Illinois. I asked for some help from the shipping company to get my door in place. We got it back on the trailer. I removed the broken hinges while the door was held in place by the cam locks. Then removed 2 hinges from the other door to give it some support for the rest of the trip. Ran for 3 more weeks like that hauling everything from grass seed to MN to frozen pizza back to Oregon to apples to St Louis then the trailer was dead line tagged for repair back to the shop. Those door locks are designed to withstand 46k pounds of products hitting them in order to meet FMCSA regulations for load securement when closed. They are not just going to fail unless you cut them off in order to break into the trailer. On a modern OTR trailer here's the areas that have parts made of steel or iron in them and the rest are either aluminum or plastic. Door frames and locking mechanisms. Axles and suspension components includes wheels and brakes assemblies. Fifth wheel plate and kingpin on the nose of the trailer and the last is landing gear legs and bracing. The rest is made as lightweight as possible but still to hold the weight of the cargo.
Love the Heritage locomotives, but 6179 with all the fallen flag logos feels like notches in a gun.
Fort Madison, Pass the Gray Pu'e Pon quickly, my Oscar Myers Hotdog 🌭 🌭 is getting cold🥶 and away 😮😂...
Nothing but Yucky Yellow!
@@TinkerTailor4303 ok,,, how bought Heinz or French's 🤔, oh don't forget the Relish and onions 😋.
24.00. What the blood and stomach pills is that thing????
You’ve never seen the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile before?
27:00 was that the RCMP musical ride, in the reflection?
There's an insurance claim on the back of that open trailer
What do we see on the locomotive of the Herzog train at 11 minutes that does not appear during the passage the day before (at the beginning of the video)?
I believe they were bees, why I shot it again
@@johnstafford4304 Thanks John for your answer. I thought the same.
Slabs from or to Ak Steel.
16:42 High nose EMD.
Back up and go into emergency that done fall out for you. Someone tell me it was sealed all doors and places? And a cable seal between doors and or real high delay hold them up. They find easer frieght to grab.
Does UP consider this passenger train an “OCS”?
It is their OCS whenever it runs, composed of cars from their heritage fleet used for executive inspections, customer promotions, employee specials, etc. Not used for general passenger service except occasional "special" excursions (many times fund raisers for charitable orgs., etc.). Notable as funeral train for Bush 41 several years ago.
@@kennethhanks6712 Ok Thanks
Wonder where all those passenger cars are going
If your referent 5:45 that was the UP Office Car Special consist of some of their fleet of their heritage passenger cars used for executive inspections, customer promotions, employee excursions, public relations trips, etc.
The train at 20:05 is the passenger consist of the SAM Shortline tourist operation out of Cordele, GA on ex Seaboard trackage. The name comes from the heritage name of the line: Savannah, Americus, and Montgomery.
The primary cars are Budd built ex MARC (Maryland Area Regional Commuter) transit coaches, the olive colored heavy weight platform car is 1925 vintage office car Dearing and the rear baggage type car is ex- army hospital car (as now painted) and now outfitted as an HEP generator car.
The SAM operation will be the host for the Railroad Passenger Car Association (RPCA) annual convention in January.
@@kennethhanks6712 interesting Thank you for the information!
A traffic jam in Fort Madison?!? What gives!
Tri-State rodeo parade today.
@@periwinkle-dragonfly Ok Thanks
does anyone know what that Oscar Mayer car is and who driving it?
It's an (The?) Oscar Meyer promotional tool-like the Goodyear blimps for Goodyear.
28:42 - 28:50 The driver of the yellow car apparently likes to live dangerously -- he grabbed the right of way from two other drivers. Another Darwin wannabe.
Yeah, what the heck??!!
I am surprised to see how many UP engines are still in the old paint scheme. They are taking off the HUGE U.S. flags on the side (because they are decals) and going back to having the old school Union Pacific painted down the side with a flag on the front side of the cab. (From what I have heard, is that the HUGE flag decals were/are just miserable to maintain.)
Well if the current scheme on a loco still fairly good it can wait a bit for a redo. When you consider the cost of a repaint can easily be $10,000-15,000+ per loco depending on number of colors, complexity of scheme, quality of paint, etc plus time loco out of service while in shop, etc you don't want to abuse your bottom line too much at one time!
I'd love to see CSX do a Heritage version of a New Haven unit, but in Green and Gold livery, instead of the more common Orange, Black and White livery.
Where are the coal trains going to?
The UP ones that are empty are going to the powder River basin in Wyoming, and I'm guessing the loads are going to Illinois
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Open trailer not container 👍
LOOK AT ALL THAT COAL - FUEL FOR MY EV