COWBOY LINE RAILYARD DRONE VIEWS AND VALENTINE BRIDGE DRONE VIEWS!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 ส.ค. 2024
- 07/03/2024 Chadron, NE. Not much left of the original CNW Cowboy Line. Chadron has a good sized yard still in use with the Nebraska Northwestern railroad interchanging with the BNSF in Crawford, NE. HWY 20 follows the old Cowboy line for a long ways. Many of the bridges have been converted for pedestrians. Valentine, NE. This Old CNW bridge is quite popular and makes for a very scenic walk or bike ride. Be better with trains though!
A fabulous video, Red!! I love all of the antique equipment and facilities, and also the bridge! 😃😃😃😃😃❤❤❤❤❤
@garymiller5937 Thanks Gary!
@@redsiowatrainvideos6645 You're quite welcome, Red! 🙂🙂❤️❤️
I’m liking those drone shots, thx
@ferraritoybox Thanks Clairence!
The roundhouse is awesome, too! 😃😃😃😃😃❤❤❤❤❤
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I really like the green and yellow locomotives, Scott! 😄😄😄😄❤❤❤❤
Great to see that cowboy railyard and a CNW cars there and some coal cars there in Chadron Nebraska nice CNW bridge in valentine Nebraska 😄😄😄👍
@Diegoiowatrains Thanks Diego! Lots of history there👍
The old bridge is way cool, 😎 , too!!😄😄😄😄😄❤❤❤❤❤
Fantastic series of videos from out west Red. I haven’t been out there in nearly 30 years. Thanks for bringing back some fun railfanning memories. The geep is a GP7 originally built for the D&RGW, sold to CRIP, then to PNC, and finally CNW according to the NEBKOTA roster I found.
@dansnow7374 You're welcome Dan! Nebraska is loaded with rail action. Too bad the Cowboy line couldn't survive. Still plenty of old right of way to see along hwy 20👍
Great video
@davidsnider1703 Thanks David S!
Stunning drone footage in nebraska Red, the roundhouse in Chadron yard was cool. Its a shame that beautiful bridge in Valenntine doesn't carry trains now but at least its still standing & put to good use for bikes & pedestrians, stunning views from the top of there. ❤😊👍
@Carolb66 Thanks Carol! That railyard was a pleasant surprise. Too bad that line was abandoned.
Thanks Red for the vid. Nice shots of the bridge near Valentine. Ah Chadron - where my motorcycle career almost ended due to a close encounter with an elk.
@fredtrench5684 You're welcome Fred! I hit a deer on my bagger about 10 years ago. I can't imagine hitting an elk!
Awesome Red. Keep up the great vids
@silverman785 Thanks Silver Man!
Your videos are awesome. My grandkids age 5 and 3 and a half love watching them as well. They did ask me if you knew their uncle. I had to explain too them that because he works for NS in the corporate HQ in Atlanta that he does not know everyone that post train videos. Keep up the great work.
@the-tenneseeTim Thanks Timothy! Glad to hear you have some young railfans in the family👍
Hello Red, an interesting video about the so-called Cowboy Line. This Nebraska Northwestern railroad is also a railroad that was taken over by another railroad. We have only had one state-owned railroad since 1920. There are still a few private railroads, but they use the state railroad network.
Thanks for your video and best wishes to Iowa. Wolfgang
@wolfgangpfeilergartenbahnd6530 Hey Wolfgang, thanks! It seems endless with railroad take overs around here. Iowa Northern sounds to be next here soon.
Looks like Equipment is Rusting in place. Unusual to See both an Active Yard and a Lot of Antiquated Equipment sitting there just taking up valuable space. 🤔
Nice catches!
I sadly have never had time to go to this end of the line. To think this line helped build the West and develop the rural country and now it looks like it's stuck in a Time Warp. Amazing that the Roundhouse is still there much less in fairly decent shape. Looking at the cars in the yard it seems like the majority are for storage or a contract repair shop. @1:15 check the old lettering bleeding through on that ballast car that whole group once being the backbone of the cement cars loaded in Mason City. The drone certainly helped to pick up the magnitude of that bridge especially when you look at the flatter country leading up to it. Glad you had good weather when you were there
@paulbergen9114 Definitely a time warp Paul! Boy if the CNW would have installed welded rail on that line it could easily have coal trains on it today. I rode along the abandoned line along 20 and could still make out a lot of the old line. You can tell coal is down by all the stored open hopper cars.
This line was built all the way to Lander, Wyoming. Made it to Casper, Wyoming in 1886. In 1991 a flood on the White River destroyed some of the track between Crawford and Harrison Nebraska. At the time UP was pretty much calling the shots at CNW and I would bet this was a good excuse for abandonment. The scenic White River Canyon was advertised by CNW in the early days. I have no doubt it would still be in use today hauling oil, coal and frac sand if UP had upgraded the line. In fact in the late 1990's the nation went through a rail traffic grid lock as a result of so much abandonment. At least Nebraska had the sense to rail bank the abandoned CNW portions of the Right of Way.
@@jamesrichardson559 this section of track was just the type that couldn't catch a break with economic downturns at the wrong time can any future Investments drifted away. I always did appreciate that this was geographically West of Denver. One of the people who show slides at a local group here in Milwaukee add some from when he was in the Air Force circa 1960 62 and got some photos of Lander before it was ripped up. A GP with some stock cars and small tank cars and in the background the foreboding Mountain continues to be a favorite of mine
Born and raised in Milwaukee Wi. And loved the Milwaukee Road, SOO Line and the southpaw running C&NW. Cool video, thanks much!
@poowg2657 You're welcome poowg! Sounds like you saw the good Ole days stuff👍
Beatiuful video, greetings from Asturias 🚂👍👍👍🔔🥳
@conceyullena Thanks Concey! Greetings from Iowa👍
I took some old 1/29th scale covered hopper cars and made ballast hoppers from them also. cool.
@bibledefinedbymartycozad Thanks Marty!
Hope this site along with equipment is saved from getting scrapped
It’s been decades since I went through Chadron. The old CNW depot was a 2-story, wood frame building painted CNW red. The second floor housed division offices. I drove the Cowboy Line from Chadron to O’Neill on day. I passed one westbound manifest going 10 mph. The high bridge over the Niobrara River is quite spectacular.
Here in Rhinelander Wi. at the end every C&NW building was painted battleship gray. They had just painted the 2 stall enginehouse gray in the 70s and a year later tore it down. We still have the brick passenger depot and the privately owned Monico depot was moved here in the late 80s. The rails were torn up in 84.
Red, I hope you were able to visit Fort Robinson while in Crawford, Nebraska. The CNW rail is still there through the Fort property. The Fort is completely intact as it was in the 1890's. Visitors can stay overnight and a good restaurant is in main building. The fort is located near the mouth of the White River Canyon. Google earth the Fort and the rail line.
@jamesrichardson559 No James I didn't stop in Crawford. Sounds like I missed a good spot at the Fort. I hope to get back out there.
Great drone shots of the CNW roundhouse, locos & cars. I doubt I would've seen these great pieces of history without Red's work. Thanks Red
@ddh2o759 You're welcome DD H2o!
Is it safe to assume that this Old CNW Yard is now Owned by Union Pacific (UP) Railroad ? Thanks for taking us along on your Railfanning Trip. Thanks Red! 👍🙏
@kens.3729 You're welcome Ken! The Nebraska and Northwestern Railroad now owns it. They interchange with the BNSF in Crawford👍
You've served up another nice nugget of RR history!
It's iteresting how the round house is split up.
It almost looks like another bridge approach next to the high bridge?
@charleshagenbuch6078 Thanks Charles! I was glad to see the round house and turn table intact👍
At 2:58 I believe that newer building in the upper left of the video is the former division headquarters building. It was sold to the US forestry department that's who's in it now.
@HughJassel76 I bet You're right! I was wondering about the old headquarters.
Interesting. I wonder if UP railbanked this line when they bought CNW or just abandoned it. I guess they found no shortlines willing to lease the abandoned section. They may have sold it to an entity who turned it into a rail to trail. A really fine looking bridge tho. Nice video, Red!
@bekleidungu.ausrustung7068 Thanks Bekleidung! The CNW abandoned the line before the UP take over. Sure is a shame they didn't try to save that line. Plenty of rail to trail activity on it though 👍
The town name is pronounced "Shadron."
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Cowboy line went through Stanton Battle Creek and Norfolk
Also hooper West Point and pilger
The opening drone footage of the Nebraska Northwestern Railroad's Chadron, Nebraska rail yard gave us a good overview of the former Chicago & North Western Railroad yard. Those two-bay open hopper cars at the beginning of the video are former CNW two-bay sand or bentonite covered hopper cars. After Nebraska Northwestern acquired the CNW two-bay hopper cars, they must have cut the tops covers off the covered hoppers to use as open top hoppers cars. Back in 1980, my late wife and our two sons took a trip out west. One of my wife's sisters was married to a TV reporter/anchor. They were living in Lincoln, Nebraska at that time. We spent a couple of days visiting them and then drove up to Fremont, Nebraska to follow the Cowboy Line. I do not remember if I caught any trains along the line at we were driving on U.S. 20. I remember that we stay in motel in or near Valentine. We stopped at Neligh, Nebraska to see the CNW depot. There was a 40-foot boxcar at the depot. We stopped in Chadron, Nebraska. I took some slides in Chadron. They are in storage currently. From Chadron we went north to Rapid City, South Dakota and then headed west into Wyoming to see the sights. (Post 15 July 2024 at 1917 CDT.)
@thomasmackowiak That was my first time to see Chadron and the Cowboy Line. Hwy 20 was enjoyable to travel with the Cowboy line still visible for many miles. I stayed in Chadron, seemed to be a nice town👍
Red I had filmed my first train almost two months ago which it was a military train .
@mikelockhart1827 Good deal Mike!