I think the reason so many people recall seeing this when they were younger is because of its simple name. It's so easy for a kid to just type in Freight train and then this video happens to pop up. Thank you so much, Breton, for this awesome video.
I’m pretty sure this was every railfans first video they seen on TH-cam. It was my first video I saw on TH-cam when I was 4, and I’ve pretty much have been watching your videos ever since! (I’m 15 now)
When I was in Kindergarten, I used to watch this video all the time. Of course, as a railfan, I still enjoy it very much to this day. The quality of this video is excellent, even in the year 2020. Thank you for sharing!
I think I was at least 8-9 years old when I saw this as a kid. I was 3 at the time this video was uploaded. As of me posting this comment in 2021, I am now 18. Thank you for the nostalgia!
Man, I can't tell you how much this brings back my childhood. When I was a kid I lived directly across the street from the Pabst brewery in Peoria Heights, IL and trains like this came by twice a day. I'd lay in bed and feel the ground shake. It was always really cool to put a penny on the tracks when one was coming. Thanks!!!
I will always remember this video as one of the first railfanning videos I’ve watched on TH-cam. This video, along with others are the reason I love to railfan now! This video will always be legendary, with the older CN locomotive, the older gateless signals with the disconnected Safetran Type 1, the old Wisconsin Central defect detector and even the signals shutting off with the train still in the crossing! Even though this was filmed and uploaded long ago, great video and catch!
1300th comment: First I'd like to say that this video was the first train video I ever saw on youtube. 13 years from now since I was 4 when I watched this, this is the most nostalgic train video I have ever watched on youtube. And to those who watched this as their first train video on youtube, I congradulate you all for being great 2000's train kids. God Bless you all for watching this video as a starter railfan and god bless Brenton81 for Inspiring kids to become Railfan youtubers. 💖💖💖
Same here! Its also the very first train or railroad video I watched! I was 6 when I watched it now I'm 16! Memories flooding in! But I dont film trains but nothing wrong with liking trains and railroad crossings.
The BC Railfan this is also the first train video I watched to. I was 1 or 2 by then and I like trains so it's still my favorite video today and I the the lead engine is. Cool
I always remember watching your train videos when I was a little kid! My first ever train video was recorded near Nashville, TN on April 15, 2012 and I was only 8 years old! (I'm now 13)
The grandmaster of all railroad videos! This even made me start filming trains on my channel. Do you remember if there was ever a Mechanical Bell here? And they could have added separate gates and saved a ton of money.
Yes, there was a mechanical bell and 8" lights there at one time. They couldn't just add gates to the crossing. They had to install new detection equipment and electronics with the gated signals.
Love it when that first headlight appears over the rise, right at the beginning! I can hear Richard Strauss's "Night and Sunrise" from the Alpine Symphony in my mind's ear. I'm glad you didn't sweep the camera around to follow the locomotive. Lots of railfans do, and then they stay pointed along the tracks, getting an angle to the tracks similar to yours, except now shooting the train moving away from the camera. I like a stationary camera-keep it simple. Great video! Thanks for uploading!
We own & operate the ex-WC 6904 (now QGRY 6904). The second unit on this train is a WC 6900-series SD40-3 (ex GCFX, nee CN). These WC stenciled SD40-3's still carried the Alsthom (GCFX) paint scheme. Our QGRY 6904 is still painted in this scheme. The 6904 is ex-WC 6904, exx-GCFX 6032, nee CN 5202.
I remember loving this video when I was first getting into trains, this was one of the videos I liked. Just sitting on my dad’s lap watching videos like these on TH-cam. Now I make videos of my own and this is one of the reasons what :)
well for anyone really from the western racine county wi area , this was a popular spot to hang out and watch wi. central traffic and this was the hardest regency radio to hear without a professional radio. the crossing was already in the process of getting new gates installed. this is also a dispatcher radio location 161.295(79).as a csx employee now we have talked about this video because of the warning light terminated too soon. maintainers fear these issues. great video brenton81.
Whoa! I haven’t seen this in AGES! Hello again to all the viewers who are revisiting this masterpiece. I was 4 when this video was released as I was born on 8/26/2002 and I would turn 5 later that year in 2007. EDIT: Whoops, I forgot to say that I was 4 when this was released, my apologies for the confusion.
I watched this video when I was like 8-9 years old in 2012 on our old family computer I remember being so fascinated by the train racing by the crossing that I watched many more videos like this after I’ve now been seeing this video for close to 10 years so nostalgic
Lead unit is a CN SD50F (5430, I believe). Second unit is a WC 6900-series SD40-3 (looks like either 6901 or 6911). Neither unit is still on the CN roster. The SD50F's were sold out of CN's (ex-IC) Woodcrest shops in Homewood, IL (Markham Yard) several years ago through a locomotive auction. The 6900's were also sold, many of them acquired by Québec Gatineau Railway/QGRY. I work for St. Lawrence & Atlantic Railroad/SLR, one of QGRY's sister roads at Genesee & Wyoming Canada, so this is why we now have the QGRY 6904.
My 5 year old son watches this video non-stop. Seriously everytime he gets on youtube this is the first video he likes to watch. He has been watching this video everyday for the past like the past year, I think. You see, he has a fascination with trains and this a damn good video that provides just that. My son just might be a high factor of why your views on this video are so high. Thank you for endless hours of entertainment for my little guy:)
I love how for some reason this is the video that everyone always saw when they were younger and were just looking for train videos on TH-cam. Myself included.
This was the first ever video I watched on this channel. Soooo many years ago during my toddlerhood, I’m now 13 and still watch this, how the years went by so fast. and at 2:36 the crossing went off when the last car was still at the crossing, why?
One of my first train videos. I watched back when I was a little kid. 16 years later, I’m still watching it. As of September 2023 but however the locomotives that were showed in the Video according to rrpicturearchives CN 5400 SD50F Was Sold To ASDX In Georgiana AL It was last taken in 8/31/2009 probably scrapped i dont know CN does have a New 5400 But its a SD60 and the other loco 6911 SD40-3 was sold to DMVW in Bismarck ND In 2016 and it was last taken in 2016 probably still in service but I am going to say this video bring me back memories
i loved trains when i was younger (i still do) mainly rail crossing roads, and this was one of the first i have ever seen, when i was like 3, Thanks Brenton!
I'm a 15 year-old dubstep producer who used to watch this video when i was 4. Now its in my comment section?? What goes around comes around, and I had such nostalgia from this
Glad they updated these signals with crossing arms since this video shows the lights and bells going off prematurely with the last car of the train still crossing on the road! Yikes!!!! Never had seen that before. Sure would love to see this same area in the winter with snow on the ground and a train passing by. Must be pretty. Thanks for posting since I enjoy your videos just about every night. Nice camera work!
This was the second train video for me. The first video I watched was the one where a train gets hit by a tornado. I saw this video in the list of videos beside it so I decided to click on it. I've been watching train videos on TH-cam ever since.
The engineer doesn't control the crossing signals. There are no buttons or anything that are pressed to activate / deactivate them. They're triggered by the metal wheels of the train passing over a stretch of track wired to the crossing signal control system. The railroad was in the process of installing new signals at the time this was taken, so it's simply a glitch in the track circuit. The new signals are now up and the problem has been corrected.
Nobody:
This comment section: I watched this when I was ___ years old ahh nostalgia
Wisconsin Area Trains' Excellent Reels exactly
It's so true though
@@SBMetro ikr
but bro i WAS SO OBSESSED WITH THIS 1 VIDEO AAAAAAAA i been looking for it for about a month now
Stop targeting me Evan
I remember seeing this when I was 7 years old. This inspired me to film trains as well.
Same I was 7!
Same but I'm from Finland
Same, when I watch the video
Same
Exactly, Same with me
This was the 1st video I ever watched on TH-cam 10 years ago. I was 15. I'm now 25, I have a wife, kids, and a beautiful home.
This was literally the first video I ever watched on the internet.
I think the reason so many people recall seeing this when they were younger is because of its simple name. It's so easy for a kid to just type in Freight train and then this video happens to pop up. Thank you so much, Breton, for this awesome video.
I know everyone’s talking about nostalgia but man, I think I watched this video about 25 times as a child, no joke.
I think I watched it more than 25 times then but regardless I watched it a lot
Same here
Who still watches this in 2021. Real memories right here
A lot of people, apparently. It's still my most popular video for some reason.
@@Brenton81 Its a classic. I miss the days when I would watch this vid over and over. time flies.
This is one of the first train videos I had ever watched
Apparently it was the first for a lot of people.
Brenton81 EMD SD50F
@@Brenton81 it was for me
This was the single-handedly most watched TH-cam video by me when I was younger, mad respect for this person❤
I was 6 when I first watched this, and now I work for the railroad. How time flies…
Was 5 years old when this was made
this was my first video watching train when i was a baby, please never delete it, it bring so many good memories
I’m pretty sure this was every railfans first video they seen on TH-cam. It was my first video I saw on TH-cam when I was 4, and I’ve pretty much have been watching your videos ever since! (I’m 15 now)
When I was in Kindergarten, I used to watch this video all the time. Of course, as a railfan, I still enjoy it very much to this day. The quality of this video is excellent, even in the year 2020. Thank you for sharing!
This simple train made probably the best railfanning video on TH-cam
The bells really hit my nostalgia. I remember hearing them all those years ago.
Oh, the good ol' child memories watching this..
This was the very first video I watched on TH-cam when I was 5, and I believe this video is the reason why I'm so into trains now,
I remember watching this video when I was in Kindergarten and every time when I get home from school I will watch this all over again and again
Same
I was in Kindergarten when this video was made (March 2007)
I remember watching this as a 5 year old. This was the first video I ever saw on TH-cam. Good times. I miss 2007
I was 5 years old when this video was uploaded
I was 4 years old when I first watched this. Good old memories.. I am now 14 going on 15.
Yeah, hard to believe it's been over 10 years now since I shot that video. Time flies!
This was honestly one of the first videos I ever watched on TH-cam. Definitely an inspiration.
This is the first train video I saw when I was 6-7 years old, I have found it again :")
Imagine how famous this unknown engineer would be.
Geez, the last few times I watched this is when I was 3 years old. I’m 13 now. I wish I could travel back to the good nostalgia.. 🤯
First train video I ever watched. Iconic. This gave me the interest in the hobby. Thank you
me too
Same Here
I think I was at least 8-9 years old when I saw this as a kid. I was 3 at the time this video was uploaded. As of me posting this comment in 2021, I am now 18.
Thank you for the nostalgia!
I watch this everyday when I was a little kid and now everything had change from back then and today.
Ah, this video brings back memories since it was one of the first trains videos I ever watched.
I remember watching this back in year 2007-2008. Best childhood memories. Time flies very fast.
Man, I can't tell you how much this brings back my childhood. When I was a kid I lived directly across the street from the Pabst brewery in Peoria Heights, IL and trains like this came by twice a day. I'd lay in bed and feel the ground shake. It was always really cool to put a penny on the tracks when one was coming. Thanks!!!
I was 7 years old when I watched this. Now I'm 17. The nostalgia, this was what got me into videoing trains.
One of the very first train videos I've ever watched with my grandparents. Ah, nostalgic
I would watch this every morning when I was a kid.. now I’m working with the railroad.. man where does time go?
Did you get inspired specifically by this video to work for the railroad???
GMTX 2613 Yes, This video sparked my interest in trains when I was younger and my interest grew as I got older
I will always remember this video as one of the first railfanning videos I’ve watched on TH-cam. This video, along with others are the reason I love to railfan now! This video will always be legendary, with the older CN locomotive, the older gateless signals with the disconnected Safetran Type 1, the old Wisconsin Central defect detector and even the signals shutting off with the train still in the crossing! Even though this was filmed and uploaded long ago, great video and catch!
Is it me or was this just about everyone’s first ever train video they saw?
I love the angle that the train approaches the crossing! Awesome!
Childhood train video , I’m
Damn near crying watching this bro 😢
This was the video that got me into watching trains when I was four, now I'm 11. This video fills me with nostalgia.
1300th comment: First I'd like to say that this video was the first train video I ever saw on youtube. 13 years from now since I was 4 when I watched this, this is the most nostalgic train video I have ever watched on youtube. And to those who watched this as their first train video on youtube, I congradulate you all for being great 2000's train kids. God Bless you all for watching this video as a starter railfan and god bless Brenton81 for Inspiring kids to become Railfan youtubers. 💖💖💖
My first video that I've ever watched in TH-cam.
Same
This was the first train video I ever watched on TH-cam
Same here! Its also the very first train or railroad video I watched! I was 6 when I watched it now I'm 16! Memories flooding in! But I dont film trains but nothing wrong with liking trains and railroad crossings.
Me too
LOL, second, the first was the video of the daylight.
this crossing is where railfans childhoods began
True
I can agree with this
This was one of the first videos I saw as a kid on TH-cam when I was like 11 or 12. Oh the nostalgia!
One of the first train videos I ever watched.
The BC Railfan this is also the first train video I watched to. I was 1 or 2 by then and I like trains so it's still my favorite video today and I the the lead engine is. Cool
This is my first ever TH-cam video I ever watched!
the first ever train video i watched when i was 7
This brings me back when I first started to watch train videos. I still am liking it as of today. :D
Thanks! This is an early video of mine.
I always remember watching your train videos when I was a little kid! My first ever train video was recorded near Nashville, TN on April 15, 2012 and I was only 8 years old! (I'm now 13)
So... What's with the Safetran Type 1? is it dead?
This takes me back to my childhood of watching train videos with my family and my grandparents as a little kid
I used to watch this video all the time when I was little. It’s a breath of fresh air to come back to this again.
I can't believe how many people watched this when they were little. Im one of them!
The grandmaster of all railroad videos! This even made me start filming trains on my channel. Do you remember if there was ever a Mechanical Bell here? And they could have added separate gates and saved a ton of money.
Yes, there was a mechanical bell and 8" lights there at one time. They couldn't just add gates to the crossing. They had to install new detection equipment and electronics with the gated signals.
Brenton81 interesting. Also, I never realized how rare Safetran Type 1 E-Bells are, especially since I never seen one. Maybe they could’ve reused it?
Possibly. They may have saved the light assemblies and bell, if it still worked. Masts and crossbucks more that likely ended up in the scrap heap.
This video got me into trains when I was like 6. I used to watch it so many times over and over
At 2:35 Why Is The Railroad Crossing Went Off Early When The Train Is Here Before The Train Left?
My guess is because it seems like the railroad crossings going under some sort of construction
They were installing new signals
Love it when that first headlight appears over the rise, right at the beginning! I can hear Richard Strauss's "Night and Sunrise" from the Alpine Symphony in my mind's ear.
I'm glad you didn't sweep the camera around to follow the locomotive. Lots of railfans do, and then they stay pointed along the tracks, getting an angle to the tracks similar to yours, except now shooting the train moving away from the camera. I like a stationary camera-keep it simple.
Great video! Thanks for uploading!
This was one of my childhood train videos!
Me to omg I just found it
One of the first videos I ever watched on this platform, and I still can’t get enough of it.
This was the first ever TH-cam video I watched when I was about 5! Oh the memories!
We own & operate the ex-WC 6904 (now QGRY 6904). The second unit on this train is a WC 6900-series SD40-3 (ex GCFX, nee CN). These WC stenciled SD40-3's still carried the Alsthom (GCFX) paint scheme. Our QGRY 6904 is still painted in this scheme. The 6904 is ex-WC 6904, exx-GCFX 6032, nee CN 5202.
This was my first ever TH-cam Vid I've watched this platform
12 YEARS LATER:
This is the first train video I watch since 2010!
Ah, the sweet smell of nostalgia… :)
I remember seeing this at the age of 5 when I was so fascinated by Trains and I still am, thank you for the memories.
I remember loving this video when I was first getting into trains, this was one of the videos I liked. Just sitting on my dad’s lap watching videos like these on TH-cam. Now I make videos of my own and this is one of the reasons what :)
I especially enjoy the camera angle when you can see both the cross bucks and the train coming!
2:36 Crossing: I give up. Train: my entire length hasn’t even passed yet. How can you give up so soon?
well for anyone really from the western racine county wi area , this was a popular spot to hang out and watch wi. central traffic and this was the hardest regency radio to hear without a professional radio. the crossing was already in the process of getting new gates installed. this is also a dispatcher radio location 161.295(79).as a csx employee now we have talked about this video because of the warning light terminated too soon. maintainers fear these issues. great video brenton81.
Whoa! I haven’t seen this in AGES! Hello again to all the viewers who are revisiting this masterpiece.
I was 4 when this video was released as I was born on 8/26/2002 and I would turn 5 later that year in 2007.
EDIT: Whoops, I forgot to say that I was 4 when this was released, my apologies for the confusion.
Me too. I had watched this when I was young.
I watched this video when I was like 8-9 years old in 2012 on our old family computer I remember being so fascinated by the train racing by the crossing that I watched many more videos like this after I’ve now been seeing this video for close to 10 years so nostalgic
Lead unit is a CN SD50F (5430, I believe). Second unit is a WC 6900-series SD40-3 (looks like either 6901 or 6911). Neither unit is still on the CN roster. The SD50F's were sold out of CN's (ex-IC) Woodcrest shops in Homewood, IL (Markham Yard) several years ago through a locomotive auction. The 6900's were also sold, many of them acquired by Québec Gatineau Railway/QGRY. I work for St. Lawrence & Atlantic Railroad/SLR, one of QGRY's sister roads at Genesee & Wyoming Canada, so this is why we now have the QGRY 6904.
I used to watch this video nearly every day when I was 3-7 this was a great video
My 5 year old son watches this video non-stop. Seriously everytime he gets on youtube this is the first video he likes to watch. He has been watching this video everyday for the past like the past year, I think. You see, he has a fascination with trains and this a damn good video that provides just that. My son just might be a high factor of why your views on this video are so high. Thank you for endless hours of entertainment for my little guy:)
2:36 - the lights and bell turned off BEFORE the train fully cleared the tracks 😂😂😂😂
For just one second.
I love how for some reason this is the video that everyone always saw when they were younger and were just looking for train videos on TH-cam. Myself included.
I don't understand how this one video is so popular. I have over a hundred others, but this is the one everyone likes.
@@Brenton81 When I was about 7 years old I stumbled upon this video. It was one of my favorites haha.
One of the first videos I ever saw back when I was 2... :)
This was the first ever video I watched on this channel. Soooo many years ago during my toddlerhood, I’m now 13 and still watch this, how the years went by so fast. and at 2:36 the crossing went off when the last car was still at the crossing, why?
i was like 6 and this is so good to see
Installing new signalls
Nice video of a combo locomotive 🚂 Great job filming this video. Thanks for sharing.
One of my first train videos. I watched back when I was a little kid. 16 years later, I’m still watching it. As of September 2023 but however the locomotives that were showed in the Video according to rrpicturearchives CN 5400 SD50F Was Sold To ASDX In Georgiana AL It was last taken in 8/31/2009 probably scrapped i dont know CN does have a New 5400 But its a SD60 and the other loco 6911 SD40-3 was sold to DMVW in Bismarck ND In 2016 and it was last taken in 2016 probably still in service but I am going to say this video bring me back memories
FUN FACT: This is the best video in how to get into railfanning and to relieve your childhood dreams
First TH-cam Video I ever watched.
One of the first videos I have ever watched on youtube
This one of many old train videos I saw as a child in the Early-Mid 2010s.
Same here
This Is A Sweet Catch And Excellent Consist!
CN 5400 SD50F
CN Ex-WC 6911 SD40-3
That’s right!
The first ever video I’ve watched on TH-cam
The first ever video i watched on the internet. Holy shit the nostalgia is hitting me harder than a train
i loved trains when i was younger (i still do) mainly rail crossing roads, and this was one of the first i have ever seen, when i was like 3, Thanks Brenton!
This is the first TH-cam video I ever watched
Lol also first
I'm a 15 year-old dubstep producer who used to watch this video when i was 4. Now its in my comment section?? What goes around comes around, and I had such nostalgia from this
This and Ervan's trains SP 4449 video are in the collective memories of the current generation of railfanners.
Both videos are great. These videos also inspired children to like and film trains.
If you saw this in your early days of TH-cam, then I’d bet you had an amazing childhood
Yes I did I was 9 when I first saw this
Why the hell would 1.1k people dislike this? This is the good stuff!
Glad they updated these signals with crossing arms since this video shows the lights and bells going off prematurely with the last car of the train still crossing on the road! Yikes!!!! Never had seen that before. Sure would love to see this same area in the winter with snow on the ground and a train passing by. Must be pretty. Thanks for posting since I enjoy your videos just about every night. Nice camera work!
This is actually the first rail fanning video I've ever watched on TH-cam. Nostalgic af
Indeed
Man i remember watching this back in 2010 when I was 3, hard to believe that was 14 years ago, now I'm watching at 17 years old. Boy how time files
The most famous crossing in North America
NO WAY.. I FOUDN THE VIDEO AGAIN AFTER 12+ YEARS,...
WHAT BECAUSE SAME
SAME DUDE
I was 2 years old when this got uploaded
Now im 17
This was the first train video I ever saw on TH-cam
well you will like it
Me too!
Pennsylvania RR Video`s I've filmed a few train vids. Their not very good though. But I do have one of a steam engine.
Same here
This was the second train video for me. The first video I watched was the one where a train gets hit by a tornado. I saw this video in the list of videos beside it so I decided to click on it. I've been watching train videos on TH-cam ever since.
I watched this everyday when i was little so many memories
The engineer doesn't control the crossing signals. There are no buttons or anything that are pressed to activate / deactivate them. They're triggered by the metal wheels of the train passing over a stretch of track wired to the crossing signal control system. The railroad was in the process of installing new signals at the time this was taken, so it's simply a glitch in the track circuit. The new signals are now up and the problem has been corrected.
The lights and bells stopped ringing while the train was still in the crossing (2:35). I wonder how that could happen?
I think the crossing was in the middle of electronic changes at the time
I watched this video when I was 4 years old!! My memory😪
Hey Brenton81, on behalf of all the people who's first video was this one, thanks for posting!!!
this was my first train video i watched as a 3 year old 😭😢
Welcome back my bro 😎
I watched this as a kid too. Probably around 5 yrs old tho.