@@redsiowatrainvideos6645 yeah, we all have to work to be able to afford our "toys"........my nextdoor neighbor lost his 14,500 gallon above ground pool a week ago, when a side panel gave way from rusting out, but he still has his Harley and other adult toys. I am content to have some old riding mowers to play around with, and am turning one into a "mini-monster-truck-mower". It will be more for fun than anything else.
Nice drone shot of the wind turbine facility in Avon, IA and UPs yard in Des. Moise, IA. I find those wind turbine trains interesting. Another cool chase of CN M388 too. Good work Red, keep it up.
Hi red I like to watch all the trains and cargo trains going out and bout and the drones over the goods yards and the longest trains waiting to go to another town to go and a nice day out and bout thanks Red
Well red glad you got up to the Big DM. This is our 33 million-dollar railport and 115,000sq and transload facility !!! Thanks because I've never been over there LOl yet
As a Welder with UPRR, I changed and welded many rails, switch points, and frogs in Shortline Desmoines. Also the mainline from south of Desmoines to Hampton Ia.
I ran into one of these blade trains last autumn around Cameron and Galesburg IL on the BNSF Chilli sub. Really cool to watch, glad to know from where it likely originated. Thanks for sharing. 👍
I live in nearby Altoona and pass by this weekly but never ventured back there to see it. Thanks for the Birds Eye view of a very unique facility. The grain elevator next door is General Mills and I have heard that’s where most Betty Crocker cakes mixes made and packaged.
Thanks Red. Did not know NS and BNSF were in Des Moines now, all I ever saw was C & NW, Rock Island, and CGW. There is another yard closer to downtown, I guess it's still quite active. I researched trains in Florida, turns out, there's a lot of freight trains over in Tampa, which is about 30 miles from where we live. The Port of Tampa is a destination for a lot of inbound and outbound freight. CSX has a huge yard, not in the Port, it's by Orient Road. Should you want to get away from Iowa, round about January, when it's an honest 10 below zero, and 40 below with the wind-chill factor...drop in, make a Trains in The Tropics video....
The NS in Des Moines is the former Wabash, and they offered passenger service in & out of DM. It connected with the Wabash main from St. Louis to Kansas City.
You're welcome Nick P! I may do some more railfanning in Des Moines. It's about 2 hours from my house. I like the winter time idea in Florida. I did make it to Cocoa Back in 2020. I uploaded a video of some FEC train action.
@@nickpaglia543 the Wabash started out as the Northern Cross in the late 1830s, running from Springfield Illinois, to Meredosia, on the Illinois River. After several bankruptcies, takeovers, and reorganizations, it finally became the Wabash, running from Detroit Michigan, to Kansas City on the west, and to Buffalo New York on the east. The Buffalo line went through Canada, and was a joint operation with Canadian National. At Decatur Illinois, the Wabash split, and had two different routes to Kansas City, one line went through Springfield, utilizing the original Northern Cross right-of-way, and the other went southwest to St. Louis, and joined the Springfield line west of there. There were numerous branches on the Wabash, including the one to Des Moines, Iowa. A portion of the Northern Cross right-of-way now serves as a bike & hike trail on Springfields southwest side.
50 years ago, I covered the yard checker job in the Rock Island’s Short Line Yard. Best. Job. Ever. Then again, walking down between two tracks that weren’t that well maintained meant that sometimes the cars on adjacent tracks leaned towards each other making it a tight squeeze to get through. And then I heard the slack being taken on one of the tracks and as I didn’t know which track, I didn’t know which cars to move away from which made for some anxious moments.
@@redsiowatrainvideos6645 This is really a good video of Short Line Yard. A lot of the buildings I worked out of are demolished. This modern rail yard is less cluttered than back then. Lots fewer memorable characters too, I'll bet. Thanks for rekindling memories.
Hey Red , long time no see . Great video , just chuck full of drone shots . We love it ! Especially that beautiful winding curve set through that little burg near the end of the video . Keep up the excellent work !!! Your fans in the Great White North 🇨🇦
@garymiller5937 I believe you are correct. I'm wrong on this. Mayb we used to do it that way. But definitely combine it now then bale the straw. Thanks for keeping me in line.
Awesome shots of the M338. Glad you got to catch it, especially with that rare CSX standard cab dash 8. Where about did you shoot drone footage around the yard in Des Moines? I know that neighborhood in the area is...a little sketchy lol
@@redsiowatrainvideos6645 Have you ever had any encounters from..weirdos in some sketchy areas while railfanning? It's definitely a hobby that draws some attention
@@fallingup90 Not yet. Rail yards are definitely usually in rough parts of town. Galesburg seemed to be a good neighborhood. Most people are oblivious to railfanning.
Morning Red! I've caught a windmill train once at night, it's on my channel. That's a massive wind turbine yard, interesting to see all the individual parts and man those were some heavy duty trailers for the tower parts of the windmill. Cool yard work with the drone, we have a fairly big container CN yard in Brampton Ontario but not as big as that. The CP yard in Vaughan is closer to that UP yard there. Sure was a lot of power on the first stack train and she was moving! I'm really digging the farm action buddy! It's really cool to see how they do their fields. So I have a question...if a CN train starts out in say Ontario, does the crew switch out or do they do the entire run? Great video as always buddy. Cheers from Ontario 🇨🇦
Yo Phantom! Yep, looked like everything to the turbines was laying there. That farmer was harvesting rye. It's a unique process to harvest. Not sure on the crews from Ontario. I believe they can't go past 10 hours. Yep, big power on the priority trains👍
A lot of different ways. Spine line goes from KC to the twin cities. It also connects with the East West double main North of Des Moines in Nevada, Ia.
Rarely had Crew Shortages and Hunter Harrison 🤪 had a Brilliant Nightmare called Precision Scheduled Railroading (PSR) and Ruined Railroad Industry. 🤪👎
Great video today Red. Nice variety of action. 😊😊😊
Thanks Gary!
Great job Red 👍🏻😎 nice drone work . Robin out .
Thanks Robin! Found some new action on this one👍
Great video Red. I watch them all!
Thanks Warren!!
Drone time! Ha, that’s quality entertainment. Great job Red ! Another great video, I greatly enjoyed the multiple locations. Thank you
You're welcome Dan! I try to mix it up when I can👍
Love your shirt! "Work sucks, lets ride!" What a nice sunny, and probably hot, day for an awesome video!😃😃👍👍❗
Thanks Paul! Unfortunately I have to work to ride those Harley Davidsons😀
@@redsiowatrainvideos6645 yeah, we all have to work to be able to afford our "toys"........my nextdoor neighbor lost his 14,500 gallon above ground pool a week ago, when a side panel gave way from rusting out, but he still has his Harley and other adult toys. I am content to have some old riding mowers to play around with, and am turning one into a "mini-monster-truck-mower". It will be more for fun than anything else.
Nice drone shot of the wind turbine facility in Avon, IA and UPs yard in Des. Moise, IA. I find those wind turbine trains interesting. Another cool chase of CN M388 too. Good work Red, keep it up.
Thanks Nancy! Maybe I'll catch one of those turbine blade trains in Montour sometime👍
Nice variety Red! Would've been down for more action at the wind turbine yard. That's interesting!
Thanks softkitty! I was aways from home on that one, otherwise I would have hung out longer👍
Thanks Red love thoses spots
You're welcome Ronald!
I feel like you are 200 feet tall, walking around with your camera. This is epic.
Hi red I like to watch all the trains and cargo trains going out and bout and the drones over the goods yards and the longest trains waiting to go to another town to go and a nice day out and bout thanks Red
You're welcome Elaine! That was all new locations for me👍
Well red glad you got up to the Big DM. This is our 33 million-dollar railport and 115,000sq and transload facility !!! Thanks because I've never been over there LOl yet
You're welcome Chris! Definitely new turf for Me. BNSF, IAIS, and NS intermingle around there too.
As a Welder with UPRR, I changed and welded many rails, switch points, and frogs in Shortline Desmoines. Also the mainline from south of Desmoines to Hampton Ia.
I ran into one of these blade trains last autumn around Cameron and Galesburg IL on the BNSF Chilli sub. Really cool to watch, glad to know from where it likely originated. Thanks for sharing. 👍
Good idea for the side shots. thanks
You're welcome Marty!
I live in nearby Altoona and pass by this weekly but never ventured back there to see it. Thanks for the Birds Eye view of a very unique facility. The grain elevator next door is General Mills and I have heard that’s where most Betty Crocker cakes mixes made and packaged.
Thanks Red. Did not know NS and BNSF were in Des Moines now, all I ever saw was C & NW, Rock Island, and CGW. There is another yard closer to downtown, I guess it's still quite active.
I researched trains in Florida, turns out, there's a lot of freight trains over in Tampa, which is about 30 miles from where we live. The Port of Tampa is a destination for a lot of inbound and outbound freight. CSX has a huge yard, not in the Port, it's by Orient Road.
Should you want to get away from Iowa, round about January, when it's an honest 10 below zero, and 40 below with the wind-chill factor...drop in, make a Trains in The Tropics video....
The NS in Des Moines is the former Wabash, and they offered passenger service in & out of DM. It connected with the Wabash main from St. Louis to Kansas City.
You're welcome Nick P! I may do some more railfanning in Des Moines. It's about 2 hours from my house. I like the winter time idea in Florida. I did make it to Cocoa Back in 2020. I uploaded a video of some FEC train action.
@@paulsmith5398 Thanks for that, all I ever knew about the Wabash was the song, The Wabash Cannon ball.
@@nickpaglia543 the Wabash started out as the Northern Cross in the late 1830s, running from Springfield Illinois, to Meredosia, on the Illinois River. After several bankruptcies, takeovers, and reorganizations, it finally became the Wabash, running from Detroit Michigan, to Kansas City on the west, and to Buffalo New York on the east. The Buffalo line went through Canada, and was a joint operation with Canadian National. At Decatur Illinois, the Wabash split, and had two different routes to Kansas City, one line went through Springfield, utilizing the original Northern Cross right-of-way, and the other went southwest to St. Louis, and joined the Springfield line west of there. There were numerous branches on the Wabash, including the one to Des Moines, Iowa. A portion of the Northern Cross right-of-way now serves as a bike & hike trail on Springfields southwest side.
@@paulsmith5398 Thanks for that..I learn a lot from this site..
50 years ago, I covered the yard checker job in the Rock Island’s Short Line Yard. Best. Job. Ever. Then again, walking down between two tracks that weren’t that well maintained meant that sometimes the cars on adjacent tracks leaned towards each other making it a tight squeeze to get through. And then I heard the slack being taken on one of the tracks and as I didn’t know which track, I didn’t know which cars to move away from which made for some anxious moments.
Sounds like a job that you needed your head on a swivel Lon! If they were kicking cars back then you really had to be paying attention!
@@redsiowatrainvideos6645 This is really a good video of Short Line Yard. A lot of the buildings I worked out of are demolished. This modern rail yard is less cluttered than back then. Lots fewer memorable characters too, I'll bet. Thanks for rekindling memories.
@@londavies8636 You're welcome Lon! The Rock lives on in some ways👍
Good work Red. While at the Shortline yard in Des Moines you could see the State Capitol building in the upper left hand corner.
met a windmill train west of dunlap, ia with 39 windmill blades on our way to omaha a couple of years ago
I love railyards! 😊😊
Hey Red , long time no see . Great video , just chuck full of drone shots . We love it ! Especially that beautiful winding curve set through that little burg near the end of the video . Keep up the excellent work !!! Your fans in the Great White North 🇨🇦
Yo Don and the GWN! Glad you like my latest. There were a couple of firsts for me in this video👍
The box cars next the blades in your first sequence had a bunch of ex-Amtrak box cars. I thought was interesting to spot.
Yep, I noticed them too👍
Manly iowa has a windmill parts yard. They come in my rail and go out by semi
I remember seeing the windmill components on my last trip to Manly. Not sure which spot is bigger.
I believe there at Avon Lake that is General Mills for the elevator
It seems odd to me he's running the combine over the windrows after the grain has already been picked. 😊
The combine was picking the wind rows. It's a strange process picking rye. After that they bale it into round bales.
@redsiowatrainvideos6645 wheat is the same way. They cut and windrow it, then combine the grain , then bale the straw
@@davidsnider1703
Not in Indiana they don't.
@garymiller5937 I believe you are correct. I'm wrong on this. Mayb we used to do it that way. But definitely combine it now then bale the straw. Thanks for keeping me in line.
They definitely need to ship more wind turbine parts by rail instead of clogging the highways. Great video.
Thanks dd h2o! Those turbine blades are definitely long.
Nice catches! A few days after you came to Des Moines, NS brought in another highhood GP38-2 and now the duo are working around Des Moines since then.
Thanks CIRP! Des Moines was good for some railfanning. A little tough to access some areas.
Your welcome @@redsiowatrainvideos6645! Yeah
Very Busy Yard
What makes a train a priority train
They usually have UPS and or FedEx trailers on them.
@@redsiowatrainvideos6645 that makes sense with 2 day shipping
Awesome shots of the M338. Glad you got to catch it, especially with that rare CSX standard cab dash 8. Where about did you shoot drone footage around the yard in Des Moines? I know that neighborhood in the area is...a little sketchy lol
Thanks fallingup90! I just
I rode until I found a spot I could just see the yard. I agree, it was a sketchy neighborhood but I was on a mission😀
@@redsiowatrainvideos6645 Have you ever had any encounters from..weirdos in some sketchy areas while railfanning? It's definitely a hobby that draws some attention
@@fallingup90 Not yet. Rail yards are definitely usually in rough parts of town. Galesburg seemed to be a good neighborhood. Most people are oblivious to railfanning.
been there afew times
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He might be "tedding" hay.
He was harvesting rye. Interesting process.
@redsiowatrainvideos6645 did you get them baling that straw?
@@charleshagenbuch6078 Nope, missed that part.
Morning Red! I've caught a windmill train once at night, it's on my channel. That's a massive wind turbine yard, interesting to see all the individual parts and man those were some heavy duty trailers for the tower parts of the windmill. Cool yard work with the drone, we have a fairly big container CN yard in Brampton Ontario but not as big as that. The CP yard in Vaughan is closer to that UP yard there. Sure was a lot of power on the first stack train and she was moving! I'm really digging the farm action buddy! It's really cool to see how they do their fields. So I have a question...if a CN train starts out in say Ontario, does the crew switch out or do they do the entire run? Great video as always buddy. Cheers from Ontario 🇨🇦
Yo Phantom! Yep, looked like everything to the turbines was laying there. That farmer was harvesting rye. It's a unique process to harvest. Not sure on the crews from Ontario. I believe they can't go past 10 hours. Yep, big power on the priority trains👍
I wonder what they make there. That’s General Mills.
How dose the UP get to DM? Though KC?
A lot of different ways. Spine line goes from KC to the twin cities. It also connects with the East West double main North of Des Moines in Nevada, Ia.
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They sure got allot of loco's just sitting around doing nothing
Waiting for the busy times.
Rarely had Crew Shortages and Hunter Harrison 🤪 had a Brilliant Nightmare called Precision Scheduled Railroading (PSR) and Ruined Railroad Industry. 🤪👎