Yep to the tenth power! Grandfather was conductor on a freight,one of his sons was a rr policeman and was close to both coming up as kid. The love is in my blood.
As a retired Conductor i can tell you that when reporting for work you get a profile and a set of orders for your consist.If work trains are out you must radio call the track supervisor within two miles of their limits to see if you can pass even if you have a favorable signal.Also there could be speed restrictions or lifting of restrictions.Those trains seemed to be going awful fast for passing working crews.We usually slowed a bit no matter what so we can eyeball their equipment and visa versa.CSX
The work foreman of the track crew gives permission as the train crew asks for the permission to go by. In this case the foreman probably gave them permission to go at maximum authorized speed for his train. Before the train goes by the foreman will call all of his workers and they will confirm that they heard the foreman letting them know that a train will be coming on the other track
AWESOME video! Two CSX mixed freight trains, a CANADIAN PACIFIC double stack train with DPU, a CSX double stack train, a UNION PACIFIC stack train, and a very UNIQUE railroad maintenance train! Thanks for sharing this video, it was a really GOOD one!
My Granny worked spreading ballast during WW2 on the CPR line in Ontario. The train car had a disk on an arm out the side to mark the line for the edge of the ballast, and the stones came out a chute on the bottom of the car. She had to rake the stones to match up with the disk mark. Then an Inspector walked the track with her and her partner, another local woman. If there was a stone past the line he'd point with his cane and they had to rake it up, and if there was an empty spot with no stone above the line, they had to rake stones down to cover it. She said the train tracks almost looked like a city park when they finished up.
A few years ago, I was on my way to go fishing, and the ballast cleaners were being parked on a passing siding near my fishing spot. I had a great conversation with the crew. They were covered with dust and looked as if they had just emerged from a coal mine. It was on the NS’s old Virginian main line east of Roanoke Va.
I grew up around trains and when I moved away and they started putting all the overpass is in a totally miss them but where I live now I can hear them in the distance so I can hear the horn I can hear the train and it just brings back my childhood
My story is very similar to yours. I grew up in Crestline, Ohio, is was established way back when due to the railroad. My Grandpa and Uncle both retired as railroad engineers. I now live in Virginia Beach, no trains here anymore within hearing distance. I love going back home to visit and hear the trains again. It's funny how those things stick with you.
My Dad was a Conductor for 35yrs for the Southern Pacific out of Ogden Utah. I loved riding on those trains whenever I got a chance. It was a great experience. I hated it when the railroads broke the 5 man crew law and did away with the caboose. It was a greek tragedy.
Fun fact, I was a UP conductor and RCL operator for 3 years, even better...my dad worked for Loram for 35 years and started there designing ballast cleaners. Over the years he started designing rail grinders and then became the Engineering manager for light rail grinders. They sent that equipment all over the world, Sweden, UK, China and Brazil.
Got into an argument a couple weeks ago about why rail companies hauling an empty gondola as the last car fill it full of water... I meen literaly fill it full of water...
When I first hired out for the Missouri Pacific in August 1976 I was hired on as a maintenance of way, Trackman employee As soon as I learned to make an identity of machines out there They were fantastic the one you’re talking about is a ballast maintainer super machinery
The 'strange horns' on the Loram equipment have different meanings. The first one was the hotrail alarm, indicating a train is about to pass. The second one that sounded after the first train passed was the work alarm, indicating the machine is in 'work mode' and hydraulics are active.
@@fraukatze3856 around where i live. Some aint all that bad. Most of the time its cartoon characters or something artists like but of course you get the badddd ones. So you ain't wrong. Its crazy.
I caught the train after school about a ten mile trip to the next station I sat outside to watch the next freight coming a oil tanker had a fir in the wheels it was very large I went and told the station master he radioed ahead to the next station. This was in 1953 I got a nice thank you fro car railroad .
I have only watched a couple of your videos, and I'm thinking that there must be a huge workforce to maintain the rolling stock, all those wheel bearings and brakes, wow !
Do you have info on some of the tanker cars what there carrying. Is there info on the box cars and tanker cars. The amount of money on each of those train's. Great video. I just found your site.
Also the large machine that stabilizing the track's and clearing the track's. Where is that made. and the cost of some of this Equipment. Sorry for the homework.
Really enjoyed the video. My father was a railway officer in India and I became a rail fan since childhood. Now, I am 71 and living in the UK and remembering my childhood memories. Thanks for sharing this video. With best wishes
Thanks im glad you like the video, my Dad also worked for the Railroads here, New York Central, Penn Central and Conrail. He also worked for ALCO Locomotive Dunkirk Works
That’s really cool!! I grew up next to a switchyard as a kid, until I was 23, in Danbury Connecticut. It was back in the early 70s. Because of the position of the yard, and the fact that it was in the middle of the city, I was always exited whenever we had to stop at a crossing. My dad would be a little impatient, but I was intrigued. The old yard still exists, but it’s a museum now, and lacks the old time glory! I live two towns away from where I grew up, and there’s an old line that’s tied to the old yard, but it’s owned by a small company that , to me, only serves this short stretch. I don’t get the chance to stand next to the tracks, and watch in a mesmerized state, as the long line of cars go by. I’ve purchased a bunch of HO train sets, with the thought that I could experience that feeling again, but they’re all sitting in my attic, for that “someday “ when I can recreate it. Thanks again for the inspiration!!
Well you don't have to go to the tracks to see the trains, you can go to wide world of trains on TH-cam! Thanks for watching I'm glad you enjoy my videos
My father worked on the rail-gang and his father retired as a B&O Chessie System engineer. I hold a deep love for the dusk sun shining on the hot rail and the smell of creosote blistering in the heat. Beautiful. Just beautiful.
I know all those places. My family is from Fredonia, NY so I have spent a lot of time exploring the area. Always enjoyed hearing the trains at night while visiting grand parents.
Have always loved trains. Thanks for bringing back good memories for this old man. Am 70 now. Back when I was in my 20s, I had my dream job. I got a job working at ElectroMotive Division (EMD) in LaGrange, Illinois where I started out in the Paint Shop Wharehouse and then on Final Test Department. Seeing the locomotive engines in your videos brought back good times. Got to occasionally get to ride short distances with an engineer as we would test out an engine that was near completion before final shipment to the buyer. On weekends, would go out and watch Burlington Northern passenger trains making runs from Chicago out to Aurora, Illinois where I lived. By counting the number of engines, could have an idea how long the train was going to be. Figured one engine would pull about 75 freight cars. I also took vacations to Pennsylvania and would watch trains travel along Horseshoe Curve. That was a long curve where you could be in the engine and had made it up the long haul amd then turn as you made the way down and could see the caboose that was still coming up the grade. Used to have timetables so I could know what train was where. Would enjoy seeing the Denver Zephyr heading from Chicago to Denver blowing through Naperville, Illinois and scaring the hell out of this youngster as the gust of wind nearly blew me from my feet.
Brings back such memories of simpler times. In the late 80’s I was a student at SUNY Fredonia and used to ride my bicycle down to the tracks and watch the trains. I remember Berry Road and being stuck between Norfolk Southern and Conrail many times. Watching trains was my get away and a valued moments of solitude. Thank you for posting.
Aussie foamer here. Love the consists you guys and gal's have over your neck of the woods. A crap day foaming is better than a good day working. Toot bloody toot
No idea why I've always been fascinated by trains. Their horns at night are creepy, but in the daytime, I feel like I'm the only one 'stuck' at a crossing who is delighted to watch them pass by. Thanks for the footage.
Great footage for us train nuts. Your presentation is a hoot. You introduce each train clip like you were a Las Vegas MC introducing the next big act. Or like a DJ. Just keep on doing what you're doing, I love it.
That “strange horn” is the proximity klaxon for men working on the ground around the equipment. It lets them know when a train is passing on the next tracks
My dad's house is about 2 blocks from the Melrose Park yard. When I read what is parked there, my first though was, if one of those taker cars goes up, there goes my dad's house. Thanks for sharing.
The way it is done with you with the gravel cleaning is almost antiquarian. Here in Germany it looks like this .....th-cam.com/video/UfI275lXAlg/w-d-xo.html....... But your freight trains have something, because of their length. Greetings from Berlin/ Germany. Sven
The single smaller vehicle along with the LORAM train is a ballast regulator for shaping the ballast. A ballast regulator usually accompanies a tamper/liner also.
I used to live in East Palmyra Ny and loved hearing those Conrail and Amtrack trains go by not 150 yards from our house Now I live in northeast Florida and have Florida East Coast railroad going by a few hundred feet from my house. Brings me back to my younger days.
I like very much. My Grand dad had a General store where many goods sold in the store came off the railroad about 1000 feet from his store. Then he bought a coal company closer to the tracks and coal was off loaded to the 4 silos of different size coal. I loved the whole experience as a kid.
One of the scariest times of people running around the gates and striking a locomotive for train crews to experience is that scenario were two passing trains at a crossing and they run around the opposite train and suddenly appear in front of you.Trains have no steering wheels so never ever do trains hit cars its alway a auto striking a locomotive.
That's the coolest spot to be, right in the middle of them two big baby's YAHOO LET EM ROAR it's a thrill even at 70, had to laugh, bumps on my skin, hair raised up, wish I had been there YE AYH, ride em cowboy.
This reminds me of going to West Virginia every summer to visit my aunt and uncle and grandparents they stayed near Shenandoah junction and I used to love to hear the trains at night and see them by day
There's a new form of intermodal I've never seen before, long containers, new to me, on flats. New type of flats, similar to the 5 pack tubs, single truck between cars-- new to me. Holy cow, you're surrounded!
We have these machines in New Zealand, however, ours are from Australia probably from another firms name, live & work near railroads all my life. Greetings from New Zealand.😎👍👌
I used to take my nephew to the train yard park along side the road and let him watch the trains. He was 5 then and cried when I wouldn't take home a train car for him. He grew up and ended up working for the railroad.
@@WideWorldofTrains As an airline pilot I appreciate your approach to safety and the example you set for young photographers and enthusiasts. This kind of thing is serious stuff and there is no value in risk taking for what one might imagine as a better view/video.
A very nice video. I've been a lifelong railroad enthusiast, and can appreciate the work that you and other railroad-themed TH-cam channels do. I'm thinking, though, that it would be a while before I've watched all of your 14,000+ videos.
Thank you very much! It took me 14 years to film 14000+ videos (there are actually probably 25000 different trains in them, some videos have 5 to 8 trains each) so it would take while to watch all of them lol! But you can watch any amount you want, thank you! My 14th anniversary on TH-cam is coming up in early August
@@WideWorldofTrains You're quite welcome, and congratulations on your upcoming anniversary :). I'm thinking of starting a railroad-related series of videos myself, though I think they would be more focused on railroad history.
I just happened on this channel and I watched the whole video,let me tell you it was awesome, mesmerizing and almost hypnotic. So amazing what machines like this exemplify power and dynamic human abilities. I worked as a musician on a small cruise ship and when the big freighters and oil tankers and cargo ships passed beside us at Port I would get really excited and run up on deck to watch them go by
Keeping America moving! I loved being between the two trains. I live in a densely populated area at one of the corners of the country (Miami) so we don't get to see trains that large and going at speed.
I worked for loram on an undercutter in NJ and NY on CSX on the river sub and around Manville, NJ and what not down on the Trenton sub. These machines suck to work on. That first clip with the sirens is a hot rail. Loram rule to sound it when a train’s nearby.
As a retired locomotive engineer, I still enjoy watching....miss my co-workers...don't miss the B.S. Thanks for the videos !!
Amen to that bro
I agree.
What is some of the BS?
@@augvoorde2 politics....people who didn't do my job, telling me how to do my job....you know....bs 😳
Got it. Thanks.
This train race is awesome 👍
"...stuck between two trains again..." Sounds like a country song!
Who is here because they simply just love trains
I'm here because I just love trains
@@danielread7642 you're a legend
Yep to the tenth power! Grandfather was conductor on a freight,one of his sons was a rr policeman and was close to both coming up as kid. The love is in my blood.
Why else would anybody be here
Me!
Thanks!
Thank you very much!
As a retired Conductor i can tell you that when reporting for work you get a profile and a set of orders for your consist.If work trains are out you must radio call the track supervisor within two miles of their limits to see if you can pass even if you have a favorable signal.Also there could be speed restrictions or lifting of restrictions.Those trains seemed to be going awful fast for passing working crews.We usually slowed a bit no matter what so we can eyeball their equipment and visa versa.CSX
The work foreman of the track crew gives permission as the train crew asks for the permission to go by. In this case the foreman probably gave them permission to go at maximum authorized speed for his train. Before the train goes by the foreman will call all of his workers and they will confirm that they heard the foreman letting them know that a train will be coming on the other track
@@WideWorldofTrains i just said exactly that and more? I don't want to mess with you on your site but i can help you be better.
@@thomasobrien5318 Just saying what I hear on the radio many times, I appreciate your input
I was watching tamping and track cleaning operations last year and they just rolled by only honking a couple times on approach.
@@WideWorldofTrains im not a no it all i just thought you might like to know,you might have forgot more then i ever knew lol
AWESOME video! Two CSX mixed freight trains, a CANADIAN PACIFIC double stack train with DPU, a CSX double stack train, a UNION PACIFIC stack train, and a very UNIQUE railroad maintenance train! Thanks for sharing this video, it was a really GOOD one!
Thank you very much!
I saw a Stobe KFC tag on one of those cars. Thanks for the video. I have been a foamer since I was 5 years old and my father worked for the RR too.
Very cool!
Keep up the amazing work 👏 much love from Wales
Thank you! Will do!
My Granny worked spreading ballast during WW2 on the CPR line in Ontario. The train car had a disk on an arm out the side to mark the line for the edge of the ballast, and the stones came out a chute on the bottom of the car. She had to rake the stones to match up with the disk mark. Then an Inspector walked the track with her and her partner, another local woman. If there was a stone past the line he'd point with his cane and they had to rake it up, and if there was an empty spot with no stone above the line, they had to rake stones down to cover it. She said the train tracks almost looked like a city park when they finished up.
Wow that had to be hard work
Thank you. Great trains 🚂
Many thanks!
I like how the machine at 16:15 is effectively a shipping container mounted on a rail frame and with windows and doors added.
Man over-- A very strange conglomeration of machines. You should check around for videos of rail grinding machines.
makes it easier to load on to any flat car anywhere in the world
The container is converted into office and parts storage/tools space.
@@robroberts4491 Correct. Loram has a TH-cam channel that shows what and how their machine work. The equipment is fun to work on.
A few years ago, I was on my way to go fishing, and the ballast cleaners were being parked on a passing siding near my fishing spot. I had a great conversation with the crew. They were covered with dust and looked as if they had just emerged from a coal mine. It was on the NS’s old Virginian main line east of Roanoke Va.
1 hour from me
I grew up around trains and when I moved away and they started putting all the overpass is in a totally miss them but where I live now I can hear them in the distance so I can hear the horn I can hear the train and it just brings back my childhood
Cool story Janice
My story is very similar to yours. I grew up in Crestline, Ohio, is was established way back when due to the railroad. My Grandpa and Uncle both retired as railroad engineers. I now live in Virginia Beach, no trains here anymore within hearing distance. I love going back home to visit and hear the trains again. It's funny how those things stick with you.
@@RichfromVirginiaBeach I grew up and still live near the train tracks, this area I film trains is where I grew up.
My Dad was a Conductor for 35yrs for the Southern Pacific out of Ogden Utah. I loved riding on those trains whenever I got a chance. It was a great experience. I hated it when the railroads broke the 5 man crew law and did away with the caboose. It was a greek tragedy.
I lived in Ogden for a couple of years. Loved seeing the trains go by while waiting for the Frontrunner to come
Just beautiful to see trains gliding along rails.
Fun fact, I was a UP conductor and RCL operator for 3 years, even better...my dad worked for Loram for 35 years and started there designing ballast cleaners. Over the years he started designing rail grinders and then became the Engineering manager for light rail grinders. They sent that equipment all over the world, Sweden, UK, China and Brazil.
Got into an argument a couple weeks ago about why rail companies hauling an empty gondola as the last car fill it full of water...
I meen literaly fill it full of water...
damn, this location is absolutely nuts.
FYI to all who love trains Robert (Bob) French of Rochester N Y passed away in April of 2023. Bob loved trains! Rest in peace Bob.
When I first hired out for the Missouri Pacific in August 1976
I was hired on as a maintenance of way, Trackman employee
As soon as I learned to make an identity of machines out there They were fantastic the one you’re talking about is a ballast maintainer super machinery
The 'strange horns' on the Loram equipment have different meanings. The first one was the hotrail alarm, indicating a train is about to pass. The second one that sounded after the first train passed was the work alarm, indicating the machine is in 'work mode' and hydraulics are active.
Yeah I wish he would be quiet so I could hear it better. I already know what train it is that this is youtube.
Graffiti is possibly the largest train operator in America, their name is always well emblazoned on all their wagons.
Really looks awful.
@@fraukatze3856 around where i live. Some aint all that bad. Most of the time its cartoon characters or something artists like but of course you get the badddd ones. So you ain't wrong. Its crazy.
Spray paint art gives us something to look at while we wait for the train to go by...
If it was legalized we'd get better quality.
I like it...
@@fastoutnotforkids7192 same, we just get words but eh, its okay
Gives police all around the world some important stuff to do instead of catching paedophiles,meth cooks armed burglars...corrupt politicians.
I caught the train after school about a ten mile trip to the next station I sat outside to watch the next freight coming a oil tanker had a fir in the wheels it was very large I went and told the station master he radioed ahead to the next station. This was in 1953 I got a nice thank you fro car railroad .
By "fir" you actually mean a tree ? Wow! Was at the
Butler Pa station in '58 when a freight went by with a "flat tire".....dusty and nosy.
@@j_wz6818 By nosy, do you mean smelly?
@@barts1286 sorry .....very loud ....love the trains!!!!
Oh, and by the way, I am new to this channel. I love it! Can't wait to see more.
Thanks for subbing!
5:16 amazing to see a wagon of what was once the NORFOLK AND WESTERN railroad greetings from Mexico you spend one more subscriber
I have only watched a couple of your videos, and I'm thinking that there must be a huge workforce to maintain the rolling stock, all those wheel bearings and brakes, wow !
Do you have info on some of the tanker cars what there carrying. Is there info on the box cars and tanker cars. The amount of money on each of those train's. Great video. I just found your site.
Also the large machine that stabilizing the track's and clearing the track's. Where is that made. and the cost of some of this Equipment. Sorry for the homework.
Really enjoyed the video. My father was a railway officer in India and I became a rail fan since childhood. Now, I am 71 and living in the UK and remembering my childhood memories. Thanks for sharing this video. With best wishes
Thanks im glad you like the video, my Dad also worked for the Railroads here, New York Central, Penn Central and Conrail. He also worked for ALCO Locomotive Dunkirk Works
That’s really cool!! I grew up next to a switchyard as a kid, until I was 23, in Danbury Connecticut. It was back in the early 70s. Because of the position of the yard, and the fact that it was in the middle of the city, I was always exited whenever we had to stop at a crossing. My dad would be a little impatient, but I was intrigued. The old yard still exists, but it’s a museum now, and lacks the old time glory! I live two towns away from where I grew up, and there’s an old line that’s tied to the old yard, but it’s owned by a small company that , to me, only serves this short stretch. I don’t get the chance to stand next to the tracks, and watch in a mesmerized state, as the long line of cars go by. I’ve purchased a bunch of HO train sets, with the thought that I could experience that feeling again, but they’re all sitting in my attic, for that “someday “ when I can recreate it. Thanks again for the inspiration!!
Well you don't have to go to the tracks to see the trains, you can go to wide world of trains on TH-cam! Thanks for watching I'm glad you enjoy my videos
My father worked on the rail-gang and his father retired as a B&O Chessie System engineer. I hold a deep love for the dusk sun shining on the hot rail and the smell of creosote blistering in the heat. Beautiful. Just beautiful.
My father was a NYC road engineer and i started out a Hocking valley then pere Marquette retired as a road Conductor.
I know all those places. My family is from Fredonia, NY so I have spent a lot of time exploring the area.
Always enjoyed hearing the trains at night while visiting grand parents.
Have always loved trains. Thanks for bringing back good memories for this old man. Am 70 now. Back when I was in my 20s, I had my dream job. I got a job working at ElectroMotive Division (EMD) in LaGrange, Illinois where I started out in the Paint Shop Wharehouse and then on Final Test Department. Seeing the locomotive engines in your videos brought back good times. Got to occasionally get to ride short distances with an engineer as we would test out an engine that was near completion before final shipment to the buyer. On weekends, would go out and watch Burlington Northern passenger trains making runs from Chicago out to Aurora, Illinois where I lived. By counting the number of engines, could have an idea how long the train was going to be. Figured one engine would pull about 75 freight cars. I also took vacations to Pennsylvania and would watch trains travel along Horseshoe Curve. That was a long curve where you could be in the engine and had made it up the long haul amd then turn as you made the way down and could see the caboose that was still coming up the grade. Used to have timetables so I could know what train was where. Would enjoy seeing the Denver Zephyr heading from Chicago to Denver blowing through Naperville, Illinois and scaring the hell out of this youngster as the gust of wind nearly blew me from my feet.
Brings back such memories of simpler times. In the late 80’s I was a student at SUNY Fredonia and used to ride my bicycle down to the tracks and watch the trains. I remember Berry Road and being stuck between Norfolk Southern and Conrail many times. Watching trains was my get away and a valued moments of solitude. Thank you for posting.
Very cool, there is a kid majoring in piano at SUNY Fredonia and he does train videos around here. That is about a 7 mile round trip bike ride!
Aussie foamer here. Love the consists you guys and gal's have over your neck of the woods.
A crap day foaming is better than a good day working.
Toot bloody toot
Thanks 👍
No idea why I've always been fascinated by trains. Their horns at night are creepy, but in the daytime, I feel like I'm the only one 'stuck' at a crossing who is delighted to watch them pass by. Thanks for the footage.
Same here!
Hi from the land of Oz. great videos you don't realize how much freight gets moved until you watch these.
Glad you like them!
9:03 Fantastic! Double stacked containers is a great idea.
Thanks for standing and snorting up the asbestos dust left by a hundred years of brake dust as it’s stirred up to bring us this video!
Great footage for us train nuts. Your presentation is a hoot. You introduce each train clip like you were a Las Vegas MC introducing the next big act. Or like a DJ. Just keep on doing what you're doing, I love it.
Why thank you Niall I'm really glad you enjoy it
ABOUT HALF WAY TO A MILLION VIEWS MORE POPULAR THAN THE TRAIN VIDEO YOU HAVE AS A LINK!!! IM SO EXITED AND HYPED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That “strange horn” is the proximity klaxon for men working on the ground around the equipment. It lets them know when a train is passing on the next tracks
are you sure it's not the panic alarm?
@@raven4k998 positive. Same alarm is on the rail grinders for when they stop and change stones. You can check those videos too.
LORAM used to call it a hot rail system.
@@kennethbean1587 oh wait it's your alarm clock just wake up!!!!!
Kalaxons can certainly sound strange. Where in the video is it?
With the particular motion blur of your camera, it honestly makes it look like 3D models. lol
Amazing! I pray that all engineers, passengers, and railway workers stay safe. Love and Blessings to you and your entire family! Tyfs! 🙏🏽💕
Same to you! Thanks
My dad's house is about 2 blocks from the Melrose Park yard. When I read what is parked there, my first though was, if one of those taker cars goes up, there goes my dad's house. Thanks for sharing.
Oh wow!
Really enjoy looking at the trains and how they operate. I love looking at the locomotives 🚂
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The way it is done with you with the gravel cleaning is almost antiquarian. Here in Germany it looks like this .....th-cam.com/video/UfI275lXAlg/w-d-xo.html....... But your freight trains have something, because of their length. Greetings from Berlin/ Germany. Sven
I’ve never seen two big-ass trains drag racing.
And keep those windmills coming!
I love trains and I really like your hard work here.
Absolutely awesome job.
Thanks I'm glad you enjoy them
Hi I love this channel
That is some solid track and ballast in that first clip.
That loram ballast cleaner unit was awesome never saw one that big and in operation .. and the train shots were awesome .. thank you ..!!
Thanks Alan I'm glad you enjoyed the video and my channel
Nice to see Union Pacific locomotion in action n the train lengths are astounding with a middle booster loco!!.. Fab from a UK Enthusiast.
Thanks a lot 😊
Of all the various train TH-cam video blog I follow yours by is top of the heap.
Wow, thanks David! I really appreciate that and I try very hard every day of the year to get new train videos and post them daily on TH-cam
I miss the sound of the steam whistle. As a child I road hundreds of miles back and forth to gradma's house on the Pacific coast '
G'day from Brisbane Australia
Hello there
The single smaller vehicle along with the LORAM train is a ballast regulator for shaping the ballast. A ballast regulator usually accompanies a tamper/liner also.
Huh??? What is a ballast, tamper/liner??
I used to live in East Palmyra Ny and loved hearing those Conrail and Amtrack trains go by not 150 yards from our house Now I live in northeast Florida and have Florida East Coast railroad going by a few hundred feet from my house. Brings me back to my younger days.
Thanks for sharing
the first time that i’ve ever seen two companies going by in two directions on two rights of way so close together…amazing luck!
Yeah it sure was, thanks
Big Rail fan here from Scotland, Love the USA.
Whoa! That was awesome! Two trains going on two separate tracks at the same time in the same direction! In-freaking-credible!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Ha! Come to Glen Ellyn & Wheaton IL and see 3 at a time! What a mind____ .
Totally awesome Sir. I really enjoy watching trains. The locomotives sound is awesome power all the way. Keep it up Sir.
Thanks, will do!
I'am Your Newest Subscriber Great Videos. I Have Some Train Videos Too
Thanks for the sub! Thats cool
Greetings from UK. I really enjoyed your video especially the part where you were between the 2 trains! Well done.
Thank you very much!
WOW1 Gladd, I clicked on this! Good stuff! Thanks! 10:47 that's one hell of a turn! 16:19. That's one hell of a rig!
Thanks Peter. Glad you enjoyed it!
I am glad we still have trains!!
7:05 I saw the front engine shake hard on the track.
STUCK BETWEEN TWO TRAINS WAS AWESOME TO SEE
"Monster machine right there". Not wrong there!!
Thanks for all the info.
I like very much. My Grand dad had a General store where many goods sold in the store came off the railroad about 1000 feet from his store. Then he bought a coal company closer to the tracks and coal was off loaded to the 4 silos of different size coal. I loved the whole experience as a kid.
Well that had to be very cool to see
There is something mesmerizing about a train’s sound. ASMR for sure.
I LOVE WATCHING TRAINS BUT I STAY AWAY. THEY ARE DANGEROUS.
Not MY idea of ASMR 😂
@@ronniewall1481 Indeed, Back in the 70s, a boy I knew played chicken on the line and moved too late and lost his arm.
Definitely NOT ASMR
@@irishgrl exactly Irisgrl, far from ASMR 😳🙂
great Premiere
Thanks for coming
I love trains. Worked in Sydney at Central Station and just enjoyed watching them. Love those ballast cleaners. cheers from Oz.
7:11 I love this sound of K5HL horn on the UP ES44AH!! Nice K5HL horn?? I guess?
Hello from the UK. I really love the bit where you can see two trains both running over separate crossings, just a few feet apart.
One of the scariest times of people running around the gates and striking a locomotive for train crews to experience is that scenario were two passing trains at a crossing and they run around the opposite train and suddenly appear in front of you.Trains have no steering wheels so never ever do trains hit cars its alway a auto striking a locomotive.
I find watching trains coming towards is much more enjoyable than watching them going away from me.
Yeah I like it that way too but it depends on the lighting and wind and other factors
looks like they are running a bit fast around construction??!!!
I saw a train car the other day with a really nice homer Simpson painted on it......I was very impressed
The Loram Equipment is a shoulder cleaner, often used in double track to remove fines from the devil strip.
The laying of rock is quite dusty. That would violate Nevada State law concerning dust abatement.
Back home in Illinois ...I really miss the way those road crews hauled a__ to get the roads done out there in Nevada. Our roads here suck!
I absolutely love the doppler effect on the sound of a train horn as it goes by.
Oh I know, me too.
Some good examples of Doppler Effect at 7:14 and 14:30
No problem man i love trains brother
Thanks savage martin
That's the coolest spot to be, right in the middle of them two big baby's YAHOO LET EM ROAR it's a thrill even at 70, had to laugh, bumps on my skin, hair raised up, wish I had been there YE AYH, ride em cowboy.
Very good! That LORAM machine at work was nice.
Thank you very much!
Good vid Bro, brings back many memories. Thank you
You bet
This reminds me of going to West Virginia every summer to visit my aunt and uncle and grandparents they stayed near Shenandoah junction and I used to love to hear the trains at night and see them by day
Approx 7:45. That is exactly why I want to see this for myself one day..... Awesome!
There's a new form of intermodal I've never seen before, long containers, new to me, on flats. New type of flats, similar to the 5 pack tubs, single truck between cars-- new to me. Holy cow, you're surrounded!
I looked up Loram and the machine you have on your video is a shoulder cleaner. It does not also undercut the ballast between the ties. Good video!
We have these machines in New Zealand, however, ours are from Australia probably from another firms name, live & work near railroads all my life. Greetings from New Zealand.😎👍👌
I used to take my nephew to the train yard park along side the road and let him watch the trains. He was 5 then and cried when I wouldn't take home a train car for him. He grew up and ended up working for the railroad.
I am impressed by the way you maintain a safe distance from the right of way. Great video and you didn't shoot it standing on the ties! Two thumbs up!
Thanks I try to keep safe distances, safety first!
@@WideWorldofTrains As an airline pilot I appreciate your approach to safety and the example you set for young photographers and enthusiasts. This kind of thing is serious stuff and there is no value in risk taking for what one might imagine as a better view/video.
Lots of variety. Well photographed. Giant cleaner was a treat.
Thanks Nick appreciate it I'm glad you enjoyed it
A very nice video. I've been a lifelong railroad enthusiast, and can appreciate the work that you and other railroad-themed TH-cam channels do. I'm thinking, though, that it would be a while before I've watched all of your 14,000+ videos.
Thank you very much! It took me 14 years to film 14000+ videos (there are actually probably 25000 different trains in them, some videos have 5 to 8 trains each) so it would take while to watch all of them lol! But you can watch any amount you want, thank you! My 14th anniversary on TH-cam is coming up in early August
@@WideWorldofTrains You're quite welcome, and congratulations on your upcoming anniversary :). I'm thinking of starting a railroad-related series of videos myself, though I think they would be more focused on railroad history.
The double cabooses where really cool
I just happened on this channel and I watched the whole video,let me tell you it was awesome, mesmerizing and almost hypnotic. So amazing what machines like this exemplify power and dynamic human abilities. I worked as a musician on a small cruise ship and when the big freighters and oil tankers and cargo ships passed beside us at Port I would get really excited and run up on deck to watch them go by
Thanks Teresa im glad you found Wide World of Trains!
@@WideWorldofTrains was this filmed on a Tuesday at 10 am?
Very high quality video and great commentary! Thanks!
Thanks I'm glad you enjoyed the video
Fantastic train spotting! Thank you!
Very cool! Nice job!
Thank you! Cheers!
Keeping America moving! I loved being between the two trains. I live in a densely populated area at one of the corners of the country (Miami) so we don't get to see trains that large and going at speed.
What an awesome feat of machinery there! Awesome video!
Thank you very much!
I worked for loram on an undercutter in NJ and NY on CSX on the river sub and around Manville, NJ and what not down on the Trenton sub. These machines suck to work on.
That first clip with the sirens is a hot rail. Loram rule to sound it when a train’s nearby.
10:10 - Why does CSX waste money washing their rocks?
I just love train sounds, especially the horn sounds from far off.