I'd be interested in more Railfanning stuff, hell I got into NASCAR and trains around the same time! If you really think about it, train sets are just scaled down versions of a NASCAR track, just for model trains!
Oddly enough there was also a period during the 90's where you could by NASCAR themed train sets. There were Earnhardt ones as well as generic, and car manufacturer specific ones. They go for $70-120 in Ebay nowadays
I am a big fan of trains myself. l lived in SoCal for 13 years and saw Metrolink, COASTER, Amtrak Surfliner, Starlight, and Southwest Chief. This country really needs a renaissance of rail and I am happy to see it coming back in some areas.
Some of my favorite freight trains that I see go by are Auto Racks, Intermodal trains, Mixed freight, and grain trains. My favorite Passenger train has always been Amtrak.
If you ever come to Pennsylvania like during Pocono, I would suggest visit Altoona, PA for the railroaders musuem, railfan around the Norfolk Southern's Rose yard, and also checkout the fascinating Horseshoe Curve. Another fascinating railroad in eastern PA near Pocono is the Reading Blue Mountain Northern Railroad. They offer train excursions pulled by vintage stream line diesel and the good ol Reading 2102 steam engine.
Something I recommend you to get is a handheld scanner. They come in handy for listening out for trains and can be used for NASCAR races as well. I use a Uniden BC125AT but the BC75XLT is also a great option. Danny Harmon from Distant Signal has some great videos on scanners for railfanning that I recommend you watch.
I loved trains as a kid. I used to beg my dad to take me to go see them. I had an uncle that worked for Amtrak for many years. Then during one year, I had a series of nightmares featuring them and my passion for them declined. Hearing some of these sounds again is kind of cool.
The Northeast got plenty of action, the Norrrest Corridor home to Amtrak's Northeast Corridor, Acela and NJ Transit have been the action scene for watching trains or riding it. Heck up and down the Northeast there is always action from MTA, MBTA, Septa, MARC, VRE along this busy stretch of the region.
If you ever get the chance, I highly recommend coming up to Reading/Jim Thorpe for the Iron Horse Rambles excursions with 2102. I went 3 times last year and last weekend on July 1st, and it is definitely one of the greatest things I have ever experienced. 2102 definitely is one of the loudest steam locomotives in America and it's arguably more beautiful of a sound than any stock car will ever be to me, especially with those 2 whistles. I recommend stopping in Port Clinton and Tamaqua for anyone who wants to chase the excursion, because Port Clinton has some amazing stack talk, and Tamaqua is just sooooo loud and beautiful to see
Absolutely would love more train content Not only am I a big NASCAR fan But I am also a huge fan of trains Hints the username railroad Racer 49 I love the sound of those big iron beasts rolling towards me at fast speeds and hearing that horn blast loud and long And I love the iconic clickity clack sounds of the freight cars on the tracks I also love passenger trains to in my opinion traveling by train is The best way to experience the country I live in Washington so the trains I get in my area are the Orange black & yellow BNSF locomotives and for passenger service we have Amtrak Cascades but occasionally I will see engines from other railroads mainly from Canada because the line I live nearby goes north to British Columbia so sometimes I’ll also see Canadian National and Canadian Pacific locomotives but sometimes I see your local power from NS & CSX it’s always super exciting for me whenever I see foreign power Another reason I love trains is because of the history and how the railroad’s built the country and even still nowadays the best way to ship large amounts of cargo across the US is by rail so the railroad’s ain’t going away anytime soon I also have tons of dvd’s & Blu ray’s of train videos/documentaries I also have a ton of wooden trains There’s a family that lives in Missouri that makes handmade wooden replicas of real trains they’re called Whittle Shortline railroad There’s other companies to like Choo choo track Toy&Co Bigjigs & Even Amtrak has their own wooden trains But like you I also play with model trains but they are HO scale a lot bigger compared to n scale I’m a member at a train club in Alger Wa My HO scale collection is pretty small but I’m hoping to grow it overtime Overall trains have been there my entire life I even watched Thomas the tank engine when I was younger and I still rewatch the old seasons to this day And they alway helped me in life I always get really excited when a hear a train coming I’m now filming trains and uploading to TH-cam in a series called Mason’s train videos I will continue to love trains and railroading as a whole for years to come I’m a railfan and I’m proud of it
I was hoping you would do some more railroad-themed videos. #DannyBRailfanning Edit: It's kind of odd seeing an ex-BNSF Dash 8 leading a passenger train. What are your favorite locomotives?
Honestly, that weird Dash 8 is one of my favorites. Mainly because of its uniqueness. But they don’t often use it on those trips. Only when one of the other power units are in maintenance. And at that time, the old L&N high hood was in maintenance.
Really cool stuff! I'm in a similar mindset where I love a lot of stuff from racing to trains to basically anything that goes fast. In fact, I'm making a video documenting a rail line near where I live (Philadelphia area) and the efforts to get the line back to where it used to go back in the day, and the overall crazy story that it is. It should be ready to go some time this week or next, but really cool to see some railfanning stuff from you!
i'm both i grew up next to the Etowah K&A tracks that go to AtL and take started taking pictures of trains back in 2005 really enjoy the videos as well
It's crazy how many of us who like NASCAR also like trains! Been obsessed with trains as a kid and still am a huge enthusiast for the industry and steam preservation.
Holy crap that’s awesome! I’ve also been a NASCAR and railfan as long as can remember. I live Clarksville TN now where the RJ Corman Memphis line branch runs one train daily, connecting with the very busy CSX Henderson Sub in nearby Guthrie KY. Just last week, my wife and I did a cab ride on Southern 4501 at TVRM in Chattanooga for my birthday and I 100% recommend it, especially if it’s a bucket list item like it was for me. Most of the time for Christmas or birthdays I have to choose between something NASCAR/Sim racing related or model train/real train related, which is definitely a hard choice sometimes! Also, if you haven’t visited Clarksville yet, it also has the fairgrounds speedway complex which hosts racing all weekend from about March to late October with the 1/8th mile drag strip on Friday, dirt oval on Saturday, and autocross/drifting on Sunday.
13:30 I love how it's so obviously an old CSX locomotive and they just replaced the logos 😂 One of my favorite shortlines (Yadkin Valley Railroad) kinda does this except they don't even replace the logos, they just take the CSX ones off
More train stuff! Longtime car guy and former Thomas viewer who just got back into model trains for the first time in nearly 20 years. Nothing like studying these things as they fly by. I used to live 1/3 of a mile from the CSX Camden line and now I live next to the NEC and regularly listen to Amtrak and MARC commuter trains come through here in Bowie, MD. Interestingly CSX run their rock runners in the forests surrounding my house. I wish CSX would come back to NASCAR. They had some great looking schemes and it would be a great marketing angle to promote safety and bring together NASCAR fans and the railfan community. EDIT DannyB to Strasburg please!
I'm a lot like you, Danny. Love trains ands love motorsports. Fishing, however, is not on my radar. lol I love in North Central Indiana in a former Pennsylvania Railroad hub city called Logansport and have been a train fan since I was a little kid.
I wouldn't consider myself as a rail fan but I do think trains are pretty cool! I would love to ride that passenger train in Lebanon. I didn't know there was one. I love big heavy powerful machinery. My interest is in aviation! My favorite jet right now is the Boeing 777-300ER bc it's going to my first international flight out of the US. I recently got to observe in the ATC Tower in Memphis! But you get to see a wide variety of trains and cargo, and if I wanted to start filming in the aviation industry, I'd have to go elsewhere as the aircraft variety here isn't anything special.
I myself am a big Railfan and have been since I was a kid before becoming a fan of Nascar, and today I am still am a fan of both and will continue to be one and upload both Train and Nascar content
I've lived outside of Chicago my whole life, and there are quite a few rail lines that run through this area Right now, I live near both the Burlington Northern-Santa Fe and Indiana Harbor Belt lines, and they're pretty busy, I'm always stuck waiting for a train for several minutes, so I'm kind of on the outs with freight trains but there is something cool about seeing them in a rural setting As someone who has ridden the Metra commuter trains, plenty of times, I knew the passenger train at 12:04 looked familiar
Thanks man. Hey, I actually just started a new channel for trains/Trainz content. @DannyBTrainz, so that way that stuff doesn’t conflict with NASCAR things.
Good stuff Danny B. Its good to see some train variety. Here on the Nebraska/Colorado border we get mostly BNSF hauling ethanol, coal, and wind turbine components. We also have an Amtrak that runs to Denver on the same line.
I more to steam trains. Witch is why up is my favorite railroad. British trains are beautiful compared to us trains Some you make the trip to see the big boy
a man of great tastes you are sir! nothing like trains & nascar. been a train fanatic since i was a kid. my goal is to one day take the sw chief from chicago to la...then the train from la to seattle...then the empire builder from seattle to the stop in columbus, wi near madison where i live. personally i'm always looking for a good rr museum & anything with live steam!
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I'd be interested in more Railfanning stuff, hell I got into NASCAR and trains around the same time! If you really think about it, train sets are just scaled down versions of a NASCAR track, just for model trains!
Oddly enough there was also a period during the 90's where you could by NASCAR themed train sets. There were Earnhardt ones as well as generic, and car manufacturer specific ones. They go for $70-120 in Ebay nowadays
I am a big fan of trains myself. l lived in SoCal for 13 years and saw Metrolink, COASTER, Amtrak Surfliner, Starlight, and Southwest Chief. This country really needs a renaissance of rail and I am happy to see it coming back in some areas.
Some of my favorite freight trains that I see go by are Auto Racks, Intermodal trains, Mixed freight, and grain trains.
My favorite Passenger train has always been Amtrak.
If you ever come to Pennsylvania like during Pocono, I would suggest visit Altoona, PA for the railroaders musuem, railfan around the Norfolk Southern's Rose yard, and also checkout the fascinating Horseshoe Curve. Another fascinating railroad in eastern PA near Pocono is the Reading Blue Mountain Northern Railroad. They offer train excursions pulled by vintage stream line diesel and the good ol Reading 2102 steam engine.
Yep I've been to Altoona many times. It is worth a look if you ever find yourself in west-central PA.
DannyB to Strasburg please!
NASCAR & TRAIN FANS UNITE! 😂😂
You know it!
Heck yeah
I also happen to love Nascar and Trains! I have a whole ho scale model layout in my garage!
nice to find another person with common interests as me.
Finally you make a video about them lmao
Also opinion on csx 1827, 1973 and 1982
Something I recommend you to get is a handheld scanner. They come in handy for listening out for trains and can be used for NASCAR races as well. I use a Uniden BC125AT but the BC75XLT is also a great option. Danny Harmon from Distant Signal has some great videos on scanners for railfanning that I recommend you watch.
Trains are awesome!!!
A man of culture....
I loved trains as a kid. I used to beg my dad to take me to go see them. I had an uncle that worked for Amtrak for many years. Then during one year, I had a series of nightmares featuring them and my passion for them declined. Hearing some of these sounds again is kind of cool.
Lets be real here, who doesn't love trains?
The Northeast got plenty of action, the Norrrest Corridor home to Amtrak's Northeast Corridor, Acela and NJ Transit have been the action scene for watching trains or riding it. Heck up and down the Northeast there is always action from MTA, MBTA, Septa, MARC, VRE along this busy stretch of the region.
The CSX railroad goes through my house however its not that line. The line next to me is called The Portsmouth Subdivision
If you ever get the chance, I highly recommend coming up to Reading/Jim Thorpe for the Iron Horse Rambles excursions with 2102. I went 3 times last year and last weekend on July 1st, and it is definitely one of the greatest things I have ever experienced. 2102 definitely is one of the loudest steam locomotives in America and it's arguably more beautiful of a sound than any stock car will ever be to me, especially with those 2 whistles. I recommend stopping in Port Clinton and Tamaqua for anyone who wants to chase the excursion, because Port Clinton has some amazing stack talk, and Tamaqua is just sooooo loud and beautiful to see
Train watching is in many ways like fishing. You find the perfect spot and wait for the action.
Absolutely would love more train content
Not only am I a big NASCAR fan
But I am also a huge fan of trains
Hints the username railroad Racer 49
I love the sound of those big iron beasts rolling towards me at fast speeds and hearing that horn blast loud and long
And I love the iconic clickity clack sounds of the freight cars on the tracks
I also love passenger trains to in my opinion traveling by train is The best way to experience the country
I live in Washington so the trains I get in my area are the Orange black & yellow BNSF locomotives and for passenger service we have Amtrak Cascades but occasionally I will see engines from other railroads mainly from Canada because the line I live nearby goes north to British Columbia so sometimes I’ll also see Canadian National and Canadian Pacific locomotives but sometimes I see your local power from NS & CSX it’s always super exciting for me whenever I see foreign power
Another reason I love trains is because of the history and how the railroad’s built the country and even still nowadays the best way to ship large amounts of cargo across the US is by rail so the railroad’s ain’t going away anytime soon
I also have tons of dvd’s & Blu ray’s of train videos/documentaries
I also have a ton of wooden trains
There’s a family that lives in Missouri that makes handmade wooden replicas of real trains they’re called
Whittle Shortline railroad
There’s other companies to like
Choo choo track Toy&Co
Bigjigs
& Even Amtrak has their own wooden trains
But like you I also play with model trains but they are HO scale a lot bigger compared to n scale I’m a member at a train club in Alger Wa
My HO scale collection is pretty small but I’m hoping to grow it overtime
Overall trains have been there my entire life I even watched Thomas the tank engine when I was younger and I still rewatch the old seasons to this day
And they alway helped me in life I always get really excited when a hear a train coming
I’m now filming trains and uploading to TH-cam in a series called
Mason’s train videos
I will continue to love trains and railroading as a whole for years to come
I’m a railfan and I’m proud of it
Never really did train watching. Looks like fun as long as you're not traveling & get stuck by one.
I’m a Railfan as well. I wonder what the correlation is with nascar and racing and trains it seems I find more and more people everyday like this
Always been in to trains as well unstoppable has been one of my favorite movies
I was hoping you would do some more railroad-themed videos. #DannyBRailfanning
Edit: It's kind of odd seeing an ex-BNSF Dash 8 leading a passenger train. What are your favorite locomotives?
Honestly, that weird Dash 8 is one of my favorites. Mainly because of its uniqueness. But they don’t often use it on those trips. Only when one of the other power units are in maintenance. And at that time, the old L&N high hood was in maintenance.
Excellent video Danny! Like that YN2 leader on that grain train at around 2:34.
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Really cool stuff! I'm in a similar mindset where I love a lot of stuff from racing to trains to basically anything that goes fast. In fact, I'm making a video documenting a rail line near where I live (Philadelphia area) and the efforts to get the line back to where it used to go back in the day, and the overall crazy story that it is. It should be ready to go some time this week or next, but really cool to see some railfanning stuff from you!
Hell yeah Danny!!!!! fellow railfan right here
i'm both i grew up next to the Etowah K&A tracks that go to AtL and take started taking pictures of trains back in 2005 really enjoy the videos as well
It's crazy how many of us who like NASCAR also like trains! Been obsessed with trains as a kid and still am a huge enthusiast for the industry and steam preservation.
Holy crap that’s awesome! I’ve also been a NASCAR and railfan as long as can remember. I live Clarksville TN now where the RJ Corman Memphis line branch runs one train daily, connecting with the very busy CSX Henderson Sub in nearby Guthrie KY. Just last week, my wife and I did a cab ride on Southern 4501 at TVRM in Chattanooga for my birthday and I 100% recommend it, especially if it’s a bucket list item like it was for me. Most of the time for Christmas or birthdays I have to choose between something NASCAR/Sim racing related or model train/real train related, which is definitely a hard choice sometimes! Also, if you haven’t visited Clarksville yet, it also has the fairgrounds speedway complex which hosts racing all weekend from about March to late October with the 1/8th mile drag strip on Friday, dirt oval on Saturday, and autocross/drifting on Sunday.
13:30 I love how it's so obviously an old CSX locomotive and they just replaced the logos 😂
One of my favorite shortlines (Yadkin Valley Railroad) kinda does this except they don't even replace the logos, they just take the CSX ones off
More train stuff! Longtime car guy and former Thomas viewer who just got back into model trains for the first time in nearly 20 years. Nothing like studying these things as they fly by. I used to live 1/3 of a mile from the CSX Camden line and now I live next to the NEC and regularly listen to Amtrak and MARC commuter trains come through here in Bowie, MD. Interestingly CSX run their rock runners in the forests surrounding my house. I wish CSX would come back to NASCAR. They had some great looking schemes and it would be a great marketing angle to promote safety and bring together NASCAR fans and the railfan community. EDIT DannyB to Strasburg please!
I'm a lot like you, Danny. Love trains ands love motorsports. Fishing, however, is not on my radar. lol
I love in North Central Indiana in a former Pennsylvania Railroad hub city called Logansport and have been a train fan since I was a little kid.
People who like both Trains and NASCAR 👇🏼
I wouldn't consider myself as a rail fan but I do think trains are pretty cool! I would love to ride that passenger train in Lebanon. I didn't know there was one. I love big heavy powerful machinery. My interest is in aviation! My favorite jet right now is the Boeing 777-300ER bc it's going to my first international flight out of the US. I recently got to observe in the ATC Tower in Memphis! But you get to see a wide variety of trains and cargo, and if I wanted to start filming in the aviation industry, I'd have to go elsewhere as the aircraft variety here isn't anything special.
Sweet stuff DannyB! If you ever find yourself in South Florida and wanna find some trains, hit me up!
Lifelong railfan here. I've never have done video but tons of still photography of trains.
14:25 Yay, an I-65 shield!!!! (still nice railroad overpass)
I myself am a big Railfan and have been since I was a kid before becoming a fan of Nascar, and today I am still am a fan of both and will continue to be one and upload both Train and Nascar content
Bro just casually dropped one of the best railfan documentaries ever
I've lived outside of Chicago my whole life, and there are quite a few rail lines that run through this area
Right now, I live near both the Burlington Northern-Santa Fe and Indiana Harbor Belt lines, and they're pretty busy, I'm always stuck waiting for a train for several minutes, so I'm kind of on the outs with freight trains but there is something cool about seeing them in a rural setting
As someone who has ridden the Metra commuter trains, plenty of times, I knew the passenger train at 12:04 looked familiar
Hi Danny B. love your videos. I'm also a huge railfan I live near Toledo Ohio near the NS Chicago line so I get to see plenty of trains.
as someone who grew up in Conway, ive been surrounded by trains ever since i was born. and i decided to learn more about trains. and now i’m hooked
Danny u should try going to waycross Georgia that’s where rice yard is the hub for all train traffic going north east or south to Florida
Nice to know I'm not the only person out there that likes fast cars and fast trains
I had no idea you were into trains. I love trains, as well.
Pretty sure we talked about trains on twitter! lol
Danny, this is awesome man! Thanks for the shout, keep up the great work my man! 🤘🏻
Thanks man. Hey, I actually just started a new channel for trains/Trainz content. @DannyBTrainz, so that way that stuff doesn’t conflict with NASCAR things.
Quality video Danny
Awesome
Good stuff Danny B. Its good to see some train variety. Here on the Nebraska/Colorado border we get mostly BNSF hauling ethanol, coal, and wind turbine components. We also have an Amtrak that runs to Denver on the same line.
Dude’s Your A Railfans ❤❤
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Honestly it's kind of strange how there are so many of us NASCAR fans who are also railfans.
I am a train fan also! I live on the Norfolk Southern coal line that goes from Pittsburgh, PA to the coal mines in West Virginia.
I more to steam trains. Witch is why up is my favorite railroad.
British trains are beautiful compared to us trains
Some you make the trip to see the big boy
a man of great tastes you are sir! nothing like trains & nascar. been a train fanatic since i was a kid. my goal is to one day take the sw chief from chicago to la...then the train from la to seattle...then the empire builder from seattle to the stop in columbus, wi near madison where i live. personally i'm always looking for a good rr museum & anything with live steam!
thought you were making a reference to the asdfmovies my friends and i watched all the time in middle school
So basically the Lionel store is dangerous for you 🤣🤣
Yes
And it doesn’t help that they’re opening one in Nashville next week.
@@DannyBTalks oh yeah! I had forgotten about that! Claudia is going to have to keep an eye on you 🤣
This was really cool. My uncle loves trains
I've loved trains since I was a kid. This was awesome to watch!
I bet you love Martinsville...
You ever been to tweetsie railroad it’s a fun place to go
No, but I need to.