Street Running Train Causes Road Rage, Huge CSX Freight Trains On Main Street, LaGrange Kentucky
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 ต.ค. 2024
- Huge CSX street running freight trains, road rage live action and distributed power units! LaGrange Kentucky trains. A CSX freight yard was emptied for the 2nd train which seemed like the worlds longest train! Lol, no wonder the impatient driver got upset. The train had distributed power units ( DPU ) in the middle and was 2 trains in one. This is Precision Scheduled Railroading or PSR. It saves money for the railroad since it takes less people to move more freight but the trains get so long that the railroad crossings can be blocked for long periods of time. It took over 11 minutes for the 2nd train to clear the crossing. I don't know what caused the road rage. I heard cars beeping and then saw a guy get out of his car while yelling at the car in front of him. That incident is at 22:22. There are still about ten or eleven trains a day here at LaGrange, Kentucky. On this day the first train in daylight came just before 9am. The next train didn't come until almost 3pm and then there were 2 other trains before it got dark. I like watching street running trains here but I have noticed that this town has an excessive amount of very noisy vehicles. I have never seen so many pick up trucks without mufflers as they have here! Just stand on the railfan platform and see how long it takes for a noisy car or truck to drive by. Has anyone else noticed this? I travel a lot to film trains and this has to be the noisiest place that I have ever been to. Leave a comment about that below and let me know if you have noticed that or just tell me what you think. I filmed this on Sunday, September 6, 2020.
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Wouldn't want to be waiting for an ambulance on the other side of that.
Sir Loin of Beef Yeah I’m sure they have ways to go around the train, possibly dispatch an ambulance from the “right” side of the tracks. I speak from experience, 33 years retired 6 but came back to help during this Pandemic. I can also relate to many train vs. vehicle accidents I responded to. I wish I knew Jaw Tooth back then, I could have give him some gory footage.
I filmed an ambulance on a run that had to wait for a train here. th-cam.com/video/Dk0ziING2nA/w-d-xo.html
@@ChessInstructorSF We have a few things in common! I love chess. I use to play it all the time and I came in 2nd in a chess tournament in college. The guy who beat me came to my dorm room for a rematch and I beat him. lol. Also, years ago I was a volunteer firefighter for a dept in Ohio and one in Kentucky for a short time. That is cool that you were able to retire in the fire service. I know you could tell me some interesting stories. The train related ones would be the most interesting to me.
@@JawTooth Hah! I used to play chess in High School! Never really studied it enough, just brute force tactics. I watch chess videos now and have learned a LOT, but now I can't think very fast! 😂
...or for a fire truck: imagine if one or more of those oil/fuel wagons became derailed or was hit side on by a big rig whose driver's attention was elsewhere. A town in Canada virtually disappeared after a fuel train runaway, along with its incinerated inhabitants.
I bet 75 years ago, this was the coolest thing. People probably sat on chairs and watched as it went by, waving to the engineer.
bruh any graffiti writer that does freight trains would love this in 2023
@@yeyeyeyeyyoooyoyooooyooo7342 perfect landscape for all the storefront cameras, you're right
75 years ago, trains were 144 year old technology. 144 years ago from today was the invention of the light bulb.
To someone 75 years ago, the train was as new to them as the light bulb is to us today.
If I lived there, I'd be doing it now.
@@mattallred Unrelated: The Great Pyramid of Giza was completed around 2560 BCE. Alexander the Great visited the pyramids in about 332 BCE, and he died in 323 BCE.
The Pyramids and the Old Kingdom were older to Alexander than he is to us.
Imagine being high, getting lost and just seeing a train run down the middle of a street
😆😆😆😆
Imagine driving along this street, stopping to yield to the other cars/pedestrians, searching for the noise and seeing a huge train coming from behind in the mirror.
This was Leonardo DiCaprios nightmare scene in the movie Inception
The high of his life..👀 his eyes probably...
Fr tho 😭😭😂💀
As a kid growing up the tracks were a block from my house and the freight trains would shake my bed when they went by. I loved it
Same for me but after mom and dad moved us away I felt it difficult to fall asleep without Trains going by. Loved the rumble!
Trains seriously make earthquakes!
Something awe inspiring about giant things moving about.
same at where i lived in New Zealand the train would shake our house early in the morning about 5:00 am when i was in bed still
Jake: "How often does the train go by?"
Elwood: "So often you won't even notice."
I’ve been there. It’s shocking how big a train is when you see it on a city street. The sidewalks shake.
thanks for watching ! I have more videos like this in my Street Running playlist
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the buildings shake too and are being damaged
I bet the train was there first, just like people that build houses on rivers , the river was already there and they want taxpayers to compensate them with the river floods, hmmm
I believe you. These trains intimidate me just by watching them on youtube. Damn, they're impressive.
The literal definition of a railroad
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or a road train
yea rail ROAD.
That was pretty funny!
I get the feeling the town wouldnt be there if the train wasnt
Would love to see photos of the same street during the heyday of steam!
Bingo.
@@leifkhas7425 LaGrange isn't west of the Missouri! It's also the county seat of, if I recall correctly, Oldham County.
Well said. I was thinking exactly that🚂
That's true in most towns, railroads connected America.
My grandparents lived in a town that only existed because of the local paper mill, which employed most of the town and was serviced by a train track that ran through town, right down the middle of the main street. When the mill was bought by a Chinese company and promptly closed, some people may have been happy that the trains no longer blocked the street, but a huge number of locals were unemployed and had to leave their homes. Trains are a sign of employment.
Why on earth would the Chinese waste money on buying a thing only to immediately close it?
@@qwertyca it's a Chinese thing to do that.they have built entire cities that aren't occupied
@@qwertyca to hide money from the CCP.
@@qwertyca Bought + closed the competition............
They've done similar with steel plants in Europe, bought the companies, took the equipment to China, then left the factory to sit abandoned and rust away
As someone who grew up in lagrange, you get used to the train and I just had to learn to enjoy it. Many times I parked on the opposite side of the street to get a coffee and then got delayed 20 minutes just so I could walk across the street to my car.
I love that town
I think it's great. Better than the anodyne same old same old British high street. I'd move there just for the trains.
@Yucko The Clown How? They don't advertise their schedule, you would have to look for it. And said schedule changes due to delays and crap.
When there's more parking across the street, it can be a bit of an issue!
When does this train end? OMG!
I could not help noticing how clean LaGrange is! Hanging pot plants and flags......beautiful.
Yes! Thank you!
They lack "diversity"...
@@gregking2571 it's just a small town... not much else, less people generally means less stuff going on, diverse or not. Stop trying to make a political/social point.
Its just a clean small town without much going on
@Amanda Ohrstrom I understand that, but I also have freedom to say don't be that asshole to bring politics into an amazing American train video.
There always has to be one of yall smh..
@Amanda Ohrstrom The freedom to be a moron. God bless.
8200 ft, that's just over 1.5 miles or 2.5km long, now that is a verrry long train. The health and safety people would have an absolute fit if this were in the UK going along a high street in a town with no barriers etc. Double-height containers too, great if there are no tunnels :-)
Or overhead bridges!
In the US Freight trains will commonly be close to 3 miles long. That's actually driven primary by environmental concerns. really long trains like that can move a lot of freight very fuel efficiently.
Fancy seeing you here! 2.5km is nothing, in Canada our trains can be well over 4km long, and we do double stacking as well
Tunnels all up and down the East Coast had their vertical clearances increased to accommodate double-stacks, which are highly profitable.
Curious Droid That’s crazy! Guess I don’t much about trains.
The carrying capacity of American trains always impresses me. The high speed passenger rail may be lagging but the double stacked super long freight trains amaze me.
Finally someone recognizes that
Ironically, the success of the railroad freight company's is what precludes the existence of the high-speed rail. In order for the high-speed rail to be successful, you'd need to build an entirely separate infrastructure for them, since the freight railroad company's will NEVER permit the passenger services to interrupt their freight operations, and the currently existing infrastructure is almost (in some places, is actually BEYOND) at is maximum carrying capacity.
Yeah, American freight trains are just awesome. I saw a video of a 172 car, it was massive.
filled with things they do not need, purchased with money they do not have.
@@vishnu79 There is also the NIMBY crowd that prevents new rail lines from being built. Even trying to re-activate an existing defunct freight line can require years of legal wrangling. The installation of new passenger lines simply stands no chance in such an environment.
Finally somebody who can hold the camera still and pan around nicely, 🚂🚂🚂🚂
Steve O, I would think it was done from a tripod.
@@elvinadhludhlu5380 or DJI osmo
Elvina Dhludhlu definitely not on a tripod, but probably a gimbal of some sort
And in a landscape mode as well.
Only we old school movie camera handling types and modern gimbal camera tripod equipped types remain today.
It all comes down to swinging one's head/camera slower than one would do with one's own meat equipped eye managing heads.
Dad taught me that with an old, wind-up 8mm camera with a turret lens.
Tourists: "Wow you guys are so lucky to have a train roll by your town!"
Locals: *dirty look*
I'm lucky that I don't have a mile long locomotive holding up traffic on the daily!😂
Most likely that town built up around the train tracks
Lol, no one has ever said that
@@UmeshKumar-um7ze i wish trains like this went by my house
I would certainly smack some tourist. We have a lot of trains that cross through my town but luckily, we have bridges to get across them or for trains to cross without interference. But this... This is ridiculous. Why can't they just build the another track to go around the town instead of through it?
Guess this is what happens when someone is stubborn and sticks with "if it ain't broke, dont fix it" mentality. Lol
I love the mechanical sounds coming from a train the humming engine, the metal on metal sounds and the clanking sounds. Very soothing. 😊
I wouldn't mind being in a home alongside this railroad track in an upstairs unit. Would actually make my life a lot more better.
I love the sounds too. The more squeaking and rattling the better ! Lol
Ya maybe for the first time or second, it gets irritating over time
@@pokison Not really! I find them soothing.
@@stephaniepack2003 I lived near the track in Roanoke Virginia a railroad town. …..of The Norfolk Southern ..and then actually went to work for the N&W but the sound of the train wheels and the clicking became a soothing rhythm during the night.
Wow! That is a super long train. I grew up in Cleveland, Ms. There was a train track that went right through the town. Most of the people and their families could hear the train coming. All of them gathered at the tracks and watched the train go by. When the caboose went by, we would wave and he would wave back. Thanks for sharing this, I love the memories it brings ❤️
Imagine the stress of trying to parallel park as that train is coming up behind you.
I would just gtfo of here and find another parking spot
Well that’s one train that’s not stopping cause it probably takes 30mins to get him rolling at a crawling speed
I lived in Philly, that was second nature. I'll parallel park long before you could satisfy yourself parking in a Walmart parking lot.
Not a slight, it's where one is and under what pressure one learns to operate under.
Many major avenues in Philly also have trolley lines, most with tracks. One learns to swiftly park, lest one earn the ire of a SEPTA conductor. Along with one's entire neighborhood.
We also have an unofficial street in SW Philly that is used by all, due to its low usage and exceptional straightness and wideness, for training our children to drive.
Our eldest wasn't comfortable driving in reverse, had her reverse for an entire 1/10th of a mile until she was comfortable, then for parallel parking, I replaced a street cone that people left for all to use for training their kids, when I felt comfortable with her parking.
A couple of blocks away, there's a lot with spaces for rent for people to grow whatever they want, typically, food.
That was 30 years ago, it's still there - all of it.
The look on the face of the rookie driver who'd double-parked in front of a restaurant to make a 'quick delivery'...
@@chezsnailez well, he probably figured out that the train can stop on a dime. Alas, a far bigger dime than he could possibly carry. ;)
I'd love to see a drone view of that train snaking through town...
Yes, I would like to see that. Good thought!
th-cam.com/video/ji80KTVx1dU/w-d-xo.html
@@JonLawVids thanks
The drone would be covered in everything from carbon dust to bird poop...trains kick-up lots of dust and it upsets the birds...they dive-bomb it...every chance they get !!!
First, check the regulations because not only are drones registered/regulated these days, so is the railroad. Both ironically enough, are regulated through the Department of Transportation.
As a kid in the fifties in the UK we used to regularly hear a song on the radio: "The railroad runs through the middle of the house." This reminds me of it! Regards from London.
Vaughn Monroe sang that song here in the US in 1956... "When a bill collector comes to the house, he knocks and bangs on the door. We set him down in the middle of the house and he never comes back no more". Remember Groucho Marx in "Go West"? "Come on down, there's a lovely fire in the living room." (courtesy of the steam locomotive).
I've never heard that song I'll have to find it and have a listen. Cheers from Chicago.
I have the sheet music for that 😁
@@scenicdepictionsofchicagolife I found it on TH-cam. Actually sung by Rusty Draper. th-cam.com/video/YgvQiBjVS-s/w-d-xo.html
What I like is that some American towns like this one have a kind of old school feel and charm to them. Take away the modern cars and train and this vid could be from the 1800s. I hope to visit one day! Great video the trains there are amazing. Hello from the Philippines!
i think you mean like 1980s?
The Chad train's just flexing on the Virgin cars the fact that despite the road, they still rule
you know that train looks like something from that movie inception having a train rolling down the street scene from that inception dream sequence reminds me of that every time I see a train going down a street in a video🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Waiting at a crossing for 15 minutes while a freight train passes feels like an hour to people that don't appreciate the significance trains have in their lives..
Very true words there, I saw huge aluminum ingots on the second train, helping the USA make soda and beer cans alike. And there was a shortage that shut down many beverages temporarily. My favorite, Old Milwaukee's Best was then hit with a one, two punch of the hackers installing ransom ware on their production lines and they opted to not pay and just closed up shop instead. RIP OMB, I'll miss you like a good friend gone way too soon.
Local here
It's pretty cool but it interferes with daily life. Personally, I'd like to have a bridge or something along the line somewhere close. I'll admit, I've spent great afternoons walking between stores and watching trains or hanging out at the state park that used to be there. It just gets in the way daily. Fully respect the work that the rail line does. It's just not planned for modern life.
Hahaha, I can imagine the feeling - especially if you’re almost late for a dental appointment or lunch date across the street and have to wait an extra 5-10 minutes for the train to cross… 😂
That is why when the Malaysian railroads were electrified in the 90s, pretty much all railroad crossings were rendered obsolete and replaced by road flyovers… Therefore saving lots of time for townsfolk who want to go to the other side, and not having to wait for the train to cross anymore! 🚃
@@my_MillenniumFalcon are you not talkin about Indonesian Railroad because they built there like an interstate system
Just remind them without the trains there is no malls
As a low key train lover, it was fun watching a mile long train take it's daily route. But I bet it drives the locals crazy having to wait around for so long.😆
They can get over it, or used to it. That train line was there long before the streets, or even the town.
🤣🤣🤣
That's the kicker
@Muhammad was a PedoProphet AyeshaWas NINEYO first off, I’m certainly not a kid. Haven’t been in decades. Second, you wanna be the one that has to sell off your farmland to the railroad to reroute? I personally wouldn’t wanna sell. Third, they built the town up around the rail line, so the town needs to be the one to adapt, and not the other way around.
@@thetowndrunk988 Yeah. The railroad actually gives the local government permission to cross it's track with roads. The railroad was first and is still powerful lol.
Trains are so much more economical and more fuel efficient than trucks. It’s so nice to see so much reliance on them. They really are helping us to get through this pandemic. Thank you Railroad Workers! You Are Essential!
Even better is the river, I worked on a tugboat here in Chattanooga, I forget how many train car loads of grain one barge can haul, it's amazing
Never mind all the laws, traffic, weigh srations, and harassment that truckers go through that the trains get to just bypass. Through trains can't pick the freight up or deliver it.
The big heros are those truck drivers, not the trains!
Truck drivers... essential. Trains, definitely not
@@jerryeastman170
Wrong!
@Darcey Lopez
You let me know when you've seen a train make direct deliveries to your local Costco, Starbucks and Walmart then we'll have a discussion for the ages about economics, efficiency and while we're at it....practicality!
We (me and my grandson... landed here quite by accident...) are flabbergasted by the sheer dimensions of American trains!!! Unthinkable here! Trains with more than 150 carriages and over 2kms long!!! Here trains are Lillipudlian in comparison - but go faster... Watching was big FUN!! Big THANX to the authors of this remarkable channel!!
we saw one crossing the Mojave desert with 8 locos pulling it, overused but "Awsome"
th-cam.com/video/SDNI8_zBwLo/w-d-xo.html
*news for those angered by being stopped by trains...you can stand there defiantly in its path and demand that it stop for you, but the train is going to win the argument and all you'll have to show for your outburst will be your own Darwin Award and maybe about 20 seconds on the local news*
The train can swerve out of my way.
I suspect that the entire universe will go cold before that actually could happen. ;)
Scott Mantooth I lived in a town like this. Incredible the risk people are willing to take for a few minutes of time,
@@olbapco living near Philadelphia, with its decent sized trainyards, we had numerous grade crossings to contend with. We also had occasional bridges, including one we locally referred to as "the beep-beep bridge", narrow enough that a driver is required by signage to sound their horn before passing beneath.
When a large train was obstructing our route, we'd turn around and navigate to a bridge to go beneath the train. In areas in other parts of the country, we'd simply outrace the train by a fair amount and pass safely at a grade crossing.
Not a lick of that is rocket science, save for those who insist on doing what they want to do, regardless of risk or reality and well, reality explains the severity of such an unfortunate decision.
Perhaps they'd prefer 300 articulated noisy trucks bearing down on La Grange? As rail operator Pacific National says in Australia 'real trains not road trains'.
The railroads built many a town
I live right next to a train line here in Dublin, Ireland, and have been fascinated with trains since childhood. This one was awesome! 11 minutes to clear at 10 mph makes it just shy of 2 miles long, or about 3 km - that IS a long train! Here in Ireland trains never get that long, the country sort of missed the industrial revolution and it only has a rudimentary train network. The line we overlook is the main Belfast to Dublin line, but no trains roll between 12:30 am and about 7 in the morning. It's interesting (and noisy!) to see the maintenance crews working on the tracks during the wee hours, sometimes with extremely bright lights! I sometimes watch them in the middle of the night, then go back to sleep with earbuds in 🤣
Sometimes when I see a locomotive in the middle, I laugh and think if the locomotive could talk, it would be like..”what the hell am I doing here? I’m supposed to be either in the rear or the front!” Lol
Bassotronics Except when it’s needed mid-train to reduce stress on the couplers.
That's what he said. (Sorry couldn't resist)
@@LaurenThompsonIsMyRealName niiiiice! 🤣
Imagine being double parked and seeing that coming up behind you in the mirror.
LOL...A monster! "It's a train, it's a train"!
Can we do this to everyone who double parks? ;)
If you double park, hopefully that’s the last thing you would see
That, in itself, should prevent you from double-double-parking !
@@angeliqueillstopprocrastin479 It would be like GOLF...the driver double parks...nobody hollars FORE...vehicle flies thru the air, destined for a hole to drop into...at the scrap-yard
Fun fact: trains dont cause road rage, its the way we raise our children now that causes road rage
You don't see that every day 😐
Beautifully said !
Or friend’s are bothering you
Its our whole social standards ststem that cause us to act like assholes. We all need to realize that we arent gettin out of this world alive, So Just LIVE !
Indeed brother
Never been to the States but I remember that in Train Simulator 20XX there was a route with a similar stretch where the track shared the road with cars. Always thought it was "creative freedom"... never realised it was an actual thing in the USA.
Those crossings almost have the same "ding ding ding" as the Dutch crossings. Ours go slightly faster and continue the entire time they are closed.
The "ding ding" speaker is actually attached to the front of the train! In my experience living next to a train track in the USA, the train is always dinging as it's approaching.
@@AlexPlusLEDS He means the crossing bells, not the train bells.
The trains in the USA go much faster when they're not in town. 60 - 80 miles per hour.
I lived in Marion, Ohio for a few years. You quickly learn which streets have a bridge over the tracks and which don't.
Not seeing any overpass in either direction here.
Adapt and overcome!
Watching the first train with the containers, that was pretty relaxing. I'd like to sit on the sidewalk with a cup of coffee
and feel the rumble under my feet as that train passed by.
So nice to see so many who love trains. It's the same the world over. Intensely romantic.
I don't understand why this is a problem. The train slowed way down and seems entirely respectful of the town. I work in a warehouse = often times getting freight from 3/4 of the way across the country. This is how it travels. In the area I grew up in there are many neighborhoods bordering freight lines. This was our beginning. This started many economies. An 8 minute wait isn't a big deal. In the end this freight would have spent much more time on the highway if it was moved by truck. Consider that!
How could a massive freight train running down the high street not brighten anyone's day, beautiful :)
No matter how old I get, I still love train watching 😁
I live in Pontiac, IL and I swear that there are literally NO restrictions on muffled vehicles. From the loud pickup trucks to the (wannabe) hopped up rice burner cars to the "no muffler" harleys to the never ending "jake braking" big trucks. Loud seems to be popular. Personally, I like quiet.
They have the right to put mufflers on their cars and trucks people work for their why complain about what they do mind your own damn business what people do is their business if you don't like it leave it's as simple as that
@Redfern Pitcher I am just about in the same boat. I ran a sound board.
Probably need to get use to the noise or move somewhere else.
Yay!
Loved the flag and fire truck in the begining
The second train totally blew that stop sign.
Locomotive don't care.
@@MarinCipollina Locomotive don't stop for nothing 🚂🚂🚂
You wouldn't stop either if you weighed 432 000 pounds each engine and not counting all the load, in that situation the train has the right of way anyway! Only time a train has to wait is at a river crossing when boats or ships are there, then the boat or ship has the right of way!
@@sterlingspencer2934 No excuses, nobody is above the law. He blew the stop sign and should be ticketed. I demand justice!
@@tedspens Pretty sure stop signs for cars don't apply to the trains. In my country the city trams are also excempt from stopping at pedestrian crossings. Just to much mass and too slippery 😎
Trains moving means the country is still in business........And that's a good thing!
'Planning' is a good thing also. Especially when it involves a single rail line used for everything....? It's a known fact that road vehicles and trains really don't mix well.... so why the hell would anyone want to plan having the two sharing the same space, through the middle of a town - especially with the length of the freight train shown. All it takes is one idiot texting whilst walking, or an impatient driver..... and now you have a mile-long freight train stopped in the middle of the town. I mean, that's good for business, yes?
Beautiful town. Seems downtown is still commercially. Viable. And the train doesn't blow its horn @ every crossing
Well not a shopping destination evidence by the many vacant parking spaces but places like insurance offices and law offices
@@VerilyVerbatim : One idiot can always mess up things anywhere..You can't idiot proof the world......Ok? Debby Downer?
@@VerilyVerbatim I think the same way about bicycles and regular, powered vehicles... but they're treated the same. It's silly, but it is what it is.
@@VerilyVerbatim Ok the reason is because the railroad was there before the the city was large.
And the train of 100 years ago didn't need to be 2 miles long.
That's the awesome thing about the United States Economy, it keeps getting bigger.
So the hell with anyone who says we've peaked on American Exceptionalism.
..........2 days later....
“HEY I can see the caboose coming!”
😂😂😂 reminds me of the almost 2 mile trains we used to see AT&SF when I lived in Springfield MO with 6 locos on them!
Packer road, or out in republic, even still you get stopped, just put the vehicle in park your not going anywhere anytime soon
Where I live (near Stephens Pass Hwy) in Washington State, the trains that go up the pass have hundreds of cars and as many locos as its going to take to climb the grade. Very impressive and fun to watch. It can take fifteen or twenty minutes. I've seen a few panicky people in the back-up, but my assumption is that they have a very important thing that they need to get to. Not that the panic or anger is going to help; you just gotta wait with everyone else.
Never seen a train run the length of a street ever. Thank you for the video.
Glad you enjoyed it. I have more cities like this in my Street Running playlist
That's the first time I've ever seen a freight train driving along a street.
See my Street Running playlist for more cities like this. I have all kinds of weird train stuff
You never seen inception then
The guy who came up with the idea of putting roads for both automobiles and trains in a single road is an absolute engineer with epic skill and epic gear
done over 150 years
choose one
Very pretty High Street, with some really nice period architecture... looks clean & litter free too!
yes; it is quite lovely.
The road rage was terrifying
I wonder what the issue was, apart from general frustration at the delay. Also, I wouldn't over-exaggerate his reaction either. Ultimately he still got ahold of himself and managed to tell himself to slow down and calm down. A proper full-on road-raging driver might have angrily floored it and gotten into an accident immediately after. This guy didn't. So I think it could have been worse.
@@pmh4883 🤓🤓
@pmh4883 are you not detecting the sarcasm? 😂
@@dizzydjc that was the language I was speaking
I appreciate the detail; train length, car composition, origin & destination, etc…. Thank you. There’s something mesmerizing about trains.
We used to have streets like this in Baltimore City years ago, but most all of the streets that had tracks on them aren't used anymore, even at the B&O Railroad Museum, that was up until 8 years ago or so they started using one of the old tracks again for tourists rides, which I think was a good idea.
My boyfriend works for BNSF and is a train geek. He would love this video. Thank you 😊
Interesting
I used to see long trains commuting to California from Arizona but nothing like this!! They don’t mess around putting these things together!! Fun to watch!!
Pedestrian “get out of town”. Loco driver “l will. Eventually!”
haha
CSX worker here, I’ve worked on 64! Was in the shop not too long ago for some general maintenance included a replacement of the injectors and annual air system cleaning/filter replacement
Very cool!
Looked like somebody's gonna get a free Pizza from Dominos!...
Lol, I never thought of that! Haha
Domino's doesn't give away free pizza's because of delivery time delays, anymore.
Richard Martin driving a mustang as a food delivery vehicle. Dumb.
@@misisipimike8020 my brother did pizza delivery for dominos driving a 59 edsel ranger ( lowered and twin exhaust )
@@misisipimike8020 Gotta pay for it somehow.
I live in England and would love to come la grange to witness this, I have seen trains in Indian where the shops have to pull their blinds up so the train does not hit them and the people are within touching distance of the trains . People should embrace this it’s so different from the normal lifestyle of big cities, it’s one of those things when it’s gone you’ll wish you still had it.
I have a street running playlist where I film them in different towns. I have filmed street runners in at least 6 states including Tampa, Florida
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OUTRAGEOUS!
Such massive trains on a public street in town, I am mightily impressed ✅
Much of our economy rides on these rails supplies, building materials, parts, equipment, cars, trucks, wheat, flour, grains etc. So I don't think a train going through downtown is a big deal for the people that live here. I am always humbled by the sheer tonnage of one of these massive trains. This is part of an expected daily routine. Nice looking town too!
Trains look a lot larger when they're driving with conventional traffic
They look even larger when you can literally reach out and touch them as they're moving past.
And due to the size and even modest speed, leave one utterly disinclined to be stupid enough to try to touch that moving mountain.
Loco = 1. Car = 0 :-) Even 18-wheelers = 0.
I worked the tower on Calumet Avenue in Hammond, IN for the B&O and NYC in the early 1960s. With the steel plants and oil refineries right there in Whiting and Gary, IN freight trains would be assembled over a period of hours and with lengths up to 1.5 miles. Car drivers would be forced to wait on Calumet, Indianapolis and the other large roads for up to three hours. I kept an iron bar under my chair in the tower as drivers would get so crazy they would think it was me holding them up because I had to put down the gates, and they would come charging up the ladder to the tower, at which point I would grab my iron bar and hold it in front of them as threateningly as I could. Since they would fall down the ladder if I did hit them, they thought about it and descended. Of course, nowadays they would just shoot me.
If you cant wait for a traindont buy anything at a store! Leave early ! Trains were around long before cars!
Seems like almost weekly some egg head is shooting up, with mass casualties resulting ! 😬💀🇺🇸
@@paulsuprono7225 It's really getting crazy in the US. I live in Germany and we have not had a mass shooting in years.
I live in indy and can confirm the trains still do this but they have more bridges now so that really help but people still get mad
My great uncle worked on the B&O out of Newark, Ohio.
If you don’t like the trains here, then move. I’m sure the town was built up around the tracks long before these residents were here. It was founded in 1827, and incorporated in 1840. 😛
Built when trains were the primary mode of long distance transportation.
Ok tough guy. No one is challenging your defense of trains. Dumbass keyboard warrior.
@@csn6234 ur the keyboard warrior fuck off 😂
Hedley Lamarr thought it would be better just to raze Rock Ridge instead of running the railroad through the town like this.
Would love to live there and sit in the morning with my coffee on my front porch and watch the trains go by
I want to move there!
I absolutely LOVE cargo trains! I cant imagine how cool this would be, seeing freight trains driving straight through my town!
I was expecting the road rage incident to be someone trying yell at the train crew!
I would be sitting there with a big grin on my face the entire time,a kid again
SAME! :)
Me too!!
AMEN!
I've always been fascinated with trains. Yes, they are frustrating to get stuck waiting on. I have to wonder how many car alarms get triggered by the force of that never-ending train going by.
I play a game waiting at crossing I’ll count the cars then the engines then bonus points if there’s an engine mid way down the line
@@ryans413 to hard to count
Not never ending
I have more videos like this. See my Street Running playlist. Fire trucks waiting for street running trains and all kinds of stuff
That's wild,I never saw a train going down a city street like that.
Lol there's a train going through the entire fking market in Vietnam. 😂
Love trains....especially locomotives. Me and my brother played on the tracks that ran close to our house. Middle of the night, loved the sound of an approaching train.
> Me too, Dale - I love seeing a steam train - that's an extraordinary and rare experirnce nowadays but I have seen them.
Ah, real small town life and no voice-over talking. So relaxing............
Live in Illinois and years ago my wife worked nights and I worked days. Our two children road with her to her work and waited with her until I arrived and picked them up in my car to return home. I had to cross over two train tracks in two locations to get to her work place. The biggest problem was that the tracks curved so that they crossed over the road twice and if there was a long train you caught it twice. I was late picking up our kids more than once and my frustrated wife did not seem to under stand that with several traffic lights in between I could not always time it . Those days are long gone but not ( the wife ) not forgotten.
That’s unbelievable to have freight trains going through downtown! I can’t get over that.
I've never seen a train come through town like that.
Longest train I've ever seen go by.
I STILL miss the caboose though.
Can I see your caboose?
Actually saw something caboose like while stepping outside a local medical practice for some fresh air and a drink of water from my car. Had a freight train pass by with a car at the end looking very much like a slightly modernized version of a caboose. One plus of working in healthcare and having a practice near an industrial area. Now if the practice wasn't the farthest away from main campus.. 50 minute drive to, 50 minute drive back. Fun times...
@@donhurst8459 well, if you're that desperate, you can see my saggy, asymmetrical caboose.
While, the EPA forbids my wearing a Speedo, due to the in excess deaths of 200+ beachgoers, whole Monty is Worst Amendment Protected.
Despite the damage done on nude beaches to whales and sharks.
Just beware of my caboose emissions, they created a major tunnel at Cheyenne Mountain.
Seriously, dud, wanna get a date? First, act respectful and the way that you'd behave in the presence of a peer, who she is.
Then, maybe, just maybe you'll score in a cathouse with $5 large tied to your neck.
@@battleangel5595 the caboose is obsolete and discarded as excess. Today, an end of train device is present. It's on the last car, typically squarish and has the air brake line terminated with it.
It sends far more information than any caboose crew ever could, due to its monitoring many, many sensors on the train and track itself.
The caboose was replaced by F.R.E.D.
Flashing
Red
Electronic
Device
That train is massive! However, kinda amazing to see so much rolling stock hauled by so few locomotives. It really shows the advantage over road freight.
ian20x Hiw many of those cars are empty though?
We need more trains (like we used to have years ago) and less trucks. However the truck lobby has been killing trains for years now. Much better than having so many trucks on the road...
That's the only way railroads can turn a profit hauling huge amounts of freight !
Showed this video to a cop friend. He said if he saw that the guy in the blue car would have 3 or 4 citations at minimum.
First of all I love trains. If I owned a shop along the tracks, when I heard that baby coming I'd grab my folding chair , a cup of coffee and a cigar race outside and celebrate the trains passing. Great video.
Living in England we have nothing like this. I have never seen such a long train. Awesome sight if you aren't in a hurry. I am stunned you've got trains this length.
Thank you very much!
Everything is better in america
@@denverbasshead you’ve obviously never been to England then 😘
The Channel Islands boat train used to run through the streets of Weymouth in Dorset.
From the harbour station to the town station and then to Waterloo in London.
@@SuperMikado282 That track has now been lifted, I dread to think what condition it must have been in. I believe the only example of heavy rail running on streets left anywhere in the UK is the Bristol Harbour Railway
Road rage is only caused by one thing -- the immaturity of the one with rage.
And those immature to accept the rage. It takes 2 to tango.
@@donhurst8459 Amen! Driving away is easy. And if they really follow you, it's easy to call the police (or drive to a police station)
I do get that driving away in a train would be more difficult LOL
and small pee pee.
I saw road rage this one time at a 4 way traffic light. I was facing north, making a left hand turn. My light was red, so cross traffic was moving. There's a truck all the way out in the intersection who need to make a left, which would have put him in the lane next to me going south, but by the time he had gotten to the light the green arrow had gone, and it was just a green light intersection. So traffic is flowing, and right when it turns yellow the last car through, he guns it to go through to make his left, all the while holding up his arm and middle finger at the last vehicle.
I was shocked to be honest. First off in my opinion, he shouldn't have been in the intersection to begin with. There's so many drivers where I live that have this "entitled" attitude on the roads. It's like, if they are making a left hand turn, first thing they do is pull forward and out into the intersection, but traffic is coming from the other direction so they have to wait until it's clear. Most recent insane driving I've seen is when you have 3 vehicles all wanting to make a left, but they have to wait for cross traffic, first driver pulls out into intersection, driver behind him pulls up, etc. etc. first driver finally gets to go, second driver pulls up but has to wait now, light turns yellow cross traffic stops, second driver makes his left, their light turns red, mine turns gree, and that third driver runs the red light to make his left. It's absolutely crazy here.
Sign next to the shoulder that says "NO Turns From Shoulder" so if a vehicle is making a left, they will pull up, and if other drivers are going straight, they go around that first driver. Problem with that is, if another vehicle from cross traffic makes a left, and they hit me, that's my fault because NO Turns from shoulder also means if I'm just going straight through the light. (I spoke with a cop about it within the last 6 months) So while I sit there and wait for the guy to make his left, I'd get people behind me blasting their horns or they go around me. It's crazy. When I drive to work, or anywhere for that matter, I'm always watching what the other driver is doing. Last thing I need is an auto accident.
I was going to post something similar but you said it quite well.
What a beautiful town! Love the sound of trains because it means work for a lot of people so thank you for a very interesting video!
Glad you enjoyed it
Im British and I dont know much about american railways but I always think that these types of lines are really cool
That's an Amezing town everything drive's through and everybody is complacent, the people in that town must be very tolerant.💝💝💝 love that town very patriotic, the red white and blue all everywhere, thats my kind place.
It is pure Americana! Right in the middle of the nation
Sadly, the radical right and tRumplandians have commandeered the American flag, such that anyone displaying it is assumed to be one or the other. I'm neither, so I don't fly one.
@@roningram5877 lol.
@@roningram5877 Nah.
That's one hell of a train and it emphasizes the much larger loading gauge you have in the US compared with here in the UK
India has the biggest trains
Because they use the widest track
This is actually a train set. It runs in a circle for the tourists .
This was so fascinating to watch. I used to watch fast freights thundering through Penndel, PA up close in a car lot. But this, passing PSR train on a main street through town?1 Wow.. I would buy a coffee and sit at that outdoor cafe table and enjoy that scenery! Nicely done!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Amazing how it is even possible that the immense weight of such a train can be caused to move by the drive wheels of the engine. I would think that they would just spin.
Reminds me of the scene from My Cousin Vinny: "I thought you said that train doesn't come thru town every morning at 5 am". "Nawww, it'd usually come thru at 4 am"
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One of life's great zen activities is watching a train roll by. It tests your patience to the limit.
the near-constant dense of deja-vu with the repetition of so many similar-looking sounds, shapes and colors really does serve as a zen test!
I'd love to be that engineer.
I can't begin to imagine how nerve-racking that must be to have to wait behind trains THAT long ! Imagine being in labor waiting behind those trains ! The child would've turned 2 before you even got it home to meet your folks !
Long and slow. We have long Trains too but they fly by at 70 mph.
Good thing it wasn't a dual rail track crossing, the child would be graduating from college otherwise.
@@patricknintemann924 judging by your pfp I’m assuming you are somewhere near Denmark, and if I recall, freight trains don’t get as long as these, so that plays more of a factor than speed does. Also, because this is a street run, it has to go much slower than normal so as not to surprise anyone who may be on the street. But yes, they do generally have better trains and train infrastructure over in Europe, but it’s not as simple as American slow and bad European good and fast
@@alegsb3943 You are thinking too complicated. I am just saying that this one takes so long, because it's going slow. Ans yes of course it has to go slow on the Street. Our Trains here don't drive on the street an when a train goes 60 mph, then it doesn't take long to pass. Even when it's this long. I am from Germany.
@@patricknintemann924 ah, got it 👍
Thanks for sharing, I’ve never heard of trains running the Main Street before 👍🤠
Any time! Check out my Street Running Trains playlist for more cities like this
What a pretty town, and with trains, perfect. Only in america, this is one of the reasons to hang onto your country & it's culture.
Pretty, with trains ,but not only in America.
I am guessing back then the only trains passing here were coal/steam passenger trains .. romantic.
@hhhh9579 Congratulations, almost but not quite needed clarification according to Poe's law. (Poe's law is an adage of Internet culture stating that, without a clear indicator of the author's intent, it is impossible to create a parody of extreme views so obviously exaggerated that it cannot be mistaken by some readers for a sincere expression of the views being parodied.)
I agree
@hhhh9579 the kind of dialog going on between you and treedown is a perfect example of why this country is in political crisis, and both sides are to blame. Maturity, civility, and openmindedness are nearly dead.
Now I want an annoying bell in my truck... forget the train horns, everybody got those...
Love those bells.
Yahoo Mountain Doo!!!!!!
I like this place... Scenery of downtown with real old west railroad.
The train is like an art display that rolls through town occasionally. Gives a bit of culture to the place. 😂😂😂
I'll never get used to seeing a train going down the middle of a street, just to weird.
Stupid towns build their roads on the traces. They could have just put separate roads on both sides on the tracks and left the tracks for the railway.
We need more urban and suburban transport rail. That's light rail, though, this is heavy rail.
Too*
I'm sure the locals would have it no other way!
@@musiccollector I doubt that. Do you enjoy sitting at railway crossing when you trying to get somewhere? This would even be worse since shoppers and diners would have to wait or go elsewhere. Also the speed of the train running in the middle of the street like this will be slower, so will take more time for the train to clear.
Now if it was a steam locomotive and 3 or 4 cars for an excursion train, then that would be ok. You wont be blocking the entire town or blocking the businesses for more than a few seconds. People dining outside would even enjoy watching the steam engine pass by. The excursion trains usually run in the evening and weekends so you would have normal business traffic unimpeded.
Literally Nobody:
This Town: Let's built out town on these tracks
@@Anonymous-jv7ys then the tracks, then the Main Street development... then the road rage :)
EXACTLY!!
@@Anonymous-jv7ys the rails brought the towns and the towns supported the railways. The two were inextricably linked when they were established.
Rail on streets is commonplace in Europe. It was here too. Only in America today would this seem strange.
@@dudeonbike800 Pretty much what happened. The original railroad line, the Lexington and Ohio Rail Road, was laid down in 1832 between the city of Lexington and the town of Villa Grove, which I don't think exists anymore. The railroad had a somewhat rocky start and changed hands a few times between 1837 and 1848. In 1848, the railroad was split between two companies, and the part that went through La Grange became part of the Louisville and Frankfort Railroad. Later, in 1869, the Louisville and Frankfort consolidated a lot of the local small rail companies into the Louisville Cincinnati and Lexington Railroad. This was important because although they were a smallish company for the time, the rail-line from Louisville through La Grange to Covington/Cincinnati was a connector between the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, a huge and important rail company for the time, and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, an even huger and more important railroad company of the time.
The La Grange area was settled in 1827, and became recognized as a town, with a mayor and everything, in 1840. One of the big draws to that area of Kentucky was the availability of both steamboat transportation up and down the Ohio River and the railroad that allowed relatively easy access to harder to reach places in the state. The consolidation of the Louisville and Frankfort Railroad was a major factor in the growth of the town itself, since there were servicing facilities, a small rail yard for switching around cargoes and re-arranging trains, and the town itself had hotels, saloons, and "paid-lady" houses where crews could get rest. Remember that at that time, most trains operated with multiple crews that switched off shifts in the caboose car for rest, often for days, or even a week or more at a time. La Grange offered a good place to take a pit stop and catch up on the news, and even had some decent hotels and flophouses where you could sleep on an actual bed and eat fresh food and get some good coffee.
Looking at a map, it seems that the town itself started off situated along the south side of the tracks, and eventually sort of grew around the main-line. The close clearances between the buildings and tracks are a hold-over from when we used horses or feet to get everywhere that there wasn't a train or riverboat to get to. Of course, moving the buildings, most of which are over a century and a half old and are historic landmarks, would be ..... severely un-economical. Moving the tracks would cost tens of millions of dollars, and as the railroad holds a pre-existing claim of ownership to the right-of-way, would have to be paid for by the town. Apparently, the town itself markets this set-up as a sort of tourist attraction thing, and has built some observation decks and a viewing tower where people can safely watch the trains go by. According to the local tourist organization, they get about 10-15 trains a day through the town.
Edited because autocorrect is actually autocorrupt.
Having railway tracks cut through your town used to be a good thing. Lots of older cities still have tracks go through them.
What craziness is this??!? Absolute madness...
I can sit and watch a train go bye for hours. My Mom's friend Husband worked as a switch rail operator in West Louisville KY For L&N Railroad Company. He had a real train set. The Coolest Layed Back 70's Man I Ever Saw as a Child. Train Bridges are crumbling. He always said, 'Let me Lay something on ya, baby! ' Wore a straight up chest medallion. He was so cool.
Damn! That's impressive. Just two engines for HOW many wagons and HOW much weight? Nice video and well shot. You really have got the steadiness and panning under control. Loved it.
The question is how many of those wagons were empty. That makes a big difference on the weight. On the train with the engine in the middle, I'd guess the wagons in front of that engine were loaded, and the wagons behind it were empty.
Must be a lot of horses in those engines. Yeah, I was admiring the same - he must have had the image stabilization feature, but I am puzzled as to why a tripod was not used considering how long this video is! Makes the steadiness all the more amazing.
Intermodal is usually a lighter consist. But when you have each locomotive applying 175,000 - 200,000 ft/lbs of tractive effort, on rails with very low friction, you can move alot of weight.
If you look at the video again you can see that there's a third engine near the end of the train
@@DrDLightful it’s pounds feet and mass
America does amaze me sometimes.
1. Trains still run down the middle of a main street of towns.
2. How long and huge the freight trains are, it's amazing how much is transported across the US.
Some years ago, I was training on a different military base and well, it was when the last of our ancient Army Jeeps got turned in, along with an assortment of ancient cargo trucks.
We're talking about kilometer upon kilometer of vehicles, parked on the grass wherever it would accept them.
Back then, knowing our cargo aircraft capabilities as well, if we needed to, we could pack up the entire planet and move it somewhere safe.
That, on top of what our civilian cargo capabilities are, as I've had trains pass that took a half hour, had a middle engine and trail engines before the end of train device. And driving across the country, saw even longer trains at times. That started out early in our history, WWI and WWII bankrolled expanding our transportation and industrial capabilities.
Due to labor costs, we've farmed out labor for industry, but food and industrial products still need transport and a bonus to compensate is, no more seasonal fruits and veggies - we import what we can't produce out of season, which I find a good thing nutritionally.
Want to know a problem with that?
Some part of that, a fairly significant amount, is food, the rest, ingredients for consumables or actual consumables. That means that a like quantity of waste is resultant and moving it isn't a problem, finding a resting place for it is a problem.
So, while steel can be recycled, food leads to shit, which can be composted and piles up... I'll not even go into plastics.
I know the question, I've yet to find a solution - I'm obviously not that bright and thus far, nobody else has come up with an effective solution, although I have used composted sewage sludge for fertilizer (it is free for Philadelphia residents from their local sewage treatment plant, as well as quite a few other cities).
And I really, really want to leave this world a bit tidier for my grandchildren than my parents and we allowed it to become.
And I'm out of altitude, speed and ideas.
Only place in the US this exists. Been there many times.
@@cdshull used to be a train down main in Sebastopol CA. Removed in the early ‘80’s.
@@cdshull used to have trains going down Washington Ave in Philly until relatively recently (as in, around 40 years ago or so), in some parts, the tracks still remain in the middle of the avenue.
Part of the old junctional railroad system.
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@@spvillano s I do that sometimes. I try to tell everything I know about one thing, then add another and I end up with 5000 words. I dunno what was in the middle...
Living in LaGrange was a highlight of my life. I learned to drive there, knew the secret RRXings to get around the slow downtown train, and wouldn’t change any of it. ❤️❤️❤️
Have they thought of moving the tracks?
@@dedogster I’m sure it’s been brought up, but you’d still have the delays needed for a train to slow down for locations within several miles. I don’t think it would be worth it. Even though this video took a more negative perspective, most do not mind the interruption. It’s part of the charm and history here, and it isn’t that bad.
@@doribellan Thanks for the info! I've seen the track on streets in Utica New York, but never trains, I always seem to miss them. What I find fascinating about this is this is Right down town, not some industrial side street. I would love to have seen the steam trains going alond the road. I'll have to visit some day.
@@dedogster I hope you do! The people are amazing there and it’s such a quaint area downtown… especially with a train rolling through!
Back in the '90s I worked just down the road in Buckner. Went to LaGrange for lunch often. The "train" excuse was handy when we came back late, no one ever questioned it. I remember when the fire dept. at the end of the block burned down!
My family would be sitting there grinning and eating popcorn and enjoying watching the train go by.
I would as well@
Makes you wonder who of the founding fathers of this town thought that building Main Street on either side of the railroad track was a great idea. It might have worked earlier with short trains but today’s long trains take quite a while to pass.
Another great video, son.😄
Well. people rode horses back than, and the streets were just dirt. The steam engines dragged maybe 15 - 20 cars behind them. The cargo could be easily dropped off right there in town in the commercial district. 200 years ago, no one could foresee the 20th & 21st Century.
Kentucky became the 15th state in 1792, La Grange was founded in 1827 and incorporated in 1840, railroad came thru in 1850’s!
@@buff-ooc7809 Yep. Towns don't build streets around railroads -- it's the other way around! But there must be a lack of other options, because the railroad would probably rather not have to deal with running their trains through a busy commercial district.
@@calliarcale Once upon a time land was cheap and easily obtained. Now everything is built up. So the costs of acquiring land with which to build a bypass can be prohibitive. In essence this is how a nation's success sows the seeds of its downfall.
For many years, Lagrange was the home of GM ElectroMotive Division, which made diesel locomotives.
Imagine if he appeared on Virtual Railfan's grab bag. Excellent content, my friend.
he has before.. they also have a camera set up here sometimes
@@truckerkevthepaidtourist VR has two cameras posted on the front of Blooms By ED.
@@truckerkevthepaidtourist There's a camera there all the time now, on top of the building southeast of the intersection. I saw a video today that showed a car pulling into the angled parking on the left side & ran right into the building!
@@barbrn 😎cool. Thanks Barb
Those trains are gobsmackingly long - I cannot even begin to imagine the power of the engines, nor the strength of the road bed.