This may sound weird but a nickname I give loaded centerbeams is ice cream sandwiches. The white wrapping in the middle of the car for some reason reminds me of the ice cream in an ice cream sandwich and the surrounding of the car reminds me of the outside of it
Tank Cars: "You work in the industry and your employer pays you to know about tank cars, so you now know a lot about tank cars and have nervous dreams about making sure to demonstrate the HM-201 qualification process in your next FRA audit."
@@cxmx3295there are a sizable amount of those family lines hoppers I have been seeing a lot of rock hoppers too which surprises me because of where railfan
@@leafeon_gtr9223 Logs probably move mostly by semi truck now due to how uncommon a freight it is becoming. Low volume, high dispersion of destination. I don't know if I've seen logs on a train in years, but I see it on trucks a few times a month.
Escanaba & Lake Superior still carries logs to a plant that produces Smart Siding in Sagola MI.. Also Canadian National gets logs for a mill in Kaukauna WI along with some vintage would ship cars that are 51 years old so they all have FRA waivers to stay in service and they are basically graffiti free @@leafeon_gtr9223
@@imightormightnot we have a train that comes through my town with a small cut of them, some you can even see the logos on them. The chessie kitty, a worn out Conrail logo, and a couple Csx ones.
Same, it's fun when you catch a glimpse of some cars inside through the vent holes, and I like seeing the huge loading doors on the end when it's the last car in the train.
I'm not going to lie. I'm a gondola guy, but not for the derailment reasons, but because every old road, NYC, CR, IC, and loads of other vintage ones roll by, usually trailing behind equivalently old locomotives.
The standard gondola car is the unsung hero of the nation’s railroads, for gons haul virtually everything, plus they get beaten up badly during their lifespan. A true workhorse, for sure! 🚂
My favorite cars are those gigantic 94-foot, 8-axle, 4-truck GATX "whale belly" tank cars with the deep belly that hangs low between the trucks. Absurd things, and I absolutely love them
Auto-Racks are my favorite. Mainly, as I love transportation crossovers, I would describe it as something I've been interested in since I could start thinking.
My preferred car is a coal hopper- grew up watching NS and CSX Coal Trains barreling through the CSX Henderson Sub- absolute nostalgia trip when I see any coal trains
Coal trains for me. Just something about seeing locomotives on their knees roaring up a thunderstorm hauling loaded coal trains. Also what would caboose's say about ya?
Passenger cars - You live in a place with almost no passenger service, or you go to museums a lot. Or you're a suburban/commuter/NEC foamer. Gallery cars - You're from Chicago. Other commuter cars - You live in commuter territory. Baggage cars - You think of these as freight cars but for people. Coaches - You either used to or currently ride Amtrak a lot, or you wish you could ride to work in something more comfortable than a commuter coach. Dining cars - You love food and curse Washington for underfunding Amtrak. Sleeping cars - You either are rich, been on one once, or you spend a lot of time in them at museums. Lounge/cafe cars - You think of them as a Starbucks on rails. Observation cars - You love glamor. Dome cars - You either live in the Rockies or want to visit the Rockies. Mail/express cars - You want them back. MoW/ribbon rail/ballast cars - You're just glad to see something different for once, or you love things even more unique than coilcars. Autoracks - You're a car enthusiast and you long for the old days when you could see the cars inside. Tank cars - You probably work in an industry that deals with them. Flatcars - You like seeing them loaded, and military trains are your dream come true. TOFC/spine cars - You're a truck driver. Schnabel cars/heavy-duty flatcars - *insert foaming here* Specialist cars (steel mill cars, shop equipment, etc) - You have these on your model railroad or you work in the industry. I don't have a single favorite type but I love seeing fallen flags. Around here we get Conrail coilcars, Southern hoppers, SP autoracks, Pan Am/Guilford boxcars, etc. And yes, I fit into many of the above categories.
I can remember the 1970s when coal hopper trains were anything but uniform. They all seemed to be of differing heights, weathering, and occasional bulging sides. Plus, a lot of bent end braces where they were pushed around small load out with front end loaders.
I can certainly agree with this as the more I railfan the more I appreciate the cargo. Although somehow I once loved coal trains since they were rare to see where I began railfanning, but where I live now coal trains are at the bottom of my list! Mixed freight and Double stacks are where its at. Excellent video my friend!
3 bay covered hopper, I live at a town with a transload facility at the end of a shortline. We get 90% covered hoppers with some center beams for the local hardwood plant.
So for reference I am a truck driver, specifically a steel hauler, so most of what I haul is steel and aluminum coils, bars, and what we call slinkies. Now as a result of that I end up around a lot of rail yards, there's a place I go to alot in Kansas city, where I have to go through a rail yard. Quite frankly I have to say boxcars are amazing because there is so much variety, so many brands companies, the timeless style of them, it is so cool, last week I saw a Panam boxcar that was pretty cool. But second would be cars with slinkys those are pretty cool too because unlike the coil haulers you cab actuakly see them
My favorite rail cars are covered hoppers because on up and BNSF manifested even grain trains there's a huge variety of different Fallen Flags which is why I like covered hoppers
I don’t necessarily have a favorite, but like you said with coal hoppers, it’s like you read my mind. I do in fact have OCD so if I see a train with only one type of car, it makes me feel more satisfied than usual. But personally, boxcars and autoracks are more appealing to me… idk why.
Unit trains - I used to work as a cost analyst for a major Class 1 and I costed out every proposed unit train for three years. I hated it. I call them "Unit Pains".
Tank Car: You are just some unstable Michael Bay fanboy who awaits one of these things to blow up either upon derailment or about an hour or two before a bleve vaporizes you before you can utter a syllable.
2:08 I have officially been called out lmfao. I just caught my first freight train earlier today. I've been so unlucky in the past missing trains by less than a minute. But I finally got one at my dream crossing and it was a 32 car long double stacked well car train except for the very last car that had only one container. There was some pretty awesome graffiti including a Garfield Thanksgiving one dated 2023 which was insanely cool and extremely well done. And boy oh boy do I love driving fast and I love anything that goes fast. I also hate waiting for trains lol. Even scheduled passenger trains which is my norm for living almost right next to a NJ Transit station, I wish they could go faster lol.
I like double stacks and auto racks, if they are together on one train I’ll be happy, I also like coil cars and trailers but not as much as double stacks and autoracks.
I've been an airplane modeler all my life. Two months ago I went to one antique store and saw an N-gauge train set, and thought it looked cool. That started me down a preposterously massive rabbit hole, and now I have ended up here... At this rate I expect to dedicate a whole table to a train set within half a year... 🤦
Something I used to see a lot of as a kid in Upper Michigan: Ore Jennies. Sort of like a coal hopper, but shorter in length because iron ore is heavy. Best when pulled by an old Alco, but semi-retired U-boats from BN were ok too. Guess my short liine.
"What Your Favorite Railcar Says About You" My favorite railcar says nothing about me. It is an inanimate object and therefore not capable of saying anything at all.
One of my favorite railroad cars is the Sloan Yellow 40FT double door boxcars made for the Missouri Kansas Texas railroad from 1937 to the 1940s by American Car & Foundry. These were primarily used for mail storage on passenger trains like "The Katy Flyer" "The Katy Limited" and the joint Frisco and Katy passenger train "The Bluebonnet" Last favorite car I like is Railway Express Agency's green 53' wood express reefer cars used on passenger trains during the steam era. What would these say about me?🤔
I like boxcars because 1) they are quite easy to ride next to tank cars and hopper cars and 2) when i tell the engineer to swing it on a cut of boxes and hes dragging the slack outta each of those cushion underframes it almost sounds like thunder right before the bottom moves and we get going
My favorite railcar is intermodal and I do, indeed, go 90 every day for my morning commute. It's not that hard at 3AM. When you live more than 50 miles from your workplace it gets kinda necessary.
A anything with Armored Vehicles. They pass through my town all the time, sometimes they're mounted on Well cars and other times on Flatcars. Just nothing but a mile of MRAP's, various kinds of Tanks and APC's, Humvee's, cargo trucks in all different shades of olive and desert colors. It always freaks everyone out and they start talking about FEMA camps and Martial Law lmao. These cars usually go up to a place called Honey Lake in extreme Northern California where alot of these vehicles go to die as scrap or be completely overhauled. There's stuff up there rotting in the high desert from the Vietnam war. It's always a based sight to behold.
Just like the Erie and Virginian triplexes are technically tank engines, as their "tender" is supported by the locomotives 3rd set of drivers and the trailing truck, and is an integral piece of the locomotive itself, rather than a separate thing
Yes. Empty centerbeams. At low speed, being swapped out for a loaded car with that fresh lumber smell. Hand-to-hand railroading. Part 2 of this is gonna be good!
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Bro why do you never go railfanning up in places like superior or on the lakes sub?
Loaded centerbeams are peak, smelling that fresh timber slowly rolling by
This may sound weird but a nickname I give loaded centerbeams is ice cream sandwiches. The white wrapping in the middle of the car for some reason reminds me of the ice cream in an ice cream sandwich and the surrounding of the car reminds me of the outside of it
L U M B E R *insert house building song from RDR2*
A great choice! 🚂
Tank Cars: "You work in the industry and your employer pays you to know about tank cars, so you now know a lot about tank cars and have nervous dreams about making sure to demonstrate the HM-201 qualification process in your next FRA audit."
I keep a copy of the ERG on my phone just so I can see what they're carrying (this only works if it's bazardous)
Funny
I offload tank cars and can tell you everything about them..... well at least the ones that carry crude and gasoline/diesel lmao.
My favorite freight car is a reefer car. Always loved seeing the old 57’ PFE mechanical reefers.
Mixed manifest trains are king because they are sometimes unpredictable with what they'll have on them like an awesome fallen flag or a high and wide.
Low key a train of just tankers hits different for me.
Agree
Bro I saw a Western Pacific box car with the feather. I didn't even know any of those still existed on main line service
A few days ago I saw a SCL and rock island hopper
@@cxmx3295there are a sizable amount of those family lines hoppers
I have been seeing a lot of rock hoppers too which surprises me because of where railfan
There's still an NYC gondola rolling by me
I’ve seen a few old chessie system auto-parts boxcars come past me
@@TheConfluencePArailfan I see those occasionally
“Doublestack intermodals just hit the spot”
Hell naw, pigs is where it’s at. I miss the days of solid strings of TOFC…
How could you not mention tank cars or covered hopper cars?! You absolutely have to do a part 2!
and log cars (unless usa stopped moving logs by rail)
@@leafeon_gtr9223 Logs probably move mostly by semi truck now due to how uncommon a freight it is becoming. Low volume, high dispersion of destination. I don't know if I've seen logs on a train in years, but I see it on trucks a few times a month.
Escanaba & Lake Superior still carries logs to a plant that produces Smart Siding in Sagola MI.. Also Canadian National gets logs for a mill in Kaukauna WI along with some vintage would ship cars that are 51 years old so they all have FRA waivers to stay in service and they are basically graffiti free @@leafeon_gtr9223
And don’t forget reefers
@@LMR78 yes
Tankers are definitely one of my favorite railcars!
Yes, the three dome 62 feet in length tankers are VERY impressive! 🚂
I enjoy seeing the big 60 and 80 ft boxcars on mixed freights! Dont see them all the time and its just amazing
a fallen flag 80 footer.
yeah...my day is definitely complete!!!
@@imightormightnot we have a train that comes through my town with a small cut of them, some you can even see the logos on them. The chessie kitty, a worn out Conrail logo, and a couple Csx ones.
@@ulstercountyrailfans7717 kinda feel the nostalgia seeing those old guys still getting the work done.
Me liking autoracks and not seeing my answer
Same, it's fun when you catch a glimpse of some cars inside through the vent holes, and I like seeing the huge loading doors on the end when it's the last car in the train.
Schnabel cars will never get boring to see as there are only 30 of them in the U.S
YES, the Schnabel cars are as massive as they are impressive! 🚂
I'm not going to lie. I'm a gondola guy, but not for the derailment reasons, but because every old road, NYC, CR, IC, and loads of other vintage ones roll by, usually trailing behind equivalently old locomotives.
The standard gondola car is the unsung hero of the nation’s railroads, for gons haul virtually everything, plus they get beaten up badly during their lifespan.
A true workhorse, for sure! 🚂
Even my 4 year old son calls coal trains boring. So I can’t argue there
Amen brother
My favorite cars are those gigantic 94-foot, 8-axle, 4-truck GATX "whale belly" tank cars with the deep belly that hangs low between the trucks. Absurd things, and I absolutely love them
I'm one of those odd people who likes the freight just as much as the locomotives. Without the freight you wouldn't even have a train!
Auto-Racks are my favorite. Mainly, as I love transportation crossovers, I would describe it as something I've been interested in since I could start thinking.
The stab at NS around the 2 minute mark had me laughing.
I like Coil cars and you explained everything completely, and we go absolutely ballistic when we catch one on camera.
2:12 that’s my favorite
Woodchip Hoppers. Honestly, is there anything better than the smell of fresh cedar and pine chipped up?
My favorite railcar is any with a bad bearing!
It's amazing what ONE bearing can do to derail a whole train that consists of Hundreds of bearings!
My preferred car is a coal hopper- grew up watching NS and CSX Coal Trains barreling through the CSX Henderson Sub- absolute nostalgia trip when I see any coal trains
Great Northern blue with mountain goat
Vintage freight cars: You choose these because you hate graffiti on those modern freight cars.
Schnabels: Oh boy, Foam city here I come.
I agree. I hate the lines of boxcars 80% of them having graffiti.
I'm a boring old guy that likes steam locos pulling empty flat cars, super long tankers, coil cars, and a bay window caboose.
Coal trains for me. Just something about seeing locomotives on their knees roaring up a thunderstorm hauling loaded coal trains. Also what would caboose's say about ya?
Autoracks are my favorite. I like cars and I'm also an artist so I enjoy the unique graffiti on them.
The 50ft ribside single sliding door boxcar is a work of art. PS and FMC boxcars are especially beautiful.
My favorite railcar are box car, coil cars, gondola cars and hopper car and the caboose
Passenger cars - You live in a place with almost no passenger service, or you go to museums a lot. Or you're a suburban/commuter/NEC foamer.
Gallery cars - You're from Chicago.
Other commuter cars - You live in commuter territory.
Baggage cars - You think of these as freight cars but for people.
Coaches - You either used to or currently ride Amtrak a lot, or you wish you could ride to work in something more comfortable than a commuter coach.
Dining cars - You love food and curse Washington for underfunding Amtrak.
Sleeping cars - You either are rich, been on one once, or you spend a lot of time in them at museums.
Lounge/cafe cars - You think of them as a Starbucks on rails.
Observation cars - You love glamor.
Dome cars - You either live in the Rockies or want to visit the Rockies.
Mail/express cars - You want them back.
MoW/ribbon rail/ballast cars - You're just glad to see something different for once, or you love things even more unique than coilcars.
Autoracks - You're a car enthusiast and you long for the old days when you could see the cars inside.
Tank cars - You probably work in an industry that deals with them.
Flatcars - You like seeing them loaded, and military trains are your dream come true.
TOFC/spine cars - You're a truck driver.
Schnabel cars/heavy-duty flatcars - *insert foaming here*
Specialist cars (steel mill cars, shop equipment, etc) - You have these on your model railroad or you work in the industry.
I don't have a single favorite type but I love seeing fallen flags. Around here we get Conrail coilcars, Southern hoppers, SP autoracks, Pan Am/Guilford boxcars, etc. And yes, I fit into many of the above categories.
I can remember the 1970s when coal hopper trains were anything but uniform. They all seemed to be of differing heights, weathering, and occasional bulging sides. Plus, a lot of bent end braces where they were pushed around small load out with front end loaders.
Manifest trains are the goat
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Canadian government grain hoppers are my favorite railcar. Too bad they are being scrapped and replaced with the boring no-name grey ones.
I like unit trains. Particularly covered hoppers; the solid BNSF brown ones look particularly good
I can certainly agree with this as the more I railfan the more I appreciate the cargo. Although somehow I once loved coal trains since they were rare to see where I began railfanning, but where I live now coal trains are at the bottom of my list! Mixed freight and Double stacks are where its at. Excellent video my friend!
empty centerbeams and boxcars for me. Absolutely insane you didnt cover covered hoppers in the first episode.
When I visited my family in West Virginia, there was a coal mine a block down from their house, every morning coal trains would pass by, I ,over it ❤
Bro forgot autoracks, and a part 2 of this is part of the reason I subscribed.
my favorite railcar is the 1970s designed hoppers
Especially the ones that listed the grain elevator and some small town. Those pink Klemme cars put that town on the map
Well mine was not listed. Well sort of I guess. I like reefer cars especially Cryo-trans.
Canadian grain hoppers, because then you get to look for hobos on them 😮
I really like old time stuff, i wonder how this list would look if it was era specific. Early passenger cars are my favorite though.
As a yard rat, I quite like hopper cars. They make good hooks and can go flyin empty or loaded
You gotta love box cars man, they have literally been the railroads day one stay ones
3 bay covered hopper, I live at a town with a transload facility at the end of a shortline. We get 90% covered hoppers with some center beams for the local hardwood plant.
airslide hoppers 💪💪 (but like the gatx ones look the best)
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Love the double stacked well cars. I moved to Canada from the UK and loved how BIG it was comparatively.
stock cars, cabooses, and log cars are some of my favorites
So for reference I am a truck driver, specifically a steel hauler, so most of what I haul is steel and aluminum coils, bars, and what we call slinkies. Now as a result of that I end up around a lot of rail yards, there's a place I go to alot in Kansas city, where I have to go through a rail yard. Quite frankly I have to say boxcars are amazing because there is so much variety, so many brands companies, the timeless style of them, it is so cool, last week I saw a Panam boxcar that was pretty cool. But second would be cars with slinkys those are pretty cool too because unlike the coil haulers you cab actuakly see them
My favorite Railcar is the heavyweight depressed center flatcar with 3 or 4 axles per truck, to haul the heaviest, bulkiest commodities. 🚂
My favorite rail cars are covered hoppers because on up and BNSF manifested even grain trains there's a huge variety of different Fallen Flags which is why I like covered hoppers
I’ve always appreciated railcars. Thats why I never cut my videos too much.
Your talking points on coal trains are spot on for me! haha but I like unit trains in general cause their uniformity is oddly satisfying
I don’t necessarily have a favorite, but like you said with coal hoppers, it’s like you read my mind. I do in fact have OCD so if I see a train with only one type of car, it makes me feel more satisfied than usual. But personally, boxcars and autoracks are more appealing to me… idk why.
HAHahahaha you nailed me. I won't tell you what it was, but you got it right.
Unit trains - I used to work as a cost analyst for a major Class 1 and I costed out every proposed unit train for three years. I hated it. I call them "Unit Pains".
Covered hoppers, auto racks and coil cars. All Pretty neat imo.
Still love me a good double stack well car tho.
Loaded centerbeams are way better than you think. It's cool to see how their loaded and the different lumber sizes on them
Tank Car: You are just some unstable Michael Bay fanboy who awaits one of these things to blow up either upon derailment or about an hour or two before a bleve vaporizes you before you can utter a syllable.
2:08 I have officially been called out lmfao. I just caught my first freight train earlier today. I've been so unlucky in the past missing trains by less than a minute. But I finally got one at my dream crossing and it was a 32 car long double stacked well car train except for the very last car that had only one container. There was some pretty awesome graffiti including a Garfield Thanksgiving one dated 2023 which was insanely cool and extremely well done. And boy oh boy do I love driving fast and I love anything that goes fast. I also hate waiting for trains lol. Even scheduled passenger trains which is my norm for living almost right next to a NJ Transit station, I wish they could go faster lol.
Military flatcars with tanks and other military equipment!
Okay but what if I prefer standard box cars over hi box cars?
I see so many double stacks on the NS CNO&TP line and CSX LCL sub that I am just sick of them
I like double stacks and auto racks, if they are together on one train I’ll be happy, I also like coil cars and trailers but not as much as double stacks and autoracks.
The sleeper/lounge car is the best.
WE NEED TANK CAR!!!! I NEED TO KNOW HOW HE WILL ROAST ME THIS TIMEEEEEE
I've been an airplane modeler all my life. Two months ago I went to one antique store and saw an N-gauge train set, and thought it looked cool. That started me down a preposterously massive rabbit hole, and now I have ended up here...
At this rate I expect to dedicate a whole table to a train set within half a year... 🤦
@ 3:13...
hey hey wait a second now... i happen to like light power moves 😁😁😁😁
My favorite type of rail car is the flatbed railcars with the semi trailers on top because I think it looks cool and I like semi trucks....
Something I used to see a lot of as a kid in Upper Michigan: Ore Jennies. Sort of like a coal hopper, but shorter in length because iron ore is heavy. Best when pulled by an old Alco, but semi-retired U-boats from BN were ok too. Guess my short liine.
I heart Thrall all-door boxcars because I’m not with the times and have a soft spot for the underdog.
I had a Penn Central boxcar in HO scale that was made in the 70's with a sliding door. I hid my weed there!
Flatbed cars with windmill blades, are the G.O.A.T of all time...🔥🔥🔥
If only if they're not the most RAREST to catch💀💀💀
Love those 🔥
I’ve been waiting for this return hope more comes soon
I like coil cars because they look like the 8,000 gallon tank cars of long ago from a distance.
"What Your Favorite Railcar Says About You"
My favorite railcar says nothing about me. It is an inanimate object and therefore not capable of saying anything at all.
One of my favorite railroad cars is the Sloan Yellow 40FT double door boxcars made for the Missouri Kansas Texas railroad from 1937 to the 1940s by American Car & Foundry.
These were primarily used for mail storage on passenger trains like
"The Katy Flyer"
"The Katy Limited"
and the joint Frisco and Katy passenger train "The Bluebonnet"
Last favorite car I like is Railway Express Agency's green 53' wood express reefer cars used on passenger trains during the steam era.
What would these say about me?🤔
Personally, i enjoy the Shorty tankers, that and my all time favorite being the trough-train from back in the 90s
As a German I didn't even know that coil cars exist.
And my favourite car is called Avmmz, it is for people and not freight.
You should do a “what your favorite type of train” like manifests or intermodals etc
I like boxcars because 1) they are quite easy to ride next to tank cars and hopper cars and 2) when i tell the engineer to swing it on a cut of boxes and hes dragging the slack outta each of those cushion underframes it almost sounds like thunder right before the bottom moves and we get going
I want part two, my favorite is a grain hopper
My favorite railcar is intermodal and I do, indeed, go 90 every day for my morning commute. It's not that hard at 3AM. When you live more than 50 miles from your workplace it gets kinda necessary.
Why is this so accurate 😭
Can’t wait to be roasted for my appreciation for autoracks
My best friend has a name for those emptied 72ft centerbeam flat cars: She calls them naked cars!
I foam over BCOL centerbeams lol
I love seeing opera windows.
A anything with Armored Vehicles. They pass through my town all the time, sometimes they're mounted on Well cars and other times on Flatcars. Just nothing but a mile of MRAP's, various kinds of Tanks and APC's, Humvee's, cargo trucks in all different shades of olive and desert colors. It always freaks everyone out and they start talking about FEMA camps and Martial Law lmao. These cars usually go up to a place called Honey Lake in extreme Northern California where alot of these vehicles go to die as scrap or be completely overhauled. There's stuff up there rotting in the high desert from the Vietnam war. It's always a based sight to behold.
Sice starting my job as a conductor I have gained a special hatred for gondolas and a disliking of intermodel wells
Unless those coal "hoppers" have hopper openings underneath, they are technically, gondolas.
Just like the Erie and Virginian triplexes are technically tank engines, as their "tender" is supported by the locomotives 3rd set of drivers and the trailing truck, and is an integral piece of the locomotive itself, rather than a separate thing
“Coal Hopper”, yet those are all gondolas…
How could you forget tankers, cabooses, and tenders
2:21 everyone's hopping on this bandwagon; there's still room for more.
Yes. Empty centerbeams. At low speed, being swapped out for a loaded car with that fresh lumber smell. Hand-to-hand railroading. Part 2 of this is gonna be good!
Double stacks and oil cars are my fave.
Sad loaded centerbeam enjoyer noises
COVERED HOPPERS WERE SNUBBED
Well cars are bae. *I work at an intermodal ramp so I see every type every single day*