ONE OF OUR BEST GRAB BAGS! EMERGENCY STOP, 6 DARWINS, SNOW & TRAINS & SONG & FLIGHT

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Komentáře • 143

  • @mcgirtdustin
    @mcgirtdustin Před 6 měsíci +43

    The kid and his dad makes my heart happy! ❤️😀 Great wave from the engineer

    • @matthewrinehart9514
      @matthewrinehart9514 Před 6 měsíci +11

      That kind of memory could last a lifetime. Did with me ❤

    • @mcgirtdustin
      @mcgirtdustin Před 6 měsíci +7

      @@matthewrinehart9514 yes indeed!

  • @lauren8960
    @lauren8960 Před 6 měsíci +51

    Thanks for including us! My son was super excited to be in a grab bag 😁 we were waving in Thomasville!

  • @chrishylton3080
    @chrishylton3080 Před 6 měsíci +21

    Bald Eagle sitting on a rock in the river at 17:10! Sweet!

  • @PreciousFifi
    @PreciousFifi Před 6 měsíci +20

    32:05 on to the end is just beautiful.

    • @CorinneHSmith
      @CorinneHSmith Před 6 měsíci

      White pelicans from Texas, using the mighty river as a migration directional tool. They're a little early this year, according to a bird expert friend. They may turn around and come back.

    • @johnstafford4304
      @johnstafford4304 Před 6 měsíci +1

      @@CorinneHSmith Pelicans live in Ft. Madison year round.

  • @ren-uz2mz
    @ren-uz2mz Před 6 měsíci +14

    Love to see kids loving trains and engineers giving back with waves and little horn boops!

  • @csrrjefflloyd6496
    @csrrjefflloyd6496 Před 6 měsíci +20

    At the risk of repeating myself, these Darwins will keep it up until their luck runs out.

  • @yyzedd
    @yyzedd Před 6 měsíci +12

    Cannot believe the "Darwins" at 10:06 climbed over the coupler - both well cars had ladders on both sides with a platform between! Wow!

    • @HighBall-wt8jp
      @HighBall-wt8jp Před 6 měsíci +1

      The train really should have waited longer to start moving, let them cross and be well clear of it

    • @user-tn9vr6rs3g
      @user-tn9vr6rs3g Před 23 dny

      Dang survival of the fittest failed again.

  • @carolinagirl4483
    @carolinagirl4483 Před 6 měsíci +9

    Whoever is editing is doing an awesome job and the ending is always beautiful! Thank you!

  • @timh.6910
    @timh.6910 Před 6 měsíci +10

    I had to watch the 1 second guy twice. Wow. Pretty casual. I guess he didn't realize, and should count his lucky stars.

    • @donnaj9964
      @donnaj9964 Před 6 měsíci +4

      Either that or he does it so often that he's just jaded. Sigh...

    • @baileylynn6481
      @baileylynn6481 Před 6 měsíci +1

      "oh,they see me. They'll stop"

    • @user-tn9vr6rs3g
      @user-tn9vr6rs3g Před 23 dny

      Nope, they just like the folks on the south end. We, too,cool to care, besides if something happens, they just cry racism.

  • @matthewrinehart9514
    @matthewrinehart9514 Před 6 měsíci +13

    Virginian unit is one handsome dude

    • @mrbluesky2050
      @mrbluesky2050 Před 6 měsíci +2

      yeah, but Pennsy 8102 is Better !

    • @matthewrinehart9514
      @matthewrinehart9514 Před 6 měsíci +1

      @@mrbluesky2050 love the number placement on the side of the pennsy

  • @Shumilin_Andrei
    @Shumilin_Andrei Před 6 měsíci +5

    Beautifully selected footage of VR trains.The clip at the end is divine.Your video channel is wonderful.🤝👍👌

  • @franciscampagna2711
    @franciscampagna2711 Před 6 měsíci +15

    We who are without trains salute you.

  • @lynsmith
    @lynsmith Před 6 měsíci +3

    Well 6 Darwin’s & New Chargers! Birds Of A Feather Fly Together Musical Performance!!👏🏽👏🏽

  • @joecallis3474
    @joecallis3474 Před 6 měsíci +9

    The private railcar Hollywood Beach used be in Nashville on the Broadway Dinner Train in the 90s. My parents used to take us on it!

    • @arkansasrailproductions5507
      @arkansasrailproductions5507 Před 6 měsíci +1

      It is now owned by Robert Riley, CEO of the Rock Island Rail in Mississippi. He also owns the L&N “Royal Street”.

  • @jamesnicholas7180
    @jamesnicholas7180 Před 6 měsíci +2

    Whenever I see the Virginian unit I think of my dad’s old Lionel Fairbanks Morse engine.

  • @ginny9311
    @ginny9311 Před 6 měsíci +13

    The geese were spectacular!!

    • @johnwalters1341
      @johnwalters1341 Před 6 měsíci +8

      Those "geese" at the end were American White Pelicans.

    • @ginny9311
      @ginny9311 Před 6 měsíci +3

      @@johnwalters1341 Thank you. Hopefully I will recognize them if I see them again. They were beautiful to watch.

    • @donnaj9964
      @donnaj9964 Před 6 měsíci

      @@ginny9311Look at the heads and necks: geese stretch their necks far out but pelicans tuck theirs into their chests. 🌹

    • @charleshettrick2408
      @charleshettrick2408 Před 6 měsíci +3

      56 years ago at Fort Madison near Easter watched a similar flight. Awesome.
      Asked my grandmother why they flew like that. Answer: To save energy as a flock. Next day I pestered her to take me to the library to understand how that worked. Spent 2.5 hours. Started in the children section. Annoyed enough librarians to get into the adult section to get real books that properly explained slip streams. The physics back then was not well understood. But as a kid, it was good enough, plus Navier-Stokes equations were way out of my league.
      Our 1 day trips to Fort Madison were memorable.

  • @gp3829
    @gp3829 Před 6 měsíci +10

    Nice show of BNSF SD70MACs in Executive livery tonight, thanks VRF.
    I thought the youngster at Flagstaff (14:50) waving to the Conductor was great. I wish I had been taken to see the Trains like that, when I was kid.

  • @donnaj9964
    @donnaj9964 Před 6 měsíci +4

    I love the way the individual pelicans change altitude so that the entire skein looks like a big wing flexing in flight. And great catch of the eagle next to that very nice power move--and then you came back and gave her a close-up at the end (which was so beautiful!). Another railfan-in-training in Flagstaff was a happy thing to see--they sure got hammered with snow though! And all of those Darwins--they make my stomach hurt. Please warn us in the headline if anybody ever doesn't make it, and I won't watch that one. But you're right: this one was one of your best! 🌹

    • @MikeG42
      @MikeG42 Před 6 měsíci +1

      I doubt VR would show a fatality on a grab bag video.

  • @MikeG42
    @MikeG42 Před 6 měsíci +1

    Great shot of the BNSF on the curve coming toward the station in Flagstaff while an Amtrak is stopped. Overall a good grab bag. Have a nice day. 👍😊

  • @edwinchappell2153
    @edwinchappell2153 Před 6 měsíci +2

    Thank you VR. That was a real pleasure to watch.

  • @periwinkle-dragonfly
    @periwinkle-dragonfly Před 6 měsíci +5

    Best final 3 minutes ever!! Beautiful camera work John!!

  • @tytn9978
    @tytn9978 Před 6 měsíci +6

    @34.20+ I was looking at the artwork on the cars and said "Wow", and just then your WOW popped up on my screen! Great minds DO think alike!

    • @melissametivier4
      @melissametivier4 Před 6 měsíci +1

      I read this comment before I got to that point in the video...and said, "Wow!" about half a second before it popped up. 😂

  • @jaysnively2472
    @jaysnively2472 Před 6 měsíci +4

    Extraordinary ending. Thank you VRF!

  • @lisabehe4546
    @lisabehe4546 Před 6 měsíci +8

    Indeed one of the best Grab Bags! I always love to see the Horseshoe Curve.

    • @donnaj9964
      @donnaj9964 Před 6 měsíci +1

      This footage of it was especially beautiful!

  • @davidcrook5511
    @davidcrook5511 Před 6 měsíci +4

    Another one already! And another great one! But the Darwins beggar belief... Never mind; which one of the trains stands out; can't say; I think they all did! And another great ending from Fort Madison this time with amazing bird formations and another great sunrise like Fort Madison a lot most amazing line and those loco formations! Keep these grab bags coming love them! Greetings from GB David 😊

  • @Hap6605
    @Hap6605 Před 6 měsíci +4

    25:32 Watched this live while watching 48 have engine issues, I certainly did not expect the passing amtrak to have their newest to their oldest long distance Locomotives.

  • @stevekile1919
    @stevekile1919 Před 6 měsíci

    It still amazes me how much freight and people are still moved by rail. The American way but oh how the technology has improved to make it safer.

  • @johncamp2567
    @johncamp2567 Před 6 měsíci +2

    The Oklahoma City camera caught a nighttime hot-box on a BNSF ethanol train last Winter; the next morning, there was an ethanol-train derailment and fire in Texas.
    And the four consecutively numbered AMTRAK units in tow was a train-spotter’s delight!

  • @CraigBaughan-mg3hf
    @CraigBaughan-mg3hf Před 6 měsíci +6

    Breathtaking precision flying.

  • @gordon9306ify
    @gordon9306ify Před 6 měsíci +1

    Probably the first time I've commented here.
    That was indeed the best Grab Bag that I seen since I started viewing here regularly.
    And that ending, WOW!
    Beautiful piece of music to go with the stunning panning on those (geese?) .
    Sensational, thank you to all those who put this together.
    *Watching from Cloncurry, far NW Queensland Australia.

  • @Pykem
    @Pykem Před 6 měsíci

    Thanks for another Grab Bag full of interest. It always surprises me how much vintage liveried stock is out there, both locos and freight cars. Sad to see so many Darwin candidates. I enjoyed the Fort Madison flying display thanks. Best wishes from New Zealand.

  • @davidbrown4823
    @davidbrown4823 Před 6 měsíci +1

    No words tell what I feel for the Darwins or mom said say nothing if not good. love seeing the little fellow wave.

  • @grogman1911
    @grogman1911 Před 6 měsíci

    Nice eagle pose at 17:15 in Fort Madison.

  • @b.a.d.2086
    @b.a.d.2086 Před 6 měsíci +3

    Wow! Nice ending with the pelicans! Good Grab Bag.

  • @joannecarpenter8725
    @joannecarpenter8725 Před 6 měsíci +2

    AWESOME Grab Bag! Thank you 😁

  • @chappelln
    @chappelln Před 6 měsíci

    I work for Interrail Transport. We have been seeing the New GATX/Hourglass/CSX autoracks for the last month.

  • @NW611
    @NW611 Před 6 měsíci +5

    Love the vids!!!

  • @delurkor
    @delurkor Před 6 měsíci +2

    Was the OKC shot ~7:58 a hotbox or sparks off the brake shoe. To me, it did not seem to be coming from the journal box but off the wheel. And there were also sparks from the far side of the truck. I am not an expert, not do I play one on CZcams.
    Edited to add: Thank you for the great shots.

  • @lowellvillerailfanproductions
    @lowellvillerailfanproductions Před 6 měsíci +7

    I just want to point out that first guy that almost got hit had absolutely no reaction to the train which is kind of scary

    • @yyzedd
      @yyzedd Před 6 měsíci +4

      noticed that also - maybe had headphones or earbuds

  • @matthewwhittington-jk9ep
    @matthewwhittington-jk9ep Před 6 měsíci +4

    Best train videos

  • @willywhite492
    @willywhite492 Před 6 měsíci +5

    Love these

  • @FARMERJONESVA
    @FARMERJONESVA Před 6 měsíci +1

    Shout-out From Gloucester, Va (Train Fan 4 Life)

  • @poowg2657
    @poowg2657 Před 6 měsíci +2

    Would've loved to see a cut-in-two(or three!) at Elkhart.

  • @don63
    @don63 Před 6 měsíci +3

    Nice assortment

  • @JoinMyAdventures_YT
    @JoinMyAdventures_YT Před 6 měsíci +2

    At 16:54 I met those people in Fostoria they were really nice they said they wanted to be in the Grab Bag so thanks for putting them in

  • @the-terrible63
    @the-terrible63 Před 6 měsíci +4

    Wow! Excellent catching all the trains, especially the Herzog train in Quanah, Texas, Heritage Units, 6 darwin candidates, and so much more, @Virtual Railfan, thank you very much.

  • @jerrydaily8208
    @jerrydaily8208 Před 6 měsíci +8

    Not a hot box brakes locked up

    • @leeroth5604
      @leeroth5604 Před 6 měsíci +1

      Yeah, I agree. I would think it pretty unlikely to have hotboxes across multiple axles, on the same car.

    • @daveluehr8685
      @daveluehr8685 Před 6 měsíci

      yea 18 inches ahead of the bearing

    • @pmzoeller
      @pmzoeller Před 6 měsíci

      Brake shoes worn down to the metal backing plate.

  • @Branddenthepinkgoldpeachfan
    @Branddenthepinkgoldpeachfan Před 6 měsíci +6

    *Nice Catches*

  • @baedenwilliams8291
    @baedenwilliams8291 Před 6 měsíci

    13:35 Ah, yes, a P42DC and a Dash 8 pulling their replacements.

  • @unklewink
    @unklewink Před 6 měsíci +3

    Let's get a Darwin of the month vote going!

  • @b3j8
    @b3j8 Před 6 měsíci +2

    That tuscan FRA car fools me alot. I'll think, "Wow somebody had clout to get their personal passenger car up front...oh FRA, never mind."

  • @frederickschulkind8431
    @frederickschulkind8431 Před 6 měsíci +1

    I got video of the Capitol Limited pulling 4 new locomotives, which this shows twice, at 0:45 and 12:40. It ran 6+ hours late.

  • @ChainsawNW1218
    @ChainsawNW1218 Před 6 měsíci +1

    Like the power and lash up on manifest in the snow in Flagstaff, VA EMD in Roanoke, MOW, replacing ties in Roanoke, pay no attention to the big GE locomotive coming right at You😮,nice wave from Conductor to kid in Flagstaff, walking on live tracks is dangerous enough, but the two people in Roanoke where near an automated switch, like a calender picture with Amtrak in Flagstaff!🛤🚂

  • @DaveInCanada081
    @DaveInCanada081 Před 6 měsíci +2

    The AI train drones were cool.

  • @markrobinson3830
    @markrobinson3830 Před 6 měsíci +7

    We need to thank our Darwins for teaching us what NOT to do when a train is coming.

  • @ILoveTrains2
    @ILoveTrains2 Před 6 měsíci

    I loved this grab bag and the pelicans all in the letter v

  • @randomtransitadventures
    @randomtransitadventures Před 6 měsíci +3

    10/10 camera quality 💀

  • @Photoline1
    @Photoline1 Před 6 měsíci +1

    All the parents of these "Darwins" must have told them to "go play on the highway" when they were kids.

  • @roberthagberg5482
    @roberthagberg5482 Před 6 měsíci +2

    SPRING MUST BE COMING OR ARE THOSE GEESE LOST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @genewilson2705
    @genewilson2705 Před 6 měsíci +2

    I was wondering if you had noticed that bald eagle, should have known.

  • @ronhill5118
    @ronhill5118 Před 6 měsíci

    That is Robert Rileys Seaboard Railroad passenger car.

  • @csxisaiahjonesproductions2290
    @csxisaiahjonesproductions2290 Před 6 měsíci +2

    Nice Grab Bag Video 😁👍

  • @andrewlaverghetta715
    @andrewlaverghetta715 Před 6 měsíci

    The big long string of bnsf power in fort Madison, I think there was a bald eagle on some little floating thing or island at the start.

    • @johnstafford4304
      @johnstafford4304 Před 6 měsíci

      Eagle Rock, he fishes off of there almost everyday, trains don't bother him

  • @Freshpizza11
    @Freshpizza11 Před 6 měsíci +2

    Yea thats right

  • @gloryannbatista6211
    @gloryannbatista6211 Před 6 měsíci +4

    I was online a few hours ago and here’s what I catches CSX,Y 128 in Covington, Kentucky Norfork Southern intermodal train in Elkhart Indiana and a Burlington Northern Santa Fe manifest train in Galesburg Illinois with an ex Santa Fe - eight leading

  • @taslimchoudhary1253
    @taslimchoudhary1253 Před 6 měsíci +1

    🎄🍂🇮🇳🍂🎄
    Nice footage!

  • @ChadSimplicio
    @ChadSimplicio Před 6 měsíci +1

    More alc-42 Chargers going to Delaware for testing. When will Amtrak start training Southwest Chief, Sunset Limited, & Texas Eagle crews?

  • @dianalanda6963
    @dianalanda6963 Před 6 měsíci +1

    7:55 it’s when it gets better

  • @patrickrancourt4782
    @patrickrancourt4782 Před 6 měsíci

    Gr8 catch clip's
    Darwin winner so........

  • @danmiller7079
    @danmiller7079 Před 6 měsíci +1

    I know I had penned a comment, but I felt this necessary. In 2001, while I was still a school police officer, I noticed that traffic was stopped at the grade crossing near my high school and the train wasn’t moving so I called the other S.R.O. at that campus and told him I would be delayed. He told me that someone had been sitting on the tracks and a train had hit that person. The sheriffs deputies wanted one us to respond to the scene to see if we could I.D. the possible kid that had been struck. I told him I would help if I could. I drove to the crossing and I.D.’d myself and was directed toward the front of the train. I met the deputy at the scene and he asked me if I could I.D. the person who had been hit. The deputy uncovered the part of the body that would have been able to be identified but the amount of damage was too great. I later found out that the person, later identified as a student by his parents, had committed suicide by sitting on the tracks and listening to his headphones. I normally would not bring this up but maybe it might save a life or keep people from getting hurt from climbing on or over trains.

  • @jacobdubielak
    @jacobdubielak Před 6 měsíci +2

    I see what you were talking about

  • @haydenverner5458
    @haydenverner5458 Před 6 měsíci +1

    The Darwin’s are out strong in this one wow people just can’t wait and be patient

  • @squarebodycasewademckenney6190
    @squarebodycasewademckenney6190 Před 6 měsíci +7

    I think people who disregard warning signals (crossing lights, horn) if identified or witnessed by a officer should be made to pay a heafty fine to the train crew... so much stress from that be going like 35-50 mph and someone just walks or drives out in front cant imagine there blood pressure

  • @kilt2024
    @kilt2024 Před 6 měsíci +1

    Seems lessons from the President

  • @normsweet1710
    @normsweet1710 Před 6 měsíci +2

    The “Darwin’s” make it many times . . . . . until the last time ……. I wish there was a way to convince them of that truth

  • @highlife0586
    @highlife0586 Před 6 měsíci

    09:48 Wow this guy has a death wish for sure!

  • @DTD110865
    @DTD110865 Před 6 měsíci

    The Danbury Branch takes M8s? :-O

  • @natehill8069
    @natehill8069 Před 6 měsíci

    9:15 Odd that BOTH trucks on the same car have a hot box. Makes me think someone forgot to fill them?

  • @nikdazley5236
    @nikdazley5236 Před 6 měsíci +4

    My first ever appearance in the grab bag! 16:56

  • @peterp1158
    @peterp1158 Před 6 měsíci

    When you see a long string of locomotives, is there a way to tell which are working and which are just a power move? Are all prime movers running?

  • @stevem3605
    @stevem3605 Před 6 měsíci +1

    30:06 is that a old package or mail car seem really long? Thanks in advance.

    • @sloop_jon_b
      @sloop_jon_b Před 6 měsíci +1

      Amtrak material handling car I believe, from when they also hauled mail and express

  • @musicman8942
    @musicman8942 Před 6 měsíci +1

    I counted 7 Darwins

  • @kevinburt
    @kevinburt Před 6 měsíci +1

    Is that a bald eagle at 17:11?

  • @jimcombs6760
    @jimcombs6760 Před 6 měsíci

    Last time I was in Flagstaff AZ it was a “no horn” crossing. Did that change?

  • @randydobson1863
    @randydobson1863 Před 6 měsíci +1

    hello Virtual Railfan it's is Randy and i like yours video is cool Thanks Virtual Railfan Friends Randy

  • @peterp1158
    @peterp1158 Před 6 měsíci

    "Dumb ways to die, so many dumb ways to die"

  • @secondarymainlineproductio3033
    @secondarymainlineproductio3033 Před 6 měsíci +31

    I have no sympathy for pedestrians crossing the tracks like the one in Cordele...they must think they are special and entitled for some reason.

  • @MrAmtrak207
    @MrAmtrak207 Před 6 měsíci

    Those are overheated brake shoes that are sparking, that's not a hotbox

  • @csrrjefflloyd6496
    @csrrjefflloyd6496 Před 6 měsíci +2

    It sounds like there is a bad length of rail in Wichita.

  • @jerrydaily8208
    @jerrydaily8208 Před 6 měsíci +4

    No brains fair game

  • @janeordway4841
    @janeordway4841 Před 6 měsíci

    Stepping over a drawbar is a Dumb thing to do. A safer option would be to use the steps on the well car.

  • @richardmclaughlin8345
    @richardmclaughlin8345 Před 6 měsíci

    But what if the 'Darwins' know there is no one in the cab? That makes them 'Scofflaws' not 'Darwins'.

  • @jovetj
    @jovetj Před 6 měsíci

    12:23 Why was the signal circled?

  • @spooge1oh1
    @spooge1oh1 Před 6 měsíci +2

    What is up with all the Darwin candidates lately

    • @georgeadams1853
      @georgeadams1853 Před 6 měsíci +2

      "Hey, it's perfectly safe. I made it. It's not like the train's going to hit me. He's going slow. He can stop."

  • @jonathanburrowaz
    @jonathanburrowaz Před 6 měsíci +2

    Sorry but if you've never walked down railroad tracks then u haven't railfanned much. Yes it's your fault if u get hit by train, but most people reading this have walked down railroad tracks one time or another.

  • @crystalkittykat3581
    @crystalkittykat3581 Před 6 měsíci

    9:38 😮
    15:51 😮
    25:08 😮

  • @HappyHands.
    @HappyHands. Před 6 měsíci +3

    2:36 having to have passenger cars made in other countries and imported is kind of sad.

  • @toomanyhobbies2011
    @toomanyhobbies2011 Před 6 měsíci

    Empty train at 21:00, another at 22:00.

  • @stevegird7706
    @stevegird7706 Před 6 měsíci +1

    Tank cars containing toxic God-Knows-What with flaming journal boxes. Will they never learn? Do the people of OKC know about this?

    • @windlockatc
      @windlockatc Před 6 měsíci +4

      If you are talking about the sparks, that's coming from the Brakes it appears

  • @CruiserToneFan
    @CruiserToneFan Před 6 měsíci +2

    Good LORD, the Darwin uprising is upon us.
    One of these days, one of the cameras are going to catch a darwin candidate, or multiple of them, and it's also going to catch them paying the price for their stupidity. And it will not be pretty, methinks.