Cab Ride in US Rail 409 - Logansport to Kokomo, Indiana
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- čas přidán 21. 08. 2024
- Take a ride in 409, a former Conrail GP15-1. During the ride, you will see Anoka, Walton, Lincoln, Galveston, Kokomo, and the interesting operations in Kokomo. For some interesting action, look for when we almost hit a Ford Pickup truck in Kokomo.
Anoka Interlocking Tower site: 7:00
Anoka: 8:15
Walton: 13:45
Walton Anderson's 18:32
Lincoln: 22:00
Deer Creek bridge: 23:15
Galveston: 23:40
Kokomo Siding: 31:45
Kokomo: 33:25
Reversing on the KGC spur: 34:27
Almost hitting an F150: 35:40
Pulling out of KGC with the Polar Bear Express: 37:48
Nice video to watch.
Great video, btw.
I sit here and watch your whole video. I enjoyed it. I retired from the railroad in 2008 locomotive engineer from TRR mobile Alabama . I didn’t know how much I missed the railroad in till I seen your video. My son married a girl from Indiana. When they started talking to you on the radio I knew exactly what you was doing that’s funny how old things come back real quick. keep it on the rail and Safe keep that retirement board money coming🚂🇺🇸
I live in Galveston I see that train a lot great video.
Very cool ride. In the summer of 1970 I rode in a passenger car to Chicago from Kokomo. I was both excited and scared, I was 16 and taking this trip alone. My father took me to board the train at the station on N. Buckeye and I disembarked at the LaSalle Street Station in Chicago where I was met by my brother in law. We had to board a CTA train to arrive at my sister's house in Chicago. Exciting trip for me!
Really neat! My grandfather was a PRR conductor, retired 1962, and often worked on the Chicago-Cincinnati passenger trains over this route. I clearly remember the Anoka tower when I was a kid. With grandparents in Kokomo and Logansport, we were paralleling this line quite often on US 35.
I thought that Cincy train used the C&O line not far from that? Or maybe both lines had passenger service then? Amtrak used to use the C&O I know that.
@@spaceghost8995 PRR had passenger service on this line right up until Amtrak. The Red Bird and The Union were two of the trains. The route was via logansport, Kokomo, Richmond, hamilton. Penn Central severed the route south of Kokomo in the early 70s.
@@daviddawson826 Yes I see. I drive a semi so I have been able to see hundreds of RR crossings and abandoned ones throughout the country. When I see one I pin it on Google Maps and then later when I stop I view satellite of area. It's fascinating to me. I also bicycle a lot on rail trails. I have biked that Winamac to Royal Center and many more in Indiana. Can't wait till spring!
@@daviddawson826 Nice. I live up in Laporte I love checking all these out. North Judson is amazing how at one time it had that PRR line plus Erie, C&O, and NYC. I just looked at that PRR line from. Logansport to Anderson. That line was damn near just a straight shot all the way through! Amazing.
That is the ex-PRR Richmond branch. The position-light signals from that line got removed and transplanted onto the ex-NYC Marion line in the mid-70's.
Approximately what speed were you running? 20-25 mph?
ALWAYS park clear of the tracks, kids. Regardless of what you're driving. Not all trains are going 10mph and your flimsily built pickup (they're crap these days) would crumple like aluminum foil at the hands of a fast train that cannot stop.
Very good video. Enjoyed the ride. Thank you
Live in Kokomo, used to live in Logan. Drive that highway beside the tracks to years. Excellent 👍
35:45 I parked there once, I always wondered what kind of clearance there was in that parking lot between vehicles and the trains. It was an '02 Ranger so there was a lot more space than that, but still not a lot in general. Pretty crazy!
Sounds like a GP40..
thanks for the great ride friend
Interesting to see the old communication wire poles still standing in the midst of the trees on the left side of the track.
Pretty cool! I will have to come over some time - gorgeous E-unit! Thanks for posting!
Odd speeds. If the track is not Class I (10 mph freight) or Excepted then it has to be maintained to Class II (25 mph freight) so why are they going like 18 mph the whole way?
did they leave those tank cars fouling that track on purpose?
Indiana in fall. Lovely
Right where we wanna go right down in kokomo...
Think that's a different Kokomo, as it has something in common with Aruba and Jamaica. {; /
@@Dingle1234 I know :-D
What were they doing with the passenger cars pulling them out?
it was the polar express that they do every year
@@kaylatroyer6177i think so, not 100% sure. Ik they store the train and cars over at the kokamo grain elevator
i see this train go through town all the time and wish i could ride it up to logan /delphi and back everytime.
Sounds like an ACE horn
Tanner Warwick that’s what it is, a K5LLA
Weird seeing how a small railroad operates vs a class 1. Lot less rules to follow apparently
That was a great railroad at one time! Like 50 years ago!
Great video. The Polar Express with that E8 and observation car are beautiful. Having done restoration on two of the E8's myelf, I can really appreciate seeing it. The rest of the consist is made up of Comet I and II cars did they come from New Jersey Transit?
39:50 man thats beautiful
Billy Kester ditch lights ruin it.
I live in the south west USA. Going anywhere in my car at eighty MPH can involve Long trips including overnight stops. The land is barren from horizon to horizon. Can't imagine going 35 mph in a train cab for ten hours through empty land. Maybe once.
Pay me $36 an hour at a railroaders pay and I'll be happy to do it!!!😉
Awesome video
I bet those manual switch levers and stands are older than the tracks cars and locomotives.
Sweet
I cant believe you have to blow Q's at every crossing. Jeez that's rough.
Do you work for U.S Rail? I'm in Walton and I hear you guys go through all the time and wondered what it was like from the cab. Thanks for the video!
Mr.Tractor I will probably work for them in a few years, but as of right now I don’t. I’m just good friends with the crew members. :) Glad you enjoyed the video!
You won't if they lose the WSRY contract at the end of next year.
I used to be stationed at Grissom AFB, right by both of these cities. I was there 13 years and passed thru most of the towns, looking for great motorcycle routes.
Where were the passenger cars going?
If that Ford F-150 had a "shin-finder" (socketed trailer hitch) attached, it would've gotten hit.
it also would have some damage to the locomotive if they wouldve hit the hitch
Love it
I had the volume up full with my earplugs in. Much more realistic.
The GP engines are old and can't handle very much tonnage.
What horn does 409 have, it sounds like an SD70Ace horn from a union pacific
Peterbilt Gaming Nathan K5LLA. Same horn.
To : Tomcat101, Love hearing the sound of the engine and have my headphones on and it sounds real awesome to hear, I wonder if they see idiots throw stuff off the bridge and fear of hitting a pedestrian walking across or watch in horror that they just hit a car full of people in it? Lost 2 great friends of mine, they where killed by a BNSF train coming at full speed and my friends thought they could beat the train by driving around the gate with its red lights on and they paid the heaviest price for it by getting killed by a BNSF train & their car was demolished so bad, it took several hours for the firemen to get the dead bodies out? My friends wanted me to come with them and go see a football game & my mother had a terrible bad feeling that something was going to happen & told my friends that I couldn't go? The very next morning, we saw the morning news and they said that 2 girls where killed by a train last night & it took along time to get them out and the car was badly mangled so bad it didn't look like a car when they got the girls out? I was very glad that I didn't go with them, I alway's think of them alot and we grew up together as kids & Graduated from the same High School and went to there weddings and went to there baby shower & saw the cutest baby boy or baby girl that they had & they never got the chance to see my wedding or held my baby girl? I miss the fun things we used to do or hang out at Jefferson bar & grill every weekend, all of us 3 where waitresses & got paid $ 260.00 & my dad is part owner of the place and is the head sheriff for our county? But,it was a great cab ride and hope you have more for us to watch okay Tomcat101, thanks for the train ride and it was fun and it sounds real good with headphones on?
"...my friends thought they could beat the train...". It was your driver friend who thought 'she' could beat the train. The passenger friend had no control over the vehicle and may have been screaming "Stop you fool. Don't do that"!. So you need to release the passenger from your thoughts that what 'they' did was reckless.
I thought indiana was just boring to drive through, almost as boring by rail
Nice video! What is the maximum speed on the mainline?
Awesome!!
That must be loud having a K5lla mounted on a non sound proof cab like that geeze lol
Southern Railfan Productions what engines have sound proof cabs?
Too bad Conrail pulled up the old Panhandle. Too much pulled up too quickly just to satisfy the Federal bean-counters! Liked the video tho! Thanks!
Is this the line that used to go to Indy, Cincy and Louisville?
Was this an original Pennsylvania line??
Or Wabash
Pennsylvania RR from Cincinnati to Chicago.
Is that a K5LLA?! ON A GP15?!
Railfan Noah06 Replacement for the K3LA that was stolen a year prior
What is "The Anderson's"? Wish the Monon line were still open down here in Washington County.
They're a grain operation
fertilizer plant there in Walton
Thank you! This was fantastic. . . one of the best in the area I've seen! I wish the Russiaville to Frankfort/Lafayette Cloverleaf were still open , since I grew up in Western Howard County. I surely miss those days.
Very nice 0:32
I am no specialist. This is however 4-5th video of this kind I''m watching. My impression - these trains go very slow to my view. Is this an illusion, or the vids are edited to show only slower parts, or.. maybe they REALLY go so slow? What are the speed limits?
zyrtec3 We were restricted to 20mph on this line, and with one GP15 and fifteen-twenty cars we were under 20mph most of the way.
What notch you running
should have gotten there faster and THEN taken it slow...
How did you get the cab ride
Switchman didn't observe the 20 feet rule . Just sayin"
Who cares