BNSF's Chillicothe Subdivision: A Railroad Superhighway [HD]
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- BNSF’s Chillicothe Subdivision is a model of modern railroading, a superhighway transporting thousands and thousands of tons of freight each and every day. Boasting over 70 trains per day, the former Santa Fe mainline stretches for 238 miles between Chicago and Fort Madison, Iowa
Follow along on a journey from downtown Chicago to Fort Madison on the banks of the Mississippi, stopping in places like Joliet, Streator, Chillicothe, Edelstein and Galesburg.
This is BNSF’s Chillicothe Subdivision - A Modern Superhighway by Thornapple River Rail Series
Filmed August 7th, 8th & 9th 2014
Locations:
- Corwith Yard, Chicago, Illinois
- Willow Springs
- Lamont
- Joliet Union Station
- Lorenzo Road/BNSF Logistics Park Chicago
- Coal City
- Ransom
- Streator
- Wilbern
- Chillicothe
- Edelstein
- Williamsfield
- Dahinda
- Yost/East Galesburg
- Galesburg
- Cameron
- Smithshire
- Media (Trestle)
- Stronghurst
- Fort Madison, Iowa
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Ignore the critics. Your work is probably the best I've seen on the internet.
I agree 100%
I concur. Dude might know his shit.
I disagree because I like to be wrong.
Absolutely phenomenal 👏
back in august of 1983 we chased a TP&W westbound across the river and into the yard at Ft. Madison.
had a C424 in the consist.we chased the TPW from Ind all the way through Illinois.
then in 1994-96 we chased the brand new red/silver warbonnets across Ill. to Ft. Madison.
Yost, Galesburg,Cameron,Chilicothe,Streator,Joliet were among the locations that were filmed here. we saw GP20s-30s-35s-38s on inter-model, what a treat.
I hope you win awards for these videos.
In terms of volume and variety of different freight going to so many locations this might be the center of railroad activity in the U.S.
Great video i 💘 watching the bnsf and up trains together
Great job! Just watched an old 1996 of santa fe, wow they were flying on this route back then.
I started watching this two days; I have just finished it 2218 hours 02-10-16. I say this is about the best video I have watched on trains. this one explained the trains, their operation on the line and the lines that they traveled on. a great big thanks to the people who made this video. thank for some outstanding video and a lot of beautiful country side
An ALL Power Move at the End of the Video always Wins the Race. 😬 Great job and Thanks! 👍
Very great video, and nice four axle GE´s. Thanks for posting!
Great footage, thanks for uploading.
Nicely filmed, edited and narrated! However, I can't help but notice the sound seems a bit low. I don't know if it's just me, but even with the video and my computer at full volume, it's still rather quiet.
Indeed. Editing this was a bit of a headache. Back then, Movie Maker didn't have an option to increase volume in a track, only decrease. So I had to reduce the sound from the video so the narration could be heard. Now with PowerDirector I can increase the narration and that means the volume for the whole thing is higher. Someday, I will re-master this video. But otherwise, it is stuck like this due to the limits of what I had to work with at the time. Thanks for watching!
Terrific shots, informative narration and plenty of action make this a great video!
That was great! It took a few visits but I watched it all.
The narrating was spot on and, the scenery and sound,
was awesome! Enjoyed it very much, Thanks!
Outstanding video Sir! I live on East Santa Fe in Chillcothe. Was so darn cool for my daughter and I to watch together and see our own road in such a professional quality video. Plus I had been wanting to see other parts of this track. Fantastic!!
Between your informative video and commentary and following on Google Earth, I a had a great tour. Thank you. Excellent video. I enjoyed myself.
This is a truly great video!
I loved your shots from my town
Great video. I like the comments during it. Very interesting :-)
Great video
This is the Longest video I have watched on CZcams. You have very well narrated videos.👍👍👍
Great video front beginning to end thanks!
Nice production work. Well done.
Nice vid, thank you!
I have seen many trains on the Chillicothe subdivision and I have been to a lot of those cities that are on the Chillicothe subdivision. Great work on vids keep up the good work
This is a superbly put together piece of work extremely informative
most excellent, thanks for sharing
Just found this video I live on this sub and you went to some of my favorite spots!
Great video! The whole thing is very professional and is an excellent documentary of a cool piece of railroad. Enjoyed it a lot!
@ 45 minutes is the spot I always go. Great dead end road! Signals each way. Never saw anyone else there!
Beautiful keep it up
excellent work all around
This is spectacular work, you highlight how great of a railroad the BNSF is. I am proud and honored to call them my employer!
Thanks for watching! BNSF was a great railroad to watch.
Come up to the Chicago/ Aurora Subdivisions!
Hi Alex, what a great video! This one of the more common subs in the Chicagoland area beside the Geneva Subdivision.
Awesome!
I've been a engineer for 40 years with BNSF and before that it CBQ,,before that it was great northern,, I'm 3 generation my grandpa in 1920 my dad in the 1940, me in 1979 and so on. But nice vedio It was the BNSF that in 1993 that introduce the the Mac engines they are AC current,, I could blow your mind at what I know
Fantastic video! You covered many locations I've never seen before. The Joliet footage was a lot of fun to watch.
Thanks!
Great videos. I like your narration, and your choice of scenery and equine
I especially like the on rain railroading vid. you did where the CSX crew had th double the hill. really cool!!! Thanks
Excellent video my friends awesome locomotive
Excellent narrative. Not too much but enough to know where you are.
The Chicago area is def on my bucket list. Got some friends over too !!!!!
Very nice commentary. It's funny, I have a very distinct memory from when I was on the southwest chief, the train diverged to the right and swung back to the left and went onto a bridge over the line it was previously on. By dumb luck, I was curious about the connection in cameron you mentioned in the video. And there it was! Thanks a lot, I'm really happy I now know where the memory came from.
Excellent video, I very much enjoyed it and have subscribed.
My favorite parts was one the two TOFC trains in which the bnsf is really the only railroad that runs long trains like that on a regular basis I mean other railroads stills run stuff but not as much as the best does and second the swing bridge at Fort Madison, Iowa as a engineer myself always enjoy going over it. Long live my swing bridge and keep on tracking bnsf!!!!
+james watson at 102:44 I notice that that TOFC train has a double stack well car with FedEx containers two high on it so it is not a solid TOFC train. So in the video there is only one true TOFC train, but still I like it anyways.
LOVE IT
Great video, 28th excellent camera skills! I really enjoy the narration! To me, I really like knowing about what I'm watching, and you did it perfectly! I look forward to more of your videos! I'm no expert on videos, but yours seems close to professionally done.
Corwith Yard's intermodal operations enjoyed the tag "Checkpoint Chico" until the merger.
Also, I live not far from the former ATSF line in Chicago. The one-time four-track (six in spots if you include the ex-GM&O) speedway to Dearborn Station is not "torn up." In fact, ATSF connects to a number of other roads in the city east of Corwith. The southern two mains, ostensibly eastbound mains, were sold to the CTA for the Orange Line for part of the distance.
The BNSF Mendota Subdivision runs as far east as Aurora, where it iterchanges with the BNSF Aurora Subdivision. The BNSF Chicago Subdivision shares the last 31 miles of trackage rights with BNSF, NS, CSX, Amtrak, and Metra before interchanging with the NS Chicago Line in downtown Chicago. From what I hear, the NS Chicago Line runs full double track from Chicago as far east as Cleveland, Ohio, and ends single track in Erie, Pennsylvania. i have no idea where the full double track portion of the line heads off once it leaves Cleveland. But I did a little bit of railfanning up in Cleveland when I was on my way to the airport. And I saw at least 25 trains. And it can get pretty busy there. I also saw 6 heritage units. I didn't have enough space to get the videos, but I got pics of NS 8099, 8103, 1068, 1074, 8025, and 8102.
BNSF777 Ok
Pretty good stuff. I was in various places there yesterday (9/20/2016), traveling from the south in Central Illinois. Sometimes you just don't know what's going to happen on that line, as there was maintenance work underway between 130 and 121, pretty much effectively shutting down everything. I did find something on a walk tho.... If you go to the curve on Santa Fe Road (west Chilli-ish around your 35:00 mark) and walk west up to where the oiler is, you can get a nice shot of an s-curve as they come down grade. I was just a bit reluctant to drive up there, and I really didn't want to port larger cameras and tripods, and chairs for that matter, up there. (I shoot multiple Sony PMW-EX-3's with bigger Anton Bauer battery packs on them so, they are "hefty"). But seriously, I like the ambition and the effort you put into this!!!
awesome video, i really want to come up there someday, but gota make sure i have a tour guide lol
If you did come up you'd have to stay for like a week! So many cool places to see trains around Chicago!
i bet man lol 2 days wont cut it!
Exactly haha!
Aweome video....thanks for sharing! Are there many of the ATSF signals bridges left on that sub? Most of the ones here in Missouri are gone.
Beautiful sights and the presentation is typical of the excellence generally found in the Thornapple River series. The numerous container trains are unfortunately representative of the loss in manufacturing capabilities of the U.S. , as each container train, although providing a beautiful and lucrative sight, represents yet another nail in the coffin of the North American manufacturing capabilities. Happy 4th of July to all! Ontario, Canada, 2019/07/02.
Nice video brother
16:02 I have nightmares like this, only the tracks are hidden by grass and you don't know where they are. Still a really cool shot!
Awesome!!! I'd love to railfan there! Way out of Oregon, though. Anyway. 54:01, will it be a quiet zone?
I love how you dweebs zoom all the way out while the train is still way off in the distance, rendering the train nothing more than a speck of light within the frame.
Bravo !!
Belleville197 I see you're quite the videographer yourself...oh wait, you aren't! Don't hate what you can't do.
Thornapple River Rail Series Your argument is moot.
In time you will realize that people make careers as movie critics, food critics, music critics, etc., even though they aren't film makers, chefs, musicians, and so on... One need not engage in a discipline in order to gauge the quality of its execution :P
And I am a photographer and videographer... although I haven't posted on CZcams.
Belleville197 mmmkay. But, at least you can be a critic without calling people idiots out of nowhere. That would be nice.
Thornapple River Rail Series I didn't call anyone an idiot... I called you dweebs... because that's what we all are... rail dweebs.
Anyhow, practice filling the frame with the lead unit as it approaches by zooming out SLOWLY.
You will be so much more satisfied with the footage.
You can still keep a second camera to film the conventional roll by angle.
Belleville197 dick
the Chillicothe sub is part of BNSF's Chicago to Los Angeles transcon route.
Great Railfan video. Your commentary is very well scripted and interesting. I found myself bringing up Google maps to see where you were referring to.
Thank you for the kind words! It is a very fun line to railfan, but to do the whole thing you've gotta have at least three days!
The meet at 1:08:44 is awesome . 👍
That barge crossing the bridge sounds like it has an EMD engine powering it.
That's what I thought, too
Thornapple River Rail Series It sounds like an EMD 645 prime mover working in that boat
Corey Kesler if you go on EMD's website you'll see that their engines are made for boats as well as locomotives.
Thornapple River Rail Series if you go on EMD's website you'll see that their engines are made for boats as well as locomotives.
ahhhhh...okay. That explains everything then.
Near the beginning with the barges under the bridge that looked in such bad condition, Rust. Thinking when will it fall down? Nice video, Thanks
You've done well with your video and lots of good info. Only suggestion is that with almost every scene at a grade crossing, those constant bells get a bit nerve wracking.
Nice work. However I think BNSF should order some heritage units from GE or EMD of with a few different Santa Fe paint schemes and Burlington Northern paint schemes.
I agree
I do like the idea of heritage hoppers though...
I think those would just be wasted money for BNSf, the heritage hoppers..
Marlon Thomas Jr GE and EMD aren't companies, rather types of locomotive.
No, GE and EMD are companies. General Electric and Electro-Motive Diesel
For what it's worth, the S in Des Plaines is NOT silent.
Usually, the barges go through the other side, closer towards Iowa. Over the years, the channel has shifted, making it difficult for barges to get through. I had heard that this bridge was being considered as an obstacle to navigation. Recently, the BNSF bridge to the north at Burlington was replaced span by span, with a lift span allowing barge passage.
polyrhythmia Yeah, and they did start evaluating it for replacement. Thing is, it doesn't have the structural limits the Burlington bridge had, so BNSF sounds content to keep the status quo. After all, they own the bridge, and even get tolls from it!
Sounds like a replacement bridge would be a lift, and probably still be double-decked.
Excellent video!! Can you tell me how you keep your frame so still? My camera shakes so much every time a train goes by, even when I put the tripod in the grass. Thanks
You have to have a heavier camera & tripod setup. Those are less affected by ground vibration and wind off moving trains.
Thank you!
I used to make trips to Ft. Madison to watch the action, but there's no variety anymore so I stopped. You may get large numbers of trains, but it's 95% intermodal and GE comfort cabs now.
So those East_west tracks through 21st Street are just CN-IC And UP Tracks? I will put that in my "memory banks."
And Marion is also a RailFanning HotSpot
Surprised you didn't show the East West link at South Streator where con-rail meets the "SantaFe" I mean BNSF.
Do the Union Pacific trains proceed into town and tie up at the former C&NW yard at Proviso.
Joliet looks much different now with new signal bridges and the old platforms pretty much gone
Great video. Educational, pleasurable and very relaxing on a warm sunny day of February in Arizona. The time you put in has to be very rewarding, the finish product is truly a magnificent visual captivation of trains on hot tracks across America. Thank you for the wonderful presentation.
So that's why an ex-Santa Fe train (in route anyway) takes the Burlington's Racetrack into Chicago
Great production! Is most of the information still the same today or has anything changed since the filming of the video?
Not a whole lot has changed. A few more of the old signals have fallen. But by and large, the trains and places haven't changed much if at all.
Thornapple River Rail Series Oh ok cool. What has happened at Joliet? Is it still accessible to watch trains there?
Sorry I just saw your reply on the Joliet video lol. Thanks!
Does this line meet with the Chicago to Mpls BNSF lines?
+eddieg749 Nope
Loving the videos Alex, really am. A good intro for someone who is not familiar with the railways of the USA. My only gripe is the in my opinion is the blowing of the whistles. Is there a reason for it? Safety reasons I’m guessing. Anyways really enjoying your superhighways series. Shane from Australia 🇦🇺
Federal Railroad Admin requires horn at all grade crossings except those exempted as quiet zones, with requires much more protection equipment.
Thanks for the timely reply and answer
is the containers on these trains for shipment by ship or will truck? Who has the right of way a passenger train or freight train?
I used to haul loaded semi trailers all the way from Cambridge, OH up to Hodgkins, IL to the BNSF intermodal yard bound for Los Angelos. Cambridge is 80 miles EAST of Columbus, OH and over 400 miles from Hodgkins! It always seemed completely stupid. Seems there should be an intermodal yard in Columbus or Indianapolis to get a train to LA. I still don't know why.
Cool. Trains
Great video, 54:30 what is the first car, second floor?
+RailFun PL I mentioned it at some point in the video, but it is called the ArrowWedge, designed to improve aerodynamics on stack trains. UP was testing it in 2013, not sure if they still are or not. The idea was to place one in the 1st car, top spot to direct air around, since containers have the aerodynamics of a brick
Next time you go to Galesburg, try Peck park. No traffic and no foamers in the way.
I prefer to skip Galesburg proper and go hang out at Cameron, where nobody is around at all, and both roads are at speed.
Been to peck park before
And Marion also has diamonds. Marion actually has two quad diamons
Oh my gosh you said union station :) :D
Good job . It's nice to know young people are still getting into the hobby. You would of loved the ATSF back in the 70's. . Much more to railfan. It's hard to watch graffiti tagged unit trains and stacks one after another. Most of us older rails head for the short lines now because they still remind us of the good days.
Definitely agree...kinda stinks to have missed the Warbonnet era. Even though the Southern Transcon might be all GEVOs and Stacks today, I still appreciate the scenery and heavy-haul nature of it.
Is this the line that the Phoenix pig train runs on
Is the Chili still 70ish trains a day in 2018?
Yup! Very little has changed on the Chilli with the exception of searchlight eradication, and the Media Trestle's replacement.
Thornapple River Rail Series ok, fantastic, thanks for response.
I was asking because I might head out to the Chili tomorrow afternoon.
Thanks!
Glad to be of assistance - good luck!
There is a union station 40 minutes away from me in Marion Ohio
address at 9:33 ?
Superbe vidéo très bien documentée.
Elle nous fait faire le voyage de Chicago jusqu'au Mississippi en suivant "Le Transcontinental". Cerise sur le gateau, la présentation du pont tournant permettant à deux des plus gros trafics de fret au monde de se croiser.
Mant Thanks for this unique vid, and for sharing it.
Btw, what is the rule for assigning power units to a consist ? Why some times middle Power units and some times rear helpers ?
Greetings from France
Power is assigned based on train type or service, horse power per ton, and fuel conversation needs. Some hot trains will carry extra locomotives just in case one craps out enroute they have enough power to run track speed.
Je crois que c'est chouette que on qui se trouve à France s'intéresse à les trains américains!
greg55666
Hi Greg. In June 2013 we, my wife and I, travelled from Chicago to East Glacier on board train #7 "The Empire Builder". That was such an experience ! I wanted to see the Marias Pass before a long road trip which ended in San Francisco.
American rail system is totally different than european ones, but when you like rail tech, you like it here and there. We started with Amtrack and ended with the cable car, lovely !
Merci. Votre raison de dire qu'il ya une grande diffrence entre les trains et les trains américains Europen .
Thank you. Your correct that there is a big diffrence between American trains and Europen trains.
thornapple??? does this sub run threw galesburg il
As shown in the video, yes.
I love trains but cannot get into them like aviation.
What is the max speed that they can make a cross over?
+John Moore The TimeTable governs those speeds, with a speed assigned to each crossover, often one for passenger and one for freight. Most crossovers on the Chillicothe Sub are 40 mph. However some are only good for 30, while some allow 50.
Thanks
Under their current management, BNSF will never produce heritage units. Someday maybe, but not now.
It's sad that this line isn't as cool as it used to be
At 49.44 two wellcars had what as loads?.
Dave O'Callaghan I didn't even notice those. Not sure
One of the best content on a train video I have seen and heard in several years.
Check out my Northeast Ohio Trains series.
!!intermodle could someone please explain the meaning for us foreigners thanks
Intermodal is the shipment of goods via more than one form of transportation, be it rail, water, truck, and so on. Typically it involves the international standard shipping containers, which is what we're referring to with intermodal trains. Typically they are just moving the containers, but sometimes they move truck trailers as well.
Good job, good idea. I would suggest not shooting at grade crossings so much. The gate bells get a little annoying. I also wish your mic had a wind sock/screen on it. Hope you keep shooting (more during the golden hour).
Ha - this video is ancient history. Check out my latest Superhighway videos - such as the Marceline Sub or Marias Pass - I'm two cameras and two editing platforms down the line. And yes, the wind issue is long gone.
A lot of repainted warbonnets.