Rumor has it, the new Nuclear Security Caboose has a soft serve machine in the galley.

Another one that might be interesting for a future video: the specialized carriers that BNSF uses to haul Boeing 737 fuselages from Wichita Kansas to the 737 assembly plant in Renton WA. Used to see these somewhat regularly when I lived in Everett.

Great Job with Part 2. It’s safe to say that the majority of your Viewers have never seen or ever heard of these cars unless they’re Huge Railfans. Thanks! 👍🙏

The Dynamometer coach at the 6:08 mark is the one that recorded Mallard's run at 126mph. It was originally built for the North Eastern Railway in 1906 at Darlington and retired in 1954 and preserved. Dynamometer coaches had to be turned at the end of each run as the equipment could only record in that direction, something that computers don't need.

Well done on these videos! If you ever decide to make a part 3, then I recommend looking at the specialized caboose used by the original Auto-Train which was 75% car carrier and 25% caboose!

Absolutely fascinating! A lot packaged into 10 minutes. My compliments sir. Subscribing to your channel was one of my best choices in months.

AY, IT'S NILE RED!! At 2:48!!😁 That's a cool shoutout man. ^w^

nice to see a Ferromex locomotive in the video, it was a pleasant surprise

Great video. Really looking forward to seeing part 3!

Nice video! Loved hearing about the bromine tanker

really appreciate these. Can't wait for part 3! Don't think i've ever seen any of these, but i'll definitely keep an eye out.

If you ever do obscure locomotives, look into Haysi #1! A F7B given a little cab and turned into a switcher! Also Alaska Railroad 751, a one of a kind DMU!

This was a pretty good video! Part 3 Gang: | | \/

I love the way you pronounce English and I think the word "skid-steer" is a fantastic invention. It perfectly describes what it is: it steers by skidding.

I'm obsessed with your accent! Great stuff

Definitely one of the more educational, not to mention interesting as well, videos that I have seen recently. Thanks a ton ! James.

I'm not sure if you've talked about it yet, but the Whopper Hopper actually has competition, the Big John Grain Hoppers are about as big as the Whopper Hopper, and even made a rail ferry company sue the Southern over how massive they where, as far as I'm aware, a few are still in service, with one preserved alongside the Whopper Hopper

Very nice format, good info and content! The southern dialect is just the cherry on top. ;-)

Thanks for part two can’t wait for part three love all the different cars and their overview and what they are and carry.

Now we need part 3! Can't wait!

Cant wait for a part 3! If you got things in mind! Keep it up!

Now you need to make Part 3 that includes the DOTX Geometry boxcar! Also great job on this video, I enjoyed it

10:03 I'm reasonably confident the Nuclear Escort Caboose does not actually have a Phalanx CIWS.

Part 2 is every bit as good as the original. Great info, well edited...

How about a video about the Pugh transfer cars? Those are the bottle cars that carry molten iron from blast furnace, to the furnace that will finish the product into steel.

Love these videos, hope we can have a whole series. Maybe with railcars, wagons, etc from across the world?

The Whopper Hopper wasn't always in Spencer. It use to be in Rocky Mount NC. I actually caught it when CSX moved it.

Did anybody ever tell you you have one of the best voices I have ever heard? It's like the very personification of the South. Amazing voice, my man.

I just love your videos. I love the history about the railroad.

The Boeing cars used to haul fuselages from Kansas to Renton, Washington are impressive too. I've seen those navy cars in action!

Love your videos! "Big ups 👍 from Chicago "

Great job can't wait for part 3!

Very enjoyable. Please do a third video covering another 10, or maybe a video covering 10 obscure engines.

I love how the tiny cabooses are bigger than most guard vans

Great video full of great content. Thank you! I look forward to the next one.

For part 3 I’d suggest Taconite cars. They’re used in the north shore of Minnesota to haul iron ore pellets to the docks

You ought to do one about the trash train. (The _stinky_ train.) I'm not sure where it originates from, or where it eventually ends up, but i've seen in in PA, MD, and VA. I had the unpleasant experience of waking up to it parked in Pittsburgh's northside yard, on the track right behind my buddy's house. And it _stunk._

MAN, I love your videos. we have never seen those here in México, so im 100% interested in these rare railcars

We can stay here until next tuesday. Part 3 please!

Well done looking forward to the next😊

This is a really cool video and I enjoyed it alot.

I love his content. I am so entertained and informed by it❤

Great Video! If you plan on a part three may I suggest the BN's "Bopper Car", an aluminum boxcar that doubled as a covered hopper. Intended to haul Koalin clay one way and finished paper on the return route. It was even equipped with a walking floor. Three are preserved in Duluth, MN out of the 8 that were built. May I suggest a video of unique MOW equipment like Southern's Gravel Gertie ballast cleaner, Great Northern's big Sno-Melter, Bros Rotary Plow and the Julls and Mann-McCann spreaders.

Great video! I recently got to tour and do a video of the Amarillo, TX Railroad museum, and they have a couple of neat pieces there that aren't anywhere else in the US that I know of. One was a helium car and the other was the Pantex White Train. Either of those would be a good mention for a Part 3 of this series. - Jason

Awesome vid! Please make another one!

As a railcar fan I like this series quite a bit. Here are some other cars you may find interesting: FCA Dynastack: experimental skeleton body wellcar, it only lasted a few years until all were hurriedly removed from service and scrapped because the structure of the car was known to collapse mid train leading to a Dynastack shaped sandwich. JAC Grainporter 5400: A once fairly popular covered hopper which was built from aluminum built in the 90s. Many of the cars were scrapped after a little over a decade of service, so they are not as common for their age. Amtrak Metroliner cab car: Cab cars from the Metroliner high speed EMU sets were refurbished by Amtrak as cab cars for bi directional trains. They were built by Budd, who also built the successful Amfleet series of cars for Amtrak, and the cab cars shared the same exterior design so they fit in with the existing fleet and allowed reuse of obsolete equipment. BUDX 6250: Budd’s freight car affiliate Transit America built a one off 6250cf articulated covered hopper BUDX 6250. The car lasted for at least a decade but it probably scrapped. This car could be considered a spiritual predecessor to the infamous Budd/TA designed BFCC articulated flatcar most known for carrying EPIC sewage sludge containers. NP Big Pig Palace: 85’ long bi level livestock car, built by Ortner and are some of the largest livestock cars ever built. They were later converted to tie gons for BN.

Loved seeing my comment! What a great video. Looking forward to more of these

Just stumbled on your channel, your speaking voice is fantastic 👍

I love this topic. Thank you.

I'd love to see the cars used to transport ballistic missiles on navy bases, when I was a kid on Navy Base Bangor WA, I saw two of them sitting on the siding by our gas station, I'll never forget the huge white tubes with giant lettering say, "DO NOT HUMP, MISSILE ON BOARD", on the side. I imagine that specific car you'd probably only VERY rarely see, outside of the bases at Bangor and King's Bay, but dang if they aren't both obscure and interesting!

This was great..thanks!

I hope you're going to do another. Weird and quirky rolling stock is fascinating.

i’m happy you made this video

there's a Nuclear Boxcar at the Air Force Museum at WPAFB in Dayton, OH. It was ment to launch a nuke like the Soviet Union had all over. Its the only survivor of a scrapped program.

LOVE THIS CHANNEL, VERY COOL.

thank u 4 part 2 and doing the trough train

Yes, an informational video at best, but there was a short part that caught my eye. At timestamp 5:18 it shows you using a BNSF website restricted to BNSF engineers and conductors which is simply not acceptable. If you are a BNSF employee that I don’t know about, that is sure one way to get terminated from your job.

2:40 TF2 Heavy: "It is so tiny!"

This guy needs at least 1 mil subs

I love ten minutes of obscure rail cars can you do a part Three ?

Great job keep it up

Best Part 2 Southern Plains Railfan!

I have an HO model of a top-loading boxcar. Nice to hear the story behind it. I've also worked with the MILW dyno car at IRM, it's very interesting.

Love these video keep them coming

Oh I hope the navy caboose has a CIWS on it. That thing is biblical in it’s destructive power.

Very interesting! I did not know about a single one of these cars!

These are great video's. #subbed

0:51 i do appear to have spotted the V&SAR dynamometer car, as a VR fan, good choice 😂

I would like to personally Congratulate u on reaching 10k subscribers

5:43 basically it was like taking your cool race car to be tuned but is ready of going to the dyno shop the dyno shop comes to you

Great video

I enjoy your videos so much. One of my favorite things to do is see specialty cars. One thing though, that company you mentioned DOW… That’s pronounced similar to cow.

your awsome keep up the great railfan work dude and at makes everybody and you awsome

YES GIMMIE A PART 3!!!! Edit: live by main Dow facility and Am frequently along GLRR lines, will keep an eye out for your bromine tankers 😎

Awesome video! Norfork Southern 1071 is coming to Galesburg! You might want to see it.

nice video....thanks

Excellent video - should you do a part 3, how about mentioning helium transporters?

Cool video maybe you could do a part three

It would be cool if you could talk about event or special train paint schemes.

Never would have predicted the Navy would resurrect the caboose 🤯

The Navy has a train that goes from Howell NJ "Earl Naval base" to almost the middle of Raritan Bay.Years ago I would see the Nuke trains ship rockets to naval vessels they had Soldier's with sand bags and heavy 50 cal. machine guns set on several intermediate cars. It was very intimidating. lol...the rail is very private however several civilian properties backed up to it and I used to be a landscaper in my youth.

Those dynamometer cars must've been the pre-cursor to today's geometry cars. Every now and then you'll catch one by itself with a (typically holier-than-thou) crew on board that pretty much lives there being hauled by a single locomotive. DODX cars kinda rare and they all seem to have 3 axle bogeys. You can almost hear the bald eagles cry out seeing 100+ APC's roll down the line. BNSF has a boxcar converted into a climate-controlled classroom that gets parked in various cities to train First Responders in HazMat. It's quite plush. You could probably do a whole video on Maintenance of Way cars. The specially made flat cars that haul roadway equipment has a roll-up ramp in the back!

3:17 "Dow" rhymes with "How."

I actually have a model of the trough train and I’ll say it was one of the most difficult projects I’ve ever done but also there’s a section in Alabama I believe at a scrapyard still intact

Trough Train is awesome! I recently found some mechanical drawings, so I'm going to try and 3D print one in N-scale...

Fantastical Video true friend 😁

Amazing video

Awesome video and enjoyed watching. Have a very nice upcoming weekend.(Steve)

Can I ask for a oddball compilation of passenger cars next?

Love it. I really love trains, different ones too. Thomas is also a train, but do you really think locomotives have faces? (Don't think so)! Anyway, I saw biggest locomotives in the museum, trains back from the 1940s and 50s, SUPER-COOL! A old time train, that crashed into a wall, how interesting🤔😉. This is why locomotives are the coolest thing, nice

A part 3 next pls

That tiny tanker car, I've never seen one that small before😂

For part 3 may I recommend the rail cars that carry new rails, in full-length format? I have seen some go by, and the lengths of one piece rail they carry, presumably daisy-chained on shared bogeys like shipping container cars, is absolutely stupendous. I'd love to know more about them and the rails they carry. I have seen them on CN train and track in western Canada.

Southern Plains Railfan Love the video! One error I can't get over, however. "Dow" rhymes with "cow."

Don't think it was bromide but I remember railfanning in the mid 80s to early 90s there was a fairly small tank car that would come through the Milwaukee Road/Soo yards in Bensenville Illinois that rode on 6 wheel trucks so whatever it was was obviously a very dense and heavy commodity.

Awesome, a video. Can we get apart 3

That IDOX caboose was quite the whacky catch when I saw it. UP’s former Boy Scout unit and foreign NS power tied to it.

Very cool! I would be surprised however, if the navy mounted a CIWS cannon on the escort caboose. I suppose GE Miniguns could be supported?

Recently I saw a video about norislk, Russia, and it showed an odd use for dump cars, they were using it to carry small containers. Do you know if this use is common? I'll link the video if I can find it

Part 3 please!