Cold, rainy afternoon/evening railfanning Fredericksburg. Amtrak, VRE, CSX. 11/15/22

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Retired Railfan Horn Guy

Жыл бұрын

Entertaining 3 hours at the station. Lots of action plus an Auto Train surprise!!!!

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@mmanisr22 Жыл бұрын

Looks like with the Meteor being back they cut the Star's consist in half. Good Video as always

@RockRunTA Жыл бұрын

A little Fxbg love. Great video .

@scottyerkes1867 Жыл бұрын

Awesome video. Fredericksburg is really quite busy. Thanks Tim for braving the cold rain.😀💚

@3985uprr Жыл бұрын

It was getting harder later

@scottyerkes1867 Жыл бұрын

@@3985uprr Oh I am sure. The rain in Philly was getting intense too

@tyhik9338 Жыл бұрын

Gotta love the VRE

@joshuatrower1698 Жыл бұрын

Ah, nice to see you making it down South. You need to get to Raleigh to ride the Piedmont with its beautiful heritage coaches. Cary, NC is a good place for morning passenger action (92, 80, 75).

@dawdawes Жыл бұрын

Super stuff, a nice change . You had rain like we have had in Lancashire for the last few days

@toy4x4nj Жыл бұрын

I was just in Fredericksburg last month! took Amtrak from Philadelphia for an overnight stay. than next day down to Richmond for a few days. Fredericksburg is a nice little town to visit.

@montyb10009 Жыл бұрын

Excellent video!

@paulnewman2778 Жыл бұрын

Can’t wait to see you do railfanning with some snow

@TheBronxFanner Жыл бұрын

Right? Railfannning with snow is awesome.

@raymondmuench3266 Жыл бұрын

Sorry you didn’t have better weather. Miserable in Richmond, too.🌧

@bezuglich Жыл бұрын

Wow, 200 yards of platform and one bench - Boondoggle!

@jbreezy101 Жыл бұрын

I was there this summer

@loocpoc Жыл бұрын

Interesting consists on the auto train. I wonder if it's bringing a lot of folks back who got stuck when Nicole hit. Many good memories of going to Fredericksburg to watch the nationals minor league team with my oldest son and watching him play there a couple of times with his traveling team. I never rail fanned Fredericksburg because the parade of trains usually passed my office at L'Enfant Plaza when we lived in DC. I usually see the CSX train as it passes by my house on the old Reading Railroad New York short line. I wish someone would clean the graffiti off of the Tropicana refrigerator cars (and also bring back the orange boxcars)

@JoeyLovesTrains Жыл бұрын

CRE V69 sure sounds like he’s got a rod knocking

@jimb604 Жыл бұрын

Welcome to Virginia!

@3985uprr Жыл бұрын

Great state.

@TheBronxFanner Жыл бұрын

Didn't know the Auto Train would make an appearance. Nice catch!

@3985uprr Жыл бұрын

I expected SB one. I’ll take it.

@AuroraPerformance 9 ай бұрын

I was just scrolling through youtube and saw this on my home page and it reminded me so much of my childhood. I would beg my parents to take me to train station just to see the trains pass through. Got hit with a wave of nostalgia and I genuinely really appreciated it. I know that wasn't the intention of your video, but thank you so much for that.

@ronaldballew3122 Жыл бұрын

Hello Love your videos Love how your videos begin with so many trai. Horns, I love train Horns, Also your videos are so educational. I lived in New York for four years. I rode the train on a regular basis, Brother Ron Train nerd

@TyDeSimone Жыл бұрын

Pretty sure most of M410's train going to Selkirk becomes M426's train that goes to Worcester(Autoracks and some general freight), Ayer(more freight added to it, doubling the train), and then Portland Maine(Terminus)

@EasternSeaboardProductions Жыл бұрын

also the M701/M704 consists

@steve-o981 Жыл бұрын

My last year in the Marines ('68) I was stationed at Quantico and took the train to DC Union Station round-trip two or three times a week, and then walked to Georgetown where my sister lived. Can't remember what the name of the railroad was at that time. Never went south so missed the Fredericksburg Station and beyond. If I wasn't staying for the weekend it was a challenge to make it to Union Station in time for the last train back from DC to Quantico as I recall LOL.

@steve-o981 Жыл бұрын

In all those years of taking the Pennsy, New Haven, Erie, LIRR, etc. as a matter of course for "transportation" during childhood and up through age 21 when I migrated West to Colorado after my time in the service, I never thought of it as something to explore beyond simply enjoying the rides and scenery (and my nice little set of American Flyer toy electric trains.) What I'd give now to have that time and freedom to explore things back East as a rookie railfan. Second best is following this KZfaq channel!

@nathanjiang100 Жыл бұрын

Great catches! A shame you didn't get any of the heritage units down there, there's a ton of them! I think Amtrak P42s # 160, 161, 130, 184, and 203 are all down there and 46, 100, 145, and 108 are based out of New Haven currently. Also, Carolinian 79 has gotta be the best train to take from NY to DC. I took it down there in September once and we were early to every station. Plus it doesn't make stupid stops like Metropark or New Carrollton, and I was able to get a seat on it for just $26 with the 15% student discount.

@3985uprr Жыл бұрын

I hate those 2 bit stops. This guy was rolling. 3:14 hours NY-DC. Very fast for non Acela.

@nathanjiang100 Жыл бұрын

@@3985uprr yeah our run down was similar, I think it was 3 hrs 15 mins but we sat in Baltimore for 10 mins but my fastest DC - NY run ever on a non-Acela was actually on the NB Carolinian we did it in 2 hrs 59 mins! Arrived at NYP 50 mins early, but we didn’t have to dwell at stations because the train doesn’t have to meet a schedule after DC.

@tyhik9338 Жыл бұрын

They're like Metra's cousins Lol

@CTrail1711 Жыл бұрын

Can this be? A late Auto Train?

@yasnac7576 Жыл бұрын

Are those green and orange containers garbage or waste from incinerators? Some nice artwork 2 😉

@JimAllen-Persona Жыл бұрын

I could go for some German food right about now. Not many good German places left on Long Island. 33 car carriers on the Auto train? Wow. Wonder how many of those are deadheading?

@3985uprr Жыл бұрын

Restaurant food was delicious.

@gregorytaylor240 Жыл бұрын

Woah where did that Late auto train come from I was not expecting to see that

@JimAllen-Persona Жыл бұрын

I checked the status - Autotrain left Lorton 9:39 PM southbound. No reason why - just delayed.

@gregorytaylor240 Жыл бұрын

@@JimAllen-Persona oh

@3985uprr Жыл бұрын

@@JimAllen-Persona Northbound was very late so turn is delayed as a result.

@JimAllen-Persona Жыл бұрын

@@3985uprr You did say that 😂😂 Still jealous about the German food. You’re lucky to get sauerbraten these days.

@3985uprr Жыл бұрын

@@JimAllen-Persona I didn’t have any

@dccavalier Жыл бұрын

I’ve ridden the auto train a few times, but I take it there’s not enough extra cars either passenger or auto racks as backups to run when a train is that late. The one that passed you I’m thinking had to be at least 7 hours late

@3985uprr Жыл бұрын

About 5 and 1/2

@kevinhoward9593 Жыл бұрын

Carolinian lost its baggage car?

@MSRTA_Productions Жыл бұрын

Shortage until further notice

@andrewdutton3831 Жыл бұрын

Guess VRE doesn't do high platforms....anywhere.

@3985uprr Жыл бұрын

Not with those cars.

@massbytrainmpw Жыл бұрын

This line runs left handed?

@3985uprr Жыл бұрын

It does often to accommodate the outbound VRE trains which use platforms that are mostly on the east side of the tracks. When the VRE trains aren’t running, they run right handed pretty much.