I am European, but I like American trains, especially freight trains. You make what I think of as a train ;) If the air brake and the length of the tracks were not limited, you would make them even longer. Besides, I have the feeling that here a philosophy of simplicity prevails, freely after the motto "Keep it simple" as we say here. This technique together with the scenery of the western USA fascinate me. Thank you for the beautiful shots around the bottleneck! :)

You know how you tell a great railfan video? It puts you to sleep... really! I woke up to this one several times: Magnificent!

Awesome video as usual. I really like your work, no unnecessary chit chat and no goofy music! Thank you.

Fantastic shots. Loved watching your video. Excellent.

Thanks x sharing ...love this . Greetins from Italy.

Excellent video. It's a rather spectacular change of scenery going from the Cascades out into the volcanic lands to the east. It stretches all the way down to northern California border.

Enjoy each one of your videos! A pleasure to watch. Thank you! ☺️

MBMars absolutely loved this video. The train leaving the tunnel I could not help but notice how close the two containers were very close to the top of the tunnel. I loved the train with the tank cars going up the mountain beautiful site. Captain obvious here I can see why they call it the Scenic Route. It must be nice getting out of the heat in Georgia. Thanks so much for the video

Man, what a cool video! Pumpkins, a war bonnet and the cascade tunnel.Loved seeing how the tunnel works.The scenery certainly is fantastic!! Thanks for sharing!

Wow, amazing scenery, informative, and such good picture quality. Loved it.

The definition of railroading in the mountains! Awesome video and shots!

Fantastic video. Well done. Some great scenery you’ve captured. Appreciate those well cars too. Thanks for sharing. 🚂

Nice video and I liked the titles you added. Makes watching the video a learning experience also. The last time I visited the tunnel, the old signs were still above the portals. The new ones are okay but the old ones were historic. During the construction of the new line running up to the tunnel, the old Scenic Hot Springs Hotel was razed. There are photos showing the buildings with the new line being constructed pretty much in front of it. I believe a temporary trestle was erected and fill was dumped over it's sides to create the new grade. There is an article in the G.N. Goat (Great Northern Historical Society publication) about a family living in Scenic in 1927 during the construction of the new tunnel. Being that there was an actual town named Scenic, I assume that's where the "sub" got it's name.

To call it a bottleneck is an understatement. Fantastic video by the way!

Exceptional video. From the scenes, to the editing to the locations and the descriptions, love your videos. Hope to see your version of The Feather River Route. 👍👍👍👍👍

What a lovely house by the edge of the river in the shot looking across the river! A real little green oasis in a rugged landscape. .

Would really like to see the engineer’s view through the tunnel

Great stuff , Love the location too !

At 19:45 some explanation is needed here. This is Pioneer Tunnel, which runs parallel to the main tunnel for about six miles and was used during construction in the 1920s to allow for much faster movement of rock and equipment during the record-breaking tunnel construction. There are crosscuts about every 1500 feet between it and the main tunnel, and a large stream has been pouring out of its mouth since construction was completed. Pioneer Tunnel partially caved in a couple decades ago, and there is now a steel door across the mouth of it to prevent entry. The steel door has a small air space at the top, and a small space at the bottom to allow the water to run out. West of the cave-ins, at least one of the crosscut doors is still open, and when an eastbound train enters the tunnel against the force of a fan blowing, there is a piston effect, and when a train gets to a point about a mile in, it produces a very strong air pressure into Pioneer Tunnel. The only way for the air to escape out of Pioneer Tunnel is through the gaps around the door, and the air blows through the water and produces a spray that you see that goes a distance of about 20 feet as shown, which is mostly water spray and not smoke. The piston effect is more pronounced with stack trains. This spraying usually lasts for several minutes. Prior to 1966, ventilation was controlled by the station operator at Scenic. Engine emissions used to be much more smokey in those days, and when an eastbound train had left the tunnel and both fans were running to blow out the smoke, it was quite a sight at the west end. One day a passerby saw this and came running into the depot to announce, "The tunnel is on fire!"

Great footage bud! Skykomish is a beautiful town and I cant wait to one day visit the Cascades!

Excellent videography...many thanks. I’ve never seen the diesel fumes being expelled from the Cascade tunnel....like you videoed ...ever before at the western tunnel portal. It illustrates the ventilation problem exceedingly well. I have subscribed. Rob, in Bournemouth, South Coast of England.

dear Friend love it. Really enjoyed. Thumbs up. Wishing you good health and beautiful Time. God bless you.

Another amazing video, I knew the tunnel was up there but I didn’t know it was the longest one in the US, plus how it vents is pretty cool. Thanks for that info.

I’m a CSX fan but it’s hard to beat that BNSF color scheme. Beautiful photography and location. Thanks for posting.

Great camera work, fantastic locations and informative text, nice work

Great catches so so very cool!!! Very very lucky!!! And nice 776

Theses mountain locations are amazing

thanks a lot to share. Very intereresting your info abuot the tunnel.

❤️ It. Beautiful scenery, too.

Awesome video and I LOVE THE INTRO!

Amazing! I truly believe that the US and Canada have been blessed with the most gorgeous scenery of any other country!

Looks like you were there either the day that Virtual Railfan started their live webcam or a couple days after. I remember for the first few days that the rail grinder was sitting in the siding in SkyKomish, WA. Great video none-the-less

Awesome video love it

Cool video,MBMars01!!

Great video

WONDERFUL video! Been thru the tunnel a couple of times on Amtrak.

awesome catches.

Beautiful video.

and another great video of you ! my dream is, one day, that I will stand there myself taking pictures … but I'm afraid I will stay a dream :(

Great video that tunnel is really cool

Super Video 👍👍👍

Very satisfying to watch

Beautiful.

I suppose James J. Hill would be proud to see his namesake train still Rollin all these years after the "Dissapearin Rairoad Blues".

Nice catches of the trains.

In one scene in the video you identified the train with only tanks cars as being an ethanol train. Usually those trains are empty Bakken crude oil trains going back to the oil fields from refineries in Washington State. The full ones go from Spokane southwest to Pasco on the old Spokane, Portland, and Seattle Railroad tracks then follow the Columbia River to Vancouver where they head north to the refineries. This routing is also done for coal trains going to the power plant in Centralia, Washington, or for trains going to the coal loading facility at Roberts Bank, British Columbia.

Nice video!

11:11 4580 is in H3 paint a wreck rebuild after it derailed into a river in Wyoming in 2010.

Terrific catches! Their is a Virtual railfan cam located at the city before Cascade Tunnel.

Worked for Roadway (nowYRC), forr 18 yrs here in SLC,UT

Great video. It looks exactly like that on train simulator.

that was awesome and how that tunnel go full power to get all the exhaust out that was impressive

Awesome Job

Why would somebody dislike these awesome perfect videos it makes me sad that people dislike his videos but this comment is by your truly fan me :) i just love your videos

As always.....great video shots......probably the closest I’ll ever get

Here is how you decrease the bottleneck at the tunnel = blow air into the tunnel from the middle of the tunnel (central ventilation shaft). That way there is no need for those ventilation doors to close as air will be blown out of BOTH tunnel openings at the same time. And this means that the blower can be in operation even when there is a train in the tunnel, so the tunnel will be filled with clean air as the train is passing through it, no need to close the doors and wait.

Excellent video, what happened to the east-side of Cascade Tunnel...in the 1990's there were fences, warning-lights and alarms (kind of like a James Bond movie) when a train was coming.

In BritishColumbia,Canada,MountMcDonald Tunnel in the RogersPass is 14 kilometres long, which converts to 10 miles long, that seems to be2.2 miles longer.Maybe some of you should come and have alook at it .

Really impressive.

Love video sr

19:49 I didn't know the train made that much smoke! you are right about the emission reduction! we need more Tier 4's. imagine how much white smoke would be coming out from the vent if a train with a blown turbo went through there

i like the checkers pattern on the humongous tunnel gate

@mbmars01 The west portal of the Cascade Tunnel is on the Cascade Highway.

BNSF my favorite Company ☺️

hope you got to see the great northern and cascade railway in skykomish

donc je suis obliger d allez au U S pour voir de superbe train avec des convoi démesuré !

Is that the sound of the train doorstop siren ...? equal means in Indonesia there is a sound of the doorstop like that too This locomotive is really cool 4 2 at the front 2 on the back original cool .. wow .... thank you vidoenya my child loves it

Seems some rather tight clearances. I hope there's a signal inside the tunnel interlocked with the door .. I wonder if it would have been more cost-effective to continue with electrification, even if it would have meant a small dedicated fleet and changing power ?

Well, there weren't many visionaries in the rail biz around 1980 when MILW went down the tubes, and took Snoqualmie tunnel with it. Then BN shut down Stampede pass. Are we seeing a pattern of lost opportunity here?

Awesome footage THUMBS UP! I was able to visit this scenic area in may 2019 and agree - it is scenic! Btw what camera did you use for this video?

I like train videos videos on KZfaq 👍

Great video, too bad you couldn't have gotten one of the BNSF trains hauling the Boeing 737 bodies from the Spokane plant going to the Boeing main assembly plant, they are impressive coming ot of the tunnels.

24:42 - 27:29 shows that you don't need to be track side in order to get a great video. As usual great videos.

I have round tripped the tunnel (As a Hobo) interesting.

If anyone noticed, the tops of those intermodal cars BARELY scrapped through ! maybe 2' of clearance in the corners ??? you can see it best right when the engines come out of the tunnel dang

23:11 What was that bizarre sound coming from on 6379? (I know I've heard it before)

Why do they leave one tunnel fan on for the eastbound trains heading inside the tunnel as well exiting unlike westbounds?

David went through the tunnel on Amtrak.

Do you know if the RR had to do any special track work at the Cascade tunnel so the double stacks get thru? I noticed that some of the seemed to have VERY close clearances coming out of the tunnel! Trainnut1958 🇺🇸🚂🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🇺🇸

Great video, as all yours are! If I'm not mistaken, there is another large exhaust located above the tunnel. And maybe you can answer this question. On any train, that goes through a long tunnel, how do the crew in the cab keep the exhaust out of the cab? Are the sliding windows, in the cab, really sealed well enough, to keep out the exhaust? I've been on long passenger trains, but not through tunnels. I think the passenger cars are sealed, well enough, to keep most fumes out? Or, do the exhaust fans keep running at a lower speed, when a train goes through? Some shorter tunnels don't have the exhaust system. I guess my question, has man guess different answers, depending on the tunnel. I guess my question can also apply to cars going through longer tunnels as well. Exhaust systems probably in place on the longer tunnels. I may have let out the beast with these questions!

but why close the one side door when a train enters the tunnel? does this create some vacuum effect?

22:54 bnsf 6379 with the look

great footage if you could get an official tour tunnel vent system and video that would be wild.

I hate how they covered up the old text on the west portal that said "cascade tunnel" with that other sign, I hope they remove it.

THIS GOT SMOKE AND WIND

i just took rode the empire builder through that tunnel, i timed it, took 15 minutes to go throught it. Curious what happens if a train goes in emergency in that tunnel?

From cascade route super

How do they control the end DPU’s when they go through these tunnels ? Surely radio control would not work?

General railroading question. Is there any rhyme or reason as to which engine leads, is 2nd or 3rd, or ends up DPU?

Nice this is why they need to send these empty unit trains over Stampede Pass, Stampede can't take double stacks only unit trains and plate E or below car manifest train. The nice thing with Stampede it's only a 2 mile tunnel and it doesn't have the bottleneck issue like Stevens.

I would love to see that in person someday. What I want to know, if that is the "new" tunnel, where is the old one, or did they just modify the old one. Awesome video, keep up the good work :-)

I wonder how those reefer cars run towards the back of the consist???

It's off topic, but in the last few minutes, what was that station we see briefly on the left? It had several automotive lanes, a flag, etc. Toll booth?

Very Nice!! Whats your intro music!? I love it!!

next time you come out this way let me know and we can get you train symbols and show you some of the more remote areas to shoot from.

@5:38 - An H3 C-44 followed by an H2 GEVO? Weird.

Since the tunnel has a ventilation system, why can't another train go thru once the previous train has vacated the tunnel?

What if, and (likely when) the ventilation system, in whole or in part fails, with an active train inside?

After that head down to California and go to up roseville sub and elvas jct.and binney jct.

Why vents and fans in tunnel? Does the heat accumulate and stall the engines or something?