Jeez, that was one twisted firestarter. Props to the firefighters, and the lawmen for hauling him in.

30:11 Rest in peace Santa Fe Warbonnets. You have served well over the years 😥. Thank you VRF for sharing that sad moment with us

12:07 I'm glad they got that guy who started those small fires in Tucson. What was he thinking though, seriously?!?

Good job and well done to the Tucson Cats for alerting the Police and Fire Departments. Crawling under or climbing thru a stationary Train is a typical DC trick, - but forcing a Train to an E-stop just to post pics on their Face-ache page, 'hey everybody, look at us and what we did. Aren't we clever, OK Ya', - as the Hooray Henrys in the UK would say - is completely unforgivable. That was a fantastic Grab Bag, especially that last scene of the BNSF Locos. It just shows that nothing ever lasts forever. Thank you VRF.

Those cats clearing the area 🙀🙀🙀 as firebug was beginning is a point of interest; especially as I look at the two orange tabby fellows here peacefully snoozing before severe weather begins this afternoon.

There are Darwin Candidates you can forgive (like the Amtrak passenger in Ashland that found himself on the wrong side of the station), and then there are Darwin candidates (the oblivious group in Chehalis & the "firebug" in Tucson) that deserve or got a shipping container full of karma.

0:12 11-unit power move 1:08 Amtrak's Carl Sandburg with new Siemens Venture coaches. They've been having trouble with getting the whole fleet to work well. 2:40 One locomotive in the front, one in the middle, and one at the rear. (usually referred to as 1x1x1 power) Each unit from a different railroad. 3:16 Conrail and Chessie System boxcars and long flatcars 5:03 UP 1996 6:07 quite a good-sized aircraft parts train 6:50 UP yellow K&O unit 7:47 autorack with no screens! I saw one myself on the 15th 8:00 person passing UNDER the stopped Amtrak! 8:28 idits taking a picture in front of an oncimg train! At least find one that's on display at a park or museum. Crew should've called them back if they managed to stop. 9:36 start of the arson bushfire in Tucson. 15:05 12 unit lash-up with BNSF, KCS, Ferromex, and UP power 16:24 concrete ties and old freight cars on this train 17:32 A good shot of the River Runner turning around at SFJ. Every day its turning pattern changes and the last time I was there my view of it was blocked by a freight train. 18:03 wow, Cotton Belt boxcar. 18:11 UP 2002 Salt Lake Olympic unit and KLWX 8520 AC44C6F 18:31 BS 4703 again 21:16 export locomotives to Bangladesh 22:07 10-unit power move 22:25 SP gray leading a K&O train 23:00 Amtrak 161 "arrow", a horizon car, and two extra P42s trailing on the Southwest Chief 25:55 private cars on the Lake Shore Limited 29:04 BNSF GEVO replaced the lead P42 on the Coast Starlight 29:33 H2 B40-8Ws 879 and 885, gensets 1251 and 1238, H2 dash 8s 883, 905, and 917, warbonnet dash 9s 921, 874, 946, H3 dash 8 947, and warbonnet dash 8 942. Hopefully one of those dash 8s can be saved for a museum as 910 is the one in my profile pic and it hasn't been seen since 2019.

I wish this channel would divide all these clips into chapters or at least timestamps in the comment section or description. Anyways, I used to do loss prevention and we had a fire on the back side of the store which was just a grassy area and a retention pond so I looked back on the camera footage and found out it was started by someone and recognized it as a homeless guy who would come into that store and stay around that part of town so I forwarded the video to the state fire marshals office and I didn't see the homeless man for a long time afterwards. I never understood what goes through people's minds that like starting fires.

All those deer at the bank must have been looking for a few bucks! 🤣

ah the mystery of why Amtrack is always late is solved - because the conductors are super nice people and actually wait for passengers :)

When I saw them cross the tracks with their hoses I thought of the Three Stooges film where they rolled the hoses out over trolley tracks, and a trolley cut them neatly into pieces.

Great stop by Tucson Fire 🔥, quick apprehension by FD. I wondered what those cats thought. I hope through good internet searches those trespassers make the mistake of sharing those photos.

Amazing footage and some really beautiful shots. Thanks for curating these reels.

Love seeing the EX-Citi Rail Units and especially being used as a DPU. 👍🙏

VRF:Come for the trains and Darwin Awards candidates and stay for the kitties

Thank you camera and the person that called it in. I hope they keep him

Note at 2:35 that the Amtrak Midwest started accelerating away from the station while one of the steps was not retracted.

Great catch on fire bug in Tucson. Thanks to your video they should be able to prosecute.

God bless our fire brigades!

That mountain range seen from Hesperia has peaks over 11 thousand feet tall!

Fort Madison and the deer. You missed the joke. The deer are at the bank because they're trying to get a few bucks...

Another good video ! Just finished watching Roman's Milwaukee Roads videos of Wisconsin and Southern trains and now I'm here for more. 😊

21:15 Roanoke looks like our 4 "Bangladesh?" units heading for Norfolk area port for overseas shipment?

20:40 - Always good to see Swift containers on a train, not threatening us on the highway.

If that wasn't bad enough at 8:04 in Ashland was that at 8:26 in Chehalis the meeting of the "Darwin Society Annual Convention"!?!

Been a while since I watched the Bag! Awesome content guys!!

Followed by VRF cam operator the whole time. So it's... Hello 911. What do you wish to report? 911, I am the cam operator for Tucson VRF camera at the Amtrak station and Museum. There is a guy starting fires across the track. I have him on camera doing this right now! 911 operator: we are sending police force and fire fighters right now! 😂😂😂😂😂 Great job on the cam!!!😊

Ducking under a train nonchalantly like it’s a duck under layout has to be the wildest thing I’ve seen lol. Edit: there is a lot going on in this edition lol

I feel bad for the train crew those people aren't very smart risking their lives like that for a photo

1:09 the new Siemens coaches really do look good.

3:21 nice Chessie boxcars! Haven't seen any of those in a while.

At 09:47 the cat running from what is going on in Tucson.

Another great video VRF .

There was a time back in the Conrail era that Elkhart was crazy busy after dark. NS tho runs totally different traffic patterns now w/PSR.

Brilliant train compilation!!

Your opening shot reminds me of San Bernadino derailment tragedy. Don't ask me why. It just does. Was a reporter at the time. Have never forgotten it even before East Palestine.

Never a dull moment in Tucson. . .

Great CCTV camera 🎦 operator great catch. You should get award. Use CCTV for evidence in court outstanding 👏👏👏👏

On the 18th I was in elkhart and saw a crewman get out of the cab to wave a small flag at me and some other railfans. Also got shave + a hair cut from a different train. It was fun seeing myself on VR for a third time!

Great job on the firetard but I would've thrown him in his handiwork.

Hey Firebug smile, you are on Virtual Camera!

10:00 *What goes through the head of a person who does this? Thankfully, the firefighting was efficient.*

Wow wow 😮

Love seeing those Chessie boxcars. You don’t seem to see much Chessie era rolling stock anymore

Those cats were running for a reason...I'm sure that awful firebug scared them to death.

02:05, those guys forgot their sofa and big TV..😂

21:15 They have that 'new car smell' to them. Fresh off the show room floor. Nice!

The waving engineer at 5:52 makes me happy.

Those four Santa fe engines at the end have seen better days for sure. Great video, even with the arsonist going to jail. What a putz.

22:22 Ft Mad deer stopping by the 24 hr ATM?

Love the faded war bonnets

I know I can't be the only one who was waiting on a train to come and cut the firehose apart there at Tucson. Wouldn't be the first that's happened!

Great video as always

great video bro

It looked as if the Tucson firebug was trying to get arrested. Luckily, no real damage was done as only underbrush burned.

New York central heritage unit

i have been to that station and it has a really cool steam train on display, the shops have food that is pretty good just a bit expensive (im cheap lol) also they are not open most of the time. the architecture of the train station is really well done but its not a place you wanna hang around because in that part of town there is sooo much crime.

5:55 to the train guy on the NS you’re the best! ❤

That is a crazy fire ever, I hope everyone is okay after the fire in Tuscon

5:32 The dynamic brakes were working overtime on those engines

Great job to the officers for nabbing him, and as always kudos to the fire crew for a quick and efficient extinguish!

Are the warbonnets in the last clip on their way to being scrapped? Also very nice to see the gensets still exist on BNSF

19:18 Rock and roll 😅🤣😂

those Santa Fe engines have seen some things dude

You've got a lot of live camera feeds to keep track of for these grab bags. Do people alert you to things happening on your cameras? Or do they send you clips of things they saw?

If I didn't know the Tucson firebug clip was later in the video I'd have thought the group taking photos ON THE TRACK with a TRAIN COMING would have been the highlight of this video. Oh my word the stupidity!!

9:37 Cats sense danger

Those old war horses look like they were being put out to pasture. I almost felt like putting my hat over my heart and bowing my head.

You should put a Virtual Railfan camera in Long Bridge Park in Arlington, VA

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21:28, the mystery locomotives continue their journey across the eastern half of America! I caught and filmed that train on 3/16/23 in Columbus, OH. It is uploaded on my channel. It would be great if VRF could get us information on this train.

16:00 That's a lot of engines. Are they all working or are some of them just being transported. Here in Florida, we usually have 2 to 3 engines and sometimes another in the middle for distributed power

The Firebug just wanted a better view of the New MacIovio Barraza Parkway traffic from his desktop monitor while watching Tucson Virtual Rail Cam. Good stop by the Tucson Fire Dept. & Tucson Police Dept.

11:48 Someone appears to have stopped to look at this crazy guy setting that particular fire

good work coppers

Nice train meet in Hesperia

24:34 astonishing

Nice caught the creep

28:10 Pelican rush hour. They migrate spring & fall thru Ft. Madison along the Mississippi River for good fishing.

6:31:56 thats no moon its a space station ...

I wonder how many other ``saboteurs`` are out causing these derailments. Keep on with your vids, we will catch them sooner than later hopefully.

hello virtual railfan its is randy and i like yours video is cool thanks friends randy

The fact that the CSX OCS going south on I025 isn’t on here is disappointing as that happened on Saturday.

You have GOT to be kidding me! I have a reason to believe people are sabatoging railroad tracks and property. Glad they caught him.

29:34 Old school BNSF engines

It's good they got that guy

From Auburn, NY

19:51 I'd love to join your team... But... I'll stay retired for now...

8:29 😂

At around the 22:00 mark, those wrapped locomotives are going somewhere across the pond to Europe.

Be nice if some of those C40-8Ws went to a Museum or Shortline

7:49 "Look Ma, no sides!" Well, I can verify it's a bi-level car.

surprised it's not on the news

I was watching the Ashland cam when the woman went under the train. Before that she and the man were kissing on the tracks. My reaction after she went under the train was "Did I just see that?" Tge real kicker though was she never actually got on the train. I don't if the conductor wouldn't let her or it wasn't her train.

25:40 Amtrak whistle sounding good! What kind of whistle?

The mystery locomotives seen passing through Roanoke, VA were destined for Europe. You could tell this by the fact that they were all equipped with Europen-style buffers

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Yeah firebug Frank

What's up with all the military trains? Almost every night we see loaded flats with tanks and support equipment. I don't remember seeing as many of these in the past.

17:38 i cant stop hearing that horn