They do the same thing down here in Central North Carolina. I have several Railfans who film the trains at the diamond in Selma, NC and cops seem always around visiting. I would love to see what they write in their reports, "People watching and filming, we know they are suspected terrorists, LOL, LOL." A Biden Admin quote from Homeland Security, LOL.

I had one check on me in Little Suamico WI a few weeks ago. Saw my truck on the side of the road and me sitting waiting.

Why are those RR employees so hateful

I once had a police officer stop to speak to me while trackside. Somebody had called in my presence worried I was planning “suicide by train”. I assured him I had no such intention so he wished me a good day and was on his way.

@@Bhil3 People today are plum crazy, horse sense went out the door when Biden walked in. LOL

It makes for a great screen shot though.. No worries. I take advantage of everything, it was either going to be that or the engineer waving.. ha ha Nice to see you again.

As an engineer while working the high speed double main line run betwedn Garret, IN and Willard, OH on the Chicago Divosion of the Great Lakes service lane, my train (60mph) passed an opposite direction train (60mph). In the oncoming train, far enough back from the train crew's visual onboard inspection, a flat car, ladden with huge steel I-beams came unsecured. One of those I-beams turned sideways on the car, overhanging my main line. We slammed into it at nearly 120mph impact, causing significant damage to my locomotive and several cars in their train. Imagine if someone had been walking the main with their back to that car. It would've decapitated them.

Correct. My GCOR manual says 2 longs, short, long. I’m a former UP conductor from Arkansas. Survived the head on Hoxie train crash of 2014.

Law is to start the horn sequence AT the whistle post, of at least 2-longs, a short, and a long, prior to occupying the crossing. Depending on the maximum authorized speed of the track, the post could be between 1,200 and 1,500ft. At slower speeds (less than max auth speed) the bell must be activated at the post, and the horn sequense at the engineers discretion so long as the minimal L-L-S-L sequence can be achieved before the crossing is reached with the last blast lasting until the entire crossing is covered. -CN locomotive engineer.

Search for videos of the former Maumee and Western if you want to see some bad tracks.

In 2004-2008 they were pretty common on UP through freight between Chicago & Dallas/New Orleans. I was a conductor for UP and in that time frame they ran lots of leased power on their trains as well as their own. The SD70M and GE 44ACCTE became the most common on trains after that.

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I lived in Wauwatosa on the west side of Milwaukee across Underwood creek from the MILW main and I can tell you it wasn't in much better shape. Had a big wreck in '77 from a car that had been off the rails for 2 miles and piled up 47 cars into a 4 story heap down in the village along State street. One empty covered hopper got sandwiched between 2 loads and compacted down to about 4 feet and was glowing red when I got there. That wreck wiped out both mains and a siding for about 1/2 mile and kept the main out of action for 3 days. By '79 that 80mph main was rated for 35.

@@poowg2657 yes sir, what a mess! With the slow track speed, not too many cars came off the track where we were. But some kids accidentally set fire to the timber bridge lighting fireworks on the deck on July 4, 1978 down at McKenna on the Nisqually River bridge. The inspector ok'd it after the fire was out. It survived a little over a month until a train out of Portland ran a section of copper concentrate from the Southern Pacific over it. The bridge collapsed and the spilled concentrate poisoned the river clear to Puget Sound. Then in '79, Wednesday night before Thanksgiving, the engineer had a Portland train heading south (Railroad West) going what sounded like a little over 30mph on 10mph slow order track when there was a long crash and bang. He managed to get a 100 ton Pullman hopper mid train to bury its front trucks into the dirt and run 13 cars behind it into a huge pile. That was their last major derailment before the 1980 Embargo of Lines West and I guess they wanted to exit with a hum dinger. I sure miss the Milwaukee, though. It's hard to believe they've been gone from the west 42 years!

I hear ya stephen. I like the Milwaukee Road so much I got married in the cab of of MILW 265 and it was my wife's idea!

@@poowg2657 that's great!

@@poowg2657 Lucky man, to have such an understanding girlfriend/wife!

I appreciate that!

Horsepower is horsepower... Big railroads were forced to transition to modern equipment to meet the ever-changing air quality standards. Granted, big equipment changes in how little stuff is made so everything is better, but in the end, it all boils down to horsepower and traction effort. Now if you want to talk about fuel economy between an SD40-2 and an SD70ACe, well that's a way different story...

If all you could buy was real furniture there would be a lot of empty houses.

@@douglasskaalrud6865 I buy most of my furniture second hand from thrift stores. I bought a $1200 Pulaski curio cabinet from Habitat Restore for $75, delivered! Solid wood, lighted, full plate glass front and it will easily outlive me.

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@ John Harpster,I worked with a Bob Harpster at CSX.Any relation?

@@akaray3524 ???? Probably distant.

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railroads think they are a police state.

Don't trucks own the roads.

Railroads never use 'volunteers' in day-to-day operations.

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He has no idea about railroading, just sits and bitches about them. People working. Sad, really.

This man has good advise I see more and more of the rail fans donning those greenish-yellow vests, because sometimes we blend in with the back ground for what ever reason and it can startle an engineer and he may put the train in emergency and run the risk of derailment, I've seen some videos by others that just that happened.

James, thank you for your service!

Very good advice.

He has go through his channel videos. Their are a couple in their from a while back.

All the time.

Dumped a load of wood here and there...been saying it for some time.

More than likely the crew ran out of time and could not legally work any longer. 14-hour days do get to you in the end.

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Hardwood goes one way for one type of end product, and softwood goes the other way for a different type of product. Cars are owned/leased and are held in captive service for the owner/lessee. So they can only be loaded for the owner/lessee's needs.

TREE mendous thought but it WOOD nt be accurate