I feel its only us railfans that have the brains on what to do around trains.

The Darwins are going to keep it up until their luck runs out.

I was wondering when I was going to see those.. those FE Trading high wall gondolas at 10:26.. I had a hand in making those about a month ago. Crane operator; I move the end walls along the assembly line to have their various parts welded on. One end wall of those gondolas weights just shy of 3000lbs. Sitting on my lunch break watching this.. then back to moving more end walls. For another contract but same style of car. Also making TTX articulated well cars and hoppers for Richardson. Already been tagged as well, lol.

Fe Trading- A very IRONic Group! Bad pun! Thank you 😇 😊!

14:53 looks like the artwork for a Lionel catalog. They always illustrate the headlight beams like that. Cool ! 👍👍👍

The town of La Grange and the railroad should look into a safety awareness campaign. In most industries, strings of near-misses almost always lead to damaged equipment and even injuries or death.

Squaw Creek! @ 1:22 The coal mine is exhausted, but some of the rolling stock endures along with the power plant and aluminum smelter that it once fed.

ROYAL S*IT! Say what? Oh, ROYAL SMIT. My eyes decieved me. 😅 A cool collection of neat freight. And can someone explain the big locomotive moves?

0:06 Rio Grande hopper, although you didn't pause for it (although you did at 1:28) 0:26 two old Amtrak baggage cars. The first one is in Phase V and was always a baggage car, while the 2nd is in phase IV and was converted from a sleeper car in the 90s. These were last used as extra axles on midwest trains in 2020 1:18 what I always like about the La Grange camera is that you can see inside the hoppers and gondolas 1:48 three brand new BNSF locomotives without any cars. The first is an ES44AH and the other two are ET44AHs. BNSF is one of the few railroads that has bought all-new locomotives in the 2020s while the rest are focusing on rebuilding older units 1:57 CSX 1869 leading 2:08 10-unit lash-up 3:00 slug and geep set and an ex-NS SD70ACu sold to PRLX. I find it odd NS ended up selling units they rebuilt themselves. CSX 1897 is one of the mid-train DPUs 3:36 UP 1111 leading 3:55 UP 1943 leading solo. (again in La Grange at 5:32) I feel we don't see enough of these two units 4:08 CSX 1982 leading 4:48 MOW train reversing with the first piece of equipment being gray instead of green or yellow 6:08 ballast wheel in action 7:29 CSX inspection railcar in La Grange 8:05 one guy crosses in front of a single locomotive pulling one boxcar 8:56 these people crossed at a crossing, but ignored the red lights 9:26 Golden West Service hopper. These cars were mostly owned by Southern Pacific hence the SSW markings 9:37 SD40-2, YN2 GP40-2, and ET44AH. It's quite uncommon for narrow nose power to be put in front of wide cab units 9:56 most of these hoppers have CATX markings, but this one was sold to TRIX. A Reading and Northern open hopper is on the same train 10:25 Jesse, we need to ship freight! 10:36 four units on a short MOW train 11:00 11-unit light power move (again at 14:48) 11:40 two units pulling a GREX train (with their own unit trailing) 11:52 this driver is not aware of their surroundings. The replacement front right panel implies something like this has happened to them before 13:15 Sperry truck passes La Plata station 13:27 NS 34. Only 38 is called "The Brick" 13:50 Amtrak 203 and 164 doubleheading the Southwest Chief! 14:17 Montana Rail Link SD70ACe. BNSF recently acquired them (most of the trains on the MRL route were BNSF run-throughs) and now MRL power is starting to spread across the BNSF system. 15:19 front loader driving through a big puddle 15:45 new flatbeds cor carrying switch sections and/or large steel sheets 16:24 H2 dash 9, H1 dash 9, H1 SD40-2, and a CEFX marroon SD9043MAC. Most were bought by NS and converted into SD70ACus

I cant be the only one who thought 4:35 said royal sh*t before it got in focus 😂

Those cars at 15:45 sure are interesting. NUEX is Nucor Steel, so I’m guessing specialized sheet carriers.

4:34 I did not read that as Royal Smit the first time lol

Excellent Video! 🌿🌲🇮🇳🌲🌿

Beautiful ending!

Some great Freight Roster catches, thanks VRF. As well as an BNSF SD70MAC Executive, there was Montana Rail Link at Chehalis - which is another fine livery, IMO.

What a great view at the end with the snow over the tracks @ Big10 Curve.Those darwins are going to miss their step one day and it will be all over.

4:34 I read that wrong at first. I heard my inner 12 year old laugh.

I never made the FETrading-Breaking Bad connection, but now I’ll never unthink it. Thanks.

Wow! Excellent catching all the trains, especially the UP1943 in both Covington, Kentucky, and LaGrange, Kentucky, a driver inside the car, beats the train in LaGrange, Kentucky, the heritage units, and so much more, I like them all, @Virtual Railfan, thank you very much.

What's crazy about that car that cut off the train in La Grange, Ky is that he didn't have to go through town to make that left hand turn on First St. He could have avoided the tracks altogether by cutting down one of the side streets.

That last one hit hard❤

That rocket launcher train was cool.

I love La Grange KY! I knew when you said "sat and pulled in front of the train," it had to be La Grange

Great catches in freight cars of past.

Nice catch of those amtrak baggage cars

Awesome grab bag

Good Day🚂Friends👋🏻

It's always nice to see the Spirit of the Union Pacific out and about--twice this time!--and I really liked the "Powered by Our People" artwork on the lead loco at Ft. Worth. Arvada usually looks so busy in the sunrises you show us, but in this footage it looked frozen, still and deserted...and as always very beautiful. Loved the power move in the fog in Wichita and the nice shiny one in OKC, as well as the MOW machinery working everywhere (it looks as if Hesperia got pounded by that atmospheric river but the line is still open). And while I suppose this world will never have a shortage of boneheads, that one in LaGrange...It would be LaGrange...Sheesh. Thanks for another great one!

Happy Tuesday Everyone🫶🏻

*Nice Catches*

Excellent action thank you

Great video, with fantastic video scenes from many railroads in the USA.

There's been quite a few Darwin candidates at the La Grange camera lately, according to the videos. It feels like they don't think the train can hurt them since it has to go slow on that track. Maybe it should go through at like 30 or 40 kph once or twice just to let the Darwin candidates know that, yes, it is still a train, and it will not and cannot stop for you.

Great shots.Funny guys live in the city of La Grange, Kentucky, and they often cause problems for trains.And the beautiful ending of the big 10.VR successfully and wonderfully select the music.Good luck to you.With great greetings from faraway Russia.

Cool 🎉

hello Virtual Railfan & it's is Randy and i like yours video is cool & Thanks Friends Randy

You missed the I will see the Cedar Rapids and Iowa City grain car in Princeton Indiana.

8:01 train has ONE car attached to it, nope, in a hurry can't wait.

9:55 Blue's Close's Foot

Smell of Morning Coffee by Franz Gordon.

I saw the Rio Grand hopper

@13:37 This is *not* "The Brick". NS 34 is a Research power unit (was SD35 1530). NS 38 is "The Brick" (and says so right under the number on the cab), a Research track test unit that has a flat hood and was built from an SD40,.

Yet another great compilation; interesting to see some maintenance machines of various kinds. But why do incidents with cars keep happening at La Grange?? This latest one really took the biscuit. Anyway lots of good shots without people being silly and another beautiful sunrise over oh what's the name of that curve? Anyway thank you and more greetings from "across the pond"! 😊

10:59 & 14:39 I recorded that train in Norrman, OK...after stepping in a ditch while waiting for it at the Constitution Street RR crossing.

Lot's of Darwin candidates 😅

Golden West Service, SSW - St Louis & Southwest aka COTTON BELT. First Hopper car I have seen on rails running in years. 9:28 of the video.

Does anyone know about the Happy Honker at HorseShoe curve? Have not seen him for sometime, it was always a treat!

Too many darwins in these nowadays. It's scary.

Sheer stupidity of that car

When the train people go through the city like this, can they stop and get off their train and grab something to eat or do they have to keep on going bye

16:02 --- more of this but slow it down ...not sped up 😁😁

What is it with some people in La Grange??! Do they just lose their brains when it comes to that track?!

What was the issue with the first clip?

I am so jealous of people that never have to think, or plan, or organize, or communicate. Just merely exist in their own little world - detached from all reality. Sigh.

Darwin Award candidate

is La Grange the Darwin capital of the US?

P r o m o s m 😁

To yah people here on virtual railfan I made this KZfaq account for the trains that travels outside of the DMV and that's travel around the world so I live in dc so I can watch all the trains around the world from where Im at and that's dc

I bet that that driver that pulled out in front of the train was a woman driver! 😂 Not to be affensive, ladies. 😇 ❤

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What was that CSX bus-on-rails? I've never seen anything like that before.

Nice catch on ballest equipment in Jonesboro, lots of cool stuff on today's video, the CSX crew's blood pressure probably goes up when that happens in La Grange!🛤🚂