You have the BEST commentary voice I've ever heard. You could narrate the process of a dog going to the bathroom and I'd still listen.

This is why I love local freight trains. So many switching maneuvers to keep you entertained. Nice little video Danny. Can't wait for more.

While Class I railroads may not seek out these businesses, Class II and Class III railroads/shortlines use this as their bread and butter. The ideal relationship is Class I railroads transporting these cars from Point A to Point B, and smaller railroads dealing with the customer. Everyone makes money and the customer is happy. Source: I'm a conductor for a Class II railway who left a Class I

I’ve never seen drone footage of a locomotive just over the switch. This is AWESOME!!!

Crews on these jobs also get to know their dispatcher quite well. Sometimes it can be downright comical to listen to their conversations with the funny things they’ll say to each other. A breath of fresh air amidst the organized chaos of railroading. 😉 Really nice video and excellent use of the drone.

Another beauty Danny! "Lets just say....budget priced items"....lmao. The video is great but as usual, it's your story telling that makes it all the better. Cheers Gregg.

“Budget priced items” Sounds like a Sheriff’s Auction lol

0:28 you can kinda hear the tank car give you a shave and a haircut in the wheel on rail noises

Nice to see jobs like that switching today. Go back even 4 decades ago and you saw a hell of a lot more industries serviced by rail.

I like your new drone! Nice job!

This is the most fascinating kind of railroading and I've always enjoyed watching the local do the switching. On my virtual railroads, I always have a bunch of industries which need a boxcar, hopper, or tank or two. This type of operation can keep me busy for hours. The distribution building the train was servicing at the end reminds of one of the models I have. I think the creator used this industry as an example because they also create a Plant City passenger station as well. Where I live in eastern New England, we still see lots of 4-axle power. PAR only recently started phasing out their GP40-2s in favor of some recently acquired former CSX Dash-8s. For many years, the SD40s and GP40s were the mainstay and they're still plenty about on the system.

Great, Danny. This is real railfanning, one car at a time. Love it.

A+ production work and a really neat example of switching for folks with a small layout to get more operating in. Keep up the good work!

You have the best system with great info perfect sound with the trains sound low enough to enjoy and able to hear everything you are telling us. Delay in the block has a loud train sound that's annoying if you turn up the sound to hear the information being spoken. Your absolutely the best railfan production

You always have the best videos, Danny. I don't know how in the world I missed this one.....lol

Switching videos are always a treat, very nice work Danny!

Fantastic little video, especially with those drone shots.

The smaller railroad customers just getting a car or two have always been more interesting to me from the operations standpoint than the mega industries receiving and shipping several cars at a time. I remember railfanning back in the 1960s, almost every town along the RR of any significance had at least one or two small freight customers to switch, be it a feed mill, fuel dealer, lumber yard, or similar small businesses. Nowadays most of these same towns just have a main track going straight through. The former switches, sidings, and active customers are history with the old loading docks facing trackside many times bricked up or otherwise sealed shut. I know the railroads make more off of mega customers but it's still kind of sad for me to see the smaller industries fall by the wayside over the years. I'm amazed when I see a smaller business still receiving a single car or two these days.

Just happened to stumble across this video and while I normally am not a fan of commentary for train videos this definitely the exception! Your commentary makes this video and I look forward to watching/listening to more of your work in the future ☺ keep up the splendid job!

I always love watching your great videos, amazing catches, Danny.

I love watching switching work like this, especially when I can get up close! Excellent work!

This kind of work is fun. I love riding the point in wooded areas to spot a load or set out a cut of empties on a spur. One night on one of our locals I was on the back of the train on the last car with my trainee, riding downhill, around a corner, with tree branches smacking us the whole way down - and as those tree branches were smacking me and I'm shining my flashlight down the track looking to clear the switch at the bottom of the hill to then line us in for the long shove back on our spur for the setout, my only thought was "this is f'ing fun"

Thanks, Danny. It's a always nice to see your videos. See you, next time.

Very nicely put together, and extremely well explained. We have a very similar switching puzzle up here in Akron, Ohio. This job, done by CSX's D750 is a daily move. The way the track is lined up with one of the customers, D750 has to leave their cut of cars from the customer on the No. 2 main, run 15 miles to the next Absolute Signal and Crossover, and crossover to the No. 1 track where they will travel about 20 miles in the opposite direction on the No. 1 track in order to run around their cars and get on the rear end of their train. And that is just for one of their customers. D750 services about 5-7 customers on the CSX Newcastle Subdivsion every single day, and as the one dispatcher (BEH, Brain) puts it, "I got people up here that know how to pay us dispatchers well." Too bad they don't know how to pay the head-end crew as amptly as they do the dispatchers.

Mr Danny This is one of the best Switcher videos. 👌Hope you make more like this one

Now THAT is the sound of a railroad

Another great video Danny, thank you for it and how it's done.

Love your videos...keep up the great work!!!

When I was a kid in the '80s I lived near the end of the track w spur in deland Florida . It was always fun to go up high Street and see the train dropping off Hopper cars for Sherman medical and box cars at rinker concrete and every once in awhile dropping off a single propane car at Florida gas .

Thanks Danny! I have just about caught up on your older videos and really liked this one.

Great video! I wish there were more switching videos like this out there! Keep up the great work Love the channel! - Brian

I enjoyed watching the switching and the commentary. Believe it's called shunting in New Zealand. Would like to see more please.

These videos are awesome. Great production and content.

Danny Harmon you are the best. Thanks. Your Voice is so good for us train watchers.

That was just TOO short! I always enjoy seeing the smaller operations in railroading. Thanks!

All that creakin' and groanin' sounds like me getting out of bed in the morning! Nice job with the drone, as always. Great to hear your voice again. Greetings from Fresno CA.

Your videos are so good! I seriously get so sad when they end. Actually, this one felt so short. However, as always, you learn so much from watching you. Although it sounds cliche, please keep up the good work. I can’t tell you how much you have reignited a passion for me in trains in general. All the best to you and thanks for all you do and these amazingly produced videos.

Good video, and GREAT narration, love your video's thank you Mr. Harmon

Thanks for the video, Danny! Your videos are amazing!

I love local switching. To me this is the heart of the railroads.

Always great videos.

Good as always Danny. Thank You for a great video!

Great video! Thanks for sharing. It's obvious that you put a lot of work into your videos, thanks again!

Great coverage Danny. Drone shots are hot digity!! Keep 'em coming man!

Thanks for making great videos. I love trains and your videos have such great content.

That was awesome Danny....like you said before some times yourjust in the right place at the right time 👏🏽👏🏽 good drone action too👍🏽

Holyshit . If all your videos are as good as this one then u just got yourself a new subscriber

Just stumbled on this. Nice work and explaination. Thanks for setting a good drone example too.

Great work. Very informative as always!

Wonderful, informative and visually crisp.

I really love your videos. I'm a model rr hobbyist and watching them helps me with ideas for my layout

I’ve always loved the sound of ancient trackage groaning ! You definitely missed your calling as a voice over man- awesome narration.

Outstanding video. Thanks for sharing!

Love this little detour from mainline videos. I guess it is because I am a modeler and industrial spurs becomes more and more interesting. But no means I don't want you start to chase all these jobs as you are by far running the very best videos I have ever seen on KZfaq. Cheers from Sweden!

It's always real neat to get up close and personal with a switch job such as this one. How blessed we are as train watchers/railfans/train buffs, and especially the crews, are to still have industrial rail in a country that wants rail transportation gone. This is railroading at it's very best. I only wish I got to see cool stuff like this more often in my area, as it's mostly just CSX and NS, the locals are just so hard to capture. I guess I better find a schedule for the I&O. Great video Danny.

Danny, more local switching videos! These seem to be a dime a dozen, and this is by far the best one out there!!

Love your videos Mr Harmon.

This is so awesome, something you don’t see in Europe ! We had this a long time ago on branch lines and even tram lines. Now trucks have taken over...

Very nicely done. DVD worthy!

Wow ! Over the top great job filming / flying / commentary ! BRAVO ! SBF

Another great masterpiece Danny.

As usual mr. Harmon, very cool!!! thank you!

Always nice work, Danny!

ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC!

Very well done video, loved the auctioneer.

Danny, another great video!!

Super video. A friend recommended it and I’m glad I did. Nice video work but the real gem is the investment you’ve made in the narration. Nicely designed script that was tightly executed. The story is easy to discover and become engaged in. Thank you.

Danny, That drone footage was fantastic. You sir are a master broadcaster and feature reporter.

I think I may have turned my nephew into a fan of yours.

Great video Danny... I hope you keep doing this for years to come... I for one thoroughly enjoy your video's. I went out and "rail fanned" Australia's Indian Pacific near my home town of Perth recently... may put the video up one day. Cheers from Perth, Western Australia.

Really enjoyed that thanks Distant Signal. Here in the UK we abandoned wagonload freight forty years ago as uneconomic and now only have company or block trains running without any attaching or detaching. It feels like we lost all the interesting operations that make railroads worth watching.

Beautiful video. Thanks.

Great video, Danny! I love catching last mile switching

Good video. Love the switches

I can guarantee the cars are loaded. If you look at the springs on the trucks you can see they are depressed indicating the cars are loaded...great video

Nice job. Best channel ever

wow Danny this was amazing and awesome catch Thanks :-)

Very nicely done. Very informative.

Fantastic video on a subject that is rarely seen. Nice drone work!

great explanation of how they do that and the drone shots add a lot to that clip.

Excellent footage.

Great video Danny, please make more videos like this.

Thanks Danny. That was nice.

Great video! Very informative!

What a lovely voice you have! Definitely subscribing for more narration of train operations. :D

the drone work is a fantastic idea... great video 👍

Nice switching video, Danny. Switching cars is the backbone of railroading. I had just recently built an Inglenook Sidings model railroad layout in N scale.

I love seeing this a old track and it’s still getting used

I work for international paper in California. We get alot more than 1 box car at a time. More like 8-10 at a time. I also get to unload the rail cars. Which is fun cause I love trains.

Thanks Danny, Really enjoy switching videos!

Great video, Danny.

As always very interesting.

Very Nice Video Danny! I've Ran Across These Many Times, Not That I See Them Go Anywhere else Usually.. lol Great Work! -Dakota

Very very cool! Love GP40-3’s on industrial spurs! Keep up the good work!

"...it's risky to run anything heavier than four axle power on many of these old industrial tracks.."... unless your Trainmaster says to. Then put it in notch 8 and give it some sand. Love your videos. Great stories attached to every industry

CSXT 6063. Nice catch of a famous locomotive in action.

Really nice video thanks for posting

Great video, as always

Thanks Danny awesome video like always

Good stuff Danny! Much more interesting than watching 150 freight cars speed by.