That dispatcher is pretty cool actually. Always gives us the time we need to work if he can.

Outstanding video. Videography, editing, narration, and subject matter. I have vivid memories of the Port Road. In the early and mid ‘70s, while a student at F&M in Lancaster, I would bike down by the Susquehanna. I typically rode PA 441 from Middletown to Pequea and Safe Harbor. The scenery was so dramatic, with PC, and later, Conrail freights traversing the Port Road and the old Low Grade Line above. Catenary was energized, and freights pulled by GG1s, E44s and E33s, were frequent. The hills leading out of the valley were challenging, especially Turkey Hill. The top of Chickies Rock in Columbia was another great spot from where I could look down on the tracks. Thank you for posting this fine video!

One of the best rail videos I’ve seen both in video quality and audio quality. Extremely informative in all aspects.

Great video. This one was truly unusual and you were lucky to be on the correct side to see the problem. Understand about the 35MPH that the freight do. I was on a train to Orlando several years ago and we had an unruly passenger that had to be evicted by the police in Washington DC which delayed us enough to be stuck behind a freight. 35 all the way through VA. Loads of fun. Another delay was the fact that storms had knocked the automatic defect detectors out of commission so we had to stop several times for the conductor to manually inspect the cars every 100 miles.

Cool post, neat to hear the conversation on the radio.

Your videos are so informative and articulate. I really appreciate and enjoy them! Keep up the great work!

I call it "THE AIR HOSE REEL"!

As a former conductor when you get hit the first thing you do is “shit 🙄” then get up your things ready for a hike

Thanks for sharing your time , gas and knowledge on your videos, always enjoy watching! Also tell the new wife thanks for letting you still do this 👍🏻

Keep these videos coming! The commentary and audio are top quality. Thanks for all your hard work!

The "lean" is called Super Elevation. It is also used on roadways, like turnpikes to allow the traffic to maintain the higher speed without centrifugal force causing a roll over.

Groovy! Your voice is so mellow along with a wealth of knowledge. You always tend to find neat locations for railroad watching spots. I've enjoyed all of your swell videos.

Kept thinking of the word for the “circular “ thing and it finally came to me - it’s the spool! Lol.

I worked at an intermodal yard. In two years, we only had one car that set off the high dector. Even though we shoveled and swept the wells, snow had accumulated enough before the containers were loaded, so the container was up around 2”. The railroad inspector told us when the containers are loaded properly, they clear a couple of bridges by 2”. It explained why our double stacks had no snow on the top, but single stacks and trailers did.

Really nice video. Loved watching that lean on the curve on the NEC

Love the scanner feed, great job with the video.

Very interesting video with the unusual stop to check the wide load notification Thanks for sharing this behind the scenes railroading video.

Great production. Very informative and enjoyable. Keep up the good work.

Great video with fantastic narration. A distant signal in the making. I love your analogy between fishing and railfanning. I just go along and see what happens.

Very Nice video and a Great 👍 Catch of the Detector for Wide Loads. Very Interesting. Thanks!👍

All these decades being in to trains and I didn't know that bypass hoses existed.

Great footage along the river and nec. Port is my home territory. I used to watch the freight rush at perryville anytime I was on a night shift.

A really great Video, looking for ward to more. The Out of Gauge Car certainly added some Spice to your Day Railfanning.

Excellent work, my friend. The videography is great, the narration writing is excellent. All the best from Pittsburgh.

Very nice. It’s rare to see a high wide car detected. Very nice shot on a curve on the NEC. At least 36A had the window still open.

Thank you for the video. Love trains.

Another fantastic vid, Eric

Excellent video and narration.

Excellent adventure and catches.. I railfanning the Port Road Branch last summer and still have yet to post anything on it. Didn't catch any moving trains unfortunately but I did manage to nab some standing equipment, particularly in Columbia, PA.. In fact, I was at the very spot you filmed at (M.P. 4.4)

ChainsawN&W1218, great 👍 video, enjoyed seeing the manifest run under the wires 👍 🚂.

Nice video, very informative. I learn a lot from watching them.

Very interesting situation and a great video. Nicely produced. Great job.

Foamers of the world unite. Great video. I have been a foamer since I was 5 and my Dad worked for the Railroad. I have fond memories.

Excellent quality in every respect! Great explanation for those of us who don't know much. Good work!

Great video, thanks for sharing. Lots of interesting tidbits in there. Looks like you got lucky which side of the train you're filming during the inspection! Speaking of which though, sure would've been nice to have gotten a shot at the end of the car after the reel had been relocated to fix the car width problem. Granted, that's an "icing on the cake" thing, but maybe something to keep in mind if you get another event like that one. :)

Great video. Always very interesting and different to see freight on the NEC.

I've never watched a train video before but I found this one very educational. I'll be subscribing. Thank you.

Awesome video! Very well presented. I used to watch trains here. I'd usually just wait at the Amtrak station in Perryville. It was cool on the rare times a CSX train would be on the bridge over the Susquehanna and an NS was on the Port Road. I always wanted to see the tunnels up north by the river.

Very nicely done video!

This is really cool, I learned so much! Thanks :)

Nice video! I caught that train the same day in York Haven, but never knew about it having a wide load.

Thanks for this. It's amazing that something the size of a train can be scanned (in motion!) to detect a problem only a few inches wide. I wonder how many accidents have been prevented by these measures.

Great video. Thank you.

I enjoyed your video of train on the NEC. Do not see many. Look forward to upcoming ones.

That's awesome. I was just in PA 4 weeks ago. Trying to find some action on the Harrisburg line and Pittsburgh line. It was so worth it that I'll do it again.

So Beautiful Train

Yep, reel, spool, superelevation. Super videography too. Very well done in all aspects.

🔰 Man, I love those old GG-1’s…so cool 😎

Wow you Nailed it Great catch, Nice 👍🏻

Wow those detectors are the reel deal. 🤭

Great video. Shocked that nobody on the radio seemed to know the word "spool" or "reel"

Really enjoyed this. I thought the wood stacks might have triggered the sensors but the reel cracked me up!

Awesome video!!!

Great video 🚄🚄👍

Great video!

Interesting catch!.....OK, I'm hooked, and subscribed!!!!!

Great Video..! the "Lean" on the roadbed is called "Super" on a highway -- probably the same with ties and iron rails on top of the roadbed...! One of you quicker fans got the "reel", your editing on the descriptions of the Hose ? Thing ? is very droll -- and entertaining when obvious words escape our tongues...!

Great video. I do love how people say "Norfolk" when they haven't lived in tidewater. XD Keep up the great video. ^.^

Awesome video.

Great video thanks for sharing and I heard in the one clip a general signals type three ebell I find this video interesting I always film train videos when I can

It’s crazy how long trains are nowadays. It can be a five mile round trip to walk the train! Thanks for a well done video.

Good video, chase, and portion w the dd was diferent and educational

Wow! What a great video! So detailed. I feel like I'm part of the crew.

Nice video!!

That's the first time I've heard a detector to give off the car initials and number. Usually its just axle and rail.

Cool video....I saw that "banked curve" there and it made me wonder if those cars ever flipped over on that.

When I was going to school at East Salisbury School (teaches 3rd-5th grade), we would always see a Delmarva Central hauling freight along what I call the “Old Ocean City branch line,” or what’s left of it. It’s named after the road it runs almost parallel to, and is only used to transport cargo. And that’s almost always grain hoppers filled with feed and stuff from the Perdue plant at the end of the line. A few tankers here and there, but nothing crazy. The line actually runs past the school, and whenever a train passes by during recess, literally every kid on the playground would run to the fence and watch as the massive units hauled the freight cars off. It was inspiring. You’d always know the train was coming with it’s bell chiming and the horns blaring (by law mostly). Sometimes I think they did it to say “enjoy the view, as when you grow up, you’ll be doing this too” to us on the playground. EDIT: It wasn’t a Delmarva Central locomotive. It was a Norfolk & Southern. This is because the railroad was owned by Norfolk & Southern until 2016.

Ever since I played train sim I’ve had a newfound respect and love for trains and the people who run them

Great video

That was a great catch

Sweet. You were filming what I call my home turf. I live near the port road by Conowingo Creek. Shame they took down the old PRR signals.

Good job on the video although I never did see the offending car after the reel had been moved and the train got moving again. I don't think we had "runaround hoses" back in the day when I worked for NYC-PC but I could immediately understand why they would be a handy thing to have. Are they carried on road locomotives or are they only available in yards where MoE facilities are found?

Yes!!! Finally an explanation about what defects they look for.. So glad this wasn't serious. Just someone who was apparently too lazy to hang the hose wheel in the right place.

Cool view coming over those arches on that bridge. NEW SUBSCRIBER HERE.

Rather sad that the catenary is no longer in use. You would think in an era where we’re concerned about the environment there would be more of an effort to electrify the railroads again.

I'm shocked at the low count of views on your video and lack of comments, I shared your video on FB there's a good number of grand parents on my page that have lot's of grand kids, hopefully they will see it and pass it along and my page is set to public anyway.

i’m not a big into all of this but it’s for sure cool to learn about it and the history still

Interesting find.

New Castle checking in woop woop

Thanks for the lesson

That was very interesting. I was impressed the detector could determine the reel was there. Very sensitive I don't envy the conductors walk back to the head end. I grew up near that area and when I'd railfan the Pennsy back then it was normal to run into several copperheads and rattlesnakes.

My dad and much older brother did nothing for two weeks each summer but chase trains in northwestern Wisconsin and northeastern Minnesota. My dad (retired) came from Florida and brother and family came from Nevada, and we never could understand what the deal was. When my dad went back to Florida, he had copies of all of the videos on cassettes and watched them all year til they fell apart. After my dad died, my brother never went again, which is weird since he was even building and selling model DM&IR engines with authentic paint (FYI, that’s the Duluth, Mesabe, and Iron Range railroad).

Very interesting video. That lean makes me nervous no matter how low the center of gravity may be.

What a beautiful shot at 10:07 !!!!!!!!! Omg

I'm in central PA here and have a Uniden BC125AT that I am looking to get rid of. It's a portable scanner and from what I gather, they're great for rail and air traffic. I have two antennas and I may have the manual.

I live in that area. When hurricanes go through the Conowingo locks are all opened and the river turns fierce. I find it interesting that electric was removed for diesel 40 yrs ago, you can be sure they will be going right back to electric before the next 40 yrs go by.

You don't see the fault detector catch a problem very often. Nice catch.

Nice catch! Thanks for showing the problem. Horn is not very loud. They should have horns facing down into the a trough running forward and rearward.

That lean on the curve is called super elevation.

nice old stone bridges. So used to seeing trestle bridges on US rails.

Cool video

Great trip, photography, titles, and of course narration. Are you using a script?

What a great video from U.K. viewer

Perhaps checking out Marysville. Small town, central penn, and a large NS yard. They do yard ops often, and I’ve seen plenty of trains in my day on there.

Listening to you describe how you went from one place to the next to catch the same train as it was passing reminded me of the stereotypical horror movie scene: ** A couple driving down the road, at night, while it's raining spots a man standing on the road dressed in a dirty yellow raincoat. He's just standing there watching them go by. 20 minutes later, on the same road, the couple passes that man in the dirty yellow raincoat again. Another 10 minutes go by the couple, still driving on the same road see the man in the dirty yellow raincoat again for the third time! Now they start to worry.... ** In my weird imagination I could see that man in the dirty yellow raincoat standing there only in this scenario (that applies to you) he has a video camera, on a tripod, recording the couple as they drive by. Now replace the couple in the car with an engineer and a conductor, replace the car with a train. Remember that the train doesn't always travel at a speed that makes jumping on the train impossible. The train is going to slow down sooner or later. Please tell me you do NOT own a dirty yellow raincoat!!

It is in part why the major Pennsylvania Railroad corridors (Main Line between Pittsburgh and Philadelphia and NEC between NYC and DC) had four tracks with freight movement located on the inner tracks: the faster passenger trains can overtake the slower freight movement (also why the PRR built flying junctions such as ZOO, BELL, PARKE, THORN, etc., to facilitate freight movement onto freight-only branches without impacting passenger movements). And yes, I have seen NS/CSX/CSAO movements on the NEC in the Philadelphia area and it is done during the overnight after SEPTA Regional Rail finishes their daily runs, allowing Amtrak to put their trains in the outer tracks used by SEPTA during the day (thus mimicking the old PRR/Penn Central traffic pattern).

Nice, thanks!

Interesting that the scanner identified the actual car and axle.

Also a very informative video

Great and interesting video. I had no idea they left freight on the Northeast corridor I always assume the freight railroads had their own line next to the right away