Thanks to your directions given last year, my son and I finally made it to Benny on 10/9/20. What an incredible location! The best I've ever seen. Perfect autumn weather and memories that will last a lifetime for father and son. THANK YOU for that gift!

@FastFlyingVirginian

3 жыл бұрын

You are welcome, sir! I'm glad the trip was a memorable one.

Ain't nothing like trains and railfanning on youtube is the best!

Me gustan mucho los trenes se ven maravilloso encontrándose los dos al mismo tiempo me recuerda mucho cuando veíamos con mis hermanos cuando pasaba cerca de la milpa de mí papá

Me gustan mucho los trenes me recuerda cuando veíamos con mis hermanos que pasaba cerca de la milpa de mí papá

As usual, you keep the Bar Raised high! Thanks very much for sharing your efforts. As a serious amateur photographer who has been photographing this area since the late 1970's I truly appreciate your efforts and talent.

@FastFlyingVirginian

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks, much appreciated!

great collection of videos from the HorseShoe Curve area. thx

@FastFlyingVirginian

7 жыл бұрын

You're welcome, and thanks for watching!

Amazing video. Thanks for posting it.

@FastFlyingVirginian

4 жыл бұрын

You're welcome, thanks for watching!

Awesome Bro Thank You

the one with all the tank care is the kind I love to watch. beautiful scenery. thanks for an outstanding video. (Mississippi)

@FastFlyingVirginian

4 жыл бұрын

You're welcome, thanks for watching!

@misnanto7143

4 жыл бұрын

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Super rail movie! Beautiful images with trains and wonderful place! Good work! Thumbs Up Greetings from Romania Andrew

@FastFlyingVirginian

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks, glad you enjoyed it!

Thanks airing abd sharing the outstanding video.Endeavors are unmatched.Bliss

Hi Wolfgang Fromm Germany.Great Trains wow

@FastFlyingVirginian

4 жыл бұрын

Hi Wolfgang, and thanks for watching!

intense grade around that turn... cool stuff

The last helper set looked and sounded like my friend "Worm" was at the controls. Excellent video Dave.

@kokoloko9809

4 жыл бұрын

Uiusetanor

Very awesome!!

Espectacular!!!!

@15:52 he was just showin off! Love it! 😉

awesome video, I've heard Benny was off limits, I've always wanted to go there

@FastFlyingVirginian

7 жыл бұрын

The inside of Bennington Curve is railroad property, as is the access road leading there. The outside of the curve, however, is state game lands, and the road there is open not only for hunting access but also for the cemetery that is the most visible remnant of the abandoned town of Bennington. The clearing overlooking the curve is accessible via a short hike through the woods after driving past the cemetery parking to the game lands gate. The access road is extremely bumpy and rutted and a section is simply driving on the ballast next to track 3, so AWD/4WD in something with an elevated ride height is highly recommended.

@babalumahawar6767

4 жыл бұрын

Donald Savage bh

Excellent captures! Nothing better than the sound of GE's or EMD's workin' their guts out!

@FastFlyingVirginian

4 жыл бұрын

Except maybe Alcos. :)

@RailfanNoah

4 жыл бұрын

@@FastFlyingVirginian This I would agree with!

@marciopaixao6509

4 жыл бұрын

K maravilha Os governos deviam investir mais 🙏

Awesome place! Excellent video.

@FastFlyingVirginian

8 жыл бұрын

+CristhoferALL Thanks!

@enjoyingrailroading1013

4 жыл бұрын

Well done!

Love u from Nepal.

Great video

@FastFlyingVirginian

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Saludos desde Argentina!

@FastFlyingVirginian

4 жыл бұрын

Saludos, y gracias por mirar!

Amazing

Que linda naturalesa.

This gives 2010 - 2014 vibes Just because of the NS sd60s and that dash 8 standard and widecabs, i absolutely love this video

Nice video! 私の国の貨物列車とは迫力が違い過ぎます😊 Greetings from Tokyo Japan :-)

@FastFlyingVirginian

4 жыл бұрын

Greetings to you as well, and thank you for watching!

这么长的火车🚄我很喜欢的。好漂亮的。👍

wooww, this longs and greats train,, im from indonesia, train indonesia maximal 20 line amazing this video

If I had a dollar for every creative and clever title you've ever made I'd have a lot of dollars.

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I live about 2 hrs 15 minutes from Horseshoe Curve, I'm actually close-ish to Enola Yard. I am a history major, and visited Horseshoe Curve to later find out about the wreck of the Red Arrow which fascinates me. I bought the book at the Curve's gift shop and attempted to venture to Bennington Curve, in my 2009 Nissan Versa on April 30, 2018. Big mistake. I wish I'd ould have watched your video and read the comments first!! I'm glad to see it in video, because the access road was terrifying in my little Versa. She survived, but there were many scary clunks and thuds... did you park at the Cemetary? The cemetary was all the further I got, but I thought it said no vehicles after that point. I know you mentioned the hike. I thought about hiking, but I was so shaken after the drive in, I was terrified if I shut off my car, I wouldn't get it to turn on and I'd be stuck at the cemetary... I was hoping to see a historical marker, but I guess there isn't one?

@FastFlyingVirginian

6 жыл бұрын

The 'No Vehicles Beyond This Point' gate is further up the dirt road that breaks off to the left after you reach the cemetary parking. That's where I typically park (I drive a Subaru Forester). There isn't a historical marker for the curve itself, but I believe there is one for the cemetary once you climb the stairs to get there. I made 3 unsuccessful attempts to find the curve before I finally got there - I recalled seeing photos from the '70s of people driving vans and 4x4s back to the cliff's edge, and as we hiked back on that first successful trip we came across a long clearing through the trees that looked big enough to drive vehicles through with the remnants of a fire pit at the other end, and from there we could see the path down to the rock outcropping. It's grown up a little since the '70s obviously, but someone thought enough to tie a colored plastic strip to one of the trees to mark the point where you turn right and head through the trees to reach the outcropping. If you think the access road is terrifying in the dry, you should try it in the snow sometime: kzread.info/dash/bejne/Yq2f2rSKpMfLnMY.html

Those 2 NS trains were the longest trains I’ve ever seen

好長火車貨運😄💕

Is the place pretty packed on weekends? Enough spot on the rock? I have been meaning to go down for a while now. Do you drive close to Bennington cemetery?

@FastFlyingVirginian

8 жыл бұрын

You can actually use the same parking area as the Bennington cemetery, or you can drive up the hill a little further to the gate into the game lands. We have fit as many as 5-6 people onto the rock before when I've been there with a group in August, you just don't want to horse around near the edge in such a situation. ;) The ledge going off to the left is a decent view of the curve as well, so there's plenty of room.

@skar7053

7 жыл бұрын

Thank you. The actual drive down to the cemetery, is it true that you have to drive very close to the tracks?

@FastFlyingVirginian

7 жыл бұрын

Yes. Once you come out of the woods at track level, you are driving on the ballast right next to track 3. The story I've heard is that NS tried to keep the gate closed, but 'reached an understanding' with the borough of Tunnelhill (i.e., the borough complained about them blocking gameland and cemetery access), so it stays open. It goes without saying you have to be careful.

There were switches and prr position light signals back there once. You have any videoes of that?

@FastFlyingVirginian

4 жыл бұрын

No, unfortunately. The interlocking was gone by the time I started railfanning back there.

@FrehleyFan3988

4 жыл бұрын

@@FastFlyingVirginian oh. Theres pictures of it, and even a video. I'll send you a link to it

@FrehleyFan3988

4 жыл бұрын

@@FastFlyingVirginian here kzread.info/dash/bejne/a5eWs69pc6qboNo.html

I am rail fan 🇮🇳

Lindo laik

Seria interessante se todos os vagões fossem iluminados, já pensaram que show!!

Just watching this in late 2019. is this spot still accessible as described in 2015? Thank you.

@FastFlyingVirginian

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, I've been back several times since then.

@paulmatulavich7321

4 жыл бұрын

FastFlyingVirginian Thanks. I just got done mapping the way there from Ohio. Figure to park at the cemetery and hike the short distance thru the woods to the outcropping.

@FastFlyingVirginian

4 жыл бұрын

@@paulmatulavich7321 You can actually go a bit further up the road and park at the gate to the gamelands. Saves a little walking and the car will be in the shade. The cemetery is worth a visit as well, you'll pass a staircase leading to it before you get to the area marked as cemetery parking.

@paulmatulavich7321

4 жыл бұрын

FastFlyingVirginian Thanks again. I hope to make it out there with your great directions. Can't tell in video - am I looking for a ledge whereby a person could erect a camera and tripod and maybe a camp chair?

@FastFlyingVirginian

4 жыл бұрын

You'll follow the tire tracks back beyond the gate until they end, then hang a right through a clearing in the trees until you come up to an old firepit (it used to be a camping spot back in the '70s). The path from there down to the rock outcropping is rather steep, and the outcropping itself is fairly small, but you could fit a small chair and a tripod out there if you were alone or didn't have that many people with you.

9:39 15:52 Spot the difference.

NIce video As I don't live in the US, I have to ask if this is recorded at the famous Horseshoe Curve? In any case a good place for railspotting. I like the second scene, where you first see the tank car train (for oil?) followed by the coal train in the opposite direction. Looking at the last one, I was thinking the train was very heavy, but finally you see the 4 helpers pushing. Have a nice Easter Cheers Adam /DK

@FastFlyingVirginian

8 жыл бұрын

+FlyToChina0071 This is at Bennington Curve, which is another couple of miles up the mountain from Horseshoe. Looking up the grade (away from the curve), the tracks curve out of sight to enter the tunnels at the summit in Gallitzin.

@FlyToChina0071

8 жыл бұрын

+FastFlyingVirginian OK & thanks. I tried to look up "Bennington" on Google Earth, but came up to a completely different place... Regards Adam

@FastFlyingVirginian

8 жыл бұрын

+FlyToChina0071 I would be surprised if Google showed it. The town of Bennington was abandoned before World War 2; all that remains is the nearby cemetery and the curve to carry on the name. The nearest population would be the borough of Tunnelhill.

@FlyToChina0071

8 жыл бұрын

+FastFlyingVirginian Actually, when I zoomed in on the area near the Horseshoe Curve and made a search for Bennington it came up with the Bennington Cemetery. Also, on GE, there is a photo from the cemetery. Again thanks for the clarifications and for your nice videos on KZread. Regards

@seven8n235

5 жыл бұрын

And yet AOC and the green new deal socialists want to eliminate all this in 12 years. ...good luck with that

Mega like & subscribe from Romania

@FastFlyingVirginian

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed it. I've subbed back as well. I enjoy seeing trains from other countries. :)

With all of the brush and trees lining the curve, it's hard to imagine what exactly happened when the Red Arrow wrecked here in 1947.

@FastFlyingVirginian

7 жыл бұрын

Bear in mind that 59 years ago, the brush and trees would not have been nearly as thick or may not have even existed along the outside of the curve. The views I've seen of Horseshoe Curve in that era showed virtually no foliage because the quantity of ash from passing steam locomotives prevented much from growing. The Red Arrow had nothing to stop it from plowing across the tracks and down the ravine on the outside of the curve.

In Germany Trains 600 meters

@FastFlyingVirginian

4 жыл бұрын

The longest trains here in the US can reach over 4000 meters. I like the German freight trains though, they have their own style.

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