Eminent Domain: Abandoned McMansions vs. the Barstow International Gateway Railyard

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Date of adventure: 3/2/24
The BNSF railroad is building the world's biggest rail yard just outside Barstow...and unfortunately, that means all the houses in the area have to be bulldozed -- no matter how fancy they are, or whether or not the inhabitants want to move! Join me as I wander the deserted hallways of massive, like-new houses that are about to be demolished in the name of commerce.
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  • @thomassteed390
    @thomassteed3904 ай бұрын

    Looks like the cooper snaggers have been there.

  • @gordbaker896

    @gordbaker896

    4 ай бұрын

    Copper rats too.

  • @russellzauner

    @russellzauner

    4 ай бұрын

    was gonna say this lol kyle and his hoodlum friends made out like bandits with the advance knowledge actually kyle kind of on the ball since they were just getting knocked down anyhow

  • @someguy9778

    @someguy9778

    4 ай бұрын

    Darn Coopers!

  • @gordbaker896

    @gordbaker896

    4 ай бұрын

    Theft of private property.@@russellzauner

  • @bobp64014

    @bobp64014

    4 ай бұрын

    ​​@@gordbaker896I see what you've done here. Think he'll get it?

  • @jackdacop9827
    @jackdacop98274 ай бұрын

    Warren Buffet and Berkshire Hathaway own the BNSF R/R. More of the big fish eating the little fish.

  • @longshot7601

    @longshot7601

    Ай бұрын

    Warren Buffet was Obama's economic advisor when Obama killed Keystone XL. The company that was transporting shale oil from the Dakotas to Texas was BNSF. I wonder how much Obama and later Biden got for those decisions?

  • @Playmudd4by4
    @Playmudd4by44 ай бұрын

    This place is soon to become a mini Metropolitan of Los Angeles, same crime same homeless situation more people less police that’s the future of Barstow

  • @dc76384

    @dc76384

    4 ай бұрын

    That's what the people of California want.

  • @perry92964

    @perry92964

    4 ай бұрын

    thats what i was thinking, criminals follow the loot

  • @dougmartin7129

    @dougmartin7129

    4 ай бұрын

    The problem in LA is that there isn’t enough room so many loaded cars are in remote and obscured sidings that are surrounded by buildings and earth and more. Proper security isn’t possible. The Barstow yard will be very easy to watch and control .

  • @daveh5629
    @daveh56294 ай бұрын

    I absolutely love how extensive Wonderhussy's vocabulary is. Always using the right word in the right context at the right time and that is not something one typically gets to hear from a KZreadr.

  • @allensherrill850

    @allensherrill850

    4 ай бұрын

    Lots of drug talk

  • @unitedstatesdale
    @unitedstatesdale4 ай бұрын

    My engineering company designed the new bridge that will replace the steel girder bridge on North First Ave. The new bridge will base out 545 track switches . The largest track switch building in the world making the H Base in Moscow second place.

  • @Elhastezy888

    @Elhastezy888

    4 ай бұрын

    Awesome Post!

  • @Ddax-td7qy

    @Ddax-td7qy

    4 ай бұрын

    When I was in Moscow in 1968, "largest in the world" was a favorite phrase in the Intourist tour script. I wonder if Donald Trump will suddenly pipe up attacking rail development in the US?!?!

  • @shofarox4037
    @shofarox40374 ай бұрын

    🤔 Hmmm... There is a lot of wood for recycling to fix the Baghdad Cafe...☕

  • @mezmarionybarra

    @mezmarionybarra

    4 ай бұрын

    YES ❣️

  • @chisbang53
    @chisbang534 ай бұрын

    Kyle and his family moved to Phoenix. When he turned 18 he moved to Detroit where he still lives (and skates) He still has the Vans that came in that box.

  • @carolcarol9982
    @carolcarol99824 ай бұрын

    The thieves will just follow them out to the desert and then they'll be the problem of a wildly overwhelmed police department in Barstow.

  • @Rarebond11th-ze5lw

    @Rarebond11th-ze5lw

    4 ай бұрын

    That's fine...sand digs easy😂

  • @mountainbound1315

    @mountainbound1315

    4 ай бұрын

    There's this crazy agency called Railroad Police. Been around since the inception of the railroad. Made famous by two guys you may have heard of: Bat Masterson and Allen Pinkerton. If you don't know them, you should. Use google.

  • @markflowers1573

    @markflowers1573

    4 ай бұрын

    Well she did say over 20,000 jobs there. Maybe a lot of security is part of that

  • @unclemuir

    @unclemuir

    4 ай бұрын

    Barstow already has a big gang problem.

  • @jamesburns2232

    @jamesburns2232

    4 ай бұрын

    You loot. We shoot! 🤠@@Rarebond11th-ze5lw

  • @anitamayer768
    @anitamayer7684 ай бұрын

    I think looters have taken any copper or brass plumbing pieces out of the walls from the looks of things….. so very sad for the folks forced to sell😢…..

  • @nickn626

    @nickn626

    4 ай бұрын

    Not really, the previous owners got paid for whole house, and the buyers don't care about salvaging materials from the property.

  • @user-of2su2wv9f
    @user-of2su2wv9f4 ай бұрын

    Progress.😢 This happened to my family about 60 years ago to make way for the Hollywood Freeway. Ours was one of the last homes to go. Being 8 or 9 years old at the time, it was great fun going through those abandoned houses. Finding discarded playboy magazines and playing army were some top memories. The good old days. Thank you, Sara Jane, for the walkies.😮😊🎉🙏

  • @haydonditchburn2194

    @haydonditchburn2194

    4 ай бұрын

    And what did you do with the Playboy magazines..??

  • @someguy9778

    @someguy9778

    4 ай бұрын

    Weird question...He said he was 8 or 9.

  • @Ddax-td7qy

    @Ddax-td7qy

    4 ай бұрын

    Your family must have come out all right, financially. Mine, in San Francisco, were bitter for the rest of their lives, "condemned" for "redevelopment" on a hilltop in the center of the City, next to Twin Peaks. The idealistic "redevelopment" law was supposed to remediate slums, but the developers went right for prime view open space, (with the house) and the law hadn't yet caught up with the principle of "fair market value" compensation. Piled up with view condos, what do you think my grandfather's two acres; yes, TWO ACRES is worth by the square foot now?

  • @alexanderdalipagic5674
    @alexanderdalipagic56744 ай бұрын

    I think it’s really cool you were able to go out there and look at the abandoned homes before they’re gone. They’re not holding the cargo from the port of LA up the mountain just to bring it back down the mountain. I’m a real estate agent in Apple Valley, close to Barstow, and the reason they’re building the railway isn’t to stop people from LA from stealing shipping cargo 😂 we just had someone from the BNSF railway company come by and give a talk about the project. I guess logistics managers figured out it’s silly to process all of the cargo that comes in to LA, that’s going out east anyway, and decided to off load the duties to people out in the desert, where it will ultimately have pass through anyway to go east and north. Additionally, the i15 freeway through the Cajon Pass is unbelievably congested. It’s a main choke point where a lot of trucks get alien down. Also, Barstow is a pretty depressed town and could do with the money. The only reason why I make the correction is because it makes the reason for the project being built sound kind of dumb if the only reason is to stop thieving LA people.

  • @stevekovacs4093
    @stevekovacs40934 ай бұрын

    I guess the tweeker/scrapper dudes busted up the walls looking for wires and copper pipes. What fun!!

  • @Joe-zt7ef
    @Joe-zt7ef4 ай бұрын

    Its sad that Barstow will never be the same.....more people, more crime, more rules.

  • @noyopacific

    @noyopacific

    4 ай бұрын

    Last time I was in Barstow it was a beautiful day. I commented to the desk clerk at my hotel how nice it was there. She looked at me like I was nuts, shook her head and said: "This place is just an arm pit in the desert. I've lived here most of my life so trust me when I say that Barstow sucks!"

  • @michaellang8408
    @michaellang84084 ай бұрын

    "That's the Treehouse where Kyle goes to smoke dope!" 😂😂 I snorted and spit out my beer.. you're one of my all time favorite people! Someday I owe you Chipotle!

  • @ds1968ify
    @ds1968ify4 ай бұрын

    Imagine that not so long ago, people worked hard to build those houses, then worked even harder to upkeep them, pay the mortgages, live their lives etc only to have them end up going under the plow. The real take away from this is life is short and that we, along with most everything else we prioritize, is only temporary. Nothing lasts forever and all will eventually be gone and forgotten. Sounds a little grim yes but still is true if you think about it. All the more reason to live life to the fullest and enjoy our time while taking our turn to be alive. Cheers!

  • @susiek.johnson3923

    @susiek.johnson3923

    4 ай бұрын

    Or their prayers have been answered and now they can get the hell out of California. 😊😊😊😊😊😊

  • @gordybishop2375

    @gordybishop2375

    4 ай бұрын

    Wow​@@susiek.johnson3923

  • @johntilson2535

    @johntilson2535

    4 ай бұрын

    @@susiek.johnson3923 Yea and verily I say, amen!

  • @johnhaug1747

    @johnhaug1747

    4 ай бұрын

    Amen to that brother!@@susiek.johnson3923

  • @Ddax-td7qy

    @Ddax-td7qy

    4 ай бұрын

    Based on the one house with roofing tiles still stacked, it's not clear these folks were long-established, even though that one place was quite a mansion. They might even have thrown a "we hit the lotto" party over the big check they got.

  • @chuckwalla2967
    @chuckwalla29674 ай бұрын

    The demolition crew who left the toilet intact has a good sense of humor.

  • @kevinstonerock3158
    @kevinstonerock31584 ай бұрын

    As far as grandma and Cierra, for those who’ve experienced it, grandma watches Cierra while mom worked and would frequently spend the night. There’d be a lot of time for the two of them to make crafts together so they would accumulate. Later, as grandma grew older and Cierra started working the things just sat there until grandma had to enter a nursing home and had no room to keep everything. Finally, passed on and there was no one to appreciate the memories of what once was. So nearly everything was trashed and thrown away except for a few things that relatives would connect to. I guess all one can do is appreciate and live and love in the moment for we don’t know how things may end up. The love was what made the memories special. Wishing you love Sarah.❤️🙏🫶🏻🫂😎

  • @eugenenelson5398

    @eugenenelson5398

    4 ай бұрын

    I seen a place here in sentral Missouri, that was a farm and the family got bought out took what they wanted and moved away. Leaving all the family pictures and things . And now its an industry park, with gas. Stations and fast food put in.

  • @Audioobscure

    @Audioobscure

    4 ай бұрын

    ​@@eugenenelson5398that happens everywhere, all the time

  • @kaveman6061
    @kaveman60614 ай бұрын

    In the late '40s my Grandparents bought that property that the lake was on. My mother grew up there, I spent a lot of time there visiting my Grandparents. Our family reunions were held there every year for over forty years. I have many good memories on that property. It's sad to see this.

  • @richwhitaker1506
    @richwhitaker15064 ай бұрын

    Progress comes to Barstow once again. Wonderhussy documents the ever changing demands of people on the eternal lands of the Mojave. Keep an eye on all this innovation, Sarah... We all wanna know. 😅😢❤

  • @FlamingRobzilla
    @FlamingRobzilla4 ай бұрын

    That lonely toilet sitting in the middle of all that domestic destruction looks like an accidental art installation to me.

  • @Elhastezy888

    @Elhastezy888

    4 ай бұрын

    She found the homage to the Porcelain God 😆👍🏻

  • @sonny1597
    @sonny15974 ай бұрын

    I was just there a few months ago .. had lunch with Desert Deb and then I stayed the night at the FamCamp at the Marine Corps base. Interesting to see how the railroad can move stuff. Grew up in Northern MN and my town was moved by the mines a couple of times. 🤠

  • @cynthialahti-wong1800

    @cynthialahti-wong1800

    4 ай бұрын

    Me too!! Near hibbing..

  • @sonny1597

    @sonny1597

    4 ай бұрын

    Ahh! Good Sumolinen Tute .. I was Eveleth and one of the Croatians

  • @dennisdrewry5625
    @dennisdrewry56254 ай бұрын

    Went to Apple Valley High from ‘68 -70. Colorado after that👍

  • @Elhastezy888

    @Elhastezy888

    4 ай бұрын

    Did ya ever wear Apple bottom jeans at Apple Valley High? 🤣🤣 omg apologies, I could NOT help myself lol

  • @IEchuckie

    @IEchuckie

    4 ай бұрын

    Good thing you got out of meth capitol

  • @badgerpa9
    @badgerpa94 ай бұрын

    Love that Riviera at 1:54, had a 1972 one for a while in the early 1980s. Actually many nice vehicles there.

  • @JanisLC
    @JanisLC4 ай бұрын

    How sad for those homeowners.. I’d love to hear from anyone that lived there and find out how they made out financially, and where they went !

  • @Ddax-td7qy

    @Ddax-td7qy

    4 ай бұрын

    They probably did well. Maybe even bought out at a premium if the private rail developers were the agency. Even government eminent domain requires "fair market value" nowadays.

  • @oldproracing9360
    @oldproracing93604 ай бұрын

    The reason there are holes in the walls of the abandoned houses is because thieves are stealing the copper wiring.

  • @chrisblack8390
    @chrisblack83904 ай бұрын

    I'm a car gal. Beautiful cars!. At least those people got paid for their land. Seems to me like they been blowing up places on the news. No money. Or poisoning whole towns. Scary! I had a experience today that was the opposite. They turned my old factory into a big fancy distillery. With a strange WONDERFUL restaurant and bar an beautiful store to buy all the cool stuff they make! Every kind of strange drink an even liquor in the food! I'm real sick so i couldn't walk around which bummed me out! I should have asked for a wheel chair. All my friends wanted to go to lunch with me so i had my friend rig it up so we could all go to lunch together. Thank goodness because im to weak to go to that many lunches. Thank you great video!

  • @mannybravo237
    @mannybravo2374 ай бұрын

    Cool modern day ghost town!...we get to see it before the railyard is put in. Remember to fan thru the books for money too. Little Cierra Knevada came west in a box car from Chicago, hopping the train as a five year old to go live w grandma and grandpa, she loved fishin' w her grandpa in the lake. She wanted to work on their ranch, the Į ♡ Ų bar ranch and tend the chickens and feed store. But it never came to fruition, as the railroad had dreams of protecting their transportation wares. Modern progress. Way back in the 40's, up in Emigrant Gap, CA, my late mom and her siblings, gathered ice thrown from the trains. Blocks of ice. The ice was used to keep produce and fruit cold, as it was shipped back east...but the crew 'passed out' ice for the folks😊

  • @ToriLynnH
    @ToriLynnH4 ай бұрын

    I love trains! Worked at the California State Railroad Museum fur three seasons!

  • @TheHellFlower1

    @TheHellFlower1

    4 ай бұрын

    That place is rad. Love it.

  • @_PL_
    @_PL_4 ай бұрын

    As a trucker I’ve been to a few big city railyards many years ago - mainly in Chicago and Houston. It’s funny to think of a large railyard being associated with gentrification, since historically they’re almost always located in the poorest neighborhoods around (e.g., the one I went to on Chicago’s south side was in the shadow of huge and notorious tenements that have since been razed). As for Barstow, I haven't been there in years, but I suppose this new project could have a revitalizing effect on the city. Time will tell. Please do another video showing your host’s car collection. Looked like some great gems there.

  • @mojavedesertsonorandesert9531

    @mojavedesertsonorandesert9531

    4 ай бұрын

    Hodges was about as poor as it gets... Used to pass through there daily as a trucker...

  • @t.r.1708

    @t.r.1708

    4 ай бұрын

    When they built the interstate highways they had to buy the land. It wasn’t gentrification, it was necessary!

  • @brianweber4154

    @brianweber4154

    4 ай бұрын

    Kyle you get yourself home right now!!!!! Oops he's locked up at folsom

  • @Brewangelsfelafel
    @Brewangelsfelafel4 ай бұрын

    April, come she will When streams are ripe and swelled with rain May, she will stay Resting in my arms again June, she'll change her tune In restless walks, she'll prowl the night July, she will fly And give no warning to her flight August, die she must The autumn winds blow chilly and cold September, I remember A love once new has now grown old.

  • @unitedstatesdale

    @unitedstatesdale

    4 ай бұрын

    Thank you. This is a beautiful poem ❤

  • @unitedstatesdale

    @unitedstatesdale

    4 ай бұрын

    ❤🎉

  • @mannacler

    @mannacler

    4 ай бұрын

    ​@@unitedstatesdaleSimon and Garfunkel.

  • @KurtfromLaQuinta

    @KurtfromLaQuinta

    4 ай бұрын

    @@unitedstatesdaleSong...

  • @willhall640
    @willhall6404 ай бұрын

    I want Kyle's life!!! Bike riddin and smoken dope sounds fun.

  • @earlc8440
    @earlc84404 ай бұрын

    II grew up in Grandview on the north side of the tracks at lenwood I left in 1975

  • @karlfonner7589
    @karlfonner75894 ай бұрын

    These are the episodes that I miss where you make up stories about abandoned houses

  • @someguy9778

    @someguy9778

    4 ай бұрын

    lol, almost forgot about that.

  • @lvsluggo007
    @lvsluggo0074 ай бұрын

    I guess when this BIG is done, Union Pacific's Bailey Yard in North Platte, Nebraska won't be the largest rail yard in the world.

  • @franklinnorth7708
    @franklinnorth77084 ай бұрын

    Mexican crews used to dismantle California Houses, number and mark all of the studs, transport and reassemble in Mexico.

  • @georgeaddison5628
    @georgeaddison56284 ай бұрын

    Finally got to catch up on my videos alot of nice cars👍

  • @JPClef
    @JPClef4 ай бұрын

    That was interesting... albeit a little sad. You have honed your craft well. Good Job. May that desert wind be at your back!

  • @Elhastezy888
    @Elhastezy8884 ай бұрын

    Got a Rugrats commercial..... on a WonderHussy vid .... 😆 another excellent episode luv 🤍

  • @BrianHeffernan-qz4xd
    @BrianHeffernan-qz4xd4 ай бұрын

    That was an interesting video, Sarah. You should post a monthly video once construction starts to keep us updated. Also, I hope you do the Route 66 trip. You should get a lot of great videos from that trip.

  • @RoadTrekker866
    @RoadTrekker8664 ай бұрын

    Palmdale and Lancaster California used to be a sleepy desert town. The only reason it was there because the Air Force Base used have a base there. Once upon a time the only ones living out there were off duty police officers from Los Angeles and the surrounding areas so they can live out there comfortably mostly crime free, then here comes the county of Los Angeles deciding to build that huge county jail which all the families from the Los Angeles and surrounding crime areas moved out there so they could be close to their family members locked up. Lancaster and Palmdale is now seriously crime ridden.

  • @captainldd
    @captainldd4 ай бұрын

    toilet cover can be a good way to tell when a house was built. Usually a toilet has a manufactured within a few years of installation. and toilets are so reliable, no one usually replaces them. so under the tank cover, there should be a date. This can give you an idea of how old a house is. If the toilet was not replaced during a remodeling.

  • @alkennedy1124
    @alkennedy11244 ай бұрын

    The BNSF railroad,makes $1 million an hour, or more,if a train is sitting stopped on the rail line, 150.000 per train per hour, ,you add it up, they are building a container rail road yard near Mojave too, it supposed to be the largest container JB hunt yard in California,,,thanks beautiful lady , thanks BigAl California..

  • @autumnreigns7266
    @autumnreigns72664 ай бұрын

    Most disconcerting of it all. How quickly, and closely, it is coming towards us here in NYE County, Pahrump, specifically. Kinda makes an impact when you consider what is currently happening in growth right around the community of Pahrump.

  • @IEchuckie

    @IEchuckie

    4 ай бұрын

    I've never heard anything good about parump

  • @Elhastezy888
    @Elhastezy8884 ай бұрын

    Ooooh I have a friend who would *LOVE* for you to come back + do a vid of those cars!!! 🚘

  • @jwfinley7808

    @jwfinley7808

    4 ай бұрын

    I lived in Barstow in 83-85 Happy I moved!

  • @jwfinley7808

    @jwfinley7808

    4 ай бұрын

    Id like to see those cars you talk about?

  • @BlankHeart4Ever
    @BlankHeart4Ever4 ай бұрын

    The holes are probably from copper being stripped from the houses

  • @Elhastezy888
    @Elhastezy8884 ай бұрын

    I really really think you should have kept the Valentine

  • @faerieSAALE
    @faerieSAALE4 ай бұрын

    That GINORMOUS RAILWAY SHIPPING YARD better hire many extra security personnel to keep things under control.

  • @willhall640
    @willhall6404 ай бұрын

    Seems to me it would be easier to just address the crime issue in LA.

  • @Elhastezy888

    @Elhastezy888

    4 ай бұрын

    Makes one wonder what the real reason is (?)

  • @wendygerrish4964

    @wendygerrish4964

    4 ай бұрын

    Money, water, realestate.

  • @robertalcorn9591

    @robertalcorn9591

    4 ай бұрын

    Have you been to the Los Angeles area lately?

  • @willhall640

    @willhall640

    4 ай бұрын

    @@robertalcorn9591 it's been a few years. I used to have friends there and in Van Nuys and up in San Francisco but they've all moved away over the last few years.

  • @ty70359
    @ty703594 ай бұрын

    That's exactly what Barstow's McDonald's needs is more customers...😮

  • @IanPunter

    @IanPunter

    4 ай бұрын

    Are you referring to the Mcd that has old train cars? This area of the proposed railyard is much closer to the lenwood Mcd (along with nearly every kind of fast food eatery, (lenwood is fast food paradise, especially the best del taco)

  • @t.r.1708
    @t.r.17084 ай бұрын

    When I was trucking we always called Barstow “Barstool!” Thx WH!

  • @witchhazel9017

    @witchhazel9017

    4 ай бұрын

    That’s what I, a resident of Barstow refer to it as well because people only stop here to use the toilet on their way to Vegas or Los Angeles

  • @HurairahHomestead

    @HurairahHomestead

    4 ай бұрын

    You aren't the only one who called it that! I don't even know what 'Barstow' is. I know someone who moved to Barstool.

  • @playwithmeinsecondlife6129
    @playwithmeinsecondlife61294 ай бұрын

    I love watching you Sarah Jane!

  • @MySORRELL
    @MySORRELL4 ай бұрын

    THANKS!

  • @stvooplayhouse
    @stvooplayhouse4 ай бұрын

    Looks like old grow houses

  • @gordonyates7972
    @gordonyates79724 ай бұрын

    Kyle would of liked this video!😂

  • @boondockinnrockin5184
    @boondockinnrockin51844 ай бұрын

    Hi Sarah!!! Boondockin

  • @kevintreon5099
    @kevintreon50994 ай бұрын

    Please! Stop apologizing for wind, windows, quality of vlog. YOU and your travels are what we're interested in. Period. Love ya

  • @brucesahroian1482
    @brucesahroian14824 ай бұрын

    WHY NOT?? I bet property there is cheap as "dirt"! Couldn't find a better place!!

  • @harrybond1485
    @harrybond14854 ай бұрын

    They took out the copper and brass for scrap. Hi Sarah😂

  • @DarrinR.-pq8md
    @DarrinR.-pq8md4 ай бұрын

    In the United States no one actually owns land. The entire country was bought by the Railroad in the 1800s. They have full right of emanate domain. Even though trains seem so last century, it's still the cheapest way to get goods across country.

  • @victoriabaker4400

    @victoriabaker4400

    4 ай бұрын

    It's also the least polluting.

  • @Wesley-uo3rn
    @Wesley-uo3rn4 ай бұрын

    Cool video

  • @godfellas483
    @godfellas4834 ай бұрын

    15 years ago, Barstow made those people a promise of a better community if they built their new house there. Now it's, you have to go somewhere else...I imagine people are mad as heck. Barstow is in for some major changes. People from LA will be transferring in, and bringing their big city problems with them. 😎

  • @unclemuir

    @unclemuir

    4 ай бұрын

    Barstow already has big city problems. I saw news story that said they had 7 major gangs there and a 20% unemployment rate. Not the place I would move to.

  • @g.k.dickenson9259

    @g.k.dickenson9259

    4 ай бұрын

    Bringing their "Socialist" foolishness. Wherever you go, there YOU are!

  • @nickn626

    @nickn626

    4 ай бұрын

    ​@@g.k.dickenson9259 I'm pretty sure you mean "Capitalist." The railroad barons aren't socialist.

  • @j.b.9895

    @j.b.9895

    4 ай бұрын

    Those houses were probably worth practically nothing on the open market. The owners probably jumped at the chance for a decent price and got the hell otta there

  • @HurairahHomestead

    @HurairahHomestead

    4 ай бұрын

    A lot of parents started moving to Nevada to get their gangbanger kids out of the gangs in LA. All they REALLY did was bring the Bloods and Crips to Las Vegas. It just metastised the gang culture.

  • @Kelly-tj8xv
    @Kelly-tj8xv4 ай бұрын

    My dream item if I had a house - a BUILT IN PANTRY. Heaven!!!!!

  • @RealSB83
    @RealSB834 ай бұрын

    Well Golly!!!!

  • @ponyhorton4295
    @ponyhorton42954 ай бұрын

    That Kyle was such a dudebro!

  • @johnking6252
    @johnking62524 ай бұрын

    It was a huge yard at the turn of the century! Just saying, about time it was expanded 👍🇺🇲

  • @francikaa1
    @francikaa14 ай бұрын

    The last home in the video was built in 2021. 4 bd 4 ba 3,633 sqft 32322 Hinkley Rd, Barstow, CA 92311 Sold $1,500,000 Sold on 12/22/22

  • @FishplateFilms
    @FishplateFilms4 ай бұрын

    Hi Sarah, as a huge railfan , and a modeller of US railroads since I was a kid, I visited the US in 2015 to see my trains! The biggest rail yard atm is in North Platte , Nebraska , which I visited on my trip, which was amazing , but I guess its about to be overtaken? It will be a good boost to Barstow, which I also went through on the way to Tehachapi...another great railfan spot! Great video again. Cheers Gregg.

  • @dinopulizzi8481
    @dinopulizzi84814 ай бұрын

    Another Wonderful and Informative Video ! Two Lane Blacktop - The Stakes 2:04 (Criterion collection)

  • @CharliesTheMan
    @CharliesTheMan4 ай бұрын

    The houses have been copper mined by tweakers, that's why there's holes in the sheetrock in some of the homes (some is just from vandalism). Any copper pipes or copper in electrical wire will often be stolen because it's worth so much in scrap metal.

  • @VegasheatX-tra

    @VegasheatX-tra

    4 ай бұрын

    By 2009 many houses were built with plastic water pipe...so wire is about it....

  • @Rarebond11th-ze5lw
    @Rarebond11th-ze5lw4 ай бұрын

    Burlington Northern, /SanFransisco Line. The railway was never abandoned...wasn't even vacated. Adjacencies are subject to rail access... until abandoned by the railroad. Vacated is a 75 years of non use specification.

  • @desertbighornsheep

    @desertbighornsheep

    4 ай бұрын

    BNSF = Burlington Northern Santa Fe.

  • @HurairahHomestead

    @HurairahHomestead

    4 ай бұрын

    What?

  • @RicoSuave-ee6gg
    @RicoSuave-ee6gg4 ай бұрын

    Amazon is NOT your friend! But people can't see five minutes ahead now a days let alone a few years! No brain cells left!🥴🤪 Smart cities ,.... 100% horrific enslavement!

  • @feelinguru-vywiththepaingu9808
    @feelinguru-vywiththepaingu98084 ай бұрын

    There is so much blank desert out there, I wonder why they chose that spot. Surely it cost more to buy and demolish the homes.

  • @geo7918
    @geo79184 ай бұрын

    Building the biggest railroad yard in the country 😮

  • @marcthorner8338
    @marcthorner83384 ай бұрын

    Okay.. once again, great video.. My observation for the holes in the walls? someone was scavenging for copper wire or copper pipe

  • @Kittycat822
    @Kittycat8224 ай бұрын

    Wow…that is great news for more jobs. They need to expand the railroad. hopefully it is far enough away from the toxic underground Hinkley plume from PG&E. What the movie Aaron Brockovich was based on. There were reports it was spreading.

  • @davidfairless1028

    @davidfairless1028

    4 ай бұрын

    Once construction is complete, maybe 10 more people will have jobs. Most of the switching will be done by automated locomotives. Barstow won't change; it will still have high unemployment and the gang members will have more stuff to steal.

  • @HurairahHomestead

    @HurairahHomestead

    4 ай бұрын

    Erin Brockovich.

  • @katherinespencer2633
    @katherinespencer26334 ай бұрын

    It’s incredible what this area will look like when completed. Can only guess, a larger more productive area? It will serve its purpose.

  • @richardelliott8352
    @richardelliott83524 ай бұрын

    Respectfully, I think someone might have been telling our good host tall tales, because you can buy a heck of a lot of security for 1.5 billion dollars. I think the cost of land had a lot more to do with locating in Barstow, because the new super capacity container ships that can fill a mile and a half or more of rail cars in one unloading need a place for those railcars to go before being assembled into trains , and coastal land around Los Angeles costs substantially more than in Barstow. Union Pacific also has a big rail yard in the Barstow area. Plus, people living around the port were starting to become empowered enough to get the port to do something about the air pollution of the trucks waiting for containers , so it was probably just easier to move all that stuff out of town. the crime problem was not at the secured ports, it was in a siding where they were storing cars with just a chain link fence barrier in a high crime area without any other security . Because the loss was generally charged to the shipper's insurance, and not the transporting company, the rail roads didn't care to spend for obviously needed security or even to consider loss prevention strategies. . . There are places in most big cities where you don't want to park your car overnight.

  • @hburke575
    @hburke5754 ай бұрын

    The direct TV house was so beautiful at one time, I'm sure.

  • @Skidoo22
    @Skidoo224 ай бұрын

    I much prefer this Wednesday/Friday schedule. And i love these desert Route 66 videos.

  • @stvooplayhouse
    @stvooplayhouse4 ай бұрын

    I would stay on this chapter

  • @SteveTheFordGuy985
    @SteveTheFordGuy9854 ай бұрын

    Hi Sarah,One of my favorite old car is a 1957 Ford. I loved the black 2dr. Thanks, Sarah.

  • @markkemper2817
    @markkemper28174 ай бұрын

    Hello Sarah

  • @thatoldbiddy2
    @thatoldbiddy24 ай бұрын

    Its the same business model FedX uses. Its a distribution hub. This is a HUGE change for so many people ... really incredible. thanks for sharing..

  • @trickygenenorman2560
    @trickygenenorman25604 ай бұрын

    Next episode, digging up graves and putting a " story" to the remains.

  • @dalejensen5828
    @dalejensen58284 ай бұрын

    Warren Buffet owns 100% of BNSF Railroad. They had over 100 ships from China backed up at the LA and Long Beach ports they were completely jammed for space. It was resolved by the railroad hauling containers out of the port as fast as possible to Salt Lake City for sorting and distribution, that is still going on to this day. The new rail yard moves the sorting and distribution terminals much closer to LA. Theft in LA was a problem, but not the driving force for the change in rail operations. Additional security could be placed but the problem was trains where backed up all over LA while sorting was attempted at the port. Amazon obviously building there because much of there incoming goods will be right there. Jobs, jobs and more jobs. Think of the housing building boom coming.

  • @DwayneandSandiDempsey-iy8sm
    @DwayneandSandiDempsey-iy8sm4 ай бұрын

    I love when you make up stories about “Kyle”! Damn Kyle has been up to again. 😂😂😂

  • @michaelmorgan7893
    @michaelmorgan78934 ай бұрын

    The Santa Fe built the community of Barstow. And it's the intersection of the main line for the Santa Fe that runs up through the Central Valley, on to Oakland and Richmond in the San Francisco Bay area, and the main line to Los Angeles and San Diego and from Barstow, eastwards towards Texas and Chicago. The railroad at Barstow had been modernized once in about 1973- 1976, and that's the current facility still in use today. I cannot imagine more expansion. But hey, if it creates jobs...

  • @racheldelfin342
    @racheldelfin3424 ай бұрын

    That's great that this is creating more jobs for Barstow. Hope to see the story with the cars soon ❤

  • @juliehernandez1914
    @juliehernandez19144 ай бұрын

    I retired out of Barstow with BNSF a year and half ago. If the RR wants something they'll get it.

  • @susana301301
    @susana3013014 ай бұрын

    Yep, progress is knocking down a community and put up a railroad yard!

  • @sheridowsett9929

    @sheridowsett9929

    4 ай бұрын

    Pave Paradise, put up a parking lot….

  • @charlesbritzman501
    @charlesbritzman5014 ай бұрын

    Don’t know your entire catalog of Barstow related videos, but no Barstow Doc is complete w/o a visit to an offroders bar & grill about 15 mins South of town in Stoddard valley called the Slash X. It’s on Barstow Rd (aka Hwy 247)

  • @davidfairless1028

    @davidfairless1028

    4 ай бұрын

    Used to ride there on the power line road from camping at the Hodge Road exit of I-15. Mid 80's, fun times

  • @charlesbritzman501

    @charlesbritzman501

    4 ай бұрын

    @@davidfairless1028 definitely a quick and dirty way to get outta LA and be somewhere totally different in 2 Hrs . I’ve always been a Jeeper and got to know Stoddard by attending the a high Desert Roundups over Memorial Day.

  • @jbgood7694

    @jbgood7694

    4 ай бұрын

    A scene from the movie "Erin Brockovich" was filmed there

  • @yeticusrex1661
    @yeticusrex16614 ай бұрын

    I really hope that the BIG will cut back on trucks going through the Cajon Pass. The Pass always bogs down on daily basis. Copper/wire scrappers got into those houses.

  • @jburnett8152
    @jburnett81524 ай бұрын

    I always keep forgetting to mention the great job you do in the wind. Of the thousands of videos I have watched you have it under control. 🏆

  • @johnbogle6475

    @johnbogle6475

    4 ай бұрын

    Agreed. Audio guy here. I can't speak for Sarah but I believe she's using a Rode (Australian Microphone company) "rat fur" wind screen. These are the choice of audio professionals. Yes her audio is usually quite good (she uses dynamic compression and watches her levels).

  • @alkennedy1124
    @alkennedy11244 ай бұрын

    Oh yes there are tons of people working at Fort Irwin,,, and they need a bigger road to get to work,and Barstow has been working on a New bridge over the Barstow railroad on first,,,, thanks BigAl.

  • @user-bd5nh5eb4b
    @user-bd5nh5eb4b4 ай бұрын

    The Railroad should take up the concrete with the children's names and build a memorial to the past community. It would not cost much and would preserve the area s memory. Some of my relatives were displaced in Mississippi who lived in a town called Holcut. When The Tombigby Water way was built they bulldozed the entire town. ❤ Love your channel there are no better redbaron Chattanooga TN.

  • @user-jx2xw8jf5s
    @user-jx2xw8jf5s4 ай бұрын

    Hi SJ, thank you, some of your videos make a person think about how quickly life can change!! Excellent as always-best wishes, gg

  • @fourwheelcamper5491
    @fourwheelcamper54914 ай бұрын

    Hello from Colorado

  • @spiderfan1974
    @spiderfan19744 ай бұрын

    With imminent domain the price you get depends on you. The offer starts out very fair. The longer you drag your feet and refuse the less money you get. Sure it's not market value but it's essentially cash money. No banks no loans here is your cash.

  • @VegasheatX-tra

    @VegasheatX-tra

    4 ай бұрын

    No pain in the azz realtor getting his money for nothing....

  • @johnkiefer8982
    @johnkiefer89824 ай бұрын

    Not just random vandalism (we’ll, maybe a little) ; recycling the copper plumbing and wiring

  • @PhyllisGarcia-cf7fz
    @PhyllisGarcia-cf7fz4 ай бұрын

    Wow 😯 such a shame that these homes are going to be only a memory to those who lived there, or visited the folks who lived there. 🥴 But on the flip side of all this, Barstow will really be on the map for having the largest railroad facility in the west coast, if not the nation...right? 🤔 Not to mention all the jobs it will provide the community and nearby cities! I guess when you look at the really "BIG"" picture, it's going to be a good thing....a shot in the arm for the town of Barstow. All I hope is that the owners of those homes found another lovely house 🏡 somewhere else where they can call home, again! Thanks for showing us this place.... because it doesn't look like it's going to be around for much longer. 🙆 Great video. 👍 On to the next one! 👓🥾🎥 ❤️

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