I absolutely love this video. I love your descriptions. Since I am blind, your descriptions are very good at helping me with the things I can’t see. I also love your history knowledge.

I love the new logo it looks really good.

@kevenlonsdale1354

3 жыл бұрын

Ditto

Miss you guys, this content is exciting, thank you for letting us be there

I live within 5 minutes of watkins yard. The indiana and ohio line only gets used 2-3 times a week usually after dark. It was a real shame to see buckeye steel go. Lived in Columbus my whole life and buckeye steel was a true landmark for rail fans and non rail fans alike. Plus, I can't tell you how many times I been down corr rd and I never knew that. Thanks for sharing.

during the summer of '69 a friend and I hiked the tracks through Waterford, Ct. to SS 110, a wooden tower with a coal bin and an outhouse..... the elderly operator (M-F) waved us up from the window row and we got to inspect the track diagram and lever bank.... we drank the coolest most tasty water from his water cooler and shared two Hostess fruit pies with him..... that fall, with Penn Central now in control, the tower was "deleted" and someone had kicked the outhouse down the ravine... like you, I believe something unique was simply discarded.... insurance makes this happen ever more often.... like these towers, your video narratives are very unique..... thank you from all of us Bill in Vermont

Baltimore is close to digging out the Howard Tunnel to finally allow double stacks EB to Delaware. What a huge improvement to help the port excel even further. Can't wait....

So glad to be a gandy dancer on the east terminal railway. Gram, VERY nice camera work. Smooth and fluid. Brian, love the narration in the video. You two are having great adventures together that can never be topped.

I couldn`t wait till yer next video. Greetings from a former engineer on a EMD G26-HCW-2. Slovenia EU

Car repair and storage reminds me of the tale of the LaSalle and Bureau County Railroad.

@larrylawson5172

3 жыл бұрын

Yep. They kept "borrowing" cars that needed repair. Paint them up with a new car number and collect the use payments. Some one did hard time for that little trick.

8:08 *My question got answered and my name got mentioned. I feel honored!* I figured you knew the business well and knew how you would get customers before you ever started this project. Some business owners take a "build it and they will come" approach. Meaning, they have no idea how to generate business but once they "build it" then they will figure out how to make money. That is definitely not you, you knew that you would utilize brokers before you ever got started.

You talking about the welded rail joints. I spent much of the eighties in Alamogordo, New Mexico, which was on the So Pac Tucumcari line. At one point, the So Pac came through with a M.O.W. train that had a car on it for welding segmented rail. It would grab the rail, remove the fishplate, align the two ends, weld the rail, then grind the head of the rail smooth. The result was track that looked just like what you showed, every 39 feet. Didn't see it in operation, but the train spent the night on a spur by the Alamogordo depot. When welding segmented track, you don't have a lot of choice where to put the weld, you kinda have to put the weld where the joints are.

Great logo!!! Whoever made it knows what they’re doing!!!

Danny Harmon is a Pro and he can sleep late and still have ALL the Details he needs. 😬👍

Those two locos at 28:10 probably had to back past the signals, and then the switch could be thrown to the proper track. Notice they were on the other side of the other signals facing the other way at first.

You mentioned the ribbon rail. I noticed the rail line from where I was a kid, they didn't replace the rails. Rather removed the fish plates and welded the rails together. The holes from the bolts remain. Just like what you filmed.

Thumbs up! Another great video.

I enjoy rail fanning too.

Nice, I railfan all the time. Love the map. The new logo looks very good. I am looking forward to buying a shirt and a hat when you put out a store.

Good thing you passed on the Buckeye truck. Those wheel's are split rim widow makers. A lot.of tire companies won't work on those wheels and they are very pricey to convert to standard rim and lug nuts.

@rearspeaker6364

3 жыл бұрын

they make tubeless rims that mount 22.5's on that 20 inch hub.

@jonusle2937

3 жыл бұрын

@@rearspeaker6364 in California, most tire shops won't touch those wheels. 20 years ago, everyone worked on them, these days not so many.

THANK YOU...for sharing.

Awesome new logo! Looking forward to more from you guys!

hey you got one of those manual gps things that require no power...a map!

I'm incredibly impressed with the increase in production quality, great work!

Sure do miss you guys hope you have time to come back

Good morning from St John Parish, Louisiana 27 Jan 21.

Just found you great job ! " I hear a train whistle " ha too cool.

You were giving some interesting facts. Here is one for you, sprint telephone system. It was originally southern pacific railroad internal network telephone. Finally bought by united telephone co.

@martindoyle831

3 жыл бұрын

Neat. Unitel on canada was the combined CN AND CP rail telephone network. Cp sold it to sprint in 92 ish then it became AT&T and was then bought up by rogers.

Pappy you are so amazing! Great Channel. Mikey

This was super interesting! Great video

Awesome!!!!! Hope you catch some old emds

Hurray! You guys finally have a logo! It is so beautiful! Hope to see some amazing merch soon! :)

I love you guys took some time to do some rail fanning.

Love the new logo! I was in Columbus last February and couldn’t believe how much rail traffic there was

Great episode. I mean I love watch y’all work on y’all’s terminal. But watching you two train watch and talk about industrials areas that y’all did a past clean up at, and explain other areas is pretty cool and interesting.

Jaw tooth is the king if train video. You on the other hand are the king of rail and historical information. Good luck on your new venture. Rail car storage is good revenue

You got some good action there.Alot of trains to.

Made for a great video bro I enjoy looking at rail life up your way. I quite often view the live cam at Belen or Tehachapi loop. Hope you two track down something that will work for your needs. Many years ago I drove a switcher on a private siding, in NZ we call them shunters. They updated to a center cab so had to get my diesel electric ticket (license) to drive it. Safe travels

Like seeing all those rail served industries!

Great video!

I really like your videos Keep up the information

Logo looks great! I absolutely loved this railfanning fieldtrip. All the history and details and geography- great stuff! More of that whenever the mood strikes- every bit as interesting and entertaining as when you're working on your railroad. Great stuff!

@eastterminalrailway5975

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much!

Enjoyed the video 👍👍👍❤️

Dick Tracy was a Popular Comic Strip of Railroad Workers and Gravel Gertie is the affectionate nickname of a part of the Clifton Forge Line of the C & O Railroad stretching from Hinton, WV, to Clifton Forge, VA, delivering limestone gravel quarried from Fort Spring to the iron furnaces of Virginia as s fluxing agent.

Yeah that sawtooth would know all about those trains

Finally got an ETR herald. Nice.

First one looked good. Especially with the coal shoot door. Perfect for ballast control between the rails. The third one is cosmetic. Sandblast the surface rust. Primer black paint. Ready to go...

I love the old history

The term you were looking for at the beginning is daily double.

@charlessharrardiii7086

3 жыл бұрын

Also check out Jawtooth. He does railfanning on roads in Ohio and Kentucky.

Watching in class!

Cousins Lived in Lancaster, OH. Uncle worked at Anchor Hocking Glass. Was there once/twice.👍

Love the new logo

Yes a new video

NS units come out of the siding on to the mainline and stopped past the signal , got a signal to come back and cross over to the other mainline . I hated running long hood forward blocking the view ahead . Back in the 70's when I worked for Missouri Pacific before Union Pacific took over I was working on the Plasser Tampers I maintained down near Ferriday Louisiana ( Home of ' Jerry Lee Louis ' and there was over 1800 mostly ' RailBox ' boxcars in storage on that subdivision before it was abandoned several years later . The rail cars that went down there went by barge over the river to Natchez , Mississippi . Two subdivisions connected just five miles from Ferriday , one stayed in service longer then the one where they stored the 1800 cars and I remember a very large grain company had to get a lot of empties and it took three days for the switch crew to pull several hundred cars so they could spot the empties and after the grain cars were loaded they had to repeat the same thing to get the loaded cars out . Later in my Union Pacific Railroad career I was a rail train operator as we kept our agreement union status ( we were agreement so we got paid overtime and double time unlike the UP railtrain guys were supervisors and were salaried , no overtime for them ) and we had to ride our rail trains any time we had rail on our rail trains . We stayed on our trains when there was a crew change and kept on going until we got to our location to unload the rail . My longest trip was from Alexandria , Louisiana where I picked up 18 strings of used curve rail and took it to Blackfoot , Idaho . 2015 miles and I was on duty 110 consecutive hours , from 7 am Saturday to 10 pm Wednesday night . Stopped for an hour in North Platte , Nebraska to fuel the engines and that was the only stop until I got to Blackfoot just north of Pocatella . The welded joints across from each other is common , the welded joint is stronger , the drilled holes are weaker . Great video , keep'm coming . Over and out from central Arkansas . Thanks

Very nice video. My grandfather was an engineer for the B&O back in the days of steam. I wonder what he would think watching those long intermodal trains go by? I'm sure he'd be amazed.

I love following your track and stock growth. If i lived closer i would love to work for you

@hamiltonsullivan6563

3 жыл бұрын

I'd do the same... its a cool little operation

I noticed the new jacket right at the start of the video. Your videos are getting better and better keep up the good work.I agree with you just walk away.

Love the channel. You were in my general neighborhood too! Live in Lewis Center between Worthington and Delaware. Yes, I live next to the NS and CSX lines that parallel each other through Marion. Loved the Parsons Yard footage as I worked at a motel that housed the C&O crews from Russel KY. Picked them up and dropped them off on the track side of the brick building. The crew caller and register was in the basement. Thanks for the memory. Keep it coming. I am hooked!

@farmerbill6855

3 жыл бұрын

I went to high school in Delaware, those tracks went right past the end zone of our football field. Used to hop trains after school to get to a park a couple miles south of the school playing hooky. Damn, that was a long time ago.

@jameskeating6997

3 жыл бұрын

@@farmerbill6855 Those tracks are the original C&O line from Columbus and go up on west side of Delaware, yes? I live by what used to be the Pennsylvania ( now NS) and the CCC&StL (now CSX). CSX got the line following the closure of Conrail. Very ugly trackage at time of change over.

New sub man. Pretty cool content so far. In Lafayette, Indiana we got a caboose that gets pulled along for inter changing along yards!. Don't see them much in service anymore and it's always awesome to see one!!

I live between Columbus and Marion right beside the CSX train tracks. I love the stuff in Marion next to the old Power Shovel Plant .

When it comes to cutting the brush and smaller trees, the little chain saw looks like a lot of work. When I cleared some land at our lake home, I used a gasoline weed eater with a cutting blade instead of plastic line. Worked great! Has its limitations as to trunk size, but you can cut right at ground level. More done in less time! Thanks guys.....now get to work on the next video! ;-)

WAY too much for the trucks of that vintage and visual condition. Logo is terrific. Love the hands on, get your hands dirty attitudes. Great channel guys!!!!!

Heya man, COAL POLLUTES! Haven't you heard!

The Southern use to run long hood forward too. I use to get the Sou 315, bound for Houston, at East Bridge Jct. It’s on the east side of the Huey P Long Bridge over the Mississippi River, just up river from New Orleans. It was a real pain to run long hood forward for 233 miles. Also back then it was before engines and cabooses had the multi channel, all railroad, radios. All we had was our hand held radios, which only had a range of 1 to 5 miles. There were trips that I never spoke to the conductor after leaving EB Jct, until we arrived at our away from home terminal. Very often the Sou radio on the caboose would not work.

A two-fecta is called an exacta. Keep up the good work!

Those are called ' Well cars " therefore they stack them two high as needed .

Where I'm from we love the c&o in between huntington wv and Russell ky we are in ashland ky great channel any neat c&o stuff definitely show it to us

Love what you are doing, Truly enjoy watching your Videos. Just a thought - buy a used dump trailer, take the wheels off and mount it !

I read something recently and saw a video where the old Jefferson Proving Ground north of Madson, Indiana is being used for car storage. They showed multiple tracks in a yard there with cars in storage. Being an old military base it is probably a good use of the old rails there.

I love all the videos. Yep even the ones that I don't rate or comment on. Yeah even the not so good ones 🙄. I wish I could watch them all in the order that they were made. But I'm just a poor boy and couldn't afford all of that.

Buckeye Steel is why knuckle couplers are known as "buckeye couplers" in the UK.

The welded joint placement you saw is dictated by several factors. The crossing panel joints are sometimes near parallel, depending on the decisions made by the installing foreman. Usually I could achieve at least 3 feet of stagger, more if it was a three panel installation ( track panel, track panel for the crossing, track panel) achieved by removing anchors and sliding rails, then cutting in slugs to fill the gaps. It was recommended that welds be at least 18 feet apart, never less than 10 to avoid propagation of defects (Your rails fall apart). No welds were allowed in the crossing, we would use rail lengths up to 88 feet if necessary. Parallel joints end up occurring at rail and road crossings, and signal points where insulated slugs were cut into the track and welded. Parallel joints are not prohibited, just not recommended as longitudinal stress will affect track elevation (the weather humps your track) and rail fracture can affect track geometry (gauge, degree of curvature, alignment) when a rail breaks under tension in winter.

Crazy to see an NS train pull long hood forward

@alcopower5710

3 жыл бұрын

Thinking the same thing

@hamiltonsullivan6563

3 жыл бұрын

@@alcopower5710 right... what are we going old school

@alcopower5710

3 жыл бұрын

@@hamiltonsullivan6563 ....sure looks like it

@hamiltonsullivan6563

3 жыл бұрын

@@alcopower5710 o wonder if they will start to make that a normal thing?

The CSX caboose has remote control equipment in it to control a locomotive that does not have remote control. Hook up the cables and set the locomotive to MU(multiple unit) and control it with the caboose.

Great job as usual. The logo looks ok, yeah just ok. You didnt pay homage to your Coast Guard days. Maybe inside the pocket watch you could put crossed anchors the still make the quadrant of the RR sign. Semper Paratus brother.

Don't know if this was mentioned but when the long hood forward came by and just sat there he had to go past the signal block for the yard or dispatcher to throw the switch. The switch can't be operated until the system knows the train/engines are out of that block. You were sitting right in the middle of a signal block. (signals facing away from you at both ends)

ALCo, gotta get one

Wait until these guy get a drone, be awsome video footage!

Love the history lesson. Sad the Governments dont care about Heavy industry. Im an intermodal trucker in Cincinnati. The Florida east coast is an interesting line. Got bought out by a Mexican outfit a few years ago. They handle alot of port work in Florida. Their cars are on CSX and NS both.

It always is funny to see a car like the FEC one in another state that's not even close to where it should be. I've always wondered why certain cars get migrated to other lines.

An old S Series International - The Buckeye Landscape truck. If it's got a DT466 series engine it would be a good buy. Too bad the body and cab are falling off the frame.

“Hurry up and wait,” made me a lot of money on the RR. We had a lot of, “Hurry up and wait,” in the Air Force too, but no extra pay.

@richzahnle8198

3 жыл бұрын

6918th?

@billmorris2613

3 жыл бұрын

Rich Zahnle What about 6918th?

@richzahnle8198

3 жыл бұрын

@@billmorris2613 Just wondering if you are the Bill Morris that was in the 6918th, Hakata Japan

@billmorris2613

3 жыл бұрын

Rich Zahnle No not me. I never got to Japan. Close though, I was in The Philippines.

@eastterminalrailway5975

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your service to our great country. None of this would be possible without brave men and women like you. God bless America

I have one of the original Pennsylvania Railroad spikes from 1950

There's a bunch of old diesel locomotives in north Connersville Indiana if you guys are looking for one. Located south eastern Indiana. Not to far away.

I think AAR requires railroads that have long backing moves to use a caboose so the conductor want have to ride on the end car a lot safer

I live in east Idaho and Watco funnels grain-potatoes etc into Union Pacific

hi guys like your work, work on sleeppers during winter is silly,frozen ,,noway ,the only way is too drop a steam fire bbox on iit ,,if i lived their i would be a pest,always in the road,in the workshop is the only place in snow,talking trains over coffee.

Buckeye yard is being sold and scrapped. I know someone that’s already asked the scrap dealer about all the railroad signals

@alcopower5710

3 жыл бұрын

Hate to hear that

@Paw95

3 жыл бұрын

Alco Power man who works for NS told me this. Said they are even selling it in separate parcels because they don’t want it in one big chunk of land. Why that I will never know.

@alcopower5710

3 жыл бұрын

@@Paw95 .....maybe selling it in separate parcels because they don’t want anyone to use it for any railroad purposes.

@Paw95

3 жыл бұрын

Alco Power that’s a good possibility. I have no idea what others connect to it.

@rearspeaker6364

3 жыл бұрын

@@Paw95 more money in lots than 1 big piece.

Probably the reason for the single stack containers is.. weight.. those end cars have max 125000 lb and the center single axle cars are 75000-90000 depending on the type of well car. The RRs do this with 20 footers a lot. Another answer could be they got unloaded on route.

You should get Jawtooth to work for you since he likes the I&ORY too.

The Watkins Yard is named for Hays Watkins, former CSX CEO.

If you get a chance read the trains article covering well car origins, railroads at the time almost abandoned the double stack concept due to the cars being plagued by derailment issues

23:50 I'm not wondering about the joints comming together. The rails on the crossing are grooved ones with steel ties. The joints are telling more about where one contractor was ending its job and another was starting.

NS 9392 is a GE D9-44CW, and 1009 is an EMD SD70ACe

Hey y'all got a new logo!

@eastterminalrailway5975

3 жыл бұрын

do you like it?

@lowcountryplanespotter2816

3 жыл бұрын

@@eastterminalrailway5975 I do!

@truckrobo147

3 жыл бұрын

@@eastterminalrailway5975 of course! If fits your company

@matthewtaylor9452

3 жыл бұрын

@@eastterminalrailway5975 Yeah it looks good

@eastterminalrailway5975

3 жыл бұрын

Well coming next is merchandise!!!

Does the cn rail go by here in tje city

I think for what y'all want to do you could buy the materials and build a gravity action dump bed yourselves for what you would spend on a dump truck bed and modifying it to work. Far as that goes to make it hydraulic dump wouldn't be that much more expensive either to build yourselves. A tank to hold hydraulic fluid that you could build yourself, a hydraulic cylinder that maybe could be found at a junk yard or buy new and a hydraulic pump that you could salvage or buy new, then your hoses. There is the work involved to build that but either way you go, be it gravity dump or hydraulic; you'd have work involved to fix and mount whatever you bought anyway. I think I'd start scrounging up materials and penciling out a plan. Most junkyards in my area, not sure about your area; have metal that people have brought as scrap that the yard will sell you. Nothing wrong with it except it's covered in surface rust and still flat and useable. You'd have to paint it but you'd have to paint a dump bed you buy too. Six to one, half a dozen to the other. Just kicking around ideas. Stay well. -Wil 👍

Watching this video while I have the Elkhart, IN cam running silently on the monitor to my side... and an intermodal train comes running through with the same exact two locomotives passing in front of you at 28:20. That was a weird coincidence.

The Ohio rail maps are also available online. I wish more states had those.

Get a Uniden BC 125AT scanner these are programmable with your computer and make rail fanning a lot more fun

Sitting at red signals like that auto rack trains was sure makes me a lot of money... lol. During your loco purchase let me say this. If you’re pulling tonnage buy GE. If you’re going to do any switching buy an EMD. GE’s pull MUCH better than EMD’s but EMD’s switch so much better. (Been an engineer since 2007).