The DJI Drone is an awesome drone. Thanks again Dan. I appreciate your work

Wow! really good little documentary. Really neat operation and great editing and film making! Shortline railroads will always have a special place in my heart.

@TheRailfanDan

9 ай бұрын

Well thanks very much!

Dan, thank you for this video of the Klamath Northern Railways dumping ballast on the right of way. It was interesting to see what is involved with dumping ballast and using a tamper to tamp the ballast under the ties. The filling of the ballast cars and the dumping of the ballast is in this case a very dusty job. I noticed that your friend Luke and his partner were making every effort to walk in front of the ballast as it was coming out of the ballast cars because of all the dust that was coming off the ballast. Your closeups of the temper, that Sean was operating, shed some new light on how the temper works for me. I was not aware that the tamper lifted the rail as the tamper pressed the ballast under the ties.

@TheRailfanDan

11 ай бұрын

Thanks a lot Thomas! Yeah they did do good by walking in front of the dust. I too didn't know tampers lifted the rail until I was watching Sean in action!

This is a very comprehensive MOW video. We rarely see this kind of action here, so this is indeed a unique upload. This is one of the weirdest American locomotives I've ever seen. It's not your typical Class 1 heavy duty engine that's for sure. The scenery is beautiful, everything is green and healthy. Great video again Dan, I really enjoyed this unusual content.

@TheRailfanDan

11 ай бұрын

Thanks a lot Z! I thought you guys would enjoy this one. I feel privileged to have had my friends working on the project to let me know what was going on.

That is such a unique railroad with that cool locomotive!

Dan that is the best ballasting vision I have ever seen. The voice over is excellent with the right amount of information without over doing it.

@TheRailfanDan

11 ай бұрын

Thank you very much! Yes I want to continue the voiceover but I want to keep it decently minimal.

Awesome video Dan. Many thanks.

Great video! Dan, now your narration is absolutely perfect, love it! Big thanks!

@TheRailfanDan

11 ай бұрын

Thanks so much!

That was refreshingly different. Fun to watch and very informative!

@TheRailfanDan

11 ай бұрын

Thanks Michael!

I absolutely love your videos. Stunningly gorgeous. Thanks for another great one.

Great video! Neat coincidence that the AERC ballast hoppers are the same color as KNOR's locomotive.

@TheRailfanDan

11 ай бұрын

I know I thought the same thing!

Awesome as always.

@TheRailfanDan

4 ай бұрын

Thanks Brian!

Dan, your content is always great to watch. I love just learning a bit more with each video. The Pacific Northwest is so beautiful. I was just in LaPine this past week. A bit smokey there right now. Keep up the great work.

@TheRailfanDan

11 ай бұрын

Thanks so much!

Nice documentary.

Very nice Dan!

Beautifully done! Beautiful scenery and excellent camera work! Thoroughly enjoyed it!

I really enjoyed this video, Dan. Although I've lived in Delaware for more than 50 years, I've always considered southern Oregon home. The future must look bright for the Klamath Northern if they're doing this MOW work. I would love to sometime see the whole revenue operation, from loading the center beams to hauling them wherever they go.

@geoffreyhampson3993

11 ай бұрын

Always good to see a short line improving their tracks. Let's hope they make 100.

@TheRailfanDan

11 ай бұрын

I was hoping to maybe get out there for a revenue run sometime this year but I'm not sure on that. I do plan to sometime though. The talk is that they will start shipping chip loads again soon as well as log loads which will be a new addition! I'm not sure if they've ever shipped logs in the past.

Nice Show ~! Good job boys!

Wow! Wonderfully unique footage Dan. Loved this video❤ - there's something attractive about how they do railroading on short lines! No masks? Where is OSHA? 🚂Lawrence

Great video!

Remarkable footage! I am from and Love the PNW!

@TheRailfanDan

11 ай бұрын

Thanks a lot!

Yet another fascinating Oregon shortline, thanks for video, Dan.

Really enjoyable video, Dan. I regularly drive between Bend and the valley, always taking the Crescent Cutoff Road, and I've always wondered what the story was with those tracks at the crossing by that Shell station. Now I know!

@TheRailfanDan

11 ай бұрын

A bit unknown to many for sure!

Thanks!

@TheRailfanDan

8 ай бұрын

Thank you so much! Don't know how I missed this earlier but very much appreciated!

Entertaining work filmned nicely. A few more cars had made the operation more effective. Convienient train speed for drone filming, not like the 50 - 60 mph trains I hunt.

@TheRailfanDan

11 ай бұрын

I know all about the faster train paces too. It's definitely nice to slow things down a bit.

My son loves trains 🚆🚃🚄🚅🚇🚈🚉🚊🚝🚞🚋🛤 and he says the Klamath Northern looks like a very scenic line and hopes that they will start running tourist trains on it.

Hi Dan. Great video - as always. This one definitely was improved with your narration. Very interesting. Sadly, almost all the small lines serving parent industries like this have disappeared or are shut down in my area, There is a 100 mile municipal owned railroad a few miles away from my house that sees an out and back 2 or 3 car hazardous chemical delivery train, led by old alco S type switchers, maybe two times a month. They still use an old wood caboose, too. But only when I'm at work, and they definitely don't do any regular or scheduled maintenance work on the line after the last on line industry, coincidentally a series of massive sand and gravel quarries, shut down 30 years ago. Before the shut down, they also had a fleet of 4 GE 44 tonners to haul some of the rock trains. Those and all the old ex CN, DM&IR, and Great Northern ore cars they once owned all seem to be off the roster now.

@TheRailfanDan

11 ай бұрын

That some good stuff! Lots of history.

I loved it !!!

Fantastic! I love short line railroads!

I love it, Dan! So many things in this video that are fascinating to me to watch, and especially from the perspective of your expertly piloted drone. I love the voice over too. You're a natural at it. First off, the GE SL-144 is such a cool engine and now there is really good video of one to reference here on KZread. I love the dual snowplows on it too. I wish a good model manufacturer would make one in HO-scale. Then it's mesmerizing to watch the ballast flowing out of the hoppers and the reloading of them too. Luke and his coworker must've walked the entire length of the railroad during this job. At 8:44 at Crecent, it looks like there used to be another railroad and a diamond right next to the grade crossing. Thanks again for this one, Dan. 👍

@TheRailfanDan

11 ай бұрын

Thanks a lot Scotty! Yeah being able to capture this locomotive has been on the list for some time and what a bonus to capture it in this way!

Nicely done. I worked out of Klamath Falls back in the 70's both to Eugene and on the Modoc Line (and Alturas to Lakeview!). I remember interchanging lumber cars at Gilchrest Junction but never saw their locomotive. My father worked out Klamath Falls in the 40's and said the Klamath Northern used a Shay Locomotive back then. I did get called off the extra board one day to go over and fill in as a brakeman on the OC&E but it was an extra work train and we only went out a few miles so didn't get to see the whole line. Thanks for the memories

@TheRailfanDan

11 ай бұрын

Thank you and that's very neat! I always enjoy my time in the Klamath Falls area. I'm just in Eugene not too far away.

Like 6 beautiful video, greetings 🚂👍👋

Dan, Now your talking!!! Very interesting for the true railfan.That's up by the "old" Weyerhaeuser railroads, Columbia and Cowlitz, Chehalis Western R.R. and Oregon, California and Eastern. Dan, are there any Logging rail operations around that you can do some features on? I was wondering about this "one horse" railroad. It's like you read my mind. That's a unique engine, reminds me of the C-415, on the Columbia & Cowlitz. Hope you get a good following with the audio. Very beautiful area of backwoods, that you are blessed to be at. As always! Happy Trails! 😊 😊 Oh! Cool Logo on the cab!

@TheRailfanDan

11 ай бұрын

Thanks Ron! Both the Coos Bay Rail Line and Portland & Western railroad haul logs but I think the last logging railroad just saw the end of its life a few years ago up in BC Canada. The name escapes me though.

@RonStanek

11 ай бұрын

@TheRailfanDan Englewood Logging Division Railway on Vancouver Island, or Western Forest Products. Sure wish you had some of that on drone video. Stay cool, weather's hot here in B.S.C. Mex.🇲🇽 no trains here either?

You would think they would have more than two hoppers so they wouldn't have to go back to the mill and reload with ballast rock.

@michaelberger8137

11 ай бұрын

I kept thinking the same thing. 4 hoppers and half as many runs, eh? I'm sure there's a reason for only having two -- just wondering what that reason is!

@TheRailfanDan

11 ай бұрын

That was all they could get to bring up here as far as I know. I think they only have one other ballast car they could have brought in but it would have required them to get it shipped by rail on the UP which sounded like it was maybe more trouble than it was worth.

Hey Dan! I was wondering if you knew the normal operating times of the Klamath Northern…I’m taking a trip up there, and I’m hoping to catch the railroad in action!

@TheRailfanDan

Ай бұрын

Last I knew they regularly run once a week on Wednesdays to interchange with the UP at Gilchrist Jct. Feel free to find my email on my channel page and let me know shortly before you're about to try and catch them then I can see about confirming my information with others.

@osteinfels

Ай бұрын

@@TheRailfanDan Thank you so much!

Dan, where are you when you’re filming with the drone? Do you drive around to all your filming sites and what type of drone do you use?

@TheRailfanDan

4 ай бұрын

Yes I kept moving from point to point constantly. A couple of roads follow the line that I drove along. I am using the DJI Mavic 3 Pro these days.

Any idea or a guess of how much area one load of two cars would cover? Was it even a mile? Just curious. Great video. Thanks!

@TheRailfanDan

11 ай бұрын

Thanks! No not much at all and I'm not really sure. I would say a quarter mile at best perhaps?

Hey Dan I was looking at that road next to the track, not the powerline road. on google earth it says it will take you back to Hwy 58 .Anyone know if my AWD all terrain tires would make it ?

@TheRailfanDan

11 ай бұрын

Yes most definitely! I drove the whole thing (Part on one side and part on the other) in my Jeep Cherokee with no special tires and it didn't skip a beat.

Is that Elsey/Table Mountain basalt ballast? (Same as UPRR uses?)

@TristanMorrow

11 ай бұрын

↑ nvm the ballast was trucked in, it must be from close by... Stark contrast with the original soil and red volcanic gravel.

Is it effective to just dump new ballast on top of whatever is there? I would have expected that they somehow excavate and remove the used and worn ballast first.

@locolorenzo

11 ай бұрын

And some of those badly-split ties as well!

@TheRailfanDan

11 ай бұрын

They were doing tie replacement as well but only some for now and will be continuing tie work over the next couple years.

So that machine packs the dirt under the ties?

@brianburke6350

4 ай бұрын

Thomas’ comment cleared it up for me. Thank you Thomas

Those workers will get silicosis if not wearing some type of respiratory protection.

@TheRailfanDan

27 күн бұрын

Yeah they should have had masks on.

Balast cars must have been too old to interchange? Or is UP really incapable of routing something from Albany to Crescent Jct?

@TheRailfanDan

3 ай бұрын

Yes that is correct they were too old to interchange.

Dumping ballast without a respirator violates safety rules and causes lung damage from silica in the dust.

@dugldoo

11 ай бұрын

Absolutely! I made the same comment a day or two before you did. I sure hope Dan passes our warnings on to his buddies. Silicosis of the lungs is such a nasty irreversible disease that causes terrible suffering and early death.

@TheRailfanDan

11 ай бұрын

I'm sure these guys are aware of that. They are no stranger to this type of work at all. If it truly is as bad as you say then I am not sure why they wouldn't be taking precautions.

Dan, I worry about your buddies dumping ballast and it doesn't look like they're wearing masks. That's rock dust and it's so bad for lungs.

@TheRailfanDan

11 ай бұрын

I'm sure they are aware. They must not have been too worried about it. I work in a machine shop myself and know I breathe in stuff I probably shouldn't.

candace marie hughes kLamath northern raiLway voice auto audio on. on. card. on.