Bobcarper99 RailVideo Village Library

Railroad	Location	Date	Description And Videographer	Click View
Illinois Central	Gilman, Tuscola, Tolono IL	Jan 1993	Scenes along the Main Line of Mid America.  The IC changed its colors, forsaking the green diamond for the block “i”  Now the Canadians own it, mtskidmark@yahoo.com	View
NS	Horseshoe Curve, PA		Four railroads have owned the Horseshoe Curve – the Pennsy, the Penn Central, Conrail, and now NS.  It is a train watcher’s delight.  Here, we see a few Conrail engines that are still at work on the world’s greatest mountain railroad	View
Strasburg Railroad	Pennsylvania		STEAM, MORE STEAM, and STILL MORE STEAM	View
Model Railroad	Anywhere in the world		What’s the next best thing to getting out there to watch the big trains roll?  Why model railroading, of course !  This  MR shows a great switching scene.  Try to get the big railroaders to perform like that !	View
CSX	Folkston GA		Folkston, GA is known for good country music, good down home hospitality, and 60 trains a day through the “Folkston Funnel.”  If the music doesn’t get ‘cha, the trains sure will !!	View
BNSF	Hardin, Montana		The Powder River Basin in Montana is the coal heartland of the USA.  Coal is shipped in 200 car solid trains to all parts of the USA..  In this video, we also see some of the older “Grinstein” paint schemes	View
San Frrancisco Muni	Downtown Trolley Line		SF Muni had a variety of PCC trolley cars here and in one scene, we get on board to ride one.	View
Germany	Rhine Valley Freight Lines Electric		All electric action in the Rhine Valley of Germany, one of the most highly industrialized regions of the world.  Lots of tank car and container freight here	View
Chinese Steam	Inner Mongolia		Where else would one get a great video of the only remaining steam engines but in China?  This video is short, but is it ever sweet !!  Enjoy !!	View
San Francisco Muni	Powell Street Cable Car		All aboard the cable car.  Here is the famous cable car that goes down the steep hill to Fisherman’s Wharf	View
NS	Lehigh Valley, PA		This is an excellent video but some of the camera angles are downright scary.  The videographer got in a mite too close for comfort	View
Arnhem Transit	Arnhem, Netherlands		Remember the movie “A Bridge Too Far” which depicted the colossal WW II battle at Arnhem between British paratroopers and two German (Nazi) SS Panzer divisions?  Times have certainly changed !!  Here is Arnhem in 2005, with outstanding trolley scenes shot at night and in the snow.  The jazz background is sensational !!  Your hearts will jump !!!	View
Amtrak	Atascadero, California	Feb 2008	Here is Amtrak at its very best.  The thing I like about both trains is the horns sounding off in the distance long after the trains have passed	View
Amtrak, BNSF, and UP All Together	Fort Worth Texas		Tower 55 is nationally known as a railroad hot spot.  Everything happens here.  Blue sky, colorful engines, lots of Amtrak, and deep in the heart of Texas	View

Conrail Automobile Freight	Columbus, OH		OK, all you CR lovers !  This one’s for you.  CR leading, BN and a leaser trailg solid automobiles.  Another one short but oh so sweet	View
Action On The Maryland And Delaware	Hurlock, MD		This is a heart stopper.  Here comes Maryland and Delaware 1203 with three cars.  Will you look at all those flaming idiots trying to beat the train over the crossing !!	View
BNSF and UP Meet At Rochelle IL	Rochelle IL Crossover of BNSF and UP Main Lines	July 2007	Rochelle is where the town fathers built a train watching gallery almost at the site where the two main lies cross over.  TRAINS Magazine has installed a webcam to catch the action as it happens.  This video shows action at ground level.  60 to 100 trains go through here.  Awesome !!	View
More Good Stuff From Rochelle	Rochelle IL Crossover of BNSF and UP Main Lines	August 2007	One of the best videos in the Village Library.  UP eastbound followed by BNSF westbound.  Superb clarity	View
A Near Miss At Rochelle	Rochelle IL Crossover of BNSF and UP Main Lines	August 2007	This was a near miss between a westbound UP and an eastbound BNSF switching run.  Somebody forgot to set the home signals across the interlocking plant.	View
Tehachapi	Southern California		On a hazy day in California, here are two trains – one BNSF, the other UP.  The BNSF freight has a wild assortment of foreign power, including a NS unit that made it all the way from the East	View
BNSF 7749 Running Over Itself On Tehachapi	Southern California		Only out West at Tehachapi can you see a train running around a loop over itself.  You can build this into your model railroad, but it isn’t the same as seeing it in real life	View
CSX At Point Of Rocks	Point Of Rocks, Maryland		Point Of Rocks is where the B&O main lines from the west divided.  One line (the Old Main) went directly to Baltimore.  The other line went through Gaithersburg, Rockville, Washington DC and then swung north to Baltimore.  An old landmark rail station stands to this day at the junction of the two lines.  Here, a CSX freight roars off the Old Main, with nearly 200 cars.	View
CSX Coal Train Eastbound	Brunswick MD		Solid coal train headed for PEPCO customer.  Note the bottom chutes on nearly all of the cars.  Note the flat spots sounding off as the train races by	View
The UP “Takes Over” The CSX	Fostoria, Ohio		Here’s a video of some UP power 1225Hubbard caught on a CSX coal train at the old B&O depot in Fostoria, OH  With a solid lashup of UP power and UP hoppers, it’s a good bet this train is going to or from the Powder River Basin in Montana	View

CSX Coal Train In Trouble	Tennesee		A beautiful fall day.  Here comes a southbound CSX coal train, with the second unit AC4400 277 blowing smoke …a A sure sign of trouble  277 has a fuel leak, and is spraying fuel over the hot exhaust. The videographer didn’t see it, but it will be just a matter of time before it starts burning.	View
SP Engine In Real Trouble	An undisclosed location in Texas		A UP – SP duo comes along without a hint of trouble, until the engine blows a turbo on the SP trailing unit.  When the UP acquired the SP. Many of the SP locomotives were not in good shape.  They were called “bad actors.”	View
UP Engine In Trouble	Somewhere out West		The engineer on this UP engine aimed his video camera and got this fireworks display out the stack of this AC4400.  Looking at the ground in motion below, this guy had no intention of stopping his train  and BO-ing the lead unit.	View
Fireworks On The High Wire	Philadelphia PA		Not all fireworks are on trains.  Ice storms can kill trolley wires   The way SEPTA frees up iced trolley wires produces spectacular arcing displays.  Come watch the show !!	View
CSX WB Auto Rack on the NYCRR Water Level Route	Rensallaer NY		Once a part of the New York Central, Selkirk Yard now handles all CSX traffic on the Chicago Line serving New York, New Jersey, and Boston.  Here is a WB auto-rack with the second unit from Helms Leasing	View
CSX In Rochester	Rochester NY		The Ne3w York Central ran across the cities of Upstate New York for many years until railroad mergers created its successor – CSX. Today, instead of the Water Level Route, it is the Chicago Line. No more Empire State Express – it is now Amtrak. Here we see heavy action west of Rochester.	View
Chicago and the EJ&EE	Chicago IL		Sometimes the best train videos are of a single locomotive going back aqnd forth. The Elgin Joliet and Eastern is one of the busiest switching lines in theChicagoarea and yet, this clip of a single engine says it all.	View
METRA in Chicago Suburbs	Suburban Chicago IL		Here is an unbeatable sequence of two Chicago METRA commuter trains – one inbound, the other outbound. Like most commuter lines, theirtrainsoperate onapush-pull setup, where on inbound trains,the engine pushes the train, and on outbound trains,theengine pulls the train.	View
CSX Westbound Hazmat in Suburban Maryland	Gaithersburg, MD		The way it supposed to work was any CSX train with hazmats was to go over the Old Main in Maryland. Here is where rules always have exceptions. This WB CSX hotshot with loads of tankers is heading through Gaithersburg over the “southern” line which runs through Washington DC. Go figure this one out !!	View
New Orleans 850 – A Streetcar Named Desire	New Orleans		Everybody knows how Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans.  This included the fabled trolley cars of the St. Charles Line.  New Orleans would not let this line die.  Here is 850 returning to service, “When the Saints Go Marching In” Enjoy it !!	View
Lets Take A Ride on New Orleans 850	New Orleans		If you can’t get down to New Orleans to ride the St. Charles Line, this is the next best thing to being there	View
CSX Westbound Containers	Rensalaer NY		CSX AC6000s with WB container train (some stacked, some not) at Selkirk Yard, busier than ever	View
The NEW YORK CENTRAL Rides Again	Undisclosed Location		We can dream, can’t we	View
We’re Back In Folkston Again	Folkston, GA		Must be the down home music or the great videography, but we had to make a return trip to Folkston, GA.  Here, CSX runs through the folkston Funnel without flamers or any of the bad stuff.  People still dodge trains at crossings, not a good scene.	View

 

SEPTA and Conrail On Northeast Corridor	Philadelphia		Conrail Shared Assets Area local FJ10 out of Frankford Jct with Philly Division decorated GP38-2 2923 waits for SEPTA local 733 to pass before heading east on Amtrak Northeast Corridor	View
More Action At Tower 55	Fort Worth, Texas		Here we have them all – Amtrak, BNSF, and the UP.  The next best thing to being there in person is to see the video.  Enjoy…..and try to count the cars !!	View
NS Intermodal Coming To A Stop	Lancing, Tennessee		If you think a freight train can stop on a dime, think again.  Here are two NS “catfishes” with a BNSF “visitor”  coming to a stop in Lancing, Tennessee.   This NS train is stopping for a north bounder. The BNSF SD40-2 has the noisiest dynamic brake  ever heard. The two GE’s have a screaming dynamic brake. The engineer doesn’t mind  giving a full blast of air to the K-5LAR24 horn today	View
Amtrak Acela Express and MBTA, Boston	Route 128, Boston		Amtrak’s Acela Express and MBTA commuter trains arrive and depart Rte. 128 Station in suburban Boston. Also there is a brief video clip of Amtrak Regional train at New York’s Penn Station	View
The Last of Steam – The New York Central Niagara	Someplace in New York State		In the 1950s, steam vanished from every major railroad in the country.  The New York Central took delivery of 26 Niagara 4-8-4 steam locomotives in 1946 to pull its fleet of sleek passenger trains from  New York to Chicago.  Scarcely five years elapsed before diesels took over.  By 1953, all of NYC Lines East were diesel powered.  By 1957, the last NYC steam engine had dropped its fires.  The Niagara was history	View
A Tribute To The New York Central	New York, New York		There  is scarcely a railfan around that does not recall the fabled Water Level Route of the New York Central.  I did it up in my book “FOCUS-The Railroad In Transition”  The NYC still appears in the Rochester Genesee Valley Rail Museum’s 2008 Calendar.  But nothing compares to this video that is a flashback of still shots going right up to Conrail.  Add in Frank Sinatra to the sound track and it is dynamite	View
Railfanning In Dayton Ohio	Dayton and surrounding areas		Sometimes the best railfanning  is watching switching jobs or locals pick up and set out cars.  At one time I thought I knew trains in Dayton pretty well, with the Penn Central and Chessie Systems criss crossing at the Dayton Union Station.  Now it’s NS operating in the former Pennsy lines, and CSX operating over NYC and Chessie territory	View
Today’s Luxury Excursion Train	San Francisco Bay Area		The American Orient Express is today’s premier luxury train.  It runs on no set schedule.  It books passengers just like a cruise ship.  Here we see three Amtrak P42 engines pulling over twenty cars of luxury.  Bringing up the markers at the end of the train is the former New York Central raised lookout observation car Sandy Creek	View
What A Wild Place To Watch Trains	Downers Grove IL		Downers Grove Illinois is a train watchers hot spot.  METRA is all over the place, and if that wasn’t enough, there is BNSF and Amtrak	View
A Lot Of Slow Freights In Texas	Fort Worth TX		If you like watching slow freights, Fort Worth Texas is the place to go.  Here the freights go so slow you can even read the graffiti on the boxcars.  The paint jobs on the boxcars are so bad even the graffiti looks good.  I wonder how the HO and N Gauge model builder kits will handle realism like this !!	View
Norfolk and Western 611	Roanoke VA		Thanks to the dedicated work of railfan organizations and restoration groups, the steam engine did not become extinct.  Some steam engines narrowly escaped the scrap heap to become static exhibits in rail museums.;  A few of them  were restored to full operability.  The 611 was one such engine.  It made countless fan trips before the rising costs of operation put it out to pasture in a rail museum.	View
Still More Slow Stuff In New England	Worcester, MA		On a gorgeous autumn day, Amtrak #449, the Lake Shore Limited, arrives at the Worcester, MA station. The train departs westbound for Albany, NY. A CSX mixed train rolls by and a CSX stack train comes off the Providence & Worcester line. MBTA #P513 arrives from Boston and terminates	View
Pere Marquette 1225			The Pere Marquette was a regional railroad that operated almost entirely within the State of Michigan.  It was absorbed by the Chessie System and now is a part of CSX.  Just like the Chessie and the Nickel Plate Road, the Pere Marquette ordered a series of 2-8-4 steam engines from  Lima Locomotive Works.  The 1225 was saved from the scrap heap and railfan groups restored it to full operability.	View
Hot Times On The Northeast Corridor	Trenton NJ		This has everything coming at you all at once – Conrail, SEPTA, and Amtrak	View
Union Pacific 3985	Eugene OR		The UP believes that promoting steam and the legends its venerated steam locomotives have produced is good business for the railroad.  Everybody still gets thrilled by a monsterous steam engine.  The 3985 is one of them.  Enjoy.	View
The caboose	Every good train could still use one to “bring up the markers.”	Library updated April 4, 2008	That’s All for now, guys and gals ..see you again when we roll the third volume of  Bobcarper99 Rail Video Village

That’s it for this edition of Bobcarper99 RailVideo Village Library  I trust this collection of videos from all over the world will have you watching them until the cows come home.  We’ve included something for everybody, from steam engines in China to trolleys in a snowy night in Arnhem in Holland.  We now have a daredevil grade crossing thriller in Hurlock, MD, a great Conrail view, engines spouting fire at the stack,and good stuff from Rochelle, IL. We even have the New York Central !!

Speaking of trolleys, we now have a classic of New Orleans 850 coming out party.  If you like Bourbon Street jazz, you will love these shots of the 850, all fit and ready to go after Katrina.

Videos are the name of the game these days.  To shoot a video like the kind you see in Bobcarper99 RailVideo Village Library, you need to have a steady hand or a tripod with a pan and tilt head.  Also, you need to minimize the times you zoom in or zoom out when shooting a train.  I’ve seen videos where the train appears to be going nowhere, even though you hear it running under full power. 

See y’all in the next edition

Bob Carper

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