That's a cool sunset. I love that time of day in the spring and summer months. Where I live, trains don't come around often so it's cool that people post you tube videos of trains.
dude thats awsome, i wish all engineers where like this, alot just report me, and im not even close to the tracks i set up the camera and stand back. :( lol oh well some are cool like this.
When I was young, I was half asleep one night. It was late. When a horn from a train woke me up. In my groggy state, it sounded like a ghostly woman's voice calling out for someone. Weird stuff. Sadly, that railroad, known as the Texas-Mexican Railway, is now part of KCS. The locomotives are now gone, replaced by new units.
It's about 8 or 9 blocks from where I live. Too far to be annoying, and close enough to enjoy those sweet train horns. The horn I was talking about was probably an old Leslie S-3L horn.
I see somethin like that every day almost every 6:30 in the morning with a CSX GP-35 going to the main yard right past meh house.
The engineer is really friendly on the train thaty goes past my house, he gave me a ride to another county in the cab once. One big "covert operation" so to say. No one knew I was on execpt him. It was reaally somethin. This happened in the 80 s
From looking at a couple of your videos, it seems like CN is among the kindest of railroads to its admirers. I never got that kind of treatment while watching the Union Pacific freights. I hope the good PR continues. I also like the nice K3L, they seem to be slowly vanishing.
Thanks for that info Mark. You're right. In listening to it, I hear the difference. It's certainly not easy, but I'm trying to hone my skills in identifying Leslie and Nathan horns. All the subtle variances make it more challenging :)
Ya thats the funny thing about CN because it was once government controlled some of its cars are in French ie: Canadien National and the other half in english Canadian National lol....Still a great ClassI railroad but its no Canadian Pacific......
I don't know about that....CP's new ES44AC units are sexy locomotives, although I do have to give marks to CN for the Paint job they have on their units, I didn't care much for the old zebra stripes but the new one are rather nice........
im refering to ditch lights and number boards. I like high number boards and high ditch lights. CP has low low number boards on alot of their GE's. BNSF and CN are the SEXIEST when it comes to those attributes in my eyes. GE or EMD.
im refering to ditch lights and number boards. I like high number boards and high ditch lights. CP has low low number boards on alot of their GE's. BNSF and CN are the SEXIEST when it comes to those attributes in my eyes. GE or EMD.
im refering to ditch lights and number boards. I like high number boards and high ditch lights. CP has low low number boards on alot of their GE's. BNSF and CN are the SEXIEST when it comes to those attributes in my eyes. GE or EMD.
we use to get nice long trains like that up to Saginaw (MI) and Dow Chemical in Midland when CSX ran through my town. About two years ago a short line took over so we rarely see more than 40 cars. For while it was nice because they had nice sounding C425's and a few M420's but now its all GP40's.
oh,ya !! the longest train i've saw with one locomotive was a fully loaded phosphate train in Mulberry,Fl ! One SD40-2 with 80 fully loaded cars! Once was four SD70Ms(CSX)with 85 fully cars of Phosphate in Brandon,fl
Over the 130 railroad cars 131,132,133? cars,long train and Awesome great fantastic loud horn,Great job man.this trains realy freight,No in the Netherlands,No horn and short trains maxima 51 cars,little cars.
That is incredible! The longest train I've seen, or heard of coming through Freeport here, is a 153 car manifest with a pair of Dash 9s on a Westbound M337.
come to Jefferson Wisconsin you can see a short local train at around 2:25 everyday but not on Saturday and dunday they sometimes even use a Caboose and they have about 3 to 5 cars on it and one engine always a gp 38-2
Prius just makes it across @ 36 seconds.
ERIKA6949 1 month ago
i just took this and converted it into an MP3.. sounds great! =)
angelgirl7473 2 months ago
must be quite a breeze coming off that train when its going by ..
angelgirl7473 2 months ago
if you look at some of the cars that are for lumber.. just right, can see faces on them, pretty cool to see those.
angelgirl7473 4 months ago
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gotta love that Horn.. " LOOK OUT COMIN' THROUGH!!!
angelgirl7473 5 months ago
gotta love that Horn.. " LOOK OUT.. COMIN' THROUGH!!!
angelgirl7473 5 months ago
Sounds like the brakes are engaged a bit on the cars?? That noise?
danwat1234 5 months ago
Beautiful ever!
FlyBikes089 6 months ago
me again,... i love to listen to this video while doing other things
angelgirl7473 7 months ago
Nice video! and a great train crew also!
Shackrat 9 months ago
I want to Give that Engineer a Handshake for that awesome K3H Show Good Catch 10 Stars!!!!!
trainwatcher116 10 months ago
i could play this Over and Over.. i love IT!!!
angelgirl7473 10 months ago
This must be the best of all. Ever.
maxwell4519 11 months ago
What an amazing sight and sound, at least you still have proper trains over there,how long was that!?
MICKTHEMERC 1 year ago
he just won the award of best engineer to me
trainwatcher116 1 year ago
i live by the trains and its snowing and im waiting for a train snow plow
funnyrin0 1 year ago
That's a cool sunset. I love that time of day in the spring and summer months. Where I live, trains don't come around often so it's cool that people post you tube videos of trains.
zreynold2 1 year ago
I like the sky being on sunset on one side and being still "normal" on the other side. <3
HellYeahhhhhh 1 year ago
OMG!!! CN HAS SOME OF THE BEST SOUNDING HORNS EVER!!!!!
Trainking922 1 year ago
MAN! One of the best shaved and a Haircuts I have ever seen!
skarkot 1 year ago
love the twilight scene
PINKluvr01 1 year ago
i could sit here and play the horn Over and Over!!
angelgirl7473 1 year ago
This is fantastic! Lucky to have an engineer like that .
trainguyONR 1 year ago
AWESOME!
raymondrayban 1 year ago
I don't know why but in all the times I have been going out and watch trains pass, CN engineer have always been the "kindest" of all.
BillHABS 1 year ago
Love what they do with the lights!
pilotmanmax 1 year ago
It seemed to go really fast.
HellYeahhhhhh 1 year ago
Awesome horn!
edystvumdb 1 year ago
NICE HORN!!!!!
JERSEYBUFF 2 years ago
That's some serious hornage! 5 out of 5 stars!
elgoalio29 2 years ago
With the low sun, breeze and cicadas you can just breathe in the athmosphere. And that horn.....!
cefnonn 2 years ago
Awesome horn show. These engineers must love train horns.
TheADude213 2 years ago
Great Video it brings back so many memories, from when I was a kid
Flowmaster40Series 2 years ago
love, how he flashed u like 6 times lol.
aaron13133 2 years ago
dude thats awsome, i wish all engineers where like this, alot just report me, and im not even close to the tracks i set up the camera and stand back. :( lol oh well some are cool like this.
WetDirtProductions 2 years ago 2
train horns are not bad... they sceard the fuck out of me when a was a littel kid
shaneinkster 2 years ago 2
When I was young, I was half asleep one night. It was late. When a horn from a train woke me up. In my groggy state, it sounded like a ghostly woman's voice calling out for someone. Weird stuff. Sadly, that railroad, known as the Texas-Mexican Railway, is now part of KCS. The locomotives are now gone, replaced by new units.
vigo894 2 years ago 3
was it cloas? or was far into the disdent?
shaneinkster 2 years ago
It's about 8 or 9 blocks from where I live. Too far to be annoying, and close enough to enjoy those sweet train horns. The horn I was talking about was probably an old Leslie S-3L horn.
vigo894 2 years ago
Awsome Video, love the dusk view and the horn puts the icing on the cake!
RailFanRick 2 years ago
Anyone know what type of horn that is?
wirerail 2 years ago
I think its a Nathan K3L
Trainman11185 2 years ago
that must be the longest train i ever seen in my life...
yonutfilip 2 years ago
And this is what all railroaders should be like. Railfan's young and old love the whistle and the flashing lights.
LocalRailfan 2 years ago 2
awsome video
starwarslizzard7904 2 years ago 5
classic freight train horn
Heyde1979 2 years ago 4
wow! that was sweet! i lvoe how he flipped the lights to! lol
Stephenson18 2 years ago 3
Yep gives a good show
BlueDevil2463 2 years ago
Sweeet video!
FlyBikes089 2 years ago
niice a CP enginieer gave me the lights like that a couple weeks ago :-)
flexspinner 3 years ago
Very hard core!
CoastStarlight11 3 years ago 2
Wow it is funny that he kept flashing his lights several times!
Metracab123 3 years ago 3
such a beatiful sunset glare!
unionpacifictrain 3 years ago
beautiful
CuriousCK 3 years ago 8
Want K3L's? Seems to be standard on most CN and CP SD40's and in Canada.
CPR3716 3 years ago
it looked like the lead train was a c44-3w???
Anyways five star video I love it.
I see somethin like that every day almost every 6:30 in the morning with a CSX GP-35 going to the main yard right past meh house.
The engineer is really friendly on the train thaty goes past my house, he gave me a ride to another county in the cab once. One big "covert operation" so to say. No one knew I was on execpt him. It was reaally somethin. This happened in the 80 s
CSXboy1 3 years ago
Wow! The first images with the sunset, the signals and the train approaching are simply beautiful! A real good railfanning video.
DaringDramis 3 years ago
And a great video quality, on top of that!
DaringDramis 3 years ago
From looking at a couple of your videos, it seems like CN is among the kindest of railroads to its admirers. I never got that kind of treatment while watching the Union Pacific freights. I hope the good PR continues. I also like the nice K3L, they seem to be slowly vanishing.
cnnw3929 3 years ago
With thousands of engineers out there it's just the luck of the draw.
Like any other walk of life some are friendly and some are not. Some care and some are ambivilent.
charlieb640 2 years ago
lovely atmosphere for railfanning good ole diesel frieghter great video!
samyk20 3 years ago
wow whit the sunset you won five star... more videos and more cool engineers
hivemind99999 3 years ago
Wow, that engineer is really cool! And the sunset shots rock!
ruarc2077 3 years ago
what kind of camera u use? btw 5* and fav
TheGondorian 3 years ago
Wow, sweet music! This horn sounds like a Nathan K5H. Very melodic. Thanks for sharing :-)
ACLTony 3 years ago
No problem, I'm glad that you liked!
ic6071 3 years ago
no,K5Hs don't sound like that it's a K3H-H is for the high diagram
marklester01 3 years ago
Thanks for that info Mark. You're right. In listening to it, I hear the difference. It's certainly not easy, but I'm trying to hone my skills in identifying Leslie and Nathan horns. All the subtle variances make it more challenging :)
ACLTony 3 years ago
K3L
m1234b1 1 year ago
@m1234b1 Thank you. You're right. I went to Soundtraxx's website and listened to the K3L sound sample and can hear the similarity. :-)
ACLTony 1 year ago
Very nice man...VERY NICE!!!!!!
JeremiahTrane 3 years ago
thankxx
ic6071 3 years ago
Ya thats the funny thing about CN because it was once government controlled some of its cars are in French ie: Canadien National and the other half in english Canadian National lol....Still a great ClassI railroad but its no Canadian Pacific......
rainman29 4 years ago
You may have a point but i still would prefer CN's motive power over CP. More appealing to my eyes.
cali22boi 4 years ago
I don't know about that....CP's new ES44AC units are sexy locomotives, although I do have to give marks to CN for the Paint job they have on their units, I didn't care much for the old zebra stripes but the new one are rather nice........
rainman29 4 years ago
im refering to ditch lights and number boards. I like high number boards and high ditch lights. CP has low low number boards on alot of their GE's. BNSF and CN are the SEXIEST when it comes to those attributes in my eyes. GE or EMD.
cali22boi 4 years ago
im refering to ditch lights and number boards. I like high number boards and high ditch lights. CP has low low number boards on alot of their GE's. BNSF and CN are the SEXIEST when it comes to those attributes in my eyes. GE or EMD.
cali22boi 4 years ago
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im refering to ditch lights and number boards. I like high number boards and high ditch lights. CP has low low number boards on alot of their GE's. BNSF and CN are the SEXIEST when it comes to those attributes in my eyes. GE or EMD.
cali22boi 4 years ago
I do believe the lettering is in french on one side and english on the other.
GEES44DC 3 years ago
Why on earth does the CN do that with its lights? Ive seen it also in Freeport!
DRock1694 4 years ago
the engineer just did it for us, he sometimes does.
ic6071 4 years ago
Does CN stand for Canadien National?
CSXRP 4 years ago
yup, or Canadian Noodle as we sometimes call it lol
ic6071 4 years ago
we use to get nice long trains like that up to Saginaw (MI) and Dow Chemical in Midland when CSX ran through my town. About two years ago a short line took over so we rarely see more than 40 cars. For while it was nice because they had nice sounding C425's and a few M420's but now its all GP40's.
roundthirteen 4 years ago
OOO I would love to see C425s and M420s, too bad you don't get them anymore, but I guess you could do worse than GP40s like trash 9s or something
ic6071 4 years ago
Great horn!! The longest train I've ever seen was on CSX in Frostproof,Fl back in 2001!!
5 locoomotives:2 CSX Dash 8-40CWs,CSX SD40-2,CSX GP38-2,and a CSX Dash8-40C
pull 575 fully loaded hopper cars of coal! Man that was a site to see!!
marklester01 4 years ago
HOLY CRAP! 575 loaded??? That is amazing!
ic6071 4 years ago
oh,ya !! the longest train i've saw with one locomotive was a fully loaded phosphate train in Mulberry,Fl ! One SD40-2 with 80 fully loaded cars! Once was four SD70Ms(CSX)with 85 fully cars of Phosphate in Brandon,fl
marklester01 4 years ago
holy god get an ear full of that horn. Beautiful sounding K3H. Haven't heard better in a long time.
ConrailSD80MAC 4 years ago
GREAT VIDEO MAN@@!!!!!
thetrainman407 4 years ago
Wow dude Jim is probably the best engineer out there. I wish I knew him.
Linkdude678 4 years ago
Yes, he is, he always gives us good solutes!
ic6071 4 years ago
Over the 130 railroad cars 131,132,133? cars,long train and Awesome great fantastic loud horn,Great job man.this trains realy freight,No in the Netherlands,No horn and short trains maxima 51 cars,little cars.
dutchtrainmanserie22 4 years ago 2
I like to see short trains, if they're only pulled by one unit, prefferably a GP, but I couldn't live without the horn!
ic6071 4 years ago
As long as this may seem, in today's reality 133 cars is actually not a long train. Last train I had was 173 intermodal platforms at 11083 feet long.
GEES44DC 4 years ago
holy crap, 11Gs?? wow, that is a long train!
ic6071 4 years ago
Yes, it is. CN runs trains over 12000 feet long a lot as well.
GEES44DC 4 years ago
That is incredible! The longest train I've seen, or heard of coming through Freeport here, is a 153 car manifest with a pair of Dash 9s on a Westbound M337.
ic6071 4 years ago
come to Jefferson Wisconsin you can see a short local train at around 2:25 everyday but not on Saturday and dunday they sometimes even use a Caboose and they have about 3 to 5 cars on it and one engine always a gp 38-2
Trainmasterkreks 4 years ago