Do You Like Trains?

rusty6 · Jan 20, 2021

We used to hear the trains on this line some 13 miles South but only if the weather was right. Usually on a clear frosty winter day. Its coming up on 20 years since the last train came through. The rails are all gone as well as the wooden elevators. Luckily deeredon caught a few clips of vhs video back in the 1990s showing the CP grain train leaving town. He put some of them together into a new video.

CP Grain Train

Bill(Wis) · Jan 20, 2021

Yes.

lpgasonly · Jan 20, 2021

Thanks Rusty I enjoyed this very much as I used to work at the local co-op drying corn and loading rail cars.

casecollectorsc · Jan 20, 2021

Always like to watch trains. Remember as a kid the trains loading at the elevator when there with Dad or Grandpa. Have a picture from 1921 when there were 5 elevators in our little town of Castlewood SD. Last week they tore the last one down. It was built in 1957 when the previous one burned down.

casecollectorsc · Jan 20, 2021

I'm 72 and still have the train set I got when I was six...been added to several times.

Bruce from Can. · Jan 20, 2021

Great video. My farm is about 15 miles from the east bound railroad from Western Canada, it heads into Toronto. I can often hear the train in early morning of evening when there is little wind blowing. There was a Railroad track across the corner of my farm until around 1990, but like many short lines everywhere it wasn’t used anymore and was taken up. The biggest town in our county used to have three different fail lines running in and out, all gone now.
When I was 12 I went to Macoun Saskatchewan to stay with my aunt and uncle for three weeks. They lived near the main line. And the first night I was awakened from sleep by the sound of the train horns blowing at the level crossing in their village. And the house was o just the right angle to the tracks that the headlights from the locomotive completely lit up my bedroom, I was amazed. After a couple nights the train went by just the same, and I never heard a thing.
Thanks for sharing this video, I love the west and seeing trains

johnofnewhaven · Jan 20, 2021

I have train tracks that boarders part of my property. It is a very slow moving training and sporadically goes by. It hauls soybeans from an elevator to the processor. Then hauls the processed beans back to the elevator to be shipped out. The tracks have been there since 1870. Always enjoy hearing and seeing it.

jddrawbar · Jan 20, 2021

deeredon is a real video pro and a great scrip to go along with it. Thanks for posting.

bmack95hd · Jan 20, 2021

Over 100 trains daily through Flagstaff. Still don’t mind being stuck at a crossing even when a double goes by.

Goose · Jan 20, 2021

A Burlington Northern railroad runs past our place 3/4 of a mile to the west.

It's the main route for trains hauling coal from Wyoming back east. Loaded trains go east and trains of empty cars go back west. One each way every couple of hours. I estimate some are as long as 2 miles long. Once in a while a train goes through hauling something else.

My office is on the west side of our house, and on a cold, still winter night it sounds like the trains are going to come through the window.

560Dennis · Jan 20, 2021

Need trains to keep the lights on

cdmn · Jan 20, 2021

Our show still operates a small railroad. It was built in 1914 for the purpose of hauling sugar beets
out of farm fields on portable tracks. They eventually branched out to sugar cane and for general
industrial hauling. The big impetus was WWI which used these engines to haul supplies and troops to
and from the battle fronts. They standardized on 60 cm track, although England moved up to 2 ft even.
There is a tourist railroad in Maine that still uses equipment from a forestry company. My father's uncle
was an early executive in the Gregg Company.

CCer · Jan 20, 2021

Yes, I even get cab rides sometimes. When our Son-in-Law was a kid, {about the time of Penn-Central or Conrail} He used to hang around the tracks in His Hometown, He would talk with the Crews, etc. One day a Crewmember asked if He wanted to ride along, they hoisted his bicycle onto the engine, and away they went. From that start, he got a job while in school, as a janitor, for the RR, then conductor, now He's a Locomotive Engineer. He still quips about the guidance counselor in High School telling Him "Aw, there's no future in Railroading!"

Ellis Kinney · Jan 20, 2021

I work for the railroad in the winter. Ellis

Steve@Advance · Jan 20, 2021

I like trains!
I Like Trains

Hobo,NC · Jan 20, 2021

Lived beside the seaboard coast line most of my life. They don't bother me at all... : ) I offered my son land to build on his yankee wife said you don't expect me to live beside a RR track do ya. : (

I use the 10:15PM Amtrac as a alarm its time to go to bed...

John in Mich · Jan 20, 2021

I have always enjoyed trains and had a Marx set when I was seven. A four by eight board with 2 switchs.
At 14, I sold the set to my best friend. He still has it, I beleive. I offered one time to buy the exact pieces and replace the set. He said no but I would get it back if he died. I said I don't want it.
Over the years I accumulated a dozen engines, over 100 cars, 50+ switches and metal buildings and bridges. A number of pieces were rare variants.
What happened? Ford tractors.
All my trains were boxed up. I went to numerous shows to sell trains. It was time consuming and not profitable so I made a package deal at one of the shows and a collector bought my entire collection.
End of story.

SanDogDewey · Jan 20, 2021

Yep, we like trains around here. I have 3.
O scale, 7-1/2 gauge and full-sized. The caboose was built in 1906 and ran on the Oregon Electric Railway between Portland and Eugene.

jm. · Jan 20, 2021

I still maintain that doing away with a lot of the railroads was a national mistake. We could have just not used them but taking up the rails and doing away with the right-of-ways was a mistake. Some day we will need to move that freight

quefan · Jan 20, 2021

I Like Trains cover by the Monroe Sisters

Bass player is my nephew.
another I Like Trains

rusty6 · Jan 20, 2021

(quoted from post at 11:00:03 01/20/21) I still maintain that doing away with a lot of the railroads was a national mistake. We could have just not used them but taking up the rails and doing away with the right-of-ways was a mistake. Some day we will need to move that freight

I agree. Some day somebody will "re invent the wheel" and come up with a novel efficient way to move freight on rails.
My grandfathers arrived here before the rails and I guess they would never have believed the rail line would disappear some day.

Steve@Advance · Jan 20, 2021

Beautiful!

Tractorcedric · Jan 20, 2021

I have always liked trains. Had a pretty good set of American Flyer when I was a kid. Now I live about a thousand feet east of the the tracks. A train that hauls scrap iron to Nucor steel goes up and back every day. I often count the cars like I did as a kid. Sometimes it comes through at 2:30 in the morning and I can feel the vibration before he blows the horn. Just one of my favorite things about this old farmstead!

IHC pickups · Jan 20, 2021

In 2019 an old Steam Engine went thru Manhattan, KS. The UP has refurbished it. It was awesome to see it up close. They stopped for about a half hour and the crowd was large.

old · Jan 20, 2021

Back when I lived in Winfield KS one of my friends dad had built a rail road and train in there back yard. The part of it we could play with where a couple of cars and a paddle engine. They had a gas powered engine but we as kid where not allow to play with it. The guy also built a pontoon boat using 55 gal drums

gene bender · Jan 20, 2021

I am 85 and still have the Lionel i got when i was 10 pluss some more then there is the HO where i can run 5 at a time they need to find a new owner

55 50 Ron · Jan 20, 2021

Rusty,

Great piece of history. Thanks to you and DeereDon for this. Here in our Southern Minnesota area we have Canadian Pacific as our only rail line through our town. It's an east/west line with grains of corn and soybeans mostly. Also hauls ethanol away from our ethanol processing plants.

Bob M · Jan 20, 2021

Have liked railroads since I was a kid. Branches of both the Pennsylvania and B&O passed only a block from my home. And the Lehigh Valley main crossed the back border of my wife's family farm. And a branch of the Erie was only a couple miles distant. Spent many happy hours hiking the rights of way and exploring the small local freight yards.

We now live between the CSX "Chicago Line" (former NY Central main) and the CSX Westshore Bypass near Rochester, NY. We hear 40 - 50 trains daily, and it's short walk to go trackside to watch.

I shot this photo of a CSX freight passing at 60 mph late yesterday afternoon. Cheap entertainment for my wife and myself!

Bill(Wis) · Jan 20, 2021

Well, I'm 84 and still have the Marx trains my kid brother and I got about 75 years ago and they still run. In fact, I have three of them stacked up and running around just below the ceiling in my office and run them every week. Two of the Marx transformers are working and I can't find the others. You had the Cadillac of train sets. LIONEL. All my new O gauge sets are Lionel and two of them run by remote control so that we can operate any number of trains on the same track. I'll try to post some pics of my 75 year old Marx trains running.

IaLeo · Jan 20, 2021

I think you all would like the book "The situation in Flushing" about a boy growing up in a small town and his infatuation with the trains and their engineers. I think it was by Mr. Cole?? Leo

sms · Jan 20, 2021

I like trains. Have ridden the Durango Silverton and been to Steamtown. Would like to experience more. Also like toy trains.

BillinCentralMO · Jan 20, 2021

Well done. Bought the toy trains as an adult , that I wanted as a kid. Deeredon is a natural at narrating. I enjoyed the train video.

retired farmer · Jan 20, 2021

I used to years ago. Don't anymore, sick of waiting for those 100 car trains to clear the intersection.

quefan · Jan 20, 2021

Also the Monroe Sisters band
Steel Rails cover

Buckeye Oliver collector · Jan 21, 2021

In short, NO, but that is a nice picture. I've driven over too many busted up railroad crossings to like trains.

Walston · Jan 21, 2021

(quoted from post at 12:49:31 01/20/21) I work for the railroad in the winter. Ellis
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Very Nice. Lots of work and Love went into that!

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