Sunday 17 July 2011

Stupid idiots

Well what else can I say this is the most dangerous thing involving railways on Youtube


These kids are ruining the fun of rail fanning and I bet are making the train crew really scared and nervous.I bet the engineer called railway police on them.I hope they got in trouble with law enforcement or got charged. Also read the comments this video has.

Monday 11 July 2011

BNSF's Staples sub part 3 with a CP bonus

On July 7 we had our last filming day in Detroit Lakes and along The Staples sub. The first train we caught was a southbound CP train near Callaway,we first spotted it in our car along highway 59 and I took a grab shot



























Then we set up on county road 260 to shoot it,it was going a bit fast so I didn't have enough time and had to set up quickly, heres the shot





























I also saw a BNSF high rail truck


























Then we headed to Verndale waited awhile then decided to head back. But just as we got to Wadena an eastbound showed up we chased it back to Verndale and was able to shoot it,

























The sot turned out good with the Verdale sign.


After that a westbound intermodal went through



























Then an eastbound coal train came through,probably bound for The Becker Power Plant in Becker Minnesota,

























It also had a DPU unit on the tail end



































Then the next train caught me by surprise,a westbound tank train,





























One thing interesting about these long tank trains is that they each have one hopper car at the front behind the loco's and at the back, I think thats to protect the dangerous cargo.

BNSF's Staples sub part 2

On July 6 we headed to the staples sub to do more train filming. I stayed at The Amtrak depot in Detroit Lakes for awhile and nothing came.We then decided to head to the east. We eventually saw nothing but then I saw headlights so we pulled into county road 9 when a BNSF train rolled by

 9141 was in the lead

























It also had BNSF 9831 as a DPU


























As you can hear in the video the loco had a strange sounding horn.



After that something different showed up,a CSX train


























It had something I've never seen,blinking ditch lights

Then a BNSF intermodal




























After that we headed to Verndale along the way we saw a tank train


























Once we got to Verndale an eastbound intermodal showed up

























This train was going really fast probably about 50 or 60 KPH



then we headed back to Detroit Lakes their I caught to trains.First an eastbound mixed freight

 Then the westbound intermodal





























Well that was another good day of filming trains on the Staples sub.

Sunday 10 July 2011

Minnesota-BNSF Staples subdivision part 1 with CP

Last tuesday we went for a three day trip to Minnesota to shoot parts of BNSF's Staples sub from Detroit Lakes To Staples.After we checked into our hotel we headed to the amtrak station in Detroit Lakes. At around 17:35 I heard horn blasts to the west and then soon enough a BNSF came through pulling a medium sized train. Here it is about a hundred or more feet away
 Heres the Official head end shot.




































After that we headed east I then shot another eastbound at 18:20 near the edge of town, Heres a shot of it rounding the bend






















































This train was going a bit slower I think about 20 to40 MPH










Next we went to the west side I kept hearing train horns coming from the CP so we went to the CP tracks south of the city there we got two CP's .First the Northbound

 Then Southbound intermodal

























Well that was a nice first day of filming trains in Minnesota.