BIZARRE Trains! | SPECIAL EPISODE

These bizarre trains may not turn the heads of seasoned railroaders, but for the rest of us, this is pretty wild stuff!

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[TheConductdeer]

As an Ex NS conductor (hence the Conductdeer) We never used that for training how to get on and off trains, that we used the yard with steel structures used to mimic small trains cars. That and we learned how to do proper moving dismounts and mounts on remote control locomotives, the High hood Geep and the other Geep to learn.

[CFRP.]

34:35 Cool to see her holding on. That is WCMC 1, a 25 Tonner. She has been abandoned since Atleast the early 2000s to my knowledge.

[smokeyasmr]

Muscatine resident here! World's largest watermelon slice* Was very surprising and cool to see us in the video! Love it!

[robynsineadsheppard]

Like so many others, I'm a train-wreck junkie. I enjoy watching collisions, derailments, etc. But this "hobby" led me to your YT channel. I never knew the amount of technology that goes into keeping trains, their crews, and the traveling public safe.

As a result, I now find your channel more addictive than crashes and derailments.

And the worst horn you've ever heard? It goes from being a semi-decent horn to sounding like the braying of a sick mule!

[JohnSmith-zior]

When I was a kid my house was 400ft away from a set of L&N -> CSX rails. I have seen the rail grinder a couple of times, once at night. I didn't see it in the video but we used to see very jagged pieces of steel that would be left behind glowing red and burning. Back then they used to tow a tanker car full of water with large water sprayers shooting water on both sides of the rail to prevent fires.

[Kansas-Trains]

I piloted the RG 415 about 20 years ago as a Certified Locomotive Engineer and at the time they charged the CN/GTW $57, 000 as soon as those stones hit the rail per day. Didn't matter whether it was 1 minute or 12 hours. Just for some FYI info at the time.
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[tigershark]

Didn't the US also had one missile train but abandoned it? 27:33

[tylergehring]

The brick looks like one of those low detail Lego trains I used to build as a kid.

[SteamFan]

6:00 Reminds me of UP 6965’s horn when it was leading the OCS on May 25th last year.

[STL-Railfan]

An extremely rare and bizarre "train" is called a Galloping Goose!

There were several used on narrow gauge lines in the mountains of Southwest Colorado on the old Rio Grande Southern.

They were old Pierce Arrow cars converted to run on the rails and once used to transport mail, supplies, and even passengers.

Two still run at the Colorado Railroad Museum and another one is on the Cumbres & Toltec excursion Railroad in New Mexico.

Really interesting vehicles!

[SebisRandomTech]

Great video as always. The airport people movers you showcased were pioneered by Westinghouse as a collaboration with Port Authority of Allegheny County (now Pittsburgh Regional Transit) as a potential replacement for the city’s aging streetcar lines. A demonstration track that was open to the public was even constructed and operated. Ultimately these plans never took off and the remaining streetcar lines were upgraded to modern light rail, but it’s still an interesting footnote in transportation history and laid the groundwork for the mentioned airport people movers.

[dygituljunky]

31:16 I can hear the most robotic announcement ever playing before the audio even kicks in for this segment: "Please step to the center of the vehicle and away from the doors."

[yogiperogy]

A really varied compilation of oddball stuff the neophyte railfan (like me) may never see! Amazing production sir! Thank you for the hard work and effort you put into your captivating work! Truly appreciated.

[JohnGeorgeBauerBuis]

The Budd Silver Slipper was an early effort at building a lightweight passenger trainset, but its prime mover and the rubber tires (licensed from Michelin) on the coach gave enough trouble that it didn’t last very long. It did set the stage for the famous Pioneer Zephyr, though.

[Happymali]

32:25
It looks in the drawing like the guide wheels would reach below the rubber tires, so they had to go to park the train.

[RailsofForney]

I once saw a piping train several years ago when I was 9. I have it uploaded on my channel, but it’s cool to see that long-time railfans can see things that even they didn’t expect. (I’ve only ever seen a piping train like that once ever.)

[aprilgeneric]

have seen that 'brush' cutter used on a small forrest along i94 on the BNSF dead end line going to the monticello nuclear plant....300 feet...at the least...some of those tree splinters (yes i do mean tree 12"-18" diameter trees) were mowed from trackside to as far as the boom would reach away. the aftermath is still very visible and this was done before plague lockdown.

[nicolashuffman]

FWIW, there is an enormous rail ferry operation out of Mobile Alabama. If I recall correctly, each ship holds something on the order of 100 train cars. They offload somewhere across the Gulf of Mexico.

[Psychlist]

That horn around 6:20 sounds like someone wired up a vuvuzela :D

[thomasmackowiak]

There were some interesting pieces of railroad equipment in this video. Thank you for bringing them to use and for showing us how some of them work.