A Museum for Rail Fans in Elkhart, IN

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[stevelange]

I'll never shake the love of and draw to trains. In my earliest years the last vestiges of steam locomotives were still in use but the rails were dominated by the General Motors Electro-Motive Division F series like the one you got to climb into and look around. Their controls were so minimal compared to the preceding steam locomotives and their cabs were far more pleasant than open cab of steam loco.
That shiny train set model you were admiring (in the wall case under the AMTRAK model) is the Burlington & Quincy RR Line's "Pioneer Zephyr" out of Chicago, manufactured in 1934 by the Budd Company. It was the second diesel-electric type manufactured but first to enter revenue service. Completely out of the box thinking of the day in technology, design, comfort, costs to build and operate profitably. Revolutionary and it took relatively little time to completely replace steam locomotion. The real Pioneer Zephyr is ( or at least was a decade+ ago ) a walk through exhibit at the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry. Complete train in shiny stainless steel - who would of thought.
Another gem in your video series and potential destination for travelers.

How on earth did you arrange to have 3 trains do a sequential bye-pass while filming?
Did you hack into the dispatcher's console and program them to do so during the CrowdStrike fiasco?
Was that a Joel's idea of a trifecta?
Naughty boy, but the effect was tremendous!

[RamblinRoadies]

When you were sitting in the engineers seat with the trains moving in the background, it almost gave the illusion that you were moving. Wow! 😮

[BrianAz]

I love trains! I wish my dad would have let me know that I could have a career in this field when I was a kid! Awesome!

[GypsyBewytched]

More fun! I bet you would love the Cincinnati Dinner Train someday (it's on my List).
Lenny needs a secondary horn like that, don't you think? your e-bike lol.

[jeromehebert]

Man, I just Love me some trains; that tour was really cool fro the trains to the models, wow! could spend days in there. And to be able to go in some of them, how cool is that. can you imaging getting one of those old Amtrak cars and put it on a piece of property and convert it to a tiny home ??

[georges]

Hey Guys ! What a cool place to visit. I love trains and I think it would fun to operate one for sure, maybe in my next life 😂😂

[RamblinRoadies]

Did Emma seem not as excited as Joel? 😂

[rs]

At 18:20, you are sitting in the driver’s seat of the train. Another train can be seen out your window. As the other train is moving, even though your train is stanionary, “relativity” makes it look like your train is moving. You could have spoofed us and made it look like you were actually driving the train. We could not have known differently. LOL!

[GoldenTrumpet]

YouTube has been deleting my comments on your channel. Apparently it's Google's Gemini AI doing it.