Big BNSF Grain Train! Chasing a NS Train At Night! Pair Of SD70AC Units With a GP 40-2 on CSX Train. 7 Trains in all in this action packed train video filmed in and around Dun Kirk NY on November 19th 2021.
0:00 Intro.
1:00 We are at the Norfolk Southern Middle Road crossing on 18 November 2021 as the gates go down. We are wanting for Norfolk Southern train #206 to arrive. After the two BNSF engines tat are powering Norfolk Southern train #206, you turn left on Progress Drive to pace the train. You catch up to the engines and pace them along Progress Drive. As the engines speed on, we can hear the turbos on the engines whining as the train climbs the grade ahead. You stopped just east of the Werle Road crossing to watch the rest of the train pass.
4:57 We are on the south side of the CSX tracks at the Berry Road crossing in Pomfret, New York on 11 November 2021 as we look west and see CSX train #I104 approaching the Martin/Willow Road crossing. We see the I-90, New York Thruway, bridge over the train that has already past the CSX Mile Post 47 signals. The gates are already down at the Martin/Willow Road crossing. At 5:42 the gates at the Lake Road crossing start to lower. At 6:22 we hear the motor on the Berry Road crossing gate that we are near start to lower the gate. We see that the train is powered by a BNSF engine which is followed by another BNSF engine. After CSX train #I104 passes, you zoom in on it as it heads east. At 9:34 the lights go dark on the Mile Post 44.8 signals. At 9:51 the gates at the Van Buren Road crossing start to rise. At 10:37 the train knocked down the sign at the Control Point 42 signal. You zoom back to a normal view and set the camcorder so that you can walk in front of it to talk to us. You mentioned that the grain train was CSX train #G054. That cannot be a correct train number for this train because the current CSX list of train symbols lists a CSX train #G054 as an as needed loaded grain train from Richmond, Virginia to Norfolk, Virginia. Your banner at the beginning of this portion of the video says that this CSX train #I104 but there is no CSX train #I104 in the current CSX list of train symbols. There is a CSX train #G053 in the current list of CSX train symbols that is an as needed grain train from BNSF that originates in Chicago, Illinois (more than likely the train originates at the BNSF Clyde Yard in Cicero, Illinois) that terminates at the Port of Albany in Albany, New York. This is an unusual number for an eastbound train on any railroad since eastbound (or timetable eastbound trains) are even numbered trains.
12:28 It is night time on 19 November 2021 and you are approaching the Norfolk Sothern's Middle Road crossing as the gates are going down in anticipation of the arrival of Norfolk Southern train #14M on the east side of Dunkirk, New York. You stop short of the crossing gates so that you can make a left turn on Progress Drive to chase Norfolk Southern train #14M. After the two Norfolk Southern engines pass the Middle Road crossing, you start to turn left on to Progress Drive to pace the train. You catch up to the engines and we can hear the turbos whining as the train goes up a small grade toward Werle Road crossing. You stop at the Werle Road crossing and park with your headlights illuminating the train as it passes.
16:23 We are at the Berry Road crossing in Pomfret, New York on 12 November 2021. We see CSX train #Q363 approaching from the east. After the train passes, you zoom in on the train and we see that the train is blocking the Lake Road and the Martin/Willow Road crossings and the engines have passed the CSX Mile Post 47 signals. We also see the I-90, New York State Thruway, bridge over the tracks. At 19:13 the Lake Road crossing gates start to rise. At 19:49 the Martin/Willow Road crossing gates start to go up. You zoom back to a normal view. You set the camcorder up so that you can step in front of it. You tell us about the train that just past.
20:38 We are at the CSX Middle Road crossing on 16 August 2021 looking west as CSX train #I168 comes around the curve that brings it off the elevated tracks through Dunkirk, New York. 24:55 It is 18 November 2021 and we are waiting for CSX train #I010 to pass over the Central Avenue viaduct in the dark. At 25:45 we start to hear the sound of an approaching mid-train DPU. At 25:55 the mid-train DPU makes its appearance. There are trailers on flat cars on this intermodal train.
28:08 We are on west Third Street between Dove Street on the east and Robin Street on the west on the very west end of the elevated tracks through Dunkirk, New York on 18 November 2021 in daylight as CSX train #I009 comes toward us. An added bonus is a school bus coming toward us that makes a left turn down one of the side streets. The viaduct that we see at the beginning of this portion of the video is the Swan Street viaduct. There are trailers on flat cars on this intermodal train.
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