Fastest Street Running Trains in America!! Elwood, Indiana & New Railroad Track Installed In Muncie
Fast Street Running Trains In Elwood, Indiana! New Railroad Track Installed In Muncie, Indiana & Haunted House In Indiana. Have you ever seen a street running train go this fast? 2 Norfolk Southern freight trains booking down the middle of the road in Elwood. This is an excellent Railfan city and there is an industrial railroad spur in town that goes to Red Gold tomato processing. There is also an old house in town that looks haunted. It has several cameras on each side of the building and there are numerous no trespassing signs all the way around it. It sits right in the middle of town. We were taking pictures of it when a speaker on the house told us that we had enough pictures and it was time for us to leave. That was weird. We left and headed to Muncie, Indiana to film some trains at the diamonds. This video shows one of the Norfolk Southern northbound trains crossing a no train horn zone railroad crossing and crossing a couple of CSX railroad diamonds.
Filmed in 1080p with 60fps & 1.77GB on Wednesday, October 5, 2022AD
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My all time favorite NS locomotives like those Grain trains
Looking at those cars parked along the tracks; if the wrong type of train comes along they could be badly damaged … But, people never learn until they are affected by their own bad decisions …
Nice videos, thank you a lot, I'm from Poland and we have the same city with railways on a middle of a road
You're on familiar ground never knew Elwood had a street runner. I've been threw there thousands of times on 13. Nothing came threw Alexandria? Seen you had a Noblesville street runner video haven't seen it yet.
@@greenvilla7 late '70s there was a Coca Cola truck parked along the south side of the street that got sideswiped by a train. At that time South "C" Street was still connected to Anderson Street, the main north/south street through Elwood which is also Indiana State Road 13.
I grew up in a city where we would play in the street, occasionally being interrupted by car traffic. I can imagine being a kid on that street.
Or, a parent. I would be worried all the time.
Street hockey must be a hoot. "Train!"
@@andrewweitzman4006 Game off!
@@mvg2x34 honestly it prob is alot more noticeable than cars- tho maybe them messing with it would be an issue
This is for sure safer than cars. There’s a lot more cars, they travel faster, they can be driven with any meth head, and they can swerve all over.
Trying to tell your boss you were late because a 2 mile long train was blocking my driveway 😂😂😂
😅😅😅👍
Fr 🤣
Whoever lives in these kinds of neighborhoods with a train running through on a day-to-day basis are for sure slow pokes who are asking to get killed lmao.
Hey jawtooth that was a good way you told your viewers to look up "sundown towns". It surprised me that some folks didn't know that at one time during segregation and jim crow that i would not have been able to work as an engineer or conductor, i was proud to know that my late grandfather was one of the first crop of black men that were in the train crew ( he worked for Chicago,Burlington, and Quincy and when they became Burlington Northern, he retired 12 years before the merger) Just glad i was never raised to hate anyone. As always this BNSF conductor enjoyed the video!!
Cause the ones who didn't know didn't have to deal with that BS so it wasn't on their radars.
And now we have Queen Latifah busting white guys' heads on pavement on TV. What a great epoch we live in!
there are still some sundown towns in southeast KY Southwest VA West Va and East TN. Sneedville, TN is a great example
Most of today's white population ancestors came from western Europe after the Civil War had concluded. Blacks were always viewed with suspicion as heathen uneducated jungle dwellers. Long before Jamestown Virginia, Spanish tried starting a colony with slaves in 1525 in what's today's Georgia. Many of them escaped to Indian tribes in the area. Many early slaves including Jamestown were the results of British privateers "pirating" slaves from French, Spanish, Dutch and Portuguese slave ships going to the Caribbean Islands and South America. Most of the northern states population was early German and Polish and Scandinavian settlements. Why do you think "employed" colored people had the lowly jobs. Glad you enjoyed being a conductor. Not a job many white men fought to get, along with janitors maids housekeepers and other "grunt" job positions likely held by Blacks. Sundown towns are still around here in Wisconsin where demographics have Blacks at
@@D.J.Trump2024MAGA straight up? I should gather up a crew inside of 4 U-Haul trucks and see if that’s indeed, still the case.
Thank you for sharing! As an NS employee at corporate in Atlanta, I never knew “Street Running” was even a thing. Yes, the first train was a grain train or unit train. The second one is what we call a mixed freight train, and because it was so short, it was probably a local train, instead of a road train, but it could have been a road train. Again, good stuff and thanks for sharing.
Thanks for sharing!! I filmed street running trains on the NS line in Augusta, Georgia back in February. Thats pretty cool that you work for NS. I like your trains. Thanks for watching !
You’re welcome! I’ve been with NS almost 11 years, and I learn something new almost everyday, this being one of them. I will check out the Atlanta and Augusta videos and will definitely visit those areas so I can see it for myself.
@@Afrodeshia Some of the people who work for NS need to know more about the rails they operate, I commend you for actually taking time to learn new things about NS. Quite a few stories of dispatchers putting together trains with not enough power or asking engineers to tie down on a steep grade because they didn't know the territory they were dispatching.
Ayeee you work for NS too?! I do as well too I’m a Senior TM at Croxton in NJ🤗
Road train? KGLW mentioned???
I once saw a NKP Berkshire on that line around 1956, I was 6 years old...never will forget it. It was at night, whistle screaming, orange glow from fire box, loud combo sound of pounding and swishing steam from the locomotive. A memory I wish I could relive.
Thanks for sharing that sir
It must felt like the Polar Express arrival
@@pressstart1490 we all know it now.
We just found our steam engine from 1954 we know how you feel but this film video is awesome talk about humans and animals coexisting humans and trains coexisting we love this
You must have ben the same age as the kid in the cartoon “The iron giant” that happens in the ‘50s America
I don't know why but seeing brand new track is always satisfying to see
Hi i am Brazilian. The possibility of travelling to USA and seeing all these marvelous places is minimal. So, thank you for this. The USA must be the most underrated geographical wonder in this world. I know that Brazil is known as having natural beautiful places , but the more I see the more I disagree. I actually have been in Houston in 2002, I had to stop in Dallas, so I saw it from the high above and seemed as a land of wonder. I would treasure the natural beauty and culture that is today the American land, if i were you before travelling abroad.
Yes, I agree. I love travelling around the USA and filming trains. I have a list of places that I would love to see. I would also like to see Brazil and film your trains. Texas is a huge state with a lot of good trains. I was in Fort Worth for a week a long time ago and a couple years ago I was in Houston and filmed their airport train. Thanks for watching my videos! I look for the interesting areas
@@JawTooth thanks. I will be following your videos now. I love trains. However, most trains in Brazil are to transport cargo, but I think only small lines exist that transport people. I used to live in Jaguariúna where they have some steamy machines from early 1900s running around 20 km . 30 years ago you could travel by train, but today sadly not.
I used to go to Elwood every summer to visit my grandparents from the early 1950s to the mid 1960s. There were train tracks that crossed their street, down by the old Continental Can plant. Trains coming through were really exciting for a small boy.
Each time I watch street running, it's like the first time I discovered it. You could be out mowing or edging your grass, and a train that is just feet away from you is something that is unreal. Boy I tell you, you better get your car nice and close to curb, or you're going to have one messed up car! Great job brian! Thank you for all your hard work. Meow meow meow and bark bark to Norfie and Jesse!
And the vibration of your bed.
Lol. That house trying to tell you "leave a public sidewalk!" 👍
Yes, my friend wanted me to go back and record the speaker telling us to stop taking pictures and to leave. It gave me goose bumps though lol
This is so crazy that a train blasts it's way through that neighborhood. Whoever decided a residential street should be built on a train line definitely didn't live there. Hopefully they only run that trains during the day. That train whistle is LOUD!!!
Town likely developed around the tracks
I lived off that street. Cool but weird little town. It’s literally split into north and south sections with each street starting with the abc’s and 123’s. Easy town to walk around in, very hard to get lost. I never even knew trains could still go down those tracks I swear they were closed for years. So as a former resident, this is a double rare find😂
Thank you for this! I live in Elwood, about 3 blocks from the tracks in-town, close to our City building. My family and I love hearing the trains come through all day and night, you can almost set your watch by them. My kid likes to walk down to watch when the train comes. We've only lived here for a year and that first victorian house you showed always makes us laugh when we drive by, but we hope they fix it up because it's looking rough from the outside. That spooky house, we wonder about that one a lot. I wonder if it was a hospital of some sort or a school maybe when it was originally used. Very odd place for sure hahaha.
I coulda swore that specific street was always closed cause you never knew if a train would come down the middle of the road😂 I was born 2000 and lived in Elwood till about 9th grade. Miss it a lot.
The spooky house with all the cameras used to be a church. I used to go to girls scout meetings there back in the 80's.
I live in Elwood too, and never even knew this was here.. lol
I never saw a train going right down the middle of the road. Thanks for sharing.
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That train is going really fast for a residential area let alone down the middle of a street. I grew up in Modesto CA where a train went two miles down the center of 9th street. They were required to go 5 mph.
That was like 20 years ago or more at this point
N scale enthusiast here, Fantastic shot, lovely. Some people don't realize that trains and trucks are what revolve the economic wheel. Transporting goods. This one wasn't a short tarin either !
Man, those street running trains were moving fast 😵💫. Nice to get a look around Elwood too, great video. Thanks JT👍
Thanks 👍 I like showing the areas where I film. This is my first visit to Elwood
Yeah, I didn't think they were allowed to run that fast, or use the horn. On another vid, they just rang the bell.
Now that’s what you would call living right on the RxR tracks.🚂
yeah it's great at 2 in the morning.
Nightmare
Especially when the driveways have railroad crossing signs
Unbelievable to see a quiet family street like that with fast freights on them. Surprised it actually exists. Thanks for posting it. Elwood (name)...reminds me of the late Neil Peart drummer of Rush. He would always use the name Ellwood Peart when travelling with his family or alone for booking hotels, restaurants, etc. Thought that might interest you Jawtooth since you are a fellow musician as well. The blue open boxcar in Muncie was cool. Cheers.
Seems kinda dangerous, actually.
Like a serirs incandescent streetlights for example.
And this, my friends, is why you see a train in the road at the start of the hit Christmas movie "Polar Express".
I cannot believe how fast they run through that neighborhood! Absolutely crazy!
It's bringing baby cribs to Buttigeig and his husband.
Residents must be familiar and strangers few.
I was thinking the same thing
I can’t believe they even get up to these speeds at all with how much they weigh
I mean that is where they are running long before resident were there. Living them you would get use to that.
Yeah, that building looked sketchy. Who knows what it was used for and if it’s still being used. But that Victorian style house was just beautiful! I love those types of houses. Great train video as always, JT!
My thoughts exactly. I love looking at old buildings that have character. It was weird when a speaker came on and told us to move along. lol
My first impression of the structure looked as if it were a bank or some other business. I was kind of expecting to see something that appeared Victorian, having a Mansard type of roof it. (That "spooky" structure appears again in your concluding stillshots, just after the 15:14 mark. Seems kind of odd that it has a loudspeaker outside so to inform persons nearby of it to move along.)
@@williamh.jarvis6795 Its looks like a Freemasons building.
it was an old presbyterian church that is were my mother and father was married at
They really ruined it with the modern sliding windows. Oof.
I live in Hummelstown Pennsylvania and we have here the Hummelstown Middletown Railroad which currently gives tourist rides but back in the day also transferred freight to the former Reading lines which are now Norfolk Southern. One part of the track goes across Route 322 and goes through both towns. Love trains since I was a youngster!! 🚂 🚃
Awesome street running, yes they do go faster on this street, and can use their horns !! That was a cool old house, Love it when they preserve history. Great video as always !! 👍👍👍
Thanks for watching
Hello from the UK. Brilliant to see another street running location. I love the different locations that you show us, and I especially like the street running. A fellow Brit pointed out that there is now only one location in the UK where there is a very short piece of street running. Keep up the good work Mr Jaw Tooth.
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Awesome, thank you! I saw that one piece of track in the UK on Google Maps. I forget where it was but there is also a video of a train on it on KZhead. There are a few more towns in America with street running tracks that I plan on filming
@@JawTooth them NS grain trains my favorite
Where is the UK location please?
There are two in Ireland. One's in Dublin Port. I think that the only trains on it are the aluminium ore trains from Tara Mines. Dublin Port has a lot of container traffic and also a fair few foot passengers on ferries to Wales and France, but there are no passenger trains and I think no intermodal trains. The other is in Wexford Town. Trains from Dublin to Rosslaire Harbour run right along Wexford Harbour in the middle of town. That line is mostly DMU passenger trains. I know that there used to be intermodal trains out of Rosslaire Harbour (and Waterford Harbour nearby), but I don't think there are any more.
Those are definitely faster than expected for Street runners! Great catch and video quality gets better and better!!
I lived in a house on a railroad track only a few feet from our side porch. Trains carried coke, iron ore and scrap steel to mill down the street. It was just part of our life.
Just found your channel. An awesome amount of train videos. I’ll be checking them out. --- Oh my, I always thought Sundown Towns were retirement towns. I finally looked it up. Now I know. --- UP and BNSF in my area of the US. I love seeing the NS locomotives, which show up here occasionally. I really like the paint scheme with the horse on front.
Another great video JT. Quite an education watching this one, street running at speed, tomato washing plant, an a creepy house too! Made me think of a song from my younger days "The Railroad Runs Through The Middle Of The House". (1950s I think!). They sure aren't hanging around going down that street.
"but we've got no chairs in the middle of the house, 'cause that's the Railroad Track!"
@@stevelang3171 Yes, that's the one. I can't remember who sang it or when it was but that video just made me think of it and gave me a smile!
My uncle lived in Elwood for 20 years, I visited him many times but never knew this track existed. Nice video JT. -John
Those freights running down a street like that in a little country community like that is the wildest thing I've ever seen ! He sure was bookin' indeed ("plantin' no seed") ! That's kinda like having a cargo ship sail through a babbling Brook in your back yard.😱 - Steve G.
That's unreal that you could watch trains from your window. In the UK you'd never get anything like this! I absolutely love this idea.
until youre trying to sleep
lol the noise, i could not live there
It's cool how the train tracks run through the middle of a residential street.👍
It sure is!
It’s cool how they built a neighborhood and street around railroad tracks.👍🏿
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I remember putting pennie’s on tracks running right by my Grandpas house in San Diego. I think I still have them some where in my files…this was back in the late forties. Tracks are still there. Great memories!
Train is not messing around lol. So neat to see this.
See my Street Running Trains playlist for more cities like this
I love how you can still find 1995-2010 Pontiac Grand Ams, Grand Prix ,G6 & Bonnevilles everywhere even though its been 12 years since the last 2010 Models rolled out. They're proving to be as durable as those multi-generational box cars, especially the old rail box boxcars.
I bought a 99 Grand Am back in 2013. After owning a 97 Sonoma S 15. Which ironically a similar truck is behind the Grand Am. But yeah their were thousands of them around at the time.
I'm still driving a 2002 Pontiac Aztek. Runs and drives like new!
Thats so cool!! I have never seen a train going so fast while its Street running! Great video JT!
Me neither. Thanks for watching !
Blow and go! Thanks for your time. Pete in South Carolina
Wow, that must be so much fun for the residents living on that street. Handsome host.
Utterly insane. Is it just me, but every time I see something crazy in the train world, 9 times out of 10, it has “NS” on it??
Can't believe they're allowed to go this fast on a residential street.
Awesome, love your Street running videos, keep up the great job 👍. Thanks for sharing 👍
Glad you like them! I have a street running playlist also
That's a lot of great Train action on a Friday morning!
It sure is!
I grew up in Elwood. The street used to go to S.R. 13 but they cut that last 200 feet out a few years back. The "spooky house" used to be a church. I was told that they had problems with people thinking it was still abandoned. There are dozens of those old Victorian style houses all over town. There was a natural gas boom in the 1800's, so there was a lot of factories and money in Elwood, until the gas ran out. And Elwood was originally named Quincy, not Duck Creek,
that spooky house is actually lived in again it has a garge door in the back to park underneath, it has a awesome balcony upstairs.
Wow,that’s awesome dude! Thanks for the up load.
Any time!
Amazing videos Jaw Tooth keep up the good work
Thanks! Will do!
Awesome indeed, that street must have great foundations. Great videos as usual, watching from England UK.
Thanks for watching! One building on that street has the roof collapsed in though. lol
this is the most awesome video i have seen in youtube and I have seen some great ones but this is just fantastic...omg!!!
I know what a sundown town is, my grandparents and Others in my family experienced them. I still think you should do a calendar your still shots are so nice. Thank you as always for posting. Norfie is funny and always here comes Jessie.😁😁😁
That would be cool! Take the best of my still shots. Thanks for watching !
Good job.
That's another good spot! The trains look so cool coming down the street. That house is kind of creepy looking. Great video!
It should have won an award for that credential alone 🤔🤣🤣
Thanks for watching!
Great big Road Engines, Six Wheelers. A 100 Car Grain Train and a good old mixed Freight train. Good Stuff. I worked as Clerk for the N&W out of Toledo in the 1970s.
Nice train video as always JT
Come to Harrodsburg Kentucky. We have a lot of NS trains running through the center of town.
Best neighborhood to live in , watch trains all the time. Great stuff JT.
Thanks 👍
Yepp try to sleep after overnight shift.
@@nograbbing9997 I work overnight shift and would still love it
Yeah, that was a wow! Great catch.
I always love the content you post. That street running was cool.
Thanks 👍
Hi Jawtooth! For a street-running train, that first one moved through at a pretty good clip. The 2nd one was no slouch, either. That spooky house either has an old curmudgeon that wants everyone off the property, or it's truly haunted.
Thank you very much! There has to be some type of story about the old house. Maybe someone watching the video will tell us about it.
Ghosts don't put up security cameras and play warnings. Some wealthy individual owns it.
Looks like Scrooge McDuck's mansion maybe? :-D
Great location street running trains are great thanks jaw tooth for a great video
Glad you like them!
Excellent videos. Thanks so much. I like this stuff too. I have always loved trains.
Thank you very much!
i love your slideshows never get rid of them i always love to watch them and your animals too
Thanks! I always hope that ppl watch them
Why would anyone want to build next to a railroad? Your children couldn't play outside safely, there was other traffic going through, the train noise was deafening, the vibrations from the running trains put cracks in walls and foundations. The smell was nauseating, and the horns were loud. If there was a derailing, your home could be wiped out, perhaps with you and your family in it.
Good morning to all from Springfield Ohio
Good morning from Houston, Texas!😊
Good morning from Mount Orab, Ohio!
@@JawTooth how are you doing today
Nice coverage, love seeing the street runners. Need to check out that Muncie location next year when I visit to the Academy of Model Aeronautics facility off E . Memorial Drive.
You should! It is awesome!
Another great video. What could be better then sitting on your front porch and watching trains morning noon and night. Way to cool
Couldn't agree more!
Nice video! The early segment where you ran the car along the track kinda made me feel like I was riding inside the car. Good to see others also recording like tie-dye guy. That haunted house looked like an old court building. Did some hanging judge operate there and put innocents unto the scaffold? Maybe some innocent dead soul is haunting the place for having been unjustly croaked. Keep up the good work.
I didn't find the "creepy house" with the Ring speaker not as weird as the house at 15:12. What's up with the larger than life picture of the couple in that full length window? That is just plain strange!. Great location, JT. The train speeds seem a bit much so close to those homes and the owner's parked cars; but I guess that fight by the homeowners vs the railroad was lost a long time ago. Imagine the stress cracking on the walls & ceilings inside these homes.......and the cost of homeowners and car insurance!
Guess you didn't recognize the "strange couple."
Lol the people that live there are nuts. The “couple” in the picture youre referring to is their life size cutouts of trump and Melania Lmao
I love how people make street running playlists.
This is beautiful man, good stuff
Appreciate it!
I watch your videos everyday Jawtooth they're amazing....I'm not so sure if you got my last comment but my birthday is on the 17th this month....it'll be awesome hearing a birthday shout out from you hopefully some DPUs too🙂
Happy birthday! Yes, I can give you a birthday shout out. I will put that in a video. Most likely it will be on that day.
Happy early Birthday
@@JawTooth thank you so much buddy 🚂🚒😎
@@michaelhewitt258 thank you
Thats crazy and really cool. I discovered La Grange from one of your videos and went there over the summer. I was in town 2 minutes and saw a train. Then 5 mins after that another one showed up. Cool stuff.
Very cool! You got really lucky! I have been there and waited for over 6 hours before a train came
I love your street running videos! Keep them coming. Also, thanks for the heads up on the town, I would have wanted to visit not knowing to watch my back.....
Glad you like them! That info about the town was something I learned while I was there. I had never had of that and had to look it up. Something better about the town was that in 1940 a resident ran for president agains Roosevelt but lost. Back then they had the biggest political rally in America up to that time.
It seems to have basically the same result as a Amazon truck driving through my neighborhood at 30 mph and not stopping for anything, except the train blows its horn to warn people.
The train is def safer lol
Cool that you found another street run train I really like them , I’ll the first to give it a 👍
Mr Tooth thanks , I love to see Trains running in between houses and streets , amazing view I appreciate , bravisdimo 👏, sincerely , jose
Thank you very much!
Hi JT, i have seen this place before its amazing & the trains really book down those streets! Fab video JT, hope you go back someday. ❤😊👍
Thank you, I will for sure. I probably will here soon because I want to go there and Warsaw in the same trip
@@JawTooth look forward to it JT, 👍
I wonder how many drunk people have driven off the end of that road lol
Nice that you found another street running train location.Thanks Brian.
More to come! Warsaw, Indiana is on my list also. Its way up in the top of the state
@@JawTooth go out there by about 25 minutes out of Dubuque Iowa sometime. The town on the Mississippi River called Bellevue Iowa has Street running Canadian Pacific trains coming thru North and South.
@@JawTooth Hickory Street. A north and South street. Give it a bit before you get here, they are repairing the crossing as of the posting of this
Fastest street running I've ever seen, good stuff!
I knew what Norfie was doing too. I also knew what a sundown town was. Although they were know as sunset towns down here. But I have never know of any town that was one. I might Google that. I Googled Sunset Towns in Louisiana and it listed 8 small towns. One was in central Louisiana across the Red River from the town I was born in.
"Norfie" 😂😂😂😂 i like that, gotta use that over the radio one day!! I work for BNSF btw aka "Buy Norfolk Southern First" 😂😂😂😂
When I worked for Florida DOT back in the 70’s crossing rights were a major issue. The courts essentially ruled that who was there first had a majority of the rights. When costs associated with a railroad crossing came into play, if the railroad was there first then they only paid 10% of the costs and DOT or the local municipality paid 90% of the cost. The reverse applied as well. Major crossings costs could easily go into six figures or more if the the crossing was large and/or complex. Hearings sometimes got pretty heated.
Very nice loved it
Totally cool. I grew up with street cars running up and down my street in front of my house. It would be fantastic to live on that street.
That would be cool!
Looks as though Elwood has more passive railroad crossings than active Railroad crossing signals. The trains run at a decent clip through there. I like street runners! Diamonds are cool as well, especially ones that are both active!
Yes, I agree. Thanks for watching !
Man, for street running trains, they were Really booking, man what’s the hurry .That strange house would make a perfect backdrop for a Halloween block party. Noticed two of these trains weren’t very long by today’s standards, wonder why. Nice work JT, interesting to hear a little history about Elwood, Indiana.👍🏼🙏🏻🚂
Quaint maybe... your demographic might determine the % of accuracy, however (I did not know the term 'Sundown' and when i wiki'd it, sadly Elwood will remain one of the places NOT to visit (I'm sure the feelings mutual)... what i found curious, RR related was the LACK of Powered Crossings (i guess that's a Indiana thing more than anything else) in the rural areas and seemingly NO signals anywhere along the route in Elwood...
@@tehpw7574 There are several black families that make Elwood home these days. Sadly, at one time many small towns throughout the midwest were sundown towns but that all ended with the civil rights act.
@@jimnaden5594 ...I don't think the phrase "that all ended" is correct (but i'm going on instinct, discussing of race with fellow sailors and what i perceive as a middle-aged Gen-X Veteran (your personal milage will, of course, vary)... but it was 'educational' to learn the term...
@@tehpw7574 What are you afraid of?
pretty cool watching your videos, love seeing different parts of our country, thank you!
Glad you like them!
@Jaw Tooth, That train is a goin' a little too fast Eh? Lovin' ur videos there Mr.Jaw Tooth 🚂 tootin' tootin'!! Canadian talk Eh? 🇨🇦
pretty fast for street running which I consider a bit sketchy and unsafe but nice video Jaw Tooth as always.
Thanks! 👍
Those are the fastest street running trains I ever seen. There are still a lot of sundown towns around America, and especially Texas. Glad to see you back.
Elwood is a sun down town for sure.
@@ericzerkle5214 I will never go through there, i';; put that on my list lol.
@@sthpac69 Yeah pretty sad. Huge MAGA town too.
@@ericzerkle5214 Oh, without a doubt.
Indiana still has several sundown towns.One of the towns about an hour from me aren't afraid to advertise it
Seeing Norfie always brings a smile to my face!
Thanks
JT, you're the man!
Morning JT, I plan on being at Eastern tomorrow about 12:00 for a soccer game I’m seeing, idk if I will run into to you cause trains hardly run on the CCET on Saturday but wherever you may be during those hours hope it goes well!
I was a switchman at Southern Railroad starting in the late ' 70 ' s . Preface : On the midnight shift we would sometimes get our tasks done about and hour early and a lot of times we would head the engine towards the shop ( which takes us right by the yard office ) . Sometimes we would stop there and sometimes we would ease on to the shop and then go home . However, sometimes as we were approaching the yard office and the lead to the engine shop, we would get a call on the radio from the yardmaster ... ( and of course that would mean he had another task for us to do ... ) In the early ' 80 ' s, I used a cassette tape recorder to record the yardmaster calling our conductor . One morning at about 6 AM, we were pulling some cars into the yard and I dropped off the engine so I could line the switch for the engine to pull the cars into a yard track and then line the switch back after the cars cleared the straight track . I went to my truck and got the cassette tape recorder and as the engine came back up towards the yard office, I played the tape over the radio " Southern Simpson Yard Yardmaster Sloan calling job 41 Conductor Black over " . Well, the conductor was a nervous and anxious type of person and he was already on the back of the engine anticipating being able to drop off and go ( as usual ) . He answered rapidly " This is Conductor Black over " . Then I played it again " Southern Simpson Yard Yardmaster Sloan calling job 41 Conductor Black over " . At this point the engine was near the yard office and Conductor Black bounded off the engine and was headed into the yard office . At the same time, I went into the side door of the clerk's office which adjoined the yard office and as I arrived in the presence of the yard master and Mr. Black, I played the tape for them . Pretty funny stuff . Also, about that time was when we first started getting computer printouts for our switch lists . ( Previously EVERYTHING was hand written ) . That was the same time when I had a Radio Shack Color Computer and I learned BASIC computer language . I then made a program that created a random switch list that looked identical to the ones we would get from the clerks or from the remote printers that were out near the tracks in little air conditioned housings . So, one day I had my 3 fake switch lists, hidden in my overalls, and when the time came to get a new switch list, I volunteered to go get it . When I walked up to my two crewmen, I handed them the fake lists . They looked at it for a minute and were totally dumbfounded as the list looked genuine but had no correlating information that related to what we had in the yard ... ( back then all dot matrix printer output looked the same lol )
those magnificent machines are so beautiful!!
This was great! A train going down a street? Whoa!
Wow! That beats the 6 m.p.h. speed restriction on the Indiana Transportation Museum street-running on 8th St. in Noblesville, Indiana. Sadly, that track now is gone.
I only got to ride the trains there one time. That was really sad removing perfect track
The North-central Indiana towns around Elwood, back in the early 20th century and especially during the 1920s, were often referred to as Sunset or Sundown Communities. This vicinity of Indiana was the 'hotbed' of the KKK (Ku Klux Klan). African Americans, by law, were not allowed to be seen within the town limits after sunset or before dawn the next day. There you go, Brian, I stated it for you.
Tell about the hassle
@@ronald8ish About what hassle??
My family is from there. Absolutely true. The Silver Dollar Tavern was their meet up. Elwood is a strange town.
I've been there plenty of times and not once have I seen any african americans. Anyone who knows about elwood knows about its history
@@kelton7337 Well. all of those communities were like no Blacks after sunset. But there were other Indiana cities and towns as well. Even in the Northeastern part of the state, such as Adams County, I.E., Decatur, the County Seat had sunset laws back then.
Waited along this street several times. I don't live far from there, I also lived along the Frankfort District for over 20 years so this is very familiar territory. The Frankfort usually doesn't get more than 4-5 trains a day so I'd say you got pretty lucky on the timing!
super great video
GREAT,.. just what I need on a Sunday morning ... a TRAIN blasting it's horn.
A morning alarm, why not. You don't have to think to set it up in the evening - it's going to horn anyway.
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@@dale4853 It's.
How often does that train go by? So often you won't even notice it.
Looks like 84 cars on that first train. Based on you aerial view it looks like that town is bigger than Elwood, NJ. But our Elwood has a US highway going through it, and parallel to that there is a NJ Transit line to Atlantic City. There were 37 on the second train. After that it looked like a guy down at the next intersection by the stop sign was suspicious of you. And that building you showed was cool. 42 cars on the train in Muncie.
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