Heritage: Norfolk Southern's Erie Railroad SD70ACe #1068
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Channel: Jason Stiles · 2014 · Entertainment
Filmed 05/04/14 Quick Announcement: I've changed my YouTube user ID to match my fb page. My YT channel is still "user/Defiant47" and all my videos will still be copyrighted to that name, but for comments, posts and such, I will appear as "Railfan Jason" which again is my ID on facebook. Welcome to my second longest video ever. I suppose I could have edited out a lot of the movements and even a good deal of the middle of the trains. But, then you would miss out on all the GREAT FUN Chris and I had watching and filming this... all while baking in the sun. :I So that Sunday morning Chris says we need to get up to Eton to see this train go by around 1pm. OK, it's Eton, not too far, BNSF's Marceline Sub, fast trains, so this shouldn't take long at all. hahahahanope. Around 1pm, she does show up, but is going very slow and we soon realize it's going to stop, which it does. So we go down the road a little ways to get a better look at the locomotives, then go to the next crossing to wait for the train to pass by. For the next hour plus, this train keeps going back and forth. Chris and I are hot, sunburned, well, me more so than him, hungry, thirsty (remember this was supposed to be a quick outing) and when it finally does go, it's at a SUPER FAST speed 5 miles per hour, and never speeds up. During all this, we had a miscommunication while I was filming and I ended up letting Chris' camera hit the ground... hard. I could tell he was mad, I was mad at myself, and still feel bad about it now. I'm just glad it still works. A bit rough around the edges and the lens cover won't close, but it still works. A little while later while we were up there, by the way Eton is a TINY farming community and the road we were on boarders wheat or corn fields, and has various access roads through them. While we waited, a couple of guys arrived and pulled into one of the entrances to one of the farming fields. We thought they were railfans at first, but then the driver came over to Chris' truck and and asked us if we knew where any shrooms might be or if we had any. He looked pissed and seemed fairly insistent that we had some, so he took off when he realized he wasn't getting anything from us. Chris and I looked at each other and laughed. Sorry moron, we don't use drugs. Anyway, I also hadn't charged my camera battery the night before, so it didn't have a full charge, so I wasn't sure if I was going to be able to get all this, but after the last car FINALLY passed by, the battery was done. So, it all worked out and here is everything that I filmed. Heritage Score Board: Union Pacific... GOT 'EM ALL! - 1982 (5: Leading**, DPU 2x, Agentine Yard, Leading) - 1983 (3: Leading 3x) - 1988 (4: Leading 2x, 3rd out*, 2nd out) - 1989 (2: Leading & Neff Yard) - 1995 (2: Leading & Neff Yard) - 1996 (3: Leading*, 2nd out, 3rd out) Amtrak... 1 left - 66 (20+: Leading the River Runners) - 156 (10+: Leading the River Runners & 2nd out) - 184 (7: Leading the River Runners & second out) - 822 (1: Leading, though apparently this isn't a Heritage unit, even though it's painted like one. Completely stupid.) Norfolk Southern... 15 to go. - 1066 (1: Leading) - 1068 (1: 2nd out) - 1069 (1: Argentine Yard) - 8100 (1: 2nd out) - 8104 (1: Avondale Yard) #: number of times I've seen them * notes that unit was not filmed or photographed at that time. ** notes that unit was photographed, not filmed. ---------------------------- Chris' Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/844Train Shane's Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/thebrakeman17 ---------------------------- My Stuff: facebook: Railfan Jason - https://www.facebook.com/JasonRS.UP9229 deviantART: UP9229 - http://up9229.deviantart.com/ Train club account: - http://www.youtube.com/user/EJCMRailroadClub/featured EJCM website: - http://easternjacksoncountymainliners.com/ Yahoo group: - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Freelanced_Model_Railroads/
