Kansas City Southern: Coal, Canadians, and Covered Barns!
2,087 views · Published 26 April 2017 · 4:40 · Indexed 6 November 2026
Channel: Jason Stiles · 2017 · Entertainment
Filmed: 04/26/17 This is literally one of those "coming in under the wire" videos. Up till about 3:45pm yesterday, I was still stuck at work almost 3 hours after I was supposed to be off. At that time, I still had no clue what I was going to upload for today's video. Enter Chris. He calls me about 10 till 4 and filled me on on what was going on with this train. So I finally managed to get off work a little after 4, and after dropping paperwork off at the office, I got home as fast as possible, changed clothes, grabbed my cameras and headed to Odessa. Chris needed me to see if I could make eye contact with this thing, but it was nowhere in Odessa to be seen. Talked to Chris again, said to go east, and with Google Maps I was able to find a road that stayed near the tracks. Of course, it was a dried up, dusty gravel road that my shiny black Firebird had no business being on. Enter thoughts of Smokey and the Bandit running from the cops on dirt roads in his Trans Am with large clouds of dirt and dust trailing behind. Lets just say before the rain last night, the car had dirty off-white dust all over it. Got to the nearest crossing a MP 445.11 and saw the signal flashing green to my right, looked to the left and there it sat. The Mexico Sub still uses track warrants, so the signal was kinda meaningless actually. Messaged Chris letting him know so he could plan a better run at it, and about 10 minutes later the train started moving. After it passed, I headed for I-70, got ahead of it at Bates City, met up with Chris in Oak Grove and saw it again. Tried beating it back into Blue Springs, but there was way too much traffic to deal with. I did see the DPUs going through, but that was about it. This is a new train for the KCS on this line. It transfers from the CN in St. Louis and I guess KCS got this train from the UP. But it's I think a once a month train and how long they keep this train is up in the air. It took this one three of four days go get from ST. L to KC. This line hasn't seen trains this big and heavy in who knows how long, if ever, and they're still working the bugs out trying to get this beast across the state. Anyway, that's it for now. Got a new HO scale Ops series starting this Sunday, so stay tuned for that. And if you want to see some stills of this train's power, I'll have some pics posted to my Facebook page (linked below) later today. Thanks for watching! Jason ---------------------------- Chris' Channel: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/844Train Shane's Channels: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/thebrakeman17 Facebook: Shane Mason Spencer's Channels: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/NS8010 Facebook: Spencer Batey Vinny's Channels: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/bnsf6951 Facebook: Vinny Sestito ---------------------------- My Stuff: facebook Jason Stiles - https://www.facebook.com/JasonRS.UP9229 facebook Eastern Jackson County Mainliners (Public) - https://www.facebook.com/groups/EJCMRailroadClub/ 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/
