Category: Trainscapes Stuff

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Trainscapes: Union Pacific Big Boy: The Behemoth Train That Tamed The Rockies

Train fans love those classic steam locomotives.  And the Big Boy 4014 from the Union Pacific is a fan favorite.  So why was the Big Boy built by the Union Pacific?  YouTube […]

Trainscapes: Extreme Trains: Fastest Train In The USA

I love how The History Channel is uploading full episodes of their shows.  In this episode of Extreme Trains, you get to go behind the scenes of the Acela Express.  Running from […]

Trainscapes: What Happened To Tilford Yard

YouTuber Distant Signal went back up to Atlanta to see Tilford Yard, but what he saw three years ago was not the same today.  Most of Tilford Yard is gone, and it […]

Trainscapes: Four Train Morning In Decatur, AL Featuring A Caboose

You don’t see many cabooses traveling on a train anymore.  YouTuber freebrickproductions went to Decatur, Alabama and recorded four different trains.  It was a local meetup to chat and watch trains. While […]

Trainscapes: Take This Train And Shove It: Lake State Railway’s Saginaw Subdivision

From YouTuber Delay In Block Productions, comes an 45 minute video featuring a smaller railroad operating in Michigan.  Spend some time along Lake State Railway’s Flint Terminal and the Saginaw Subdivision.  Acquired […]

Trainscapes: The Indian Pacific: Australia’s Greatest Train – Sydney to Perth

The Indian Pacific is one of the world’s finest train journeys, carrying passengers on a three night, four day excursion, the full 4,352km across Australia between Sydney and Perth. This is a […]

Trainscapes: Eastern Kentucky Coal Trains From 1991

Let’s go back nearly 30 years ago now for some early 1990’s train action.  In our time today, coal trains are on a sharp decline, but back 30 years ago, coal trains […]

Trainscapes: The Signal Engineers From 1962

In this edition of Trainscapes, let’s go back to 1962 and see how railway signals were changing from mechanical signals to electrical signals.  In The Signal Engineers, the film is about one […]

Trainscapes: BIG Derailment Near Front Royal Virginia

Here’s a new train derailment video.  A Norfolk Southern train derailed near Front Royal, Virginia.  And YouTube channel Railfan Rowan got some video of the derailment cleanup.  See it below.

Trainscapes: The Bone Valley, Light Engines and Defect Detectors

In this outing from the Distant Signal YouTube channel, Danny catches some engines without their train, a Bone Valley job and check out how defect detectors work.  Enjoy below!