Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 13 hours ago
A full day at one of America's busiest train hot spots! We see a train every 90 seconds! This is BNSF and Union Pacific running the busy quad diamonds at Rochelle, Illinois.
No AI was used to bring this show to you. Read about our AI Policy and how we get videos ready for YouTube at: Pentrex.com/AI
About Pentrex: For 40+ Years we've been the leader in railroad video entertainment. See us at Pentrex.com and right here on YouTube, with the Official Pentrex Channel!
About this show: Trains rattle across the diamonds at Rochelle, Illinois, where the double tracks of the Union Pacific and the double tracks of the Burlington Northern Santa Fe intersect. Pentrex cameras were set up before dawn at Rochelle on this busy October day in 1998 to record every passing train from sunup to sundown, over eleven hours of trains!
It's a seemingly unending parade of intermodal, TOFC, autoracks, coal, and manifest trains flow past our cameras, headed by a vast array of motive power representing most modern locomotive types. Train symbols and destinations are shown for all movements across these former Chicago & North Western and Chicago, Burlington & Quincy diamonds.
This busy spot draws railfans from around the world like a magnet. To cope with the growing numbers of eager fans, the community of Rochelle constructed a unique railroad park complete with a covered pavilion. It was an instant success, but not without obstacles, as you ll hear from the crusader who fought the odds to make it a reality. Join us for a day at Rochelle where trains just keep on rolling past the railfan pavilion. It's a fascinating location and an amazing story that's turned Rochelle into a railfan hot spot on the Midwestern prairie!
Get better quality and a permanent addition to your collection with the DVD: pentrex.com/DVD-Sunrise-Sunset-2---A-Day-at-Rochelle%2C-Illinois-DVD_SUN2-DVD
0:00 Rochelle's "Railfan Pavilion" & a parade of trains
2:42 Getting the railfan park built
12:17 Four trains in three minutes
16:47 Five trains in four minutes
26:17 A local freight finds some time to work
35:02 Recent "Fallen" Flag units
42:52 Eight trains in less than 10 minutes
52:29 More Fallen Flag paint, autoracks, coal, TOFC etc!
Thumbnail photo credit: Bryan Hunt via CC-SA-3.0 license
A full day at one of America's busiest train hot spots! We see a train every 90 seconds! This is BNSF and Union Pacific running the busy quad diamonds at Rochelle, Illinois.
No AI was used to bring this show to you. Read about our AI Policy and how we get videos ready for YouTube at: Pentrex.com/AI
About Pentrex: For 40+ Years we've been the leader in railroad video entertainment. See us at Pentrex.com and right here on YouTube, with the Official Pentrex Channel!
About this show: Trains rattle across the diamonds at Rochelle, Illinois, where the double tracks of the Union Pacific and the double tracks of the Burlington Northern Santa Fe intersect. Pentrex cameras were set up before dawn at Rochelle on this busy October day in 1998 to record every passing train from sunup to sundown, over eleven hours of trains!
It's a seemingly unending parade of intermodal, TOFC, autoracks, coal, and manifest trains flow past our cameras, headed by a vast array of motive power representing most modern locomotive types. Train symbols and destinations are shown for all movements across these former Chicago & North Western and Chicago, Burlington & Quincy diamonds.
This busy spot draws railfans from around the world like a magnet. To cope with the growing numbers of eager fans, the community of Rochelle constructed a unique railroad park complete with a covered pavilion. It was an instant success, but not without obstacles, as you ll hear from the crusader who fought the odds to make it a reality. Join us for a day at Rochelle where trains just keep on rolling past the railfan pavilion. It's a fascinating location and an amazing story that's turned Rochelle into a railfan hot spot on the Midwestern prairie!
Get better quality and a permanent addition to your collection with the DVD: pentrex.com/DVD-Sunrise-Sunset-2---A-Day-at-Rochelle%2C-Illinois-DVD_SUN2-DVD
0:00 Rochelle's "Railfan Pavilion" & a parade of trains
2:42 Getting the railfan park built
12:17 Four trains in three minutes
16:47 Five trains in four minutes
26:17 A local freight finds some time to work
35:02 Recent "Fallen" Flag units
42:52 Eight trains in less than 10 minutes
52:29 More Fallen Flag paint, autoracks, coal, TOFC etc!
Thumbnail photo credit: Bryan Hunt via CC-SA-3.0 license
