Grand Canyon Railway May 2024 Steam DayRailBlazer93032026-09-20 | Grand Canyon Railway May 2024 Steam DayRails Around Kansas CityRailBlazer53712023-05-30 | I’m currently in the engineer program for BNSF. For the program, I had to make a trip to Kansas City for classroom learning. On my day off, I went to find trains. Here’s what I saw.Drawing the Polar ExpressRailBlazer53712022-12-02 | If you’re one of my original subs, you remember I made I lot of these. I deleted most of them but decided to do one again for this holiday season.Black Hills Central 65th Anniversary DoubleheaderRailBlazer53712022-08-24 | On August 20, 2022 the Black Hills Central celebrated 65 years of running excursions in the Black Hills of South Dakota. To commemorate such an occasion, Mallets 110 and recently restored 108 ran a special train together.Railfanning the Black Hills Sub. in WyomingRailBlazer53712022-07-01 | Wow, I actually uploaded a video! Crazy! Working for the railroad keeps you very busy and when you finally get a day off, it’s mostly spent running errands you couldn’t do all week. So this week I actually had a free day and decided to be a foamer on the very territory I ride on. I spent the day around Newcastle, WY. Here’s what I saw.UP 4014 - Cheyenne to SidneyRailBlazer53712021-08-25 | I’m horrendously late on uploading this. But better late than never. I chased the Big Boy on the first leg of its journey. Here’s what I saw.BCOL 4619 on Q-SPOALTRailBlazer53712021-03-31 | A couple trains in the Alliance, NE area with a friend of mine. BCOL 4619 was third out on the Spokane - Alliance, TX freight.Black Hills Central Holiday ExpressRailBlazer53712020-12-28 | I’m finally back with a video. If you don’t know, I’m a conductor for BNSF. As you’d expect, that keeps me very busy. However not all the time. Whenever you’ve been seeing videos it’s during the time I’m furloughed. It happens to every railroader but it gives me time to actually take pictures of trains. I was just furloughed again so I went to chase the Holiday Express at the Black Hills Central RR, also known as the 1880 Train, in Hill City, SD.HO scale BNSF Dash 9 leads a coal trainRailBlazer53712020-11-04 | I’m back at the model railroad club with my trio of BNSF GEs, a ScaleTrains Dash 9 and two Intermountain ET44C4s. I took a small train of coal loads around the layout. There’s chatting in the background cause you can’t stop that in a club setting.Black Hills Central Mallet DoubleheaderRailBlazer53712020-10-05 | On October 3, 2020 Black Hills Central ran a special 10-car train with 2-6-6-2T’s 110 and newly-restored 108 on the point. I, along with many others chased the train along its journey. Here’s what I saw.I’ve Got a Thing About Trains MVRailBlazer53712020-08-30 | I cobbled something together with my O scale trains. Been a while since I made a music video featuring them.Thank you Michael AngelisRailBlazer53712020-05-31 | ...Nighttime Joint LineRailBlazer53712020-05-20 | My O scale trains return. I’ve done some work to my layout. I’ve replaced the inside loop to make it farther from the outer loop. I like the way it came out.HO Scale SD60M and SD40-2 pulling a coal trainRailBlazer53712020-04-08 | I took my ScaleTrains SD40-2 and Walthers SD60M to the Black Hills Railway Society to pull a train of loaded coal cars. The Black Hills Railway Society is a model railroad club of which I am a member. Find them on Facebook by the same name.Chasing the RCPE Southbound Sturgis - Rapid CityRailBlazer53712020-01-27 | Wow seven months between uploads? I know right? Well a lot has happened for me. For starters, I went to conductor class. After 15 weeks I became a certified BNSF conductor. I worked for a couple months then the furlough boot snipped me out. So until I get called back, I now have time to chase trains.Rivers of SteelRailBlazer53712019-05-21 | As 4014 came home on Sunday, the Big Boy had officially risen to its throne with style. So I thought put this together. I know it’s the most foamer thing to upload. But what can I say? I am a foamer.UP 4014 & 844 - Great Race to Ogden DAY ONERailBlazer53712019-05-06 | UP 4014 has risen to its throne once more. Here what I saw from my chase from Cheyenne to Rawlins.Nighttime Layover at MSPRailBlazer53712019-03-31 | This is something random I took and made on my travels. It was just short of midnight at the airport in Minneapolis-St. Paul as my flight departs for Fort Wayne, IN.Evening Snow on a 3-Railer’s LayoutRailBlazer53712019-01-24 | Snow came a little late to my layout. It’s been a while since my trains made an appearance on my YouTube. I’ve collected a lot of trains since I last made a video.Christmas Time on the Black Hills Central RailroadRailBlazer53712018-12-04 | I always enjoy chasing the holiday train. When the snow is fresh and the shy is clear, there’s nothing more beautiful to me. This video starts out with a time lapse video of my drive to Hill City. Usually I take Highway US-16 but this time, I took the more scenic route. This is what I saw.RCP&E Mixed Freight - St. Onge to Rapid CityRailBlazer53712018-11-22 | ...Raw Sounds of Steam - Durango & Silverton 8/4/18RailBlazer53712018-10-27 | On October 4th, I was in Durango, Colorado to catch the world famous train. This is what I saw.The Little Little Engine That CouldRailBlazer53712018-08-21 | So I was bored one evening and decided to make something with Train Simulator 2018. This is the result. I even lost a day of sleep trying to edit this and making the simulator work properly. Hope you all enjoy.
NOTE: I did not do the reading of the story. It is an audio book cited in the credits.Frontier Days Train 2018 - Denver to CheyenneRailBlazer53712018-07-29 | I was one of the many Railfans who followed UP844 on its journey from Denver to Cheyenne. This was my first year ever chasing it on its entire trip. However, I had to drive home to South Dakota that evening so I didn’t chase it back. I am glad I didn’t. As you all know, there was a tragedy which occurred on its return trip. As 844 returned to Denver, it struck and killed a person. Amidst the negative, here’s the positive of the trip. My weekend started in Denver at Blue Mountain.“I’m a Train” by Albert HammondRailBlazer53712017-10-31 | This is something I decided to make cause I was bored. All but one of these clips take place in Indiana cause I live here now.The Little Red CabooseRailBlazer53712017-06-04 | The title says it all. I decided to do something different this time.