Mack R Model with MONSTER Jake Brake! #jakebrake #straightpipes #macktrucks #truckspotting Austin Trains 2024-05-10 | ...
Train VS Truck Accident in Bangor PA #traincrashes #trainaccident #norfolksouthern #trainvscar Austin Trains 2024-05-07 | ...
The LONGEST truck hornshow!! #kenworthw900 #airhorn #truckhorn #dumptruck #trucker Austin Trains 2024-05-05 | ...
Chasing an SD50 Trio on the North Reading Fast Freight Austin Trains 2024-04-25 | A beautiful Wednesday afternoon was spent hanging around in Port Clinton, the Reading Blue Mountain and Northern Railroads headquarters while I anticipated the pass through of the famed NRFF. On this day, us railfans were lucky to see all three SD50-2s wearing the "fast freight service" scheme lashed together as the train's power! I gave chase from PC, stopping at locations along the R&N main including Molino, New Ringgold, South Tamaqua, and more!I hope you enjoy the action & thanks for watching!
Cant wait to ride the Rambles again! | R&N #2102 #steamtrain #trains #trainshorts #passengertrain Austin Trains 2024-04-17 | @RBMN will be hosting three more Iron Horse Rambles with restored steam locomotive 2102 this summer, and you bet I'll be riding behind her on one of those dates! My seat has already been reserved!
Route 222 Truck Spotting - 2 S Series, 4 Cabovers & Other Old Rides Austin Trains 2024-04-10 | 3 separate days positioned on the famous Route 222 over the end of 2023 and start of 2024. There was no shortage of nice trucks gracing the blacktop, including a IH S1900, S2300, and FOUR cabovers! I was still breaking in the new camera at this time so I do apologize for the choppy zooming. As videos go on this will be less and less noticeable. Thanks for watching!
Straight Piped Mack Superliner Honking on Route 22! #truckspotting #macktrucks #oldtrucks #airhorn Austin Trains 2024-04-05 | ...
Carpenter COs International 8100 4x2! #truckspotting #internationalharvester #trucks #dieselengine Austin Trains 2024-04-05 | ...
Megatron, Maximum Overdrive, & More - Trucks at the 2023 Masonic Motorama Austin Trains 2024-03-28 | The 2023 MM was a great success last year featuring guest movie stars Megatron from Transformers & Green Goblin from Maximum Overdrive! In addition to many other classic and antique trucks attending, I also sent out an invite to several International 4700-4900 owners in an attempt to get a lineup of one of IH's best selling 90s trucks! Unfortunately 5 of the 8 couldn't make it, plus my 4700 was currently in the shop at the time getting its new drive shaft installed. It was still an awesome show with many great friends! Enjoy!* Special thanks to Martin Powersweeping, CBR Towing & Recovery, and Rick Nemchik for bringing their Navistars out for the show!
Blue Mountain & Reading 1983 rolls through Leesport, PA! #train #rbmn #heritageunit #freighttrain Austin Trains 2024-03-17 | ...
Youve been scrolling a while, enjoy my DT466 purring away ;) #dt466 #international #dieselengine Austin Trains 2024-03-12 | ...
Delaware Lackawanna OCS to Cresco Austin Trains 2024-03-05 | Back in October 2023, the DL ran an OCS with a C424 & C425 to Cresco PA and back. It was a miserably rainy and windy day with flooding in certain areas. Adding to the day's chaos, I missed the train at two locations - Myrtle St in Scranton due to construction and the army depot in Tobyhanna after getting caught in slow traffic. In any case, it was still a successful trip watching ALCOs work on the GVT Pocono Main!
A Full-Throttle Special: Notch 8 Hill Climbing on the NS Portland Secondary Austin Trains 2024-02-09 | The Norfolk Southern Portland Secondary, aka the "Bangor & Portland" or "Bangor Branch," runs from Easton PA to Portland PA. Two types of trains traveled here, one being unit coal trains for the Martins Creek and Portland generating stations, and the other being small local turns with mixed freight loads for the Delaware Lackawanna RR, with interchanges taking place above Portland at Slateford Junction, and later Portland itself.The "H" Local TurnsAfter the Portland PPL station stopped burning coal sometime in 2012, the local turns, H74-H76 running T-TH-SAT, became the main traffic. Most northbound trains for Portland had consists of no more than 3 units and 20ish loads. However, in the coming years the DL was seeing record breaking car counts, in addition to a new grain mill being constructed beside their ROW in Mt Pocono, PA. In turn, the 20 car trains from Allentown soon became upwards of +50-70, and at times even higher. There were often days where road power was not available at Allentown, so lashups of 5-8 local units became the normal sight around 2016. Even still, many crews had to double their trains to get them to Portland.Track Layout & GradientsWhen loaded northbound trains enter the Martins Creek area, they have to traverse a 10mph S-curve section of track which opens up into a 30mph, beginning the climb through the towns of Flicksville, Bangor, and cresting in East Bangor. The grade tops out at a max of 2.18%. Shots in these areas include: (10:00, 10:40, Martins Creek) (24:00, 1:03:30) Flicksville) (4:30, Bangor) and (11:30, East Bangor). Trains traveling southbound with empties from the DL have a staggering 1/2 mile long 3.4% climb out of Portland before tapering into a steady 2% average before cresting in the area of Johnsonville/Mt Bethel. Shots in these areas include: (59:55, Portland) (1:04:15, Mt Bethel) and (1:16:40, Johnsonville). There is one exception with the location at 1:08:55, which does not take place on the B&P but the DL's "Pocono Main" or NS' "Stroudsburg Secondary." It extends from the B&P via Slateford Jct.Current Day OperationsIn January 2018 Norfolk Southern decided to reroute the traffic on the Bangor & Portland. All freight that would be interchanged to the DL via Slateford Jct. was directed to Taylor Yard in Scranton PA, just shy of the Delaware Lackawanna's headquarters. The Bangor Branch stopped seeing its usual trains thrice a week, and to this day only sees small trains (2-3 cars) run at night via H-71 roughly once a week. A Growmark in Johnsonville and UltraPoly in Portland receive the cars. The Ardent Mills facility in Martins Creek sees regular traffic via H-71, once again at night and roughly once per week. About once a month, a grain unit train running as 48A will arrive with loads for this mill. If power on the train is not equipped to lead south, the crew will run to Portland and turn the power via the wye. This is the only traffic the line sees as of present day.I hope you enjoyed some history on this line that is loved my so many. I'd like to apologize for the first several videos being low quality and poorly filmed. Many of those first videos are 8 years old. I was 13-14 at the time and wasn't really trying my best to record haha. Thanks for watching!
DT466 Cold Start...Again! #halfpint #coldstart #diesel #rollcoal #bigtruck Austin Trains 2024-01-20 | ...
The Mighty Grover 1700-1748 Horn Combo! #truckspotting #airhorn #truckhorn #trucks #truckshow Austin Trains 2024-01-17 | Older truck models sporting Grover Air Products' "1700" low and "1748" high note circular air horns together. It is pretty rare to catch a working set as one note or the other is usually dead. Together they make quite the aggressive sound!
Harmonic Grover 2000+2001 Horns! #truckspotting #airhorn #truckhorn #trucks Austin Trains 2024-01-16 | Kenworth and Western Star trucks featuring Grover Air Products' "2000" and "2001" rectangular air horns in both dual and quad configurations that are IMO the best sounding truck horns on the road!
Truck Spotting of Summer 2023 Austin Trains 2024-01-12 | Happy new year! I am back and kicking off 2024 with a compilation of all the trucks spotted during the summer of 2023, excluding a day on 222 and some small truck shows! (Will be uploaded separately) I tried to juggle a few locations on the days I wasn't working, so here you will see Ardent Mills & "Three Church Hill" on Route 611, locations on Route 512, I-80, and Route 191! I hope you all enjoy!
Totally isnt biased... Whats your favorite railroad? #railfans #railroad #trains #mrincrediblememe Austin Trains 2023-12-27 | ...
Cant wait for 2024! Macungie PA Truck Show here I come! #truckshow #dieseltrucks #cabover #oldtruck Austin Trains 2023-12-25 | ...
Railfanning 2023: The Foreign Power Collection! (BC Rail, ATSF, Ferromex & More) Austin Trains 2023-12-18 | This video covers every railfanning session I have done this year on the NS Reading & Lehigh Lines, plus the Portland Secondary. There was a great deal of foreign power on the tracks this year, many of which stayed leading trains instead of getting NS leaders tacked on. Unfortunately one thing I did not get to see was an eastbound train mid summer that had the UP "Katy" HU leading. Even still, this video contains road power from BNSF, ATSF, CSX, UP, Ferromex, CN, and even the last RW&B BC Rail unit! I hope you enjoy this show of different railroad power on NS rails! Thanks for watching!
T-1 2102s Fall Finale - RBMN Autumn Leaf to Jim Thorpe Austin Trains 2023-11-30 | October 21st, 2023 marked the final scheduled run for the Reading Blue Mountain & Northern's star 4-8-4 #2102. The overnight rain and falling leaves gave the steam crew quite a run for their money keeping the locomotive moving on the steep grades. During the layover in Mauch Chunk, I tried to capture the many movements of the other trains that were operating including the LGSR, Pittston, and Pottsville trains. Come along for the ride as I document as much as I can about the T-1's last trip to Jim Thorpe for 2023!
ATS - Driving For Charged | International 8100 4x2! Austin Trains 2023-11-26 | Just another day as a CDL driver for Charged, working out of the Las Vegas terminal. Today, it looks like I've been given one of the few remaining International 8100 tractors the company still has around! Climb aboard, we've got some paper waste to deliver!A couple of notes for those wondering:For sounds I am using the Zeemods Big Cam Cummins. While this isn't correct for an 8100, it provides some of the best Cummins engine sounds out there for the game right now, since ISM, L10, and M11 sound mods aren't really up to those standards. So for the sake of this video, pretend 219 has an L10 ;) Also, as a recap, no the truck is not available.Let me know if you'd like to see more of this! There are so many configurations of this truck that can be made for videos to come! Thanks for watching!
IH Paystar 5000 still making money! #internationalharvester #airhorn #cummins #dumptruck Austin Trains 2023-11-16 | ...
5 Months Of Truck Spotting - The Highlights Austin Trains 2023-11-09 | Welcome to another truck spotting video, the first in 3 months! Things have been crazy over here with work, other content, and just life in general, so apologies on such the long wait time! Anyway this video is 26 minutes, roughly February 2023 to May/June 2023. Most of these shots are things I saw while at work, or just away from home. I haven't had a lot of time to go out for hours long spotting sessions this year, but do not worry. There is plenty more content on the way!Thanks for watching!
T-1 #2102 STRUGGLES Uphill Into Nesquehoning | Passenger POV | Tons Of Wheelslip! Austin Trains 2023-10-25 | This is quite the treat for you steam fans! On October 21st, I rode behind RBMN 4-8-4 #2102 on her final excursion of 2023 - An autumn leaf to Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania. Upon our departure for Reading however, wet rails and oily leaves made the T1 Northern struggle down to a crawl as we moved uphill out of the gorge and into Nesquehoning. I left the footage as unedited as possible to show just how fast our train lost all speed, and the incredible efforts of both the locomotive and the crew onboard that kept us from stalling. That was some talented work being done!-----This is a teaser of what's to come at a further date, the full ride of the October 21st Autumn Leaf Excursion featuring 2102's last run of the year. Stay tuned and subscribe to see the full video when it releases! Thanks for watching!
Chasing the 2023 Key Lock & Lantern Excursion Over the DL Carbondale Line Austin Trains 2023-09-25 | Back from earlier on in the year, I chased the 2023 KL&L train running as "DL OCS12" with a LV C420 and CNJ RS3 as power. The train started in Carbondale PA, making its way to Scranton and the Steamtown NHS where lunch would be held. Afterward, passengers re-boarded the train which headed down the Pocono Main toward Nay Aug tunnel for a photo shoot.
Night time cruise in the 1997 IH 4700 pickup. #halfpint #dt466 #international Austin Trains 2023-09-24 | ...
Half-Pint Phase II - The Reveal Austin Trains 2023-09-07 | Half Pint is now in phase II and I will be taking her to the Lanita Specialized truck show in Mt Aetna PA this Saturday, September 9th! Come out and see for yourself all the hard work done to make this dream a reality!
Riding the Iron Horse Ramble | August 13th, 2023 Austin Trains 2023-08-25 | Come along for a ride though the gorgeous Pennsylvania countryside behind newly restored steam locomotive, Reading & Northern 2102! The August 13th Ramble to Jim Thorpe and return was complimented with some beautiful weather and fantastic temperatures. Sit back and enjoy the ride as they "take you back to 1962," aboard the famous Iron Horse Rambles!
The Navistar 8100 Comes to ATS Austin Trains 2023-08-13 | I am never making a music video in ATS again, recording all this with the free cam was so troublesome and time consuming.As you can see, the International 8100, Navistar's staple 90s midsize truck, is now in American Truck Simulator! Complete with a handful of customizable options, this truck can look awesome no matter how its put together. 'Project 8100' also makes an appearance!This mod is a custom, private commission and I do not know if it will be released publicly. Please don't blow up my comments asking for the download link lol. I will be doing videos on this truck in the future so if you have an idea for a paint scheme or something I can do with the truck, let me know!Song used is the 90s remix of Copacabana by Barry Manilow. I do not claim ownership of the song, just the visuals used here.Thanks for watching!
Grover Quad-Horn Western Star honks!! #airhorn #truckspotting #westernstar Austin Trains 2023-07-10 | ...
Truck Spotting Route 100 & Beyond Austin Trains 2023-07-04 | Back from January 2023, I made two trips down to Route 100 to catch some action around the industrial complexes. There was quite a bit of neat rides floating around, and as an added bonus, I threw in some catches on 512 and 191 back home. Enjoy and happy fourth!
New Camera Test @ Macungie PA - NS Eastbound Intermodal Austin Trains 2023-06-30 | I just recently changed phones to a Samsung Galaxy and the camera zoom blows my mind. This is the first train I've shot with the new phone so I was trying to get a feel on how it all works. It doesn't seem to have the built-in steady feature by default like the later iPhones have, which was a huge lifesaver with camera shake. I almost never used a tripod to steady my iPhone shots. The only thing I do not like so far is how rough the camera zooms in and out, shown here jittering as I zoom out on the approaching train. Here's hoping some new shots and angles in the works now that I have a better camera!
2023 ATCA Macungie Truck Show - Truck Convoy! Austin Trains 2023-06-18 | Yet another year with a great turnout and high numbers for the ATCA's 2023 show in Macungie, PA! Over 900 registered trucks again this year with both old and new arrivals. Enjoy the sights and sounds of all the old iron rolling out of the "greatest truck show on Earth!"Thanks for watching!
The Trucks Arrive - Macungie Truck Show 2023 Austin Trains 2023-06-17 | A little preview of what to expect tomorrow for the big day at Macungie PA, the Antique Truck Club of America's 2023 show. These shots were taken Thursday afternoon as all the trucks began filing in one after the next to get set up. Tomorrow, Saturday, is the big day. I feel it's going to be quite the turnout. Enjoy the trucks, and stay tuned for the convoy tomorrow night!Thanks for watching!
Slick Rides & Customs At The 2023 LargeCarMag Meet Austin Trains 2023-06-06 | Largecars, oldies, antiques, & so much more at this year's LargeCarMag show held at Maple Grove Raceway.
D&H #18 Comes Home - NKP 190 Arrives In Scranton Austin Trains 2023-05-20 | A very, very historic event happened yesterday evening in Scranton on 5/19/2023. Back in March, preservationist Doyle McCormack sold his NKP 190 to GVT, where it would then make the trip back to home rails in Scranton, PA where it operated over 40 years ago on the Delaware and Hudson. At approximately 5:30pm, the PA rolled up to the DL's Bridge Sixty tower for a quick welcome home party before being handed off to Steamtown for a temporary display. In the coming weeks, the mechanical crews at the Delaware Lackawanna railroad will complete the final steps in getting "America's Diesel" running under her own power and pulling trains once again. Feel free to check the links below for more detailed information about the story on this historic move. Thanks for watching!locomotive.fandom.com/wiki/Nickel_Plate_Road_No._190railfan.com/genesee-valley-transportation-acquires-famous-alco-pa
Truck Spotting - Oldies To Wrap Up 2022 Austin Trains 2023-04-30 | Here it is - everything from the final weeks of 2022 that isn't going to be put into it's own video. From Diamond REOs to a 359, Superliners to a White GMC, there's plenty here for all to enjoy.Thanks for watching!
Railroad Crossings of the Portland Secondary Austin Trains 2023-04-18 | A little bit of a different topic guided toward you signal fans! Here is a short showcase of all of the road crossings on the Norfolk Southern Portland Secondary that have active warning equipment. There are several more crossings located on the line but they are protected by crossbuck only, so obviously I didn't bother including them. That said, enjoy the video, and don't be afraid to tell me if something was wrong/misidentified or incorrect!Thanks for watching!
Old Iron On The Open Road - Route 222 Truck Spotting Austin Trains 2023-03-15 | Footage from a day way back in November of 2022, @trucksouteast joined me as we hunted for goodies on the ever-so-popular Route 222. 359s, W900s, a COE...you name it, we saw it! Enjoy!
A Short DL Freight To Slateford Austin Trains 2023-03-09 | On a rather miserable February afternoon, DL train PO74 made a run to the Delaware Water Gap / Slateford Junction area to run around their train. This is done to serve a trackside business, WestRock, which can only be achieved when trains travel westbound due to the one-way spur. This section of the line, once seeing trains almost daily, is now reduced to a once bi-weekly run.The day's power consisted of ALCo C630M 3000, and MLW M636 3643.Enjoy!
International 8100 Yard Jockey - Fogelsville PA Austin Trains 2023-03-02 | Carpenter is one of the few big business in the area still using 90s era International 8100 tractors in regular service. We have located 3 total in their fleet, one sits out back. 903, seen here, being used as a shunt truck, and a 3rd, 984, that pulls trailers up and down 222. I camped outside the yard for a little while to catch 903 moving trailers in and out of the docks, and even heard the horn, which I am still unaware why was honked - either as a warning or maybe, the driver saw me.Thanks for watching!
From The Archives - H76 Through A Downpour Austin Trains 2023-02-16 | Shot in late summer 2014, here's the Saturday Portland-Turn H76 heading west with empties from the Slateford Interchange. We caught up with the traditional EMD power as they charged over Johnsonville Rd on the slight incline before descending into Bangor. 3353 was stuck on the Allentown Power Pool, more specifically the Bangor & Portland for months during this time period.
Historic Lehigh Valley Caboose Gets Moved! Austin Trains 2023-02-01 | I had the privilege of taking part in capturing an operation in Jim Thorpe, where two Mack trucks were preparing to depart for Lehighton with a historic Lehigh Valley caboose in tow, donated to the borough by the Reading and Northern Railroad. I would've gotten more footage but got hung up in traffic and was too far back to recover the chase. Still, it made for a pretty cool sight on a frigid morning. Enjoy!
