Western Railroad Discussion > Drone Foaming Crawford Hill, NE

This is the 6th day of a 9 day railfan trip with TO member Curt and it's the first full day of railfanning the Crawford Hill area, 9/25/15.

George Cataulin
San Diego, CA
Left Coast Rail Videos

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How are you getting the sound without the whirring of the drone?

Crawford hill is where?

Any ideas as to how many cars were on that train?

Jim
Hatboro, PA​​​

syscom3 Wrote:
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> Crawford hill is where?

Syscom,
Crawford Hill is located about 5 miles south east of Crawford, Nebraska (NE) between Alliance, Nebraska milepost 365 and Edgemont, South Dakota milepost 476 along BNSF's Powder River Division, Butte Subdivision.  Latitude 42°35'39.79"N and Longitude 103°20'53.69"W.  

Curt and I railfanned between Crawford, NE milepost 422 and Belmont, NE milepost 409.  We stayed in Ponderosa Ranch's Ranch House for 3 nights, Thu-Sat, 9/24-9/26 checking out Sunday 9/27.  I hope this info helps you out.
 

George Cataulin
San Diego, CA
Left Coast Rail Videos

tomstp Wrote:
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> How are you getting the sound without the whirring
> of the drone?

tomstp,
I dubbed in the audio for the drone footage.  The audio was recorded from my camcorder and Curt's camcorder.

George Cataulin
San Diego, CA
Left Coast Rail Videos

Another great video, George.  Thanks for posting.

Gary

Chooch Wrote:
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> Any ideas as to how many cars were on that train?
>
> Jim
> Hatboro, PA​​​

Chooch,
Yes I do.  There were 123 cars.

George Cataulin
San Diego, CA
Left Coast Rail Videos

Nice video!!  Thanks....

Very nice. Excellent location & flying!

Great video, definately a great place to watch trains!
Cooper

Now that was a cool video..!!!!!!!!!!!!! Awesome color at full screen too!

Awesome!  Looks beautiful out there as always.   I've always enjoyed those joint UP/BNSF Jeffrey, KS coal trains (though I hated catching them as a conductor because UP's motors are terrible!).  ;)

-Tom

Kudos George and Curt! Your getting your flying down to a fine art. Nice catch on the helper set.

Good stuff, George.  First time I've seen mixed power, UP head end, BNSF DPU, on any train.  I checked in
the afternoon after you left.  Monday, the weather turned cloudy and stayed that way for the next four days, although
I only stayed at the Ponderosa one night. I did get some sunny stuff Sunday.

Thanks for posting.

Nick Tharalson,
Marion, IA

 

syscom3 Wrote:
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> Crawford hill is where?

Instant response would have been "You don't know where Crawford Hill is????" .  But as we  continue to note over and over and over again, we don't all know everything.  You just keep asking those questions!  I do the same thing for those areas I don't recognize, many of which are California locations.  Anyway, once you visit the area, you won't forget it!

Rob

SilvertonRR100 Wrote:
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> syscom3 Wrote:
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> > Crawford hill is where?
>
> Instant response would have been "You don't know
> where Crawford Hill is????" .  But as we 
> continue to note over and over and over again, we
> don't all know everything.  You just keep asking
> those questions!  I do the same thing for those
> areas I don't recognize, many of which are
> California locations.  Anyway, once you visit the
> area, you won't forget it!
>
> Rob

I agree with Rob: "...you won't forget it!" I was there for three times and has a long way from Berlin, Germany.
Crawford is definitively one of the ten-must-to-see railfan attractions in the US.

Phil