Browncoat Productions

12/06/2020

Catching trains on Donner today. Here's a little preview of the videos to come!

11/20/2020

Veterans Day 2020 railfanning!

The Southern Pacific built the Lakehead bridge as part of the Shasta Dam realignment project. An underwater tunnel portal from the original right of way alig...

09/25/2020

NB intermodal train on the Redding Trestle with a lot of smoke in the air from the California fires still burning in September 2020.

09/25/2020

Filmed with a DJI Mavic Mini Compiled with DaVinci Resolve

01/04/2020

Days 8 and 9. With I-80 open the next morning, we set out for Utah. We caught a train heading each direction in Weber canyon at Peterson, UT. After staying the night with family in the Ogden, UT area, we made a speed run across Nevada. Fernley, NV had a couple GP60M-3's for us. Getting into Sparks, NV, our room at the Nugget overlooks the yard here. In the morning, we are heading over "The Hill" to Sacramento for the Great Train Show, and finally home bound.

01/02/2020

Days 6 and 7. We started in Lincoln, NE. After a stop by North Platte Yard, we caught this MOW train and WB manifest train in Ogallala, NE. For any modelers wanting to create some loads for your flatcars, here you go. Make a bunch of them. We found another manifest heading East past the Farmers Elevator Company 7559, a GP9, at Chappell, NE. One last EB manifest near Lodgepole, NE. New Years Eve found us staying in Sidney, NE. Our first trains of the new year were in Bushnell, NE, where we saw a Ferromex engine running with the UP on an EB grain train. Just over the border in Pine Bluffs, WY, a WB intermodal train caught up to us. From there to Cheyenne and Laramie, road conditions on I-80 became terrible. Wind gusts up to 60 MPH blew snow across the highway. The Wyoming Highway Patrol finally closed WB I-80 at Laramie, where we spent most our day. We just got word that the freeway is open, so we'll be heading out for Utah soon.

12/31/2019

Days 3, 4, and 5 of our adventure.

After staying the night in Flagstaff, AZ, we moved on to Winslow, AZ. We found a couple trains, some vintage Santa Fe equipment, and a 9/11 memorial. Pushing on in snowy conditions, we caught an EB oil train just across the New Mexico state line.

Getting off of I-40 at Santa Rosa, NM, where we spent the night, we found ourselves in Clovis, NM. There was a neat steam engine display there. Across the Texas border in Dimmitt, TX, a couple former WP GP35's work a grain elevator. Hereford, TX is the home of a GP39-3 and a GP50 for the BNSF. Further North, in Etter, TX, we found the Texas Northwestern. A railroad that specializes in railcar storage and uses primarily SD40's for motive power. A short jaunt through the Oklahoma panhandle didn't turn up any trains, but we did find a Rock Island caboose near it's former trackage. Kansas brought us an ADM GP parked at another grain elevator. One last train before sunset, and we stayed the night in Pratt, KS.

Day 5 brought us to Santa Fe Junction in Kansas City Missouri. There we caught trains from Union Pacific, BNSF, and Kansas City Southern, and Kansas City Terminal, including a BNSF Coal, Intermodal, and Manifest all at once. Turning back West, we find ourselves in Lincoln, NE as we head for North Platte, NE tomorrow.

12/28/2019

The beginning of a 10 day railfanning trip spanning many western states. I started in Redding, CA on the Amtrak Coast Starlight to Los Angeles. I met up with a friend there, and we're driving East, following Route 66. We made it as far as Flagstaff, AZ for the night.

05/27/2018

A peaceful, moonlit night in Millville, CA.

05/26/2018

Got a tip that UP 6406, former SP 360, AC44CW, was on it's way south from Dunsmuir tonight. Zack and I managed to catch it at O'Brien and again at Girvan where it held for a meet with the Redding local returning light from Anderson.