Photo Album (Rebooted)

A-Train4014 Productions was unable to reboot the original photo album. So instead, we decided to make a small photo album of our top photos throughout the years of railfanning. As always, we will be posting more photos every week to our Facebook page. So if you want to see more photos, feel free to head on over to our Facebook page. While you're there, like the page as we post video sneak peeks as well as special content.

Grayslake Railfanning

Grayslake Railfanning

Recorded on 5/17/17

A-Train4014 Productions heads to Grayslake station on Lake Street to visit our friend, Jeff. His train had another surprise on it as he arrived on his outbound run. The weather was gorgeous yet a bit windy today. But we still had a great time having a nice conversation with Jeff.

Lake Villa Railfanning

Lake Villa Railfanning

Recorded on 5/15/17

A-Train4014 Productions heads to Lake Villa station for a little bit of railfanning. While we’re there, we discussed the next upcoming agenda for this summer such as the possibility of doing Franklin Park Railroad Days, The Joliet Rocket, and other possible trips to Rochelle Railroad Park and the BNSF Racetrack. But the discussion is still ongoing and will be announcing more railfanning trips soon.

1. Inbound Metra
2. Canadian National Manifest
3. Canadian National Manifest
4. Outbound Metra
5. Inbound Metra
6. Canadian National Intermodal

*NO Highlight of the Day

*NO Hornshows included

Lake Forest Railfanning

Lake Forest Railfanning

Recorded on 5/12/17

A-Train4014 Productions returns to Lake Forest station to take advantage of the nice weather in the suburbs of Chicago. It started off chilly in the morning. By the afternoon, it started to warm up pretty nice to the point a jacket or a hoodie was necessary. Even though, we didn’t stay long at Lake Forest, it was still fun to be railfanning on a Friday to see some trains. One of the main reasons was the action seem to pick up a lot especially towards the afternoon.

1. Inbound Metra*
2. Inbound Metra
3. Inbound Metra
4. Amtrak Hiawatha*
5. Inbound Metra (Express)
6. Inbound Metra
7. Amtrak Hiawatha*
8. Inbound Metra (Express)
9. Inbound Metra
10. Outbound Metra*
11. Inbound Metra*
12. Inbound Metra*
13. Outbound Metra
14. Inbound Metra
15. Outbound Metra*
16. Canadian Pacific Manifest
17. Amtrak Hiawatha*
18. Amtrak Hiawatha*
19. Inbound Metra
20. Outbound Metra
21. Inbound Metra
22. Outbound Metra**
23. Amtrak Hiawatha*
24. Canadian Pacific Autorack-Intermodal
25. Norfolk Southern-Canadian Pacific Manifest
26. Inbound Metra
27. Outbound Metra
28. Amtrak Hiawatha*
29. Inbound Metra*
30. CEFX-Canadian Pacific Manifest*
31. Outbound Metra*
32. CSX-Canadian Pacific Manifest
33. Inbound Metra*
34. Outbound Metra*
35. Amtrak Hiawatha*
36. Amtrak Hiawatha*
37. Inbound Metra*
38. Outbound Metra
39. Amtrak Empire Builder

Highlight of the Day

22. Outbound Metra**

Rondout Railfanning

Rondout Railfanning

Recorded on 5/11/17

A-Train4014 Productions heads to Rondout in an effort to catch the “Windy City Express” on Amtrak Empire Builder 8 which features the Milwaukee Road coaches including the Cedar Rapids Skytop Observation car. Unfortunately, Amtrak 8 was delayed. So while waiting, we caught a few other rail traffic. Overall, it was a pretty good day even though Amtrak 8 was delayed.

1. Amtrak Hiawatha*
2. Norfolk Southern Crude Oil*
3. Inbound Metra*
4. Outbound Metra
5. Canadian Pacific-CEFX Manifest*
6. Amtrak Hiawatha*
7. Inbound Metra*
8. Outbound Metra*
9. Inbound Metra*
10. Outbound Metra*
11. Amtrak Hiawatha*
12. Amtrak Hiawatha*
13. BNSF-Canadian Pacific Manifest*
14. Canadian Pacific Autorack-Intermodal*
15. Inbound Metra*
16. Outbound Metra*
17. Amtrak Empire Builder*
18. Inbound Metra*
19. Amtrak Hiawatha*
20. Amtrak Hiawatha*
21. Outbound Metra*
22. Amtrak Empire Builder**

Highlight of the Day:

22. Amtrak Empire Builder**

*ALL Trains included a hornshow

Photo Album page (Suspended Temporarily)

Due to technical difficulties and the amount of load on our list of things to do, A-Train4014 Productions has been facing some issues lately as far as posting photos to our Blogger website. So unfortunately, we have to make some tough decisions and take down our photo album page temporarily.  We have enjoyed our railfanning journey as A-Train4014 Productions see the good, bad, and the different trains around the area where we can. While we're at trackside, not only videos are created, but photos have been made which turn into memories. Our photo album is starting to fill up with lots of train photos. We will recreate a short photo album of our favorite pictures of trains within the past couple of years. Stay tuned for our brand new photo album page and we apologize for any inconveniences.

You can still see our entire Train Photo Album on our Facebook page. While you're there, stay in touch with the latest news that we post monthly. In addition, keep watching our videos on YouTube as we post new videos once a week.

Facebook: A-Train4014 Productions
YouTube: A-Train4014 Productions

Wadsworth Railfanning

Wadsworth Railfanning

Recorded on 5/7/17

“Even though I really wanted to watch the NASCAR race at Talladega Superspeedway, and after hearing about my favorite Heritage Unit: Amtrak 42 will be leading on the Empire Builder into Chicago, I guess this marks the very first time I had to do ‘double duty’ while railfanning; meaning that I would watch the Geico 500 at Talladega Superspeedway on my iPhone while railfanning. Anyway, A-Train4014 Productions heads to Wadsworth in an effort to catch Amtrak 42 leading Empire Builder 8 into Chicago. While waiting on Empire Builder 8, we caught a few other rail traffic other than the Amtrak Hiawatha trains. Enjoy the show!”

-Andrew Mangalindan

A-Train4014 Productions

Owner/Founder

1. Canadian Pacific-Norfolk Southern Crude Oil*
2. Amtrak Hiawatha*
3. Canadian Pacific Intermodal*
4. Amtrak Hiawatha*
5. CSX Closed Hopper*
6. Amtrak Empire Builder**
7. Amtrak Empire Builder*
8. CSX Manifest*
9. Canadian Pacific Autorack-Intermodal*
10. Amtrak Hiawatha*
11. Amtrak Hiawatha*

Highlight of the Day:

6. Amtrak Empire Builder**

*ALL Trains presented a Hornshow

(Horn Zone Area)

Lake Forest Railfanning

Lake Forest Railfanning: National Train Day

Recorded on 5/6/17

A-Train4014 Productions continues to celebrate National Train Day by going trackside at Lake Forest station on the CP C&M Sub. Today was a special day in many ways. A-Train4014 Productions is proud to announce that Casey Walker (Warbonnet 669 Productions) has joined forces and joins the A-Train4014 Productions team as a researcher and developer role. In addition, Miles Jajich and former A-Train4014 Productions member, Jacob Brugioni briefly joins for the fun. Even though it was a little windy which made the weather a bit chilly, our day was pretty occupied especially just after lunch hour as the freight trains pass us from left to right. To end the day at Lake Forest, we surprised one of our friends on Metra, Rob Dargan on his outbound run. Happy National Train Day to all and to the railfans that care so much about trains.

1. Inbound Metra*
2. Inbound Metra
3. Amtrak Hiawatha*
4. Amtrak Hiawatha*
5. Inbound Metra
6. Canadian Pacific Manifest
7. Outbound Metra*
8. Inbound Metra*
9. Outbound Metra
10. Amtrak Hiawatha*
11. CSX-Canadian Pacific Manifest
12. Inbound Metra*
13. Outbound Metra
14. Amtrak Hiawatha*
15. Amtrak Hiawatha*
16. Canadian Pacific Intermodal
17. Canadian Pacific-SOO Line Manifest
18. Amtrak Empire Builder*
19. Canadian Pacific Autorack-Intermodal
20. Amtrak Empire Builder
21. Inbound Metra
22. Outbound Metra*
23. Amtrak Hiawatha*
24. Amtrak Hiawatha*
25. CSX Crude Oil*
26. Outbound Metra**

Highlight of the Day:

26. Outbound Metra

*Hornshow

Don't Look Down Music Video

Don’t Look Down Music Video

Created on 5/1/17

In honor of National Train Day, A-Train4014 Productions creates a music video using our favorite song, “Don’t Look Down” by Martin Garrix featuring Usher. In this music video, take a look at some of our favorite video clips from previous railfanning adventures. Since Chicago Union Station isn’t hosting anything special for National Train Day, we decided not only make a music video, but we go trackside to Lake Forest station. Stay tuned for Lake Forest Railfanning: National Train Day video coming soon.

Grayslake Railfanning

Grayslake Railfanning

Recorded on 5/2/17

A-Train4014 Productions is in for a treat as our friend, Jeff surprised us with the locomotive he was at the controls of. In addition, Jeff showed us around the locomotive before heads back out on his inbound run to Chicago. It was a really good day. Big thanks to Jeff for showing us the locomotive. It was pretty unique and different in comparison to the other Metra locomotives that he previously operated before. P.S. we apologize for the delay of posting this video due to technical difficulties.

Lake Forest Railfanning

Lake Forest Railfanning

Recorded on 4/28/17

The weather wasn’t bad today so A-Train4014 Productions returns to Lake Forest station for some railfanning. In addition, we decided to surprise our friend, Jeff just in time for his inbound run into Chicago. We also stayed a bit longer for his outbound run back to Fox Lake in the afternoon during the rush hour. It was a pretty good variety of trains but surprisingly, not many freight trains showed up than expected. I guess we missed out on the majority of the action during the early morning on Friday. Overall, it was a good day though.

1. Amtrak Hiawatha*
2. Inbound Metra*
3. Outbound Metra*
4. CSX Crude Oil
5. Canadian Pacific-Norfolk Southern Manifest
6. Inbound Metra*
7. Outbound Metra*
8. Amtrak Hiawatha*
9. Canadian Pacific Autorack-Intermodal
10. Amtrak Hiawatha*
11. Inbound Metra
12. Outbound Metra*
13. Amtrak Empire Builder
14. Amtrak Empire Builder
15. Inbound Metra*
16. Outbound Metra*
17. Amtrak Hiawatha*
18. Amtrak Hiawatha*
19. Inbound Metra
20. Canadian Pacific-CEFX Manifest
21. Outbound Metra**

Highlight of the Day:

21. Outbound Metra

*Hornshow