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You Have Never Seen Anyone So Excited to Videotape a Train (and We Dare You Not to Laugh): ‘Oh My Gosh She’s Beautiful!’

We‘ve seen a lot of videos in the almost two years that we’ve been around as a site. But we will admit we’ve never seen anything like this.

Below is video of a man in upstate New York who apparently is quite the train fanatic. So much so that he filmed the moment he saw a particular locomotive he’d been waiting quite a long time to see. And we’re glad he did.

WCBS-TV has his reaction:

A man in North Creek (that’s way up there in Warren County) had apparently been waiting months to see a 1953 EA train, and when he saw it his reaction was priceless.

“Oh yeah, listen to that bell!” he could be heard saying in a YouTube video. “Oh my god! Listen to that horn! Oh my gosh, she’s beautiful!”

The train pulled forward from behind another train and when he saw the second car, he was delightfully surprised.

“Oh no, it’s a BL2 too!” he exclaimed. “We’re gonna watch this. This is special. This is special! Oh that horn gives me the chills!”

And here’s the video:

UPDATE:

One reader emailed us to say he thought the video was a “fake” and a copy of this viral hit from the past:

But we’re not so sure. There’s always that possibility. But isn’t it also possible that there are multiple people in this country who are just very enthusiastic about their train-watching hobby?

UPDATE II:

Turns out that the former possibility is the truth. CNN talks to the guy behind it:

Comments (57)

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  • Mike Benton
    Posted on August 2, 2012 at 5:50pm

    A friend and I spent Sunday last week casing steam engine 765 from Bellevue Ohio to Bucyrus Ohio. Great fun!

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    • sillyfreshness
      Posted on August 3, 2012 at 3:47am

      That’s funny stuff. These are kids all grown up. I think the top video is legit. He mentions Illinois Central livery which was a railroad that ran from like 1850 until like 1999 and that car had Iowa Pacific which the Illinois Central ran through Iowa. I’d say that guy is probably an expert. A geek no doubt, but an expert. You know it’s geeks that make the world go round. Now the bottom video seems more odd. It‘s a typical looking modern train and supposedly from 1989 which isn’t that old. I can’t see someone calling a 20 yr old train a heritage train. It looked no different than today’s trains.

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  • blackfeather
    Posted on August 2, 2012 at 5:13pm

    …an added note…it’s a shame they took the cabooses away….that dinky light on the back of the last car just doesn’t get it.

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  • Virginia Rebel
    Posted on August 2, 2012 at 5:10pm

    I love trains. And I still wave at engineers when they go through the crossing in my town. Call me silly if you wish. it makes me happy.

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  • blackfeather
    Posted on August 2, 2012 at 5:09pm

    …a beautiful piece of machinery indeed…my Dad was a railroader, and I grew up around these huge things in the 50′s…actually got to drive a “switcher” from Lakeland Fla. to Winte rhaven Fla. when I was a young’un…engineer, brakeman, and my Dad were of course right by me and told me how to run the controls…but I never forgot that day…like “driving a house on threads”…of course that would never happen this day and time…but what a memory.

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  • AmerNDN10
    Posted on August 2, 2012 at 4:38pm

    IMO: i think we are in a world where something like this is far and few between, so much that when we see things like this(this passion running out of these men over a train) that we think it’s “acted” or wierd. Because we aren’t used to seeing actualy emotions like that anymore.

    But that is changing, for sure!

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  • Dugard
    Posted on August 2, 2012 at 4:09pm

    Hilarious!! This made my day, seriously.

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  • cranberry
    Posted on August 2, 2012 at 3:49pm

    Very cute, I don’t get it, I mean I get that he appreciates something like that – maybe like i would get with a little puppy or an antique piece of furniture or something…

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  • brian8793
    Posted on August 2, 2012 at 3:17pm

    What a flippin reject. Flippin wanna be double rainbow man poser!!!

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  • geoteach
    Posted on August 2, 2012 at 2:28pm

    I too love trains and these two locomotives are absolutely beautiful. I will pull over and wait for trains to pass just to take a few minutes to enjoy them. This guy would be immensely more interesting to talk to than our president–of that I am sure.

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  • Drummer4life55
    Posted on August 2, 2012 at 2:20pm

    This is a copycat video, even the dialogue is verbatim from the original video that went viral several months ago!!!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhYXNwvcl6A

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  • Toddski1963
    Posted on August 2, 2012 at 2:12pm

    I’m a train fanatic myself, but this guy is way over the top……No train has ever made me feel like that……OMG !

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    • ishka4me
      Posted on August 2, 2012 at 2:20pm

      This guy should be hired by a train company; he would never be late, never go home early, never call in sick etc… Bet the unions would sucl all the life out of him though

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    • Bill Rowland
      Posted on August 3, 2012 at 5:42am

      My dad would be so excited that he wouldn’t talk about anything else for days. He took vacations to ride tourist trains from the Skunk Train in Ft Bragg, CA to the Stoners climbing the mountains in Cass, WVA.

      OMG Nov 6,2012

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  • ferggie
    Posted on August 2, 2012 at 2:10pm

    You can laugh all you want but that is a guy that has something in his life that he truely love and gets a lot of joy out of it. What do you think would happen if everyone had something that made them that happy. Enjoy life buddy it is way to short.

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  • Graycloud
    Posted on August 2, 2012 at 1:59pm

    Have we become so critical as a nation that when someone is doing something he loves and not hurting anyone he has to be called names? Come on people, this is what America was about and we all need to get back to the days when the simplest of things excited us. I still laugh at the Honey mooners and all the great family shows of the past. This is what restoring America is about to me.

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  • petty1699
    Posted on August 2, 2012 at 1:40pm

    I’m railroad engineer and once had a guy follow me around at 4:00 in the morning just to watch me switch out some industry tracks, it was beyond creepy.

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  • trolltrainer
    Posted on August 2, 2012 at 1:36pm

    Nothing can stop a foamer!

    They call them foamers because when the old steam locomotives were running they would jump in cold running streams just to get a good shot of the train going over the bridge.

    I love it.

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  • jackact
    Posted on August 2, 2012 at 1:34pm

    Must be an Amtrack employee high on coke and booze again?

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  • P C BE DAMNED
    Posted on August 2, 2012 at 1:32pm

    I am a train artist. I have work in a couple of museums. Anybody know how I can get this guy a picture of his train to him. Thanks

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  • bdandsl
    Posted on August 2, 2012 at 12:54pm

    Bet, he’s easy to buy for at Christmas. Love the passion. Too bad as adults we lose it.

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  • whatthecrazy
    Posted on August 2, 2012 at 12:49pm

    I was waiting for the sound of a lighter lighting a ciggerette and a plume of smoke wizzing by the camera lens.

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  • Sloburn
    Posted on August 2, 2012 at 12:45pm

    I love this video.

    Isn’t it great that someone can find pure joy in anything anymore?

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  • BenInNY
    Posted on August 2, 2012 at 12:37pm

    Same guy freaking out about a dining car at the 2:00 mark, a few miles from me in Rensselaer. Train groupie? http://youtu.be/M9Hd-mD0yu8

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  • DarthMims
    Posted on August 2, 2012 at 12:24pm

    A local railroad museum has two early 20th century “booster” steam engines, and they spent a number of years restoring one. I had nearly the same reaction when I finally saw it puff its way down the track.

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    • afishfarted
      Posted on August 2, 2012 at 12:37pm

      well THIS guy brought a smile to my face ! More than the locomotives !!! It’s refreshing to see an enthusiest get excited at a rare glimpse of Americana

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  • yougottabekidding
    Posted on August 2, 2012 at 12:21pm

    Was that Chris what’s his face?

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  • randy
    Posted on August 2, 2012 at 12:20pm

    As a photographer, I would have been equally as excited….. Maybe not as vocal.
    Nice to see a grown man not lose his inner child :)

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  • mom4times
    Posted on August 2, 2012 at 12:19pm

    no….i disagree…nothing was more beautiful than watching my husband work on the 142 (steam) that ran from Binghamton, to syracuse, to utica…..That was a beautiful engine

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