NOTE: This channel is now mostly for posterity, likes and favorites. My newest works are posted to Dynamo Productions. Solo outings, older videos, and collaboration efforts are posted to Dynamo. See more here: youtube.com/user/ELMSLines
I grew up in Mount Pleasant, Iowa. This town had a busy Burlington Northern, later BNSF mainline. The Amtrak "California Zephyr" stopped there daily around 5PM. The town also was home to the Midwest Central Railroad, and every Labor Day weekend they would have three narrow gauge steam locomotives operating. In addition, my grandfather was a Milwaukee Road car man from 1942 to 1978, and he and Grandma highly encouraged and supported my interest in trains, particularly steam.
It seems to have stuck. Nowadays, I do these videos simply because I still enjoy them. Today I'm based out of Baltimore, Maryland, but I otherwise still get out from time to time to see trains in action
- Jonathan Eau Claire