Beautiful sound ! Love these old Alco's,they just don't know how to fail.

Thanks airing the outstanding vid.Bliss

Its good to see Alcos in commercial use. A used unit saves the capital cost of a new locomotive, which to me shows that the guys operating Delaware-Lackawanna are good business heads. A great video, thanks for showing.

@fmnut

8 жыл бұрын

+Caseman78 You really don't see many shortlines in today's world purchasing new units as the cost factor versus revenue is just too great. Exceptions are railroads with long term contracts that generate sufficient return to justify new unit purchase, an example being the Indiana RR. In the second hand unit market, Alcos are near the bottom of the list in initial cost due to age and parts availability. A railroad willing to concentrate on Alco power can save gobs of money in initial purchase cost, offset somewhat by other costs down the road. A lot of the Canadian startups in the 90's used Alcos because they were available and cheap, they then ran the life out of them and purchased secondhand EMD's to replace them once the revenue stream was established.

Again I return to this same video I'd heard before. The sounds are intoxicating and what a First Class Railroad Delaware-Lackawanna is. Shows what a great company really they are.

¡ Sumando potencias !, espectacular tren. Muchas gracias.

Great video!!

Amazing vidio, and love those sounds! Great Job!

At 7:10 great smoke show

Absolutely awesome... Making me miss living in North America

there's nothing like an Alco stack talking. NICE video Tommy

These could easily be scenes from the old PGE (Later known as BC Rail) back in the 1960s. They used to field a number of MLW-built locomotives back in the day.

lot sof ALCO down my way, love the sound of them.

top footage

Fmnut, thanks for the info. I was always curious as to the profit and return on investment of a shortline. If it was me operating a shortline I would be always worried about parts availability for Alcos.

I sees Canadian engines with Dofasco trucks! Where did they get them?

So why is the crossing at Lackawanna Avenue and for the mall parking garage, lacking crossing gates and has train crews flagging the crossing?

@fmnut

10 жыл бұрын

In a word, cost. It would be too expensive and could not be justified. The trains are going slow (less than 10MPH) and usually come to a stop at Bridge 60 anyway to throw switches before proceeding. Each crossing would require its own set of gates/flashers as well as control circuitry, at about 200K$ per crossing. The railroad is not responsible for paying for new crossing protection installations, that falls on Federal/State/Local governments, who allocate the funding based on accident rates. Lines with higher track speeds/accident rates get funded first.

@KingSNAFU

10 жыл бұрын

Thanks I thought it was something like that.

The Route Of Phoebe Snow

Weird headlight usage.

@fmnut

7 жыл бұрын

DieselElevators What do you mean?

@DieselElevators

7 жыл бұрын

***** Ditchlights were on but the running lights weren't on with the 211.

@fmnut

7 жыл бұрын

I think they just forgot to throw the switch.

@DieselElevators

7 жыл бұрын

***** Lol, oops.

at 4:20 why are there 4 cars beween lashups?

@fmnut

8 жыл бұрын

+Rukkkis If you read the description, the two trains were combined from Winton Jct. to Tobyhanna, where the PT continued on while the grain train switched the propane dealer. This saved the grain train having to wait for the PT to clear Tobyhanna before it could proceed from Winton Jct. It also saved the Dispatcher work writing Form D's for the grain train to follow the PT as it cleared each block.

@McCracken_9

8 жыл бұрын

+fmnut makes sence, i also wonder why 211 has its headlight off, 3000 has 4 ditch lights and some have classification lights and some dont

@fmnut

8 жыл бұрын

+Rukkkis Don't know why 211 has the headlight off. The 3000 is an ex BCRAIL unit. They had an extra set of ditch lights in the short nose to see rockslides at night. Some older units like the RS-3s had detachable class lights while some roads blanked them off after they were no longer required.

@McCracken_9

8 жыл бұрын

+fmnut you know alot about alcos

the dl is a great outfit only one person there is a sourpuss and has a chip on his chest