ND&W Highhood GP9 struggles with 50+ boxcars PREX 105
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ต.ค. 2017
- PREX 105 works on the ND&W Railroad in Cecil Ohio. This is the former Maumee and Western Railway (MAW) now owned and operated by Pioneer Railcorp. In the first scene the 105 is struggling to shove about 50 loaded boxcars into the Lafarge tracks for short term storage. Right now the tomato crop is being harvested and the Campbell's soup plant ordered more cars than the railroad has practical capacity for. This branch is the former Cincinnati Northern mainline, now just a spur off the ND&W main to service Lafarge/Systech. It is also the only place they have to store the overflow of these cars. In the next scenes they cross RD 105 heading north on the CN and then head onto the main at Cecil.
Miss the sound of those old GP9's working in the yard when I would go down by the depot and watch them switch out cars.
Scott that's music to my ears and brings back a memory when I worked as a brakeman on the Chessie(C&O) and we was working a long cut of loaded hoppers with a GP9 and that old Geep's amp meter had to be spending a lot of time bouncing in the red zone but, the engineer was skilled and we got the job done.
Worth a watch just for the sound of that engine!
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Cool. Nice job Scott. It's good to see the old 105 working the line.
She refused to give up and puts her all into it
The old Geep sounds awesome. Seems to run well no smoke. Nice catch.
That was great Scott. Love the sound of that GP9 working hard. An easy slow speed chase for you this time. ;-)
Sweet vid man. Reminds me of my years on the Chicago and northwestern. They had a bunch of GP7s. They used them in the yard, on wayfreights and transfer jobs. A solid all around workhorse of a loco.
It is terrible that this engine isn't back where it belongs in the heart of apple country. It's rightful and true home is riding the rails of the Gettysburg railroad in Adams county PA. Many years ago this engine had a beautiful Leslie RS3L mounted on the long hood end. I had a video of this beast working the Cadbury plant in Aspers some years ago, but I am afraid I cannot find it. It is really too bad because the engineer was working the hell out of the engine. Fantastic clouds of black smoke with the throttle advancements....oh man!
Fascinating. I think my whole body started to ache watching the struggle. THANKS.
Good thing those tracks weren`t wet! Man, they still got a lot to do to get those tracks up to snuff.
Hi I'm putting together a TH-cam Video on the GP 9. Would it be ok if I used some of this footage?
Beautiful! Looks like a former CN or Central Vermont geep.
Now that's an awesome machine to watch. I see that track is still 10 mile o' bad road .....
I love the sound of these old Geeps. It's like the train equivalent of a classic muscle car V8 rumble.
I love the emd gp9! ❤
Absolutely a great video! Went right to my favorites list.
Gp9 has a good traction move
Looks like an EX CN GP9.