Prehistoric Dash 9's....I loved these MLW's. The crews always had a love/hate relationship with them though. They out pulled anything else on rails but the ride was like being on a bull for a lot longer than 8 seconds.
I remember in the mid 90's, reading about these Alco's in trains magazine . St Luc shops, {hope that's right} in Canada and the sad story of the shop folks going through the Alco fleet seeing which locomotives still had life in them. Long live any ALCO !!!!
O the smell of those MLW's certainly bring back memories On sumner day while going eastern bound to Mac yard on the Halton sub The turbo failed and boy talk about the black exhaust that she put out
Eight Alco on the line at departure time,four at arrival with half your train park in side line along the Sherbrooke sub.Lot of oil on the running board.
yep these "centruys" alcos were saved if running and no magor problems from the scrapers torch in late 93 early 94 due to power shortages and never lead except for the cat repowered century(number escapes me) the ones not road worthy were scavanged at the old angus shops (montreal) of anything usable to keep the road worthy ones running and parts were shiped from angus to st luc for use keeping road worthys alive
Prehistoric Dash 9's....I loved these MLW's. The crews always had a love/hate relationship with them though. They out pulled anything else on rails but the ride was like being on a bull for a lot longer than 8 seconds.
I remember in the mid 90's, reading about these Alco's in trains magazine . St Luc shops, {hope that's right} in Canada and the sad story of the shop folks going through the Alco fleet seeing which locomotives still had life in them.
Long live any ALCO !!!!
In Canada, you spell ALCO, as MLW! All BC Rail's big M's were gone in 1990!
O the smell of those MLW's certainly bring back memories On sumner day while going eastern bound to Mac yard on the Halton sub The turbo failed and boy talk about the black exhaust that she put out
Eight Alco on the line at departure time,four at arrival with half your train park in side line along the Sherbrooke sub.Lot of oil on the running board.
Very cool! Been many, many yrs since I last saw an Alco in actual svc. I mean like 40 yrs, believe it or not...
You can see 4563 at the Exporail museum.
I enjoy this video thank you for sharing it
Dave Bolyard
Great Alco shots, when were those units retired they look old
Great video
Emergency?
Very soon after this was shot. This may have even been their last run.
Tim
Oh, whoops, what a shame
yep these "centruys" alcos were saved if running and no magor problems from the scrapers torch in late 93 early 94 due to power shortages and never lead except for the cat repowered century(number escapes me) the ones not road worthy were scavanged at the old angus shops (montreal) of anything usable to keep the road worthy ones running and parts were shiped from angus to st luc for use keeping road worthys alive
4711?