Last F-Units Pulling Freight: Shortline - Ontario Southland Railway
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 ส.ค. 2024
- *F-units begin at 4:04 *
After the retirement of the Keokuk Junction Fs, there was only one railroad left in North America regularly using the timeless streamliners in freight service. That title belongs to the Ontario Southland Railway!
On November 29th, I woke up very early and headed over to Ontario. Upon arrival at the Salford shop, the job bound for the CAMI plant left, followed by two ex-CP geeps for Putnam and beyond, and finally two F-units making pickups before heading to the CP interchange at Woodstock. It was out of this world.
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F Types are my favorites of all time. Streamliners and B Units - off we go!
Best one ever
Best of the locomotives
There's the Wisconsin Great Northern out of Spooner, Wisconsin that now hauls freight! They have the ex Grand Traverse Dinner Train F-units and Great Northern F7A #423! They haul freight with F-units!
RJ
Yup, and now (2020) has Escanaba and Lake Superior RR operating an F-unit once again on freight trains: th-cam.com/video/NMybdRb1EtA/w-d-xo.html
RJ
Also ELS 600 a PF7A is back in service and the Clinchfield 800.
F units are the best.
They just won’t die! I love the combination of reliable function and stylish appearance.
Love those old crossing signals too
What a rare find, Geeps and F units! AWESOME!!!
You don’t see it everyday! Well...unless you live along the Ontario Southland!
Check out their sister unit # 6520 on the Rapido trains site. She was recently restored in the CN wet noodle scheme. Absolutely beautiful!
Absolutely beautiful locomotives! Thank you for sharing your videos. 👍👏👏
I’m glad you liked it, thank you!
I can hear the roots blowers on those geeps.
What an awesome railroad!
I think so too! You can't go wrong with ANY of their power, I was excited to see the geeps.
To me, the F units are like John Brownings 1911 pistols, old, but always classic. 👍
I saw 1401 and 6508 today in woodstock!
they are great people that own and operate the shop and railroad. I did a promotional video for the models that came out of a couple of their high nose geeps. it was very cool to do. go to go right in the back part of the yard. hands on the trains and rails. hope you can have a look. and I believe there are still some of the models still for sale. They are talking about doing a model of the F units soon
As an N scaler, I’m probably out of luck. I’d love to see models of the Fs though! Seems like a really cool railroad.
@@peterandbenya, they only do them in HO. but if the guy gets people asking about n scale ones. you never know.
Good evening from St John Parish, Louisiana 2 Jan 21.
Good video
If you wanna see heaps of streamliners still in use go to Australia, a lot are still pulling freight trains on the mainlines and the last streamliner on a regular passenger train was only a few years ago as well many are used on heritage specials
F-yeah
Great video!!! Did they stop using all o their Alcos all together?
Thanks! I’m not sure about that, I think they at least have a couple they use.
I like the gp7 engines that work there and f units but did you know that they are from via rail and that they were sold off and that they are fp9 locos
They were from Cn then transferred to via rail
If you guys want to see more streamlin locomotive,please check out Cowan bank trains the location is in Australian country,thank you,enjoy the video!
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Most railroads got rid of them because they had an awful design for switching
There ain't nothing like an F unit!
You may be interested in this guys channel: th-cam.com/users/AUSSIETRAINDRIVERvideos
Australian E & F-style units still being used in revenue service.
Are these still visible in 2022?
Where do they get the autoracks from?
Well now the intire railroads gone
Minus the Guelph line which is now operated by someone else, the entire railroad still exists, runs, and they just painted a switcher into their paint scheme.
You’ve also commented this wrong information here before. The railroad, as far as I know, is doing fine.
@@peterandben oh sorry
There all gone now the OSR is bankrupt
I don’t think that’s correct. They’ve lost the contract for the Guelph Junction Railway, but nothing in this video was effected, and I don’t think it’s been a critical financial hit for them.
peterandben oh