ALCOs of Lake Ontario: Railfanning the Ontairo Midland & LA&L
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 ต.ค. 2024
- Hello and Welcome to Bessemer and Lake Erie 902! In this video, we ride along with Rochester-based railfan Joshua Sigouin as we take two days to railfan prominent Alco Roads: the Livonia, Avon and Lakeville & the Ontario Midland. Both of these small shortlines boast incredible collections of half-century year old ALCOs still in service, which attract railfans from across the country. We hope you enjoy this video filled with ALCO smoke and be sure to like, comment, share, and subscribe for more railroad-related content such as this. Happy Railfanning and Train Chasing!
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Excellent footage man. I love Alcos!!
Looks like a great place to spend the day but not in the winter...LOL
Great video! Just wondering, how did you find out when these trains are running. I am from Rochester but I still haven’t caught these roads yet
Thanks! A friend of mine is from the area and kept track of movements via Facebook and his own observations. Most short lines tend to operate on a pattern, such as running on certain days of the week to certain places. Joining Railroad Facebook groups will help greatly in being able to track trains.
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Really, really nice video, thanks for sharing. Jim
Thanks! I’m glad you enjoyed.
Great catch
This is my favorite Railfanning vid ever!
Glad you enjoyed!
Your welcome! Also, quick question, are some ALCOs on the LA&L are ex-WNYP?
@@PC81101 I don’t believe any of the ALCOs on LA&L are ex WNYP units except 428, which was sported WNYP reporting marks when it arrived but never ran on the railroad. There have been a couple units that came from the LA&L to the WNYP.
Great video!
Excellent video ☺️
Great video. I have never seen locomotive air used to clean the tracks out at a grade crossing. Makes perfect sense. Great to see that caught on video.
What is that sound @18:39
Probably, the wheel flanges squeaking going around the curved leg of the switch .
Thank you for posting info on OMID. I live in some old OMID trackage, and no matter how hard I try, I can never seem to find them operating. They have real pretty trackage, so giving chase is fun. I’ve heard horror stories that OMID is going out of business. Though it’s not surprising, I think it would do extremely well as a tourist RR. Also, I didn’t know that the LA&L did stuff with Rochester, nor Barrilla! Thanks. Also; no way! It’s josh! I met him not too long ago, and he gave me some pretty solid information on OMID, just as you did. Cool!
I’m sorry to hear about that. I hope you have some luck with seeing them in the future! Where did you hear OMID was going out of business? That’s news to me. Josh was an excellent guide during my trip up there; I couldn’t have asked for anyone better
@@BessemerLakeErie902 I’ve seen a couple people online mentioning the low number of customers that they serve. When I met Josh, we talked for a little bit about OMID, and we at least from what I remember, generally agreed that OMID isn’t doing the best financially. Thanks for the wish of good luck! I may go out again next weekend, so hopefully that goes well. Thanks again, and have a great night!
@@meme-xn6wr from what it seems now OMID is being bought by LAL now which means it’s gonna be owned by LAL like the WNYP and B&H
I'm wondering if the century class diesel locomotives were the last road switchers built by Alco that served them to the end of their diesel market in the late '60s
Yes, the Centuries were the final class of locomotives produced by ALCO in their effort to match the models being produced by EMD and GE at the time. Sadly for ALCO fans, EMD (and later GE) prevailed and took all the business from ALCO, forcing them to close. However, ALCO’s Canadian subsidiary, Montreal Locomotive Works continued to build locomotives with ALCO designs well into the 1970s, with many examples still around today including the large 6 axle units seen most recently in operation on the WNYP and Deleware-Lackawanna.
@@BessemerLakeErie902 it's also noted that the Montreal locomotive works moved on with someone buying the company to continue to build locomotives One of the newest examples under the new company is White Pass and Yukon Railroad Alco number 114 with its modern wide nose which was built sometime in the 1980s I don't know the name of the successor company of MLW if anyone does know the name of the company let me know in the comments
@@TexasRailfan21-RailfanRyan Thanks for the added info. I never knew that.
@@BessemerLakeErie902 The Montreal Locomotive works continued to build 251 series engines into the 1980s for use in power generation. The 8 cylinder version was a bit different - it needed a balance shaft in the engine to keep from shaking itself to death. Great running, fuel efficient engine, though.
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Great Video, keep up the awesome work! ;)
Thanks!
Great video and excellent catch of OMID. Those railroads are really great to catch with the variety of power they have. I just subscribed!
Same!!!😉😎
No thank you for bringing this film to us! May I suggest if you ever happen to be in Sodus again head a bit further north to Sodus point. There is quite a bit of rail history up there as well though the tracks are long gone now. Also there is an excellent restaurant, Captain Jack’s right on Ontario lake.
Thanks for the information! I’ll be sure to check it out next time I visit!
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Fantastic footage.
Thank You!
Awesome video!
Thanks!