The Chase Is On! Grand River Railway- Grand River, Ohio-Railfanning
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- čas přidán 12. 07. 2015
- To a fairly large amount of fanfare the Grand River Railway move the first set of loads to the painesville yard. Many people in Grand River stopping anf taking pictures of the move, the 1st of it's kind on over 15 years.
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Not sure why, but seeing these old lines reactivated and seeing the street running just feels awesome!
This is why tracks should not be abandoned. Theres always a chance that a business will want rail service again.
thank you for detail operation video on real life as great watching
from Australia
I love small bucolic rail ops like this. This is very good camera and sound work and takes in both train and MOW work very thoroughly. So it's back to the salt mines we go !! Time for my new small HO switching layout..never thought about salt hopper scene til now ! Covered hoppers makes empty and loaded depiction a sinch. .. Thanks 'loads' , Mark
More please I love your videos I'm from Ontario Canada
Have the people who were complaining gotten over the line being back active? I never understand why people do not get if a rail line is brought back to life that it represents jobs and new growth in the economy.
The complaints may die down now, but any story of a rail line like this, there will always be complaints.
M Williams that's what will happen I'm mileage bile on the railroad cous that shut down the coal plant and trump is binging back Cole miners
NMBY folk ruin everything
@@JaneTaylor They just didn't check to see what was in their backyard before they bought their over-priced apartments.
damn get the track gang to break out the grease for those tight bends lol
holy shit...these loud sounds of crackling steel.
Nice job catching this. You got some really cool shots. It reminds me of the railroad through my town that just reopened about the same time as this. The CCET has 2 engines. How many does this branch have?
I am sure the railroad owns so many feet either side of the right a way and those buildings look pretty close to the track...Wonder who permitted it,,,
Yes, i believe that it is 15 feet from the center of the tracks. The buildings and everything, eventually works out with spacing.
Nice whistle and nice gp 38-2
Very nice video,screen and sound are super. greetings from the Netherlands. greetz:Peerke.
Great chase!!!
I watched this video for the first time. I remember when they had the article in the Railfan & Railroad Magazine of this line reopening and you sure did a great job here of covering it. Anyway, that car was about a foot away from the Hopper Cars. BTW, did you see my recent upload with the SD70ACe flames I caught on the Chesty Railcam.
I have not, will see it soon
Sweet video
I lived along that line where it was soooo overgrown for a year. We were up a very steep embankment, can't remember the address. Maybe it was 283 Richmond Rd in 2011? It was upstream of that abandoned rail bridge. It would have been fun to see a train running along there.
Khadijah Brown yes this is the line!
So much history in that part of the Midwest. I was fascinated to live out there because of my Amish background and fascination with the early industrial age in those parts.
10/15/22, and people are still not reading the no parking signs. The B&O switchers went back to the Age of Steam Roundhouse in Sugarcreek Oh., and they have a leased GP10-1 from Horizon Leasing. The Hoist house at Morton Salt looks to be new, or recently reconditioned and painted. GR Railway has a bunch of 2 bay covered hoppers with their own reporting marks, painted gray with their logo on them for sand service.
Just because these days it is cheaper to have trucks on the roadways, to deliver anything, they are more dangerous on the roads, specially when drivers DO NOT care how to drive the trucks properly...there is also more wear and tear on the roads. I love both trucks, and trains, but I still say it was the biggest mistake to get rid of many rail lines...that could bring more stock to different cities, towns, and communities, than a single truck can.
not enough CDL drivers to meet demand.
i don't think trucks are cheaper to have on the roads. at least, they're not as efficient.
@@rearspeaker6364 trains in general require less drivers to operate than trucks.
@@red2theelectricboogaloo961 rail to wheel friction is minimal.
@@rearspeaker6364 true but a train can pull so much more cargo than a truck can
@27:00 picking up lunch to build good faith with the restaurant?
this rail line should have cabooses !
it does now :)
Hi. Jw 6 years later if they’re still delivering salt etc to this company. I looked at google maps and didn’t see a spur into. Thnx.
Those people Belly-Aching because the Condo they own is so close to the noise and view of the railroad tracks have only one real problem. The ONLY people stupid enough to buy a condo alongside the tracks, Already Have.
NaYawkr most are upset, but a few enjoy seeing the train pass by.
how long is this track?
Would be fun to take a Speeder or Handcar down these tracks
+microbusss the line is 3 miles long.
+Painesville Railfans Seems like a waste for 3 miles of track...
+Daniel S why does it seem like a waste?
Painesville Railfans the entire railroad is 3 miles long, or just the industrial spur? I was just thinking that if the whole railroad was 3 miles wouldn't it be kind of a waste of fuel, equipment, etc etc for a track that short?
+Daniel S the entire railroad is 3 miles long. there are 2 passing sidings just south of Morton salt, one 15 cars long, and the other about 25 cars long.
Interesting railroad!! Does any one have an engine roster for this railroad?
+RTS4018 Right now it has 1 sw1200 1202 on the line another sw1200 1205 is getting work done before it comes here.
Why was it abandoned for so many years? Was the salt mine shut down?
lllBoggylll csx wanted to abandon the line and did years ago. Morton salt was the only business on the line and csx did not see it feasible. It was started through a shortline to spur business back up. Morton produced more business since then in a long time cranking out twice amount of salt.
there use to be Stanley Starch plant there as well . I think it shut down in the late 60s . my parents had there boat docked on the grand river . there was all kind of large ships unloading and loading. a lot of industry is gone ,replaced by condos .
Will they install crossing signals on the line?
+Corbin Staton doubt it, but possibly flashers if anything
Isn't it GREAT that the PC politicians didn't just rip up the track for another stupid "bike path"?
Hey those bike paths are very nicely maintained... laying tracks on them would be super simple.
Cycling and cycle tracks are great, but I agree ripping up railroad infrastructure is crazy.
bike paths do serve an important purpose. i'm not saying we should rip up the tracks. ripping the tracks up would be stupid, but bike paths are useful and serve a real purpose.
Talk about a night squeeze. Holy shit!
Doesn't seem like the safest operation in the world....
john palinkas It's actually surprising how safe this line is, they have done a lot of work. This line hasn't looked this good sice the early 90's
if those idiots park their cars or anything else to close to the tracks----PLOW IT !!!!! they must have too much money!!
When Railroad tracks sit abandoned for long, long periods of time like 5 years or more people should adapt to that New Reality and ignore the tracks, maybe park their cars on them, have unguarded crossings without crossing gates or even warning lights. In the video we see that people have done this even after 15 YEARS of a useless set of tracks remaining useless.
i rember when a old railroad near my house was brot back to life the last train when rain it 1987 for ten years it set in till 1997 it came back in 2003 rjcorman got the line from csx and rebuittha last 7 miles of the line so cool to see trains on it again
another MORON that can not spell or say a coherent sentence
To be fair, you didn't capitalize _another,_ or spell _cannot_ correctly, nor end your sentence with a period.
hopefully grand river will pay CSX to redo the entire line and have signals put up every 2 miles. have the trains going at atleast 40 miles per hour. and put up safetrain crossing at each crossing. have the yard near the salt facility in use and even once in a while let csx trains run on the line. pretty much make it like the tracks that csx uses.
Waste of millions of dollars.
wow you're asking for a LOT
why dolts park their cars on the tracks ????
People are stupid
really come now
+Erik McCottrell dolts? Whats dolts?
+Anthony Smith thanks 😀
Tracks in active gor 15 years....?