The St. Clair Tunnel Company's One Of A Kind Locomotives
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- čas přidán 11. 09. 2024
- The St. Clair Tunnel Company was a small, yet border crossing railroad subsidiary that hosted a small variety of unique steam and electric locomotives. The needs of this railroad were rather specific, shuttle freight and passenger trains from Port Huron, Michigan in the United States, to Sarnia, Ontario in Canada with 2% gradients leading into the St. Clair River Tunnel underneath the St. Clair River. Strong and heavy motive power was going to be needed for the job. From 0-10-0T camelback tank engines, to boxcab electrics, this is the story of the St. Clair Tunnel Company and its unique locomotives.
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I’m so glad you covered the St Clair tunnel locomotives such a niche railroad in the state of Michigan yet such a small yet interesting roster. Very nice video!
What a lovely and informative video! One could only wonder if the St. Clair Tunnel Company would have been more financially successful if they had stopped spending so much time renumbering their engines!
grew up about 1/2 mile from the tunnel and my dad, an uncle and their dad worked about 125 years (combined) in the Port Huron Car Shops. my dad would sometimes hop on a train coming out of the tunnel and ride it back into the yards (he did inspecting for 18 years and walked from 16th street to the western border of the yards)
very cool and interesting
kinda sad none of the locos are left but at least theres something left of it
Went through the tunnel during a field trip in grade school.. I remember watching the water alone the ties in the middle of the tunnel. Exciting times for a child back then.
As a Sarnian, it's nice seeing the city get some attention, especially with its unique railway history! Fun fact, there is still an actively used spur that cuts directly through Sarnia's waterfront parks, which is directly connected to the track used by the tunnel!
Love to see the 0-10-0T's get attention. They were pretty much one-off's, but Baldwin used the design quite heavily in advertising. An odd design for an odd job, love it!
Those 0-10-0s are so incredibly bizarre, but still pretty awesome at the same time.
Fun fact: Flying Scotsman went through this tunnel during her USA tour
I was really surprised when I first read about this company - an electric railroad, in Michigan?! I've always wanted to find out more, so this was a great video! In a similar vein, based on some pictures from one of your previous videos, Michigan Central Station and the Detroit River Tunnel were third-rail electrified.
Those were not the only electric operations in Michigan, either, there was also the Michigan Electric, which was an interurban line using both third rail and overhead wire with trolley poles, with some street running.
Look up the DT&I sometime. Henry Ford had the line electrified to serve River Rouge, and since the catenaries were built from concrete, they're still there, albeit the wires are long gone. You can see them from I-94 if you're going from downtown Detroit to Metro Airport
@@TrinityShoji Oh right, the DT&I is another one! It intrigues me how widespread electric railroading was in an earlier time.. living in Detroit, my younger self used to think that the Northeast Corridor was the US's first and only electric rail line.
@@JohnGeorgeBauerBuis I'll definitely have to search this one up.
Awesome video. I lived in Sarnia when going to Lambton College's Railway Conductor program. We talked a lot about the tunnels since one instructor was a 37 year CP veteran engineer and when he worked out of London he made a lot of interchanges with CSX in Detroit, through the tunnel between Windsor and Detroit.
What a quaint little line, with some funky locos to boot! Great job as normal
Wow I've totally randomly read about this tunnel yesterday and now got a subscription notification that you made a video about it ^^
I still don' t understand why they removed catenary instead of ordering new electric units
My workshop is about 100 yards from Sarnia Station, hear them coming up the line all the time
As a guy that lives near komoka as soon as that really museum opens up I'm going
I was expecting you to say 'the tunnel was ultimately shut down due to (EPA concerns? Safety concerns? A crash that blocked the tunnel or the tunnel collapsing?) in 19xx.' Nice to hear that such an unusual little project is still alive, like a Midwestern Cascade Tunnel of sorts.
And then those modern CN trains go on to disrupt car traffic parallel to Gratiot, all the way into Detroit. I always thought it was interesting that Richmond and New Haven were basically built on that specific line, like literally the dead center of both towns. I actually purchased a car from a used car dealer that rents part of the old grain elevator in New Haven, you should go check it out sometime. Also it'd be interesting to see a video on more of that line as it travels through southeast Michigan, I'd argue its possibly the most disruptive line in the state as far as interrupting traffic goes.
Great video! Never knew such steam engines existed! Ironically, I'm in the midst of writing my script on a video focusing on electric engines just like these...
So cool to see the town that I visit every summer on this channel, great video!
There were 0-10-0 Camelbacks!? Those have to have been the most interesting looking steam engines to ever be seen and exist. And I thought the the other camelback types looked bizarre! Still, they were interesting!
Very good video but a couple of corrections/additions: The renumbering was 1305 to 1310 > 2655 to 2660 but in 1923 was done in reverse order 9150 ex 2660 to 9155 ex 2655 The last electric operation was September 28 1958 and the new tunnel opened April 5 1995, not 1994 (Canadian Rail Magazine Issue 446)
My dad passed away early last year, he would have LOVED this channel!
Ah yes, classic 5-20-minute commentary videos, with Tik-Tok coming up, these are dying away, but they'll still be in our hearts. Great vid!
Honestly I had no idea the old CLS&SB boxcabs went to the St. Clair Tunnel Co. when the switch to CSS&SB happened, I would've thought for sure they would've simply been scrapped due to the era, much like the rest of CLS&SB's equipment
Nice coverage on the history of the Tunnel!
3:45 Now we know where BNSF got the idea for the frame of the Bopper car
very wholesome, especially since the mitten is my home state, man I sure do miss that unique piece of geography.
So informative. You’re so well spoken 👍🏼👌🏼🤝
That was a great video. i have been there a few times. Great job on the video. Well done
I love these videos on smaller niche railroads. Very interesting! Keep up the good work!
Love this video quite arguably and I enjoyed it.
Really neat old trains in this video. The station there at 3:20 is interesting too.
Loved the video and i enjoyed and i liked how you covered the St Clair tunnel railroad
A very unique topic to say the least, and I find the amount of times they changed the running numbers quite interesting. I just wish I knew what the final song was…
Thank you for this information
Well done and informative!
Hey AmtrakGuy, you should start a series examining various accidents and incidents throughout Amtrak’s history, like the 1993 Sunset Limited Disaster; I think that would be awesome to see 😁
So he should do what Thunderbolt 1000 Siren Productions has been doing for years?
Beautiful.
You’re welcome Canada 🍁
Hey amtrakguy365! You should do a video about the Narrow-gauge newfoundland railway!
Diesel exhaust in tunnels is no fun -- I remember this from the tunnels into Back Bay Station in Boston before completion of Northeast Corridor electrification from New Haven to Boston(*), and from Grand Central Station in New York in the 1980s, when the station was full of diesel smoke because of FL9s running on diesel power instead of the 3rd rail electric power they were supposed to run on, plus E units even being run into the station for a short period (although I don't know if that coincided with my visit).
(*)And Back Bay Station still has this problem, because the MBTA refuses to electrify their Commuter Rail.
This reminds me of wanting to slap whichever genius decided that work trains in the NYC subway should be diesel powered. Every time one passes through the station you’re in you’ll feel your lungs burn for a good few minutes after. Meanwhile there’s been battery-electric equipment in existence in small trains like these for decades (I get that the work trains can’t be powered by the third rail since usually when there’s a work train it means the third rail is off for whatever they’re doing).
Loved the video! Could you do a video on the Virginian railway next?
I love when you do these types of videos hope u can do more
Awesome!
They got rid of electrification to save money!? But people that speak in absolutes tell me electrification is always better, context be damned!
That was pretty cool. You think you could do another video like this about the Detroit River Tunnel?
Interesting. Thanks
Canadian national invested in this 3.3kv ac 60hz Three phase system it would have run Port Huron, MI Sarnia,ON Hamilton Toronto, ON Union Station via Oakville Subdivision clearance using Reading RR height. Since Oakville subdivision has Ethanol plants correct procedure for the electric locomotive is front Pantograph UP
Awesome Video
Very good
1:05
The trains must've been REAL high then considering how low under ground they were
When the NYC Mohawk Locomotive coming to Engines of New York Central
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Nice video
Can you do a video on the Amtrak Charger diesels and the GG1 electric locomotives
😮0-10-0 camelback
Would u ever do a video on Virginia railway express
Can you do a video on the detriot union belt RR?
The St. Clair Tunnel Company and renumbering huh?
Used to live here to
only in north america they would replace clean, fast and powerful electric traction with diesel becaue it's "too costly"
Having to stop the entire train, then switch the locomotive, run through the tunnel and stop again, switch the locomotives and start the train again is time consuming.
neat
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Can you make engine's of new York central M-497 jet train
Can you talk about the camelbacks?
How backwards to actually tear down electrification instead of upgrading to it
Double endend locomotives are cursed and strange
Third! Nice video.
How can they be unique if there was more than one of them? Do you mean 'unusual'?
'Unique' literally means there was only one.
hi there
So the new tunnel is built around the old tunnel or was the old tunnel was abandoned? U kinda didn't make it clear on what happened to it
New tunnel was dug beside the old one and the old one fenced off.
I was living in Sarnia when the new one went in.
@@lotsofcases6522 oh ok thank you
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