Otter Tail Valley Railroad: High Hood GP9 and GP18 Locomotives on Jointed Rail!
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- čas přidán 20. 08. 2024
- This presentation takes us back to 2007 in West Central Minnesota to see the operations of the Otter Tail Valley Railroad. Owned at the time by RailAmerica, this railroad was well known for its use of high hood EMD “geeps”. The two featured in our video are MNN 1483, which is an ex Nickel Plate GP9, and OTVR 192, which is a former Southern Railway GP18. Both are painted in the attractive silver, red, and blue RailAmerica paint scheme. C. Vision covers operations on the entire length of Otter Tail Valley’s mainline from Fergus Falls to Moorhead, Minnesota. We catch the train cruising the high iron, working local industries, and interchanging freight with the BNSF in Dilworth, Minnesota. We will also get a chance to watch a few BNSF trains while the OTVR crew completes their interchange work in Dilworth. We hope you enjoy this video, and if you do, be sure to like, comment, subscribe, and check out more from C. Vision Productions in the links below!
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As a railfan this is as good as it gets!!$$
Glad to hear that you’re continuing to enjoy our content! Thank you for the nice comment.
Wow, 2 old Geeps pulling 55 cars, a lot loaded. Earning their pay.
Just want you guys to know, these videos are really good. Just awesome blend of Running and meets, and switching. Treat to the eye. To see ,what wasn't even too long ago, but time flies. Thank you.
Thank you so much, Patrick! Happy to share them with you!
Still kinda sad i missed filming this era of my local railroad. BNSF shuttles ( including the section to French which is quite scenic ) and the new G&W locomotives have been a treat though.
The G&W GP40s are pretty darn neat. A worthy replacement for the high hoods! Thank you for the comment.
The hill from the Pelican River crossing to the Airport was always an interesting pull. After that it seemed to be downhill all the way to Breckenridge.
The last Doodlebug run West, in 1956 was filled up with kids from Lincoln School in Fergus, as we rode to Breckenridge.
Another amazing video. Thank you for posting it for all of us to enjoy!
You are very welcome! Thank you for your continued support!
have a good weekend. I liked the OTVR rail documentary
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it. We hope you come back soon for more videos.
I wish that Rail America had never been forced out of existence. The Otter Tail Valley RR had rails that were well suited to 40 mph.
They were a unique company. I really liked their paint schemes. Yes, they did have track good for 40, but with short mileage, they didn’t want to go that fast to protect their equipment. Same went for the St. Croix Valley.
The rails from Fergus to Barnesville were a bit bumpy, but after the Winnipeg Jct, the Welded rails allowed Passenger Trains to exceed 80 mph to Moorhead.
The Dakotan ran up in the AM and returned at 5:00 PM eastbound. It was a nice ride in the days when the tracks of the Dakota Div went all the way.....
@Daniel Hutchinson Do you know when that welded rail was installed? Or could it have been jointed rail welded together? The Twin Cities & Western recently did quite a bit of joint elimination using the “cut n’ slide” method.
I use to haul grain out of the elevator years ago and ran up to Perham. Always had interesting power sitting here in Fergus Falls. Thanks for posting this video.
Thank you for sharing! They still have good power but I sure miss those high hoods.
Corn to Tuffy's in Perham was a Bunkowsky regular......
I miss seeing the OTVR high hoods now they got GP40s but at least they got a 4 window loco
Their new power is great too! Thanks for the comment.
Love the livery
I really do too. It was a love or hate it when they were around, but I think it worked well.
Love shorelines but the non stop bell would drive me crazy if I was on the crew.
Yes, those bells are definitely not quiet, especially when mounted in the traditional Canadian position between the numberboards on older locomotives. Thank you for the comment, Todd. We hope you enjoyed the video.
Love this video. Redolent of a rapidly diminishing scene
Thank you! And yes, railroad scenes like this aren’t as common as they once were. Thank you for watching!
Excellent video! Thank you for posting.
You’re very welcome! Thank you for watching.
the 18s were originally built for the then shortline Norfolk Southernas low hood models, Southern acquired the rr and installed high hoods at Pegram Shops in Atlanta.
That’s very good information! Thank you. We did recall that those GP18s were “original” NS, which is pretty neat. One of the very few groups of locomotives that had high short hoods installed later in life...
@@CVisionProductions1 I remember a couple of them old Southern Locos had dual controls. I recall when Monhart first brought them to sit in Fergus and they ran a Dinner Train to the East before A&K came and ran off with the rails. They had former Lakawanna passenger cars.
@Daniel Hutchinson Interesting. Is it possible that the GP18s had a second control stand installed during their Southern high hood makeover?
@@CVisionProductions1 We put some snowplows on them in Fergus Falls, I rode one to Fergus and back to Dalton when the OTV was operaiting down the Old Dakota Div..
Oh! That’s really neat. When did OTV stop running down there?
Nice video. In the modern day #1483 resides at the Belfast & Moosehead lake railroad in Unity, ME. it hauls small excursion trains around twice a week. me volunteering at the railroad have been up next to the engine so its nice to see what it looked liked 15 years ago.
Thank you so much! Really nice to know where it’s at now. It’s satisfying to know it’s still in use.
Classic granger railroading on the northern plains… awesome. Wish I had a time machine to book a seat on the Western Star - GN or early BN era.
If you ever do acquire that time machine, please let us know! We’ll go with you. So much to see back in that era...
Southern GP18s, I remember them well.
They were very neat units!
Who owns 1483 now? Latest picture is from 2018 in Massachusetts. Hope the old NKP trooper is still kicking.
Haven’t seen any recent pictures of it. Please let us know if any surface!
During the 1980's BN replaced some areas of the Dakota Division. They dropped a lot of rail through Fergus as I was planning to exit a Freight car one evening and I had to ride to Ashby before they finally stopped.
Landing on a 39 foot long piece of rail does nothing for your ability to tuck and roll.....
Oh no, hope you were ok!
@@CVisionProductions1 I do know better.
I ended up riding back from Ashby to Fergus Falls with a County Mounty.
He was an old Precinct Chairman that I had met at some gathering,
It keeps you awake watching a Fat man attempt to steer when the seat will not move far enough back to accommodate his Uniform?
Sounds like a wild time!
Yup, used to work for RA - they bought the cheapest junk they could find.
Looks like G&W has cleaned house on those properties over the past few years!