Several of my wife’s family members worked in Schenectady building these. I’m an engineer on a railroad which had mostly Alcos back in the day, and her grandfather used to tell me stories about building these.
Guess the fashion now is to make engines scream and roll coal, but I've always been more impressed with one purring along smoothly and quietly. Not a thing wrong with this baby, ticking over like a watch and purring like it came out of the plant yesterday. These old Alcos are great, have got some real character to them when they're running.
the obnoxious stuff is an equal and opposite reaction to the electrics and modern cars with tiny, silenced 3 cylinders. "look at me, i'm a diesel!" instead of quietly passing by.
That was awesome, thanks for sharing. Would love to see more close up views of every single part on these beautiful locomotives. I'm going to try to model one in 1.6" Scale getting parts together so it would help me bigly. My Dad and his Dad were locomotive engineers on these for the South Buffalo Railway and he would teach me how to operate them when I was a kid back in the late 1960's👍👍
I have an Alco RS 3 on my railroad. It's an old school DC loco and doesn't have sound. Until now! I can run this on a speaker under my train layout. Thanks!
The RS3 has a 244 not a 539. 539’s can be found in the S1 & S3. 539T can be found in the S2, S4, & RS1. The 539 was also used in a few marine and power generation applications, but the 251 was far superior for those applications.
I love this, been a long time since I’ve heard that sound. Very few left in running condition. I remember seeing S2s working on the Chestnut Ridge Railroad and at the New Jersey Zinc facilities in Palmerton, PA. Also had an up close experience with CNJ 1067, also an S2 working on old Lehigh and New England trackage in Nazareth, PA in 1972. Became friends with the old L&NE crews so I got a short ride while they drilled cars in town. BTW what’s the heritage of the loco and where was this located? On another note a former L&NE S2 #611 is being restored locally by a group. It’s the only surviving L&NE diesel locomotive that I know of. Thanks for the memories.
Still a small number of ALCo's running in Australia, mostly "World Series" DL531's and a small number of DL541's plus DL500G and CE615 (MLW), slowly disappearing into the sunset they are. Plenty of video on my site of anyone interested under 48, 45, 44, 442 and 80 class. Great clip, enjoyed it.
What a waste of 10 minutes.
Better than listening to Taylor Swift!!!!!😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Yet, you watched.😅
Only if you don’t like the sights and sounds of ALCO Locomotives…
And what an utterly pointless and unhelpful comment.
Thank you giving us the sounds of the machine without stupid music in the background like so many others
Pure ASMR... I could fall asleep to this wonderful sound
Several of my wife’s family members worked in Schenectady building these. I’m an engineer on a railroad which had mostly Alcos back in the day, and her grandfather used to tell me stories about building these.
Utterly beautiful music. Multi-layered depth and rhythm.
Guess the fashion now is to make engines scream and roll coal, but I've always been more impressed with one purring along smoothly and quietly. Not a thing wrong with this baby, ticking over like a watch and purring like it came out of the plant yesterday.
These old Alcos are great, have got some real character to them when they're running.
the obnoxious stuff is an equal and opposite reaction to the electrics and modern cars with tiny, silenced 3 cylinders. "look at me, i'm a diesel!" instead of quietly passing by.
When I was growing up in Denver CB&Q, D&RGW, and UP all ran these engines.
The rhythm"s are hypnotic
Plenty of S2’s in my early days on the B&O, good switch engine but they all had vibration and you had to always keep your eye on your coffee …
Morning meditation for the mechanically inclinded......or is it mechanically afflicted !😂 Thanks for a great video
Very important document video of the Alco experience. Thanks so much for this experience.
Yes!! More please! Mebbe Fairbanks Morse OP.
I could listen to that all day zone out and be happy need to find out how to make it a ring tone 👍
Classic large bore inline 4 cycle engine.
That was awesome, thanks for sharing. Would love to see more close up views of every single part on these beautiful locomotives. I'm going to try to model one in 1.6" Scale getting parts together so it would help me bigly. My Dad and his Dad were locomotive engineers on these for the South Buffalo Railway and he would teach me how to operate them when I was a kid back in the late 1960's👍👍
I'll see what I can do.
Veeery good sounds! Really great video! Greetings from Poland!
I have an Alco RS 3 on my railroad. It's an old school DC loco and doesn't have sound. Until now! I can run this on a speaker under my train layout. Thanks!
The RS3 has a 244 not a 539. 539’s can be found in the S1 & S3. 539T can be found in the S2, S4, & RS1. The 539 was also used in a few marine and power generation applications, but the 251 was far superior for those applications.
I love this, been a long time since I’ve heard that sound. Very few left in running condition. I remember seeing S2s working on the Chestnut Ridge Railroad and at the New Jersey Zinc facilities in Palmerton, PA. Also had an up close experience with CNJ 1067, also an S2 working on old Lehigh and New England trackage in Nazareth, PA in 1972. Became friends with the old L&NE crews so I got a short ride while they drilled cars in town. BTW what’s the heritage of the loco and where was this located? On another note a former L&NE S2 #611 is being restored locally by a group. It’s the only surviving L&NE diesel locomotive that I know of. Thanks for the memories.
Still a small number of ALCo's running in Australia, mostly "World Series" DL531's and a small number of DL541's plus DL500G and CE615 (MLW), slowly disappearing into the sunset they are. Plenty of video on my site of anyone interested under 48, 45, 44, 442 and 80 class. Great clip, enjoyed it.
ALCO 539T 400 rpm+RSD-1(0-6-6-0)+train+railway track, with interchanges and crossings="Bleed".
Very cool
my kinda asmr