Awesome glimpse back into the past! Alco at its finest, i cant believe CP ran pure alco consists as late as that, wouldve been a real site to see in person. Thanks for sharing, 5 stars!
@fmnut neat, ALCo's are my favorite engines. My dad is from a railroad town in the Gaspe, New Carlisle. Many of my Great Uncles/ Grandfathers worked for CN or Quebec Oriental. My grandfather drove RS-18's, C630M's, RSC-14's, RDC's...
Pure MLW/Alco heaven! Your video killed me right from the start with a view of the turning bridge in St-Jean where I live now. Many thanks for sharing such a wonderful video!
yesterday I went to Magog on excursion train "Orford Express" Today all MLW are gone. Thanks for nice memories ! Where was the meet? at "shanks", qc or in somewhere in maine state ?
FM Nut, would you ever consider re-uploading some of these older videos please now that CZcams supports higher quality than they did at the time? Having these in 480 or 720P instead of 240 would be great to really capture this material on. Please consider it, thanks!
They are all gone dude - it sure was fun running 3 M630/636's uphill on a cold winter night. If you closed your eyes and opened the window you could swear it was a steam engine you were running! Didn't like the smell of diesal they left on your coveralls though.
Because the shop staff and crews are too lazy to go back and shut them! After banging about in the wind the locking latches get broken and then you couldn't lock them shut if you wanted to! Sometimes we would open them if the engine began to overheat in the summer.
thats just a dumb thing to say on a page full of ALCo fans. the reason why they are smoking so much, is because they were well used. ALCo's were the workhorse of the rails and were great locomotives. the engines wouldnt smoke brand new. by the the time the guy took this video, it was already way past they're prime. CN and CP retired their ALCo's in the early to mid 90's anyway because of how well used they were.
Look at all that smoke and listen to that noise!!! It's not rolling thunder. It's hurling thunder!!!!!! Ilove it!!!!!!!!!
I didn't believe they were Alcos until I saw all of them spewing black smoke. Classic vid! Thanks for posting!
Awesome glimpse back into the past! Alco at its finest, i cant believe CP ran pure alco consists as late as that, wouldve been a real site to see in person. Thanks for sharing, 5 stars!
in the last moment of the video i saw the smal town of SCOTSTOWN IN THE TOWNSHIPS (Québec) nice vid thanks for sharing !!
Awesome vidio! greatest smoke show that i have ever seen! 5 star & favorite!
Thank you for putting this together, brilliant footage. The DD audio makes it complete.
@fmnut neat, ALCo's are my favorite engines. My dad is from a railroad town in the Gaspe, New Carlisle. Many of my Great Uncles/ Grandfathers worked for CN or Quebec Oriental. My grandfather drove RS-18's, C630M's, RSC-14's, RDC's...
Pure MLW/Alco heaven! Your video killed me right from the start with a view of the turning bridge in St-Jean where I live now. Many thanks for sharing such a wonderful video!
Loved it! Great chugging of ALCos is usually not consistently throughout a clip but it was in yours. Thanks and great job!
great stuff, you brought back memories
Great footage. These old Montreal girls are beauty skin deep.
Great video!
Nice countryside view
that pacing scene, with the smoke...5 stars
Amazing that was a great video
Love those diesel electric steam trains! Great vid!
Nice, love the smoke. I have two CN C424's and two CN C630M's on the way. Why are they running the engines with the panel doors open. Heat?
lol the detector robot guy is the same today
Love those ALCOs!!!! (ALCO owned MLW, for anyone who doesn't know)
DieselElevators Greetings from Athens. If you like check MLW's freight trains in Greece
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yesterday I went to Magog on excursion train "Orford Express" Today all MLW are gone. Thanks for nice memories ! Where was the meet? at "shanks", qc or in somewhere in maine state ?
from what I heard they were loading problems and they were constantly having the door open because they were heating up too fast
FM Nut, would you ever consider re-uploading some of these older videos please now that CZcams supports higher quality than they did at the time? Having these in 480 or 720P instead of 240 would be great to really capture this material on. Please consider it, thanks!
Yes, I plan on doing some of these older vids over again with enhanced color and resolution. Watch my channel for updates.
i so wanna see one of those any of them still around?
They are all gone dude - it sure was fun running 3 M630/636's uphill on a cold winter night. If you closed your eyes and opened the window you could swear it was a steam engine you were running! Didn't like the smell of diesal they left on your coveralls though.
u don't see cps like that anymore
the exhaust means that they are actually doing something
What horns did the c424s use
Airchime Ltd. K3H. Standard CP horn.
classic
Left the doors open for easy access fire control?
i think it was best for those locos so be scrapped cause like look at how much smoke comes out of them then the ones now
A tree hugers wrost nightmare...Alcos!
Because the shop staff and crews are too lazy to go back and shut them! After banging about in the wind the locking latches get broken and then you couldn't lock them shut if you wanted to! Sometimes we would open them if the engine began to overheat in the summer.
thats just a dumb thing to say on a page full of ALCo fans. the reason why they are smoking so much, is because they were well used. ALCo's were the workhorse of the rails and were great locomotives. the engines wouldnt smoke brand new. by the the time the guy took this video, it was already way past they're prime. CN and CP retired their ALCo's in the early to mid 90's anyway because of how well used they were.