Shortline Railroading at its Finest: Ohio South Central Railroad
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- čas přidán 27. 11. 2016
- This is a compilation of two trips, one in August and one in November. The Ohio South Central operates exactly where the name suggests, and rosters 5 vintage geeps ranging from GP7 to GP10. In the video, you'll see an EMD startup, switching in a weed-filled yard, and some run-bys on old, jagged rails. Enjoy! Below is a list of timestamps if you want to skip ahead!
August 15th:
0:22 Blowing out the engine.
02:15 GP10
04:39 Switching Hamden Yard
09:26 Leaving for Jackson
11:05 Passing Wellston
November 28th:
12:58 North of Hamden
13:57 Dropping cars just north of Hamden
15:38 Finally arriving in Hamden
That lime green and yellow high hood girl, she's gorgeous! Love those bright colors!
There's just something about a Lime Green Locomotive that makes you just smile. :)
Laugh at its ridiculousness? I suppose. I'm not a fan. But it could be worse: chartreuse.
Jovetj fckn straight up purple or even a rainbow lol or a sht Ton Of colors splashed all over it
Purple can be a pretty color. Purple and white would be a very distinctive color scheme.
It a spongebob square train..😆
Thought that lime green might be Illinois Terminal.
My army unit did some work in LIma tank plant. We learned to, and cut, and set new "old stock rails", And pulled and replaced ties, and worn switch plates. For our Summer camp that year. Even learned how to move engines. If it came nessary. Even saw a wheel lath in operation. An tried the crains out. Now that was a real interesting summer camp. Sgt williams ( retired) Co. D. 983 combat engineers LIma ohio.
that lime green high nose is strangely cool looking
Very cool that they still have a B&O/C&O look to them.... Now, just to get some yellow, orange, and blue going on!!!
Rolling art murals on wheels.....nice!
I grew up in Chillicothe and went to college in Athens. This is awesome.
Yeppers i liked the rr out there too and golden coral for eats
4139 got a fresh ass paint job
Awesome transfer caboose. Thanks for sharing.
Great video ! Nice camera work. Small scale operations at their best! Pure down to earth railroading!
love these videos
klaus kohlberg Thanks!
LOVE Short Line action like this.
Awesome horns on the 104 and the lime green locomotive.
Very interesting little railroad! And a Varity of paint schemes!
Saw a Great Miami GP30 switching in Hamden in the very early 2000s, nice video.
That GP7 has a fantastic horn!
Thanks airing the outstanding vid.Bliss
Engine 4139 has Illinois Terminal colors! That's cool.
Illinois Terminal GP7 is rocking that P5 Horn
Can't go wrong with old Geeps lol. Great video!
Louisiana Rail Productions I Love that Horn on 104 Geep thank's
I miss Hamden and Jackson. I worked there for a bit in 2009-2010.
LOVE THE GEEPS!
I like how they kept the 4139 in the IL Terminal paint scheme.
great video! thanks for sharing.
Nice vid. guys, love the old GPs! Bob...
Very pleasant video. There 's something very unique about short line railroading, especially in this age of transcontinental lines.
Much appreciated, I’m glad you liked it! It’s always fun seeing trains crawling between sleepy towns in the country, as opposed to high speed welded rail action
Fascinating, and nicely filmed.
What they need to do is extend the line to Athens. The line used to go all the way to Marietta. It may also be useful to extend downwards to south Webster, right now it just ends at an arbitrary point in the middle of nowhere.
Great video awesome job! Just a reg day in the yard! Looks very peaceful
Thanks!
burnuts007 GP-7 GP-9 on the Point?,6:11
That was really awesome that you got the Film on the short line with his Historical units that I would love to film at some point I love your video Thank you for sharing
Interesting to see a locomotive with no ditch lights.
Unfortunately it lost that title this past year, it wears a set of ditch lights now. It made it a LONG time hauling freight without though! They almost never get up to speed where they need them, but better safe I’m sure.
@@peterandben Probably the FRA took notice. At least the old locomotive is still running!
Fantastic video I'm your Canadian fan.
Super shots ! 👍🏻
Great video. I've only seen bits and pieces of this line in action before now.
Thanks! Maybe we can find a weekday this summer and chase them sometime.
Great video !!!!!!!!
Nice video of rolling history.
Just the opening shot is worth 5 stars. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
That lime green gp7 is based off the Illinois terminal railroad. Now one of Norfolk southerns heirtege units
Excellent video l like to see old jeeps in action 😎
Thanks for the cool video. 👍
Love that Illinois Terminal green. Long live the IT!
an original Illinois Terminal in original paint
emanuel collier Built for CNW, recently repainted into IT colors.
Not original.
LOVE THAT DRUNKMAGNET (YELLOW/GREEN)
I thought it might have been a john deere train
i love this video
Still some B&O pole line left. The Portsmouth sub was busy many years ago.
The lime green engine matches the vegetation well, never seen that color on an engine before, it's neat!
Awesome video!👏👏
Sounds like #4139 has a Nathan M5 Horn, very nice!
The horn looks more like an old-cast P5, so it could be either an M5 or an OC-P5.
Cold start lol
awesome train video
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this here area is where i grew up...
lime green looks good
17:15 OMG, that dog was running the light!
Seriously tho, nice catch.
11:25 Powerful horn! I would have such a tractor
i like this kind of loco.. looks like very big power, greeting new friend
Awesome video, I'm trying to nab these guys when I'm out there in a month or so. Thanks for sharing
Well, the there are three short line railroads in the Seattle area: Eastside Freight (aka EFRX), Ballard Terminal, and a third line in Tacoma. I have been to just one, and that is he Eastside Freight
Bless you for mounting the camera on a tripod. Thanks also for NOT providing s running
We have a short line that runs in our City.... Lancaster and Chester.
True railroading an old geep and backroad tracks
That sure is a pretty green.
7:53 Seems like he smacked his hand. I know the feeling! Maybe not from a switch, but I have had a 35 pound monkey wrench fall off a table and break my arm while I was working on a tractor. I use it for hub bolts when I need too, or for decently sized and really stubborn bolts, because of the 1 1/4 foot handle. Also works great for that because I can fit a 8 foot long rod from a chain link fence over the end for really rusty and mean bolts. I had one stick so tight before that I ended up having to hang my full weight from the end of the rod, and after bouncing around for 6 seconds, it finally shattered the nut, still refusing to come free, and left fragments welded on that I had to just grind off.
Yup , yup... Love Dem trains!!
it would be very interesting if one of those was a former santa fe beep.
The 2153 is a former Santa Fe Topeka cab GP7u.
Interesting landscaping in the yard there...could be difficult in N scale though.
Świetne nagranie prac manewrowych.
Love this video!
Thank you!
That green loco has absolutely no ditch lights.. interesting
I think they need some Round Up sprayed around those tracks!
That cat just couldn't help it's self, just had to dice with danger, didn't it at 15:00.
at 0:40 the third engine looks like a former heartwell railroad engine because of its livery
I believe it is!
peterandben go to Atlantarails and he has video of the heartwell railroad
like the lime green color locomotive
@peterandben -- is Monday a good day to see operation? I drove over there after watching your video. I found the GPs at Hamden but they were parked. 4139 I found at the gun powder place parked, too. They have a caboose which was nice to see. Thanks for the posts.
The 4139 train is light green and yellow the 4537 train is forest green with yellow line and 104 train is dark green.
Nice angle shot on the building the background: when the GP was being started it looked like there was a short 'chimney' sticking out of the loco; good effect! I presume that was a spraying unit and was going to be serviced or filled with water and spray mix??
Class 1's couldn't make it without the support of regional railroads.
Yes they could
Sonny Dean Why is it uneconomical for larger railroad companies to operate lines like these, but it is economical for a much smaller company to operate it.
You would think with economies of scale it would be cheaper for a large railroad to operate lines like these.
There are several reasons why a shortline or regional can operate a line profitably where a class one can't. First, most smaller companies are non- union. Wages are generally lower, work rules are not as strict( people can perform multiple jobs as needed). Shortlines are more flexible and customer service oriented than the bigger roads. Generally, they do more with less.
PS 400 You realize that you're making his point, don't you?
I said work rules, not safety rules, there's a big difference. I have 30 years of shortline railroad experience.
the cat at 14:58 was obviously not a railfan!
and 2153 train is dark green as well
Do they use that Topeka cab GP7u (the 2153)? She looks to be in great condition.Thanks for posting.
Always something very special about these branch lines or short lines as you Americans call them. Great inspiration for railway modelling by far. Always have loved these switching lines and I’ve always wanted to do a switching layout in HO or create a switching line like this one in the garden in G. Now that’ll be something 👌, a switching line in G! 😍👍
Thanks for sharing mate! This South Aussie loved every moment of it! Subscribed as well! Feel free to check out my channel when you have time too! Cheers, Caleb
Glad you liked it, thank you!
8395 train is dark grey
this horn sound like deep.
It would be nice to see a short line railroad when it enters into the CSX yard or BSNF yard or Norfolk Southern yard to drop off its 3 or 4 cars or pick up a couple of cars to take back to it's own mini yard or directly to a customer. How do they interact with the big boys?
In this case, the OSCR drops cars on a siding on CSX, where CSX also leaves cars for them to pick up. It’s featured in this video: czcams.com/video/WGySzWRNd8E/video.html
@@peterandben thank you.
does the light green engine have a southern railroad horn ? Because it sounds like one
It has it's original Rock Island old-cast P5. Southern used the same horn on some units.
Great video!!! Is the 4139 of R I heritage?
I didn't know Canadian CN cars ran in the states.
Sudsy Sutherland yip. But even CN goes to Chicago, and CP goes to Indiana.
Need pink cars now
Actually they are just blowing out the engine at first, not trying to start it.
Trainz1992 Thanks, I didn't know that!
Trainz1992 Thank you for explaining it and why.not many folks will bother to do that.
If there other times would you also explain to Thank's August 24,2014 Stay Safe
@@gracenauen9828 Diesel loco engines, particularly in tourist railway use, can condense water in the cylinders, when they are cold and not running. The water can damage the engine as it's not compressible: bending a Conrod for example. This can happen while the piston is moving up on the compression stroke, and the exhaust valves are closed, so there is nowhere for the water to go. The engine is equipped with cocks in the side of the block. These are opened, and the engine is cranked over, without starting, to blow any water out of the cylinder bores.
@@railtrolley Hi railtrolley. True for all EMDs. Not necessary (or even possible) for Alcos -- different cylinder head design. Never worked on a GE.
Has the track into Jackson been severed at Route 788 ? Or was this just a repair in the works? Great video, thanks.
Moonville tunnel is on this line
the guy in the green looks like the one from tye the NDW in defiance ohio
The red barn in Hamden, OH
That said fart on that one boxcar
what are they doing at the start of the video with smoke coming out & starting & stopping? are they priming it?
Sudsy Sutherland they were rolling them over to blow water out of the cylinders.
Its just me, Sometimes it saddens me to see these Active Tracks crawling with grass/ weaves making it look abandoned.
wygląda jak SM31 xD
if that geep, in the middle isn't ex-KATY, i'll eat my hat.
I hope it isn't a nice hat, the geep was originally Chicago Northwestern and is now painted for Illinois Terminal.
the stripes through me off. Illinois terminal? I didn't know that's still in existed. the IT that I remember was an interurban line that ran from Chicago to st. louis. is that right?
The IT dieselized in the 50's and survived until the 80's. At one time, 10 separate railroad companies owned the IT...and the sole purpose of the IT was to keep the ATSF, out of St. Louie. The IT never made it to Chicago but they had tracks to Peoria, Bloomington/Normal and Danville (ILL).
I was flying to O'Hare from Denver and flew over cen ill. I could see the trains moving on the ground. apparently, the wires were still up, along the tracks, even '66. spending 3 tours in 'nam, I missed nearly the entire transition from 1st to 2nd generation diesel-power.
Terry Witkowski the owner of the sheep, Terry Respondek, loved the IT so much he painted many of his locos like that.
Thank you that was truly enjoyable. Question though . Is all of Ohio's track wavy looking junk? If so ,why?
daniel diccianni Not most of it. You can find track like this on Class IIIs all over the country.
is the Ohio South Central owned by Respondek Railroad Company, or is it independent?
Lou Lewis from what I understand it is owned by Terry, or at least Respondek is a partner. He's a great guy, and completely self made. You couldn't find a nicer fellow to work for.
will there be New locomotive coming in soon its now 2020