Real estate agents will do whatever they have to in order to get their pockets packed with cash, and they can live out their Rock and Roll Lifestyles. Just a bunch of vermin. re rock and roll lifestyle
I am one of them property owners and the next train car I see coming down it's getting derailed I'm going to do everything in my power to get this s*** shut down.
Thats badass!! What an absolute treasure to see an ababdoned line become reactivated again. Annnnd have freight service upon it. Too cool, just...... absolutely amazing! 💯
Nice to see a local railroad line reactivated after 4 years very scenic and photogenic with classic GP7 or GP9 . Hope customer gives rail line years of business
Once upon a coal heap - The corporations that once represented "the best that America had to offer" in technology and innovation, built things to last.... Now, they just build things to "break on cue" and be replaced at an alarming rate, while simultaneously blaming consumers for "destroying the planet"? You can't beat a machine that has outlived locomotives half its age that's for sure! Long may they run.💎
Am I somehow incorrect in that Real Toy Trains said "it hasn't moved for so long" and "look at it pulling hoppers," in reference to the loco? The loco wasn't unused for years, the line was.
Well, I must say, I am very happy to see this! Also, I am very happy to see how well 1701 runs after sitting for years. I'd reckon the tracks will need some maintenance very soon (it's a rock 'n roll line at the moment). 1701 looks/sounds like all it needs is a spot amount of body/paint work around the cab glass, and a couple of replacement battery box doors. Incredible running locomotive after sitting for so long. Once it burned the moisture out of the exhaust it didn't even smoke. Gee, whiz. What a great engine. Thanks so much for this video.
The plated over windows on the conductor side of the cab need to be opened up and good glass installed if not under the plating, otherwise the FRA will have something to say about it, probably a couple of other things too like the long hood ditch lights. She sounds great!
Love seeing dormant lines and locos reawaken! I often have dreams of the old Guilford line through Wakefield up to Danvers reopening but lots of it has been torn out now. :(
Somebody is unloading or loading flour just like I do for a living!! Hope the company transloading has a powerful blower cause those cars really need 14 psi!! On hot and humid days lol !! Looks to me some people put minds together to bring this line back to life. Congratulations!!. Lookimg forward to see alot more footage.
I grew up in Medfield. Moved away after college 35 years ago. This line abutted the neighborhood we lived in. Many fond memories of playing on those tracks as a kid.
Rural shortlines have always been my thing, so I love footage like this; excellent work. Stirs up some nostalgia in me. Weedy rights-of-way, ancient rolling stock, & trackage running through the absolute middle of swamp-ass nowhere are all aesthetic bonuses for me, lol. I grew up around the sights & sounds of the Winston-Salem Southbound ALCOA branch, Aberdeen Carolina Western, the Pee Dee River Railroad (with their orange Dreamsicle paint scheme) & my personal fave, the ex-Carolina Southern/Waccamaw Coast Line (currently RJ Corman Carolina Lines, thanks to whom it’s possible to see trains in Myrtle Beach again!). This is truly a gem of a video. There is also a section of military track near Wilmington, NC serving the Sunny Point ammo terminal downriver that remains the most curious/mysterious line I know of. The first chunk of trackage is almost arrow-straight, maybe 3-4 gentle curves in a couple dozen miles, until it enters the ammo terminal’s property. There, they’ve designed the rail layout to be as redundant & convoluted as possible (with over 60 miles of “disorganized” siding/yard trackage with the base’s confines) in order to foil aerial reconnaissance. I’ve only seen 2 trains in action there, both around the fever pitch of the Iraq & Afghan Wars, each carrying armed guards on 2 burgundy US Army cabooses - one right behind the power & one at the end. As fascinating as that line is, it’s a good sign when it’s quiet, lol.
Well, do we really know how long it's been since this locomotive ran? We know the line itself has been inactive, but the locomotive could have been in use somewhere else and relocated for this shunting job.
Nice job Mike. Last time I saw 1701 it was hauling trash on the cape main. Long time ago back when 8580 was roaming around as well. I got a great picture of 1052 when I was a little kid in the Middleboro yard back in the Conrail days.
What an absolutely fascinating video. I think there something hypnotic about watching the resurrection of a line and brining it back into revenue again. Here in the UK some lines are being resurrected again by putting business back on the tracks instead of having loads of trucks on the road.
cement by the carful means house building remodeling sidewalks,,matched up with water n mortar,for brick layers office bldg foundations poured,,how nice
Great video!!! As a train buff, I love to see this. We need more trains taking traffic off the highway, reducing carbon. I am a bit confused though... Many comments are about the locomotive coming back to life but that is not how it reads in the description. That's crazy that they would leave a serviceable locomotive sitting around just because there was no action on the line. Surprised kids didn't smash and spray paint it up.
No kidding on the smashing and spray painting. Cannot say the same for the abandoned Metra commuter cars and the two lone F units, not to mention the "graveyard spur" with hundreds of locomotives just gathering rust and slowly deteriorating.
Yes! OH god Yes! All I want to see on these vids is before rusty, then what happens to the rail after. Almost every vid I'm denied. It's like snow plowing vids where you see the plowing but not the freshly plowed ROW afterwards - like what's the point? LOL
Those are PD's (Pressure Differential) Hoppers and they can carry any type of powder load including various flours, chemical powders, and pharmaceutical bases. Lots of these car on the rails recently though
Google earth last photographed the old gp7 sitting off Dover Rd in August 2019, just sitting in the trees. Sort of sad, looked like an old forgotten car in the weeds.
That loco and that track look like old pals. Nice to see them regain some purpose, hopefully we will see more if people finally realize that having other countries make our stuff was a very bad plan.
When they were building the new power plant in Bellingham they moved heavy machinery over the Charles river trestle and completed the move over the road at night with a heavy haul trailer.
I grew up in needham and 1701 would pull grain cars from newton, through needham, (down mbta tracks) and through dover to where after that I donno. The last time I remember seeing it on that strech was the early mid 2000s.
@@johnajoyce ahh good to know thanks. That line went into newton highlands and then back over the charles and back into needham in the needham industrial park. I remember walking those rails in 05 and they were pretty rusted and overgrown. No idea when they had last been used.
thank you, Mike, for shooting, editing and posting this update on the line... great seeing a GP-7 at work in 2022! so the cars are left for the customer at the end of track? are there other potential or existing customers on the line?
They left the cars at the half way point on the line. The track continues into Millis near the town center but that hasn’t been used in some time. There are no existing customers on the line at this time.
Wish Indiana would save more RailRoads. The Rails to Trails has meant the end of many branch lines. Once torn out they never return! Cost and Red Tape!
How does the engine get behind the cars to shove them to the customer? I don't see a run around on google maps. Maybe it would be wise to invest in some batteries for those radio's so the engineer doesn't have to come out of the cab to see if the conductor is giving hand signals?!?!? No matter how they run the operation its awesome to see something operating again rather than the final run!
South Coast rail, great video. I hope BCLR Mills railroad, add another section of track. That's what makes a great railroad. I hope BCLR Mills railroad, is able to get federal funding from the government, and purchase more locomotives in the future, and more personnel.
We need more rail, not less. Heavier capacity, more economic, outside of the routine maintence of track and rolling stock. Very durable equipment. Point proven by this and many other small tracks and hobby trains operating long after being abandoned by the big railroads. Hopefully they can keep this old iron working.
I couldn't agree more. For some reason in the US (at least here in New England), we have decided that rail lines need to be torn up to put in walking/bike paths rather than make them viable again. It's ridiculous...
The paint Scheme on that locomotive bike it's a second-hand locomotive from the local Seminole Gulf railroad here down in Florida except for it being real lettered Bay Colony the paint Scheme is exactly the same if it's one of the Ancients I used to watch down here I am so glad that she's running up there and we need more rail not less small railroads get better customer service and large one when the Long Island Railroad had Freight Service they moved 8000 carloads a year when the New York and Atlantic took it over and gave customers good service their carloadings now are 37,000 carloadings a year the Transportation Authority is surprised that they have so many freight trains to deal with instead of so few like in the old days goddamn Henry Ford from making cheap cars
@@frankmarkovcijr5459 Yeah, the rail and sleepers are long overdue for upgrade. Track was probably last worked on in the 70's. Grew up on the old B&O mainline. Not railroader Myself. But a lot of the family has been since before the turn of the last century.
@@frankmarkovcijr5459 how about the tire companies and auto companies buying up street car lines in the late 40's and early 50's and shutting them down as "inefficient"!
Here in northern New Jersey there are a number of unused lines. The rail company has been methodically removing the wooden crossing bars from each of the gates. What's with that? Since these lines used to have very heavy usage (often, simultaneously, commuter and freight) they were very well maintained. No clickity-clack track up here.... Our abandoned rails are straight and strong. It sure would be nice to see trains running over them again! Thank you for this terrific video!!!!
something I have wondered about abandoned rail lines, I wonder if RRs have ever come to reactivate one that was say 30-50 years old and have come to find rail sections missing or new roads just bulldozed across the ROW.
Yes. The Housatonic RR in Western MA and CT had several pieces of rail stolen during the 10-12 years it was unused. That was near the New Milford end of the first segment the HRR was opening up.
Thats so awesome!!!! We built the best engines in the world!! That should be a stark reminder the great men who built these things to last and go to hell and back!!! Amazing were on tier 4 diesels and they dont run as well and dont last as long!!! Just simply amazing really is. Thanks for a great video, More old school please kind sir!!!!
Why is this locomotive running through the old rail line? Im just curious! I would hope production and services are improving in that part of the town.
Where do they store the engine? Is this the 1st time Tresca has had concrete delivered? Makes more scense than going to Boston to pick it up. Great to see. Any other prospective customers?
They store it right at the track where it runs by the medfield animal shelter and sweage treatment plant, as shown in the vid. Its been stored there for 7 or 8 years now.
As I recall, the boards were to protect the glass from punks while the engine sat idle for years. There were boards over all the windows until they just now reactivated the line and locomotive. Apparently, they did not even bother to remove all the boards........... I'm just glad to see it moving again.