The first freight on the Utica Branch finally happened since 2006 on June 12th, 2018. In 2006 the Utica Branch was wiped out after flooding hit rendering the line unusable from Sangerfield to Chenango Forks.
You take 206 west over the Chenango River, and the street splits and it is like you traveled back to the 1940s These little towns were all self contained and the downtown had the parking diagonally in the middle of the street and all the stores lined the blocks in the middle of town And at Christmas time the town would have all the decorations on that main Center of town and all the stores would be lit up with decorations in the windows and it was so beautiful and peaceful Back around 2008 I drove down to Pennsylvania and I came back up 476 and up 81 which is just a beautiful drive over the mountain and it's so rural and it's just a wonderful drive and I went through Binghamton and I stayed at one of the motels about an hour north of Binghamton and I left around midnight to drive back up to Saratoga and I took 206 from Whitney point up and down the hills and mountains till I got to i-88 and the snow on all of the fields and hills and the moonlight reflecting as I drove 206 was so beautiful and driving 88 I didn't see another car for 2 hours and the moonlight reflected off of those giant mountains that look like gumdrops and I cried it was so beautiful You just don't see peaceful quiet rural places like that anymore and having that much beauty and that much silence just driving without even the radio on it felt the way it must have felt back in the 1800s before there was electricity and you could see just from the moonlight and the stars were so bright and it was so quiet I wish I was well enough that I could travel just for day trips to go to places like this like I used to and just enjoy the countryside I'm so sad that I'm sick and bedridden I can't do anything and some days I'm too sick to even pick up my cell phone or watch TV from bed I tell everyone to do the things you want to do now because you never know when something like this could happen to you I regret not being able to do so many things and I shouldn't have put them off
@@Dutch3DMaster I couldn't resist that comment. :) Speaking of branches, I had the opportunity to ride in the cab of an engine over a short branch line many years ago. It was a branch line in more ways than one because in some places you had to duck away from the cab window. Tree branches were so close they'd poke through the window and hit you in the face as the engine passed by, if you weren't watching out.
lake village Arkansas railroad is also no longer abandoned!. it is up and running again. old tracks ripped up and new ties and tracks put in, old bridges torn down and rebuilt. and freight is now rolling again
I've been watching this branch for years, including the original flood, the proposal to bring it back, the work, and finally, the re-opening. The tracks look quite good. I wonder if they will eventually increase the speed. Interesting to note that the NYS&W still list the tracks of out of service on their website. Anyway, as far as I know, they have no customers on the re-opened line.
I love the geeps and the older SD's. So here's the history on 2782: Built in July of 1978, 2782 is an ex Conrail diesel, and as stated in your video, is a GP38-2
Wonder why the trip points for the crossings are so close to the gates that the gates don't have time to get fully down before the train crosses the road.
If I'm not mistaken, I think the sensors detect vibration in order to activate the lights. Hence why it's completely possible for the lights to literally go off last second if a train is going slow enough.
@@Seriona1 vibration?? No its a track circuit. The axle acts as a breaker and sends the current from one rail to the other in the circuit and activates the signals. Many also have a timing circuit so the signal activates at the right time to match the train speed and thus slow means closer to the street
The crossing in Greene, right before the street becomes 2 streets with the center area like towns had in the 30s,40s, and 50s, that is a part of history I wish people would film a movie there It is beautiful Also a fabulous location for a train video, but trains don't run there any more
In April 2014 the UP line that runs through my hometown was damaged by the tornado that hit Mayflower AR. There were no trains for up to a week after the tornado.
.many trains went through North Brookfield in the 5os a fellow named Maurice Hindus came here from NYC to work on a farm and went to Colgate by bicycle in early 1900s and wrote many books about Russia his homeland. He came from NYC on the dlw rr. This line was upgraded a few years ago and should be used for excursions for tourism to central N.Y. and a link to Adirondacks. Their is a line to Binghamton from NYC where tourists could get a great connection to upstate and nice scenery on way. Shame to have line be idle and be just a place to store tank cars when it could be put to a profitable line. Much history along this line from Loomis gang back to utica to Binghamton Canal. Maybe someone will come up with a good program to make something like this possible.
I think train went through North Brookfield about 4 or 5 times a day in early 1950s. A lot of coal cars heading north in late summer and fall. A lot cheaper to haul by train.
CSX has a nasty habit of of over charging their customers and then nickel and dime-ing them to the point the customer cancels all service and has trucks in and out instead of the train.....
If the NYS&W was able to pick up a regular customer or two between Sherburne and Chenango Forks, that'd be great! Of course, NY's taxes and business climate aren't the friendliest in the world - that doesn't help.
Why US cops are so fat ? I think you have to go to Mexico to find as fat. Nice video, all the times a pleasure to see a revived line ! The track seems in good condition. Jacques, from France.
It’s not all the cops. Just a select few. Most departments now have a fitness requirement that they must maintain or be released. Some small departments have a hard time finding qualified help and take what they can get.
My country has had parts of the railroad network built to American standards, and the crossings have been as well. If the regular contact for closing a crossing is not working due to a malfunction there tends to be a contact right before the crossing that a train needs to crouch up to, drive over it, activate the crossing, wait for everything to go down, sound the horn in a hi-lo fashion, wait again, sound the horn hi-low again and drive over at walking speed. At times, when people do not notice a malfunction but also are so sucked into their phones (or when car drivers stopped having the habit of looking left and right when nearing a railroadcrossing) it can happen that someone passes a railroadcrossing only to then have their peripheral vision spot a train pretty much on the crossing and give them a jumpscare.
Not fully sure what the mechanisms (electrically and/or physically) are in the US, but since a part of the Dutch railraod system has been built to American standards as part of restoration efforts by soldiers who stayed after World War 2, we have the same type of "last-effort" contacts for railroad crossings. They typically are used during malfunctions when the earlier contacts are not working. Trains (also those in regular service, not just those on reopened lines) will have to crouch up to that contact, wait for the crossing to close, sound their horn hi-lo, wait, hi-lo again and cross at walking speed. I'd say the signals on the route for closing a crossing in the regular way were malfunctioning and we were seeing the "in case of problems" type of activation part.
Yawn ...😴 in each normal country they first inspect the line and restore the level crossings, then passes a train at reasonable speed. who needs a train running slower 🐌than a old man in bicycle and a railway that needs the police. There will be fast🚅 HST 🚆railways in 🇧🇫 Burkina Faso long before USA🗽dynosaur🦕