HOW RAILROADS WORK Ep. 8: Albany, NY 

keep them coming great work

Lived in Albany for 23 yers. Spent many a summer weekend at the track. This video is really a fun trip back in time. WONDERFUL!!!!

Loved going on the road trip with you. I even followed on Google Earth. I can't wait till the next one. Excellent video.

enjoyed your video. i worked for Amtrak for nearly 27 years as a Car-Inspector. the passenger cars shown in the video are the same ones i worked on in the 70's, 80's, & 90's! it's a good thing they were made well to last all these years.

OUTSTANDING!!!

Great video AC im still waiting for the 8105 im commited!

Awesome job

I love it when you go on these road trips. Awesome video!

awesome video. very cool. cool music. sweet EMD's & GE's nice.

Hi AC, I am a live log resident of the Capital District of New York (Albany, Schenectady and Troy) I have lived in the Schenectady area since 1962. At time 3:39 of this video showing the Amtrak station which is the Schenectady station and it is serviced by the CSX Albany-Schenectady branch line and the CP Canadian main, NOT NS trackage. Just a half mile north of this station is where Alco was located. We had several neighbors who worked at Alco. The Rivers Casino now occupies the Alco site, but out in front of the Casino is Schenectady Steel and their lone building is the last remaining building of the Alco works. As a boy I would see rows upon rows of new locomotives, and vintage steam stock, sitting in the yard which has now become the casino complex. NS leases track rights from CP from Binghamton, NY through Schenectady and onto the shared CP/NS intermodal yard in Mechanicville, NY. It is at this point where NS gains access to Pan Am to continue on to their intermodal yard in Ayer, Ma. via the Hoosac Tunnel and Pan Am's East Deerfield yard. NS and Pan Am jointly own the road from Mechanicville to Ayer and that section of Pan Am can truly be classified as Class 1. The old NY Central (CSX), The D & H (CP) and Boston and Maine (Pan Am) all traveled through and have facilities in Schenectady County. Schenectady more so than Albany was the hub. Now CSX's (NY Central) northeast hub is located at the Selkirk Yard south of Albany which is another rail corridor into New England. However NS's traffic to Ayer, to serve the Boston area, travels through Schenectady on CP to Pan Am at Mechanicville. NS has actually significantly cut into CSX's intermodal business via this route. Also the Hoosac Tunnel cannot accommodate double stacked intermodal traffic therefore most of their intermodal traffic heading to Ayer comes through Schenectady already fileted. Incidentally the tracks heading off to the left on the north end of the Schenectady station crosses the Mohawk River a half a mile beyond into Scotia. This is a continuation of the CSX (NY Central) Albany-Schenectady branch that links up with CSX (NYC) main east west between Scotia and Amsterdam, NY. NY Central also had a Mohawk Yard on this branch in Scotia and it was linked to CP (D & H) Mohawk Yard via a 1.5 mile spur. The CP (D & H) Binghamton Main passes alongside the GE Schenectady works and the D & H and NYC both shared track rights on this section because there was another spur off of that main line over to CSX (NYC) yard in Rotterdam where the RailEx facility is today. So yes Schenectady more so than Albany was the true hub.

I agree with cprs5000,my idea of music is sitting inside with the prime mover,with no hearing protection.

Your music 🎶 in the beginning is intoxicating jazzzz & trains!

Great Video! Can't wait for the Selkirk edition! I'll be heading there for a couple days in a couple weeks

good video FYI on the pan am train the second loco was an SD45 :)

Great video..I particularly liked the Pan Am,since i live in Western Mass i see a lot of them from my living room window! along with the Vermonter. the East Deerfield yard is a great place to rail fan. I live not to far from there and the Berkshire sub division of CSX and the their Rail yard.

Great video! Would like to see you come back and do the Selkirk yard and also NS Mechanicville.. it used to be in Albany port but moved. Major point between Bingo and Ayer

You should be giving lessons to the other railfans who post videos here!!!!!....They could learn how to make there's more interesting......Does CP still have a presents in NY state.and if they do how large is it?......Just wondering because I'm a CP fan.

great video again sir

Awesome videos Trains21. how about instead of Horseshoe how about either Cove or Pittsburgh bub. You do Fantastic work my friend

Good Video. A good overview of freight and passenger railroading in the NY Capital District. Also enjoyed the driving portion. Driving around up there you get the sense that you have stepped back into America's past. With the exception of modern automobiles, many of those neighborhoods look the same now as they would have back in the 1930s and 1940s. While that area has lost manufacturing jobs there are enough jobs in state government, education, health care, technology and service industries to keep that area going so there will never be a complete emptying out however there are more younger people moving away from there than settling there.

Awesome video! Is Albany more worth a trip than Bingo?

seen all the major engines on the class 1 tier except 1 and i seen it in Davenport IA 2 CP Engines on Thurs. of last week that was the only engine i have never seen

hi I like your videos full narration and no music would be much better I live in Albany unfortunately do to lower gas prices Kenwood yard is not very busy at all and unfortunately the bridge at Selkirk has been taking them out railfanning CP rail system is a trickle of business good videos keep on coming

got a heritage unit this morning conrail 8098

i'd say that signal tripped late

So, I gather that NS took over the old Boston/Albany trackage from Conrail. Do they follow the old D&H route to PA? PanAm is old Guilford routes correct? Did you go to the old ALCO/GE site when in Schenectady? Selkirk?

PLEASE get rid of the Music I like watching trains not going to the concert hall. And Yes your are very good just drop the music please.