Thank you! A trip down memory lane! I lived in New London near many of the scenes filmed here. The Thames River Railway Bridge completely under appreciated and over shadowed by the big interstate Gold star bridge
At the time it was filmed this was the Central Vermont Palmer Sub division. Working in New London allowed for a lot of footage of the East New London Yard.
Glad I finally made the time to watch this (it was sitting in my Saved list too long!). I wasn’t aware of the P&W push-pull freight trains. That’s neat. Was that a common P&W practice? Certainly, something I want to learn more about. Thank you for continuing to share these films.
@@Saint2558 Do you mean here having a P&W local freight, with locomotives 🚂 on both end (two engineers and one conductor)? I one day such an operation, with a "local," going south from Worcester, serving all of the customers on the line, regardless of the direction the customer's switch points on their spur sidings. (The rear engine shoved the entire cut of freight cars in, coupled on to a lone boxcar, picking it up, and then, re-coupled the train onto the front engine, then headed south.) I also saw this same train returning to Worcester, even noted that boxcar they picked up at the customer's siding earlier, the one that the (formerly) rear locomotive picked up.
Wish subtitles were included in vid so we'd know where we are and what is occurring... Tho 22:53 is obviously the removal of snow from switch points, et al....
Looks like the Montrealer at 19:49? Unsure of the location but looks like New London. Also this is pre-electrification of the shoreline route so nice seeing footage of the old F-40s on the eastbound train.
That Providence and Worcester engine number 2002 what model Alco diesel is that? The one at the beginning of the video assisting General Electric Red and white Uboat U18B number 1801
Yes! I do vaguely remember that, the Providence and Worcester Railroad opted to purchase five MLW M420R's from Montreal Locomotive Works, supposedly citing (so I was told by a late friend, anyway) that our two US locomotives manufacturers seemed to show no interest in helping out the P&W back then. One will note the location of the front headlight of an M420R, being located off centered on the wide nosed comfort cab.
@@williamh.jarvis6795 The story about EMD and GE not wanting to deal with P&W sounds familiar. Supposedly the MLW order was the only Alco designed locomotives sold to a US railroad after the Schenectady plant closed. I also believe that the P&W M420 fleet was somewhat different than other M420s because of using more reconditioned parts off of traded in RS3s.
