PREX 105 in Gettysburg livery and PREX 1603 team up to pull a large cut of boxcars in Woodburn Indiana. The line is the Napoleon Defiance and Western Railway ( ND&W ) , formerly the Maumee and Western ( MAW )
They are making progress. Even putting in ballast in places. Still no major rail replacement. The best way to see the changes is to watch a video from the same location 3-4 years ago
Hi there. Are there any videos covering the work they do on their track? I'd like to see the MOW at work pulling out these rotten ties and ballasting the areas they've worked on. Do you think you can get some of that on video yourself Sir?
The track is improving and the line still has business, so NW Ohio is still employing people. Busy trains mean jobs for people. Good to see. It still is amazing that the line through Napoleon is swampy and sinks while the parallel water level route through Archbold is on firm ground and is high speed. I guess in the mid 1800s there probably were no geological survey maps to help design railroad routes.
Excellent video. Reminds me of the yard operations I watched many years ago. We would visit a house close to tracks, and I'd sometimes get front a row seat of coming and going trains.
The first scene they were pulling loads off NS . They left 1603 and those cars at the east end of Woodburn on the siding. Then 105 shoved the cars going back to NS that were on the main
