Great video! I really enjoy the way you cover branchlines in your area. Really like some of the telephoto shots especially the night one. I also appreciate the graphics with location info. Keep up the good work.
Wow! I got 50-year-old Lionel train track in better condition than that! I was wondering how DBS got their shipments! Nice to see active sidings! Wish they would rebuild the one out to Gold Medal Bakery on Bay Road.
Very expensive equipment going over this track is nuts.need to replace some ties too get more track stability. Looks like if they went faster,they would tip over from the rocking.
It's really not as bad as it looks. The BCLR track supervisor there considered it 'ugly track, not bad track'. It does meet FRA Excepted track standards which in reality means that as long as it holds the guage it's ok to use at 10 MPH.
Surely, the track appears not much different from that of the Napoleon, Defiance and Western Railroad, in its beginnings of operations. Watch one of the earlier videos of them. (Yeah! I understand that telephotography of railroad tracks will highlight horrendous any track conditions.) Supposedly, that track is former Maumee Route trackage and was built across swampland. The ND&W is making headway as to getting their tracks upgraded, little by little, but, with some effort and incentive to thrive.
EXACTLY... and for what it's worth, the track seen here certainly could use work but it's not that bad... like you said, there IS worse out there... WAY worse
I believe some track replacement is needed on this stretch of line! If I was the conductor or engineer,I think probably would have to puke at some point! If the old Reed rd. crossing has signals,time to get them working!
@@alwhalen3488 yea that's weird! Always liked watching bay colony but atleast they're still running the line. Looking for more landish industrial park videos....I enjoy them too! 👍👍👍👍
Wow, I'd say MC NEEDS to do a track rehabilitation project on those tracks! (Those freight engines and cars displayed the "rocking" that most train videos from the 1970's had shown) These tracks look almost as bad as the Milwaukee Road's tracks, just before they went bankrupt in 1977. Do these tracks on the Watuppa Branch still have the New Haven's 107 Pound rail? I know the crossings have heavier rail, as there's "compromise bars" joining the lighter rail to the heavier rails.
@@alwhalen3488 Thanks Al, I thought the crossings had probably 115 Pound rail. (I didn't know there's "compromise bars" for 100 - 132 rail or 107 - 132) In my neck of the woods, the rail line has mainly 115 rail, with the oldest sections still with the B&O's 100 pound rail from the 1930's or early '40s. The most recently installed tracks are with 132 "Ribbon Rail".
It just got upgraded to LED lights, a new cantilever and a second bell about a week before MC took over. Not a busy enough street or rail line to warrant gates.
How do those tracks get to be in such a state of disrepair? Whose job is it to maintain them. Can't believe this is the 21st century and we have railroads looking like they were laid in the civil war era.
Depends. Railroad if owned by them. If leasing from state, they might have to pay for it. Could be railroad would have to get FRA loans to upgrade track, pay it back
Its simple. When you are delivering 10- 20 cars a week ( guessing ) your railroad can NOT be a 70 mph high speed carrier. You can still work at 10 mph.
