THIS RESTORED EMD FP7A LOCOMOTIVE IS BACK IN SERVICE! (2020) | Jason Asselin 

The EMD F-series locomotive is such an American classic railroad icon! So elegantly simple, clean and graceful -- beauties to behold, so easy to look at. Long may they roll!

Just love those 1st generation diesels. Love the oldschool style......it had class!

Seeing the ex-Conrail locomotive in its original paint is almost as cool.

I knew her when she was the 96A. I was there when she came into the Janesville WI roundhouse for the first time. One of her Milwaukee Road heralds hangs in my basement stairwell. SO GLAD to see her running again !!!

Now I never thought I'd see the day that an old F-Unit was put back into full-time service and not just for excursions or static museum displays. This is definitely how these tough old bulldogs should be used.

wow! an F unit pulling freight with a GP38 and an SD40-2 in the year 2020!

Oh Man! I haven't seen a locomotive like that since probably the late 70's or early 80's! Thank you for being such a dedicated Railfan!

Watching from Ireland Jason where 18 GM 44 year old JT22CW locomotives are the powerhouse of our freight trains today. They were built in 1976 and powered intercity passenger trains at 90 mph for their first 30 years and continue to work on special occasions at that speed. They are all re-engined and refurbished by Irish Rail and in ex works condition. Keep up your great work and fascinating coverage from your home territory.

Ah.. The natural beauty of well maintained classic hardware.

That was very kool 👍👌 and thanks for taking the time to show us...

Love that 567 chug in the last clip! Gave EMD's F-units a charm that no other EMD engine has!

The old F7 looks wonderful. Thanks for taking the trouble to film her.

If i had to stop my car and wait for this great american treasure to go by,i wouldn't mind at all,just be patient and marvel at this spectacular marvel.

Superb shots ! 👍

E and F 7,8 & 9 are the most beautiful locos ever made.

Back when locomotives had style. Thanks for posting.

the E&LS continues their fine tradition of refurbishing and running "Antique" locomotives 👏 _ Then they Hate that people love their work & want to see 'em

Great o see na dold F-7 in such fine shape and colorful. Also, it's wonderful to see the SD-40's in Conrail and IC regalia.

Back in the late 50s I would go with my Grandma & grandpa t0 chaining from the Iron Rive area to pick up there friend coming up from Chicago !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I remember that type of engine !

I do believe those F units were the most beautiful locomotives ever made, period!

I grew up near Buffalo, N.Y. and seen a LOT of F and E units on a bunch of railroads, last one seen around 1978, man I sure miss seeing them, and of course I have many models of them, I'm 60 years old and what a beautiful sight to experience them in person...

Damn that last pass with the hogger working the throttle. Sound of that normally asperated prime mover took me back to lying in bed in my boyhood home on a summer evening and hearing the last commuter trains of the day come off the power for for their station stop and then winding it out for the grade outside of town.

This is wonderful!at last!one of them is still running!I REMEMBER when they first built them back in 1958.i was a young kid them .but I remember seeing these beauties in service when I went to Atlanta, georgia.there, Atlantic coast line had bought some of these locomotives from Emd now, I can hear the sound of this special girl in action, once again. I pray that they keep her healthy and in tiptop mechanical condition for a long time. What a beautiful locomotive she is.

I think the EMD F-units were the best looking locomotives ever. My uncle drove F7's right as they were being retired at BN.

In the UK that snow would bring our rail network completely to a standstill. 😄and what's more we accept it, oh well that's the UK for you.

I enjoy your vids of American railroads, I'm a retired Gulf / Afghanistan vet, UK armed forces. Cheers from England 👍👍🇬🇧🇬🇧🇺🇸🇺🇸

Watching in Russia, Saint-Petersburg. What a clean snow you have there, and the FP7 is just awesome. Got that "oh f@%k" feeling at 3:00, but generally enjoyed.

Nice footage Jason! The EMD F series with bulldog nose are my favourite diesel locomotives. Thank you. Bernardo from Ponta Grossa-Paraná-Brazil

I had the opportunity several years back to ride in the cab of the 600 when it was on the WSOR. Nice to see it polishing rails again.

I love those old American streamline locos and I'm watching from the UK! It looks to me like you guys use your railways the way we used to, for hauling freight. Best way to move big loads over long distances.

watching form Melbourne Australia , gm F type locos are still on the rails here

Oh, the whine of that loco in that last clip at 8:30 brought back childhood memories (60+ years ago). Those FP7's were used by Canadian Pacific in Montreal on the commuter trains to the west island. We lived close enough to the tracks to hear them pulling out of Westmount station, and my brother and I would often go down to the station just to watch the trains. Those were the days. Thanks.

Wow, that horn is kinda scary but the locomotive is AMAZING!!!!

F7’s are my all time fave. Wish that engines still looked like that today.

Awesome! It's great to see vintage diesels earning money instead of being scrapped.

Just watched the video and loved seeing the old FP7A unit at work. The Ontario Northland railway had 22 of the FP7A units and they used them in freight and passenger service. In 1978 they sold some of them to GO Transit in Toronto and the remainder stayed in service. They were the 1500 series units. Some of them were switched to the Northlander service and renumbered 1984 to 1987. They ran on this service until the 1990s where they were either scrapped or renumbered back into the 1500 series numbers (Originally it was 1500-1521). Three of the units were rebuilt with caterpiller engines and used in freight service only and numbered 2000-2002. They ran for a few years until finally retired. No units are in service currently, But they were awesome engines.

Great content I´m loving this! I´m in Sweden and love these old american locomotives! They knew how to build them :) Keep them coming I´d be back for more !!

New Yorker here. Rumor has it the E&LS also still has the last surviving set of Delaware & Hudson BLW 'Sharks' locked up in a shed in one of their yards. Would be a real treat to see them running again.

Awesome video! Very few places these days to see an F unit leading a freight train.

Age has nothing on such a wonderful beautiful locomotive. From the UK

Seeing an f unit plowing snow with it’s cowcatchher/plow is so cool

Its actually really interesting seeing an FP7 in modern day looking so nice AND leading some hood units which would have come out years after that FP7 was made. Great video by the way!

Great chase! Some excellent captures. Nothing like seeing a pristine F-unit plowing through the snow. And the bonus: the ex-Conrail Geep! Fine video! Keep ‘em coming!

Nice video. Good to see the old girl towing strong. The other two engines were DIT. Maybe it was a power mover or back up plan.

I have one in O SCALE given to me by my aunt for Christmas in 1958 when I was 3.

Something about F-units and the snow go really well together. I can't believe the idiot who decided he was too tough to wait for a train, that's the exact same kind of driver you see doing 120 kph on the highway while it's freezing rain out.

Thanks for posting this. Those EMDs was the power, mixed with a few of the left over steamers, when I was a kid. Seeing this brings back the days when we lived three houses down from the T&P mainline and as kids all of us just had to watch every train that came by.

LAST I SAW ONE OF THEM I WAS 5 YEARS OLD ON THE GREAT NORTHERN FROM NY TO GRENORA N.D.. THAT WAS 65 YEARS AGO. I WILL NEVER FORGET THE SLEEPER CAR AND DINING CAR. ON A BIG CURVE I COULD SEE THE ENGINES. I STILL HAVE THE MENU CARDS AND LIST OF STOPS. AT THE END MY MOM GAVE THE PORTER A $5.00 TIP. WOW!!

unreal dummy runny that crossing nice vintage emd fp7

Wow that's awesome mate, retro looking loco it's quite beautiful makes a good sound too! It's pretty cool to see the differences in the railways between the US and the UK where I am from.

Great video, Jason. That is one beautiful and LOUD cab unit. Watching around 5.10 watch those cars rock and roll no wonder they have derailments. I think they travel too fast for the quality if the roadbed. Keep 'em coming, try to catch this one again.

Looks a lot like the trainset I had as a kid in the 70s cept mine were the warbonnet style pain scheme. Had a blue one and a red one. I recall it looked like this though a good bit and had vents at the top. Was a HO or O scale Lionel. Had the 3 track type.

Brad from Appleton Wisconsin. Thanks for sharing Jason. The only other train that I know that looks like that is the Great Wisconsin Railroad dinner train up in Spooner Wisconsin. Neat to see those old EMD's!

Let's see ,The last time I saw the engine was in the 50's when it was on the Milwaukee road as the Hiawatha going from Chicago to California. I lived in Chicago Montclare area which was around Grand ave and Harlem and the train would fly by at a high rate of speed ! Steam locomotives were slowly being phased out the train was going so fast you didn't want to stand close because it would suck you in !Hello from Mchenry Illinois !

thank you Jason, for a short line railroad to restore and run a 70 year old loco is impressive. Fine loco and a geat paint job. I am from scotland and I love to see USA restoration jobs done well. Great filming, keep it up

Nice one, Jason. Glad to see her back.

Woah. That horn though. And the snow plow.

she is the one in my youth that scared me off the tracks. with her slanted eyes and swaying lamp. there engine makes perfect music..

The rails out there need replacements. I thought the train was going to fall over. And the one pickup truck was a moron. I’m in Fall River, Ma. Have a great weekend!👍🏻🚂

That is such a beautiful combination of locomotives to watch you are so lucky!! Thanks for sharing!!!

Its real nice to see an EMD FP7 hauling freight, especially railcars loaded with logs. I love the work and upgrade thats gone into it and that there are guys who like the early Fifties EMDs. Until now I thought i was the only one. All my life I lived close to railways. Right now I live close to a Canadian Pacific line here in London, province of Ontario, Canada(70 miles east of Port Huron Mi). I sure appreciate your video efforts.

Vintage Diesels are really the only Diesels that do anything for me. Wish EMD and GE would bring carbody style Locomotives back. Modern Motive power is either boring to look at or is ugly as sin. Great video, love the horn!

Fantastic video. Had to hit the thumbs up AND the subscribe button because of this video. A proper F unit horn sounds like a tug boat horn. Why do I say that? Because my childhood was spent growing up next to the CGW in a suburb of Chi. with F units running by all the time until the CNW took over in 1968 but...who cares....seeing an F unit running in 2020?! is fantastic! As for that errant driver.....there's a saying I like - "you can't fix stupid"😕

I remember them from my youth and think they look so much better . And thanks from the middle of West Virginia . At Home .🎺🎺🎺🎺🎺🎺🎺🔯🔯🕎🕎✝️✝️🕉🕉🌑🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🏔🔯🐅🐅

Great seeig a rail classic still in service. Richmond, VA

I like that old conrail engine. That's the engine, & railroad growing up, here in central Ohio👍😃

Excellent catch! My favorite vintage diesel engine :) And by the old Iron Mountain, Mi train station too! woooohoooo!! :)

Awesome vid Jason! ELS 600 in so frickin cool! That crossing runner was soooo close to disaster. Thankfully nothing happened and that pretty engine was not damaged. Mega horn blast!!

Love your videos :) they are the only videos I watch until they are done :)

She is a classic. I always liked that look.

Props to you for calling that truck driver what he is. Just bought a P7 Locomotive poster at a model train show so im happy to see one running.

I loved seeing this locomotive of my youth. In Canada, this loco would pull freight and passenger trains.

Nice photography! Love those F-units, special place in heaven for those who restore them and keep them running!

It's incredible to me that there are still locomotives bearing the Conrail livery.

Western Indiana here. That paint scheme reminds me of the Wisconsin and Southern. Great to see this old EMD veteran out doing what she was built for.........moving trains.

Ex-Milwaukee line, ex-Milwaukee locomotive doesn't get any better! Thanks again for the chase!

The old girl still has it! I sure wish I had all that wood to burn :) Thanks J nice vid

From what I can tell 6 are still operational in Australia. The GM class and the S class. There are a lot stored in decent condition as well.

Love that old 600. The best of the days gone by. Keep up with the old girl Jason

Pulling Freight, EMD E/F units pulling freight looks cool.

Three very nice engines, and yes there is a lot of ignorant people all over the US of a that think that they can outrun a train at the Crossing. Jason I love your videos keep it up

Holy crap, WSOR 101 (MILW 32A) has a little sister!

I love how the 'Old Guy' gets to go up front.

Great Video!!! That guy has a death wish crossing the railroad tracks. Never know where the train is coming through.

Nothing can last forever. Except locomotives.

I love seeing these old F series locomotives running. I always wondered why they got rid of that design as it is obviously more streamlined. And to be honest about it...prettier or would that be much more HANDSOME... Thank you for posting this. I was a train fan when I was much younger and we would always be on the lookout for interesting trains. Got to run next the Daylight steamer. Lordy seeing it going 60+ mph going up the CA coast and those wheels just in a blur with the pistons. WOW. Saw it run twice. Then I went East to meet the inlaws for the first time and one of my goals was to get to the train museum in PA to see some old locos but mostly I wanted to see a live GG1. And this was the most incredible thing. We caught the commuter from downtown and when we got to our destination you would not believe what was on the track next to us. There people taking pictures and they were saying it was the last run of any GG1. I almost yelled something stupid like WHOOPPEE or YAHOOO. But I kept my cool was opening my suitcase to get my camera out and got it out just in time to take two pictures before it was gone. THIS was about 1982 if memory serves me correctly. It wasn't in Penn livery just black but made the whole trip worth it. They didn't particularly care for me.Except grandma she was a doll and said I was just wahat Janet needed someone ten years older and settled. Anyway it worked as Janet loved to take trains too. Took her up to Seattle in the Amtrak Daylight. To Vegas for her 21st birthday almost a year after we met and regularly took it to San Diego and after we moved there took it from S.D to Santa Barbara to my folks place. We used to go to Griffith park with my son to rid the small scale steam engines. BUT after the GG1 my biggest trail thrill was when the pulled the BIG BOY out of static display in Pomona and it was here in Vegas for 2 days and took a ton of pics THEN IT CAME BACK FIVE YEARS LATER in running condition and got great video of it as did a whole lot of others. I miss the days of going out on occasion and seeing trains and train get togethers and riding trains. Still have my HO trains too. My son was into trains as well but not as much as we were. I had hoped to leave him my train sets but when he passed that ...well.. ANYWAY sorry for getting to long but this was really cool to see. And it just brought back some great memories. THANKs again for posting.

Wonderful sight seeing such an old and well maintained unit still in revenue service in 2020, and adding in the snow coating and that engine still in old CR paint makes a lovely video.

I live in Tiffin, Ohio and I belong to a Tourist Railroad that uses a 1950 E8A . We run are train in Lorain County!

Lots of great shots of the vintage EMD FP7 passing through the snow. You did get an awesome view from the top of your truck at 6:55. Love from London.

That was a great video. The EMD F-series will always be my first thought of what a diesel was in the golden age of railroading.. That was the time when people came to the depot for the twice weekly local for their LCL freight. My home state of Iowa has lost almost 80% of its railroad tracks, ripped up forever. In the 1930's to 1950's, there were very few places in Iowa that were more that 7 miles from an railroad agency station, Now there exists whole blocks of counties with no railroad service. NE Nebraska, NW Missouri and SW Wisconsin are even worse, The railroad companies no longer want to service industries and have made sure they dried up their business through poor customer service and poor erratic delivery. It makes me sad every time I see an abandoned grade and think about what used to be.

That's a good looking locomotive

Nice to see a proper loco still at work! We have a few elderly locomotives that still run here in UK but they're mostly working on heritage lines. That guy in the pick up truck would never have known what hit him as they were really motoring across the crossing. Thanks for another great video. Looks like you had plenty of snow over there this winter.

I'm thinking the guy in the pickup that ran the signals was a Red Wing fan. Probably late to his favorite watering hole to watch them lose again.

Love this ol loco! Watching from Tver state, Russia. We have similar nature. Wisconsin and Minnesota are my favourite states.

I remember EMD's like that pulling the Milw. Road Passenger trains past my home. Everyday I had to ride a bus from Merriman to Quinnesec grade school. When I was in the 6th grade, we got to ride the passenger train from Quinnesec to Wausaukee, Wi. there to be picked up by buses and brought back to Quinnesec. Like a class trip/outing. One of the cooler things that we got to do in those days.

I used to work on Milwaukee Road 96C!!! She’s still alive (needs restored) but on display for a different owner now!

I always loved the F units. especially the Santa Fe SuperChief

Never mind the Pyramids, I think these EMD FP7s will last forever! 👍 😎

Amazing to see an F-Unit run revenue freight service again!

Great Job Jason. That FP7 is sure a sleek looking machine.