ALCO Heaven, a Day on The Delaware Lackawanna

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ALCO Heaven, a Day on The Delaware Lackawanna

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Scranton Pennsylvania has been well known for Steamtown, but it's also well known for the large amount of ALCO's that roam around the Delaware Lackawanna Railroad, giving Scranton the nickname of ALCO Heaven. Aside from the DL, the NS/CP runs through to Binghamton NY, the Reading and Northern is nearby, and Steamtown also offers many unique displays and their steam train ride. Our main focus of this visit was the Delaware Lackawanna and their operations in the area.

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@ronniefarnsworth6465 4 жыл бұрын

Loving these PA/NY short lines that are keeping these Great Alco designed locomotives alive and well !! 👍

@patrickhuot001 11 ай бұрын

Pennsylvania and New York State are safe havens for railroads with exclusively ALCO/MLW locomotive fleets.

@railwaybikers 4 жыл бұрын

That is awesome !! ALCO always will be a true beauty.Good spottings.

@graemeacourt7871 4 жыл бұрын

Fantastic sounds they make

@ernestpassaro9663 3 жыл бұрын

Old alcos are still making their owners money after all those years amazing !

@mta224 4 жыл бұрын

Awesome;great scenery as usual.

@bakerboat4572 4 жыл бұрын

2:54 The large drop in noise from gurgling throttle to a soft idle only just louder than ambient noise confirms for me the belief of lower noise pollution from Alcos

@briannorwell202 2 жыл бұрын

To bad about the air pollution...then again a long idling GP9 can hold its own in the smoke category

@bakerboat4572 2 жыл бұрын

@@briannorwell202 Alco's don't pollute more. They run cleaner with their fuel, but it is an ironic phenomenon that they smoke up with turbo lag.

@shawnpowell5876 2 жыл бұрын

Love the short line railroads especially being pulled by ALCO LOCOMOTIVES

@jvb2095 4 жыл бұрын

Nice catch man

@trainknut 3 жыл бұрын

The American Locomotive Company may have ceased to exist as a company in 1971, however I truly believe it's legacy will live on thru all the ALCOs on the rails today, from RS3s to Centuries, from FAs to 4-8-8-4's, there will always be an ALCO out there, somewhere, at least for the foreseeable future.

@williamh.jarvis6795 2 жыл бұрын

At around 15:00, I did see some wheel slip here, in the close up video. Possibly, it is a good thing that there was no caboose connected to the end of this train. It just might have stalled it! (Yeah! Right!)

@crazyfvck 4 жыл бұрын

Excellent! :)

@tombarnes7196 3 жыл бұрын

I'm in HEAVEN! And, in the first clip... a Nathan P3 airhorn!

@azjakeza Жыл бұрын

Earning their keep fighting the grades . Don tuned them well

@JetSetDiva 4 жыл бұрын

How often is that RS-3 used in service?

@ocsrc 4 жыл бұрын

At 1800 on the left side there's a locomotive painted all in black with no numbers that looks just like the locomotive that used to work the Cohoes New York yard in 1971 does anyone know what make and model locomotive that is and if that would fit the time frame of 1971 ? Could that be one of the D & H old locomotives ?

@jamesthomas2163 4 жыл бұрын

That is Reading RS3 #467. Actually it is dark green. It has been displayed there in spot for quite a while, also the freight cars coupled to it. It was there when I visited the area in July 2018.

@ocsrc 4 жыл бұрын

What is the flashing red light on the new bungalow at 1525 that stops flashing at 1701 ? I don't see a crossing I thought it might have been a crossing indicator light but I don't see any crossing and the train wasn't passed the bungalow when the lights stopped flashing

@RailfanSrikrishna 3 жыл бұрын

Alcos are true diesel train

@cats0182 4 жыл бұрын

I remember riding the Phoebe Snow through Scranton to Binghamton. It is so sad to see the once-bustling railroad reduced to some kind of a "short line" operation. There were plans and attempts to reconnect the abandoned parts of the old DL&W mainline to provide service from Scranton to NYC. I guess those plans and attempts have failed. What a shame.