The first freight on the Utica Branch finally happened since 2006 on June 12th, 2018. In 2006 the Utica Branch was wiped out after flooding hit rendering the line unusable from Sangerfield to Chenango Forks.
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@mutanay774 жыл бұрын
For being dormant for 12 years, this track looks better maintained than some mainlines I've seen out there.
@pstr_932 жыл бұрын
Look's a bit sandblasted from harsh winter storm's. and muddy from many spring's. but yeah. Certainly seen much worst.
@richintalent6 ай бұрын
And now it's dormant again
@ocsrc Жыл бұрын
You take 206 west over the Chenango River, and the street splits and it is like you traveled back to the 1940s These little towns were all self contained and the downtown had the parking diagonally in the middle of the street and all the stores lined the blocks in the middle of town And at Christmas time the town would have all the decorations on that main Center of town and all the stores would be lit up with decorations in the windows and it was so beautiful and peaceful Back around 2008 I drove down to Pennsylvania and I came back up 476 and up 81 which is just a beautiful drive over the mountain and it's so rural and it's just a wonderful drive and I went through Binghamton and I stayed at one of the motels about an hour north of Binghamton and I left around midnight to drive back up to Saratoga and I took 206 from Whitney point up and down the hills and mountains till I got to i-88 and the snow on all of the fields and hills and the moonlight reflecting as I drove 206 was so beautiful and driving 88 I didn't see another car for 2 hours and the moonlight reflected off of those giant mountains that look like gumdrops and I cried it was so beautiful You just don't see peaceful quiet rural places like that anymore and having that much beauty and that much silence just driving without even the radio on it felt the way it must have felt back in the 1800s before there was electricity and you could see just from the moonlight and the stars were so bright and it was so quiet I wish I was well enough that I could travel just for day trips to go to places like this like I used to and just enjoy the countryside I'm so sad that I'm sick and bedridden I can't do anything and some days I'm too sick to even pick up my cell phone or watch TV from bed I tell everyone to do the things you want to do now because you never know when something like this could happen to you I regret not being able to do so many things and I shouldn't have put them off
@jimdep65426 жыл бұрын
Now if they could just bring back passenger service so we could "ride the cushions".
@themanhimselfsunny4 жыл бұрын
0:18 Hey, the Susquehanna GP40 has a unauthorized rider on top!
@Daisyno24 жыл бұрын
the branch?
@caleblindquist70216 жыл бұрын
just found your channel today, and i’m not disappointed ! great content, awesome quality, and it’s nice to see a fellow new york railfanner!
@davemorford56626 жыл бұрын
I've been watching this branch for years, including the original flood, the proposal to bring it back, the work, and finally, the re-opening. The tracks look quite good. I wonder if they will eventually increase the speed. Interesting to note that the NYS&W still list the tracks of out of service on their website. Anyway, as far as I know, they have no customers on the re-opened line.
@danielgolus46005 жыл бұрын
Website now (as of Jan 2019) shows the Utica route as open.
@davidroosa45614 жыл бұрын
Thats why they didnt bother to rebuild after the flood, no customers between Chenango forks and Sherburne
@roadmaster1ful4 жыл бұрын
It always makes me sad to see a track abandoned. I've seen some really busy lines close that I never thought would
@jimdep65426 жыл бұрын
Those are some great angles you got for your videos ! I love to see activity on these tracks again.
@ryanwilson95552 жыл бұрын
I've ridden a passenger train from Rochester, NY to Schenectady, NY which passes through Utica station.
@cehayes74Ай бұрын
The Maple 🍁 Leaf or Sleepy Hollow Service !!!
@timosha212 жыл бұрын
Choo Choo: I'm a train and I approve this video
@geoffreylee51995 жыл бұрын
Like the plant on the top of the yellow and black unit.
@shortliner685 жыл бұрын
That must be a Utica branch from the Utica Branch.
@griffinstrains5 жыл бұрын
It most likely fell when the train was going through the trees
@neilclark22454 жыл бұрын
attempting to make rail travel more green
@Dutch3DMaster2 жыл бұрын
@@shortliner68 Hehe :P.
@shortliner682 жыл бұрын
@@Dutch3DMaster I couldn't resist that comment. :) Speaking of branches, I had the opportunity to ride in the cab of an engine over a short branch line many years ago. It was a branch line in more ways than one because in some places you had to duck away from the cab window. Tree branches were so close they'd poke through the window and hit you in the face as the engine passed by, if you weren't watching out.
@TheNomadicRailfan6 жыл бұрын
Great job covering this move, nice video!
@catlover23685 жыл бұрын
lake village Arkansas railroad is also no longer abandoned!. it is up and running again. old tracks ripped up and new ties and tracks put in, old bridges torn down and rebuilt. and freight is now rolling again
@MiddleTennesseeRailProductions5 жыл бұрын
Hell YES!
@gnrrailroad15314 жыл бұрын
Trump 2020🇺🇸
@chrishinnant39245 жыл бұрын
Awesome horn on that 3040
@Videostosnoreto5 жыл бұрын
Definitely. Loving that K5H.
@RailFan19815 жыл бұрын
Very nice! Track looks to be in great condition but the signals need some work, lol.
@scottn9405 жыл бұрын
Rust acts as an insulator. The more they run, the better the signals will operate.
@lightrailbo4 жыл бұрын
Ah! Jointed rail & mechanical bells. Now that's railroading at it's finest. In my opinion.
@JawTooth5 жыл бұрын
This is a really cool video! Great job!
@thatwesternmarylandguy74715 жыл бұрын
Jaw Tooth, dude your channel is awesome! Definitely enjoy your unusual style of narration. "WOO! Live action!"
@freebrickproductions5 жыл бұрын
Great video! Like all of the older crossings seen (and heard) in the video as well.
@patrickolaughlin60276 жыл бұрын
Thanks for filming !
@thatwesternmarylandguy74715 жыл бұрын
I love the geeps and the older SD's. So here's the history on 2782: Built in July of 1978, 2782 is an ex Conrail diesel, and as stated in your video, is a GP38-2
@jennyhaskell53485 жыл бұрын
So........what happened to the CSX loco that went in, and never came out?
@chrishinnant39245 жыл бұрын
No train in 12 years I'm surprised some of those signal lights still work
@Videostosnoreto5 жыл бұрын
There's been occasion light power moves over the past few months before this was shot but mow has been repairing what they can.
@chrishinnant39245 жыл бұрын
@@Videostosnoreto yeah I noticed how the train has to get right up on the crossings for the lights to start working but at least they are working
@MK065634 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for sharing this video. Super awesome!!!
@israelswearingen82194 жыл бұрын
I waited 12 years to work up the courage to hop a train... and this is what I got.
@kitchener2200 Жыл бұрын
Nice catch. Awesome consist.
@ocsrc Жыл бұрын
The crossing in Greene, right before the street becomes 2 streets with the center area like towns had in the 30s,40s, and 50s, that is a part of history I wish people would film a movie there It is beautiful Also a fabulous location for a train video, but trains don't run there any more
@ladiedi07315 жыл бұрын
Very nice! Upstate is so beautiful. Was it one of the hurricanes / tropic storms that took it out in 2006?
@Videostosnoreto5 жыл бұрын
Nope. We just had absolutely ridiculous flooding and then pretty much doubled it in 2011.
@haroldalexis42002 жыл бұрын
Really nice video shots of the CSX & Susquehanna engines my among my favorite EMD diesels great locations. Another 5 star video. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐✅👋👋👋👋👋👍💙💛💛🚆🚅🚄🚅
@littlewingpsc275 жыл бұрын
Wonder why the trip points for the crossings are so close to the gates that the gates don't have time to get fully down before the train crosses the road.
@danielcarlin77845 жыл бұрын
Grade crossings don’t have a trip point, they activate when the crossing senses the train, they didn’t activate because of rusty rail conditions.
@Seriona14 жыл бұрын
If I'm not mistaken, I think the sensors detect vibration in order to activate the lights. Hence why it's completely possible for the lights to literally go off last second if a train is going slow enough.
@railroadmike68434 жыл бұрын
@@Seriona1 vibration?? No its a track circuit. The axle acts as a breaker and sends the current from one rail to the other in the circuit and activates the signals. Many also have a timing circuit so the signal activates at the right time to match the train speed and thus slow means closer to the street
@blackrose-je1lq5 жыл бұрын
It's really charming and I was fascinated by her. CSX It's my hero ... forever
@RLM382-3 Жыл бұрын
amazing Video! 11:26 The horn is almost Identical to a K5L
@patrickmcconville99085 жыл бұрын
Tree branch on top of the Susquehanna unit is a nice original look. /s
@thomasabramson1002 жыл бұрын
NYSW been servicing a brewery in Utica for years ?????
@bendover94115 жыл бұрын
Who's the big dude in the maroon Expedition??
@freddykool71355 жыл бұрын
its shame here we go theirs 2 washouts on the line again hopefully they will fix these 2 washouts soon
@ferdinandfrancis96735 жыл бұрын
Good video quality.
@scotthayes59335 жыл бұрын
In April 2014 the UP line that runs through my hometown was damaged by the tornado that hit Mayflower AR. There were no trains for up to a week after the tornado.
@texasandpacific6104 жыл бұрын
Why are the crossing gates not working
@danmathers1412 жыл бұрын
These engines are running light through a lot of area. Are they just advertising?
@amtrak713productions85 жыл бұрын
As of February 2019 the line has washed out again and it’s unknown if the line will be repaired again
@bazis985 жыл бұрын
Oof
@johngnipper14545 жыл бұрын
I hope not , some things should be abandoned.
@Daisyno24 жыл бұрын
????????
@crazyfvck4 жыл бұрын
@@johngnipper1454 Yeah, like how your parents plans to have a child should have been abandoned before you were conceived.
@norfolksouthernguy93505 жыл бұрын
good video that was a short train
@thomasrankin850610 ай бұрын
@mikehobart you are my favorite KZfaqr in the whole wide world
@patrickmcconville99085 жыл бұрын
What, are the gates at 11:00 on strike? Who did prechecks? Anybody?!?!?!?
@1990sRailfan5 жыл бұрын
Is there service over the entire branch now?
@Videostosnoreto5 жыл бұрын
There was. Washouts in Oxford sent everything back to square one.
@schmedlywhiplash62675 жыл бұрын
Bout good dam time they opened er up!😀
@Videostosnoreto5 жыл бұрын
Was open anyways. Heavy rain last year washed it out again in two spots near Oxford.
@STATFIGHTER104 жыл бұрын
Did anybody ever notice what was loaded on the cars it's border wall
@robertlegacy7508Ай бұрын
Why did they rebuild it, not use it, it gets washed out again and nothing?
@bloomsandbladeslawncare46294 жыл бұрын
Time to reset signal switches for those gates!
@christopherdibble58722 жыл бұрын
The engineers don't wave from the trains anymore, not like they did back in 1954
@mollycaz14 жыл бұрын
When was last passenger train on this line
@waynehutchings38413 жыл бұрын
I saw passenger train in 1957 go through North Brookfield going south don't know exactly what year they stopped. They used steam engines in the 1950s.
@mollycaz13 жыл бұрын
@@waynehutchings3841 looks line a great line to run a Excursion train
@waynehutchings38413 жыл бұрын
.many trains went through North Brookfield in the 5os a fellow named Maurice Hindus came here from NYC to work on a farm and went to Colgate by bicycle in early 1900s and wrote many books about Russia his homeland. He came from NYC on the dlw rr. This line was upgraded a few years ago and should be used for excursions for tourism to central N.Y. and a link to Adirondacks. Their is a line to Binghamton from NYC where tourists could get a great connection to upstate and nice scenery on way. Shame to have line be idle and be just a place to store tank cars when it could be put to a profitable line. Much history along this line from Loomis gang back to utica to Binghamton Canal. Maybe someone will come up with a good program to make something like this possible.
@waynehutchings38413 жыл бұрын
I think train went through North Brookfield about 4 or 5 times a day in early 1950s. A lot of coal cars heading north in late summer and fall. A lot cheaper to haul by train.
@waynehutchings38413 жыл бұрын
@@mollycaz1 looks like a great line to run an excursion on or a line to use for tourists to go to Adirondacks for snowmobiling or camping in summer.
@markrhuett5 жыл бұрын
Track looks good for not seeing service in over a decade...
@robertheinkel62252 жыл бұрын
Anyone else notice the tree limbs on top of the second engine, at the beginning of the video?
@bugbomb80485 жыл бұрын
CSX has a nasty habit of of over charging their customers and then nickel and dime-ing them to the point the customer cancels all service and has trucks in and out instead of the train.....
@ernestpassaro96632 жыл бұрын
Yes of course that's only one reason railroads lost most of their business to trucks!
@author Жыл бұрын
If the NYS&W was able to pick up a regular customer or two between Sherburne and Chenango Forks, that'd be great! Of course, NY's taxes and business climate aren't the friendliest in the world - that doesn't help.
@applecounty4 жыл бұрын
I like the mechanical Crossing bells.
@NortheasternRailPhotography4 жыл бұрын
"If you don't wanna get hit by a train, you should move" ahhahahahahaha
@irelandbloke5 жыл бұрын
Very nice 👍🏻
@FDNY82315 жыл бұрын
Nice video ....
@catlover23685 жыл бұрын
3:44 lol at the cop at your going to get hit by a train you should move
@dragon-lf9ow5 жыл бұрын
Be nice he's working for his next doughnut or is it Taco Bell now? 😄
@Daisyno24 жыл бұрын
how can someone that size be a cop
@nikposada08244 жыл бұрын
That NY accent was strong too🤣
@richkeeshan97574 жыл бұрын
He's fire police, the fire station is on the other side of the tracks from City Hall
@grantbagwell80922 жыл бұрын
He’s being petty, the damn thing is moving at 1mph
@davidroosa45614 жыл бұрын
That's about the typical speed on that line even before the flood, terrible track-age
@ernestpassaro96632 жыл бұрын
That cop yelling at that idiot was funny!
@ernestpassaro96632 жыл бұрын
Gates activated really late that rist tractor trailer almost got crushed lol
@halspencer66132 жыл бұрын
That Norwich cop looks like he needs to go on a diet, quickly
@charlesowens97844 жыл бұрын
That truck driver needs a big ticket
@railsimsproductions5 жыл бұрын
Why would there be working gates and lights on a railroad that hasn’t been used in 12 years?
@railfanowen93725 жыл бұрын
Stuff happens: they may have been restoring the line as well
@TheCapitalRegionRailfan6 жыл бұрын
Great video! why were there so many police?
@Videostosnoreto6 жыл бұрын
Thats NYSW's cop. They have to flag 99% of the crossings because they are out of service.
@davidroosa45614 жыл бұрын
Terrible crime rate there
@jlet4ever2 жыл бұрын
I don’t see no freight. Just power.
@fredstuckmann2 жыл бұрын
Watch the second half of the video.
@amtrakb32166 жыл бұрын
Nice!
@KnoxvilleRailfanProductions3 ай бұрын
That cop needs to chill out
@maxwilson70012 жыл бұрын
Is it just me or does that officer not seem happy?
@stephanweinberger4 жыл бұрын
That extremely short activation distance for the crossing at ~11:30 seems kinda redundant... :-)
@Dutch3DMaster2 жыл бұрын
Not fully sure what the mechanisms (electrically and/or physically) are in the US, but since a part of the Dutch railraod system has been built to American standards as part of restoration efforts by soldiers who stayed after World War 2, we have the same type of "last-effort" contacts for railroad crossings. They typically are used during malfunctions when the earlier contacts are not working. Trains (also those in regular service, not just those on reopened lines) will have to crouch up to that contact, wait for the crossing to close, sound their horn hi-lo, wait, hi-lo again and cross at walking speed. I'd say the signals on the route for closing a crossing in the regular way were malfunctioning and we were seeing the "in case of problems" type of activation part.
@kennyspry51895 жыл бұрын
Awesome Video BUT You Taking Pictures The Sound of Your Camera Is a SO Irritating. IT Gets on your Nerves!!!!!!! AWESOME Video.
@chichi415 жыл бұрын
You are nutz!
@bazis985 жыл бұрын
Personally I love the shutter sound 🤷🏼♂️ maybe it's just cause I want to be a Photographer but I enjoy it
@jayfoster81205 жыл бұрын
Tracks below Greene washed out again !
@Videostosnoreto5 жыл бұрын
Just the Utica Branch being the Utica Branch
@sergeant58485 жыл бұрын
Im pretty sure boom gates are supposed to lower *before* the train arrives at the crossing.....
@Dutch3DMaster2 жыл бұрын
My country has had parts of the railroad network built to American standards, and the crossings have been as well. If the regular contact for closing a crossing is not working due to a malfunction there tends to be a contact right before the crossing that a train needs to crouch up to, drive over it, activate the crossing, wait for everything to go down, sound the horn in a hi-lo fashion, wait again, sound the horn hi-low again and drive over at walking speed. At times, when people do not notice a malfunction but also are so sucked into their phones (or when car drivers stopped having the habit of looking left and right when nearing a railroadcrossing) it can happen that someone passes a railroadcrossing only to then have their peripheral vision spot a train pretty much on the crossing and give them a jumpscare.
@sergeant58482 жыл бұрын
@@Dutch3DMaster Thanks for the explanation and recalling inattentive crossing users experiences!👍
@jakestree18925 жыл бұрын
Even if signals dont work people should still look both ways gates weren't used til later years so people can drive around them lol
@charlesowens97844 жыл бұрын
Very cool to see
@nicolasgoldring71285 жыл бұрын
Utica Branch? Dunder Mifflin, anyone?
@Videostosnoreto5 жыл бұрын
DuNdEr MiFfLiN!
@rickkilimun54305 жыл бұрын
Dunder Mifflin?
@rvnmedic19685 жыл бұрын
@@rickkilimun5430 It's a great Panini sandwich served at the Woodland Farm Brewery. Also, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunder_Mifflin
@AleksHarborBelt2 жыл бұрын
“Big stupid woman”
@keplergso83694 жыл бұрын
Why US cops are so fat ? I think you have to go to Mexico to find as fat. Nice video, all the times a pleasure to see a revived line ! The track seems in good condition. Jacques, from France.
@chriswoodruff22934 жыл бұрын
It’s not all the cops. Just a select few. Most departments now have a fitness requirement that they must maintain or be released. Some small departments have a hard time finding qualified help and take what they can get.
@RadioDX35 жыл бұрын
That cop was pissed. Was it me or was he also bitching at the CSX employee about the warning lights not working?
@vex-nh5 жыл бұрын
"None of these lights are working." "Yea, I know."
@bobavon6048 Жыл бұрын
They shouldn't running down the track with the signals not working. Who's bright idea was that?
@BNSF1458 Жыл бұрын
It's not like there's going to suddenly be another train going in the opposite direction on a branch line without the dispatcher knowing.
@richkeeshan97574 жыл бұрын
And now the line is blocked and washed out again
@skyman20023 жыл бұрын
It is?
@ernestohernandez19934 жыл бұрын
Buen trabajo
@patrickmcconville99085 жыл бұрын
Gates at 7:35 dropped WAY TO LATE!!!
@MMMRCHPCTB2 жыл бұрын
Camera man missed half the action...do busy click click clicking his slr
@DaimosZ5 жыл бұрын
Is this an Albany Expression
@davidroosa45614 жыл бұрын
Steamed Hams!!!!!!
@ernestohernandez19934 жыл бұрын
Felicidades
@tomtom14842 жыл бұрын
Ah, yes! The police force hard at work @3:50.
@tomshiro32774 жыл бұрын
Boy that cop at 4:30 sure had an attitude How does someone that big actually get accepted to be a cop? Oh this is America I answered my own question
@jamesvanscoy77172 жыл бұрын
Great day for a trian ride
@augiestefanelli19774 жыл бұрын
🚂🚂
@mr.polemikus49332 жыл бұрын
Yawn ...😴 in each normal country they first inspect the line and restore the level crossings, then passes a train at reasonable speed. who needs a train running slower 🐌than a old man in bicycle and a railway that needs the police. There will be fast🚅 HST 🚆railways in 🇧🇫 Burkina Faso long before USA🗽dynosaur🦕