"Winter Railroaders" MA&N Utica-Boonville, NY

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5 жыл бұрын

Watch as the tough, dedicated and professional railroaders of the Mohawk, Adirondack & Northern battle snow drifts and ice-clad rails as they bring a covered hopper from the road's Utica, NY yard 35 miles north to Bailey's Boonville Mill on Feb 19, 2019. It had been several weeks since the last run on this line and plenty of snow accumulated in the meantime.
The crew first switched out an empty hopper from Bailey's then traveled south approx two miles to retrieve the loaded hopper which was "dropped" on a siding just north of Potato Hill Road.

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@JWKessler 5 жыл бұрын

I have an interesting memory of this line. Several years ago I was on a passenger excursion that ran up to Booneville. I recall there was some street running through the town. I was in the open baggage car enjoying the sights as we slowly passed a guy as he unloaded a case of beer from his car. He watched the unusual sight of a passenger train and a bunch of rail fans staring down at him and offered us some beers. He tossed up a few and we had a nice cold one as we departed town.

@mickfunny4185 5 жыл бұрын

Genesee? Matt’s?

@ignatiusdemonseed 3 жыл бұрын

I would love to say that was me but it wasn't so I won't.

@stevenspaziani9159 5 жыл бұрын

Glad to see they are still servicing the feed mill in Boonville I was wondering if they still did. I worked for them as an Engineer and conductor back in 93 when I got layed off from Conrail, never got a chance to switch out the feed mill but did have the opportunity to switch out Lyons Falls paper mill a couple times. Ended up back at Conrail after a few weeks of working for them, just wish they would have had more business or that some of the ones they had didn't close down. Now I deliver cars to them in Carthage working for CSX.

@andrewsherman400 5 жыл бұрын

Great video / hardworking crew in tough conditions. Thanks for posting!

@pomfret_and_pommes_frites_6493 4 жыл бұрын

I'm re-watching this in July/20. It's over 100 degrees and I need a reminder of cold snow!

@TracksideTyson 4 жыл бұрын

That BCRAIL with the sand cast K5L sounded incredible!

@richarddrum9970 4 жыл бұрын

This video does confirm two things; an Alco C425 is not a good snow plow per say but it is a good switch engine. Love those BCR colors in the snow. Thanks for the video.

@ortizracing7534 3 жыл бұрын

Refreshing to see this video currently 106° July 11, 2023° sounds mighty nice about now beautiful old equipment still working still earning their keep great video thanks for sharing

@jamesrobertson5935 Жыл бұрын

July of 2023 hasn't happened yet.

@plymouth-hl20ton37 5 жыл бұрын

Believe it or not nothing could be better than trains in snow great video

@sukhdeepubhi7309 5 жыл бұрын

Boy that sure is quite the grade as the loco backs into the siding!

@tylerg7567 5 жыл бұрын

I know this area well & love the railroad.. that was great! Thank You !

@jamesburnside3023 5 жыл бұрын

Excellent video and action gotta love the drive-throughs gates and all.

@victormioduszewski4729 5 жыл бұрын

Great video....Thanks for posting, also thanks to the crew..👍😊

@Lynchfan88 5 жыл бұрын

I LOVE Short lines and your vids of the Mohawk, Adirondack & Northern are really excellent. So cool to see them acting as both train & track snowplow, lol. I never knew a loco could get through snow this deep, I would have though derailing might happen. Nice to see the fellow railcrew w/the bulldozer help them at what might be a split off to the right? Hard to tell if that track goes straight and splits right or not. Thanks for posting.

@25mfd 4 жыл бұрын

nice COLD vid... @ 2:11... good thing that loco knuckle is closed... through experience, after running through the snow like this with the knuckle open, it's a 90/10 chance it won't close when you want it to... keep them loco knuckles CLOSED in the winter

@vivianwalsh7592 4 жыл бұрын

I’m wicked proud of that guy in the cab. Nice video!

@mdmarko Жыл бұрын

I find winter depressing, and find Utica depressing even in the summer. I know. Been there.

@Mercatoyd 3 жыл бұрын

Another really great video .. your content is awesome. That grade at Bailey's Boonville Mill, Inc is really something. If that car at 4:19 caused him to return down the grade and make another run at it..he would have been p..sd. I remember Boonville as a snow belt area. The closest I lived to this area was the tri city...Alb, Sch, Troy. I can remember many snowfalls in the area you filmed getting 3-4'+ often. Thank you for sharing.

@ottdog1952 3 жыл бұрын

Driver of car at 4:19 is an idiot.

@ignatiusdemonseed 3 жыл бұрын

Excellent photography!

@CWKSGV 5 жыл бұрын

Another great video as always!!

@speedcarver1 3 жыл бұрын

Nice video. I like winter trains.

@CintiRailFan 5 жыл бұрын

Awesome video! How could anyone give this a thumbs down?!

@kakinokitsune4487 5 жыл бұрын

Nice to see a ALCO running and still in BCR paint a long way from British Columbia, CN

@darylhannon6364 3 жыл бұрын

U bet run those on BCRAIL

@scottw4603 3 жыл бұрын

That's why they run good in the snow with their snow tires....

@garyzehr4445 5 жыл бұрын

Another great video! I thought you were going to get blasted with snow in Remsen! Thanks for the video

@railroadingrambler218 5 жыл бұрын

I was prepared to be enveloped in a snow cloud there as well! The engineer slowed a bit for the crossing and I didn't have to take "one for the team" on that occasion, lol.

@rolpfeiffermuller935 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks airing the outstanding vid.Bliss

@RedLink27 4 жыл бұрын

This scenery reminds me of home here in southern Nova Scotia when the DAR still rolled through

@charlesbowyer2441 5 жыл бұрын

Great video. Thanks for sharing.

@donaldjobson6799 5 жыл бұрын

Great video

@joewoodchuck3824 5 жыл бұрын

If my parents were still alive i would go there and check it out in person. Lots of fond memories visiting them. I stayed at the hotel once many many years ago, and my mom managed the convenience store in the town center up to the early 80s. I dont know if its still there.

@johnjon1823 3 жыл бұрын

That seemed like quite a steep grade at that one intersection. I never thought such grades would be possible to use.

@conceyullena 4 жыл бұрын

Very nice video!! Amazing

@dannyfoshee2292 5 жыл бұрын

LOVE THIS KIND OF VIDEO

@joewoodchuck3824 3 жыл бұрын

I don't recall that track descent. I used to go there to visit my parents. Very enjoyable times. Sigh.

@donmoore7785 3 жыл бұрын

Excellent footage!

@RojiRailways 5 жыл бұрын

super video

@russbonk1372 3 жыл бұрын

So, we all CLEARLY saw the red flashing warning lights.....and Stevie Wonder could have seen that giant locomotive!!! Just HOW and WHY did the driver of that car at 4:20 speed through...endangering all???!!!! I am shaking my head in wonderment!

@rickygarcia7400 5 жыл бұрын

Awsome video that old BCRAIL locomotive ain't new to the snow(:

@billchinook3292 5 жыл бұрын

I thought the colour scheme was familiar!!! Man, I miss the BCR days.

@theyettifromcanada3688 5 жыл бұрын

Its great to see an old friend still earning her keep from when i was a kid in Vancouver, British Columbia back in the 1980s.

@NOVARailandWeatherEnthusiast 4 жыл бұрын

The Yeti Monster you saw this engine?

@Shellyafter 4 жыл бұрын

Great video. It's hard to tell he's on the tracks.

@jasonmckinney9938 3 жыл бұрын

Damn that’s quite an incline in that one section. Rare to see something like that

@TheNorthYorkRailfan 5 ай бұрын

Awesome video with the ex BCRAIL unit! Love the horn! Would you happen to know when MA&N runs up to Boonville or anywhere out of Utica?

@tryithere 4 жыл бұрын

Here I am wondering why I'm watching trains in Booneville, NY go back and forth.

@judithann7193 3 жыл бұрын

Why do you need a reason?

@charleshunziker7416 3 жыл бұрын

I have relatives in that area is very beautiful

@TheNorthwestWind 4 жыл бұрын

amazing

@dieselwdm2 3 жыл бұрын

nice

@robertbowman3406 5 жыл бұрын

It looks like an Alco from all that turbo lag.

@taslimchaudhry1431 5 жыл бұрын

Awesome. 🇮🇳

@PlanetMojo 5 жыл бұрын

My daughter's friend has a house right next to the tracks like the beginning of the video, and trains blow their horns right outside her bedroom. A very busy track, and she says she dosen't even notice.

@jameslehnert5054 5 жыл бұрын

Back when I was in my first year of college back in 79, my dorm backed up against what was then the Conrail (now Norfolk Southern) mainline between Harrisburg and Allentown. First two weeks of the semester, all the freshman woke up when a train went by. After that, we would wake up when trains DIDN'T come! It was too quiet!

@davewhite5258 5 жыл бұрын

excellent

@officialmcdeath 3 жыл бұрын

Beautiful slow running engine, is it 4-stroke? \m/

@pinkykam2596 5 жыл бұрын

Oh that is one old train

@Loljoshee 3 жыл бұрын

Aye that’s my birthday

@mta224 5 жыл бұрын

Nice!

@scottpool4777 4 жыл бұрын

Elko haven’t seen one of those in years.

@npo64 3 жыл бұрын

They locomotive can't cut through that snow? You'd think it could go through anything.

@abner813 5 жыл бұрын

How did you know the train was headed north on this line at this time??

@camsmith7651 5 жыл бұрын

Old school BC Rail colors

@hudsonhawk0016 5 жыл бұрын

That engine couldn't push over a 2' pile of snow? Love the NYC lightning stripes though.

@rvnmedic1968 4 жыл бұрын

Ice or snow slippage?

@marktoken6052 3 жыл бұрын

Daniel C he probably is alluding to the similarity of the scheme with the old NYC one.

@hudsonhawk0016 3 жыл бұрын

@@marktoken6052 Thank you.

@Humman135 2 жыл бұрын

Вы можете заснять видео, как колесо поезда наезжает на снег? Нигде такого не видел, очень интересно увидеть как колесо поезда едет по рельсе в снегу с близкого ракурса

@RM..... 5 жыл бұрын

Nice

@mohawkmike142 3 жыл бұрын

He drags the the inbound behind him up from Utica and sets into Baileys behind the empty. How did he get the car around to the north end?

@MagnetOnlyMotors 3 жыл бұрын

Must have forgot to put snow tires on.

@Quickcall 3 жыл бұрын

The GTA 5 train would have never gotten stuck... EVER

@paulsimkins3895 5 жыл бұрын

👍👍👍👍

@noworriesmate8287 5 жыл бұрын

Cho cho plow plow

@camsmith7651 4 жыл бұрын

I find it strange that a loco weighing in at 120 tonnes could not get through the snow bank.

@geoffreylee5199 4 жыл бұрын

In real degrees C about -15.

@cartman4885 5 жыл бұрын

If were going faster they could have pushed thru that snow drift right................

@kakinokitsune4487 5 жыл бұрын

I think it was a switch they where cleaning out

@schmedlywhiplash6267 5 жыл бұрын

😀😀😀😀😘

@daro2262 5 жыл бұрын

Dude you have put chains on the ENG.

@shmulikanglister 5 жыл бұрын

So much black smoke. That locomotive needs to be fixed or retired.

@stripervince1 5 жыл бұрын

I just realized how much I hate NY and winter and snow. That poor dog out in 3 degrees. People shouldn't be allowed to have animals. This is why I live in florida now.

@mikebrabant4170 5 жыл бұрын

My dog loves it in the snow and the colder the better and even lays down in it when it's well below zero and I want to go in the house.