Am sorry to hear about your father passing and I hope you only experience the good memories and not too much of the pain. Unfortunely It's gotten really hard to see anything at this location and no locomotives come here anymore AFAIK.

My thoughts exactly. It's hard to find places like this still intact and I am glad I was able to capture a couple moments before this place disappeared.

Lagrange, Kentucky, gets 7-10 trains a day down its Main Street

I would love to one day visit the Lagrange StreetTrain. It's sound like a great place to visit and doesn't sound like you would be disappointed. The train in video doesn't even run any locomotives anymore as no operators wants the business of managing this line. No money in moving a few hoppers once a week is worth it to them.

Hey thanks for the history of this cool locomotive and I had no idea this was a former conrail unit which is extra cool for me. Anyways I don't believe 3840 is here anymore. In fact I'm not sure where it is. Thanks for watching and great comment👍

I agree street running trains are the best!!

Imagine a UP freight liner running through there full speed, the citizens wouldn't know what to think 😂

@@gandalfthegrey8236 freight liner?

In the early 60's one of my relatives back yard was at least 50ft. away form the old Pacific Electric railway Long Beach line& when I would come over I would sit on a ladder & watch those old red cars zip by at 50mph....

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You welcome. Glad you enjoyed it!

Oh wait. Are Bill Nye the science guy?

It's pretty close to KW. We are all around the same location KW-Waterloo, Guelph, Cambridge and Brantford

That had to be a super long time ago. Those tracks are in shambles now.

Yes I want to visit Main and Gage in Hamilton so badly and see where the train comes out between some of the buildings too.

Yes in this same town they have been ripping out most of they're abandon rails, but they're still remain big crossing signal on a few street. It's weird seeing crossing signals with no rails. :(

TRAINS_4_FUN one time I went into the pstr yard and took one of the rail carts and rode it to talbot station and back it was fun at 5pm and I did that and I put it back and didn't get caught

The extreme telephoto lens used in this video makes the the track and track conditions look much worse than if you saw it in person. It's not a high speed mainline, but it's a typical low traffic branchline.

They should leave the tracks alone so we can have fun.

@@Trains4Fun The searchlight signal that is...

It been tough times for sure now, but we are going into alot of unpublished stuff atm. Hopefully we will have a moment to get back out soon. Thank for watching

Indeed the tracks are in bad shape, but these maybe gone in the next 5 to 10 years as it is used to service only one reminding customer ingenia polymers on the line. The tracks were sold off by Canadian National Railway to the Ingenia polymers. So it's interesting to see how long they will continue to used the tracks for. I think when the tracks are no longer usable. Ingenia polymers will sell off the property and switch to trucking for it delivery. That is just my opinion.

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Thats a nice GP38-2

I've only seen twice in the the 4 times I've been to Brantford. It was determine that Wednesday was the best day for the time to go and see the street train when SOR was still there. While I think lots of people are interested in the Burford, they are not willing to put in the time to see it. I've was lucky to come across at least one Burford Spur railfan who lives in Brantford who has help me track movements on the Burford. However I am not sure anybody knows anything anymore outside of the people who work at Ingenia.

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I've never met Wayne, but I have met his uncle once working at a store in London like 20 years ago. I thought that was pretty cool, because the family resemblance was very strong. I think his uncle named Al for some reason, but I don't fully remember. Thanks for comment!!

Thanks we though so too!

Cool! Thanks for watching!

I read alot of comments like this on this video. lol

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It's cool that you got to see the otherside when there was still tracks where the Johnson Trail is now. I also did a quick look at the Old TH&B station still standing at the Burfor sub 0.28miles. It was interesting to see a couple crossing lights still remained. I wonder how much time the crossing have left before they decide to remove the rest of it.

They've already removed the gates on the crossing at Clarence street so it shouldn't be too long...

Thanks for your comment. I'm curious to know who's tracks are you refering too and where?🤗

@@Trains4Fun At the very start of this movie where you see the block signals. I'm surprised trains stay on the rails. Again thanks for posting these videos!

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Hi Kenny just wanna say thanks for supporting my channel and I'm glad to hear you enjoy this video. I hope I get another chance to make another video like this someday. 👍

I did finally. I was trying to get something in Cambridge on the way back, but they're was nothing left by lunch time. My work was very slow that week and I actually had a couple of days off. I wanted to come back the next day and check out Cambridge, but than my kids all got sick afterwards and I had to take them to the walkin clinic. However I wish I could have gone, because I'm amazed by all the cool units you caught there recently. But next time I have some time off I'm gonna make sure I come back to Cambridge.

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Haha ok, where do you see that in the video? lol. They only thing I regret not doing in this video is checking out the actual tracks themselves. I bet they are at least 100 years old, if not more.

Indeed. These track will likely degrade further. As there is no railroad that maintains or service these tracks now. The tracks are own by the last remaining company on the line. I've been told they are only using a trackmobile to switch freight now. This is not enough power, but hopefully the company will hopefully acquire a bigger locomitive sometime in the future. Thanks for the comment!!👍

Correct

Well disused trackage tends to get less maintence then mainline stuff, especailly since some localities probably dont like trains street running and disrupting traffic and blaring their horns into people houses and offices XD

@@nekomasteryoutube3232 But, in reality what was there first, railroad or old homes?? It would be interesting to know.

@@terryisaac8195 Depends, some places the rail was there first, known as "railroad towns" but other places the railroad had to build its way into the city. We had some street running rail here in Oshawa but they're long gone now, the last reminder is a stretch of black pavement along the center of Bruce St Oshawa, Ontario where there use to be rails that connected the CP yard in Oshawa to the now demolished GM North/ACYS plant. Today its just a costco with other stores like "The Beer Store"

That's awesome. I hope this video helps with your modeling. Thanks for watching👍

I guess you don't appreciate peace and quiet, or sleeping soundly throughout the night? Building a scale model railroad is a fairy-tale no matter how well it is done and it is not comparable to an actual railroad and the close residential environs. Just sayin'.

Haha. That seems to be what everyone is saying about this video. The tracks are rotten. lol

Thank you!!

Unfortunely Brantford seems to have had better economic times, but what the video doesn't show is that they are activately in the process of improving the look of the area. It just hasn't gotten around to this place yet.

I'm not surprised, because it has a pretty unpredicable schedule.

Glad to hear you made it back from your trip. This is a hard train to catch, but wednesday I've been told seems to be the day they come around. When I was there it showed up at 9am and went straight to the yard by the via station, but it didn't come down the burford until 10:30. Good Luck

Are you working on any new videos?

+Guelph railfan Now sure if i reply to this, but yeah. Go down before it's all gone. I hope to see it again soon!

I remember that comment, but I have to skim through comments agains and see if I can match your post for theirs. Thanks for the info I will tried to pass it on.

Is there a street you could refer me to. I'm not really familiar with New Zealand, but I'm very interested in any kind of street train.

State Highway 1 Kawakawa Northland New Zealand.

Hi Lynne. I think this is probably one of the best comments I've read on this video. This is one of the reason why I film this railway, because this is probably a memory for a lot of folk in Brantford and not just rail enthusiasts. Thanks for the comment!

Haha absolutely agree!! :)

TRAINS_4_FUN thats why they should leave the abandon lines.

Wow that's cool. I didn't even had a Alaska had a railway. I assume it's probably a seasonal operation with all the snow.

There was a TV series about trains and crews and maintenance on that line

Doesn't that tunnel lead to the "city" where all 200-250 residents live in the same building. Can't remember it's name at the moment.

The street trains were far more common back 40 years ago. As far as I know this is probably the last example in Canada. However in the USA they maybe at least 6 or more. They extremely uncommon. Thanks for comment and watching

Various streetcar lines, yes, actual operating trains, definitely not!

@@Trains4Fun Oakland CA has lines running though downtown. Freight and Amtrak all day everyday.

Cool. I found one on Embarcadero West. Are there anymore street running trains location in Oakland?

when I was a little kid, there was a spur running thru my grandmother's back yard. Loved watching them go by.

They're on the center divide. In the middle of the street.

Telephoto lens will exaggerate track elevations.

Meh. Ever seen the ND&W in NW Ohio?

@@Eric-zi1oz If you're talking about what used to be the Maumee & Western, yes, I've seen it. It looks like something in a third-world country.

@@jaswmclark Uhh......in the first scene, it's the track - watch the engine bob and weave.

Bruh wtf I thought it was a joke

Yep. I would be if they had some. lol. I think in less then a month this line will be abandon. So the only work I see happening is the tracks getting pull out and the streets will be repaved.

Great story, except the part where it's all gone now. Can I ask where this was?

@@Trains4Fun Yes, the South East of England, loads of railway history here. The old bridges are amazing, fantastic brickwork just to carry a single line rail over a farm track. You can see on most old maps where the big houses and parks are and how far the stations are from the properties. There's a town called Petworth not too far away and the rail station was three miles outside. The old town was mostly owned by the family who owned the big house and all the estate lands and they obviously didn't want anything so vulgar as a railway disturbing their views in 1845-1850. It's difficult to imagine the power these old families held. they were often shareholders in the early railways and had the say on where the lines ran. In the towns the companies just bulldozed whole streets for their lines but the railway was definitely kept separate from the town life. I rather think a lot of the rails ran over open country originally and the housing around the lines was built subsequently. To see an unprotected engine on a street like is great. There is some talk of reopening some of the old lines again, to ease congestion on the roads, that will be nice if it ever comes off.

Pity this video is not about an American railroad, eh?

Yes they both sister shortline operators with the same parent company Geneese and Wyoming (G&W) on a few occassions have exhange locomotives with each other an to other sister companies. Thanks for the comment.

Joe Good question. I just assume they just haven't gotten around to it, but I know there was another necr 3821 that got repainted Orange and Black and renumbered GEXR 2073. GEXR like SOR is another sister company of the G&W.

Here in Connecticut the G&W has gobbled up all the freight carriers except for Pan Am, the Central New England Railroad (CNZR) and CSX's small operation out of Cedar Hill Yard in North Haven. It's hard to believe how much things have changed over the last ten years.

I think the G&W is the mother of most of shortline operations in North America. I don't know too much about places outside Ontario, but they are at least few shortline operators in Ontario independent of the G&W and I love them all.

I think the thing that bothers most railfans when the G&W acquires a railroad is how much character it loses (in addition to operational change s etc). Here in the states, the Providence & Worcester and the New England Central are two good examples. Look up their paint schemes prior to G&W's acquisition.

While I don't hate the orange and black. I agree to a certain extent to what you are saying. I don't wish to see all the units painted in the same manner, but if they slap one of their decals on the head and side of the locomotive. It wouldn't bother me as much. At least some of the colour scheme would survive. I have to admit that if a operator goes bankrupt. It's nice to see the lines are not abandon an eventually pull. I suppose they're worse alternatives.

I don't think it's a requirement in Canada and largely dependent on who is responsible for the tracks. Like near me a company call Metrolinx owns the Right of Way and have started fencing off tracks. Before that they were own by a major freight company (CN). They were never fenced in anywhere nearby. Prehaps someone more knowledge will be able to clarify if indeed that is the case. Thanks for the comment.

That is impressive. I don't really know anybody who works for the railfan, except for a few railfans I've met at the tracks a couple times. I know some of them have established some relation with railroad employee, but I never have. Lol

Yep. Those brakes were skwalking more a rat pack if seaguals fighting for a french fry in a burger king parking lot. lol😁 Thanks for the comment!!👍

I haven't seen Slumdog millionaire, but I have seen some video of old steam train line from India. I wouldn't say it's that bad yet, but it pretty bad forsure.

Hi Dakota. Like you I was too young at the time, but street running trains were certainly around. I know of at least of one rail photograph who had taken many picture of the Street Running trains all around Oshawa, Hamilton and perhaps a few other place during the 70's and 80's. I don't know if it's possible to look his photography online, but if you google John Vincent Railroad Photography you might be able to pull up a few photographs.

@@Trains4Fun an old Hamilton map circa 1970...

Definitely was street runners in Hamilton til at least the mid 80's.

I was just curious what city you live in, because I'm interested in what cities still have street running trains. Around us this is only left one that I am aware of within a 2 hour drive from me.

Yes at the time of this video. This company called Southern Ontario Railway leased both lines from CN. This video is based on Burford spur(ex-CN) and connects to the CN Dundas subdivision. The line above is called CN Hagersville Subdivision which also connects to the CN Dundas Subdivision to the left. If you look carefully enough in the background of the bridge scene, you can see the signal lights really far in the background is the CN Dundas Subdivision. The CN Dundas Subdivision climbs a rather steep grade to meet the Hagersville sub to the left. The Burford Spur meets the Dundas Subdivision kinda far back and to the right. The Dundas Subdivision is extremely active mainline in Ontario. The Hagersville Subdivision is only little more Active then the Burford Spur. I've seen pictures of trains above and below the bridge, but I think they may have photoshopped together. I just want make a correction. Southern Ontario railway(SOR) leased the CN Hagersville sub, but SOR only had a service contract on the Burford spur with Ingenia Polymer. Ingenia had purchased the Burford spur from CN, but I don't recall the date.

I wish I knew of more places like this. I would love to see them all.

That would be awesome. Must be a lot of railroad history in that town.

Brantford had a lot railway history at one point. Sadly much of it has been torn out now. This is the last bit of old section of tracks remaining going through the downtown. 😥

Hudson ~ Bergen light rail in the Jersey city portion is on the street in several spots

kenpalmer1965 I grew up with trains running by my back yard. Moved to Florida and a train ran through that back yard. I’m about a mile from a train line now.

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I recently had someone report that they were in the black car in the Thumbnail of the video. I thought that was pretty neat. I assume from how your comment is written that you are no longer live in Brantford. What is it that you think is weird or has something change for you because of watching this video you never notice before or it's exactly how you remember it?

The news only reported that somebody was hit on Clarence and Colbourne st. The person was sent to hospital with serious injuries. I'm assuming person must have recovered since I have not seen another article like pedestrian succumbs injury after being struck by a train.

DennyDreadBassMan From when I passed the train by car and to where the train enters the street portion was about 5 city blocks or about a mile. Really this train was moving very slowly so you could probably walk beside it for awhile and would not really pass you the entire way.

Probably owned by Rail America, that was their old color scheme.