This locomotive was built by MLW for the White Pass and Yukon Railway in Alaska. However it never operated there because they shut down their freight operations in the early 1980s. It was subsequently acquired by USG for their Plaster City operation, replacing GE 70-ton C-C locomotives. It was originally built with the safety cab; there is another unit from the order of three with safety cabs still working on the WP&Y

Cool, learned that this locomotive is an Alco DL-535. Looked strange, at first, until I realized that the original cab and "high-nose" hood were replaced with a Canadian Safety Cab, along with mechanical / electrical upgrades. Much better and more comfortable for the crew.

Out of my 22 years of going to the desert in that area for camping I’ve only see this train run once and that was in August of 2017.

Pretty cool to see that gravity move with the tank car at 4:30

I never knew out of all the years I've been living in El Centro that there was a narrow gauge

Nice video of a neat railway. Never knew it existed. I'm wonder if you have any footage of the loaded cars being dumped?

Interesting that at around 12:07, on the return trip from the mine, the first car behind the locomotive appears to be empty. Is this the case and if so, for what purpose?

Do you know USG's train schedule for this line?

I have a question where is this Railroad and this is 3 ft Narrow Gauge right I was just wondering thank you this is more of this railroad that I've seen in a lot of different videos thank you very much peace out have a great

This size rail track 1067mm or 1000mm?

What's the tanker car at the rear for?