GMD-1 CHASE! Alberta Prairie Railway
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
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The Alberta Prairie Railway is a tourist railway that operates tourist trains. They run from Stettler to Big Valley. 20 mile trip, which takes 1.5 hours give or take.
They were flying despite riding on 60 pound per yard rail. Most of it original to the pre-world war one construction. Much better maintained than the Renfrew spur in Ottawa, 26 miles of rail at a max speed of 5-10 miles an hour.
The railroad also does car storage, that's what that hopper and boxcar at the end of the line are for. I am not sure if Alberta Prairie Railway serves the Stettler rail served industries of whether a short line does with the GP-9 and caboose or if a short line operates it, but there is some freight action out here.
Nice no ebell
Nice chase Matt. I'm going to chase 589 on wednesday from Kanata to Arnprior
I love the gmd1s especially the 1100series as they still retain their factory 12-567C engine while the others in the 1600 and 14000 series have been rebuilt with modern components and 12-645E engines
I do like the originals! I don't know the history behind this locomotive though. I assumed it is/was a Cando unit rented or bought. They had a high hood GP9, an SW3 and CN 6060 back in 2011 (I have a video of that somewhere on my channel). They also have a GP9 that they use for serving the freight customers around Stettler.
GP 9 www.flickr.com/photos/194508716@N03/52225752350/in/album-72177720300644263/
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Too cool !! Love those GMD 1s
Me too!
To cool 🙃
I sure wish Ingredion still used their GMD 1
GMD-1s are disappearing. If companies won't even use them to switch, you got to see them before they are gone
The caboose looks very similar to one made by Model Die Casting, which is now defunct, after Athearn merged with them, and is now part of Horizon Hobbies of Champaign/Urbana, Illinois, USA.
The Canadian version of the US RS-1325 model. No ditch lights?, a cool red vista-dome, and i wouldnt want to be in that open window coach in winter! (BRRRRRRR!)
I don't think this railway falls under the CRO rules. But this couldn't lead a train on a class one train. Most of this couldn't be hauled by a class one.
@@MattGTrainz i noticed that almost all the passenger cars had a smokestack on the roof, does that indicate they dont have steam heat? I have a picture that my dad took on a hunting/fishing trip to Canada in the 1940s, and it was a steamer pulling freight, with several passenger cars on the end in front of the caboose. They stopped and let the group board one of the pasenger cars, and there was a smokestack protruding from its roof. I am pretty sure that freight cars dont have steam lines for car heating.
@@paulsmith5398 I don't remember for sure. I did ride this train back in 2011 and don't remember too much from it. I do remember the cowboy train robbery though! I don't think they actively use heating. Back in the day, maybe a wood stove of some kind in every car. Alberta winters are cold, your cold instantly when you go outside and you are warm instantly after coming inside
daaamn did you travel there?
Yes
Cool stuff!