RJ Corman has ran in dover for years now. Before RJ Corman im not sure what ran on this line. The line is called the Cleveland Lines but before that it was a part of B&O before getting bought out by Chesapeake & Ohio eventually becoming the Chessie System, which is now known as CSX. When RJ Corman got there hands on this. Im not sure. I live around that area and you asked for a little info about it. They have three main engines, 1804, 4119, and 3001. 3001 is an Ex-Lehigh Railway train and the other two have always been RJC. We have the switcher, obviously, and we used to have a genset, not really sure what happened to that one.
Ive learned that after B&O, Chessie System ran on the line before being bought by RJ Corman. I also discovered that the Pennsylvania Railroad ran through Dover as well. Penn Central saw no need to keep it in Dover and tore up track. B&O had passenger trains in Dover as well but the government stopped ghat because of Amtrak
You are certainly right in that! There an excellent video on tube bout him called Working Hard to be Lucky, totally awesome video if you haven't seen it. Do appreciate your watching the video here Robert
Cool, yes a lot of RR operations have changed since the good old days louderone, and not always for the best. Thank you so much for taking the time to write in and to check out the video my friend.
It is October 5th. Just caught this engine working Wooster today switching out Frito-Lay. Usually this line is served by either a rebuilt GP7 or GP20 so this was a pleasant change of pace. The horn was a dead giveaway that this was not the usual power assigned over here.
Sweet! There is a video on You Tube: Working Hard to Be Lucky about him if you haven't seen it. It's an awesome video. Thanks for writing in and watching the video sir.
Thats neat, we got them here in Spencerville. They run a sw1200 that was once used by GTW, they assigned it to the line in sometime of 2016 or 17. I've been trying to catch it for about 4 years now but whenever they do run it, it's usually in the morning hours when I'm dealing with high school stuff, it seems like they run it every other Thursday.
Enjoyed it. My short brush with 'hands on' railroading was in 1953/1954. I was a senior in high school and scored a part time job as a clerk for NYC RR Yard Master in East St Louis. The line had diesels on the road but all of the switchers were the last of the steam engines. Details are foggy but it is one of the most memorable times in my life. Your videos don't disappoint in keeping the spirit alive.
This was Old CSX Akron Branch that Ran from Akron Down to New Philly the Yard where Dover Chemical. This also was a Connection to the Ashland Oil in Canton which was CSX Biggest Customer and Timken Harrison Ave Plant Also in this was Old B&O Line would Go Down to Cambridge now the Former Akron Branch now served by WLE up by the Akron Canton Airport and the Tourist Train CSVR
Thank you Derrick for the great info, that's pretty cool being it was old B&O track, wish I knew that when I was there and made video, just happened to ride around and find it without doing any research on it. We rode the CVSR on our trip to Ohio that time, but it didn't go on that route.
@@ccrx6700 your Welcome Dave. I used to live in Canton so I was 25 mins from Dover coming Down there back in the Late80s to Mid90s . When CSX Sold the line I was Suprised. But South of the WLE Crossing 15th St SE in Canton Wheeling has a Spur. To Industrial Area in Canton City and Canton Township and North of CP WANDLE (McKinley Ave SW to North Canton Industrial Park near the Akron-Canton Airport in Green
Yes - RJ Corman always has some clean and cool equipment! This is nearly 40 years old or so and works like a fine tuned clock :) Very nice to see some switch work!
Glad you enjoyed Brian, really appreciate your watching, everyone says nice things bout Corman, you may enjoy this video ruclips.net/video/WZhtun5LUjc/видео.html
I'm Terry from Cambridge Ohio about 1 hour south of Dover. You was at the classification yard for RJ Corman. The tank cars are for Dover Chemical on the north side of the crossing. Their derailment teams are also stationed at the yard.
Thank you Terry for the information. That was the first time I had ever been there and wish I knew that when the video was made. Dover is a nice place and what not to love about Warther, that place was totally awesome. Appreciate your visiting with us today my good man.
The locomotive certainly sounds great, it is nice to see shunting being done, thank you so very much for bringing us this excellent video presentation. It is always nice to see a well presented locomotive and R. J. Corman's locomotives always fit the bill. Thanks again for taking the time to provide us with these gems.
Great Steve, if you're going to Dover you HAVE TO go to the Warther wood carving museum, it only a couple of blocks from where this vid was taken. he did some of the most incredible wood carvings of steam locos that have ever been made, absolutely phenonmenal, you will love that place I promise
@@ccrx6700 We have heard about this place also from a good friend of ours, I will be contacting you as time gets closer and details come to be on the trip next year.
I may be wrong, but I thought R.J. Corman was a railroad services provider, not an actual railroad company; they provide switching operations and MOW services to the major railroads. There is an R.J. Corman locomotive here in Lafayette, parked on Norfolk Southern property; occasionally I'll see it doing switching in the Norfolk yard.
Steven yes that's how they started out, then once they got big they started buying up short lines. Here's a link to a great video that tells the Corman story, you will really like this vid ruclips.net/video/WZhtun5LUjc/видео.html
@@stevencooper2464 I didn't either until watched that Steven, I loved that video and thought you would too, it is amazing to me what a humble and great guy that was who started at the very bottom. Thanks for replying back!
On the old Milwaukee Road, MP15AC's were known for dragging built trains upwards of 15,000 tons into ready tracks at major terminals. They are some bull-stout little switchers.
@@ccrx6700 You're welcome. I remember reading about that in a "Locomotive" magazine issue from the perspective of a conductor who was working for Canadian Pacific. Interestingly, the Milwaukee MP15AC's that I was referring to were known on the CP as "Bandits", former Milwaukee MP15AC's that had not been rebuilt/repainted into CP colors. In the article, the conductor mentioned also of a local transfer job that involved taking a coal train down to a power plant to be unloaded, normally done via doubling due to a small hill en route. In his MP15AC "Bandit" story, the engineer he was with said they were taking the whole 14,000 ton train in one lick. The wildest part: although the train got down to 2mph on the hill climb, the Bandit engine dragged the entire train up and over the hill all by its lonesome. So, you can bet top dollar them MP15AC's are unique.
I remember watching them at Bensenville yard near O’Hare airport near Chicago. The sound was just awesomeness!! Only a couple of the AC’s got painted into the red/ light gray of the Soo Line
I wished more people took pride in there job and enjoyed the rewards of good hard honest work like you. It’s the biggest problem with our youth today. Love the video pal 👍🏻
I believe that line is owned by CSX, and is leased too R.J.Corman. The line is ex B&O. This line ran from Cleveland Ohio too Wheeling West Virginia. Sadly this line is removed from just south of Urichville Ohio all the way down to Wheeling. Some of those tanker cars are going to Dover Chemical company.
Always sharp looking equipment. Nice to see they're continuing RJ's commitment to sharp looking equipment. I highly recommend viewing the RJ Corman documentary on YT. It was cool.
Yes they do have some really nice stuff and keep it that way. That was an awesome vid Dennis, Working hard to be lucky, the RJ Corman story, here's the link if anyone wants to watch, it is a great video ruclips.net/video/WZhtun5LUjc/видео.html
Awesome video Dave and that's one of my ABSOLUTE FAVORITE LOCOMOTIVES the MP15AC! That's quite a neat yard if its R.J CORMANS and the house right across from the siding is somewhere I'd like to live to get my daily fix of trains!
Yes they do Bob, wondering if you've watched this video, called working hard to be lucky the RJ Corman story? You will really like that video ruclips.net/user/results?search_query=working+hard+to+be+lucky
@@bobparsons77 Figured you'd enjoy it Bob, haven't been on Belen for some time now, things have changed there a lot from the past, I do miss the old group we had there, we had some special times together.
The railroad where I worked leased a GP15. It was set up with a special fast loading control that made it great for switching. I liked that little locomotive.
You stumbled on a great catch rj runs a very short line interchange here in Alabama down in childersburg. They always have clean equipment and are always on time they wait on you ...you never wait on them! Rj corman was a hell of a man ...self made for sure. Left this world way too soon!
Have you seen this video, working hard to be lucky, the rj corman story it's totally awesome Jason. Yep and lucked out on this one. Mrs. ccrx wasn't too thrilled waiting on me, but sorry bout her luck....LOL ruclips.net/video/WZhtun5LUjc/видео.html
@@ccrx6700 I have seen the video it's awesome. Alot about him is told in the video. Sad day when he died. I've never seen a dirty locomotive or red truck that had his name on it. And to me that speaks volumes. You know you can have a clean house but if your yard is dirty people will think your house is too. At least people think our house is clean lol!
Thank you Scott, got really lucky, was gonna buy gas up the street, then saw it a few pennies cheaper here, so tightwad me drove down to that station and sure glad I did, got rewarded! Appreciate your watching sir
Glad you enjoyed Jeff, thanks, you might really like this video, it's the rj corman story if you haven't seen it, really awesome story of how he got started and where he ended up at, what a man that guy was ruclips.net/video/WZhtun5LUjc/видео.html
We had an old EMD SW1200 built in 1965 for many years switching the yards. Had to get rid of it because it wasn't "green" enough for California. Now we have an NRE 3GS21B that we got this year and an old kodachrome we've had for a long time.
Oh it has been unreliable. In the shop every other week. But the old kodachrome keeps on trucking. The old SW12000 we had to torch holes in the engine block so it could never run again then it got cut up and scrapped.
now now now, be careful what you type, you tube bot is watching, it automatically deletes any 4 letter cuss word, but again, that was a 6 letter word....LOL
I live about 15 minutes south of Dover, and I remember going across the bridge there all the time as a kid. There is always something going on there in that yard. Great catch!
Sweet, thanks for the info, was first time I was ever at that yard, been to Warther's, what an awesome place and passed by Dover many times on way to Holmes County, nice area, we like it
Thanks Rick, just lucked out on this one, was going to stop at a gas station earlier but saw a better price on this one, so drove down, sure glad I was a cheap skate and wanted to save a couple pennies! LOL Appreciate your watching my friend
It looks to be an MP-15 AC which was probably about the last model of that type of switcher to be built. MP-15 switchers beginning with the standard DC model and ending with the AC model were built from 1974 until 1980 according to one source.
I've worked on a few of those and their earlier SW 1500 cousins. None of those made much black smoke like this one did, they all were making blue and gray oil smoke! RJC has that one tuned right!
My engineer sir. Your this video is different experience to me by the views of shunting of locomotive engine and that train.. What is carrying in that train? ❤️🧡💛💚
I'm not sure what all was in that train Thomas. You guys call it shunting as most of Europe does also. We call it switching, same thing just different terms. You have shunting engines while we call them switching engines or just switchers.
Have you seen this video Mack Fisher on the RJ Corman story? it is an awesome video, hard working and never give up attitude this guy had ruclips.net/video/WZhtun5LUjc/видео.html
Good day i wonderd what happened to you sir butt now i saw although i am subscribed and got the bell set to show me as soon as you make a new video i dont get informed about it so i went into my subscriptions and saw that you do have new videos.Go well God bless.
Fantastic catch Dave, see you get lucky sometimes as well 🤣 , RJ corman is elusive to me when I go fishing. Got no love when I was in Dover, and really appreciate the time and research you put in your descriptions, always find alot I don't know from them, so thank you my friend.
Your welcome, was gonna get gas up the road, but saw a sign a few cents cheaper, so tight wad me went to that gas station and viola, there was Corman, guess it pays to be a cheap skate.... LOL
If you stop at a truck stop you can find a hazmat book their orange in color. It will tell you everything regarding the plackcards and what the tank cars are carrying.
Thanks William for the info, being around coal cars all the time never paid lot of attention to what all the placards mean, but always open to learn new things
GOOD MORNIN DAVE ! It's 10:00 am here a Saturday the 25th. What better way than watching your videos to wake up to? Nice "Spec. Sheet" about that loco and others like her. Yeah ! Some of us do care about the details. YES ! For an "OLD LADY" she sure is a "LOOKER"!!!
As a railroader, I can never pass a yard without stopping to see what’s happening. I live about a mile from the CSX Main Line sub. Former L&N main. Always interesting traffic. A lot of auto rack unit trains, some mixed freight, a daily local, and about once a week an RJ Corman unit train with aluminum billet slabs. Occasionally we see Norfolk Southern power on that line and have seen Burlington Northern and Union Pacific power very occasionally.
I live right next to the Henderson Sub(former L&N), and there’s quite a bit of action as well. It starts at South Howell(Evansville, IN) and ends at Amqui, TN which is where it meets up with the line you refer to.
Geez, now I really feel old! I remember back when "relics" like this were State of the Art! The relics of that era were Penn Central NW-2s from the late 1940s! Rode on one at the local yard.
@@ernestpassaro9663 Yeah, LOL. They needed it! I lived near the once-famous PRR Fort Wayne Div mainline, and by the time I was a young railfan in the early 70's, the old Fort Wayne was in pretty rough shape!
LOL, PSR want do away with all switching, only run unit trains! They would love to do away with small customers and less than car loads. You ever do any Corman tracks Ezekiel? or since you're the best prob NS pays big bucks to keep you on their tracks!
@@ccrx6700 I’m strictly NS for now … but I just lost 2 more lines to the NonStop program. Before too long I’ll pushed off to the short lines. They hire college educated folks to do that NonStop testing stuff.
You can move a lot of cars on the flat with 1500HP. A lot of the reason you need a lot of power on freight trains is to maintain speed up hills -- you need the power to lift all that weight vertically. If you don't mind going slowly and you don't need to go up hills, you can move a lot of weight with a small locomotive.
Thank you David, sure with I knew that when the video was made, I never knew this was here and just happened to get lucky. Appreciate your writing in and for watching my good man.
@@ccrx6700 yeah, it wasn’t enough to require oxygen, but was horrible. I was gassed more than once by chlorine and silver dioxide. We had a leak on a tank car once(because a valve wasn’t shut off all the way.). The connections(lines/fittings/piping, etc) are all prone to leaking (mainly where you have a flange or fitting to hook up.). If you forgot to leave a valve open when you pull a vacuum on a line, you can be gassed, etc. I was always having sinus infections when I worked in the compressed gas departments. Even the vapor from the chlorine in an empty cylinder will choke you open with the valve open.
Not that trip merlin, but we did go there couple of years prior, what a totally awesome visit that was. I never saw anything as unique as his carvings were. We will go back. Thanks for writing in and watching the video my friend.
looks like you were filming switching moves at a transload facility and the that deck to the right you were pointing at is a scale for weighing trucks coming in and out..
You very well could be right Joe, viewing this place was a first for me so sorry I was rather ignorant of what it was all about, got lucky just passing thru. Do appreciate your watching sir
Great catch dave, that switcher sounds sweet, 1000, or better hp? They did a nice restoration job on her, rj Corman has a operation in Conway south Carolina, saw it nice video!
Being a truck driver that hauls hazmat, I have to have an emergency response guidebook with me in the event of some type of release. I used to be in the fire service and had to take hazmat classes when I was a member of the fire department.
I have the actual ERG book in my work truck but also I have the app on my phone. If I’m somewhere and hi get caught by a train at the crossing, sometimes I’ll look at the Placards on passing tank cars to see what’s in them
@@railfanpat1719 Wow awesome Patrick! Thanks for replying back to me, kudos to you sir for your work. Really good to hear from someone who knows what it's like to go out there and work around dangerous materials like you do everyday. Truck drivers are in demand now a days
I love those little EMD switchers! Jaw Tooth shows a short line that has a black one quite a bit, but your bridge view of this yard with this shiny red Corman one is pretty awesome! A little tip on your hashtags Dave - RUclips will publish three of them per video. They must not have spaces as a space means stop - connect the words using Camel Case. If you did #RJCorman #FlatSwitching and #CormanCleavelend RUclips would have published all three, but because #rj is repeated several times, they only publish it once and ignore the rest. #flat is the only other valid hashtag because there is a space after it. You can put in as many hashtags as you want, but again they will only publish three. You can look at the one's on my videos for reference. Have a great day 😊
Thank you, really appreciate the knowledge on that! I'm learning and not too many folks like to share their info with me on stuff like that, so will fix and do better in future. You are a wealth of knowledge my friend and listen to what you tell me, can't thank you enough
@@PlanetMojo and I thank you as well Mr mojo, I didn't know you can't repeat the same word, nor the more than 3, thank you for the info.im learning right along with Dave.
@@TriGogglin You are quite welcome! And just to be clear, you cannot repeat the exact thing - whether it be a phrase or single word, and you can have as many hashtags as you want, but RUclips will only 'elevate' (place under the video) up to three of them. 😊
..and to think your wife was sitting in the truck waiting totally oblivious to all this important stuff..guess I'm a slow learner..At least I love trains & I have a great teacher.
Switching yard cuting, switching, and joining railroad cars so that they get where they have to go. Thanks for the video! Must'a been many people from around Dover (the White Cliffs oif Dover kind of Dover) who named their settlements "Dover".
Yep Martin, looked it up on laptop when I got home, put some info bout the mp 15 in the description, thanks sir. it is a nice looking loco as most of Cormans equipment looks good
RJ Corman has ran in dover for years now. Before RJ Corman im not sure what ran on this line. The line is called the Cleveland Lines but before that it was a part of B&O before getting bought out by Chesapeake & Ohio eventually becoming the Chessie System, which is now known as CSX. When RJ Corman got there hands on this. Im not sure. I live around that area and you asked for a little info about it. They have three main engines, 1804, 4119, and 3001. 3001 is an Ex-Lehigh Railway train and the other two have always been RJC. We have the switcher, obviously, and we used to have a genset, not really sure what happened to that one.
Thanks for the great information Aiden. We really appreciate
your taking the time to share with us my friend.
Ive learned that after B&O, Chessie System ran on the line before being bought by RJ Corman. I also discovered that the Pennsylvania Railroad ran through Dover as well. Penn Central saw no need to keep it in Dover and tore up track. B&O had passenger trains in Dover as well but the government stopped ghat because of Amtrak
EMD MP15AC; Lookin' really nice!
It certainly is tfs4499. Thank you for taking the time to watch the video and write in. May you have a most blessed day my friend.
@@ccrx6700Cool video, thanks for sharing, BE Blessed and SAFE!
@@tfs4499 👍😊
Loôk up the history and beginning of Rick Corman......very very impressive!
You are certainly right in that! There an excellent video on tube
bout him called Working Hard to be Lucky, totally awesome video
if you haven't seen it. Do appreciate your watching the video
here Robert
I've always liked the paint scheme on those RJ Corman locomotives.
Everything bout Corman is first class for sure, have you ever watched
video bout Corman, working hard to be lucky? It a great video on tube
@@ccrx6700 I did watch that video! Lots of neat information in that video!
@@ericcoffedgp40 yep Eric, I loved it
I worker that RJ Corman line back in the early 90's. Operations have changed a lot since then.
Cool, yes a lot of RR operations have changed since the good old
days louderone, and not always for the best. Thank you so much for taking the time to write in and to check out the video my friend.
Engine sounds good!!
It certainly does Shane, hope I sound that good when I get that old...LOL
@@ccrx6700 lolol me too
@@gophergarage 🤣
R. J. Corman. A Classic class act Railroad. ! 🇺🇸👍😎
Yes they are Charles, everyone talks highly of them and their
services. We do thank you for watching sir
Drove for trucks for 45years. Used to deliver ties and rail to their locations. Mostly from Koppers in Guthrie Kentucky.
@@charlesferebee263 sweet Charles, kipper got a plant far east here in PA. I think they are a pretty big company, all over
It is October 5th. Just caught this engine working Wooster today switching out Frito-Lay. Usually this line is served by either a rebuilt GP7 or GP20 so this was a pleasant change of pace. The horn was a dead giveaway that this was not the usual power assigned over here.
How sweet it is! Awesome Christopher thanks for sharing 😊
I used to work for PECCO inc. And RJ Cormans head courters was just a mile or so down the road. Mr.RJ sir R.I.P. He has a nice setup in K.Y.
Sweet! There is a video on You Tube: Working Hard to Be Lucky
about him if you haven't seen it. It's an awesome video. Thanks
for writing in and watching the video sir.
Thanks I'll definitely check it out.
Nice switching action Dave!
Got lucky Brian, appreciate your watching my friend
Used to see one of those switchers in Sioux Falls on the Ellis and Eastern. Those smoke stacks are classic
Neat, these are classic, what not to love about them. Do thank
you for watching the video Peter
Awesome catch, that is really beautiful and sounds great!!
Thanks for taking the time out of your day to tune in and
watch the video today GreenRC24. Was kind of you to visit
with us my friend.
Excellent video I enjoyed watching it.👍😁😁😁😁😁🚂🇬🇧
Glad you enjoyed Tony and appreciate your nice comment sir
Thats neat, we got them here in Spencerville. They run a sw1200 that was once used by GTW, they assigned it to the line in sometime of 2016 or 17. I've been trying to catch it for about 4 years now but whenever they do run it, it's usually in the morning hours when I'm dealing with high school stuff, it seems like they run it every other Thursday.
Glad you enjoyed. We certainly appreciate your taking the time
to watch the video and write in my friend.
that was a cool watch cheers buddy
Glad you enjoyed the video Mark. Do so appreciate your taking
the time to write in and for checking out the presentation my friend.
Enjoyed it. My short brush with 'hands on' railroading was in 1953/1954. I was a senior in high school and scored a part time job as a clerk for NYC RR Yard Master in East St Louis. The line had diesels on the road but all of the switchers were the last of the steam engines. Details are foggy but it is one of the most memorable times in my life. Your videos don't disappoint in keeping the spirit alive.
Wow, in 1954 I was born and here you were working on the RR, pretty
neat stuff! Thanks for writing and and sharing that sir.
do you have any pics of your time there... that would be nice to see
@@25mfd I wish I did. :-(
@@25mfd sorry but I don't 😭
RJ Corman has a big yard with at least 3 of those switchers, in Lexington, Kentucky plus he has his main offices in Nicholasville, Ky.
Thanks for sharing that with us Joe and for watching the video
my good man.
Thankyou always good content. You have good day too. Always to see video from you. Made my day
Thanks John, glad you enjoyed today's show, we do appreciate
your watching sir
This was Old CSX Akron Branch that Ran from Akron Down to New Philly the Yard where Dover Chemical. This also was a Connection to the Ashland Oil in Canton which was CSX Biggest Customer and Timken Harrison Ave Plant Also in this was Old B&O Line would Go Down to Cambridge now the Former Akron Branch now served by WLE up by the Akron Canton Airport and the Tourist Train CSVR
Thank you Derrick for the great info, that's pretty cool being it was old
B&O track, wish I knew that when I was there and made video, just
happened to ride around and find it without doing any research on it.
We rode the CVSR on our trip to Ohio that time, but it didn't go on
that route.
@@ccrx6700 your Welcome Dave. I used to live in Canton so I was 25 mins from Dover coming Down there back in the Late80s to Mid90s . When CSX Sold the line I was Suprised. But South of the WLE Crossing 15th St SE in Canton Wheeling has a Spur. To Industrial Area in Canton City and Canton Township and North of CP WANDLE (McKinley Ave SW to North Canton Industrial Park near the Akron-Canton Airport in Green
@@Steelers2841 👍😊
i love dover, cool old town, need to head back to the warther museum
Was at Warther many years ago, totally awesome, we will go back!
Just unbelievable what that man did, I was fascinated
@@ccrx6700 a craftsmen if there ever was one , the carving knives alone, always wanted to have a little shed workshop like his
RJ Corman is sure a professional outfit. All their equipment is always clean and shiny.
They certainly are, everyone speaks highly of Corman
Yes - RJ Corman always has some clean and cool equipment! This is nearly 40 years old or so and works like a fine tuned clock :) Very nice to see some switch work!
Glad you enjoyed Brian, really appreciate your watching, everyone
says nice things bout Corman, you may enjoy this video
ruclips.net/video/WZhtun5LUjc/видео.html
*nearly 50. RJJC 1410 was built in 1976.
I'm Terry from Cambridge Ohio about 1 hour south of Dover. You was at the classification yard for RJ Corman. The tank cars are for Dover Chemical on the north side of the crossing. Their derailment teams are also stationed at the yard.
Thank you Terry for the information. That was the first time I
had ever been there and wish I knew that when the video was made.
Dover is a nice place and what not to love about Warther, that
place was totally awesome. Appreciate your visiting with us today
my good man.
Nice catch there Dave. EMD switchers sound so good. And bonus overhead footage too. I wish I could find such a spot to watch some switching like that.
Just lucked out, was gonna get gas at station before this, then noticed a couple pennies cheaper down street, so my being tightwad paid off 🙃
Saved some pennies, saw and heard some nice RR switching, and got something to share with your viewers. Win, win, win! 👍
Looks like a MP15 AC
Thank you for the great video on flat switching . Always enjoy watching your video's. 😀👍🇨🇦
Thank you Ray, glad you liked the show today sir
Great condition
Yes it was in very nice shape and sounded pretty darn good too.
Thanks for writing in and watching the video, we do appreciate that.
The locomotive certainly sounds great, it is nice to see shunting being done, thank you so very much for bringing us this excellent video presentation. It is always nice to see a well presented locomotive and R. J. Corman's locomotives always fit the bill. Thanks again for taking the time to provide us with these gems.
Your welcome John and thanks for watching. We do appreciate
that sir
Very cool video of the RJ Corman switching, I hope that my wife and I can see some of that next year when we head out that way.
Great Steve, if you're going to Dover you HAVE TO go to the Warther
wood carving museum, it only a couple of blocks from where this
vid was taken. he did some of the most incredible wood carvings
of steam locos that have ever been made, absolutely phenonmenal,
you will love that place I promise
@@ccrx6700 We have heard about this place also from a good friend of ours, I will be contacting you as time gets closer and details come to be on the trip next year.
@@StormySkyRailProductions 👍
I may be wrong, but I thought R.J. Corman was a railroad services provider, not an actual railroad company; they provide switching operations and MOW services to the major railroads. There is an R.J. Corman locomotive here in Lafayette, parked on Norfolk Southern property; occasionally I'll see it doing switching in the Norfolk yard.
Steven yes that's how they started out, then once they got big
they started buying up short lines. Here's a link to a great video that
tells the Corman story, you will really like this vid
ruclips.net/video/WZhtun5LUjc/видео.html
@@ccrx6700 That was a very interesting and informative video; I had no idea R.J. Corman was so big. Thank you for the link.
@@stevencooper2464 I didn't either until watched that Steven, I loved that video
and thought you would too, it is amazing to me what a humble and great
guy that was who started at the very bottom. Thanks for replying back!
@@stevencooper2464 your welcome
On the old Milwaukee Road, MP15AC's were known for dragging built trains upwards of 15,000 tons into ready tracks at major terminals. They are some bull-stout little switchers.
Sweet Stephen, thanks for sharing that, this one sounded like it
had some pulling power
@@ccrx6700 You're welcome. I remember reading about that in a "Locomotive" magazine issue from the perspective of a conductor who was working for Canadian Pacific.
Interestingly, the Milwaukee MP15AC's that I was referring to were known on the CP as "Bandits", former Milwaukee MP15AC's that had not been rebuilt/repainted into CP colors. In the article, the conductor mentioned also of a local transfer job that involved taking a coal train down to a power plant to be unloaded, normally done via doubling due to a small hill en route. In his MP15AC "Bandit" story, the engineer he was with said they were taking the whole 14,000 ton train in one lick. The wildest part: although the train got down to 2mph on the hill climb, the Bandit engine dragged the entire train up and over the hill all by its lonesome. So, you can bet top dollar them MP15AC's are unique.
I remember watching them at Bensenville yard near O’Hare airport near Chicago. The sound was just awesomeness!! Only a couple of the AC’s got painted into the red/ light gray of the Soo Line
Nice catch
Glad you enjoyed the show today, we do appreciate your watching
I wished more people took pride in there job and enjoyed the rewards of good hard honest work like you. It’s the biggest problem with our youth today. Love the video pal 👍🏻
Thanks Christopher, great to hear you liked the show today sir,
we do appreciate your watching
"This is railroadin'!"
@@edtompkins865 😉
Wow. I love that you were able to find a great vantage point to view the yard and the other side of the train. So cool!
Glad you enjoyed and we appreciate your watching
I believe that line is owned by CSX, and is leased too R.J.Corman. The line is ex B&O. This line ran from Cleveland Ohio too Wheeling West Virginia. Sadly this line is removed from just south of Urichville Ohio all the way down to Wheeling. Some of those tanker cars are going to Dover Chemical company.
Thanks for the info Ryan, much appreciate your writing in and
for watching my good man.
Always sharp looking equipment. Nice to see they're continuing RJ's commitment to sharp looking equipment. I highly recommend viewing the RJ Corman documentary on YT. It was cool.
Yes they do have some really nice stuff and keep it that way. That
was an awesome vid Dennis, Working hard to be lucky, the RJ Corman story, here's the link if anyone wants to watch, it is a great video
ruclips.net/video/WZhtun5LUjc/видео.html
No doubt... watched that during lock down. Great documentary
Looks like a mp1500
@@procrastinatingprepper412 yes it was Joe, awesome how he went from zero to multi millions, hard work and never give up attitude
He took care of his employees and always ran a tight ship.
Good video 👍
Thanks, and great to hear you enjoyed the show today, we do
appreciate your watching
Awesome video Dave and that's one of my ABSOLUTE FAVORITE LOCOMOTIVES the MP15AC! That's quite a neat yard if its R.J CORMANS and the house right across from the siding is somewhere I'd like to live to get my daily fix of trains!
Thank you very much and great to hear you enjoyed the show Shawn.
We do appreciate your nice comment and for watching my friend
Nice Video.
Thank you Derrick, great to hear you liked the show today sir
RJC always look after their equipment.
Yes they do Bob, wondering if you've watched this video, called
working hard to be lucky the RJ Corman story? You will really
like that video
ruclips.net/user/results?search_query=working+hard+to+be+lucky
@@ccrx6700 Wow..a very moving story Dave.
@@bobparsons77 figured you'd like it Bob
@@bobparsons77 Figured you'd enjoy it Bob, haven't been on Belen
for some time now, things have changed there a lot from the past,
I do miss the old group we had there, we had some special times
together.
@@ccrx6700 Been thinking about the Montana crash Dave///maybe a switch issue??
Corman equipment always looks good
Yes it does, they take really good care of their stuff, thanks for
watching Mike
Always nice to see a real switch engine in action. Most of the time it’s a road engine,or two doing switching duties. Nice video thank you.
Your welcome Edward, yep most RR's refurbish their old road locos
for switching duties, it is nice to see these old guys still in action
The railroad where I worked leased a GP15. It was set up with a special fast loading control that made it great for switching. I liked that little locomotive.
The numbers identify the hazard class
Ie 1203 flammable is gasoline
@@ernestpassaro9663 👌
You stumbled on a great catch rj runs a very short line interchange here in Alabama down in childersburg. They always have clean equipment and are always on time they wait on you ...you never wait on them! Rj corman was a hell of a man ...self made for sure. Left this world way too soon!
Have you seen this video, working hard to be lucky, the rj corman story
it's totally awesome Jason. Yep and lucked out on this one. Mrs. ccrx
wasn't too thrilled waiting on me, but sorry bout her luck....LOL
ruclips.net/video/WZhtun5LUjc/видео.html
@@ccrx6700 I have seen the video it's awesome. Alot about him is told in the video. Sad day when he died. I've never seen a dirty locomotive or red truck that had his name on it. And to me that speaks volumes. You know you can have a clean house but if your yard is dirty people will think your house is too. At least people think our house is clean lol!
@@ccrx6700 Just watched the video- what an incredible story!
@@alandaters8547 👍 yep it is
Awesome catch. I love end cab switchers and switching. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you Scott, got really lucky, was gonna buy gas up the street, then saw it a few pennies cheaper here, so tightwad me drove
down to that station and sure glad I did, got rewarded! Appreciate
your watching sir
That was great! Thanks Dave
Glad you enjoyed Jeff, thanks, you might really like this video,
it's the rj corman story if you haven't seen it, really awesome story
of how he got started and where he ended up at, what a man that
guy was
ruclips.net/video/WZhtun5LUjc/видео.html
@@ccrx6700 Thanks I will definitely check it out!
@@jjxtwo1 you will love that vid Jeff
We had an old EMD SW1200 built in 1965 for many years switching the yards. Had to get rid of it because it wasn't "green" enough for California. Now we have an NRE 3GS21B that we got this year and an old kodachrome we've had for a long time.
hope they still have it, those genset switchers can be unreliable.
Oh it has been unreliable. In the shop every other week. But the old kodachrome keeps on trucking. The old SW12000 we had to torch holes in the engine block so it could never run again then it got cut up and scrapped.
@@michaelball760 that calif. for you, that's 1 f**ked up state! I guess that kodachrome is a a ex SP locomotive....
@@rearspeaker6364 yes it is, I believe it was used around the tehachapi area before we got it
now now now, be careful what you type, you tube bot is watching,
it automatically deletes any 4 letter cuss word, but again, that was a 6 letter word....LOL
I hope you got to checkout the Warther Carvings while in Dover.
We been there 5 years ago, it's been a totally incredible place ❤
I live about 15 minutes south of Dover, and I remember going across the bridge there all the time as a kid. There is always something going on there in that yard. Great catch!
Sweet, thanks for the info, was first time I was ever at that yard, been
to Warther's, what an awesome place and passed by Dover many times on way to Holmes County, nice area, we like it
Got to say rj cormans locomotives look well maintained and clean
Yes everything bout Corman is first class, always good looking and well maintained you are right Ernest
They also switch out out rail cars at deflecto.
Thanks Victor, we do appreciate your watching sir
THIS IS AN MP15AC, USED TO BE A CSX ENGINE.
Thank you for sharing that Terry. Appreciate your taking the time to watch today's video my friend.
Good catch Dave! Always fun to watch switching and building. That is a good looking switch unit for sure. Thanks and stay safe!
Thanks Rick, just lucked out on this one, was going to stop at a
gas station earlier but saw a better price on this one, so drove
down, sure glad I was a cheap skate and wanted to save a couple
pennies! LOL Appreciate your watching my friend
You are doing a great job
@@ernestpassaro9663 thank you, very much appreciate your kind words
Awesome!
Thanks David, really glad you enjoyed today's show sir, we do
appreciate your watching
Excellent video of some switching. Thank you Dave.
Certainly Curt, great that you enjoyed today's show my friend
It looks to be an MP-15 AC which was probably about the last model of that type of switcher to be built. MP-15 switchers beginning with the standard DC model and ending with the AC model were built from 1974 until 1980 according to one source.
Yep was mp 15 ac, went home and looked it up on computer,
that old girl sounded pretty good, appreciate your watching Ralphie
I've worked on a few of those and their earlier SW 1500 cousins. None of those made much black smoke like this one did, they all were making blue and gray oil smoke! RJC has that one tuned right!
@@ralfie8801 thanks Ralfie for the info ☺
That's what it is.
Great video
Thank you very much, great to hear you enjoyed, we do apprecaite
your watching
Loved it! Thanks for sharing Dave.
Your welcome, great that you enjoyed
My engineer sir.
Your this video is different experience to me by the views of shunting of locomotive engine and that train.. What is carrying in
that train? ❤️🧡💛💚
I'm not sure what all was in that train Thomas. You guys call it
shunting as most of Europe does also. We call it switching,
same thing just different terms. You have shunting engines
while we call them switching engines or just switchers.
@@ccrx6700 👍👍
❤️🧡💛💚
R J Corman has a nice website
Have you seen this video Mack Fisher on the RJ Corman story?
it is an awesome video, hard working and never give up attitude this
guy had
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Good day i wonderd what happened to you sir butt now i saw although i am subscribed and got the bell set to show me as soon as you make a new video i dont get informed about it so i went into my subscriptions and saw that you do have new videos.Go well God bless.
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Typical of a Rick Corman company, clean and well cared for. To be good you have to look good, R.I.P Mr. Corman
Yes you are right, they are first class all the way, everyone
speaks highly of them
Fantastic catch Dave, see you get lucky sometimes as well 🤣 , RJ corman is elusive to me when I go fishing. Got no love when I was in Dover, and really appreciate the time and research you put in your descriptions, always find alot I don't know from them, so thank you my friend.
Your welcome, was gonna get gas up the road, but saw a sign
a few cents cheaper, so tight wad me went to that gas station and
viola, there was Corman, guess it pays to be a cheap skate.... LOL
@@ccrx6700 lol for sure, in a round about way it always pays off, just like this time.
If you stop at a truck stop you can find a hazmat book their orange in color. It will tell you everything regarding the plackcards and what the tank cars are carrying.
Thanks William for the info, being around coal cars all the time never paid lot of attention to what all the placards mean, but always open to learn new things
She be shining like a new dime.Thank for sharing super trackman!👷🚂
Your welcome, really glad you enjoyed the show today, we do
appreciate your watching
Nice
Glad you enjoyed today's show, we do appreciate your watching
GOOD MORNIN DAVE ! It's 10:00 am here a Saturday the 25th. What better way than watching your videos to wake up to? Nice "Spec. Sheet" about that loco and others like her. Yeah ! Some of us do care about the details. YES ! For an "OLD LADY" she sure is a "LOOKER"!!!
Thank you Captain Tom, glad you got to start your day out right! LOL
appreciate your watching sir
I believe that is a EMD MP-15-1 if I'm not mistaking. Awesome video as always
Yep Kenny, put the details on it in the description. Glad you
enjoyed the show we do appreciate your watching sir
wow fantastic and beautiful music that EMD is playing I just Love It :-)
😁 👍 those old emd engines sound great
As a railroader, I can never pass a yard without stopping to see what’s happening. I live about a mile from the CSX Main Line sub. Former L&N main. Always interesting traffic. A lot of auto rack unit trains, some mixed freight, a daily local, and about once a week an RJ Corman unit train with aluminum billet slabs.
Occasionally we see Norfolk Southern power on that line and have seen Burlington Northern and Union Pacific power very occasionally.
I live right next to the Henderson Sub(former L&N), and there’s quite a bit of action as well. It starts at South Howell(Evansville, IN) and ends at Amqui, TN which is where it meets up with the line you refer to.
Awesome Bill! All we have here where I live is NS and only coal, so
that's great you get to see a nice variety
Geez, now I really feel old! I remember back when "relics" like this were State of the Art! The relics of that era were Penn Central NW-2s from the late 1940s! Rode on one at the local yard.
My railroad had an nw2 loudest horn I ever heard lol
@@ernestpassaro9663 With the junk the old PC had, I'm not even sure the horns worked! Never heard em!
@@b3j8 yep PC sure ran junk !
Did you see the video PC made begging for cash lol
@@ernestpassaro9663 Yeah, LOL. They needed it! I lived near the once-famous PRR Fort Wayne Div mainline, and by the time I was a young railfan in the early 70's, the old Fort Wayne was in pretty rough shape!
Time for merch! T-shirt idea:. "That's Railroadin'! I love it!"
Hopefully someday I will get that taken care of, been dragging
my feet on it. Thanks for reminding me
Flat Switching the way of the future under PSR!
LOL, PSR want do away with all switching, only run unit trains! They would love to do away with small customers and less than car loads.
You ever do any Corman tracks Ezekiel? or since you're the best prob NS pays big bucks to keep you on their tracks!
@@ccrx6700 I’m strictly NS for now … but I just lost 2 more lines to the NonStop program. Before too long I’ll pushed off to the short lines. They hire college educated folks to do that NonStop testing stuff.
@@emknapp6713 😭
Placard warning numbers:
2312 Denotes poison hazard
1017 Denotes inhalation hazard
AWESOME Switcher , love that sound also . Alot of cars for one switcher , no ?
I thought the same, but Dave's description says 1500 HP- good power and undoubtably in great shape, considering the owner!
Glad you enjoyed watching, we do appreciate that
You can move a lot of cars on the flat with 1500HP. A lot of the reason you need a lot of power on freight trains is to maintain speed up hills -- you need the power to lift all that weight vertically. If you don't mind going slowly and you don't need to go up hills, you can move a lot of weight with a small locomotive.
@@beeble2003 👍
Good catch Dave....
Thank you Henry, glad you enjoyed sir and hope you are doing well,
miss chatting with you. We do appreciate your watching the video today
a lot of those cars are for or from dover chemical.. just north of that location.. you can see the plant beside I-77
Thank you David, sure with I knew that when the video was made,
I never knew this was here and just happened to get lucky. Appreciate
your writing in and for watching my good man.
1017 I believe is chorine
Thanks Patrick, I'm not very intelligent on what the placard
numbers are, appreciate your input sir. Chlorine is wicked stuff!
Yes it is. I worked at a chemical repackage plant for some time. I’ve had the displeasure of being gassed by that stuff and sulfur dioxide.
@@bluegrassman3040 oh wow! I seen a chlorine leak that literally ate up steel pipes, can you still breathe? Had to tear up your lungs 😢
@@ccrx6700 yeah, it wasn’t enough to require oxygen, but was horrible. I was gassed more than once by chlorine and silver dioxide. We had a leak on a tank car once(because a valve wasn’t shut off all the way.). The connections(lines/fittings/piping, etc) are all prone to leaking (mainly where you have a flange or fitting to hook up.). If you forgot to leave a valve open when you pull a vacuum on a line, you can be gassed, etc. I was always having sinus infections when I worked in the compressed gas departments. Even the vapor from the chlorine in an empty cylinder will choke you open with the valve open.
@@bluegrassman3040 oh dear, you got into some pretty rough stuff there, hope you doing okay now
EMD MP15AC 1500 HP
Thanks for writing in and for watching the video Mike,
we do appreciate that my good man.
Just saw this video and wondering if you went to the Warther Museum while in dover?
Not that trip merlin, but we did go there couple of years prior,
what a totally awesome visit that was. I never saw anything
as unique as his carvings were. We will go back. Thanks for
writing in and watching the video my friend.
Great video. I sure want to hear what you saw. Thanks
Thank you, great to hear you enjoyed the show today, we do
appreciate your watching
Interesting
Were you in Dover visiting the Carving Museum?
Joe, we had visited that bout 5 years ago, ran out of time this year,
but will go back, it is Super Awesome place for sure
Neat
Last mile railroads..terminal railroads
It looks like an MP 15 AC switcher.
Thanks, went home and looked it up on computer, wrote in the
video description the details on it. we do appreciate your watching Scott
Looks like an mp15dc or some variation of an mp15
Yep Ty, put the details of this loco in the description if you'd
like to read it. Appreciate your watching
looks like you were filming switching moves at a transload facility and the that deck to the right you were pointing at is a scale for weighing trucks coming in and out..
You very well could be right Joe, viewing this place was a first for
me so sorry I was rather ignorant of what it was all about, got
lucky just passing thru. Do appreciate your watching sir
Thanks Dave. I really enjoyed watching this video over my morning coffee. I really love watching yard action.
Your welcome Lewis, great to start the day off with! Would have stayed longer but Mrs. ccrx was waiting in truck wanting to go....
SW1200?
Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by and check out the R J Corman flat switching action. May you have a most blessed day my friend.
Placard number are what's inside
Thanks Joseph and we do appreciate your watching sir
That switcher could be an MP15.
Yep it is, put some info on it in the description, thanks for watching
HELLO DAVE ITS IS RANDY AND I LIKE U VIDEO IS COOL DAVE THANKS DAVE FRIENDS RANDY
Hi Randy, thanks for watching my friend, hope you enjoyed
Great catch dave, that switcher sounds sweet, 1000, or better hp? They did a nice restoration job on her, rj Corman has a operation in Conway south Carolina, saw it nice video!
Thanks Jeff, glad you liked it, 1500 HP sir. Corman is a first class
operation all over from what I'm hearing
R J Corman, headquartered in Tucson Arizona? Go figure.
I have an ERG app on my phone Dave.
Aahhh I see said the blindman, had look erg up but get ya now.
Being a truck driver that hauls hazmat, I have to have an emergency response guidebook with me in the event of some type of release. I used to be in the fire service and had to take hazmat classes when I was a member of the fire department.
I have the actual ERG book in my work truck but also I have the app on my phone. If I’m somewhere and hi get caught by a train at the crossing, sometimes I’ll look at the Placards on passing tank cars to see what’s in them
@@railfanpat1719 Wow awesome Patrick! Thanks for replying back to me,
kudos to you sir for your work. Really good to hear from someone who
knows what it's like to go out there and work around dangerous materials
like you do everyday. Truck drivers are in demand now a days
Molten Phenol I believe is the other Hazmat
What in the world is that??? never heard of it, more wicked
stuff no doubt
I love those little EMD switchers! Jaw Tooth shows a short line that has a black one quite a bit, but your bridge view of this yard with this shiny red Corman one is pretty awesome!
A little tip on your hashtags Dave - RUclips will publish three of them per video. They must not have spaces as a space means stop - connect the words using Camel Case. If you did #RJCorman #FlatSwitching and #CormanCleavelend RUclips would have published all three, but because #rj is repeated several times, they only publish it once and ignore the rest. #flat is the only other valid hashtag because there is a space after it. You can put in as many hashtags as you want, but again they will only publish three. You can look at the one's on my videos for reference. Have a great day 😊
Thank you, really appreciate the knowledge on that! I'm learning and not too many folks like to share their info with me on stuff like that, so will fix and do better in future. You are a wealth of knowledge my friend and listen to what you tell me, can't thank you enough
@@ccrx6700 You're welcome Dave! Now your tags will show up in meaningful searches. You're on the way to the top my friend! 😊
@@PlanetMojo and I thank you as well Mr mojo, I didn't know you can't repeat the same word, nor the more than 3, thank you for the info.im learning right along with Dave.
@@TriGogglin You are quite welcome! And just to be clear, you cannot repeat the exact thing - whether it be a phrase or single word, and you can have as many hashtags as you want, but RUclips will only 'elevate' (place under the video) up to three of them. 😊
..and to think your wife was sitting in the truck waiting totally oblivious to all this important stuff..guess I'm a slow learner..At least I love trains & I have a great teacher.
And I have a great wife! Luv you sweetie
We have the same switch engines at our jobs, just much newer I believe. Good video, enjoy your content. Keep it up 👍!
Thank you Jude C. Glad you enjoyed the show today and we do
appreciate your watching
Switching yard cuting, switching, and joining railroad cars so that they get where they have to go. Thanks for the video! Must'a been many people from around Dover (the White Cliffs oif Dover kind of Dover) who named their settlements "Dover".
Your welcome Robin, really glad you enjoyed the show today, we
do appreciate your watching
Model looks like an mp15
Yep Martin, looked it up on laptop when I got home, put some
info bout the mp 15 in the description, thanks sir. it is a nice
looking loco as most of Cormans equipment looks good