Trillium RS18u Runs GIO Rail's St. Catharines Job

Just over the US/Canada border in Ontario, GIO Rail's (formerly Trillium Railway) St. Catherines Job spots boxcars at the Dunn Paper warehouse with a surviving Trillium MLW RS18u, before heading south out of the southern Ontario city!
Filmed 12/28/2023
©2023 M'G:20 Productions - Matty Gunn
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Train/Engine information:
St. Catharines Job
Wainfleet, ON - St. Catharines, ON
-TRRY MLW RS18u #1859
Equipment used:
-Canon Vixia HF R800
-Sony HandyCam HDR-CX405
-Canon EOS Rebel T6 DSLR
-Uniden Bearcat BC125AT Handheld Scanner

[@davidbrown4823]

Great to see a MLW at work.

[@johnniebellamy5912]

Alcos Will Never Die

[@GEVOlutionCPKC]

Very 🆒😎🤘🏽

[@lexpo181]

Great video Matty! happy new year to come my friend :)

[@mattygunn693]

Thank you! Happy New Year!

[@andyknott8148]

Excellent. As a short line modeller living in the UK, I rely on videos like this to get it right. Case in point is the lights, manufactures of model locos like to reverse the lights with the direction of travel, in reality you can see, the engineer can't be bothered to keep turning them on and off as he switches the cars.
Perhaps someone can tell me about ditch lights as they appear to be optional when switching unless you are on a grade crossing.

[@KCTopDawg]

Nice action Matty

[@mattygunn693]

Thank you!

[@kensbackshop6399]

I can watch alcos all day long

[@annettelaurence5716]

Nice video as usual. Thank you for all your videos this year, all the best for 2024 from this side of the pond!🙃

[@hunterstewarthobbies6692]

Great Video

[@mattygunn693]

Thanks!

[@jimkelton4052]

You must live close to the border. Nice video.

[@mattygunn693]

Thank you! Yeah I live in the town of Niagara, so for me it's about a ten to fifteen minute drive to the border.

[@davejensen7258]

Interesting! No horn signals at crossings, is that a difference in Canadian law or were they in a quiet area near a hospital or something like that?

[@charlesbennett8700]

That's an interesting question that I was going to ask too.

[@mattygunn693]

I've been wondering that myself, so hopefully someone who's knowledgeable on Canadian rail ops will see this and chime in.

[@cna435]

We have an awful lot of NIMBY's here in southern Ontario that deem train horns to be a nuisance rather than a safety feature. Also the reason why the crossing bells ring continuously at grade crossings whereas in the US the bells seem to ring only when the gates move up and down, at least in some areas from my own railfanning trips. First time I saw that I thought the crossing protection system broke...

[@mattygunn693]

​@@cna435I am not at all surprised that that's why crews don't blow their horns. 🤦 There are some crossings in the US where the bells ring continuously, but they clearly aren't as common as the ones where the bell only rings when the gates are lowering. Some don't even have a bell.