RAREST TRAIN IN AMERICA! Railroad Switching On Electric Railroad! Iowa Traction Railway Shunting!
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- Опубліковано 14 жов 2022
- Last Railroad Like This In America! Railroad Switching On Last Electric Railroad Common Carrier! Iowa Traction Railway. These trains are in Mason City, Iowa on a short line railroad that operates an electric railway branch line. We see the train coming back from the Canadian Pacific Railroad interchange with a grain train. They we see them working the grain elevator in Mason City, Iowa by setting the cars off on the grain railroad spur. We also see the out of service track at the very end of the branch line. The tracks were abandoned past this point. We see the main office of the railroad and maintenance of way equipment stored at the end of the line. I have several other videos of this railroad so make sure that you see them also! These locomotives are ancient. One is over a hundred years old and the other one is almost a hundred. Can you believe that they are still in common carrier service?! This railroad is a must see for all rail fans!
Filmed in 4K with 60fps on August 13, 2021AD
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I did not expect there to be an electric railway in Iowa. Apparently this tiny locomotive dates back to 1920
There used to be electric railways like this everywhere, called interurbans. They mostly carried passengers, but also freight, often using equipment like the ones shown.
Made by Baldwin Westinghouse in the 1920's
Actually, the oldest Iowa Traction unit, IATX #60 was built in May 1917.
Electric traction is not common in America except for a few high speed lines. So it's all the more fun to have images of electric trains. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for watching !
I have driven countless times on I35 to Des Moines from Minnesota and never realized that equipment was by the interstate.
Such a cute little electric locomotive that can haul that much cars
Yes indeed!
The most I ever seen it pull: 27 loaded grain cars.
Electric railway very cool JT. Thanks for the sharing. 😇👍👌🇺🇸
Hey Jaw Tooth. Got to love those trains 🚂🚂🚂🚂
You got that right!
You should go back and film them again! I really enjoy seeing that railroad!
Amazing how effortlessly those little locos push and pull that amount of freight cars!
You don't need a lot of power to move a train slowly on the flat. Power is force times speed, so high speed requires high power. Going up hill requires high force to overcome gravity (and high weight to avoid wheelslip).
Indeed!
Could, I like that. I hope I can remember that
Great job my friend
Fascinating!
I remember when you took that trip to iowa. Those puppies are clean machines and Iowa has lots of windmills to power them.
Clear lake Iowa was Buddy Holly's last gig too
Boy that little Gu pulls a lot , a lot of cars! The engine that can! Thanks what a wonderful clip of something different.
Thanks for watching
Several years ago, my wife and I were traveling eastbound across Arizona, when I noticed the road was parallel with a railroad. Then i saw it was an ELECTRIC railroad.I was thrilled when we met a train. It was the LM&BM coal train. Later we passed the coal loading dock at Black Mountain. The road carried coal to the Lake Mead Power Plant. Some of the locomotives were "National de Mexico"
Very cool…..will have to check it out ✌️
@@alcopower5710 it now longer runs. all the track is in place, but all the catenary has been taken down.
That was for the Navajo power station in Page Arizona. Unfortunately they decided to decommission that monster coal plant with no replacement, plus they screwed the Indians out of a lot of jobs on the Navajo Rez. They did the same thing to Mojave generating station in the early early 2000 out in Laughlin but it was done by a slurry pipeline but still navajos last jobs.
@ronirick351: I sure wish I could have seen that train line. These IOWA TERMINAL ENGINES can surprisingly handle longer freight trains than I anticipated.
There was passenger service on this line decades ago that was discontinued properly in the early 1930s. Too bad they don't have Tourist Trolleys running on this line.
Definitely cool!
Great excellent video, mr Jaw Tooth.
I have a book about the American railroadcompanys and this company stay also in this book. The fotographer good come very closer to the locomotive that was by this costumer. How nice to see on this video of you mr JT. When i and my girlfriend visit the U.S.A. whe gonna see this locomotives.
And this machines are more than 💯 years.
Awesome to see.
Greet from Zandvoort the Netherlands.
That is the coolest thing I have seen in my life! Awesome video!
Wow! Talk about the little engine that could. Never knew they existed. Thanks for the share.
Iowa Traction owns 10 miles of track running between Clear Lake and Mason City. Only a 3.5 miles segment is currently being used mainly to shuttle freight from the siding to the CP mainline. The rest of the track, while not officially abandoned, has not been used in many years.
Can you tell me anything about the power. Where is the generating station; how do they start/stop it (as in "when they climbed in their trucks and took off") ; Voltage/current draw, etc. Old B&O RR guy would appreciate. Thanks.
@@frederickwise5238 there are videos on youtube showing and detailing the operation of the locomotives, line repairs etc, just search around and you will find something
@@frederickwise5238 As far as I can see, they're 600V DC, so they probably don't have their own generating station.
"The rest of the track, while not officially abandoned, has not been used in many years."
I don't think that's correct. I believe they use a lot of the track for car storage. If you look at the section parallel to 255th Street, west of Mason City on Google Maps satellite/street view, you can see a bunch of parked covered hoppers.
@@frederickwise5238 As far as I know, power comes from a rotary converter (basically a motor coupled to a generator) at the company yard in Emery, the line's mid point. The converter is powered off the local utility grid. This system may have been replaced, however, by static rectifiers, as the original converter was destroyed by a fire in 1967.
That looked like 90lb rail. I used to have a 1 foot length my dad had used as an anvil.
My guess is 60# rail. The Rock Island used 90# rail on most of their main line west of El Reno Ok. Sidings and industrial tracks used 60#. It sure looks smaller than 90# to me. Love your videos JT. Those animal shorts at the end are always enjoyable.
I'd love to see that plow in use!
Nice vidya, son!!
Hello from the UK. I saw your earlier video of this railway. I love it. You would have thought that electric traction would be a thing of the present and future rather than the past. And great to hear another "top and tail".
Thank you very much!
Clear lake Iowa ,where Buddy Holley crash occurred. Cool video !
Merci beaucoup pour cette très belle vidéo ! 🌟🌟
👍Thank you very much! 🙏
❤ LOVE THIS RR! Time for a re-Visit,to see what’s new!
Truly unreal. I thought this type of Railroading didn't exist in America, except Subway trains which is passenger. Thank you for the throwback lol.
Thanks for watching
Little engine with a big horn - wow that thing was loud!!
That is awesome 👌 in a strange way it looks almost English. Your best video ever, JT 👍
Thanks! 😃
Brian that was absolutely awesome love those little trains the little the little ones but they're pushing a lot of tonnage that was awesome see you in electric trains thank you Joe tooth God bless have a great day bye-bye from Kentucky
Really interesting to see this, what a great illustration of the power and torque of electric motors. These little locomotives are approximately 100 years old, and still getting the job done. Clean, quiet, efficient, and durable.
Thank you very much!
I used to work as an ultra-sound rail test truck operator for the C&NW back in the 1980s. Once while testing the rail through Mason City on the old Rock Island "spine line" the assistant road master on my test truck observed an Iowa Traction motor pulling a lone, jumbo hopper car and he yelled out, "Hey look, a unit grain train!"
Iowa Traction unit: "Really? Hold my grain..."
Good catch I can’t believe that’s the Rarest train in the world
One of your best vids to date, so neat.
Oh nooooooo. Great video as always SIR
I used to live in Clear Lake, Iowa, which is 6 miles west of Mason City and on this RR line. I used to see these orange locomotives all the time. I think there used to be an interurban passenger rail service on this line many years ago. Also, on the Clear Lake end, there is a repair shop or something. It looked pretty dilapidated this last summer. There were one or two old train cars there.
Passenger service on this line was discontinued in the 1930s and replaced by a bus that was discontinued in the 1950s. The line is owned by Progressive Rail, who have expressed interest in re opening it to Clear Lake.
Good morning USA!
Good Morning
Man, this is so cool
For anyone who's curious about the disclaimers of last _common-carrier freight_ electric railroad. The freight part is obvious, as there are obviously the electric passenger trains on the east coast. There are a couple of mine-to-power-station electric railroads out west, which use the power station's electricity to drive the trains. Those aren't common-carrier, as they only carry the owner's traffic.
one of those electric railroads out west was recently closed too
another that closed up in 2001 or so was in Texas
@@microbusss As far as I can see, the Deseret Power Railway and Navajo Mine Railroad are still running, and the Black Mesa and Lake Powell Railroad closed in August 2019.
@@beeble2003 yes but tracks still in place too!
RailfdXE
Wow That is some great videos of the Iowa Traction RR JT I love those electrics one of my favorites out here in California was the Pacific Electric they were basically used for passenger service although they did use freight from time to time. Got my new scanner yesterday so will be trying it out on Cajon Pass this weekend ! Have a great weekend JT great 👍 videoclips today keep up the great work ! 😎🤓😊👩✈️
Even though it's not current current, who doesn't get amped up to see an electric train in Iowa? Don't they like the tingle and buzz? That's just shocking. Hey! Señor Jaws... it's the same Lake Erie to you... they're talking a lake effect snow storm in my old home town of Hamburg, New York coming soon. Get your snow gear out and ready for recording... 'Trains in Cleveland blizzards'. Gracias por tu video. Enjoy the last of your good weather. RT sends, Puebla, México.
Cooooool
Great catch, enjoyed the electric train
Thank you very much!
Great video! Never would've thought there was electric freight rail in existence, amazing. Clear Lake Iowa where the music died. I would love to visit the crash sight. Thanks for that great video👍
Is this a reference to the song "American Pie"?
They used to have those along Raritan River in NJ in the early sixty's around New Brunswick around great memories of growing up and visiting relatives great video thanks jaw tooth they had both freight and passenger
Curious about how not only the grass grows right up to the railtrack, but at 5'12" looks like regular occurrence that a motorvehicle deviates from road edge to the locomotive 🚂 wondered what this was about ? 🤔👍👌
"This is one of the coolest videos I shot" - totally and utterly agree! Well done that man! 🙂
Top'n'Tailing is indeed a term used in the UK and today is often employed on steam hauled mainline passenger excursions where the diesel at the rear is there in case of failure, as a banker else can draw the train back up a branch to avoid running round (many lines are stub ends devoid of run-round facilities) and so on. One entertaining Top'n'Tail was a GM class 66 and BR class 73 (electro-diesel) sandwiching a preserved six-car Hastings diesel unit on the London to Brighton mainline!!
Very different, I had never seen a train like this, and this locomotive is strong apparently, big hug my friend!
Watching Iowa traction always reminds me of being at IRM before a big calender event. The locomotives of choice were usually the freight electrics for their pulling power. Sometimes days would be spent switching equipment around for the big event. Probably 60 lb. rail. Very nostalgic video, thanks!
Interesting! I would like to see that
I live Half mile from the IATR tracks
@@FabianDiazTrainsTrucksNCars Thanks for watching Fabian!
Also be the building behind, when the empty lumber car was being moved is where the Colby auto was made then AMPI where they dryed milk for the ARMY. The grain solos are Purina where they make animal feed.
When I was in Mason City last May, they weren’t running the day we were there. We got still pics of three of the locos. We went down and bought some really tasty butter cookies in Clear Lake. What a beautiful little town! All because of your original video, JT! Cheers!
I remember when you posted these last summer. Definitely unique. Looks like they can pull a lot. Thanks for sharing more videos of them.
Thanks for watching!
The most I ever seen it pull is 21 fully loaded grain cars
Thanks for the follow up of your short. Number 50 has a great horn
and a real bell. Old school. For you die hard rock fans, the Belair Ballroom is in Clear Lake, if you don't remember why it's famous check that out on Wikipedia.
Why did you call it "Belair Ballroom?
ua-cam.com/video/x46JgP82Meg/v-deo.html
Brian that was a wonderful video I always enjoy watching your videos
Thanks 👍
@@JawTooth u are welcome brian 😊
At 13:13 the track used to continue down the middle of the street to downtown Clear Lake. The trackage in the street was removed in the 60's. That track had seen little use for the previous twenty years.
The tracks went to the lake where they cut ice and hauled it to the ice house located at 19th and sourh Penn ( where it still stands)
Amazing to see that little loco hauling what would be a full cargo for many UK freight trains. In the Isle of Man we still have a 17 mile electric tramway using the same type of overhead supply, but it uses just one power car and a trailer car. Doesn't say much for the US railroad companies that there is very little electrification.
Loved Isle of Man for a holiday destination.
Use to have relatives in Onchan, whilst siteseeing for several days, Manx hospitality was very friendly by the older folk as I remember it, take care, have a great day.👍👌🍺🍻🥃🌎🗽
Surprised such a small locomotive can haul so much. Electric motors are strong, but you need weight for traction. But they must have some batteries on board, as that last loco was running with both poles down, and batteries are heavy.
Also surprised to see a trolley pole rather than a pantograph! This really is an old railway.
looking in my book on Baldwin Westinghouse electric locomotives, these are 52 ton and 404 Hp for locomotives #51 and #54 the compressors and electrical gear do have some weight, there are most likely blowers and probably even some ballast as well. I would guess the locomotive was weighted for the design and the HP/ gearing of the trucks. Some of the heaviest locomotives of this type approached 80 tons and was used by the Illinois Central in Chicago
The both poles down movement was the unit coasting.
@@davidwilson9612 I suppose I forget how efficient steel on steel is. Trains can coast so much easier than cars.
(Which makes one wonder why some metro systems use rubber-tyred trains, but I'll not repeat RM Transit's rants.)
Very cool video JT! Didn't know there was anything like that except for transit/subway trains. Thanks for sharing that!👍👍
Thanks for watching
This is rare indeed, haven’t seen this in freight service, but still in transit and passenger service. Very cool JT, love seeing fascinating and unique stuff like this. Good job.
How wonderful it was for you to share this most awesome rare video thank you Mr. JT
Wow man!! That was awesome! What a great catch! Thank you for sharing this - and all of the great videos you share! Grateful.
Thanks for watching
Hey Jaw I know from here in Australia that the overhead usually finishes a hundred yards or so past end of line. I guess it comes down to where it can be terminated.
Thanks for the information!
One can't help but love simplistic machines such as these employing technology probably worked on by Thomas Edison. To think they're still strutting their stuff at almost the century mark. That Bell does have a unique sound almost a takeoff on the old Dinner Bell this is like the Photo Bell almost as if inviting fans by saying photograph me! Very good catch JT and this goes to prove that not all of the Midwest is flyover country. This video rates two trolley poles up
Thank you for finding this video from 13 August 2021 when you were out in Mason City, Iowa, Jaw Tooth! I enjoyed watching another video with two of the Iowa Traction Railway. They have an interesting operation in Mason City, Iowa.
Awesome! Thank you!
Jaw Tooth I wish we'd had these cameras twenty/thirty years ago, great railroad stuff but the precious memories are so cool !
Great video, thank you Jaw Tooth. Noticed at the 10:10 time mark the #50 is running with neither Trolley Pole raised, must have internal batteries.
No batteries. It likely was moved by the other motor.
@@strobx1 The other motor #54 was cut away & left on the main track as Motor #50 worked alone & shoved the cars into the industry.
The unit was coasting.
I did a little curiosity search to Identify #32 since I didn't know what it was right away. It's a Flanger which apparently doesn't get a lot of use unless the snow gets really bad. They might also break the wing plow out at that time too to use in conjunction with the flanger, just like the "Big boy roads" do.
For something smaller than a caboose, it's amazing the power those little electric locomotives have.
That's very cool. I remember when you were there. It's amazing how powerful those little electric switchers are.
To me, I think one of the coolest train videos I ever saw was a highway pace of Santa Fe 3751 in California. I just love that. I watched it again about a week ago.
That was different, great 👍. There was a similar industrial line that operated at Kearsley power station in Lancashire, England, UK, the line finished in the late 1970's and the power station was demolished about 10 years later. The four locomotives which are very similar to the Iowa traction locomotives are still around, two were converted to battery use and two are preserved.
Oh cool!
These little century-old electric locomotives remind me a little of the very first British steeplecab electric LNER Class ES1 locomotives used by colliery railways in the Newcastle, UK, area from around 1902 until the 1950s. These were similar to American General Electric (GE) and Thomson-Houston designed and built steeplecab-type locomotive for the Milan-Varese railway in Italy opened in 1901.
Those little engines can really move and I love it. Robert over and out.
Great job ( as usual)!!
A new addition to the "bucket list".
Really cool video JT. This sure is a really unique railroad and fun to watch. You didn't have to worry about the wind noise, cause there wasn't much to hear apart from some wheel flange noise..... ha ha
Outstanding……there used to be a pretty big network of electric many years ago in Illinois…..The Illinois Terminal Railway (Illinois Traction). Lots of info out there on it. Their locomotives looked very similar (maybe the same manufacturer).
Hey JT, I remember last year's episode, good to see some more 👍👍👍. Love your history tours too 😀😀😀
Cool electric traction railroad action JT!!!
I think I can, I think I can. That's a cool locomotive 🚂 TY for sharing.
Thanks for watching!
Great stuff, thanks. We have a lot of electric traction here in the UK. This is mainly for passenger, as a lot of freight is handled by Diesel locos. That current pickup method looks similar to the way trolleybuses here in the UK used to do it.
We had those trolleybuses in Auckland, New Zealand up to about 1980.
Train intensification and underground took over, trams last made their appearance in Auckland in 1956.
Just too crowded with people for that sort of street running.
Last in UK in 1995.
I think trams were in Blackpool where the kids huge amusement park was based.
Moved away from Auckland fifteen years ago.🍺🍻🥃👍👌💚🌎🗽
@@vernonmatthews181 In UK Blackpool always had trams. We now have new trams in Manchester, Sheffield, Birmingham, Nottingham & S London. Big difference twixt current pick up on a tram & trolleybus is that the trolleybus requires a 2nd cable to complete a return circuit which in a tram is through the running rails.
@@robertrich663 Thanks Robert for the update, last in UK 🇬🇧 in 1995, looking unlikely to return now, getting much older now.
I absolutely LOVE the variety you show us every day! Never know what to expect, and never disappointed. Watching this video raises some questions - is there battery backup for those locos? As another person noted, one loco was running with both poles down. Does every siding have power above? What happens if a blackout occurs? But wait - there's more - Thanks again for the great job you do with your videos!!!
I ran the video from 10:08 three times to check that movement with the trolley poles down. Probably batteries, but hopefully JawTooth can answer that.
So cool! Seems like I've seen models of those kind of locomotives but this was very interesting to see the prototype in operation. Pretty powerful little locos. I like how they stop quickly.
Nice old short flatcar in one shot and the railroad equipment stored at the end of the line was interesting to see too.
Thanks for posting!
Morning.
Good morning Jaw Tooth !!
Good morning!
Today . I can see spirits American electric old locomotive . I feel american railroad is very deep . Tank you very much .
Good Morning 4
Awesome video but wait there’s more 👍😎🇺🇸🚂
Wow 😊👍👍👍👍👍👍
BTW, these steeple cabs are some of the last Baldwin electric locomotives in active revenue service in the world. These particular group of steeple cabs were built by Baldwin and Westinghouse between 1917 and 1923 for different owners and were bought used by Iowa Traction in the late 1950s and 1960s.
ADDENDUM: A narrow gauge version of these steeplecabs also exists in Japan. Known as the Class ED 33, it was built by the Baldwin-Westinghouse partnership in 1923 and imported to Japan the same year. After serving the Japanese National Railways for many years, the last 2 units ended up with the Konan Railway, a small private railway company in Aomori Prefecture in Northern Honshu, where they are in occasional use, usually in the winter months, since they are coupled to the 2 even older Ki 100 wedge snowplows (wich are a few years older than the ED 33 units and of which only 3 remain; the other one belongs to another private railway company in the same prefecture).
The Konan Railway ED 33s are nearly identical to the Iowa Traction units, except it uses pantographs instead of trolley poles, and of course, the narrow gauge (to be precise, Cape gauge).
Here is some footage of the ED 33-Ki 100 pair in service recently, by the NHK World program "Japan Railway Journal":
m.ua-cam.com/video/qRa6pkCKQPI/v-deo.html
As a rail fan 🚊🚦 love watching your videos. Very rare electric locomotives in USA 🇺🇸
Thanks for watching !
This is the coolest video. What a great opportunity to see these in action.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Wow, JT!! How does that one lil engine push/pull that many cars?
Great video Jawtooth! Thanks for sharing!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Quite a interesting engine very unique look and I like the orange color scheme
I have to add.. they sure don't maintain their tracks full of weeds. Interesting at the end of your video too. Love your animals and kids. Thanks.Sweet little boy.
Thanks 👍
Awesome video of the electric railroad.
Thank you very much!
This little rare electric locomotive is awesome and strong to be able to pull all those cars. Amazing. Love it Awesome video as always. Thanks.
Glad you enjoyed it
After that little switcher pulls away how do the grain mill personnel move the cars where they need them?
likely track mobile or front end loader or winch
That is unique i love your videos so does my 3 year old great grandson
WoW JT!!!! You always gots' the best stuff!!!😀
The LITTLE engine that CAN !
That's a great one! I remember Brooklyn N.Y. Trolleys with sparks flying off. Best always, Len
Thanks Len!
LOOK AT THE BABY 😂💚
Very unique indeed ... Thx for posting ...
Glad you enjoyed it
That looks like a great piece of railroad history! Never seen one of those before!
I think so too!