Northbound Chase of the Grand River Railway! Leslie RS25 Horn and Street Running!
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- Опубліковано 16 вер 2024
- Filmed on: 11/30/2022
The Grand River Railway is a unique 2.56 Mile long shortline. With their headquarters conveniently located in the town of Grand River, Ohio; they interchange with CSX on the outskirts of Painesville. The railroad was created to load and unload salt cars at Morton Salt, right at the mouth of the Grand River itself. Back in late 2020, Morton Salt fell under new ownership and came to the consensus that shipping their salt by rail wasn’t the most time efficient option, and thus cut ties with the Grand River Railway. In 2021, a new transload business opened up just north of Richmond Road. Sand is trucked up from the nearby city of Chardon, and is brought here to what the railroad has dubbed the Richmond Road Transload Facility. I’m not 100% sure where this sand is shipped off to, but There are photos of these two bay cars on the rails in Georgia and New York, so if anybody has any insight into where these are sent, please do let me know down in the comments! The Date is November 30th, 2022 and we see an eastbound BNSF run through grain train heading eastbound over Newell Street in Painesville Ohio. Just to our east would be Horizon Rail Leasing GP10-1 #8420 doing some switching at the CSX Interchange. We had just gotten out of school when we heard them running, so we would jump up to catch the tail end of their operation. HZRX 8420 was built in February 1952 for the St Louis & San Francisco Railroad, better known as the Frisco Railroad. Illinois Central Gulf acquired the locomotive and converted it into GP8 specifications. This later would be overhauled into a GP10. They are currently shoving north over Stage Avenue, just a short distance away from where we last saw them. Moving northward some more, we would get to see and hear the Grand River Railway’s caboose, #21 in use as a shoving platform. The caboose is equipped with a Leslie RS25 horn for the long shoves used on this railroad. This section of the railroad goes right through downtown Grand River, as well as street running down on River Street. Williams Street is our next location north. This is where 8420 would shove into the siding track here at the north end of the line. They would drop their cars and run around their train to pick up the caboose, then tie down just south of where we would be positioned. I would like to thank everybody for watching, and Please don't forget to like, comment, and subscribe so as to not miss future videos.
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Very cool stuff! You get a lot more variety than a lot of other channels that just foam the Class I GE’s or orange and yellow shortlines all the time, so what you catch is refreshing and hopefully one day I can get this line’s ops. Great video as always!
Thanks Sebastian! It means a lot!
Great video! That caboose horn
sounds like the same horn that
came as stock equipment on
EMD switchers! When I worked
for the TP&W in the late 70’s/
early 80’s, their SW1500’s horns sounded like that!
Great work man
Very good video! 👍👏
Great footage
10/10 Video keep up the good work!
The sand is for golf courses donw South, it was formerly shipped out of Hach in Fairport prior to the GRRY ops.
Awesome video!!
Thanks Andrew!
Great video! That caboose horn is actually a Leslie S25.
That RS25 is giving me old F unit vibes
Great Chase! I need to make a trip down in that area soon
Yes you do
When did 8420 get a low manifold P5? Sounds beautiful.
I believe sometime around May 2022 the K5LA was swapped with the P5, I do agree, It sounds very nice