Grand Trunk Western Volume One - GT Across Michigan
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- Опубліковано 5 жов 2024
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See the Grand Trunk Western Railroad in their final decade with lots of exciting 1st and 2nd generation EMD diesel power. Volume One starts at Milwaukee Jct. in Detroit and shows you GT trains along their Holly, Mount Clemens, Flint and South Bend sub-divisions. The train action includes lots of auto-racks and hi-cube boxcars for the Michigan Automobile Industry. See the railroad Hot Spot of Durand, Michigan which includes interchanging traffic with the Central Michigan Railroad, plus the magnificent Durand Union Station along with several other historic depots and towers. There is also a segment on contemporary Grand Trunk Western steam with GTW #6325, a 4-8-4 Northern that’s pulling a tourist train. The GT train action includes yard switching, locals, manifests and intermodals plus unit trains of coal and coke. Rail footage era 1989-1999 from the camera of Hal Pantti with additional footage by Brad Plets.
115 Minutes. • 4:3 Aspect • Color • Live Audio • Narration On/Off • Rail Map • Upscaled to HD Blu-Ray / or DVD available
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GTW had the most beautiful sounding horns. I lived near GTW tracks for the first ten years of my life. What wonderful memories
Miss them dearly.
I live in Detroit, Michigan and I remember when Canadian National (CN),had bought out Grand Trunk Western Railroad. I even remember the Detroit, Toledo &Ironton Railroad.
CN does a great job on this track.
Bob Seager knight moves
"Workin' on the railroad.
I'm a God fearing man, and with many I stand,
Workin' on the railroad.
And with God we've been working, all hand in hand.
Workin' on the railroad."
Mark Farner .
I only learnt about GT after my grandfather bought me a couple of O Gauge GP9's I believe. 4543 (powered) and 4540 (non-powered), both with the Canadian National colour scheme.
Glad you caught the "GT" bug. The GTW 4540 was later rebuilt into GP9R # 4621 by the GTW. The 4621 is shown as a trailing locomotive in our program "Grand Trunk Western Volume One - GT Across Michigan". Here is a link to some great photos of GTW # 4540 and one of the images also has your # 4543 in it too! www.rrpicturearchives.net/LocoPicture.aspx?id=66822
Thanks for watching our clips :)
Should Australia be a future production?
My daughter lives about 100 feet from the old GT line (now CN) through a little one horse town of Stillwell, IN. Very busy line to this day coming out of Battle Creek, MI through South Bend, IN and on to Valparaiso, IN and finally the big yard in Gary, IN where they make all their Chicago connections.
That's close enough to get a free picture rattling with every train! Thanks for watching :)
Nice video! I love the old Grand Trunk Western, so sad that the CN decided to close the GT down. I do really miss the " Good Track Road"!
For sure! 100 years of history has disappeared for ever along with other favorites like the DM&IR, WC, EJ&E, B&LE, IC, DWP, CV and others. The last 20 years has seen a lot of change. Thankfully books & videos can help to bring them back to life!
@@pletsexpress Thanks for the reply. My father was a long time engineer for the GTW for many years in Chicago, your video brings back great childhood memories for me!
I witness grand trunk western paint, sticker, soles, engineers, conductors, and pisshead comrads who cannot read a script with there right eyeball shutdown, now.... (clear).... (clear) . Look up to the heavin s. You might see the .. sign good-night. Bmd. can you hear me knocking?
CN didn't really close it down--- kept what it wanted to operate, and sold/abandoned the rest.
Though I didn’t grow up with the GTW, it is the railroad I miss most, second being there Wisconsin Central and third being the Milwaukee Road.
The fallen flags are some of our most cherished memories. Glad you liked the clip, those are some of my favorites as well. We have four titles on Wisconsin Central and will be coming out with two new releases in the future. Hope you subscribe :)
@@pletsexpress Definitely subscribing, you got some great videos here! What’s funny to me is I’ve see probably half of these engines.
4432 is currently in the Yard right between Grandville and Grand Rapids along Chicago Dr SW. I seen it on Google maps earlier today and when I watched it go by on your video, I had to share that it is still in fact sitting on rails.
l got this last month and l'm impressed with my first Plets video.
We're glad you liked the show :) Welcome onboard, hope to hear from you in the future! Long live "The Good Track Road"
Make it rain, shower and blesseth the springing thereof thunder rolling in the dusk of April. Great clips, pluss aw inspiring cam work. Good day... 03,01,2022. Mdb
Thank you for the kind words, glad you enjoyed the clips
Grand Trunk Western 4070 should be a future production!
Got to see a 4 axel GT doing yard work in Memphis this week . I was picking up lumber from a CN owned distributor.
yes, they are still roaming the CN system. I've spotted them in Wisconsin Rapids, Stevens Point and Plover WI too. Nice catch!
You guys should make a GT dash 8 and 9
4:11: Why this locomotive don't equipe the intercaled intermitent lights?
is any part of this in the UP of michigan
Pelts Express what railroad tides the train at 2:50 belong too?
That's the Central Michigan Railroad and today is now the Huron & Eastern RR
Central Michigan RWY, now HURON&EASTERN.
So GT knew they could have other locomotives than Jeeps right?
like that was *okay* nobody would be mad or anything.
GT had mostly GM/EMD locos, as GM was one of their largest customers.
Bradley does any of these units include some of the CV ones
Yes, Grand Trunk Western Volume One has a Few Central Vermont diesels and also a few DWP units.
@@pletsexpress whats the next new program your doing
Did CN Trains BUY the GT trains out of business?
Hello Nelson, here is a link from Trains magazine detailing the CN family tree. Short answer is yes, CN did buy out Grand Trunk Western. Follow the link and you will find some interesting history on the GT and several other roads that make up the modern CN system. Thank you for watching and subscribing to our channel.
www.trains.com/trn/railroads/history/canadian-national-merger-family-tree/
not exactly, CN always owned GTW. A long time ago the Original GT went broke, it was then nationalized and became CN, the company's American assets were then turned over to be run by a subsidiary; GTW. When CN was privatized GTW's existence became largely redundant.