Alco Videos - right here!
AUSTRALIA
Ride a 48 class DL531 down under! Here is a great short video showing you what it is like to be driver of an Alco. Listen to the engine growl as you start up and accelerate down the track. Thanks much to Steve Jeffs who had the talent to control an Alco and shoot footage all at the same time!
AussieAlco.WMV [roughly 900 kb]
Note-opens with Windows Media Player
Now you can start a CE615 - Class 80 unit from down under! Steve Jeffs takes us along as he cranks up an 80 unit for the days work in Lithgow back in 1999.
Small - 33 sec - 205 kb - 80class-starting-small.WMV
Larger - 2:54 - 2.05 mb -Starting-a-80-class-large.WMV
How about a ride on that CE615? Well, thanks again to Steve Jeffs you can!
Small - 204 kb- 0:33 min-Drive an 80 class - small WMV
Large - 2.5 mb- 3:30 min- Drive an 80 class - large WMV
How about a ride on a DL500 - a classic World Series unit? Ride this one, down under again thanks to Steve Jeffs!
56 Sec. - 750 kb -4498 in 1991.WMV
CANADA
Thanks to David Othen from OBE Video for the great footage - check out more at his site!
Windsor and Hantsport --On 29 December 2001, after a light snow fall, the Windsor and Hantsport Railway sent three of their ex-CP RS-23s to Windsor Junction NS to pick up a 3600 ton train of 1500 foot long continuous welded rail. The three locomotives put on a great display, including black exhaust and plenty of sound, as they crossed Beaverbank Road and began the climb to Mount Uniacke at a maximum speed of 15 mph. From Mount Uniacke the speed limit increases to 25 and 30 mph and the grade descends to Windsor NS on the tidal part of the River Avon (which feeds into the Bay of Fundy). As it passed through Ellershouse the train was rocking and swaying and the rails were knocking together.
At Beaverbank Crossing - ThreeRS-23railtrainBeaverbankRoad29Dec2001.WMV 2.25 mb, 55 s.
More Windsor and Hantsport footage, this time at Falsmout 2 Aug 95 -
1.3 mb - 35s FourWHRCRS-23sFalmouth2August1995.WMV
CBCNS - C630M trio - Havre Boucher NS.
1.3 mb - 34s - CBCNSC-630MsHavreBoucherNSHQ.WMV
CN - CN S-13 110, slug 168 at Moncton NB 31 August 1996
625 kb - 16sCNS-13110168MonctonNB31August1996.WMV
CN HR616s 2100 2112 with SD40 5069 Moncton NB 31 August 1996
1 mb - 26 s- CNHR-616s21002112withSD405069MonctonNB31August1996.WMV
NBEC RS18 1867-1864 pair in the woods of Dalhousie NB.
1 mb - 24 s NBECRS-18swoodsDalhousieHQ.WMV
Driving NBEC RS18u 1857
885 kb - 22s - DrivingNBECRS-18u1857.WMV
Greece
MX627 A-467 rolls through Platamon...
2.07 mb - 51sA-467Platamonweb.avi
MX636 roars thru Leptokarya - Gerasimos made the A-508 and A-469 [coming soon] videos while on a signal pole, in small stations the railway staff may still allow one to do that! You can notice the oscillation of the pole in the picture, each time he moved, physics laws were applied!
3.7 mb -2:07 mA-508Leptokarya.avi
And here is MX627 A-469 also rolling through Leptokarya...
1m 9s - 2.33 mbA-469Leptokarya.avi
M627
1m 41 s, 2.62 mbA-468Skotinaweb.avi
Thanks to Gerasimos Maniatis for these video clips! A note - you moight want to go to Divx.com and get their latest free media player as this has shown to be the best format to view these Greek Alco files.
And from the camera of Paul Garvey comes...
A201, an RS8 in Florina back on 29-Sep-1997
51s - 215 kb A201_Florina_290997_56kbps.wmv
INDIA
WDP1 15054 departs in traditional Alco form. Thanks to Richard Morrison for this footage
55s - 2.8mb - WDP1_15054.mpg
JAMAICA
How about a trio of RS8's under a warm sun? See three MRS RS8s by clicking the link below - thanks to Thomas Hollenstein for this - seen on January 22nd 2002 in Bogwalk, Jamaica!
26 Sec - 3.7 mb - Jamaican_ALCOs.avi
Last Updated 13 Jan 02