I grew up in Delphi and remember most of the town going out and shoveling in front of the plow to help out during WW2 and later
@dketcham-sparky8 ай бұрын
I know how hard it was because I did it with a 1947 Walter Snow Fighter..
@dmflynn9628 ай бұрын
Very cool. Thanks for sharing.
@johnnyobigcatdaddy Жыл бұрын
Although I did most of my growing up near Dayton, OH., because when my Dad retired form the military, he didn't want to go back to Upstate N.Y. due to the severe winters, and cost of living compared to here. I can remember a few times, sitting with my Aunt Verna on her sofa, her on one end, me on the other, drinking coffee at 4:30 am. having good conversations, watching the snowplows going up and down the road she lived on, in the country side of Williamstown, N.Y. in Oswego county! I sure miss those days, I tell ya!
@dmflynn962 Жыл бұрын
Thanks for the info. I grew up in a suburb, and the town was really superb at plowing, but I barely remember seeing 2 walters, even though the town had about 6.
@koreanature Жыл бұрын
My best friend, that's a great video. I will always cheer for you in Korea I'm looking forward to a great video. Have a nice day.
@bengardiner1652 Жыл бұрын
I was at the long gone Frink Plant in Clayton back in 1989. The subject of this video came up and the Frink folks said it was edited in a studio in Toronto and the voice over done by their Toronto Service Manager and it was largely ad lib on his part. As I recall his name was Don Kohler and his narration really made the film. He was a natural.
@dmflynn962 Жыл бұрын
Thank you for the info. I like the folksy voice and informal information. He sounds like the guy from the motel 6 commercials.
@johnnyobigcatdaddy Жыл бұрын
@@dmflynn962 I really miss the old sound of radio, there were some great voices in days of old, like Paul Harvey for one!
@erbewayne68682 жыл бұрын
Looks like the Kewanaw along lake Superior in UP of Michigan similar temps.
@alsehl36092 жыл бұрын
How thin the men are! 28 degrees below and they aren't wearing bulky clothing! Hardy people!
@arneservatius19822 жыл бұрын
I’m an old timer in Michigan. I rode on steam engines. Dodge Power wagon was simple. Heavy duty clutch and ass kicking transmission. Better machine then today and any farmer could overhaul or rebuild with an Eighth grade education. Back then they taught school. 8 grades were better then 12 today and we spent $50/pupil 🤗🇺🇸🇨🇦
@TwoStacks217 Жыл бұрын
My Grandpa gave me a 1945 Dodge power wagon as my first vehicle it still had the wooden bed in it
@nedkent52399 ай бұрын
Schools didn’t have parents suing them all the time because their kid got hurt messing around back then…
@oldblueaccord26292 жыл бұрын
I watch this every year in the winter time. Love it!
@donvoll25802 жыл бұрын
Good day Boy that was some snow. Alot more than we get here in Ontario. Thanks
@DrDonut2 жыл бұрын
I live in West Leyden and I’d like to know where exactly they recorded that scene between Rome and WL. Definitely what is now 26, looks like Stokes hill possibly. Sure don’t look the same 83 years later all trees now
@r3ndur2 жыл бұрын
very therapeutic🤣, i learned a a lot
@richardcarper85662 жыл бұрын
Why the stupid music?
@FrogandFlangeVideo2 жыл бұрын
Awesome film. James.
@hectorhardy47813 жыл бұрын
Like lirr
@hellbringer093 жыл бұрын
i love watching old footage... hearing old stories from the grandparents they laugh and call us sissies nowadays... they go "what the hell is ohsa?"
@charlesnash45793 жыл бұрын
Spent a lot of time here when I was a kid, snow machining on original Skidoo's.
@peterdecathelineau50134 жыл бұрын
My brother still has a 39 7 ton with v and 8ft wing in Spicer, Mn. I ran the wing for 24 hrs straight after the st patricks storm in Spicer, 1966. Had not been stuck in years but got stuck 5 times in 24 hours. 16" wet snow. Most fun? Down hill to rr tracks w no brakes, a 39 walters feature. Scraping ice off side window with one hand, other hand for wing lever. Getting hit in shoulder to wake up and raise wing for mailbox, or bridge railing (more serious, harder wake up hit).
@herbertstiles50665 жыл бұрын
My Wife's parents were living their then.
@ek95095 жыл бұрын
Yep an Elgin Eagle, a Schwarze M6000 and two TYMCO 600s.
@blackdoggxxx5 жыл бұрын
I think my real dad was "charlie"! lol Thanks for posting this! ~DOGG
@marcodevries44815 жыл бұрын
Looks cool but sure is the wrong equipment. Caterpillar tracks required.
@g.r.48534 жыл бұрын
Cat tracks may have had the traction but they sure took a long time to clear the roads. When we got snowed in and the county brought out the dozers they had to push the snow off the road to the side, usually several feet. Their forward travel was like an mile an hour.
@aerobee585 жыл бұрын
This is great too see. You are lucky to have these Monsters on video.As many times I seen them pass our grade crossing in Center Moriches and Shirley Station when they were Orange and grey and the Metro scheme Blue and yellow. I wish we had video cameras back then. Thanks for this video.
@dmflynn9625 жыл бұрын
Thanks for commenting! I am glad others appreciate the C420s captured on film. I wish the video quality then was like what we have today.
@aerobee585 жыл бұрын
Is that #202. I have #202 on my layout and it is one of my favorites. Nice to see you have one too. One to keep forever.
@dmflynn9625 жыл бұрын
Thanks! All the C420s were good.
@LongIslandRailfanner10 ай бұрын
Mine's no.203
@aerobee5810 ай бұрын
Cool, thank you for the info. Happy Railroading.@@LongIslandRailfanner
@jeremyfreeman61085 жыл бұрын
They had to plow so the milk trucks could get through more than anything
@allenjohnson76865 жыл бұрын
Living in the UK we are lucky to get any snow in winter now. I'm from up north so we do get more from 2009-2014 we got good winters with snow and drifts then it stopped for a few years. It did hit -18c in 2010 in my garden that's the coldest iv had in the UK but in Italy skiing, i was near mont blanc and it was -37c and a gale blowing so no idea what the windchill was but it got through 4 underlayers and a windproof ski jacket! I love snow! If i did move to the USA i would head to the New England area or lake effect snow areas :)
@stevefowler21125 жыл бұрын
I'm a Florida boy but wifey is from Rome NY and her family had/has a hunting camp on Tug Hill and I've been up there several times in the winter...I think they get the highest level of snowfall in the U.S. east of the Rockies. There were times their would be 8 to 12 inches of standing snow in Rome and 40 minutes later on Tug Hill there'd be 6 feet plus. It's a fun place to drink and raise hell...lots of bars around Osceola.
@andyginterblues29615 жыл бұрын
The Flat Rock Inn in Barnes Corners is the place to go. They have snowmobile races there year round. Grass drags and watercross in the summer.
@stevefowler21125 жыл бұрын
@@andyginterblues2961 Not sure if they ever took me there or not but I remember the Osceola Hotel and the Milk Factory...we rode sleds up to the Osceola Hotel one winter night, I had never driven one before but had done a lot of dirt bike riding so it wasn't too much different...I at least kept up...the place was packed with sleds in the parking lot. It was quite a site for a Florida boy...we had a blast and were three sheets to the wind riding back to camp.
@andyginterblues29615 жыл бұрын
Gotta have that antifreeze if you're sledding! I knew hardcore sledders up there that would take 60 mile sled runs, in any kind of weather, at night, etc. they used routes that they had used before. Only thing that scares me about night sledding is the chance that you'll run into a barbed wire fence in the dark and get decapitated. It happens.
@stevefowler21125 жыл бұрын
@@andyginterblues2961 Yes my brother-in-law whose old sled I used told me about that...he grew up around there and we kept to groomed trails and the roads...lol...his sled would do 100 mph on the roads...I didn't feel comfortable going over 55 or 60 on mine with my wife on the back...like I said it was my first time...discretion is the better part of valor as they say. Had a great time...loved going up there in the winter, especially when I was a little younger.
@DrDonut2 жыл бұрын
Osceola hotel everyday Tuesday
@OilHist5 жыл бұрын
Looks like they need a big Cletrac.
@gsfbffxpdhhdf70435 жыл бұрын
My lil honda 1000cc can plow that 😃
@andyginterblues29615 жыл бұрын
I have heard that the record snowfall in New York state was the winter of 1956 (?) when twelve feet of snow buried Oswego county. One of my mom's ex husbands was sent there with the army, and showed me photos that he had taken. the snowbanks on the roadside, after the plows came through, were as high as the crosstrees on the electric poles. My family had a farm in the Tug Hill valley, near Glenfield, and I happened to be there during the blizzard of '77, (on vacation from college.) It snowed continuously for probably an entire week. When it was done, over six feet had accumulated. We were snowed in, and had no snow machine. The army came by snowmobile, and gave us some C-rats, luckily, we had enough wood in the woodshed to keep warm. Every day, I would go and shovel a path from the farmhouse to my car, which was entirely buried. After what seemed like forever, one day, I heard a plow coming up Pine Grove road. I ran out on snowshoes, and waved and yelled until the driver saw me, I had to direct him to come around and plow out near where my car was, so that I could get it out. The snow was so deep that conventional plows were useless. Plows mounted on halftrack vehicles that were used to clear the runway at Wheeler- Sack airfield on Camp Drum were pressed into service, the plow that rescued me and my family was one of these. There were stories of cars that were buried in snow being run over and flattened by these huge snowplows. Everyone who could get out went to the town barn in Lowville where we were put in vans and given shovels. For weeks, we shoveled people out who were trapped in their houses, we shoveled off roofs, many barn roofs had collapsed, killing the cattle. My sister still lives in Lowville, she told me that around five years ago, they got five feet. The snowfall in Lewis county is no joke.
@donnebes94215 жыл бұрын
AndyGinterBlues I spent many nights in lowville back when I hauled utility poles for niagra mohawk. That whole area was a cold snowy place to be.
@kennethbredow30985 жыл бұрын
Plow a path to the bar, please!!
@ericpl72275 жыл бұрын
Wow, all this snow, and before "global warming" was invented?! I thought these storms didn't exist before "global warming"! Interesting!
@halspencer66135 жыл бұрын
Even in this day and age the Tug Hill Plateau still gets more than its share of snow.
@johnathanrudy70493 жыл бұрын
Sorry to be so offtopic but does someone know a way to log back into an Instagram account..? I was stupid forgot the account password. I would appreciate any tips you can offer me!
@ashtonlangston44903 жыл бұрын
@Johnathan Rudy instablaster :)
@jambocoo6 жыл бұрын
Interesting again on this one, thanks for sharing a bit of nostalgia.
@alcoc4206 жыл бұрын
You are welcome. I posted these because I thought people might like them. Then I notice that someone posted the same movie. Best wishes.
@jambocoo6 жыл бұрын
Really neat seeing how it was done back in the day, and those guys did it well, thanks for sharing.
@sandranichols-leinbach86797 жыл бұрын
wow.. that is amazing footage. Thanks for sharing. i don't know how people did it in those days.
@richardkelley36447 жыл бұрын
I grew up in upstate NY. Know all about the winters up there. Thanks for sharing!!!
@dave48546 жыл бұрын
I did also, today a V plow is a thing of the past, even where I grew up, everyone in the village used to come out and shovel to help the plows, today, they will not even come out.
@LIMowersAndMore8 жыл бұрын
you'll never see these again on the new lirr
@towerfmus8 жыл бұрын
what year is this dam
@towerfmus8 жыл бұрын
graders are terrible use a plow truck
@LongIslandCityLayout8 жыл бұрын
Very cool!
@todlindley81018 жыл бұрын
Half Shafts and Diffs would be gettin some stress !!, but may be they made em good enough !
@todlindley81019 жыл бұрын
YES !!! Men WERE PROUND OF THEIR WORK BACK THEN !! BUT NOW !! NOBODY GIVES SFA
@juanitocarlitos7710 жыл бұрын
dont copy to the big sound detroit very nice
@brucenothstein290910 жыл бұрын
i love it i live in this area of NY
@andyginterblues29615 жыл бұрын
Where? My family was Twin Maples Farm, near Glenfield.
@MrDjh6610 жыл бұрын
My friend had 2 of those in his yard in the 70s and 80s in forestport off of north lake road
@alcoc42010 жыл бұрын
Thanks. I posted it because I thought people might like it. Then, I found out somebody else posted it, too.
@29maward10 жыл бұрын
Is Charlie still living?
@kennethbredow30985 жыл бұрын
Too funny!!!
@dedogster10 жыл бұрын
Having driven through that part of New York State in the winter, and see the amount of snow , I am amazed at the work thease early plowe drivers did! Fantastic! Thanks for posting!
@albertolucca81873 жыл бұрын
I guess Im randomly asking but does anyone know a method to get back into an instagram account? I somehow lost my account password. I would love any tips you can offer me!
@mariogunner26413 жыл бұрын
@Alberto Lucca Instablaster =)
@albertolucca81873 жыл бұрын
@Mario Gunner Thanks so much for your reply. I got to the site on google and Im in the hacking process atm. I see it takes quite some time so I will reply here later when my account password hopefully is recovered.
@albertolucca81873 жыл бұрын
@Mario Gunner it worked and I now got access to my account again. I'm so happy:D Thanks so much, you really help me out :D
@mariogunner26413 жыл бұрын
@Alberto Lucca Glad I could help :)
@retep918711 жыл бұрын
You've got some great old footage in these videos; thanks for putting it up!