Cab Ride From Buffalo Depew to Niagara Falls Circa Late 1990's

Take a cab ride on Amtrak's Train #63, the Maple Leaf, from the Buffalo Depew Station to the Niagara Falls station in the late 1990's.
A great perspective of the Niagara Branch, which is very little changed today!
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[@patentexperts1675]

Back in the 60's I was kid and I remember all the many and large train yards in the Niagara Falls Area, it was fascinating. Niagara Falls and Buffalo combined were a great major train area that rivaled Chicago.

[@kevinb9327]

My old stompin' grounds! Buffalo and the Niagara Frontier. Thank you 💕

[@danotech594]

Incredible video! Knew exactly where I was the whole time. Grew up in Pendleton, still remember the spur that rolled through town on the way to Harrison Radiator in Lockport. Ah, the good ‘ol days….🥹

[@jerlewis4291]

I remember having a friend who lived in Tonawanda on Fletcher Street in the 70s and we would walk up the line to where the real-estate office is now and wait for trains to come by. I knew every landmark on the video.

[@randyoehling1701]

What a fabulous video. Thanks for putting this up!😁

[@davidsharp3110]

This calms me down. Thank you Niagra

[@CSX3194]

So, cool. I grew up railfanning these lines. But that was after Conrail. 😔 Cool to be able to see how it looked back then! Not too much different. Just new signals, new Niagara Falls station, and Frontier yard has changed quite a bit. And nothing of the LV's Niagara Yard remains, except for the Amtrak bypass.

[@veinbanger9381]

Good ol Amtrak controlled siding. They just updated it to Continuously Wielded Rail from Cp26 to CP28 last year

[@CSX3194]

@@veinbanger9381 So that must be where the CWR train I saw was headed!

[@b3j8]

My Grandparents lived just 2 blocks from this line in North Tonawanda NY. Spent quite abit of time trainwatching there back in the 1970's.

[@gregwhitney8820]

Nice, thanks. The location notes were very helpful.

[@lawrencegolba2244]

Thanks for the ride!

[@ronmann5208]

I remember taking that train from Syracuse to this stop with my late father it was fun we stayed the nite at John's open hearth and out early the nxt morning back to Syracuse

[@superbaddy4]

I like how this F40PH here had a more unique bell and not just an EMD Steel Bell. Luckily, the real 310 is still around today, as one of the F40PH-3Cs running on Metro North's West-Of-Hudson Service.

[@NitNgrit]

I use to work both sub division I'll never forget those tracks

[@davidcoleman958]

This is awesome! Frontier Yard was much busier then.

[@jaygatz4335]

It looks like there was a second track at one time.

[@adamm2837]

Excellent video. Very interesting rail infrastructure condensed in that region from the looks of it. Let me tell you though, if I was a crewman riding in the cab of an F40PH in HEP generation mode, I would get tired of listening to that really quick.

[@brianseward9099]

Awesome video! What is the alarm that is going off at 30:42?

[@josephpichardo6770]

Alerter. To advise the engineer of a downward change in cab signal status or to grab the attention of the engineer if they do not move a control for 15 seconds to make sure the locomotive knows the engineer is alive and well.

[@veinbanger9381]

@@josephpichardo6770 even smart on KZbin. Outstanding bro!

[@johnandersonjjr]

I guess it wasn’t an express. Too bad it didn’t include a view from the bridge Over the Niagara gorge a few miles further

[@-smokem]

Indeed. The turnout toward the Michigan Central Railway bridge would still have been there.

[@johnandersonjjr]

@@-smokem yes and a shot of that historic bridge which is still there but(unfortunately)is /was to be dismantled (20 years ago).

[@-smokem]

I learned the City of Niagara Falls owns that bridge, bought from CP. I wouldn't think dismantling the bridge is a high priority.

[@johnandersonjjr]

@@-smokem I read or heard that CP was required to demolish it around or by 2001ish.I recall that the approach and some of the bridge on the US side has been removed.

[@-smokem]

Indeed, the approaches over a couple of streets on the Niagara Falls, NY side have been removed. Everything else is still intact.