Diesels on the DT+I, 1987

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@fandoria09 5 ай бұрын

My late husband's late step-grandfather worked for DT&I from after he left the Army in 1945 after WWII until the late 1980s. He said that the Blizzard of 1978 was the worst. A buddy of his derailed one of the engines during the storm. The rail system that went through Waverly, Ohio, was shut down in 1992. My mother-in-law still has all the pictures he'd taken, even with my late husband, when he was a boy in the engine. It was setting still while the tracks across the concrete bridge that once sat over St. Rt. 23 were being worked on. Sadly, you'll find little evidence that the DT&I railroad ever went through Waverly, Ohio. The city of Waverly did a good job of taking up the railway in 1992. I learned a great deal of the history of Waverly Ohio when I met and married my 1st husband in 1992 (ex in 1996) and moved there from the village of Glenford, Ohio. I lived in Waverly, Ohio, from 1992 to 2007. Moved from there in 2007 to Washington State until 2020. I have been residing in Missouri with my 3rd husband since 2020. The history here is also amazing.

@rippersix293 2 жыл бұрын

Lot of memories, thanks for sharing. I grew up walking distance from the DT&I mainline in Allen Park, MI. I spent a good part of my youth at the Champaign St. crossing watching and snapping pics!

@nssteampunk4865 Жыл бұрын

The track between Chillicothe and just east of Washington Court House has long been removed and today serves as the Tri County Triangle Trail.

@roberthassan4411 4 жыл бұрын

I can remember when the Grand Trunk Western bought out the DT&I in the early 1980's and the orange locos showing up in the GTW Chicago's Elsdon Yard! Nice memories!

@ronnestman4696 5 ай бұрын

My dad worked for the DT&I 70’s - mid 90’s in the Flat Rock yard

@jkminnich 5 жыл бұрын

I haven’t seen auto racks on the DT&I in years.

@DJshekky 5 жыл бұрын

it's kind of cool to see trains before the days of ditch lights.

@b3j8 Жыл бұрын

Used to pick up the DT&I radio chatter on my scanner at my Folk's home in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Had a good outside antenna. Usually heard the towers at Leipsic, Hamler, and Lima Ohio. Sometimes Diann Tower up in Michigan.

@kevinpurcell2093 Жыл бұрын

I am really enjoying this video. Not much talk and no music in the background. You are just letting the scenes doing the talking.

@mackenziezimmerer7926 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the Elmwood PL memory. The overhead trestle in the background is now gone. Before N@S aquired this now, directional running portion of Conrail, the line saw maybe 10 trains a day. But it included a weekly GT hot shot that barreled through this densely populated stretch which included 7 grade crossings within a quarter mile. The engineer laid on the horn with what seemed to be one continuous sound.

@douglasskaalrud6865 3 жыл бұрын

A friend introduced me to the DT&I when he asked me to produce a very specific DT&I GP38-2 for him. There’s some good prototype info on this video-thanks for posting it. I’ve been trying to draw a similarity to any other railroad in the upper midwest where I’m from but the DT&I defies most comparisons. The closest I can come would be the Milwaukee Road-there are quite a few similarities but the DT&I was different than the Milwaukee in that it actually had some profitable traffic and more money behind it. It also had locomotives whose maintenance was deferred, a cheap track structure that risked derailing trains even at low speed and the disadvantage of being the last railroad to reach traffic-producing locations that would have helped it with cash flow. In one big way the DT&I was smarter than the Milwaukee by staying away from GE U-Boats.