GMD-1 CHASE! Alberta Prairie Railway

[@gtaaddict390]

I love the gmd1s especially the 1100series as they still retain their factory 12-567C engine while the others in the 1600 and 14000 series have been rebuilt with modern components and 12-645E engines

[@MattGTrainz]

I do like the originals! I don't know the history behind this locomotive though. I assumed it is/was a Cando unit rented or bought. They had a high hood GP9, an SW3 and CN 6060 back in 2011 (I have a video of that somewhere on my channel). They also have a GP9 that they use for serving the freight customers around Stettler. GP 9 www.flickr.com/photos/194508716@N03/52225752350/in/album-72177720300644263/ kzbin.info/www/bejne/aqK0naV7ibGHl6M

[@HavelockYard]

Too cool !! Love those GMD 1s

[@MattGTrainz]

Me too!

[@RailfanBenjamin269]

Nice chase Matt. I'm going to chase 589 on wednesday from Kanata to Arnprior

[@paulsmith5398]

The Canadian version of the US RS-1325 model. No ditch lights?, a cool red vista-dome, and i wouldnt want to be in that open window coach in winter! (BRRRRRRR!)

[@MattGTrainz]

I don't think this railway falls under the CRO rules. But this couldn't lead a train on a class one train. Most of this couldn't be hauled by a class one.

[@paulsmith5398]

@@MattGTrainz i noticed that almost all the passenger cars had a smokestack on the roof, does that indicate they dont have steam heat? I have a picture that my dad took on a hunting/fishing trip to Canada in the 1940s, and it was a steamer pulling freight, with several passenger cars on the end in front of the caboose. They stopped and let the group board one of the pasenger cars, and there was a smokestack protruding from its roof. I am pretty sure that freight cars dont have steam lines for car heating.

[@MattGTrainz]

@@paulsmith5398 I don't remember for sure. I did ride this train back in 2011 and don't remember too much from it. I do remember the cowboy train robbery though! I don't think they actively use heating. Back in the day, maybe a wood stove of some kind in every car. Alberta winters are cold, your cold instantly when you go outside and you are warm instantly after coming inside

[@GstarEdmsTrainProductions]

Cool stuff!

[@cedricbazinet1826]

I sure wish Ingredion still used their GMD 1

[@MattGTrainz]

GMD-1s are disappearing. If companies won't even use them to switch, you got to see them before they are gone

[@paulsmith5398]

The caboose looks very similar to one made by Model Die Casting, which is now defunct, after Athearn merged with them, and is now part of Horizon Hobbies of Champaign/Urbana, Illinois, USA.

[@ZombieSlayer-dj3wb]

Nice no ebell

[@ADSC2006]

To cool 🙃

[@OldhouseIndustries]

daaamn did you travel there?

[@MattGTrainz]

Yes