Hobo Railroad 958 August 29, 2020

[@CykroAzaaRD]

loving it dude

[@tzrr-nsnyswmodellingmore2821]

that was awesome!

[@brendangranger3684]

Have you ever seen 1186 (their other operational Alco) run before? It's quite an elusive fellow, very little footage of it.

[@trainern8]

It sure is elusive! I rode behind it a few times as a kid before they had 958, but that was before I was taking videos. I also rode behind 958 its first year there when it was green, but I didn't get any video of that either.

[@brendangranger3684]

@@trainern8 Neat. Back then, it has a very fouled Leslie S5T horn. Now it has a new cast P5. There's very little to no public videos around of those horns that I readily know of.

[@PeaceyPraps]

Loving the air whistle on coach 1004!

[@trainern8]

Me too!

[@NorthEasternMotionProductions]

Apparently 958 is no longer their main unit for this line and now 105 takes that job

[@trainern8]

I saw that too, I'll miss seeing 958 run but 105 is really nice!

[@NorthEasternMotionProductions]

@@trainern8 true. Although it’s likely that 958 is in its last years due to parts being an issue

[@trainern8]

@@NorthEasternMotionProductions I did hear that it's getting harder to get parts but I also recently heard they'd probably always keep some of the Alcos around. Hopefully we can see them from time to time.

[@NorthEasternMotionProductions]

@@trainern8 they said they currently have all of 958’s parts so they could use that for a future event like the fall foliage train, maybe along with 1186

[@NorthEasternMotionProductions]

3 years later and 958’s now more rare than 1186

[@joshuariddensdale2126]

I also railfanned the Hobo Railroad that same weekend. But I've been having trouble uploading it from my phone through the KZbin app.

[@trainern8]

Nice! I look forward to seeing it once you get it to work!

[@joshuariddensdale2126]

@@trainern8 It's on my channel now

[@Queenie_78]

Where did you pull over and room to get out of the road near the highway underpass guardrails? 3:56

[@trume12]

When I was up there last August I actually had a cab ride on 958

[@trainern8]

Wow that's awesome!

[@andrewheld2475]

So is this a shove or is the engineer running the train from the coach?

[@northrailproductions]

It’s a shove

[@andrewwilson5631]

Nice! Of course on my day off, lol

[@trainern8]

Haha next time!