Last Operating ALCO Century 630 - Rare Mileage & Bee Line Service Explained

[@HuntersRailProductions]

It's cool and a pretty cool sight seeing these locomotives in service

[@way75mit9]

I grew up in the East Falls section of Philly in the late 60s and 70s and I remember watching those C-630 Locomotives pull long coal drag trains through the Maniyunk Yard headed east towards the docks along the Delaware River, I live in Georgia now and this video brings fond memories for me !

[@GMCGUY-]

Your so lucky you were Alive back in that time. I AM 40 YEARS OLD WAS BORN IN THE EARLY TO MID 80S I wish I was at least 19 20 years old watching Trains going by in the beginning of 1980 that is a Dream of Mine that will Never Happen but seeing these Locomotive was So big Nice Horn Sound and 3,000 HP thats why these used these for pulling coal. I love older Locomotives I really don't care for the Dash 9 Locomotives way to many of them on he rails in my Opinion. But I was used to watching old GP38-2 and GP40s SD40s GP7 GP9 very few of these they were gone very fast probably when I was a teenager. They Donated both of them to a museum the last GP7 and the last GP9 that the railroad had. In all records said at this railroad, the railroad didn't have any g. P. Seven's left, but they really did in the way back of the yard. And it had a blown engine, I guess the railroad replaced it and use it for a switcher unit for some years, and after that, they wanted to preserve it and they get gave it to a museum somewhere in Ohio. And this was Pam AM RailWays At the time it was called Guildford rail systems.

[@way75mit9]

Hey Guy, enjoy your youth while you can brother, I'm 66 years old now, and your right, I really had a lot of fun watching those long coal trains being pulled by the Big Yellow Locomotives, And I am even old enough to remember the Pennsy before Conrail, I lived just a few blocks for the Northeast Corridor and I still remember those big GG-1 electric engines pulling long silver passenger trains through North Philly station headed to NYC or south to Washington DC, yes I also remember the shortline Eastern Belt Company that still used an 040 steam switcher at the docks in South Philly, that was the only Steam Engine I ever saw as a child in 1962 but I still remember all the smoke and sound to this day !!!

[@GMCGUY-]

@@way75mit9 I would give anything To be there with you that day. My dream is to live back in the 80s. That was my dream. Maybe even the Late late 70s. My grandmother always told me that people were so much nicer and caring for one another Back in the 70s and 80s. Just before she died back in 2018. She told me people nowadays.Just don't care what they do.No respect for their elders And these millennials nowadays don't want to work. Case in point my brother lived with my mother Until my mother got cancer and died. He was still living there even after she died. He tried the milker for every penny she was worth. He is a millennial. One lazy lazy sack of s*** And I think 99% of millennials are very lazy kids. The point I'm trying to make here is back in the day. Was such a different experience to live? And I just wish I could have been a part of that and I could have actually seen the 80s myself as an adult. You have no idea how lucky you were to actually see the 80s into experience everything.

[@royzug2847]

Nice to see some ALCSs still running.

[@BiggHoss]

ACJ in Jefferson Ohio has a all ALCO fleet

[@wayneantoniazzi2706]

Well done and very enjoyable, and considering the Alco's acceleration smoke a great reminder of why Alco diesels were called "Honorary Steam Locomotives!" Thanks for posting!

[@luislaplume8261]

Bullseye! Check out my comment above in the comments section about that! These locomotives were used in rush hours from and to Manhattan by long distance commuter trains.

[@stephenmccloughan7541]

Really good video for it being taken in 2009.

[@joelinpa185]

Thanks for a great video. I love 5308's horn, a Nathan M5 I believe. Further into the video, I stand corrected; it's a P5.

[@luislaplume8261]

I am old enough to remember when Alco 630s were commonly used on the non electric commuter trains on the Long Island Railroad back in the 1960s. We lived 2 blocks from the Long Island Railroad mainline to Manhattan. Those locomotives gave off a lot of smoke like a steam locomotive. Especially when they pulled up from a station. 😊

[@660Oliver]

Those were C420's, LI never had C630's.

[@luislaplume8261]

@@660Oliver I will take your word for it!

[@Conrailfan2323]

Fantastic stuff. Wish the RCTHS still ran excursions on the branch now. It's a shame the branch isnt used more often.

[@qdogccfc8258]

I agree with you on Nathan P5’s I hear one on a daily basis on NS 6332 and I love it

[@FloridaRailfan]

Excellent video, and what a neat subject! Thanks for sharing

[@denault3985]

Great Video once again. Was this the only Century restored in Bee Line Service paint, I thought the locomotive was obtained from Metropolitan Stevedore in Long Beach, CA? I remember photographing a Century locomotive in Reading, PA in the 1980s and even helping the society lay rail (boy is it heavy).

[@Hopen111YT]

Man I love reading books

[@RibbonRailProfuctions]

He’s back!!!!!!

[@amandap569]

Keep up the good work making new videos!

[@DavidDTrains]

Thanks for the video and great explanations ☀

[@northpennvalleysteamrailroad]

I recently saw 5308 at the museum. I can’t say whether she’s in good running order but she at least looks cosmetically fine.

[@aNYCdj]

They must have gotten a fantastic deal on that house with the train tracks so close to the front door.

[@JohnNyren65]

Great video!

[@brianfalzon6739]

I wonder if 5308 can still run again along with 5513 in the future?

[@TimothyJazmineFamily]

Great Film 🎥

[@kelvintorrence5994]

love my bee line service reading lines alco s

[@gabetrain8834]

I believe there are some C630s on the DL&W in Scranton. I’m pretty sure anyway

[@CentralPennRailProductions]

They have a couple C636 (3642 and 3643 as well as the three they just brought in from WNYP) and one M630 3007. Aside from the C630M variant I mention in the video, MLW built their own version as the M630 from 1969-1974 after ALCO closed their doors. Some of these got Canadian widecabs. They went on to produce a lot more M636s as well.

[@gabetrain8834]

@@CentralPennRailProductions I’m really not sure. I know they have the last operating C636, but when it comes to C630s I believe they have two. I may be mistaken as I’m not in Scranton often, but I think I’ve seen some there.

[@208Railfanning]

Nah, can't trust 'em. They always bee line. Lol. Great video.

[@Doug6410]

Please they are keeping it in service

[@Traincraft101]

Why have they stopped these excursions?

[@CentralPennRailProductions]

I honestly don't have that answer, I know there has been talks of running again soon but I think the motive power needs more maintenance and that requires money and you know how that can go. Plus R&N owns the tracks, not the museum, so they need permission to run again when/if they do.

[@Doug6410]

Put the reading lines next to a read and northern unit

[@SoFloRR1018]

Does that trackage have freight too? Or just excursion?

[@CentralPennRailProductions]

Freight between NS interchange at Laurel Jct in Temple and Leesport only. Car storage above there sometimes. There hasn't been an excursion since this one 15 years ago, sadly.

[@PatrioticCoservativeAmerican]

Im confused did the Reading merge, or expand, and so changed their name to Reading, and blue mountain, then Reading, blue mountain, and northern, or did they go out of business. Is this railroad the Reading, and they just changed their name?

[@CentralPennRailProductions]

Reading was absorbed into Conrail along with several other bankrupt railroads in 1976. Since Conrail became a large network of these former competing railroads who often had routes that ran parallel, a lot of the network was deemed redundant and ripe for removal. Combine that with areas of slowing economy that were better served by trucking (and deteriorating track conditions from lack of maintenance with some badly timed severe rain storms that made things worse) a lot of track was abandoned and ripped up to keep the Conrail network lean. Many regional railroads sprung up from optimistic entrepreneurs trying salvage and expand the offloaded mileage from Conrail, the Reading and Northern being one of them. R&N has no relation to the Reading Railroad other than using paint schemes inspired from the Reading Company days and operating on territory that was the Reading railroad, but they also run over areas of other predecessor roads as well. A lot of this is explained in the two videos linked at the end (I'll put them in the descriptions as well).

[@AugustonetoAugustoneto-xi9en]

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[@ashtonlorenzo7217]

Are you 100 years old?

[@nrvtrainmasters]

Awesome video!