"We Have Clearance, Clarence" NYS&W Utica NY

[@davyjones761919]

As someone who lived around and has driven those streets, I never realized that was a operational track. Cool

[@larryterrell1259]

@Alpha Dragon loooo7

[@larryterrell1259]

P0plpppp

[@larryterrell1259]

Llllll

[@elitedata]

looks like a great place to live, can you provide some insight ?

[@bobwitt305]

@@elitedata foot hills of the adk and trying to figure out post industrial America. Probably best bet is bring back industrial usa.

[@guywskills]

As a kid back in the 70’s I can remember the green tower was manned by someone. By the 80’s electric sensors/controls eliminated the need for a person to spot trains coming north on Schuyler Street. That line was very active into the mid-80’s feeding a large manufacturing base...Bosserts, GE on Chennago Road, Niagara Mohawk Power (NiMo) now National Grid, a cardboard box company and concrete business both along Campion Road in New Hartford. That line also goes down to Sauquoit, Cassville, and Bridewater & beyond...and also goes out to NY Mills and Yorkville. I remember stories about my dad jump the train to get a ride from Clark Mills & Clinton into Utica when he was a kid back in the 1950’s. There was also a trolley that used that line from West Utica to “The Mills” or New York Mills that my grandparents and their parents used back in the late 1800 and early 1900’s. One last useless fact about that RR track and West Utica...back in the housing boom of early 1900-1030’s when the single family bungalow houses were built would be delivered by train along that track. The homes were kit homes bought through Sears & Roeback or Montgomery Wards catalogs as mail order kits. Horse & wagon would be loaded from the train and delivered to the build site. I currently reside in one such home that my grandparents purchased in 1934 for $3200.00, which was built in 1925 for about $1800. Indoor toilet and electrical service was added in about 1930.

[@railroadingrambler218]

Wow, very interesting! Thanks for your comments!

[@spaz-tech]

Agreed -- Thank you for the informative backstory! Americana....... 👍

[@Buzzizoven]

cool seeing a locomotive going inside a building from the street, and entering through a garage door !

[@RajKumar-nn4wp]

Kids : look at the Lamborghini coming out of my garage , Legends : that's cute. Now Look at the locomotive coming out of mine.

[@xxxxxtrxxx13]

LMAO, you nailed it perfectly!

[@NashRailfan]

R/hmmm

[@mistermadmachine6311]

😊👍

[@archivushka]

"That's brilliant, but i like this"

[@carltorjusen558]

U must be hearing bells all the time...clang..clang....clang...dittos..with a chug a chug a chug a..LOL..LMAO

[@richkeeshan9757]

Roger, Roger: What's our vector, Victor?

[@gordonoconnor476]

Don't call me Shirley!

[@christopherhelms7290]

"I was over Unger, but Unger was under Dunn."

[@LorenHelgeson]

Give me Ham on 5, hold the Mayo.

[@thomream1888]

Damn, you guys are GOOOOOOD! But no quitting glue comments????

[@LorenHelgeson]

@@thomream1888 Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit amphetamines!

[@rockfangd]

Growing up near these very tracks, and living near the tracks that run with the canal I find the noise to be soothing. Especially in the winter when the leaves are off the trees and the snow is on the ground. It just echoes through the air. And like my v8s I still chuckle when I hear them accelerate. When they start to pick up speed it makes the ground rumble. To some people this is weird but for us this is completely normal. I actually prefer a part of the past

[@flipflopsguy8868]

What are the Google maps coordinates for this intersection

[@bazza945]

With that poetical turn of phrase, I thought you were winding up to write a novel.

[@meme-xn6wr]

THANK. YOU. I have so many people tell me I’m weird because of it. The smell, the noise, all of it, is just generally soothing. I’ve lived near the canal CSX tracks, and I can not get enough of the noise and the smell. Every time I see a CSX train barreling down the mainline, I stop everything I’m doing just to make sure I get a few sweet, sweet moments of pure satisfaction.

[@morg102]

I get that same feeling with the scraping of snow plows on a crisp winter day. I imagine the train would be like that x100.

[@gloriadevos1790]

I do envy you R. I had similar memories growing up in Klamath Falls, OR in the 70's-80's. The BN yard sounded right next door during the winter when the air was coldest.

[@KG-qk1qp]

This is what running trains on 9.5" curves in N scale looks like in real life... Oh, and don't call me Shirley.

[@brianhickey5949]

Love N Scale :)

[@slr_393p]

So true!

[@markh.6687]

Surely you can't be serious?!

[@richardsylvanus2717]

Roger Roger.

[@greggb1969]

@@richardsylvanus2717 There's a sale at Penney's!!

[@bBersZ]

Needs more cowbell.

[@gittyupalice96]

I agree, we wouldn't want it wandering too far might get attacked by a hungry prius.

[@Boypogikami132]

gittyupalice96 but the locomotive is bigger and stronger than a regular car

[@daddydoesdyna9539]

😆😆😆

[@tj1lincoln182]

James Padre Juan ever heard of a joke

[@davidglaum2538]

Any town that has a train running around on its streets has to be a neat and cool town. 😜☺️😊😃

[@reberinskime4508]

Modesto CA

[@hlcepeda]

Depends on where the town is located (and on what "cool" can mean). 🙃 kzbin.info/www/bejne/pWKunIt6j5eeec0

[@Eric-zi1oz]

Elwood, Ind, Warsaw, Ind.. Both are active mainline trackage in the street..

[@TMthe33rd]

Ikr, i can't believe there's someone who thinks that's a bad idea

[@aeroman5239]

Fort Collins, CO

[@brianhickey5949]

Schultz and Dooley - Utica Club :) Plus a street train - thank you for one of my favorite scenes!

[@bean_bttf3]

*”I’m from Utica and I’ve never heard anyone use the phrase ‘Steamed Hams’...”*

[@jjames3793]

LOL and im from the Albany area and have never heard anyone call a hamburger a steamed ham other than when principle skinner said it on the Simpsons. Tho my mom would some times refer to deli or cold cut ham as steamed ham

[@spookerz35]

Funny how Skinner's house was conveniently located across the way from Krusty Burger...and that the Aurora Borealis was in his kitchen...in the middle of the afternoon.

[@cleanerben9636]

@@spookerz35 at that time of year localised entirely in his kitchen, and he didn't even let Chalmers see it? Ridiculous.

[@bean_bttf3]

Otto Man All part of the gag. That’s part of what makes The Simpsons so damn amazing

[@spookerz35]

@@bean_bttf3 - I know. One of my favorite episodes.

[@thomplacier677]

Really enjoy the street running and switching this place.

[@goldnberg007]

Just like Dinosaurs and Humans coexistence😲

[@spuds6423]

@@goldnberg007 ?????

[@brunnalorranesouzacostalor1074]

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[@brunnalorranesouzacostalor1074]

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[@brunnalorranesouzacostalor1074]

Cwsah8

[@wesleywright6484]

Again a great shot! We get to see something we don't get to see often thanks again my friend

[@RC944jim]

For some reason I click 👍 before I watch, and have never changed my mind! Thanks 😊

[@railroadingrambler218]

Thanks!

[@nrao8977]

That engine *always* has the right of way. Even at a stop sign. Something to remember for folks driving around there.

[@repowers2]

2:15 "And now, we witness one of nature's great wonders, the miracle of locomotivebirth."

[@barrykery1175]

I just love when trains go right through the middle of town on the town's streets.

[@louiel8711]

Great video, I watch the NYS&W switching cars on my lunch hour in Bingo NY every day, great video.

[@oregoncannabisgrowsreviews8271]

Have they heard of the phrase "steamed hams?" Hey, someone had to do it!

[@MrCG35]

Uh, no... It’s an Albany expression.

[@MrSupercar55]

Not in Utica, no! It's an Albany expression.

[@MrSupercar55]

MrCG35 Yanno, these hamburgers are quite similar to the ones they have at Krusty Burger 🍔

[@oregoncannabisgrowsreviews8271]

@@MrCG35 I see...

[@ipeters61]

@@razor_170 Uh... Aurora borealis.

[@markmccummins8049]

Downright beautiful! Great video! Imagine that maneuver in the steam era. And that brewery surely was there then!

[@ElConquistador24]

My wife and I love this setup this railroad has. The switch is in the middle of the road. awesome!

[@davidchambers7508]

Just chanced upon watching this riveting film. In terms of curve radius I am reminded of a branchline in Ireland. This branch was to Dún Laoghaire Carlisle Pier which was the interchange with the mailboat from Holyhead. It had a curve radius of 300 feet or 91.4 metres. Although this line closed in 1980 it still nonetheless fascinates railway enthusiasts. Thank you for making and posting this film.

[@MilePost106]

I love watching them switch out here!!! Great videos

[@wagoneer81]

That is one good looking bumblebee! Always did love that paint scheme.

[@lasalleman]

Interesting. You don't see too many trains street running these days.

[@DTD110865]

@April R Or Ashland, VA? Actually, there's still plenty of street running if you know where to look.

[@warrenhoffman653]

Garfield, New Jersey

[@danmattioda3991]

Albany Oregon has street running daily.

[@davidmorris7696]

St Mary's WV

[@lasalleman]

Well , gents, I stand corrected. But I haven't' seen too many here in California. Although we had them in the 1950s. As I remember.

[@jeremypreece870]

Hi from the UK. I have been watching a lot of American railway videos during our lockdown. We have hardly any street running left in the UK but in the USA it appears to still be common. This is however the first time that I have seen a train run through a building. Clearance? It is a tighter squeeze than the London Underground! Nice video BTW.

[@Brill39e]

....our Railways over here have become a little boring....

[@aaronb7631]

Have you seen this? [kzbin.info/www/bejne/jaS8paKphtmUa7s] This is in LaGrange, KY!

[@jeremypreece870]

@@aaronb7631 Hi. I have seen this place in other rail videos, but didn't know about this live feed! I have even virtually walked it on Google Earth!

[@spuds6423]

Welcome to Utica, NY... Home of some of the best beer and soda around.. plus Utica Greens!!!😃😃😃😃😃

[@beebop9808]

Our commuting consists primarily of cars unlike the UK and Europe as a whole. Light commuter rails are confined to major cites if they have them. Heavy rail commuter service isn't very prevalent. I work on the control systems for the commuter rail in Atlanta and drive 30 miles one way every day to get there with no other way to get there other than by auto. I ride the train when I get there only if it's convenient. Our tunnels are pretty tight too. I little more so than seen here. And buzzing through at 70mph makes you realize just how close to a bad day you really are. hahaha

[@JayDillon-mm6yv]

My dad was born in 1903 and raised in and near Utica NY (Williamstown) and he absolutely loved the trains and that beautiful farmland up there...

[@joewoodchuck3824]

I've toured that brewery and I've been to Utica many times. My parents lived in Boonville not very far away years ago.

[@christopherescott6787]

Can you imagine how many loadsand types of power have traversed those rails?

[@robertclark6349]

They used to run S2s and RS1s.

[@19manu06]

I love when trains run through close to the streets and houses. It is a different experience and I feel good about it.

[@redroberts7902]

I never ever reply or comment on videos and I watch a TONNE of train video. I can honestly say this is one of the absolute coolest videos I have ever watched. I am seriously jealous I can jot watch this irl.

[@rossbryan6102]

AN EXTRA COAT OF PAINT ON THE BUILDING INTERIOR, AND THE LOCOMOTIVE AND HOPPER, AND THEN IT WILL BECOME IMPASSABLE!! LOL KEEP THEM ROLLING BROTHERS!! 👍👍

[@haraldpettersen3649]

I am glad that you are happy and have everything under control, it is important with such large tools

[@g.b.gareful5569]

That was awesome, very close but made it through. Thanks for catching that so we could see it.

[@kangaroostew0077]

We used to have quite a few working lines in my hometown of Rockhampton Qld Australia but time and site changes with maintenance issues..my Dad was a driver..and road frieght was introduced more and more. I like to see this still open.

[@RussianSevereWeatherVideos]

Amazing to see street track running, those tight curves, the on-street switch as well. Thanks for uploading this video.

[@josephpruett5661]

Definitely do not want to be riding on the side of the car with that close clearance

[@robertfeinberg748]

Especially if your name is Clarence.

[@tracynation239]

An excellent video. Hello from the Tracy Mountain Railway in Colorado. ♡ T.E.N.

[@evanj2400]

“ it’s was time for Thomas to leave, he had seen everything

[@acts2211]

Hey look carefully some of the wall tiles are broken where the engine goes around the curve inside the building definitely a tight curve

[@georgeheld1901]

Oh yeah yikes

[@GmaPat89]

My home town, in NY also has a track running through the town! Thanks for this cool video!

[@alcopower5710]

Now that’s tight. Excellent video thanks for sharing

[@andyknott8148]

Keep those videos coming. I am beginning to like 3040 more and more.

[@Transit_Biker]

Awesome view into the customer's property!

[@Hawqis1]

My aunt lives in that area. Depending on the day, I'd take that way to my grandparents house and see the street runners with lots more cars. Fun to watch.

[@kazmertobias4772]

Railroading Rambler This video was the very first I saw. Then I looked at them all. I like them all.

[@hydroponicus5767]

Amazing to see single carloads delivered by rail and in street running! Everywhere else in the world(mostly) this is done by truck. Seems to be profitable, though, or am I missing something?

[@jamesparson]

It's very rare

[@ClockworksOfGL]

Hydroponicus - The brewhouse looks like it’s a stone’s throw from the yard. Probably takes the crew just a few minutes to do a delivery.

[@MilwaukeeF40C]

It used to be done everywhere until they subsidized the hell out of roads, plus dealing with freight rail in Europe is a pain in the ass with all the separate nationalized systems.

[@jonathanparker2939]

Bryan Noga Yes, the main line is not far from the brewery here in Utica.

[@kofola9145]

Like mr. Bushrod said. Politicians in their infinite wisdom subsidize the less economically and ecologically sound mode of transport and railroads themselves cannot be bothered.

[@bkriegel95]

That's a WICKED COOLl catch! Well done!

[@PhysicsBear]

Thank you! That was fun to watch.

[@PlancoandChill]

The more I watch vids like this the more I realize that trains are the cats of the transportation world.

[@stevencooper2464]

That is a whole lot of locomotive in a little building! Around here, the railroads will only deliver to the property...they won't bring it inside for you.

[@СоветскийМемер]

"CAPTAIN!!" "Y-yeah?" "LOOK"

[@punkajlakhani]

How satisfying to watch.

[@vicodumb]

Love the crossing guard tower in the distance. Great catch altogether.

[@verschizzle]

Does anyone notice the old tower in the background?? Right near the active crossing! That's some cool stuff.... A part of railroading history! Thank you for the great video!

[@yt650]

Watching this video brings back memories from about 25 years ago. In Scottsdale Pennsylvania, on route 119, there was a company that made wedding announcement by the bazillion. Their engineer designed a receiving platform so the railroad cars could be unloaded by special forklift trucks that picked up a huge rolls of paper that were stacked in the railroad cars. The railroad spur did not align with the building so a curved track existed and the new dock built along side and the engine pushed two box cars into the loading platform or unloading dock which ever you want to call it and promptly hit the loading dock on the curve and derailed the box cars. A slight miscalculation on the engineers part. In the maintenance office there was a Playboy cartoon hanging on the wall and it showed a picture of a huge building being erected and a construction worker standing at the edge hollering down to the workers “stop working, we have the blueprints upside down”. The engineers name was written on that fold out page. LMAO.

[@sd90mac61]

That was pretty neat to see, keepem rolling, more videos please👍👍

[@DanielCPurdy]

That is one really big engine and one huge hopper car. They must really brew a lot of beer there.

[@gatblau1]

Whoa! There’s a crossing tower! Don’t see many of those anymore.

[@greenlawnfarm5827]

I want to get a job working in there.

[@trainsbybob]

Ah yes! It looks like that modeler had to use 15”radius curves. LoL

[@arthurpenfield2085]

Excellent video, I just subscribed. Keep them coming!

[@mikeklaene4359]

I have not had a Utica Club beer in years. Used to get up to Utica frequently from the mid '70s to the early '80s. The company for which I worked did software for and sold the Cogar -> Singer -> ICL computers that were made in Utica on Cosby Manor Road.

[@jess.hawkins]

Cool video! I think you can even make out the treadle used to activate the RR crossing bells and lights as the loco leaves the private siding...

[@TheFenrir1080]

Very cool, I often have wondered where the trains go when they get to that area of the Brewery. Thank you for the video!!!

[@davidvanschaick5565]

LOL with a wonderful GP40. Close clearance, wowser lol Excellent reference to Airplane the movie !

[@SOU6900]

Hope they don't ever derail in the building because it looks like a long day if they do.

[@VinnyMartello]

Hahaha I know right?

[@robertfeinberg748]

It happen in Quebec and destroyed a town centre.

[@SOU6900]

@@robertfeinberg748 yeah but I don't think they were actually going through a building like they were in the video were they?

[@robertfeinberg748]

@@SOU6900 It was next to a building. Clarence wouldn't have stood a chance. I once bought a suit @L&T from a guy named Clarence, and it was a clearance.

[@DaveHandler]

Lived behind the brewery for many years, the smell of hops in the air .... miss it! The sound of ding ding ding .... screeeetch ... kinda miss that too!

[@whatdoidonext2234]

love the crossing tower in the background at the last few seconds of the shot.!

[@AndreiTupolev]

It looks like it's escaped onto the New York Subway 1:24. I never knew a loco could negotiate curves that sharp!

[@scottfw7169]

B-B truck (4 axle) diesels are pretty flexible. A couple of the various factors which limit how sharp a curve they can take are the ventilation ducting for the traction motor cooling blowers which runs from the underframe to the traction motors, you don't want to accidentally pull it apart, & how much side-to-side swing the locomotive's coupler draft gear has; which then interacts with how much side to side swing the coupler on whatever car the loco is coupled to has.

[@ART_INDIA]

Nice Railway Engine... Colour & Design....👍👍👍👍👍 Lovely Horn...👌👌👌👍

[@jaymorgenthal9479]

Great street running video. I love street running.

[@smug8567]

It is my goal to drive my 1964 Chevy Impala SS around this town in a gorilla suit smoking a big cigar.

[@conrailjohn6682]

Fantastic video! Love it!

[@TolgaEastCoast]

DANG, this is a cool switch. Nice job.

[@jimkammerer8028]

AWESOME GOOD VIDEO THANK YOU FOR YOUR VIDEO AND YOUR TIME VERY INTERESTING AND INFORMATIVE BE SAFE AND CAREFUL.

[@mrdrummer2564]

1:40 is it just me or is that platform like at an angle? also those steps looks pricarious!

[@RandomNonsense1985]

Ticonderoga, NY had a street like this for most of the 20th century, but the tracks were removed back in the 80s after the town’s paper mill relocated.

[@donavonrobbins1908]

And those flanges thought they were already broke in. Love running down the road long nose first. Hope they keep the paint.

[@alfonsoramirez9160]

Nice video greatings from torreón coahuila México

[@24brownbess]

Neat looking switch tower in the background too.

[@TRSPomerania]

Wow, that was a sight to see, excellent catch!

[@troystaten5633]

Very cool video, neat to see this type of operation.

[@ocsrc]

I just want to tell you all Good Luck, we're all counting on you.

[@williamhalpin6713]

Took a excursion on the SUZIEQ back in 1983. Parked at the brewery and I remember the crossing tower was operational. Utica to Cortland and back in one day.

[@JawTooth]

That was awesome! Has it all!!

[@ferdinandfrancis9673]

@ 0:28 i finally see a clear view of the bogeys turning, something you wont see with the engine, good video.

[@legolas3241]

how does the train switch tracks in the middle of the street?

[@gregmorgan3508]

There is another video where you can watch the switching operation. There is a handle that is level with the street so cars can run over it. Watch "With Motorcycle Cops Standing Vigil, NYS&W Utica Club Brewery Job" on KZbin kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZqW2gWlmd5WAr7c

[@donmoore7785]

Switch is buried beneath the pavement.

[@danielkeene3852]

I bet that location was switched with a SW series loco then smaller GPs before that GP40 pushed cars in. I wonder how long it took to inch that thing through the first time to make sure the porches wouldn't knock the wall down.

[@JoeSimonin]

Incredible! Great video!

[@dalekenbeek1009]

Wow twice... 1) the tight squeeze in the building... 2)is that an old switch tower at the in of the video....

[@adam92682]

There are some houses on Hiawatha Blvd. in Syracuse where the tracks go across the driveways.

[@the1darknight]

Also, "YAY, MORE BEER!" 🍺🍻

[@stevecallachor]

If the grain hopper contains 150 tons and its travelled 1000 miles from the grain silo there has already been a huge saving of $s. To go the last 20 miles by truck would take 15 tips and a whole lot of intermodal messing about. This economy won't work in all case but where it does the savings are considerable Stephan

[@trens_bahia]

Show!!!!, Que produto é esse?

[@EmPtySworld1]

Thanks for sharing.. Never seen street running like this

[@DarkFoxV]

Love this city, so much culinary goodness!! ))

[@BOATNIAGARA]

beautiful the little street running and in the warhouse, nice

[@cats0182]

"Close Clearance". Yep.

[@garyoconnordbaairrepair7775]

The Unit came out slower than going in.

[@jontaylor6068]

How do they change the points in the middle of the street?

[@railroadingrambler218]

In-street switch, already lined for the brewery.

[@jontaylor6068]

@@railroadingrambler218 so the switch is manual or automatic?

[@railroadingrambler218]

@@jontaylor6068 Manual, it's covered by a steel plate. Several videos on this channel show it being thrown (just look for anything with "brewery" in the title)

[@tommytruth7595]

@Daniel C. That has to be a challenge on some winter days with the ice and snow build up.