Small engines, Riding the Tail and Running in the Dark

[@ronarant2897]

That is really a great place! The engineers seat was very interesting!

[@poowg2657]

Absolutely excellent. Love the model M3/5 Stuart tank going along for the ride. Gorgeous East Broad Top consol. Love the night shots, my favorite! Great video, thanks for bringing it to us!

[@duanedale2505]

Nice interesting video

[@artillerest43rdva7]

great application of “FRED” on the night run. that is a huge set up! that was a nice Chessie caboose ! that was a different styled seat right after the 70. the run by of the pennsylvania was really nice. you got some great images of the different trains. thank you for sharing your time at the live steamers!

[@WHJeffB]

Excellent!! That Providence and Worcester ML420R is gold! Nice model. Great set-up. Must have taken years to lay all that track, build/install the bridges, etc...

[@MillBrookRailroad]

The M420 is a neat engine. One of my favorites. The club is 40 years old, and I don't recall how long it took to build each section, but it did take a lot of man hours.

[@ronjenkins549]

They had great track work. Looks great and thanks

[@danielfantino1714]

Thanks for the ride. The 70 is smart, she miss the first twig but stop before second one ! Cool idea to film from the rear. Caboose roof too shot shows track irregularities, that´s when good suspension trucks absorb track variations. At coupler height speed illusion is greater. Nice shot compared to front one where the giant hides everything. That P&W a rarity in that scale world with correct AAR type B trucks from scrapped older Alco´s is correct. Altough type M that is roughly a letter H is the usual, would be cool to do. A lot of welding, but no suspension. Don´t know who made those trucks. Are they home made ? Refreshing to see such details instead of more common EMD Blomberg. I still never understand how Americans clubs can be so huge with so many infrastructures to install and maintain. Bigger membership or $$$$ annual fees ? And it´s not weather for sure. Adirondack is is real winter location. It´s pity what we have at Québec, Ottawa or Montréal. Except for steamers that get "real" weathering from operations, too spiffy, shiny and looking brand new, hide so much details that sometimes required extra work and or money. They should get some inspirations from smaller scale. That steamer with wood gondolas was a running well time machine. So successful marketing era of Chessie system For many years in second world war era and latter, all their yearly calendars were instant sold out bonanza with nicely done illustrations, promotting the railroad offered services, new equipment. Yep, Chessie being a female cat got kittens that playing xith an O scale trains, removed the steamer and all heavyweight passenger cars, replaced by shiny new stainless cars and locos, while Peake, the father, went to fight in the war. Chessie saying shhht ! to not awaking a sleeping soldier in its dormitory bed going to war. Hard to understand in our cold and feelingless time, that the public send cat food to the railroad, believing that real Chesie and its family really existed. Finally, railroad HQ had no choice than to adopt a real grey tabby cat from a refuge. I´m sick when i see how sooo successful Chessy strory ended up in present drab CSX ! Well.... at least, letters C and S survived that disaster.... Thanks Aaron and your new "Vice President" that we see so often. A really pleasant guy that seems to have a decent piece of land to one day have its own empire. ❤😊

[@richardwilkens4577]

Here's a challenging idea. A track mantaitance car with a working crane

[@MillBrookRailroad]

@@richardwilkens4577 It would be interesting, but not very practical. You can generally lift more than a crane of this size.

[@bubbabubba2013]

Couple of those leaning trees need to be cleared. Thought i saw 3 leaners close to each other.

[@MillBrookRailroad]

@bubbabubba2013 probably. I don't mess with the trees at Adirondack, anymore.

[@rickfarrar1948]

Have ever visited Train Mountain Triennial?

[@MillBrookRailroad]

@@rickfarrar1948 No, not yet.

[@danielfantino1714]

Hi Aaron, did there was flood disaster around your location ? Plainfield quite "far" from your site have been seriously hurt. For downtown residents with the bridge collapse over Winooski river and houses gone, it´s a playback of Vermont´s big flood, roughly a century ago. Hope the best for these poor souls that lost everything. Be safe my friend.

[@MillBrookRailroad]

@@danielfantino1714 All the flood damage was up north. It's always bad when people get flooded out.