NKP765/PM1225: Around The Wye @ Cadillac - Trackside HD

It was cool and rainy for the first Saturday in October, but that didn't keep more than 600 people from riding in 16 cars behind Nickel Plate Road 765 and Pere Marquette 1225 from Alma, MI, to Cadillac. This video shows the two big Lima-built locomotives arriving at Mt. Pleasant, pulling up to a service stop at Clare, and arriving at Cadillac. The locomotives are then turned one at a time on the wye before coupling back onto the train for the return trip. The video concludes with the train leaving Cadillac and charging through Lake George at dusk. These clips will be featured in an episode of the TV series Trackside. (www.trainweb.org/tracksideonline)

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Autos & Vehicles

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• Trackside
• steam
• locomotive
• double
• header
• headed
• Steam
• Railroading
• Institute
• Nickel
• Plate
• Road
• 765
• NKP
• Pere
• Marquette
• 1225
• Owosso
• Alma
• Ann
• Arbor
• train
• railroad
• Cadillac
• Michigan
• Mt.
• Pleasant
• Clare
• Lake
• George
• Polar
• Express

[switchstand]

Outstanding video work! I take it you are a professional video camera man.

[tracksidefan]

Thank you Switchstand. Glad you enjoyed the footage.  I've been shooting semi-professionally for a lot longer than I care to recall. Shooting outside is easy, just don't ask me to light something indoors.

[gokomets77]

What were they "painting" on the rails anyways? Great closeups by the way!

Next time I'll call in sick and head up!

[tracksidefan]

The substance being applied to inside of the outer rails on the wye is definitely some type of lubricant, although I don't know specifically what kind it is. From other close-ups that were edited out, the lubricant is gray-black in color and has very thick, grease-like composition.

[SP4449Warbaby]

Truthfully I hope the FWRHS doesnt paint whitewalls on the 765's drivers, she looks more robust with black drivers.

[tracksidefan]

I noticed in a photo from back in the early Nineties when these two were together the last time that the 765 also had chrome covers on the cylinders. Those are gone now too.

[CSX6000]

Greta video of two magnificant locomotives!

[Kleman09]

AWESOME!!!!!!!!!

[SuperMario6419]

@Chase1609 Yes, there are both Berkshires

[grizzleybearz282004]

THATS COOL WHEN YOU CAN HEAR THAT METAL STRETCHING

[badboylll]

Very cool! I really like the stack talk at 6:51! Almost sounded like an articulate!

[LoganisTrainBoy1]

@Chase1609 The 1225 is an N-1 with larger cylnders so its more power than the 765 but 10 mph slower. The 1225 is also a little longer and taller, the 765 is an S-3 that is 10 mph faster than the 1225, but has smaller cylinders, so its not as powerful.

[TheStormchaser09]

The grease on the rails helps the engine on the curve so the flanges of the wheels dont ride up on top of the rail and derail it!!!

[vladimir2366fa]

Thanks you, Videos very nice,

[PRRK4Lover]

this is godly....

[TrainDr101]

@gokomets77: greasing the rail. The curve is sooo tight that they have to grease it up so those 8 drivers can get thru it a little easier. & they had to walk it thru just so the rigid wheel base didn't push the rail out of alignment & cause a derailment.

[Kleman09]

@Chase1609 765 is an s2 class Berkshire locomotive. There is only one survivng s3 class berkshire and it is NKP #779 in Lima Ohio.

[AmtrakPatrick]

Excellent video. I never thought I'd see these two engines together. Too bad I couldn't be there.