Bet few are cognisant of the absence of tagging/graffiti/spray paint all over everything as it is today ! What a pleasure seeing rolling stock and locos the way they should be !!.. I oft wonder if spray paint could be licensed by paying, say, a one time ( if over 18), $25 fee at DMV for a plastic card to present at paint store.. My belief is it could cut down the tagging by 80% say... Don't even know why these kids waist their $$ and time standing there doing the same 3D style over and over when they should be out chasing chicks !! Anyway, thanks for fabulous fotos !!

The trolley at 14:40 looks like a #36 leaving Lester PA. heading to City Hall.

Thank you for posting. You say that the Reading Station would be located at the Acme parking lot. That would be the black section of Cape May near the homes of the abolitionists Stephen Smith and William Whipper. These two men from Columbia, Pennsylvania owned a lumber business and rail cars. They built homes and other structures in Cape May in the 1840s-1850s. Are there any records of lumber shipments involving these two men. Thank you very much.

Great presentation! Thank you!

No license/registration; that's how we got around on dirt bikes.

Fantastic presentation!

Great show, but one correction: Midway, Kentucky, is midway between Frankfort and Lexington, not Louisville.

thanks for a great show. the acme market in cape may was on washington st, where the victorian towers is today. not part of the mall. my grandmothers would take me to cape may on the train from camden broadway station, when i was really young. we changed in the bath houses. my paternal grandfather worked for the reading, and my maternal grandfather, and his brother(edward and charles perkins) worked out of cape may, then to camden. nj.

Eddie was a forward thinking man. His collections will be shared and enjoyed until the end of time...RIP

Great presentation! I was taken aback by your comment about working in the South Philly generating station as a Drexel Co-Op in ‘61. Not to make you feel old, but I just graduated from Drexel in 2023. Was 1992 the final year of the trains in general?

I was born and raised in Bay City Mi. Was very happy to see some pictures. Was a New York Central city

Thanks for this! Have you seen the 'Silver rails through the heart of the park' book? nycshs.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/silver-rails-flyer-1-1.pdf

did seaside ever have rail service ?

Great video! I enjoyed it very much. I was born and lived in Corry, Pa until retirement, where the Climax Locomotives were built. The Corry museum has a Climax locomotive on display. Thank you for preserving a very important part of history.

Nice video. This kind of thing interests me I have travelled the Adirondacks and have hiked the area around Wanaketa and saw some of the things you mentioned. Thank you…

What is going on with the red shirt on the picture at 30:47?

Do you know where I could find a picture of a Conrail era Abrams yard sign from the 1980's? All I found was an NS one from more recently.

Al was a heck of a good guy. Really knew his local train material. He taught a non credit one day class at Ocean County College on local railroads. Also spoke at local historical society's on train related items. I regret not taking him up on his offer to " take a ride ".

years ago early 90's i think . there was a 4-8-4 steam loco being moved threw the yard / it was boarded up . i caught it being moved threw norristown one evening. any pics or info

7574 is not a GP 20. It is a rebuilt GP. CR had 13, GP20s. NYC had 15 but NYC totaled 2 of them in a wreck. I saw all 13,,and they spent their later career in the Indy/Cinci/Columbus triangle of death. Often in local/yard service, with the SD9s.

I was down near courthouse looking for a cape may train wreck i followed the old seashore lines that ran from cape may threw erma threw goshen swaiton all the way to bellplain the bed is still there

Very Nice Presentation

This is a wonderful history of my favorite railway. Thank you!

A lot of wool-gathering by those commenting on the photos, but most of the photos were interesting.

The narrow gauge track was for moving wheel sets around the facilities

At 10:36 on the time bar, there is a photo dated 1895 of West Jersey Railroad steam dummy # 44 in Longport, pulling a closed car and an open car. The photo is dated wrong. Electrification was extended from the Atbany Avenue loop all the way down to Longport, with the first trip on June 15, 1893. Steam dummy service ended to Longport on that day. The West Jersey Railroad also operated steam dummy service from Sea Isle City to Ocean City. Steam dummy locomotives # 36, #42, #43 and #44 were used in Longport service.

Does anyone remember the old & long abandoned RR trestle behind Ozzie's Bait & Tackle on Rt. 561 in Cherry Hill ? (Over a tributary of Cooper River). If memory serves, this was part of the Camden & Medford RR- at least that's what I remember being told.... 🚬😎👍

Wanted to thank you again for showing the Bellmawr, NJ station. Me and my son have been looking so long for that. You helped complete a journey. Thanks again. I like how one of your guestssaid there are 7 "Bellmawrs" in NJ. He's not wrong. Everytine I tell someone that I'm from Bellmaw their eyes get wide because they think I'm from Belmar, at that point I tell them its the Bellmawr just outside Philly. Then their eyes go back to normal because they realize I'm as broke as they are.

Nice photos. A little correction, Francis Mickle was the Uncle of Everett Mickle (my father).

Where is paulsboro 😢😢😢😢😢

Great presentation, do you have any contact information for John? I am the current program coordinator for the NYO&W historical society and would to ask him about this program.

Wow. I just left a comment on one of your other videos looking for a picture of the train station in Bellmawr, NJ. At 52:53 my wish is answered. Thank you so much for these videos. I live two blocks from there and my son has been looking for this for years.

Wow.

Me and my son have been looking for a historic station in Bellmawr, NJ. There is an active line that runs past our home on Browning Road and evidently went a bit further prior to the creation of the NJ Turnpike which cut the line off. It is still acive up to Bellmawr for freight but there are some properties adjacent to the line which are shaped in a way that would lend themselves to be rail stations. Do you have any information about this?

So sad that there is barely a trace remaining of most of this.

Who cares if the new cars are too heavy? The old pivot bridge would eventually need to be replaced. Having a small (fenced) layover track and redouble tracking it would do wonders for the new EMU's. Yeah, why not give the railroad to Posner for his battery subways? As always, that is a great presentation. Both Princenton University and NJ Transit should see this.

Outstanding.

About time there's a real existing Blue Comet car that operates, great to see

will these cars ever run on cams Excursions eventually or are they just on display?

I remember earlier this year wondering if Tempel would get the TLC it really needed, I am seriously impressed how quick the exterior work was done and how nice it came out.

The Thorndale coal dock was hopper fed using a track that ran up a hill and curved over the mainline. In the 1940's and 1960's there was always lots of steam on the tracks. Helpers were added here to go up the hill to Gap. Tom Carney

I worked as a Fireman with the Locomotive Engineer that was on the GG-1 Electric Locomotive laying on its side when it derailed at Holmesburg Junction. I wasn’t the Fireman on this GG-1 when it derailed. The Fireman was operating the train when the wreck happened. I would write the Locomotive Engineer’s name but that wouldn’t be right to do. This wreck changed this Locomotive Engineer. He never trusted Fireman after the Wreck. He knew my dad and they were good friends. I was one of the few Firemen this Locomotive Engineer would allow to operate his train. It was so stressful for him,so I would ask him to operate the train himself unless it was an emergency. That I understand why it is so stressful. He wasn’t an easy Locomotive Engineer to work with after the wreck. I’m pretty sure that GG-1 was put back into service. After some minor repairs. The GG-1’s were heavily constrained. There were steel girders in the top frame of the GG-1. These Electric Locomotives were actually enjoyable to operated. No one could operate a GG-1 without being instructed. There was 21 notches on the throttle. You could pull the throttle out by holding the button on the throttle in. If you did that, it would generally trip out the pantograph relay. There was a specific procedure on resetting the Pantograph Relay. If you didn’t follow the procedure exactly . It would never reset. I operated GG-1’s from early 1974 until they were retired in 1983 on NJTRO. The AEM-7 Electric Locomotive that required the GG-1’s and the E-60’s were also excellent electric locomotives. NJTRO purchased ALP-44’s they were okay but not as good as the AEM-7’s. I only operated the AEM-7’s from when they were put in service until the end of December 1982.

The work on those cars has been impressive. I applaud your extensive efforts.

I've moved out of the area & have a question. Are there regular excursions (weekends) run out of Tuckahoe & the station located north on Rt. 40 ? If so, is there a website I should turn to ? Thank you !! 🚬😎👍

Great video!!!

The locomotive behind the nys&w#4006 is a f45 not a f40

At 37:39 is a discussion of Villanova Station. A comment was made that there doesn't appear to be anything around it. Actually the station was named for Villanova College (now University) and the campus buildings are actually on the hill rising from the station to the left of the photo.

Great history of Cumbres and Toltec RR.👍👍👍👍

1:12:45 It looks like one of the engines says 2005.

The story of Ronan Kerr, a young man from Irish Irish family who joined the PSNI at a time when some of Ulster Scot descent and some of IRish descent were trying to make a common bond and cooperation and the Police Service of Northern Ireland was to be made unbiased instead of being a "Protestant" only organization,anyway Ronan Kerr was killed by some kind of a bomb on his first day as a patrolman placed by "dissident IRA" who wanted to keep the Troubles going at a time when some "Protestants" and some Irish wanted to make a society where both were welcome or at least could live and work together (I believe I have partial descent from both groups) wicked kingpin James and Oliver cromwell's doing?