Alcos...the garbage of locomotives

Fans sound better than the exhaust

Wow! I am lost for words on this coverage. Wish I could have seen all this in person. Griffith, IN looks like that would have been a great spot to sit and watch trains back in the day.

8:15 metra e9 9912 in reverse 19:14 and again.

Daaayayum 😳 He's Barely fitting under That bridge !?

Revelation Video has featured a lot of these uploads on different DVD sets that I have from the 90s and 00s, always set to classical music. Great quality footage (considering the time) from Joe Slanser, Paul Geiger etc. It is hard to tell a railroad even existed in places across Indiana. The grade separations and semaphores made it a unique line.

Classic.

My Mom was born in 1926 in Cleveland. My Grandfather never owned a car. My Mom never learned to drive b/c Cleveland had excellent public transportation. Remember riding the transit in the 60’s.

Good Ole D&H

In the first scene at Sibley: that bridge dwarfs the train! It's that massive.

A neat little gem of a video! I model the NE and the full train shots help me with assembling a good mix of cars/roads for my model trains! PS: love the projector sound!

Great historical railfanning video. This reminds of the EL in and around New Castle, PA. 🚂 🚂 🚂

Thanks for another great movie ! This is gold to me running freights over a small n scale starrucca viaduct. Nice to se the freightcars on both lines.

Circa 1976 there was a "Blue Comet" steam engine semi-reanactment and my dad and I went to the Point Pleasant station to watch. My dad was a good photographer but he fancied himself as somewhat of a cinematographer (😂) so to "enhance the effect of motion" he zoomed-in on the fast windows passing by, rather than taking in the whole picture😜, but at least he did get a good shot of the engine coming south. There is a whole great show of this with Tom Snyder, but here is a short 8mm film recording. My dad let me use his Argus C-6 f2.8 camera to snap some pics of same at Bay Head, which I'll also link here. kzbin.info/www/bejne/p3nXmHt8d8-hh80si=bfmEArdzvkQy45XU The below link is to the "surviving" "culled-out" "B roll" stills I took with my dad's still camera. B roll because I brought my "best" shots to school to show them off to my classmates, but I left them in my pants pocket and my mom laundered them😮😢. She claimed to have taken the damaged slides to be restored, but they ended up "disappearing. 😮😫 kzbin.info/www/bejne/o6vHoamGetiYrdksi=kbh87sqUabDsYIww

What are those initials for at 3:15 and where is this?

2:13 - I was hoping you would have a view like this one. When I was working in Harrison, NJ years ago, I would see these anachronistic, almost comical, "Toonerville Trolleys," as we called them on the elevated rail bridge over Fourth Street. I was sorry I never got a picture of one of them, but I would have had to carry a camera with me because cell phone cameras didn't exist back then. Would you happen to have any images of the old Central Jersey RR Diesel Locomotives that came out of Bay Head? As a kid, I used to love watching those old, slow, wiggle-woggleing, short wheebase Locos with the sad-sounding horn slowly plod and wiggle along Route 35. I regret never getting a picture of one of those paralleling rt 35, but i would have had to borrow my dad's camera, and film was expensive, and my dad was, I might say 'frugal."😂 Edit: Wow! You have 1950's NY & LB RR steam Locos into Bay Head, nice! I'll look at the rest of your vids to see if you have any Central Railroad Locos here.

Engine 6444 needs to use a better grade of coal. We all should be glad this video exists. Back in those days the railroad detectives love to arrest people for trespassing. I was hunting and one got me too close to the tracks (gun was unloaded, I was walking back to my truck). Thanks for the video.

How does a locomotive shift into reverse?

Damn! Spent my childhood in Windham. I would sneak away to the tracks with the goal of discovering that bridge. This was long after the line was shut down. I remember playing on that spur to Harbison Walker. Near Freedom Station there was a pond my dad would take me to...by driving his old square body chevy on the ROW. I distinctly remember there being a time a train came along. I snagged a spike summer of 2023 when I was camping at Ridge Ranch Campground. I hope they do something with that line, even if its just a rail to trail. Spent the teenage years in the greater Warren/Newton Falls area. Every time I drove that overpass on OH 5/82 I imagine what it might have looked like in it hay day. Thanks so much for posting this.

Worked knew guys from Peru, IN that worked Cheviot that were forced to go to Garrett B&O Terminal on CSX Chicago division

Thank you for sharing this great film footage. I remember the NY & Long Branch was operated by both the Pennsy and the Jersey Central. When this film was done, the Jersey Central trains terminated at Jersey City Communipaw Ave Terminal and some but not all of the Penna RR trains terminated at the Penn RR terminal at Exchange Place in Jersey City. I remember how the deisel egines were changed to GG1's on PennCentral trains at South Amboy. By the time I was riding the NJ & Long Branch, both the Jersey City terminals were long gone. These commuter runs into the mid-late 50's was the last gasp of the use of steam engines by the Penn RR and the Jersey Central. By comparison, the Erie and the DL&W pretty much converted their commuter runs from steam to 100% deisel by 1953 or so.

Spectacular! Little could anyone imagine that in just a short of march years ... and it would all be gone!

Before the dark times, before The Armour Yellow Empire

Love the Sidney shots, my home. Ive watched many a trains from this bridge AND station. The station is currently being restored for a railpark at this location.

Fun's sentional wow Wonderful soundz

During this era, you could tell what railroad's trains were coming just by the locomotive air horns. CSX had their group of former Seaboard engines with those low, almost tenor horns. Conrail had a group with low tuning, but the chording was different. CSX also has a group that sounds like Amtrak. Sometimes, the newer model locos all got the same model horn and chording, irregardless of railroad. One thing always the same, hearing those EMD turbos throttling up or down... THAT'S MY LULLABY! I hear that, and I can go to sleep 💤😴💤 happy 😊!

How could you not love the EL.

EL was such a rolling museum in the late 60s. Good times, we had fun photographing, chasing , and riding.

Not Randall curve..black rock cut, and later part west if owego ny

Great video miss the EL

Most of these stations still are in operation today crazy to see how they looked back then and now almost identical.

Thank you for sharing. FAN-tastic footage.👍

Oh the childhood memories. ❤

Very nice Erie Lackawanna footage! Thank you!

Simpler time's.

Is that constant hum the sound of the video camera?

16:05 to 16:27, those horns sound awesome

Oh, so Erie is also a shipping lane?

Weird. It’s all different now.

First, awesome video! Love that it exists. Is there any more of this footage? Specifically of tows between Richmond and Dunreith Indiana.

Great footage! Memories of my childhood!

What about the sound of this video 📹 🤔?

17:09 horn name?

Remember it all? Remember the top boats. Remember playing down on those abandoned piers, those old station down there when I was a little boy, if that's all we have us guys from downtown jersey city❤❤❤🇮🇹

Very nice video! I like the N&W ex NKP GP30 at 14:12, the Chessie System paint scheme/logo at 17:58 and from 18:26 to 18:34, the 1973 Chevy Impala at 16:25, and the Pepsi advertisement on a billboard at 17:43! Awesome!

Classic!!

Amazing footage! So thankful for its preservation. Thank you for sharing.

I'd love to take Amtrak, but I need a roomette but the cost is crazy expensive... so that dream will never happen!

Use to ride the EL from Gladstone NJ to Hoboken in the early 60’s

I guess add RI to the list railroads that deployed E units in freight service?