1950s Pennsylvania Railroad Film from Emery Gulash

[@gunsaway1]

Emery made a tremendous contribution to rail fans. The music he put to his videos always seem to fit.

[@jamielacourse7578]

You nailed it on the music.

[@danward8720]

I lived in Michigan so I grew up with the Michigan Central. I can still remember standing in my grandfather's backyard watching a steam engine go by (I was too young to look at the wheel configuration). It's still etched in my memory.

[@BOBXFILES2374a]

Man, I wish I'd been 25 years old in 1955 and could have gotten to ride all those great passenger trains!

[@frankmarkovcijr5459]

Of course you'd be dead long before now but at least you would have lived in the good America for the majority of your life. I envy the old guys at my American Legion Post because they lived in that kind of America and now that they're all 90 years old they're just waiting for death to come take them.

[@garrettsubproductions8705]

Yea but it would have been hella fun recording those old pennsie units

[@samueljackson8020]

Then you would be drafted into Vietnam

[@garrettsubproductions8705]

@@samueljackson8020 no Vietnam was in the 1970’s

[@samueljackson8020]

@@garrettsubproductions8705 Vietnam war was started in 1955

[@williammoxon4104]

Dont get me wrong, I love the GG1, but I really love to see the various other Pennsy Electrics. The P5's, B1's, DD1's, the L5's, etc. The ones you almost never see in pictures or film. They are the truly rare ones.

[@idkwhatiamdoing1188]

True like that one at 0:30 it looks cool and rare

[@JessicaKasumi1990]

@@idkwhatiamdoing1188 That's a P-5 in the original boxcab configuration. Some were modified into the P-5a Modifieds.

[@kenmatthews4937]

I live in Shitcago, Illinois, BUT I love the Pennsylvania RR so much that I have a collection of it in HO scale complete with F series and GG series locomotives!! :)

[@georgemurphy2579]

Too bad, but it was once a very great city...

[@1aundulxaldin]

Still own the video of this one. And still love the music. I don't know whose idea it was for many of these GF Videos to have their intro with Classic Jazz set to scenes of each of the railroads that are documented, but I think it's a technique that works, and works so well.

[@thescotsman48]

I looove the Jazz-Intro.

[@yixnorb5971]

Love those Raymond Lowey designed GG1s.

[@Celluloidwatcher]

Thank you for your video of the PRR with their nice looking burgundy, gold, and white locomotives that, I think, were the best of railroad color schemes, with the Rock Island Line's Maroon locomotives a close second. Sante Fe's red, silver, and gold combo wasn't bad. But most locomotives, like New York Central, Baltimore & Ohio, and Norfolk & Western, to name three, were either black or navy blue. But the light-colored locos always caught my attention. Which reminds me. When I traveled on Amtrak years ago, I saw some Union Pacific locos in their yellow and black scheme, which I found impressive.

[@SantaFe19484]

Nice video! If I could go back in time, I would go to see the Pennsy in the 1950s!

[@Imintune...]

Love seeing the gg1 running . Ran til the 80's . Also the shark nose baldwin too.

[@TheAnunnaki-NYC]

My fav loco. Next to the F series

[@NaYawkr]

Wish they had stayed with GG-1's longer, truly rare.

[@Lucius_Chiaraviglio]

I have heard (but not confirmed) that at least some of them were developing frame cracks, so that they could not have been run safely for much longer without building new frames (a major portion of the locomotive). But this was years past Pennsylvania Railroad and Penn Central time.

[@dommopa4464]

@@Lucius_Chiaraviglio Too much horsepower for the frames?

[@Lucius_Chiaraviglio]

@@dommopa4464 I don't know about too much horsepower, since locomotives of higher power have been made since, but if I had to guess, it probably had to do with metal fatigue and stress corrosion.

[@saltman9584]

@@dommopa4464 the cracks on the frame were caused by the engine bending.

[@OldsVistaCruiser]

139 were built. 16 survive. None will ever run again. Not only did they suffer frame cracks, their transformers had PBC-laden oil in them.

[@FrehleyFan3988]

Yes! My favorite railroad named after my home state!

[@fredzag2452]

Best variety I ever saw in a video. Loved this video.

[@theoneandonlydogmeat9708]

Gotta love Pennsylvania Railroad

[@travelingman484]

Just had an incredible chat with an incredible gentleman. His name, Frank. He's a barber right here in E. Stroudsburg,PA He is an avid train buff, and a master barber. We spoke all about the EL. And what a time I had. He remembers when the Lackawanna was king around here of course with the Pennsylvania and the lehigh. I look forward to more chats. What a pleasure of a day.

[@mossramos7601]

Hello

[@alexlarams]

LOVE this video. I grew up in MILW/ICG territory in northeast Iowa but there's always been something about the PRR that captured my fascination; particularly the Chicago - New York mainline. That would have been something to see back in the 40's, 50's and 60's.

[@thescotsman48]

One of my favorite Videos.

[@kurt8986]

Awesome footage

[@garrettsubproductions8705]

lf there where any year to go back rail fanning it would have to be the 50's

[@Siren851]

Good one! The intro music is so appropriate.

[@1812AndMore]

Pennsylvania Railroad was in my opinion one of the best if not absolute best railroad in the United States until it's merger. Such fantastic video clips here, thank you!

[@NeededFourOfficial]

I respectfully disagree. The PRR is the best railroad on the Eastern Seaboard, no contest, but the absolute best in the U.S., in my opinion at least, was the Milwaukee Road.

[@victormaitland5249]

+1812AndMore I respectfully disagree, the smaller, but much better railroad in the east was the Chesapeake & Ohio, no contest !!

[@mattstough3614]

+1812AndMore Only if the pennsy and nyc didn't merge!

[@kriswalker7106]

+Ohio/Michigan pyrotechnics The merger was inevitable. Both the Pennsylvania and New York Central were losing cash, and things were hard due to being over regulated by the ICC. Neither one wanted to merge, but sensing the urgency they wanted to merge to remain solvent. The only thing was when they merged, they would have to include the New Haven which neither the Pennsylvania nor the Central wanted, but needed in order to merge.

[@dknowles60]

1812AndMore wrong it had missmanagement problems going back to 1946 at least

[@carl6956]

I grew up in Cleveland,Ohio and lived near PRR's Kinsman Ave yard,standing on the bridge overlooking below at all the trains,now after visiting there it's nothing but an Industrial park

[@KingMike-un5vz]

I'm just here for the music 😂😂😂😂 My dad played this to death 😂😂😂😂😂

[@AzureWind91]

*whistles* Dat video quality

[@victormaitland5249]

Good film . REALLY dig the background music tho !

[@bobcourtier4674]

Reminds me of the opera”The Rose of Castile”.

[@fleetwin1]

so cool

[@brandtbecker1810]

That damned Conrail tore up most of the PRR in the midwest.

[@dknowles60]

the PRR had been slowing going out of business since the end of WW2. cold hard fact the PRR was very badly miss manage. the Prr never fixed up its track or yards. the Prr was a basket case in the mid west, con rail kept the Prr from terra hutae In to east saint louis Il and turned it in to a 1st class rail road saidly CSX has trashed it today

[@soarinskies1105]

Who remembers when this rail company was king of the rails. They were the best company in the industry, in fact other companies used the Pennsylvania railroad as the standard for every rail company in America. Being a resident of Pennsylvania it was sad to see this company get broken up. If they were still around, they would be so successful that they would make Union Pacifics progress look like mere baby steps, compared to what the Pennsylvania railroad could have accomplished, had it stayed together.

[@utubewatcher806]

Largest corporation in the USA at the time. It could also be considered a mega-railroad company since it had an effective reach from Atlantic Ocean to Mississippi River. If the PRR had been allowed to merge with Rock Island, Missouri Pacific, Milwaukee Road or Santa Fe, it could have been first truly transcontinental reaching from coast-to-coast.

[@dknowles60]

the PRR had been missmanage since the end of WW2

[@dknowles60]

@@utubewatcher806 the PRR was broke since the END of WW2. no body wanted it. it was badly miss managed

[@dknowles60]

@@utubewatcher806 Santa Fe never would have wanted to merge with the Prr.

[@YUNGMITTENS]

what is the sweet intro? My Shazam app cant find this song.

[@K4JW]

Awesome!

[@JOSECZECHSTARS]

Great!!

[@natejackson8213]

Nice

[@Brian4449]

If only Green Frog did A Pennsylvania Oddysee Series.

[@raspergrey4935]

like train

[@goldenmanuever1176]

the frog needs to get this one in HD!

[@GreenFrogVideos]

Absolutely, this will be Remastered to HD early this year. John Jr. Green Frog Prod.

[@Lvfd416]

How about the Fairbanks-Morse at 1:03? Even though the PRR had already become Penn Central before I was born, I can recall seeing Geeps still sporting the keystone into the early Conrail years. The Mingo-Conway line (Pittsburgh-Cleveland main) runs through the area where I grew up. It used to be common to see unit trains of ore 'jimmies' passing through (pulled by the big Centuries) from the docks at Cleveland to the mills between Midland and the Mon Valley; once the heart and soul of America's industrial brawn!

[@pennsyr1]

Lee Huff, that actually looks to be a GE U25C. I too assumed it was a Fairbanks-Morse, until I spotted the boxes on top of the rear walkways that give away the 25s.

[@tomberry5517]

Rear end is also different compared to an FM. Smokes like one, though!

[@nikolt2000]

OWO I've been looking to see material of the P5 for a while now. it's so hard to find pictures and videos of it.

[@curraheewolf]

At 03:12 he said GP7B unit. The PRR didn't have GP7B units. They had GP9B units. Santa Fe was the only road to have GP7B units and they only had five of them.

[@ReadingAreaRailfan]

curraheewolf if they didnt order it they bought it off of santa fe

[@luzdealba6668]

THOSE OLD RAIL CARS

[@flemglob]

lov trains

[@8000RPM.]

Where o where did you find this???? Wow,.....I must be old to remember those trains.

[@jamielacourse7578]

This is the first time I've ever seen a G.P 'b' unit....cabless as well...... .

[@JessicaKasumi1990]

The Pennsy owned 40 EMD GP-9B units. Only other owner was Union Pacific with 125 units.

[@tomberry5517]

Those and Santa Fe's five GP7Bs were the only 1st generation Geep boosters, booster meaning cabless.

[@switchpointproductions7927]

Is this like the America's Railroads VHS? If so could someone please tell me where I could find railroads of the seventies? It was presented by Columbia river entertainment group.

[@southernpennsyrailfan8579]

Support the T1 Trust

[@Gracebeliever077]

Just a nostalgic sign.... that's all.

[@thomasdeturk5142]

Boomers born 1950 to 1964 were infants and toddlers when diesel trains were taking over. Boomers are born in the same era when steam ended.

[@massrailvideos]

May I use this footage for a documentary

[@GreenFrogVideos]

Hello, very sorry but we will have to decline any further commercial or outside use of our footage, we have so many solicitations from folks to use our footage and we have to keep it to minimums so we don't water down sales of our normal retail sales! Thank-you and hope you will understand our position.

[@AnthraciteSteamHaven]

What's the song?

[@MarkusGustav]

Opening Night - Jerry Mango

[@russellgxy2905]

I just realized something. If the Cab units were double-ended units like almost all of America's electric units, there wouldn't be as much trouble with switching.

[@SimonOfFortune]

Cab/cowl units like the E-Series and F-Series were rarely, if at all, used for switching. They were intended for mainline freight and passenger service. Switchers are designed specifically switching, and they typically have windows on the long hood side and several windows on the rear for dual-direction operations.

[@thatoneguy611]

They often have two or more units tied together, with the rear unit facing backwards.

[@ibnusholeh1983]

I se train GG1 is elecrtric like amtrak

[@GreenFrogVideos]

Yes the GG1's are Electric and ran years ago, pretty large engines with a unique sound to them!

[@tomberry5517]

Not to mention some went to Amtrak.

[@mattstough3614]

Is there much Toledo action in this? Would be awesome to see some PRR action in Toledo.... much of it is now gone.

[@GreenFrogVideos]

Locations covered are: Tunnel Hill, Horseshoe Curve, Holidaysburg, Altoona, Fort Wayne, Wallbridge Yard, The 'Corridor' as well as many other 'hot spots'.

[@dalecomer5951]

Good video but the audio dubbing is a little heavy handed.

[@fredericbouh4955]

Great music for the beginning, is IT Duke Ellington ?

[@GreenFrogVideos]

Music is from a pro music library, where we had to purchase the cut to use - Music cut is called "Dance Fever"

[@kevinhoward9593]

Is that last station Greensburg? looks nothing like that now. that's for sure.

[@austinwelch4814]

Kevin Howard Yes that was Greensburg. Pretty much everything has changed all around here. I'm surprised so many signal bridges are even still standing as it is. PTC will be the end of them unfortunately

[@kevinhoward9593]

What happened to the station? I think the line through there is only double track now.

[@harleywhite4911]

0:03 is that a Baldwin centipede

[@torquetrain8963]

Yes it is the legendary centipede diesel.

[@JessicaKasumi1990]

Yes, that is a Centipede or as they were classified by the PRR: BH-50.

[@tomberry5517]

Those brutes had a wild history: They were built as pairs, semi-permanently coupled back to back, with a common road number for both units. they were originally classed BP-1, then BP-60a (6000 hp for the two units), then BH-50 when reclassed from passenger to helper service and derated to 5,000 hp per pair. The pairs were broken up due to the constraints of turntables and shop facilities, but apparently retained the BH-50 class. The breaking up required renumbering but there is disagreement on how it was worked out. One source omits the original numbers and has the sets renumbered as 5811/5823 through 5822/5834 with each pair of numbers having the same builder number and the builder numbers in sequence low to high, 73131 for 5811/5823 and 73377-73387 for 5812/5824 through 5822/5834. Another presents a much more complicated scheme, with the original numbers being 5823A1/A2-5834A1/A2, but with the A2s renumbered out of sequence: 5823A2-5827A2 r# 5822-5818 in reverse order, and 5828A2 through 5834A2 r# 5811-5817. Either way, the renumbering must have been done by late 1950, as PRR resumed filling out the 5800 number block with E8As 5808-5810 and 5835-5839 in January 1951; evidently, they were assigned the 5800 series numbers following (chronologically) E7A 5840A.

[@mixazizu]

0:19 looks like chatsworth fron chuggington

[@l.skynyrd2863]

Pennsy had a little bit of everything when it came to those diesels. They should have stuck to just a select couple of manufacturers and kept there maintenance cost down, That had to be a big part of their demise.

[@whiteknightcat]

I understand the NYC also did this, thus driving maintenance costs way up and limiting the various makes of units to discrete territories for ease of obtaining parts.

[@dknowles60]

@@whiteknightcat the NYC only had ALCO diesel locomotive, Emd locomotives Ge locomotives

[@whiteknightcat]

@@dknowles60 No sir, incorrect. NYC also rostered Fairbanks-Morse units such as the C-liners (in both freight and passenger versions) along with H10, H12, H16, and H20-44 switchers and roadswitchers. They also acquired Baldwin products such as the iconic RF16 "shark noses", DR4 and DR6-4-1500 "baby faces", and various other switchers and roadswitchers such as the VO660, VO1000, S12, and RS12.

[@dknowles60]

@@whiteknightcat and were scrap very fask. Al perman had NYC making a small profit abd al fix up a lot of track, and built a lot of new hump yards. the Same thing can not be said for the PRR

[@tomberry5517]

A lot of railroads made that mistake, though perhaps not with PRR's rationale of ordering down to the individual locomotive for specific assignments. Rock Island, Milwaukee and Lehigh Valley come to mind for having more makes and models than one would think logical. NYC, by the way, also had Limas as well as early boxcabs.

[@ОлегКочерга-х6б]

4.02 electricity steam lokomotiv ?

[@dommopa4464]

... yes, had them in Switzerland.

[@ToledoRails]

Hello Green Frog! Does this video include footage from Toledo? I saw Walbridge Yard and jumped. My grandpa worked the Pennsy from there to Crestline often and we would love to have some footage of the line!

[@GreenFrogVideos]

Hello, Not sure on that one, You could ask some of the folks that have purchased this program from us if they might know! Green Frog Prod.

[@goldenmanuever1176]

i could never figure out why PRR engines had those goofy rails on the top of their engines!

[@JessicaKasumi1990]

Those "rails" were antennas for the Trainphone service the PRR had. They allowed crews in the locomotive the ability to talk to the conductor in the cabin car (caboose) or dispatcher in the days before radio communication came about.

[@chiliray4515]

+Jessica Black I love the PRR, but I never cared for the looks of those antennae. From the Wikepedia article on the Trainphone, it sounds like it wasn't a very good system, as it was subject to electronic interference.

[@JessicaKasumi1990]

Mr. Wandsworth Well, that's why it wasn't used on the electrified territory. It wasn't as much of a problem, west of Harrisburg. But, east of Harrisburg, it was an issue on many lines, excluding the un-electrified Delmarva Line on the Delmarva Division. But, in the areas where the catenary stretched, it was a nightmare, which is why it wasn't used that much in those areas.

[@russellgxy2905]

As was the issue of diesel-electrics. And why they'd be no good if the Cold War had gotten worse. If hydraulics were more common, that might've been less of an issue.

[@sethkimmel7312]

I just picked up a pair of Kato n scale Pennsy E8s to pull my Broadway Limited west of Harrisburg. Does anyone make these antennas in N scale?

[@buixrule]

The people that give this a thumbs down are probably the type of people to let a baby drown right in front of their face. There's simply nothing not to like!

[@WAL_DC-6B]

Perhaps New York Central fans.

[@weedozzles]

@@WAL_DC-6B Quiet! He'll hear you!

[@Gracebeliever077]

...........sigh...............

[@TheAnunnaki-NYC]

Horseshoe

[@anhkietduongdo]

Curve

[@Peyton-yk8rf]

it looks like Wilson from Chuggington 0:24

[@HocAvenueKEastthStreetColon]

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[@nonovyerbusiness9517]

Someone went to the 5 Second School Of Film Editing.

[@geoffreylee5199]

Opening music does not fit.

[@nerktwins7023]

This music sucks. Feel like we are listening to the Jackie Gleason show from 1960 !

[@scottmccloud2894]

KILL the music-