CONRAILS READING LINE & SCENIC SOUTHERN TIER

[@rjl110919581]

THANK YOU FOR VIDEO

[@woods840]

Fantastic footage and narration as always.

[@charlessmileyvideos]

Thanks woods840 we try and keep it informative and interesting!

[@DarkTerritory71]

SOUTHERN RR retired CEO Stanley Crane became CEO of Conrail and it was a sinking railroad when he took it over. It sounds as if he upgraded the road AND TURNED a profit!? Here in 2024, a "Great CEO" is a person who takes a company and sells it off part/peice at a time and turns a few months profit for its share holders, and closes the company down, after destroying it! The CEO will leave with a golden parachute after desteoying the company and the invested employees lives, AND THEY ARE considered GREAT! When anyone could do that? Its funny how times and definitions have changed.

[@reubensandwich9249]

Depends on who you talk to. A number hate Crane because he eliminated branches, such as Lackawanna cut-off, to become profitable. Sort of Beeching in the UK.

[@dknowles60]

one more time, the Prr was never making money source from the Records of John fishwick Of the N&W rr, one of the best rail road CEO, the N&W could have Purchase the PRR the N&W had the Money but chose not to I have more Respect For John Fishwick then Richard Sanders

[@stephenvanwoert2447]

It was enjoyable to watch trains UNTIL the disgusting graffiti began appearing in the 90's. I can hardly look at trains today.

[@golfberg1]

You live in East LA 😮

[@charlessmileyvideos]

Yeah, the graffiti is a real drag! Especially when you see how it used to be!

[@dknowles60]

wrong facts. the PRR never made much profits, it was the NYC that was Making the Profits

[@charlessmileyvideos]

August 1960 facts from Fortune list the PRR gross at 888 million and the NYC gross as 773 million.. net incomes of PRR=16.6 million (ranking first) and NYC = 13.2 (ranking third). Source "Merging Lines" masterpiece book by Richard Sanders, Clemson University.

[@dknowles60]

@@charlessmileyvideos VERY NICE LIES, tHE pRR WAS LIVING OFF N&W stock divends lost money since the Enmd of WW2 the N&W rr did not even want the PRR The New Youk central built 7 hump yards, the PRR 1 the Nyc rebuilt most of its system, the PRR did no track work the nyc move almost the same traffic with just 2 tracks from, nyc to chicago, the Prr needed 4 tracks, the Prr was caught lieing about its ned income. if the Prr was so great why is 60% of its track gone to day gone today