Conrail in Northwest Indiana 2

Gary, Whiting, Otis, La Porte 1999.

[@MrZeldalove]

Great video! Continuous welded rail means no clickety-clack and these trains sail down the tracks like they're riding a ribbon. Looks like lots of SD60 hood units.

[@FlaredRadiator]

god the camera quality makes it 100 times better

[@Crookedriverandeasternrr]

Sweet. I miss big blue

[@skerbs7755]

Those trains are flying! Awesome!

[@brianbooher7318]

Nice video thanks for sharing some history with all of us

[@jeffreysheridan5205]

Those of us who were employed by Conrail were very proud of what we accomplished.

[@mattgomez8254]

Heroes of railroad my Dad started with Penn Central in 74 and April 1st 76 Consolidated Rail Corporation he was C &S here in Detroit 35 years sadly I lost my Dad to cancer this pass Jan 4

[@mattgomez8254]

He's on the safety awards set from Kline boxed by Lionel Rudy "Rude one" Gomez

[@mattgomez8254]

Amazing memorabilia from Conrail to the workers a company that actually cared enough to do that

[@watchensee]

Kind of hard to believe that it's been 23 years since 1999. I remember Conrail trains since I was a little girl in the 1980s.

[@willwozniak2826]

Outstanding!

[@sd80mac]

Love the shots what appeared to be ELSF and BNEL towards the end!

[@IsaiahVerseRailfanning]

Clark Rd! I was looking at the block signal so far to the left like "that's abnormal plus that's not a Conrai......ohhhhhhhhh that was the B&O block signal from back in the days". Instant like less than a minute in.

[@seanycarr3226]

One possibility why Conrail didn't keep the Erie Lackawanna was because of online shippers and population centers. The former NYC was in places where it was densely populated whereas the EL didn't have many population centers at all.

[@b3j8]

Sadly true. The Erie built west late in the game forcing it to bypass most large cities that were already served by other railroads. OTOH had the line somehow survived, it would be a natural today for Intermodal.

[@GaryIndianaRailfan]

Astonishing!!

[@seanycarr3226]

It's a pity why Conrail didn't keep the Erie Lackawanna for its hot Chicago-New York intermodal TV trains and the rest for regular freights and Amtrak on the ex New York Central.

[@dknowles60]

did not need it . El had a lot more grades was longer route a lot slower. full discloser i a Erie Lackawanna rail fan. saw a el train in 1974 in markle in been to Marion ohio walk the el east of youngstown Oh have drove along side the El on I86 and ny 17 but the NYC water level route was so much better

[@EricPowell_Indy]

@@dknowles60 Exactly. The EL’s west end (Marion or Mansfield to Chicago) would’ve been a fast IM route - but so would the PRR and the NYC is now. NS and CSX today both move IM and carload/bulk fairly well across northern OH/IN as it is without using the ex-PRR very much, and CSX is using only about half of the B&O’s capacity at present. The EL was a great railroad but not worth the upkeep, sadly. I really miss Conrail - they ran 70 trains or so daily west of Elkhart yet never had the level of congestion NS faces, even with “Precision” Scheduled Railroading. They knew what they were doing.

[@dknowles60]

@@EricPowell_Indy that is for sure did a lot of train watching on Toledo west. Pace many trains on us 6 a lot move at over 70 mph . In a 12 hour time Con rail moved 50 trains. It's sad to see how sorry ns has become. I think it is the x N&w people have taken over.

[@stephenheath8465]

@@dknowles60 You are right the old Erie Hoboken to Chicago Mainline had to cross the Appalachian Divide from Port Jervis NY through the Southern Tier

[@logandetwiler4483]

Awesome video Railroad Media Archive. do u have any more conrail videos to post in the future?

[@molossis]

i like how that truck got trapped by a csx train lol

[@RedCard94]

22:19 Whoa! Did you see that wiggle from those Amtrak coaches?!! WTF was that?!

[@highlandwinterwolf8589]

Amtrak pulled roadrailers? O.o Never knew they'd done that!

[@RailroadMediaArchive]

Yes, they carried mail.

[@jonathanlafferty2271]

On the Conrail side in Indiana it's nowadays owned by Norfolk Southern.

[@NS_5350]

Sure wish I was alive for Big Blue

[@TexasRailfan2008]

Same here

[@SuperCookieman13]

Was my favorite east coast railroad growing up

[@davidmcdougall7040]

Hello I’ve been trying to get in contact with ya, I am doing a documentary on the Chicago Line called “21 Years Later”and was wondering about using your footage in the Documentary, you will get full Production Credit!

[@1990sRailfan]

I'd love to know how you transfer your video, that quality is amazing. Shot on Hi8 or something better?

[@RailroadMediaArchive]

This was shot on DVCPRO. The SDI output on the DVCPRO deck goes to a Blackmagic Design DeckLink Mini Recorder, then 480i to 720p conversion is done with Avisynth. Footage is edited with Premiere and encoded to H.264 for KZbin there. For analog footage from VHS or Hi8 I instead use an ATI TV Wonder 600 USB to capture.

[@1990sRailfan]

Thank you for the info and replying. I've spent the last few months trying to find a way to get the best quality out of my analog HI8 tapes. I use Premier Pro for editing and de interlacing but I think I'm still losing one of the fields, I'll try Avisynth and Handbrake. Thanks again.

[@RailroadMediaArchive]

1990s Railfan Premiere's deinterlacing isn't very good. Handbrake is pretty good, on par with VirtualDub since they both use the Yadif method. Avisynth (specifically, the QTGMC plugin) is as good as it gets with software. Avisynth is overwhelming at first since it is script-based, but once you get the hang of it it's very powerful. I use it for cropping, deintetlacing and upsizing.

[@1990sRailfan]

I rely on a couple of outside companies for the initial analog to digital conversion, and I wonder if I'm losing some quality there with the lack of control of the conversion settings. I'll look into ATI TV Wonder 600 USB and then tinker with Avisynth to see if my results improve. Thanks.

[@RailroadMediaArchive]

1990s Railfan an outside company should be using broadcast quality hardware that would do better than any software. I took a look at your videos and the quality seems decent.

[@SuperCookieman13]

The Amtrak at 22:00… is that the Capitol Limited?

[@alexandergrube6437]

that poor delivery truck driver, seems like he had to wait for a while

[@peteyblack8890]

What was the reason for Conrail demise I thought at the time they were bigger then CSX and NS.

[@TheEndPermian]

It was to reduce competition, CSX and NS bought out Conrail together, splitting the company 48%-52% respectively. Conrail itself still exists as a paper corporation

[@clevelandrailfan9776]

Road railers and my big blue

[@notarotomwithhair5637]

Streamliners: upgrade 22:58: Go back

[@DelayInBlockProductions]

I don’t even know what the point of shooting modern day railroads is anymore. Sigh.

[@nstrainmaster2]

so that in 20 years our kids can look back at today and foam over GEVO's, and there will be a strange sense of pride and joy that a beautiful story starts again

[@dwayneday6097]

Tax exemption for 5,600,000 to the thousand five hundred employees 4%return double 8% office worker 30,000 hiring 1,500 employees this year 5,625,000 Terry president vest pocket Conrail wallet

[@kaibrown6204]

Lerk around big blue locamotive like said it been long an hard Conrail consolidated anta fa I've had all I can of injustice at telling the truth I'm no lier to black robe never have been curl in the grave my judge thing are cracking open of how long it been since I was free an not fighting all the time for justice

[@dwayneday6097]

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