Cybernetics at Selkirk

[@ChristinaMacDonald777]

So this is where it all started..Cool video!🌟💯🚂

[@ryankruchowski1951]

OUTSTAND!!! This is what type of videos we need.

[@svenmartin840]

I was just a baby when this movie was made. I see a lot of pre CSX and NS in this video. I can only imagine. If the PRR had merged with C&O. And the NYC had merged with the N&W. in 1961.

[@kdubb288]

This video is GOLD !!!! My uncle worked there for decades, I was in the hump tower at least once and remember the control panels !!

[@b3j8]

All that computer hardware was designed for the NYC System equipment. When they merged w/the PRR, they found out the PRR used incompatible computer hardware. The result was thousands of misrouted cars, lost shipments, generally a gigantic mess!

[@icedudesk8]

In the mid-sixties, this yard lost a season's worth of potatoes, from Northern Maine. It took literally weeks to find the missing freight in Selkirk Yard; by then, the crop was ruined. It was the last time that potatoes were shipped by rail..

[@MichiganPeatMoss]

Wow, incredible. "an exciting example of technological things to come" - LOL

[@b3j8]

@@icedudesk8 I believe it. Penn Central was responsible for more traffic going to other railroads, or more often to the trucks, than any other!

[@dknowles60]

what did you expect. the PRR could never RUN a rail road and had been losing money since 1946. the problem is the PRR men ran the show at Penn central. Al perlman never got to run much of any thing at Penn central. Hint Al perman was one of the Best CEO in rail roading

[@frankmarkovcijr5459]

No one saw it about something like the computers being incompatible with each other computers we're still brand new

[@dodgydruid]

I saw this once years ago at British Rail's Beckenham training centre as we were learning about stuff abroad and this gem turned up and the instructor kept on interjecting on how Tinsley was faster, did more cars and stuff and none of us listened much. Britain abandoned hump shunting once the coal traffic disappeared focusing on intermodal containerisation but this too took a major hit when Tony Blair abolished the very efficient Railfreight network where you could have a container delivered literally next day anywhere in the UK and the traffic put onto the roads :(

[@charlesmorschauser5258]

Too bad the rest of PC wasn't this efficient

[@josephlynn85]

I worked the computer room on and off for a few years. Interesting system

[@Kane615]

Out of curiosity, was the system based off an existing architecture like the GE-600 or IBM S/360 or was it entirely bespoke?

[@garywilliams6135]

I watch the Selkirk Hump go from this to only one man having to work that same position. it was fun to work the Selkirk hump in the old days. Wow no safety glasses or vests!

[@choirboyfromhell1]

Cool. Love the groovy music!!!!

[@terminalfanatic]

So little has changed and yet so much is different.

[@galaxyrailfanning7860]

Very cool operations!

[@thomasnativo6491]

This what I called Old timer music

[@donolbers9446]

Pretty cool

[@geoffreylee5199]

1960s hip …

[@NE-Explorer]

its called hippie music

[@thomasnativo6491]

The Hump is like a Roller coaster with incline but except the cars roll free and slow down not the train

[@dknowles60]

selkirk was great under conrail but CSX has trash Selkirk very good. CSX has also trash the main line from Selkirk NY to Cleveland OH

[@berkshiredave9766]

You worked for either railroad??

[@dknowles60]

@@berkshiredave9766 you dont have to work for the rail to know when tracks are in bad shape. you can see it from road crossings. heard it from frends that work for con rail CSX new york rail fan have walk next to tracks. see lots of ties pumping mud been told the blasest has not been clean since 1997 FRA reports.