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[@capersbull8042]

ABSOLUTELY SUPERB video!! MY favorite part has to be able to see all of the three and four crossarm telephone and telegraph poles that I grew up seeing along practically every railroad that my family and I would follow on family trips, vacations, and even here in my hometown - ALL long gone. Congratulations on magnificent work bringing back such great memories forever gone.

[@Westerner78]

WOW FANTASTIC VIEWS! Things I've wanted to see from a train! Love the Philly to the Pocono's trip! The second major market for the Pocono's never discussed. And the Bloom when it was in better shape. Route of the Scranton to Pittsburgh Express. I missed this stuff just by a few years. I and others would pay thousands for a ticket on one of these trips today. VERY RARE pictures! Plus it showed the Pennsy on the Lackawanna. Which they did on a regular bases years ago. I'm impressed! The average person seeing this has NO idea how rare this footage is. It also had one of those Lackawanna buffet-lounges ahead of the Gon. It must have been the spare car or the car from the Binghamton to Syracuse service. Trains were losing their mail contracts. And as they lost them they were discontinued.

[@Stevelikestrains]

Another EXCELLENT video by fmnut with outstanding scenery and an EXCELLENT mix of trains and railroad’s. Thank You.

[@kelvintorrence5994]

My favorite railroad I miss the big e

[@Tom-Lahaye]

These are some pretty good recordings, image quality is better than many 1980s video footage.

[@tombarnes7196]

Just took a time machine to a better time. Thanks!

[@alcopower5710]

Tom Barnes .....well said

[@jaminova_1969]

Film has better resolution!

[@alcopower5710]

Very cool. Awesome sights and sounds.

[@allegheny48]

Some excellent footage showing both Erie and Lackawanna diesels dressed in their individual colors before the merger. I am familiar with the East Stroudsburg, PA area and it being on the eastern edge of the Poconos. The scenery is spectacular and was well documented in the video. Seeing the brace of GG1's and Pennsy E's was a special treat. It is a shame that the government did not provide for the railroads after all the work they did during the war. Wholesale funding of the airline industry coupled with the federal highway system while taxing the railroads to the hilt along with ICC over-regulation soon spelled the end of railroading as it once was. Thanks so much for putting all this together, doing what you did with the spot on sound effects and bringing back some fond memories of railroading as it once was.

[@kenmeluso1952]

Great video. Nice to see a train going through the Oxford and Manunka tunnels.

[@NedPooleD818]

Fantastic video- These must have been the most exciting times for rail fans with those great streamlined diesel and electric taking to the rails...and so sad in the 70s to see the lines decimated...

[@StephenCarlBaldwin]

A treasure for EL, PRR, CNJ, and D&H fans and an amazing visual record of long-gone rail-side equipment and structures. Modelers of all scales take note!

[@oldenweery7510]

This is a very satisfying presentation, looks familiar, like things I saw when I was getting my feet wet in model railroading after my eldest brother mustered out of the USAF in 1954. I'd received and American Flyer S gauge train set for Christmas in '53 and a buddy of his had exposed him to HO Fever while stationed at Keesler AFB in Biloxi, MS. We'd grown up next to the Milwaukee Road's double-tracked mainline between Milwaukee and the Twin Cities, so we breathed a lot of coal smoke before dieselization, so we had "trains in our veins" (I still do). I was fascinated by all the depots, large and small, these trains passed and to tell the truth, it made me a little misty-eyed to see some of them abandoned and forlorn. I again feel regret for all the things I should've done but never occurred to me, such as walking along the brick platforms of the moderate-size depot in our little home town---and never venturing inside. I never rode the North Shore "Electroliner" down to Chicago, having an "Electroburger" or two along the way, either (I think the round-trip fare was about eight bucks). Your videos help make it live again, so thanks a lot.

[@TheDaf95xf]

Very good and nostalgic 👍🏻 Love the two gondolas on the rear for the train enthusiast lol 😂 Could you imagine that today 🤔 H&S would flip over hehe 😂 Cheers Stevie 😎🇬🇧

[@pravoslavn]

FANTASTIC ch'ob, Mr. Fmnut ! And you even made the sound stereo. You done good, Sir !

[@davestrains6816]

Fantastic video, very enjoyable. Thanks for sharing. Dave

[@b3j8]

That orange company track...truck looks and sounds like something Lionel Trains sold in the 1950s! LOL

[@billkeane5473]

4:02 is Summit Station on the Morris Essex Line in New Jersey, 3:00 building on the right is still there, now abandoned located where Morris & Essex line connects to Midtown Direct to Penn Station NY, I pass them every day commuting to NYC. 3:11 looks like the now abandoned Roseville Avenue station in Newark NJ. 3:28 the Orange Fuel Co.shed on the left is now gone but the tracks are still there just east of Orange Station.

[@Greatdome99]

Considering the age of the video, this is quality stuff.

[@MrBsHiawathalandRails]

Always like these videos.

[@1940limited]

That ws nice to see. We had so much railroad back then.

[@PowerTrain611]

I saw the trio of rectifiers at 2:16 and thought to myself, "Wow they must be hauling quite a train!" ...how anticlimactic.

[@chuckabbate5924]

Ultimate caboose hop!

[@andytuzinski1913]

Wow, just plain wow. Can't get enough of the footage of the Bloom. Is there any more available? At approximately the 12:00 mark, is that the Kingston freight station?

[@_mynewcareer]

Awesome

[@trevormatthews6779]

At 9:18, is that the Broadway Limited going past?

[@fmnut]

Possibly

[@kevinbrady2863]

This guy made some fantastic videos of trips that were just a few years ahead of my time (and reach). But there are lots of woulda coulda shoulda trips I passed on as I look back on the 70s and 80s, too. Is Meyer the same source of the video of a PRR trip to Wilkes-Barre up the Schuylkill Secondary from about '55?

[@fmnut]

I think the PRR was from the Kantner collection digitized by John Pechulis, who also did the scan of this film. Not the same original filmer.

[@TheBestTrainsAreReal]

what is that train at 9:33? Great video!

[@fmnut]

Former PRR Hudson & Manhattan tubes, now PATH.

[@TheBestTrainsAreReal]

@@fmnut Thank you!

[@Westerner78]

And look at the uncompleted Interstate highway system! NO traffic! Like keeping Amtrak uncompleted today, to limit demand (Doesn't work in their case!) The roads were built for traffic they didn't have yet. No such program is in affect for passenger rail in this country.

[@admydragon]

Where are the tunnels at 4:52?

[@fmnut]

Manunka Chunk Junction. The north end is where the PRR Bel Del branch joined the Lackawanna Old Road. See my Doodlebugs to the Delaware video for another view of this location.

[@admydragon]

@@fmnut Does it show the tunnels ?

[@fmnut]

@@admydragon yes, briefly

[@kevinbrady2863]

These are the rarest of videos. Never thought I'd see video of the two tunnels on the Old Road from on board a train, much less the Oxford station! And this was post-EL. Who wouldn't give a body part to ride these trips again?

[@kevinbrady2863]

Highly recommend the Doodlebugs video - it shows Manunka Chunk and a lot of the old Bel-Del back in the early 50s when you could still take the train from Philly (or Trenton, anyway) to East Stroudsburg, after diesels but before steam was gone on the PRR.

[@Shadowfax-1980]

9:34 Is that the predecessor to today’s PATH train?

[@fmnut]

Yes. Hudson & Manhattan tubes, owned by PRR.

[@williambryant5946]

Nice video. My favorite part was the Pennsylvania electric engines. The three engines and caboose that came very close to the excursion train when it was sitting still close to the beginning of the video were really neat. I'm not sure what they were. Not the GG1s but the more square shaped ones. Can anyone tell me? 👍

[@fmnut]

The we're E44's. Built by GE in the early 60's to replace the aging fleet of P5's that were the mainstay of PRR freight ops in electrified territory. They had DC traction motors and rectifiers to convert the AC from the overhead, as opposed to earlier designs that had AC traction motors.

[@mattcrowley3075]

I’m from Danville and saw the train station in the video in Danville which was before my time. Was the station located near the Danville giant?

[@fmnut]

Yes, just north of the Giant store.

[@daniellaubach8412]

I was hoping someone would have footage of the Bloomsburg branch sooner or later. Showed "Indian head" on Rt 42 crossing the road at Catawissa south on the branch. Saw the wooden Rupert bridge over Fishing creek. Then Danville's train station onward to Northumberland. Loved the video!

[@charlesferebee263]

Wicked kool. ! GG 1s rule. ! Just Saying. ! 😎👍

[@chuckabbate5924]

That G was hauling ass and taking names! I counted nearly 20 cars on that consist!

[@تيي-و9د]

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