Erie Lackawanna-The Friendly Service Route-Part 1

[@karendurka9594]

MyDadworked on the Erire Lakawanna for 42 years. He was an electrician and mechanic. He retired in 1976. I grew up with trains.

[@BOBXFILES2374a]

A KZbin video without a Google Fi commercial! Will wonders never cease? Ride the Erie!

[@edwarddkjeppessen536]

😂🤬😨😂

[@hartmutlorentzen9659]

Great pictures, great music, thanks from Germany

[@danita7956]

Loved the trains! My Dad took us on an excursion on one once. It was awesome. Relaxing.

[@danita7956]

My parents used to have several inches of coal dust in their attic. We saw the last Phoebe Snow go through. Dad took us on an excursion train ride when I was little loved it. Love the scenery plus the leisurely time. Miss those days.

[@ENIGMAXII2112]

Oh Miss Snow, we wish you could come back, we love you so....

[@barbaracoates2902]

My grandfather worked on the Erie Lackawanna rail road all of his adult life, it was well over fifty years. The train tracks were right behind their home in Hornell, New York. As a child in the early fifties i grew up loving the trains and where they carried my grandmother and i to visit relatives in Pennsylvania. Precious memories!

[@AtyPical1313]

Hornell NY was quite the railroad town in its hey day.

[@johnnythree1]

Wow my great grandfather was an engineer for 50 plus years on the lackawanna in warwick n.y. area.

[@1940limited]

The EL didn't survive for 50 years. He had to have worked on one of the predecessors roads first.

[@samanthab1923]

Do you have any RR stuff from him?

[@tomflendodo7297]

My Uncle Bob, Lived in Callicoon NEW York !! My Brother and I would Take the ERIE Railroad to Visit Him Every Summer !! Leaving From Ridgewood N.J. To the Callicoon STATION ! What a Trip!!! IT'S ALL Gone Now!! What A SHAME !!!!!!

[@samanthab1923]

Ridgewood still has a lovely stone station 🚂

[@Robloxity_News]

I actually used to live less than half a mile away from Mountain Station in south Orange and I also lived right next to the tracks. Incredible to see what used to go by my apartment building.

[@ThePhilmaywalt]

One of my good friends' father worked the EL in Binghamton for 30 years. I had the pleasure of riding the train (which left Binghamton at 4AM) to Hoboken and back. The passenger route closed up there, I believe, in 1971. Keith you are a wonderfully prolific Imus poster, which I do thank you for, as well as for the railroad videos which came as a surprise!! PS For 20 years or so starting in the early 70s, I used to run train crews, in my cab, from Binghamton, as far as Buffalo and points in-between and as far as Port Jervis going south and east out of Binghamton.

[@1940limited]

EL was from 1960-1976, 26 years. You friend must have worked a predecessor road before 1960 or Conrail after 1976.

[@sigwally]

Great video! Thank you.

[@kelvintorrence5994]

My favorite line the big E

[@donadams9755]

My grandparents lived o the main line of the Lackawanna on the west side of Painted Post, N.Y. I used to spend my summers there as a child. I still remember the house shaking when the freights went by in the middle of the night. I also remember taking the New York Central from Detroit to Buffalo, taking a cab from the New York Central terminal to the Lackawanna terminal, and riding the Phoebe Snow to Corning. It is interesting to note that in many places, the main lines of the Erie and the Lackawanna were less than 100 yards apart in that part of New York State. Good memories.

[@Amtrakirby]

2:53 *nightmare, fuel shows on screen* “ friendly knowledgeable smiley”

[@ByzantineAuxilary]

Footage of the Railroad that helped form New Jersey Transit, my favorite railroad

[@Arturo-sm1tb]

great classic railroad, except for the rate of train delays..... My dad road the Morristown line for decades.

[@samanthab1923]

@@Arturo-sm1tbYou ain’t kidding. My cousin bought in Morristown & that commute to downtown in the 90’s was still one of the longest.

[@rickporvaznik5030]

These are great shots of the various trains.

[@billscott7050]

Especially like the onboard videos at speed on jointed rail as from 12:40 to 13:25 (especially) but also 16:55 to 17:12 and 23:28 to 24:07. They are so hard to find either on You Tube or on commercial videos for sale.

[@BOBXFILES2374a]

Great sound editing on the silent Super 8 pix, by someone. Thanks for putting it up!

[@mysticrailroad]

superb video.

[@kelvintorrence5994]

Love those smoking alco switchers

[@kelvintorrence5994]

Man im glad we dont get snow stroms like that anymore, im too old for it and not a kidd.

[@us1fedvet]

Great video

[@jeffreymcfadden9403]

I was at Marion 1 year after the end. 1977. I saw those boxcars without wheel sets. Must have been 4 dozen of them there. The yard was empty.

[@b3j8]

Hi Jeff, just curious if you ever visited Marion before Conrail took over.

[@HenrikSweden1]

Nice video, Thanks !

[@1940limited]

It's too bad the Lake Cities didn't survive a little longer. Maybe it could have been turned over to Amtrak in 1971. I notice many EL long distance passenger trains had former Erie E8s on the point.

[@paulbrennan5646]

Like the video, but can you tell me the name of the music intro sounds wonderful.

[@paulbrennan5646]

@DerRobMann (R.T. West) Thank you.

[@alanwbelcher]

Tchaikovsky’s Waltz of the Flowers from the Nutcracker Suite.

[@paulbrennan5646]

@@alanwbelcher I finally found out who wrote this music. It is by american composer John Knowles Paine. Greetings from Canada!

[@lucastrainverse8618]

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