First Generation Diesels

[@charlesbard2331]

I feel this video is worth digital restoration....

[@dodo1opps]

I have this on a pre recorded VHS tape. Got it at a train show in Ft Worth, TX in the late 1980's. It's still playable.

[@menguardingtheirownwallets6791]

This is an excellent video to watch if you want to show someone why we don't use VHS recording equipment anymore. It is a good promotional film for DVD recorders.

[@Rebel9668]

That being said, had the heads been cleaned and the tracking adjusted it would have been very watchable.

[@Rebel9668]

That Lima Hamilton #25 is still running. I rode behind it 2 years ago on the Whitewater Valley RR :)

[@andyharman3022]

Despite the poor video quality, this one is worth watching for all of the rare locomotive types shown. I have never seen an EMD BL, except in still pictures. Seeing a Baldwin Sharknose was special, too.

[@Rebel9668]

There's a BL not too far from me I've rode behind. The old Monon #32 at the Kentucky Railway Museum. They still use it occasionally.

[@charlesbard2331]

I recently saw a video done a couple months ago about a coal mine that was shut down and tracks take being taken up and a Jeep 30 stranded at the site appears it could still run but possibly facing a Scrappers torch sad ending unless it could be saved...

[@gtown150]

That’s Allen Keller when he worked for Kalmbach. Great voice.

[@MFXdump]

Crazy kids and their disco music.

[@G162011]

I like this video, lots of rare footage and wonderful memories! Thanks for posting it.

[@charlesbard2331]

Curious will there be a restoration of this video how it will play Mark clean...

[@russellgxy2905]

10:01 Can we stop and appreciate the sheer foresight of this line? Not only has Metra acquired quite a few locomotives from Amtrak over the years, but the F40's have become their standard. Not just in the same was the E's were decades before, but in the same way the F40's were for Amtrak when this was made

[@MontanyeModels]

I have the tape as well, & it plays pretty much the same regardless of trying to set the tracking. 30+ years doesn't improve old VHS tape. I was always curious what or who did the music tracks in it.

[@8HumblePie]

Same here, it’s by A French group called SPACE and the name of the song titles are Magic Fly and Tango In Space

[@chicagolandrailroader]

This was really interesting, thanks for sharing

[@Costanza632]

Been trying to find this Forever

[@thomasmoje5926]

This was fun to watch..brought back some memories when I was a kid used to watch trains at the Niagara Falls, N.Y. train yard most of the locomotives were the small end-cab switchers but every once in a while caught a passenger train pulled by EMD F-units usually in New York Central livery. I believe Adirondack Scenic Railroad in New York State has at least one F7 locomotive that they use to pull excursion trains.

[@BadgerlandRailVideos]

42:15 That E-110 is also now at IRM.

[@danmathers141]

Would it be safe to say that since this was first recorded in 1985 and is now 2020, that most or all of these engines and cars, unless preserved in a museum or private collection are razor blades?

[@WesternOhioInterurbanHistory]

0:20 What type of horn is this?

[@WesternOhioInterurbanHistory]

I hate how at some parts the narration talks over the train horns

[@danmathers141]

This was a great program. Is there a modern continuation going into the 2000's?

[@russellgxy2905]

If one were to be done this year, it would most certainly be about Second Generation Units. The F40's would unquestionably take the place that the E-units have in this program, especially since I feel that Metra will be the last to operate them in regular use, just as most of the E's finished up in Chicago

[@charlesbard2331]

I can say when this video was recorded they were trying to record and preserve real road history if this video was lost the history they tried to preserve is lost......

[@johnstudd4245]

It would be nice if it could be somehow digitally "cleaned" up for better clarity and resolution. I don't know if we have the technology to do that yet. Thinking back to the old VCR days, didn't they call that interference at the bottom "tracking"?

[@Rebel9668]

You could adjust the tracking, yes. Also could have cleaned the heads and it would have played much better.

[@charlesbard2331]

Not long ago I saw a video of a closed-down coalyard in either Virginia or West Virginia with a stranded gp30 High Hood I think would be worth Salvage vandals have not got to it already order Scrappers torch finished it off with but baby dick can be saved PS it looks like it will still run and move....

[@redbarnz]

Was so disappointed... totally unwatchable.

[@Rebel9668]

Yeah, the heads of that VCR needed to be cleaned and the tracking adjusted.

[@lifehappens7511]

Why the loud, completely inappropriate music? I baled out at 6 minutes.

[@russellgxy2905]

Probably because a lot of this film was recorded without sound? Also speak for yourself, all this music is nice here. Very of its time I think