I’m dead at the end when Mike said “There’s a Norfolk Southern train master following behind.” He throws so much shade at NS.😂
@SteveInNEPA111 ай бұрын
These types of videos make me realize how much better trains looked before grafitti
@b3j83 жыл бұрын
Wish we had a guy like Mike Bednar to narrate old PRR film across Indiana and Ohio! Man I love listening to retired Railroaders give commentary like this!
@williamoverton15482 жыл бұрын
My best childhood friends father worked erie shops as electrician..Iron men don't waste words.
@b3j82 жыл бұрын
@@williamoverton1548 Wasn't at Marion Ohio was it?
@shortliner683 жыл бұрын
Always enjoy seeing the variety of old roadnames on freight cars that are free of graffiti. Brings back memories of train watching days in the 1960s.
@eugeeropel55723 жыл бұрын
Loved the Oscar Mayer reefer car at 3:01, a classic in itself. All Excellent footage. Thank You.
@stevebradbury1013 жыл бұрын
When I saw that reefer car I thought that is what it said. I wasn’t sure so rewound the video to be sure.
@williamoverton15482 жыл бұрын
Not sure, i heard consist closest to locomotive is hot merchants..high profit.
@jillworthington60422 жыл бұрын
Loved watching this video! I grew up in Woods Hole, Mass. on Cape Cod, trains ran for many years there. I remember the New York, New Haven, and Hartford trains, as they arrived at WH depot to drop passengers off to catch the ferries to Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket. My childhood home was on a steep embankment right next to the train tracks and every time I heard a train approach I would drop everything and run to the train bridge next to my house to watch them coming and going.When I was 10 (1963) an engineer let me "help" drive the train, pushing the lever forward and traveling the shot distance from the Steamship Authority to the chicken coop. I love every about trains and wanted to become a Lady Engineer!
@PRR54063 жыл бұрын
I especially enjoy the narration.
@abbush29213 жыл бұрын
You could hear it over the noise ?
@cody82172 жыл бұрын
@@abbush2921 can hear it perfectly. Get your ears checked.
@book19573 жыл бұрын
Like Mike's narration with info on the people that worked for the LV.
@elizabethm47053 жыл бұрын
This narration gives me life
@TheJpec3613 жыл бұрын
You had me at Big Mike....
@scottbrewer29032 жыл бұрын
Love the LV. Dad grew up in Ithaca. I grew up hearing about the Black Diamond.
@christopherorourke65433 жыл бұрын
Great video of the Lehigh Valley Railroad. 7 members of my family worked for the Lehigh Valley Railroad out of Coxton Yard. My great grandfather Stephen Kearney, 4 grand uncles & 2 second cousins worked for the Lehigh Valley from about 1868 up tp 1976 when it became Conrail & my 2 second cousins worked for Conrail up to about 1985.
@crashintonickdm Жыл бұрын
Love that Centralia footage.
@stephenhenion83042 жыл бұрын
Great video from a Golden Era!!
@dannylittle67663 жыл бұрын
7:16 I've never seen footage of the tracks in Centralia- for that matter, I've never seen any footage of the town in it's heyday.
@markmccummins80493 жыл бұрын
Wow! Great video, and tons of eastern PA history. Centralia - a town that in ‘58 had only 4 more years. Who knew? I love to hear Mike Bednar’s narration.
@scotteakins72033 жыл бұрын
Love these old rail fan videos!
@rexracernj76963 жыл бұрын
Great footage, those old passenger trains look so recent.
@vancepomerening47943 жыл бұрын
Hard to believe this is 8mm. Quality is superb. Thanks
@matthewm64663 жыл бұрын
That video quality is incredible for the 1960s
@kenmunozatmmrrailroad68532 жыл бұрын
This production is beautiful… thank you.
@chuckabbate59243 жыл бұрын
Mike jabs Norfolk Southern relentlessly 🎯🔥😂💯
@BOBXFILES2374a3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for making this video. A real trip back in time!
@SimpleMechanic9312 ай бұрын
Pretty cool at 3:45 you can see him knock down that old semifore signal as he passes by
@martinross55213 жыл бұрын
Fascinating segments of film, well produced. I’ve ordered volumes 1 and 2 and look forward to seeing the full stories.
@CrossOfBayonne2 жыл бұрын
I'm not much of a diesel guy but these scenes were filmed with a Kodak camera around the Allentown area, The CNJ mainline went through the city Parallel to the Lehigh Valley and Reading railroads since the place was served by the Bethlehem steel mill that produced most of the material used to make famous landmarks such as the Empire State Building and George Washington Bridge.
@jamielacourse75782 жыл бұрын
Those Alcos were really something.....
@hartmutlorentzen96593 жыл бұрын
Great video, Thanks from Germany
@skyheights0013 жыл бұрын
amazing video 😍 thumbs up 👍👍 greetings from Indian railfan 💐
@peterperacchio5283 жыл бұрын
Keep these coming. Thanks.
@buixrule5 ай бұрын
Priceless stuff. Thank you!!!
@vicodumb3 жыл бұрын
Wonderful!
@daveyboy_ Жыл бұрын
See how awesome it was to rainfall in the 70's . Different engines , beautiful cars ( no graffiti ) caboose's, the engineer would wave . Now today they're all the same
@eafd27086 ай бұрын
2:18 LV 414 still operates in LV paint under Delaware Lackawanna
@MissRailfan2 жыл бұрын
he says Bethlehem like the Bethlehem steel workers n families do BETH'LEM. I say it now after living in Johnstown PA area a few yrs. wow the fair train and a coal train with a steamer. god i missed the good stuff by 50yrs haha
@MarkInLA3 жыл бұрын
This warmth seems gone from RRs here in 10/15/2020 !!!
@nickclayton25173 жыл бұрын
I was happy to see an Orr train.
@twizzler3093 жыл бұрын
Love it, your videos are great!
@Steamerchoo3 жыл бұрын
Gr8 stuff
@Leveractionjake3 жыл бұрын
It looks like the Lehigh Valley Railroad had a thing for Alco's.
@granthewmiller80123 жыл бұрын
The Lehigh Valley Railroad is still around, it is now an inactive subsidiary of American Premier Underwriters which was formerly known as Penn Central and before that it was formerly the Pennsylvania Railroad before it absorbed the New York Central; so the Pennsylvania Railroad and Penn Central is the same railroad, not two different railroads. Unfortunately the Reading Company did not survive as Reading International merged the Reading Company into a newly created limited liability company like 1-2 years ago.
@jamesstuart33463 жыл бұрын
Budd RDCs...pre wet-noodle CNs...lots of pretty ALCOs...like Christmas!
@johnruskin43303 жыл бұрын
As usual great video and hearing Big Mike and who hiding hitching about 3;18 on circus train?
@onionhat91413 жыл бұрын
Gotta do more Prr
@fermincuervo86133 жыл бұрын
OK...wonderful.....
@noelio673 жыл бұрын
Train Sim World on PS4 Xbox and PC ..... great game
@bobbydale19383 жыл бұрын
When life was simpler
@MattKonsol3 жыл бұрын
At 1:31 I wonder if that lv emd sw1200 had a wabco a2 or not?
@drby07883 жыл бұрын
I watch these all the time man. Do you have a link where I can buy?
@JPMediaRR3 жыл бұрын
www.johnpmedia.com
@Shadowfax-19803 жыл бұрын
Does it seem that the LV trains always seemed to be a little dirtier and weathered than other operators of that era? I like the well-worn look but maybe my eyes are playing tricks on me.
@JessicaKasumi19903 жыл бұрын
Not really. The Lehigh Valley Railroad operated in some very dirty areas. Including in and around many Anthracite coal mines.
@BOBXFILES2374a3 жыл бұрын
Coal dust is good for you.
@JessicaKasumi19903 жыл бұрын
@@BOBXFILES2374a It builds character. Puts hair on your chest, etcetera.
@UnionCountyPhotography3 жыл бұрын
Bound Brook!!!
@CrossOfBayonne2 жыл бұрын
It was also the CNJ main which was also used by the B&O and Reading RR
@UnionCountyPhotography2 жыл бұрын
@@CrossOfBayonne CNJ>RVL LV>Lehigh Line (B&O) Reading> PRS
@JPLtrain3 жыл бұрын
Belle époque ferroviaire.... Aucun contrôle sur la pollution, la propreté des trains, des voies et de leur stabilité.... On utilise, on use... Jp lobet
@FPM8116 ай бұрын
Interesting that 90% of their business was generated on 20% of their track.
@jamesfarmer37593 жыл бұрын
Bethlehem Steel
@squirrelguy21953 жыл бұрын
6:38 That's an odd stretch of track, I assume it's that way due to clearance issues?
@4est573 жыл бұрын
The road crossing is right where the switchpoints would throw, looks like they extended it towards the curve to avoid having to move the crossing. I've never seen construction like that, very interesting.
@danielparent97023 жыл бұрын
Pretty sure he called it the gauntlet track, so assuming there's a bridge that both tracks share somewhere in the distance.
@4est573 жыл бұрын
Looking at this closer, it’s apparently built that way for close clearance near stations. The inner track is what the passenger train would run on as it serviced the station. The thru freight uses the outer track to stay further away from the station.
@vicodumb3 жыл бұрын
Do I detect a slight disdain in Mike's voice towards Norfolk Southern?
@jonathanwreck89142 жыл бұрын
That’s an under understatement
@ginogalante3 жыл бұрын
What horn is that at 4:53 ?
@3nglehart3 жыл бұрын
A leslie rs 3?
@zachmoyer18493 жыл бұрын
I'd love to meet the idea that didnt come from here