Pennsylvania Steam and Electric Years 1936-1952

Vintage Pennsylvania Railroad clips taken from a VHS.

[@iMadeAPromise42]

WWII-era film clips of PRR are rare. This program has an abundance of them. Incredible.

[@jacktaggart2489]

Fascinating. Excellent retrospective. We lived near North Philadelphia Station during the 1950's; still some steam around. Loved watching the parade of famous trains in late afternoon and Evening, including the Broadway Limited, the Florida trains, C&O, the Southern Crescent to New Orleans, Texas Special, etc.

[@JPaul60]

My Father worked out of Broad Street Station as a car knocker when it closed. I worked out of Reading Terminal as a Conductor when it closed in 1984.

[@luislaplume8261]

The Pennsylvania R.R. was the only railroad in America that I know of that had its own fleet of subway trains. These were used from Newark, N.J. across the Hudson River to the terminal where the World Trade Center was. It passed also thru Harrison N.J. to Jersey City, N.J. before reaching Hudson Terminal before the World Trade Center was built. 😊

[@rorymacve]

Fantastic video of a unique part of American railroading history! :D I was just wondering, would it be possible for me to use this footage as part of an upcoming documentary I'm creating about the history of the Budd Metroliner?

[@joeynova3550]

Amazing video! I wish I could find more footage on the branch lines in the Philadelphia terminal division.

[@JPaul60]

Thank you.

[@williamhetrick1550]

Sounds of the times.

[@nomoneyglobal]

So was every little spur equipped with over head electric to accommodate freight delivery

[@JPaul60]

I ran trains to Thorndale in the 80's. I also live there. My how things have changed but Father saw all those changes. I'm also a Pennsy baby. P&T branch crossed over at Whitford.

[@phillyfan-182]

Downingtown area!!

[@danielkane8752]

Great video. Music is too loud.

[@nomoneyglobal]

Thorndale!

[@WiLDCATZ]

Great footage. In an era that produced elegant steam and diesel engines those PRR GG1s were the exception. One of the most hideous looking locomotives ever.

[@HASGE52Eisback]

Your Rodney Kantorski Has Join The Chat

[@MTSGAnimates]

Request reupload gg1 footage because he deleted

[@njlarry100]

WHERE WAS THE WARNING BEFORE YOU BLASTED A FULL VOLUME HORN IN MY EARS.l PAINFULL!!

[@user-yq6xj1xo2b]

back ground music is terrible turn it down man

[@RRose-ie8oh]

Concur. "Background" music much louder than the narration. Quite annoying!

[@elliotwelz9793]

A really great video but you made the same mistake many other videos have . Why is the back round music so loud .I had to shut off the audio about 1/3 through it . And you know this is wrong because you lowered it every time you gave narration . You made a terrible mistake . Because of this I could not give you a thumbs up .

[@user-ci2sh2ym5i]

Destroying Broad St Station does not make me sad, but rather pissed off! We need MORE electrification - not less! In the early 80's 'Conjobrail' (Conrail) yanked down ALL of the electrification in PA except fortunately for Amtrak and SEPTA! Really? I mean seriously REALLY!? In this day and age of Climate Emergency and the huge carbon footprint brought on by DIESEL locomotives?

[@RRose-ie8oh]

As noted in the video, Suburban Station was already built next door to Broad Street Station and was always meant as its replacement. Broad Street Station got a reprieve because of WWII traffic, but that was certainly waning by the time it came down. The City of Philadelphia really, really hated the "Chinese Wall" that lead up to Broad Street too.

[@DaMan-jt6dh]

There is no climate emergency. In the meantime, big Oil wants you to think that meanwhile they are drilling the most oil the US has ever drilled and they are selling it overseas while making you buy Saudi Arabian oil, meantime pretending that oil isn't the 2nd most naturally abundant resource in the world. I do agree electric Trains do make sense, at one point GE offered to rebuild the electrified portions of the Milwaukee Road and fill the gap of no electrification (and GE offered to cover expenses up front and it was calculated it would pay itself off in less than 10 years) however Milwaukee inexplicably turned this offer down during the fuel crisis. Guess who's fuel we were dependent on? Saudi Arabias. Also I'm tired of wealthy elite snobs that think they are climate experts and want everyone to sink thousands into new cars, solar panels etc... which most people cannot afford all the while all of this is WORSE for the environment. Environmentalists are the single greatest threat to our environment. If this wasn't true, you people wouldn't be getting new railroad projects and expansions shut down every time they announce they are building. Yeah, because having MORE trucks in the road handling 80% of the nations freight is SOOO much better for the environment, but in the meantime Environmentalists are the sole reason the trucking industry is largest mover of freight. Guess what, they are using MORE oil to move the same amount of freight with trucks, and you claim to hate oil 😂😂😂😂😂