Silent film: Penn Central, 1970

[@ronniefarnsworth6465]

Lots of nice New Haven video here Boston South Station and the Dover Street yards and some Worcester I believe also, still most units in full NH livery. All those shots of the Dover Street yard are long gone !! As with NYC Beacon Park yard closed a few years ago and with the old B&M yards maybe 10% left, Boston has long ended being a great Rail City sadly !!! All the rail business started leaving big time in the 1980s-90s to more Tax/business friendly states down South or the Mid-West, Leftist Mass.is no place for industry sadly !!

[@lembriggs1075]

Great old videos! Thank you so much!

[@eugeeropel5572]

Sound or no sound, it’s vintage it’s PENN CENTRAL and it’s excellent. Thank you for sharing.

[@eugeeropel5572]

Credit should also be given to the people that had the foresight to film railroad footage such as this as well as many others so we’re able to look back at railroads such as these, that helped build this great nation. Thank you to the person behind the camera.

[@amtrakatsfnyc]

The freight passing through Worcester Union station crossing from track 2 to the middle [track 2A] to track 1 eastbound brings back a lot of memories. This is a historic collection.

[@evan4re]

Great footage of my favorite PC era. The builders plate from FL9 2051 is in my living room.

[@bluesboyst]

Great shots of South Station, boston just like I remember.. thanks for posting. Some of the shots at South Station were probably 1968 - 1969 timeframe. I used to go down there then and the South Postal Annex building had not been built... that was erected in 1969...

[@kcsthebetterway]

Thanks for sharing and doing the leg work! That L&NW boxcar at18:53 sends me back home!!

[@HILLERYYARD]

thanks for sharing.. love seeing the P&E engins.

[@alexlarams]

Thank you so much for sharing. Just some amazingly wonderful stuff to see here and as someone who grew up in Milwaukee Road and Illinois Central/Illinois Central Gulf territory in northeast Iowa, I wish I would have been able to get out East more when I was a young kid.

[@garysprandel1817]

Think that might have been Michigan Central east end of the now long a bike path Joliet line after the Blue Island shots.

[@bluesboyst]

Nice shots of South Station in the late 60's....

[@tomy.1846]

Awesome!!!! 😎

[@markmccummins8049]

1970: Perlman was long gone. Saunders and Bevan, two men who had bled the PC, were gone. Frank Borman was the guy left to pick up the pieces. It’s melancholy to see these scenes.

[@brandtbecker1810]

Yet still it was better railroading than this crap we're stuck with today.

[@jeffbrown3963]

Don't forget Mr. O.F. Lassiter who more than helped bankrupt the railroad with Executive Jet and Philgas getting the railroad's maintenance budget.

[@b3j8]

For us fans, one good aspect to Penn Central was the company was too cash poor to eliminate the majority of manned towers. I visited many during this era. Nice look back at a train wreck of a Railroad.

[@diddy5678]

The last shots sure looked like South Braintree Yard.

[@garygary9310]

I remember the New York Central logo brings back memories

[@leehuff2330]

At the 11:00 mark, I love the International Harvester hi-rail truck; looks like a 65 or 66 model.

[@eugeeropel5572]

Excellent excellent vintage switcher with the large PC on it at the :45 mark. That alone, in my opinion, makes this worthy of creating a DVD of this, again audio or no audio.

[@fmnut]

Would it be possible to get permission to use the two Leaman Place clips st the start of the video? I am doing a compilation of film clips with added sound at that location. Credit will be given. Thanks.

[@lawrencegolba2244]

Nice video. What ever happened to the very large ("cubic"?) boxcars? Don't see them around anymore.

[@train5974]

I saw a csx train eith about 10 of those 86 foot boxcars recently.

[@train5974]

I saw a csx train eith about 10 of those 86 foot boxcars recently.

[@garysprandel1817]

Hi cube is the term you're looking for. Mainly used for auto parts, used to be common as dirt through town here but then GM shut down the Janesville plant and freight dried up to the point the only freight is a grain extra for an elevator on line and the manifest are little more than glorified locals.

[@lawrencegolba2244]

Thank you Gary.

[@wes1243]

The lake state railway runs right by my place, and they have high cubes on almost every train that goes by

[@kevinhoward9593]

I think PC should have just made itself a Non-Profit organization lol. I dont think i ever seen a company never make any money that was for profit. Hell I'm surprised they could afford to pay their employees considering they were loosing like $450 million a year.

[@dknowles60]

then over paid union workers had the highest pay in the Rail roads

[@chriswilliams8749]

Great stuff! Does that happen to be Providence at 16:40?

[@urtx26012]

Yes

[@jalilmuhammad8270]

1970: the fall of Penn Central.

[@raymondpaller6475]

Any chance somebody knows where all the ex-NYC Peoria & Eastern footage was shot? I went to the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign which had the old P&E Peoria to Indianapolis line go through it. Odd how the physical plant & corporate legal combinations that made up the PRR & NYC were never completely effected or integrated, yet Saunders thunk-up he could have PC run a playbook of rapid integration (of both the physical plant, and the PRR Protestant Symes Greenough Bevan Saunders red team vis-a-vis the NYC Jewish Catholic Perlman Flannery green team)

[@tommythomason6187]

Nineteen seventy - and the engines already look crummy.

[@timgaudreault8198]

No graffiti!!