St. Louis Sojourn 1960's

[@lablaine1981]

Bought #25 green 🐸 VHS 📼 in 1990s,best quality... Emery Gulash and crew... always happy with all 🍏 🐸...💯

[@ScottJohnson4449]

I wore out this VHS tape. I grew up in St. Louis in the 60s, got to ride out of Union Station many times on the Mo Pac, then Amtrak. This is a great video!!!

[@tommythomason6187]

Very nice film quality. Great hues and colors and clear picture. Simpler times, it seems.

[@sirblack1619]

It is so nice to see my hometown back in the day before I was born. I really wish that I would have seen what is now NS back when Wabash still owned to STL to Kansas City line. I grew up near that line and would have loved to see the Wabash moving at track speed.

[@marykurowski7707]

Oh my goodness I remember when I was young in the '50s and my dad used to get on the train from St Louis going to Chicago He was a compensation man for Union. So he would go to Chicago to all these big meetings. He even had breakfast with President Eisenhower many times. But yes I used to love to go to Union station It was magical back then.

[@jdsharp1366]

I grew up in Granite City, in one shot you can see the Steel MIll, at one time it was the 4th largest in the country and was started by the family that came up with Graniteware, the porcelain coated coffee pots, plates, cups saucers etc, they were successful enough that they decided to cut out the middle man so to speak and built their own mill to roll the coils for the die stamping operations. It went on to produce many many more steel products and helped both WWI and WWII victories. My father also worked for Illinois Central RR for 43 years starting in 59' working out of E St. Louis and the Madison/Venice yards until the Sauget yard was built.

[@NW-gi1cp]

All the steam engines lined up in the scrap yards: 👁️👄👁️

[@Westerner78]

First train is after the mail and express package cars were removed . Which bankrupted the private rail system. Gas also was 20 cents a gallon and bankrupt bailed out airlines were unheard of. The Day train is the Wabash Cannonball' with two rear Nickel Plate Coaches from the just dropped NKP service . Today Amtrak trains like these can be sold out. A cross line like this would do real well. The overnighters were the money makers with mail and express to be in town by morning. This is all XPO trucks today! Slow , expensive and no worth to the public . Trucks.

[@josephkanowitz6875]

ב''ה, once the Navy floods everything it will just be Electric Boat