St. Louis Sojourn 1960's

St. Louis Sojourn 1960's
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An Historic venture to visit the St. Louis Union Station, and other locations in and around St. Louis, for a weekend of train chasing.
To compliment the occasion, rail transport from Detroit to St. Louis was via Norfolk and Western's night train, the 'St. Louis Limited'. Convenient night travel allowed for two enjoyable days of railfan delights in the Gateway City.
During this time turmoil was entering the passenger train services with the advent of the loss of U.S. Postal contracts and the potential of a reorganized quasi-national passenger train service.
Regardless of the future, it was still a good time to sense the pulse of passenger traffic and the St. Louis Sojourn was the 'call' in the spring of '68. This spectacular DVD, digitally transferred from crisp 16 mm color film (with a couple of minutes of b&w), is from the camera of noted railfan photographer Emery Gulash.
The following railroads are portrayed in this DVD:
Alton and Southern, Baltimore and Ohio, Chicago, Burlington and Quincy, Chicago and Eastern Illinois, Gulf, Mobile and Ohio, Illinois Central, Louisville and Nashville, Missouri Pacific, Norfolk & Western, Penn Central, Southern Railway Co., TRRA-Terminal Railroad Association.
Approx. 60 Minutes

[@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!!!

[@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.

[@tommythomason6187]

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

[@NW-gi1cp]

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

[@intercityrailpal]

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