Strasburg Rail Road - The Early Tourist Era

[@sebrandt1]

Wow, the memories! It was a family tradition in the 70s and early 80s to go for a ride at the Strassburg Railroad each summer when we visited grandparents near Hershey. We still lift our feet when going over a bridge to "reduce the weight". Thank you for sharing.

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[@duanejones2410]

Wow, great memories. My dad was an avid steam era rail fan and model railroader and because we lived only an hour and a half away from Strasburg dpwn in MD. , I remember going there more times than I can count during the early years that you covered in this video. I was lucky enough to ride behind every steam loco you've mentioned here except the very first however, although I was very young in the early 60's , the visit I remember the most believe it or not was the one time that we got to ride behind the ex Reading camalback #4. It took about two hrs for that round trip (the consist was only three cars) because they had no anthracite coal on hand and #4 did not like bituminous coal and kept running out of steam. Wish you have found some video of that loco. you would never forget the shrill "peanut whistle" that little loco had. Many thanks.

[@warrenash5370]

Parents took me to ride this train as a kid. The Plymouth engine was the motive power! Lived in Camden, NJ and my dad was a big train nut! Took my daughter to ride the train in '86. Glad to see some things last!

[@kptrains]

Great archive footage! Always nice to visit the Strasburg Rail Road 👍

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[@evanf1293]

This sure was interesting to watch. Thx for uploading this.

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[@AhmearClayIombo-dj6di]

Great Footage Well Done

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[@AhmearClayIombo-dj6di]

You're Welcome

[@Mizzinno]

Wow any footage of 7 in operation is an amazing find, but this is even more amazing

[@x1heavy]

I met Strasburg in the later 60's into early 70s to ride the 90, 31 and particularly 1223. Hello Dolly was the usual car for us. Cinders sometimes too. =) This video is a time machine taking me straight back. The old US 30 bridge too. I eventually spent my lifetime trucking back and forth across both the old one and the future new spans. The sounds is just flawless with the then recording of these tapes in those days. I also recognized individual trees along the line that are still there to this day. (Some of them anyway) The red paint I think was changed in the 80s possibly. Some of the old paints were not necessarily green to use a rougher modern term. I think the Hello Dolly was converted for the movie with extra steps and woodwork etc. Back to Passenger Service in the video time here and then rebuilt, painted for current time. East Strasburg Yards just beyond the engine bays was a storage for the passenger stock, alot of Ma and Pa and I think PRR and B&O and WM short commuter coaches. Im not sure what happened to most all of them by now but think some were absorbed in a manner of speaking. It is good to see Strasburg doing well and working the freight regularly. Alot of memories from those days for me. and its nice to relive them in this video and others from that time period.

[@wolfgangpfeilergartenbahnd6530]

Great information on the history of this railway. Thank you for showing me.

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[@darleneeide7090]

Great work on putting this video together. We have memories of this railroad

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[@cykablyatman6242]

1223 will always be amazing

[@robertmohler9131]

It's too bad 1223 was forced into retirement

[@northpennvalleysteamrailroad]

Awesome 😊

[@DynamoProductions-trains]

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[@charonsferryold]

Amazing how the Strasburg has been in "preservation" so long that it's taken on a life of its own, and one much more vibrant than it was as a random rattletrap shortline. Perhaps they understand that historical preservation for a living, breathing piece of infrastructure such as a railroad shouldn't just mean embalming it, but continuing to grow it for posterity.

[@SleeTheSloth]

WOW! Great video. I enjoyed it vary much. :)

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[@bobrfotos]

Outstanding film footage. Thank you for sharing.

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[@SimonTog]

Well done video :)

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[@karljohnson2201]

Hunter, What a great video. Nice historical prespective. Not too long, not to railfanny (if that's a word, or manybe spelled railfannie ?). I enjoyed it. Keep up the great work.

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[@timbarger3984]

The Strasburg Rail Road is also one of the oldest public utilties in Pennsylvania.

[@NorthandSouthLineR.R.]

5:51 I absolutely love “Hello, Dolly!” And I first heard of it from a video, although I watched Wall-E before a few times, I mostly know “Hello, Dolly!” As 1223’s most famous film appearance!

[@warrenash5370]

Also did an appearance in this one: kzbin.info/www/bejne/iGixgmirgM-fm68

[@NorthandSouthLineR.R.]

Yes, I am aware of that

[@jeffg.8964]

Great footage!

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[@danielboone3770]

Love the action & footage! ❤❤❤

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[@Its_Trainz_Time]

I’m surprised that there wasn’t much footage of 1187 during this period

[@DynamoProductions-trains]

The 1187 ran rather sporadically between 1962-1967.

[@Its_Trainz_Time]

I see I guess that makes sense for a dinky little camelback

[@22NCRAILFAN23]

cool

[@aaronspringborn34]

Oh my goodness gracious wow where did you get this footage from? I never seen this old footage with great video and audio quality for back and its day. This is superior wow.

[@DynamoProductions-trains]

Audio is all dubbed in via our extensive libriary of recordings, crafted using various tracks from different locomotives to reconstruct the most accurate audio possible. The footage was aquired via a deal with the Western Railway Museum.

[@thecapisoffyt]

youre the first person that i heard that pronounced Strasburg correctly (everyone else says Strosburg or Strousburg for some reason)

[@jeffg.8964]

Anyone know when the small tower at the entrance to the engine shop was removed? I’ve been going there since I was a small child in the 1960s but have no memory of that structure.

[@lucasquintanilla1673]

In many ways, in the early days the Strasburg railroad was americas bluebell or tallylin railway as it did for American railroad preservation what those two railways did for rail preservation in great Britain. And while Strasbourg was not quite the first preserved railway (I think there was one narrow gauge one in the western US right before the Strasbourg) it was definitely one of the most popular ones for the early railway preservation scene and to this day, the Strasburg railroad is probably one of the best Heritage railways in the United States.

[@tomyrail7468]

how did you get the sounds?

[@DynamoProductions-trains]

We have extensive video and audio recordings in our records, all recorded by our members. Hunter selected the audio he felt best fit the footage with the help of Kurt's research to pick the best audio out of our tens of thousands of gigabytes of footage and audio.

[@fredblonder7850]

Here’s Engine 90, filmed by me, back in the 1960s: kzbin.info/www/bejne/f6nQiZKkgb2Wqbs , with a Longines-Wittnauer Cine-Twin 8mm Movie Camera-Projector.

[@brianfalzon6739]

What happened to that open air gondola car now?

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In storage

[@brianfalzon6739]

@@DynamoProductions-trains and what’s the future of it?

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Storage

[@brianfalzon6739]

@@DynamoProductions-trains oh ok

[@jeffg.8964]

Locals pronounce “Leaman” as “Lemon”, not “Layman” or “Leeman”.

[@HunterLohseRRVideos]

I’m not a local…..

[@jeffg.8964]

@@HunterLohseRRVideos Neither am I but have been going there since the 1960s and the locals will politely correct you! Same thing with “Lancaster”: locals pronounce it “Lank-ester”, not Lan-caster”. I thought maybe the narration was AI. Wonderful scenes!

[@HunterLohseRRVideos]

If people care too much about it then they can choose not to watch, my voice is not AI

[@NewEnglandFoamer]

I normally say Lemon cause of Railway Productions but I don’t mind people saying “Leemon” or “Layman” when they try to pronounce the other name for Paradise

[@Maverick_Van_Traveller]

We also say STRAZ-berg and not STRASS-burg