Twin Cities to the Northwest 1965 -1970

[@fredericklamanno2415]

You Tube provides me with entertainment that I can Taylor to my own liking. I think it is a great public entertainment platform and I always go to it over television.

[@gregobern6084]

Thanks, these bring back memories, Zephyr, Hiawatha, Zephyr Rocket, North Coast Hiawatha, Great Northern etc

[@MikeG42]

Early days of the Burlington Northern were interesting and I love the Great Northern trains. Good video Fmnut , yes 🙂👍

[@iusetano]

Great footage. A treasure of fallen flag material. Thank you for the upload.

[@lablaine1981]

Great 👍 post...swear i saw Westminster tower@ 3:29... We hung out here 1955-1980,#9 r.r.on at that intersection 👍

[@LaserLuther]

The 1970 merger sure made for some wild trains. 🚂🚋🚃🚋🚃🚋🚃

[@daveskinner5131]

I clicked because I recognized the old Whitefish overpass in the "tease" frame. Glad I did, watched nonstop, no skipping. I agree. Treasure.

[@tombarnes7196]

Nice to see the Northern Pacific and SP&S get some nice coverage!!

[@sammyers4561]

7:00 mark was some scene. I must have watched it 5 times. And Spokane Portland and Seattle units are always a treat. Thank you for posting.

[@jackkreighbaum783]

I forget to appreciate the quality of today's video production until watching this era's quality; not complaining, just observing. Thanks for bringing us vintage films.

[@fmnut]

These film scans were done on a consumer grade scanner. If I had access to a professional scanner with a bigger imaging chip the quality would be much better, as the pixel density of the film is better than what you see here. For an example check out Pechulis Media on KZbin, most of his scans are from 8mm and Super 8 film just like this one.

[@franciscampagna2711]

Thank you.

[@trainsupporter9088]

Great video...of a time before I got to ride trains around there. Wish I could have ridden those trains. Thanks for uploading this!

[@Tsagiglalal]

-My father and grandfather both worked for the SP&S. Grandpa out of Portland OR as a conductor. Dad out of Wishram WA. I was raised in Wishram, left in 1969. I loved the trains...there was a certain romanticism to them. I have almost always lived in places with trains...Spokane WA, Southern CA, Eugene OR where I am currently.

[@geac9100]

This is the first time I've seen 2 SP&S C-636's, the only 2 they had, awesome!

[@fmnut]

Sorry, they had a total of 10. Acquired in 2 batches, the first group was 6 numbered 330-335 in 1967. The second batch of 4 was numbered 340-343 acquired in 1968, and were the last of the model built by Alco. They are wearing BN numbers in the video, but are not consecutively numbered, also a giveaway. Perhaps you are confused with the C-415's the SP&S had, of which they had only two.

[@santafealltheway2791]

Nice Video, the footage of the S.P.S consist was a real treat for me.

[@tombarnes7196]

Fantastic footage! Merry Christmas!

[@fmnut]

Same to you!

[@milwaukeetrainman9880]

Thank you so much! This video is almost a perfect summary of my interests. MILW and Hill lines heading west from the TC!

[@aubergine2995]

Wonderful stuff. A lovely holiday gift. Thank you.

[@owenlaukkanen]

Wow, this footage is a treasure. Thank you for sharing!

[@chrishaaland3525]

The locations! Took a while to recognize: Black River (the view across the Duwamish River, then the 3 tracks, one with the Milwaukee's trolley, seemed vaguely familiar, but...then the Olympian scooted through, coming from Tacoma to Seattle -- now I knew! Then the NP's Portland train comes by. Of course, the Olympian shot was no later than summer of '60 and the NP train with BN power was more likely '71, but that's close to '65-70), east end of Stampede (3-track signal bridge with one track beyond, then the North Coast Limited comes through into Tunnel 4, the little tunnel west of Stampede Pass), Martin (snow-covered east end of Stampede Pass tunnel), Scenic (west end, mountain behind the west portal of the Cascade Tunnel, the view down the straightaway under the highway and past the station; entering the tunnel is the Empire Builder and exiting are the Western Star and a freight with NP/GN/SP&S which is GE/EMD/Alco power). The SP&S Alcos are somewhere west of Bonneville Dam along the Columbia River and the BN Mainstreeter crossing the truss bridge on an s-curve is between Paradise, Montana and Idaho along the Clark Fork. Then there's Dayton's Bluff, the Four Track Main, and especially the Zephyr screeching around the curve off the Mississippi River bridge into the north end of the Minneapolis station, then leaving over the Stone Arch Bridge. It'd be interesting to revisit these places, although to duplicate the shots at Black River, Minneapolis, and west Scenic would require trespassing, which just isn't advisable anymore.

[@maxshelltrack6131]

Trespassing or not you could still try to get the shots.

[@rimodeler7963]

Thanks so much for this excellent video! Mike

[@fredlohmann1448]

I WISH I COULD'VE SEEN THIS BACK THEN! i was four years old!

[@fredlohmann1448]

I WAS BORN IN MINNEAPOLIS!

[@tommythomason6187]

Beautiful, colorful, private railroad passenger trains. Milwaukee Road and those Great Northern trains in Big Sky blue were striking. I have never been in a dome car, though I've ridden quite a few passenger trains, most notably, Southern Railway System's Southern Crescent. Southern would add a dome car to the southbound Southern Crescent in Atlanta, to Birmingham.

[@christopherorourke6543]

Great video of what is no the BNSF. The portion in Western Montana, Northern Idaho & Washington State would make a great N scale model railroad layout which there are a few N scale model railroader that are building their layout based on it. I’m an N scale model railroader with the ultimate goal of doing the entire West Coast from the U.S.-Mexico border just South of San Diego & go all the way to Vancouver,BC,Canada which will cover the period from 1974 to the end of 1999. It will cover all of the railroads that served the Wedt Coast during that time. Before the 1970 merger of the Burlington Northern, my most favorite railroad was the Great Northern because of the logo of the mountain boast on top of a mountain peak, the Empire Builder train which I want to ride on, and I read a chapter in the book American railroads during my high school years. My favorite chapter was on the story of James J. Hill & the Great Northern railroad which didn’t get no land grants at all. In that chapter it tells of where he helped shovel snow to keep the track clear, he wasen’t big headed, he remembered his farming roots.

[@gregsmith1829]

Wow! Great video. Thanks a lot

[@geac9100]

You really scored on ebay! You did a great job editing also.

[@fmnut]

Thank you. I just wish there was more footage available from those days.

[@ScottJohnson4449]

I made some N scale BN rainbow videos based on this video. Well done!

[@tommythomason6187]

Wow, riding a Burlington Northern passenger train. How many can say they did such a thing?

[@MonValleyNathan]

Hell Fmnut, it’s me, Nathan, that boy you met at Cassandra in 2019 and I never saw you since then.

[@fmnut]

Hi Nathan, Merry Christmas!

[@MonValleyNathan]

@@fmnut Merry Christmas as well! Hope to meet on the high iron!

[@wimk961]

Amazing to see two FA1 units trailing on the consist exiting cascade tunnel. And the 2xC636+SD24 lash-up. Time to fire up Open Rails with RMD east and west.

[@twospeed209]

Very nice! Tk you!

[@amadigidigaula771]

Awesome.

[@MrBsHiawathalandRails]

Loved it!

[@_mynewcareer]

Amazing

[@derrickwong5337]

I love it!!

[@ericbohanon5121]

I like that horn on the B and N loco what was it?

[@fmnut]

Nathan M3 with the high pitch bell not sounding.

[@jslasher1]

How sad that the colour on these films has faded to a point whereby restoration would be difficult if not impossible.

[@john72ss]

nice old sp&s footage, my dad may have been the hoghead ,