Yesterdays Santa Fe

[@jamesmonahan1870]

Thank you for sharing your exceptional train experiences. 😊

[@johncamp2567]

Spectacular old film footage; very nicely presented and edited. 👍

[@robertodasilva5486]

Irmão Roberto de Guarulhos SP...trem...yesterdays...de...santa..fe...Tta.ttop demais..ok...um...abraços...para tudos...ferroviário...que Deus abençoe muito..sempre..ok abraço grande..ok 🙏🙏☝☝💙

[@terrywebb8636]

To young to remember these fabulous, beautiful trains. I have bought every ho scale locomotives i could find.

[@trains365]

What a GREAT TREASURE!!! There is one correction that must be mentioned for the sake of accuracy. The Flagstaff Arizona scene showing the passenger train headed east was claimed to be the Super Chief. This is incorrect, the Super Chief never ran with a full dome car. Secondly there would have been more Pullman cars behind the diner. Thirdly, the time of day is also wrong as it is shown in the late morning sun, the Super went through Flagstaff around sunrise. The train shown at this point is the eastbound San Francisco Chief. Thanks for posting I look forward to more!!

[@Greatdome99]

12:55: That isn't the Super Chief, either. It's the San Francisco Chief with HiLevel coaches, dome-lounge and std diner/sleepers

[@jimevans6885]

Great Video! I knew Virgil & La Veda from early PLA. Hope to see more of his great films - especially SP!

[@aghostofthenow7135]

Fantastic post! Virgil shot 16mm film. That was expensive. Same producer also had Virgil film on, Western Pacific’s - Feather River Canyon Route. Totally worth it, as well.

[@Greatdome99]

29:00: A longstanding tradition: Santa Fe re-sprayed silver paint on the loco's underbody and pilot between trips. You can see a little overspray on the loco's nose below the cigar band. A real class act. The busses you see carried psgrs to and from Oakland and San Francisco. Santa Fe quit running into Oakland years earlier.

[@andrewboyd8073]

THANK YOU. I could never find this on DVD anywhere even when I remembered seeing it as a kid.

[@turbod1]

It never made its way to DVD and it took years of search for an old vhs. I saw it at a friend's house as a kid and it never got out of my head

[@andrewboyd8073]

@@turbod1 Any chance of converting it to MP4 or Google Drive in case it gets taken down?

[@turbod1]

I don't have space at the moment but I'll make sure it gets up somewhere else@@andrewboyd8073

[@ATSFSuperChief]

THANK YOU from an old Santa Fe Railfan, Maritime Steam Engineer and railroad photographer (once in awhile).😄😺

[@patrickcalabro8718]

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[@whereisthedollar]

The Santa Fe San Francisco train, was not that familiar to me. What a circuitous route. Thanks for posting and great information. Looked up a number of towns like Grant, Los Lunas and Pinole that it went through.

[@Greatdome99]

Though slower than the City of San Francisco, the San Francisco Chief was an hour faster than the California Zephyr.

[@glennfoster2423]

I was assigned to an Engineering field party doing survey work at Richmond in late 1979 for 4 months. I lived in Pinole. Although I never went to the depot, I remember it well, also at that time, the semaphores donated the signal apparatus along that part of the Valley Division

[@nighttrainpj1]

That you so much for this Steve. Often wondered what they did with all those F units. Great to have you.

[@sarasotasage6135]

Many of the F units still operate today as CF7 Road Switchers. Santa Fe sent their F units to their Cleburne, Texas shops (Cleburne is what the C stands for) and converted them there.

[@mikehawk2003]

F7A 347C and F3B 347B at the California State Railroad Museum are what's left. The rest were either scrapped or rebuilt into CF7s.

[@nicktynan1355]

At .20 in the intro looks like Jack McClure, the father of Rod McClure. Both worked for the Western Pacific(Rod later with the UP). Both have passed away(Jack in 1996, Rod in 2016).

[@patricknoveski6409]

This reminds me of teen age times. OMG what fore sight. Just assumed they would always be here. Everything got EATEN UP BY CORPORATION'S, SO sad 😞

[@patricknoveski6409]

Thank you Virgil! Many memories. Loved the period music 🎶 🎵 👌

[@earllutz2663]

Thank you for the great film footage. I am sorry that your friends had to experience the chiggers. I have been there and it most certainly is extremely irritating and painful.

[@mlptf]

0:07 love the introduction music

[@johnsadventures6783]

Great shots

[@dennisthurman2070]

What a shot of the girl with the 2 red suitcases ...classic

[@stevenanderson1500]

Classic Virgil!

[@user-do2rm7bu3k]

Thank you for the old Santa Warbonnet it's been a long time since I see one good video

[@turbod1]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@bobkohl6779]

ALCO PAs were run in CA till 65

[@robertodasilva5486]

Usar...estado..unidos..ok..lindo mesmo ok...trem..Tta.ttop demais....Brasil..ok... irmão Roberto..de..Guarulhos SP...Brasil..ok abraço grande..ok 🙏🙏☝☝

[@glennfoster2423]

Mi amigo, Roberto! No puedo a hablar el Portuguese. I hope you can translate this poor try to answer. Always try. You are with friends here. These videos are great, and such a wonderful record of the Santa Fe railroad in the Central California valley. I also worked in Arizona and New Mexico for the Santa Fe

[@JohnWilson-wg4gk]

🎶 Pardon me boy, Is that the cat who 🎵 chewed your new shoes ? 🎶

[@patrickcalabro8718]

Excellent videos of multiple units pulling passenger cars up ⬆️ hill ⛰🚦🚞. The best feature, in my opinion, is the brakeman making different signals to the engineer and completing the hook 🪝 up. It's worth saving for review. thanks 🎌 🚩 🧑‍🎤 🏁

[@emilkarpo]

Several time the narrator calls a train that is obviously the San Francisco Chief the Super Chief.

[@marcelomenendez1971]

nice treasure of vintage film but tell the girl with the green mini, that ted bundy is in his vw watching,haha

[@bjjt-nu9dx]

Sound effects added, correct? If so, well done.

[@dennisthurman2070]

That music smh

[@edsel6818]

It was a good video, but unfortunately the camera man jus stayed focus on them locos and caboose, who cares, I wish he'd knock it off, good GREIF!!! It woulda been nice to get them all kinds of rolling stock INCLUDING the new cargo of cars, trucks, vans. My god it was a pretty sloppy clip to say the least. 😭😭

[@turbod1]

Back then, it was common practice to save film. We take that for granted with digital storage

[@muir8009]

I can't honestly believe you made the comment about half century old home footage. Wow: do you complain about black and white footage from 100 years ago not being in color too?

[@muir8009]

​@@turbod1 ​@turbod1 excellent video, really good footage. Lady at 27:56 - she seems to pop up in the footage here and there, I guess she was known to the cameraman? Pretty good camera quality: some could almost could be 35mm

[@turbod1]

That's the camera mans wife @@muir8009

[@grogi6760]

"Good GREIF"? If you're going to nitpick a 50 year old video, please remember I before E except after C.....