In spite of the dark cloud over railroading at that time of the 70's these images are truly endearing. All these fallen flag railroads as well as all the different types of motive power that you will never see in action again.
As a kid. Ill lived beside the CASO outside Tillsonburg🇨🇦. Seen all this stuff running from Detroit to the Falls(2tracks) Including Amtrak's Rainbow.Fitting name for what was happening with paint schemes then. Thanks for posting
Ah love these pictures. Lots of different paintschemes, patched engines and free from grafitti. Lots of history. This is why i love This period, that is almost all of the Conrail period. Thanks !
Love this. Thanks much. I spent a lot of time in Collingwood as a teenager, as my family was from there and grandparents live d there. I know this doesn’t sound safe today, but a lot of us kids used to play along these very same railroad tracks. I flattened out a lot of pennies and nickels along those lines and smooshed pebbles and rocks. The photos took me back. Thank you.
We were there in 1977, me & best friend Bruce. Took each other’s picture “engineering”a beat former Pennsy-CR F-7 in the Collinwood dead line. A trip around Republic steel & the B&O roundhouse, a few brews @ the Pirate’s Cove + a joint or three, made for a full afternoon of rail fan pleasure, back in the day!
Hey Mr. Zimmerman ; i just wanted to let you that i hope to see more video's and / or pictures like this sometime in the future when i scroll through You Tube ... This was quite Cool to see this Part One of how many parts i don't know , but look forward to come across in the future ... Awesome stuff Dude and brings back many memories of the trains passing by the Berea , Ohio location and also the trains passing by and under the old , black steel Denison Avenue bridge ( which is now long gone and has been replaced with a new concrete one with no steel upper superstructure ) located in between West 73rd Street & Ridge Road which i believe was the old Nickle Plate Railroad Line that would go from the Downtown Cleveland area and up to the Rockport Yard and then onto the track line that would go over by Berea and then continue on to the West towards the Chicago , Illinois yard i believe ... Thanks again and keep up the Good Work ! 😉👍
Loved seeing the Conrail calf #1014 at 9:09, footage of these calf’s in my opinion, from any Railroad is very rare. Great work. THANK YOU for sharing. 👍
Thanks for watching. Conrail 1011 was a slug, rebuilt from ex-PC / ex-NYC Alco RS11. Benefit of slugs is additional tractive effort at slow speeds, without the need for diesel motor and generator.
At 9:28 the track on the bottom left is the old Erie Lackawanna line. On the bottom right is the Rapid Transit line. In the distance is the West 98th and Detroit station. The track going over the bridges runs from Berea, Ohio, past the airport and across a lift bridge at the mouth of the Cuyahoga River and Lake Erie. and the to the Collinwood yard.
grew up in Cuyahoga Hghts with CSL in my back yard -- was 15 in 1976 My dad worked in the building just above the lead F-unit at 0:33 great memories -- thanks
The wood caboose, 19211 later was displayed at the NYCOL credit union a few miles east of the yard. Where it went after I'm not sure. My dad worked out of here for many years. He retired in 1976.
Hello Bob, I think I may know you from back in the day. I use to shot Photo's in Willowick and Collinwood yard. I was 16 at the time. Use to hang with a group some same age and some older that Loved Trains.
Mike, I don't think we crossed paths. I would take Amtrak from western NY, railfan for a day, then take the train home. I met a guy who would hang around the Amtrak station, who ended up driving me and friends to places we couldn't reach by public transit.
Sure, the trains are nice, but how about that Pacer woodie! Just kidding - great shots, and thanks so much for taking them and posting them. Still, that Pacer...
My dad gave me a Polaroid camera around 1967, then a 35mm camera a few years later. Penn Central ran Alcos and F-units on a branch about a mile from my home.
Compare the deteriorated condition of the track to the present track conditions. Conrail did well, and NS and CSX has maintained their portions of Conrail well.
how young are you. did you know that the NCY had the track in very good shape. Csx has not Maintained their Portions very well. Csx cant even tell you the last time they clean the ballast
Too bad Conrail didn't save a quartet of those F7s and FP7s they inherited, and painted them blue. They actually painted one F7 blue, but to my knowledge, it never received any logos, or striping. My guess is engines that old were worn out and not worth the investment. Chessie System did away with their cab units, also, without ever painting one in that striking yellow scheme.
@@bobzimmermann8993 You could buy a Bachmann Chessie System F7 in yellow, back in the 70s/80s, lol. I guess when people thought of trains, the cab units were most notable, so they were always in trainsets back then. They sold well.
This is depressing as hell. Shows how the PC was run into the ground. The equipment... the roadbed... all neglected for nearly a decade. The most cash-strapped shortline today has better maintained equipment than this.
I hired out in '77 with Conrail, the old B&A side. I don't remember it ever looking this bad. The whole yard and equipment looks like junk. Great pictures though.
In spite of the dark cloud over railroading at that time of the 70's these images are truly endearing. All these fallen flag railroads as well as all the different types of motive power that you will never see in action again.
Nice job, great photography and editing. The heydey of The big turnover!
As a kid. Ill lived beside the CASO outside Tillsonburg🇨🇦. Seen all this stuff running from Detroit to the Falls(2tracks) Including Amtrak's Rainbow.Fitting name for what was happening with paint schemes then. Thanks for posting
Thank you for posting these great pictures Bob!
Ah love these pictures. Lots of different paintschemes, patched engines and free from grafitti. Lots of history. This is why i love This period, that is almost all of the Conrail period. Thanks !
Awesome pictures ,,,,great for modeling pics
GREAT JOB, BOB!!!--- AS. USUAL!!!--- LOVED THE TRAINS AND ALL THE NOSTALGIA!!!
These photos are pricesless - thank you for sharing them!
Love this. Thanks much. I spent a lot of time in Collingwood as a teenager, as my family was from there and grandparents live d there. I know this doesn’t sound safe today, but a lot of us kids used to play along these very same railroad tracks. I flattened out a lot of pennies and nickels along those lines and smooshed pebbles and rocks. The photos took me back. Thank you.
I lived by the train tracks as a kid I saw a lot of Penn central and conrail trains go by thanks for sharing 🙂
Beautiful phots! So glad they have been digitized!
Worked for Conrail in Philadelphia from 1979 to 1973 at 44th Street, West Falls, Greenwich, Pavonia, Abrams yards and at 32nd Street offices
We were there in 1977, me & best friend Bruce. Took each other’s picture “engineering”a beat former Pennsy-CR F-7 in the Collinwood dead line. A trip around Republic steel & the B&O roundhouse,
a few brews @ the Pirate’s Cove + a joint or three, made for a full afternoon of rail fan pleasure, back in the day!
Hey Mr. Zimmerman ; i just wanted to let you that i hope to see more video's and / or pictures like this sometime in the future when i scroll through You Tube ... This was quite Cool to see this Part One of how many parts i don't know , but look forward to come across in the future ... Awesome stuff Dude and brings back many memories of the trains passing by the Berea , Ohio location and also the trains passing by and under the old , black steel Denison Avenue bridge ( which is now long gone and has been replaced with a new concrete one with no steel upper superstructure ) located in between West 73rd Street & Ridge Road which i believe was the old Nickle Plate Railroad Line that would go from the Downtown Cleveland area and up to the Rockport Yard and then onto the track line that would go over by Berea and then continue on to the West towards the Chicago , Illinois yard i believe ... Thanks again and keep up the Good Work ! 😉👍
I have a playlist called "photo slide shows."
My grandfather worked in this area back then. Great pictures!
Which area? Collinwood?
Loved seeing the Conrail calf #1014 at 9:09, footage of these calf’s in my opinion, from any Railroad is very rare. Great work. THANK YOU for sharing. 👍
Thanks for watching. Conrail 1011 was a slug, rebuilt from ex-PC / ex-NYC Alco RS11. Benefit of slugs is additional tractive effort at slow speeds, without the need for diesel motor and generator.
At 9:28 the track on the bottom left is the old Erie Lackawanna line. On the bottom right is the Rapid Transit line. In the distance is the West 98th and Detroit station. The track going over the bridges runs from Berea, Ohio, past the airport and across a lift bridge at the mouth of the Cuyahoga River and Lake Erie. and the to the Collinwood yard.
grew up in Cuyahoga Hghts with CSL in my back yard -- was 15 in 1976
My dad worked in the building just above the lead F-unit at 0:33
great memories -- thanks
Evocative,great sounds too,thanks,Geoff,UK
Thanks for watching, Geoff.
The wood caboose, 19211 later was displayed at the NYCOL credit union a few miles east of the yard. Where it went after I'm not sure. My dad worked out of here for many years. He retired in 1976.
There are some photos of 19211 on rrpicturearchives at Elkhart, IN.
A nice trip down memory lane, Bob. Back to when we'd have a Wednesday slide night
You might also like a recent one, Buffalo in the 1970's.
@@bobzimmermann8993 slide nights at Jim Dean's were always fun
Don't know which is more appropriate - colorful and eclectic mixes of power ... or a dog's breakfast of power.
Hello Bob, I think I may know you from back in the day. I use to shot Photo's in Willowick and Collinwood yard. I was 16 at the time. Use to hang with a group some same age and some older that Loved Trains.
Mike, I don't think we crossed paths. I would take Amtrak from western NY, railfan for a day, then take the train home. I met a guy who would hang around the Amtrak station, who ended up driving me and friends to places we couldn't reach by public transit.
Interesting to see the lack of graffiti that is so prevalent nowadays.
I wonder if they had graffiti back then but the railroads were more aggressive in removing it?
@@spider_hoss some certainly weren't more aggressive with locomotive appearances
I counted two pictured AMC PACERS in the video.
Sure, the trains are nice, but how about that Pacer woodie! Just kidding - great shots, and thanks so much for taking them and posting them. Still, that Pacer...
I enjoy sharing these photos. People find a car or something else that "speaks" to them besides just the trains.
As usual, CN Wet Noodle And Slash crushes them all
Missouri Pacific called their rebuilt RS3's "GP12's".
Head quarters of CRS railroad use anything that runs to the fleet as Conrail route shipping railroad
Wow! Looks like you’ve been a railfan for quite some time
My dad gave me a Polaroid camera around 1967, then a 35mm camera a few years later. Penn Central ran Alcos and F-units on a branch about a mile from my home.
Before everything was covered in graffiti. Thanks for sharing this was great 👍
like train
Compare the deteriorated condition of the track to the present track conditions. Conrail did well, and NS and CSX has maintained their portions of Conrail well.
how young are you. did you know that the NCY had the track in very good shape. Csx has not Maintained their Portions very well. Csx cant even tell you the last time they clean the ballast
did most of my train watching on Toledo west from 1976 to 1998. now conrail knew how to run a Rail road. the same thing can not be said about CSX
Too bad Conrail didn't save a quartet of those F7s and FP7s they inherited, and painted them blue. They actually painted one F7 blue, but to my knowledge, it never received any logos, or striping.
My guess is engines that old were worn out and not worth the investment.
Chessie System did away with their cab units, also, without ever painting one in that striking yellow scheme.
You can always dream...
@@bobzimmermann8993 You could buy a Bachmann Chessie System F7 in yellow, back in the 70s/80s, lol.
I guess when people thought of trains, the cab units were most notable, so they were always in trainsets back then. They sold well.
This is depressing as hell. Shows how the PC was run into the ground. The equipment... the roadbed... all neglected for nearly a decade. The most cash-strapped shortline today has better maintained equipment than this.
I hired out in '77 with Conrail, the old B&A side. I don't remember it ever looking this bad. The whole yard and equipment looks like junk. Great pictures though.