What a great selection! So much more colour than today, particularly on the boxcars. Some years ago I had a VHS video of American railfan films. Mostly Con-Rail, taken in a rail park at Horse Shoe Curve? Many locos front and rear to get up the grade. The noise was fantastic, growls and whines from the different classes. Sadly lost it in the ether somewhere. Watching this reminded me of it. Cheers! 😀😀😀
@@1jackdk You seemed to hit the sweet spot of the "🌈 Rainbow era" of Conrail with this video...Plenty of Black and Blue with those Penn Central units chugging up a storm lashed up to Blue Conrail units...I give this video a 💯
Amazing I stumble across this video ! I'm from New Jersey and as a kid my mother would take me down to the railroad tracks right there in Ridgefield Park where that footage was taken !!! 40 sum odd years later and the memories are flowing lol I was showing my 17 year old son telling the stories and he thought it was really cool :) Some great times growing up around there and those monsterous trains. I used to put pennies on the tracks and run as fast as I could.....scared with adrenaline LOL Thanks for the video ! God bless
LOL. Great memories, and a great time to be alive. I am SOOO Blessed that I had the opportunity to see, photograph, and video this stuff back then, then to be able to share it with everyone to jar their memories of a forgotten era. Thank my brother, for watching...
I do have a bunch of Super 8 videos, to include railroads, within the MA/NH/VT area, lost somewhere within my apartment. I want to contact a TN company (LegacyBox) and, get it all transferred to DVD as I don't remember all I have, as well, not have any of my tapes damaged. The era I once chased trains was from 1995-2000.
I do believe there is a fair number of former Conrail B23-7s still running. Finger Lakes Railway has 2 or 3 along with the West Tennessee Railroad to name a few.
General Electric's U25B was such a good engine that it drove EMD into building some of their finest locomotives. The only exception to that was EMD's answer to the U36-C and C36-7 - the disastrous SD50.
@@folkeklarstrom3668 For one thing, production was rushed, from what I've read (Wikipedia), so construction quality was poor. Engineers also complained it was a rough riding engine, and the engine itself, the SD40-2 prime mover, was not a good performer with the horsepower boost to 3500 horses. Pushing the power up to 3600 in later caused even more problems because, the rpm range, required to achieve that much horsepower, created vibration that loosened engine components and led to engine failure. It's wiring wasn't the best, either. It was said that the poor performance and reliability of the SD50 was a primary factor in General Electric gaining the top position in the American locomotive market. Read that CSX reworked their SD50s, lowering the horsepower rating back to that of the SD40-2. (3000hp) and the engines settled down and were good performers. I think CSX called them, "SD50-2s". EMD got it right with the SD60, though, but the hood unit version looked exactly like the 50 model.
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*What a privilege you had to be in those places!* 🎉
Lots of Tier negative-4 in that compilation Jack! 😂🤘🏻🇺🇸
Ahh that classic GE chugging noise.
Nothing like the sounds of those old GE's. Sure sounded great.
The first one had some soot, too.
The wheels on the tracks are the sounds of my childhood, it really brought me back. Thank You for that!
Your welcome. A whole different era back then. I for one, wish I could go back. Thanks for watching...
What a great selection! So much more colour than today, particularly on the boxcars. Some years ago I had a VHS video of American railfan films. Mostly Con-Rail, taken in a rail park at Horse Shoe Curve? Many locos front and rear to get up the grade. The noise was fantastic, growls and whines from the different classes. Sadly lost it in the ether somewhere. Watching this reminded me of it. Cheers! 😀😀😀
Anything Conrail in the 1970's and you already know you're in for a show 💯
Your not kidding. Great time for watching Conrail.
@@1jackdk You seemed to hit the sweet spot of the "🌈 Rainbow era" of Conrail with this video...Plenty of Black and Blue with those Penn Central units chugging up a storm lashed up to Blue Conrail units...I give this video a 💯
Nice and Refreshing 🚂🚂👍🏻🙏🏼Thanks
Amazing I stumble across this video ! I'm from New Jersey and as a kid my mother would take me down to the railroad tracks right there in Ridgefield Park where that footage was taken !!! 40 sum odd years later and the memories are flowing lol I was showing my 17 year old son telling the stories and he thought it was really cool :) Some great times growing up around there and those monsterous trains. I used to put pennies on the tracks and run as fast as I could.....scared with adrenaline LOL Thanks for the video ! God bless
LOL. Great memories, and a great time to be alive. I am SOOO Blessed that I had the opportunity to see, photograph, and video this stuff back then, then to be able to share it with everyone to jar their memories of a forgotten era. Thank my brother, for watching...
Classics!!! Thanks for another excellent look back at the colorful early post PC years on Conrail.
The Super 8mm sound was pretty darn good! Thanks for sharing!
Super outstanding video
Ahh the sound of them GE U series loco's those units had their own distinctive sound plus the click clack of jointed rail at speed!
Those where GREAT times, and to hear it on stick rail to boot. Thanks for watching.
Jogging my old memory here,,,,,,5:20 2501 was the second loco painted CR,, after 3091
Thanks for that video Jack. I totally enjoyed watching.
Thank you. Glad you enjoyed it.
Hello Jack, I enjoy this, thank you for posting.
Thank you Bob. Glad you enjoyed it, and thanks for watching.
Thanks Jack. It's been a hell of a week! This w just what I needed to relax abit.
Good deal. Glad it can ease you up. This week is going to be a heck of a week for me. Not looking forward to it. Thanks for watching.
Awesome, amazing footage as always! Thanks for posting. 👍
Thank you William, and thanks you for watching...
Nice 👍
Look at that!.. At 2:18 either the boxcar or covered hopper is literally on fire.. Maybe a hobo built a campfire on end of covered hopper?
your footage is lengenary
Thank you very much, and thanks for watching...
Fantastic video.
excellent, thanks, geoff..UK
Awesome Jack!!!
Thank you Jeff.
It would be neat to try and see if any of the specific locomotives caught in these films still exist today.
That would be interesting, and a lot of research. There has to be a few saved somewhere.
I do have a bunch of Super 8 videos, to include railroads, within the MA/NH/VT area, lost somewhere within my apartment. I want to contact a TN company (LegacyBox) and, get it all transferred to DVD as I don't remember all I have, as well, not have any of my tapes damaged. The era I once chased trains was from 1995-2000.
I do believe there is a fair number of former Conrail B23-7s still running. Finger Lakes Railway has 2 or 3 along with the West Tennessee Railroad to name a few.
Nice video! 👏
General Electric's U25B was such a good engine that it drove EMD into building some of their finest locomotives. The only exception to that was EMD's answer to the U36-C and C36-7 - the disastrous SD50.
What was the deal with the sd50?
@@folkeklarstrom3668 For one thing, production was rushed, from what I've read (Wikipedia), so construction quality was poor. Engineers also complained it was a rough riding engine, and the engine itself, the SD40-2 prime mover, was not a good performer with the horsepower boost to 3500 horses. Pushing the power up to 3600 in later caused even more problems because, the rpm range, required to achieve that much horsepower, created vibration that loosened engine components and led to engine failure. It's wiring wasn't the best, either. It was said that the poor performance and reliability of the SD50 was a primary factor in General Electric gaining the top position in the American locomotive market. Read that CSX reworked their SD50s, lowering the horsepower rating back to that of the SD40-2. (3000hp) and the engines settled down and were good performers. I think CSX called them, "SD50-2s".
EMD got it right with the SD60, though, but the hood unit version looked exactly like the 50 model.
@@folkeklarstrom3668It was super unreliable
I noticed that too. Conrail had got a lot of U25Bs from the Penn central and Erie when they were in their early years.
Adoro esse canal o melhor 👏👏👏
Thank you very much Ricardo... muito obrigado ricardo.
Great video!! ❤
Crew were fans of ge's around that area huh
Isn't it wonderful to see all those cars without any fricken graffiti? Says a LOT about America then and now!!
Kids today are disrespectful and don't give a darn
Best part of all besides the trains still using caboose’s? NO GRAFFITI