NYC NKP Cuyahoga River Tour 1956 NRHS Convention
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- Опубликовано: 5 окт 2024
- For the fan of the Industrial 1950s this film has just about everything. This river tour was part of the 1956 NRHS Convention, at arguably the height of Cleveland's industrial might. It depicts a maze of high viaducts, lift bridges, railroads, steel mills and other facilities, traversed by steam powered ore boats and self unloaders. Also note the unusual Hulett unloaders with the open frame booms rather than the more conventional riveted beams. Enjoy the video!
Amazing: big ships, trains and the river. All surging along at a time when American industry was the standard of the world!
Watching this was like being there again! I enjoyed seeing all the different steamship companies represented here by the various ore boats, the sight of the NKP Berkshire leading a freight west over the river, and being reminded of the many different kinds of bridges. BTW, the river stunk so bad at that time that it made one want to gag, especially by the Linseed Oil works of Sherwin Williams. Frankly, I loved the old Flats, where only sailors, steel workers, railroaders, truck drivers and factory workers could be found. No fancy-pants restaurants, sports bars, or music venues, or even women, in those days! But then again, those old days aren't coming back. What an enjoyable film; I liked every minute. Thanks!
Yeah the flats in those days were no joke
Something about the shape of the locomotive makes me think it’s a Mikado at a distance.
Isn't this the river that caught on fire?
@@uwlwsrpm Yes it is. You're thinking of the famous 1969 fire that was a few miles up river in a very industrial area. But the river caught fire a number of times in the 19th century because the oil industry in Cleveland threw its wastes into it. A thing of the past now, thank goodness.
You’ve got some real gems on your channel but this one is phenomenal! I could watch hundreds of hours of this.
At 0:42 looking north to the mouth of the Cuyahoga. The New York Central lift bridge is under construction with the gauntlet swing bridge below still in use.
3:26 quick glimpse of a single Aerotrain car (silver and orange) on the Union Terminal repair tracks along Canal Road.
Great stuff shown in this film! Thanks.
Wow, didn't catch that Aerotrain car, even through the editing process. Good catch! Thanks for watching.
So this is where it all started at the Flats back then, interesting and mysterious. 😲
Very enjoyable! Masterful job adding in the sounds as well!
Fantastic stuff, and a great job on putting it together.
Very cool video!
Amazing video. Great looking Lake Boats up and down the river.
Fantastic video, very interesting. At that time I was three years old.
Great look back!
It was like a model train layout trains everywhere
Great video
Very awesome. Thanks for uploading this piece of history.
Great stuff, thanks for sharing!
Awesome, thanks for sharing 👍
Super rare footage!! Thanks!
thats pretty amazing film footage, I imagine all of that has now vanashed into oblivion, thanks for showing
Not everything is gone, but it is radically different than the film. Most of the bridges are still there as well as the steel mills and the Terminal Tower and Commerce buildings. The vessels shown are long since scrap, as are the locomotives and trains.
You can still make out Nickel Plate Road on that bridge today
@@jackpetrof9460 wow
@@fmnut cheers very interesting
Thanks so much for posting this. As a kid growing up in that era we often drove from Conneaut to Lakewood to visit grandparents. Back then Rt. 20 was the way to go and it took you alongside the lakefront and over the mouth of the Cuyahoga. Seeing those old lake boats, early model Huletts along with the NKP Mikado powered steam freight was memorable. I would bet that the rusty color of the excursion boats hulls was caused by the river's pollution. Did you add any of the sounds? Thanks again for all your efforts.
All sounds were dubbed in. Thanks for watching.
excellent
At 1:10, the WAN-EL -- why does that stir some faint memory? I would only have been five years old when in 1956, and didn't work my first lake boat until the '70's. Was it a tour boat that I might have once been taken on? Or was it later used as a fishing boat for the public? Or was it a bum-boat that came to sell necessities (i.e., alcohol) to us ore-boat sailors?
On another tack, what might have been the make and model of the blue car appearing in the first few seconds? Seems to have an awfully long hood for a '50.s car.
Lastly, there was nothing like the acrid, sulfurous, eye-stinging stench of steel-making that hung in the Flats' air then, especially coming into port after days of fresh air on the lakes, and at night, with all the lights and roar and glow of fires against and inky-black sky, it was Dante-esque. Weirdly, I think I miss it.
Nice 👍
Amazing stuff, but was that a crocodile at 1:50: 😳
Probably just a tree limb or other debris. The Cuyahoga was not known for its pristine waters.
An Algoma central ferry wow
Not a ferry, an ore boat.
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was that 765?
No idea. At that distance the number isn't readable without magnification.
That was an NKP H6 Mikado with a LIMA built 22,000 gallon tender. You can clearly see the single axle Delta trailing truck underneath the cab. At that time she would have been assigned to local freights though I did not see a caboose (rider car) behind the tender.