Steam Locomotives In Action on the Pennsylvania, 1954
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- Опубликовано: 22 июн 2010
- Trains and steam locomotives on the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1954. Photographed near Horseshoe Curve, just west of Altoona, PA. To purchase a DVD of this film for personal home use or educational use contact us at questions@archivesfarms.com. To license footage from this film visit: www.travelfilmarchive.com
Great thank you for this! Might've been me on there! Worked for Pr from 46to55 and reading from 55to79!!! I'm pushing 95 now! Was a steam train engineer and brakeman for many years!
I am a 70 year old woman and I have always wanted to be an engineer. My uncle was an engineer on the Monongahela RR. and once gave me a short ride in the engine.
I love watching these old steam locomotives!
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Thanks for sharing. I'm 77yrs old and I miss the Pennsylvania railroad. Great footage.
Amazing how that westbound grade out of Altoona could put locomotives like J-1s and Baldwin Centipedes down on their knees! Great footage.
just can't get enough of that chugging sound.
I have such a nostalgic feeling when watching videos of this era, like I feel I'd have been much more at home, or 'in step' had I lived during this time. Almost feels like a longing to go back to simpler time, even though I wasn't born until the 60's. Weird?
This is the ONLY video i have found on here with LIVE sound for the Pennsy... Great stuff!
This wonderful mouvie should be digitally remastered, if possible. Thanks for presentation
I was a frustrated kid living in Chicago. No steam after 1952
Thank you very very much! Dad was born in South Fork 1918. Relatives in Altoona & Johnstown PA. I remember visiting at horseshoe curve and the K4 displayed there- unforgetable.
I was just old enough to see and appreciate the wonderful engines. Dad would take me to Union Station in Columbus to witness these goliaths chug and steam through the yards.
I've been up to the curve a bunch of times and this is one of the most interesting videos I've seen of that place. Can't wait to get back up there.
I grew up in a very small town in that was then sandwiched between two railroad yards, the Southern Pacific, and the Public Belt R X R. Hearing 👂 the approaching trains brings me back in my memory.
memories I used to walk from 24th st. bridge in Altoona past the horseshoe hundreds of times hunting doves, pigeons , crows rabbits , phesants and woodcock along side that track. and if we were lucky we would catch a train home back to town but you had to be good jumping off going 25mph. I sure wish I could live it again
I am so lucky that my brother has these films.
wish i grew up with steam locos... those folks donno what gift they had :D
The I-1 decapod was really the first high horsepower non-articulated freight engine.
When new,I-1's could make 25mph, a speed adequate for drag freight in 1918. Most were modified in the late 1920's to attain 45 mph or so. The "crude" I-1's lasted till the end of Pennsy steam in 1958. Always warm and fuzzy to its'employees, a Pennsy PR photo of 1918 described the huge I-1 as "Suitable for hand firing." In practice, this meant two firemen much of the time. Some I-1's got stokers, many did not.