Great stuff as always! I love the footage from the western half of the Pittsburgh Line. The 321 signal bridge was just put in in that footage - you can see the 320 bridge in the distance minus its signals for a frame or two. I would love to see any more Pittsburgh Line stuff, especially from CONPIT west.
I was in the Orrville tower several times during the 70s and once in the McKinley tower. McKinley tower had a CTC machine then. Orrville had a different control system.
@@RailroadMediaArchive List is long, but I worked CP and AL Both in Alliance, I worked Minerva Yard, Piney Fork, Newton Falls, Berea , DB, OX Hudson Rave Warwick Stoneboro Pa, City tower in Monongahela Rickville in Mingo Jct, Bayard Yellow Creek, Midsteel in Midland Pa. 37 in all and 5 Dispatchers Desks for CR and NS
at 13.05 that is my brother Fred Barnett Jr handing up orders..He did it correctly by touching the first rail with his stick then getting it up high from the bottom of the hoop
@TrainsAreReallyCool They keep wittling away at it. My hope is some day, this line becomes a High Speed Passenger link as it's days as a major freight route are long over.
Is that the National Limited detouring through Marion? It ended service 10-1-1979. That would be one heck of a reroute for the Broadway. Both trains crossed Ohio at night, so it's definitely running very late.
@@wmuzeke Now that I look at it again I think you're right. Would have been rare mileage for sure. The only other time I know of Amtrak detouring through Marion was when one of the FWL Amtraks side-swiped a CSX train at Upper Sandusky and the other westbound detoured via Marion, turned north at Ridgeway to go to Toledo and then west. It was 1988 or 89.
@@RailroadMediaArchive I watched it again as well, and the consist of this train would be unusual for either the Broadway or the National Limited. There's no dining car or sleepers and by its end, the National Limited was mostly Amfleets and a single F40. I did a little digging and in Trains Magazine, May 1981, in the Arrivals/Departures section it mentions that for the holidays, the U.S. Army sponsored an Amtrak Military 'Christmas Special' train that ran between Fort Leonard Wood, MO and New York City and return. It mentions that the train was run the previous year (1979), too. I think this is that train. The time period of the footage looks to be about December for Central Ohio. It sold 610 seats and turned away 400. There wasn't a photo of it but for the number of coaches I see here, that's about right.
@@wmuzeke Yes, that special also ran in 1979. An article about the 1980 train said that the late famous rail mileage collector, Rogers E. M. (Frimbo) Whitaker was allowed to ride the special for the mileage. He died in May of 1980. He might have been on that train in the movie.
Locomotives with their road name painted over and "CR" stuck on them. Cold weather with snow all over the place. I wouldn't care if we didn't see that this year.
Terrific! Thanks for sharing!
Thoroughly enjoyed the video! Well shot, smartly edited and... the fabulous projector soundtrack!!
Sometimes I think Conrail does not get the respect it deserves. Thanks for posting!
18:00 to 19:38 is Mineral Point, PA between Johnstown and South Fork
Great stuff as always! I love the footage from the western half of the Pittsburgh Line. The 321 signal bridge was just put in in that footage - you can see the 320 bridge in the distance minus its signals for a frame or two. I would love to see any more Pittsburgh Line stuff, especially from CONPIT west.
Awesome Catches In 70's
Nice video
I was in the Orrville tower several times during the 70s and once in the McKinley tower. McKinley tower had a CTC machine then. Orrville had a different control system.
@@daleroth236 McKinley Tower controlled CP-Reed (named for the nearby suburb of Reedurban), the west end of the triple track through Canton.
@@RailroadMediaArchive I remember when TT 1 rear ended Mail 9 at CP Reed and Mark Trioeka was killed on TT 1 He was the engineer.
I remember those days well as an Operator on the Youngstown Div.
@@johnbarnett7092 Where did you work? Which towers?
@@RailroadMediaArchive List is long, but I worked CP and AL Both in Alliance, I worked Minerva Yard, Piney Fork, Newton Falls, Berea , DB, OX Hudson Rave Warwick Stoneboro Pa, City tower in Monongahela Rickville in Mingo Jct, Bayard Yellow Creek, Midsteel in Midland Pa. 37 in all and 5 Dispatchers Desks for CR and NS
@@RailroadMediaArchive McKinley Mace Fairhope Bayard Alliance Rave Hudson Warwick Yellow Creek and dozens more
Interesting to see a Santa Fe led train in this area.
Power shortage due to the cold weather..And also, it was Rule 251 territory No cab signals
at 13.05 that is my brother Fred Barnett Jr handing up orders..He did it correctly by touching the first rail with his stick then getting it up high from the bottom of the hoop
The final hurrah for the Fort Wayne Line west of Crestline!
It barely exists these days. The trackage east of Bucyrus is now getting single tracked by NS.
@TrainsAreReallyCool They keep wittling away at it. My hope is some day, this line becomes a High Speed Passenger link as it's days as a major freight route are long over.
Is that the National Limited detouring through Marion? It ended service 10-1-1979. That would be one heck of a reroute for the Broadway. Both trains crossed Ohio at night, so it's definitely running very late.
@@wmuzeke Now that I look at it again I think you're right. Would have been rare mileage for sure.
The only other time I know of Amtrak detouring through Marion was when one of the FWL Amtraks side-swiped a CSX train at Upper Sandusky and the other westbound detoured via Marion, turned north at Ridgeway to go to Toledo and then west. It was 1988 or 89.
@@RailroadMediaArchive I watched it again as well, and the consist of this train would be unusual for either the Broadway or the National Limited. There's no dining car or sleepers and by its end, the National Limited was mostly Amfleets and a single F40. I did a little digging and in Trains Magazine, May 1981, in the Arrivals/Departures section it mentions that for the holidays, the U.S. Army sponsored an Amtrak Military 'Christmas Special' train that ran between Fort Leonard Wood, MO and New York City and return. It mentions that the train was run the previous year (1979), too. I think this is that train. The time period of the footage looks to be about December for Central Ohio. It sold 610 seats and turned away 400. There wasn't a photo of it but for the number of coaches I see here, that's about right.
@@wmuzeke Yes, that special also ran in 1979. An article about the 1980 train said that the late famous rail mileage collector, Rogers E. M. (Frimbo) Whitaker was allowed to ride the special for the mileage. He died in May of 1980. He might have been on that train in the movie.
@@wmuzeke My guess is it is the Broadway Ltd on a Detour due to a derailment and not the National Ltd.
The video at 18:00 looks like Mineral Point.
@@jimkeener5040 Thanks!
Early Conrail: Cabooses, manned towers, many locomotives with their former road names and no graffiti.
First time I handed up orders I thought I was going to get hit
Lol
Locomotives with their road name painted over and "CR" stuck on them. Cold weather with snow all over the place. I wouldn't care if we didn't see that this year.
I wonder what kind of heavy industrial equipment that train was carrying in Canton, Ohio?
Yes someone will hopefully “weigh in” soon lol. 👍🏻
The one heavy load is definitely a power plant boiler, more than likely made by Babcock and Wilcox in Barberton, Ohio.
@@paulw.woodring7304 Boilers most likely out of Barberton Babcocks and Wilcox for sure going to Groton CT for US Navy