Railfanning the Upper Midwest in Film 50's & 60's

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  • Опубликовано: 29 окт 2024

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  • @paulbergen9114
    @paulbergen9114 3 года назад +6

    Was about to hit the sack when this blow out presentation pops up. The RDCs were fantastic as well as the DSSA RS1 set plus the glossy Huron Cement Laker. I especially enjoyed the MILW yard scenes brimming with activity the way it was growing up there. For 32 minutes all was well with the world again

  • @bobozo389
    @bobozo389 3 года назад +7

    This has to be one of the most awesome rail fan videos I have seen in a while. Of coarse, I've been in Michigan my whole 58 years!

  • @miker2002
    @miker2002 3 года назад +3

    This is incredible, from the time my Dad was just getting into railfanning and photography. Thank you for sharing!

  • @ottosaxo
    @ottosaxo 3 года назад +1

    That's a delight, showing engines in living pictures I haven't even seen in photos so far.

  • @chris928901
    @chris928901 3 года назад +8

    You have some of the best RR content on RUclips!

    • @fmnut
      @fmnut  3 года назад +3

      Thanks. Thanks also to the guys who originally shot this stuff and those who made it available for editing.

  • @vicodumb
    @vicodumb 3 года назад +10

    Who in the heck would give this footage a down vote? Just wonderful. Thank you.

    • @franks471
      @franks471 3 года назад +1

      it has to be a dislike bot. This is just historical video, no opinions. I mean, why search for it and watch it then? right?

  • @mathuetax
    @mathuetax 3 года назад +3

    10:47 Neat to see Saint Paul Union Depot!

  • @silurian9420
    @silurian9420 3 года назад

    Wonderful video when trains were trains - Many thanks for posting.

  • @ralfoide
    @ralfoide 2 года назад

    Thanks for taking the time to video edit and post this. Excellent dubbing makes a whole difference on an already amazing video content. All great stuff in there, from RDC, to RS, F Units, and even GTEL.

  • @YourPalAndrew
    @YourPalAndrew 3 года назад +2

    This may be the only DSS&A footage I've ever seen!

  • @handlzus7018
    @handlzus7018 3 года назад +1

    great video, variety of locales and railroads is outstanding.........

  • @iusetano
    @iusetano 3 года назад +3

    Fantastic!!! I loved watching this video. Thank you for sharing.

  • @erie910
    @erie910 2 года назад

    Great views! Nice to see the RS2's/RS3's.

  • @markthomas6436
    @markthomas6436 3 года назад +1

    Thanks for the nostalgia trip, Fmnut. Appreciate your efforts!

  • @anb740
    @anb740 3 года назад +7

    And the current younger crowd wonders why the rest of us don’t get overly excited over a consist full of widecab GEs. THIS is why! Great stuff of a bygone era. Can’t beat the “purr” of a Baldwin switcher throttling up!

    • @fmnut
      @fmnut  3 года назад +4

      This is why I have given up going out to railfan. Too many nosy neighbors ready to call the cops on you for "suspicious activity", too many hostile train crews that have been irritated by irresponsible foamers, too little variety in passing trains on the main line, a sterile wayside environment bereft of towers, stations, and distinctive signal systems, too many shortlines being gobbled up by shortline "empires" and losing their individuality in spirit and motive power. This is why I have dedicated my railfan time to seeking out material from the "golden age" and adding appropriate sound. I cannot abide old films set to 1940's swing music or ragtime, it just rubs me the wrong way.

    • @terryboyer1342
      @terryboyer1342 3 года назад +2

      @@fmnut And PSR sucks!

    • @fmnut
      @fmnut  3 года назад

      @@terryboyer1342 what is PSR?

    • @terryboyer1342
      @terryboyer1342 3 года назад

      @@fmnut Precision Scheduled Railroading. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precision_railroading

    • @fmnut
      @fmnut  3 года назад +1

      @@terryboyer1342 should have guessed that. Not Perimeter Surveillance Radar, Posthumous Sperm Retrieval, Psycho-Social Rehabilitation, Physicians for Social Responsibility,, or Panel Self Refresh. I agree, PSR sucks.

  • @patricknoveski6409
    @patricknoveski6409 3 года назад

    Fm, I can't believe the great clips you've got on here. The old Alco high hood. Now this. Amazing! Keep em coming.

  • @littlebitseaton2925
    @littlebitseaton2925 3 года назад +1

    Great video that brings back lots of memories.

  • @franciscampagna2711
    @franciscampagna2711 3 года назад +1

    Wow, just wow. I missed most of this. Thank you.

  • @crsrdash-840b5
    @crsrdash-840b5 2 года назад

    Love seeing those Alco, Fairbank Morse, Baldwin and cabooses on trains.

  • @renegadetenor
    @renegadetenor 3 года назад

    Best compilation ever...I just can't believe all the stuff I just barely missed by being born too late. I would trade my whole life, for one summer in the fifties.

  • @PhilThomasTrains
    @PhilThomasTrains 3 года назад +2

    Really enjoyed this from beginning to end. A superb variety of scenes there. Exemplary sound as well. Top job! :-)

    • @fmnut
      @fmnut  3 года назад +1

      As a fellow editor your comment means a lot. Thanks. The fast runbys are easy, I've got loads of sound clips for that. It's the slower moves or when the loco is drifting downgrade that are harder to match with appropriate sound. I'm just lucky I got out there to shoot all the rare power while it was still running. I sometimes cheat and use sounds from Europe and the UK when appropriate. A 158 can sound a lot like an RDC in the right conditions!

  • @christophergilbransen1373
    @christophergilbransen1373 3 года назад +1

    Spectacular upload! Thanks, I really enjoy your stuff

  • @tombarnes7196
    @tombarnes7196 3 года назад +3

    Fantastic!!!

  • @poodlesgalore2327
    @poodlesgalore2327 2 года назад

    Love the Detroit and Mackinac RR RS2 near the beginning. I used to wave at the engineer on #646 when I was a kid living in AuSable in the 1960’s.

  • @allegheny48
    @allegheny48 3 года назад

    An excellent potpourri of railroading in the upper Midwest. Good to see all the passenger trains and some steam. That triple stack lake boat shown at 1:32 might have been the Greater Detroit one of the largest and most luxurious passenger boats on the Great Lakes. Thanks for all your efforts and, as always, the added sound effects are spot on.

  • @AndreiTupolev
    @AndreiTupolev 3 года назад +1

    Detroit when it was still habitable... Glorious views of the Lakers, the train ferry and the passenger steamer, all looking clearly coal fired

  • @VojtovySumavskeVlakyCZ
    @VojtovySumavskeVlakyCZ 3 года назад +1

    Wonderful video like and subscribed from Czech Republic

  • @Robbi496
    @Robbi496 3 года назад

    Awesome stuff! I missed this because i was too young!

  • @johndonovan5752
    @johndonovan5752 3 года назад

    Thanks very much! I spent three years in Milwaukee, long after the North Shore had ceased operations.

  • @andyj74
    @andyj74 3 года назад +1

    Thanks for posting!!

  • @billtimmons7071
    @billtimmons7071 3 года назад

    EMD's without Blomberg trucks ... kinda rare. I love the sound editing on this. Nicely done.

    • @judpowell1756
      @judpowell1756 3 года назад +1

      ALco trade ins.......MOP had some too

    • @billtimmons7071
      @billtimmons7071 3 года назад

      @@judpowell1756 Cool ... thanks.

    • @fmnut
      @fmnut  3 года назад +1

      Yes, EMD offered a trade-in program specifically aimed at owners of Alco FA/FB type units for both models GP30 and GP35 that "recycled" the trucks. GM&O, Soo Line, MoPac and Southern all had Geeps on "Alco" (technically GSC swing bolster) trucks in addition to the Ann Arbor. Milwaukee also had "Alco" trucks under their GP30's, but they came from under Alco RS series units that had their trucks swapped for Blunt switcher trucks from retired S-2's.

  • @J3scribe
    @J3scribe 3 года назад

    That was epic! Seeing GTELs in Omaha was quite the treat, given that they were built for the Wasatch Range and Sherman Hill. The Burlington sure did know how to put on a show! Especially interesting was to see the Nebraska Zephyr tacked onto a consist of mixed passenger cars in Galesburg, IL. The NZ can be found today at the Illinois Railway Museum powered by E6A Silver Pilot.

  • @peterhanahoe4913
    @peterhanahoe4913 3 года назад

    Tremendous stuff, really enjoyed that.

  • @ook2763
    @ook2763 3 года назад

    Good that all this footage has been saved yet it deserves much better than just being put here without any explanatory comment or a vocal description of what is being shown here. Now this is just a number of short movies with no real beginning and no real end. I'd say this is a missed chance to describe this area much better!

    • @fmnut
      @fmnut  3 года назад

      I don't do narration, sorry. Many fans recognize the railroads, equipment and locations.

    • @ook2763
      @ook2763 3 года назад

      @@fmnut Thanks for your prompt reaction. I do hope you understand that I only dealt with what could have been made out of this footage, nothing personal.

  • @tracyriddle2010
    @tracyriddle2010 6 месяцев назад

    Excellent!

  • @williamroot3827
    @williamroot3827 3 года назад

    Unbelievable!! That is the only depiction of the Detroit and Macinac passenger train I've ever seen anywhere. The South Shore "Shoreliner" RDC #500, In its short Ishpeming to St Ignace service is beyond rare.

    • @fmnut
      @fmnut  3 года назад

      Not to mention the Missabe RDC, also very rare on film.

  • @petemiksich5760
    @petemiksich5760 3 года назад

    The Milwaukee liked their C-Liners. They even dressed them up for the ball.

  • @lakesuperiorvideos
    @lakesuperiorvideos 3 года назад

    Great Collection and editing

  • @HoosierDaddy_
    @HoosierDaddy_ 3 года назад

    Very good!

  • @johnsobaszko1700
    @johnsobaszko1700 3 года назад

    Loved the DSS&A along Lake Superior.

    • @fmnut
      @fmnut  3 года назад

      See my DSS&A LS&I Marquette video for more scenes of the area.

    • @TucsonBillD
      @TucsonBillD 3 года назад

      I spent a year in Marquette back in 1967-1968. It’s all gone now (except for what’s left of the LS&I).

    • @fmnut
      @fmnut  3 года назад

      @@TucsonBillD The UP of Michigan was one of my favorite places to railfan, especially the Marquette-Ishpeming-Escanaba triangle. I'm glad I was able to document the remaining rail activity in the 80's and 90's before the bottom dropped out.

  • @AndreiTupolev
    @AndreiTupolev 3 года назад

    And at the end: street running with electric hauled freights? How awesome.

  • @frankely6378
    @frankely6378 3 года назад

    Love all of the turbines. Just be careful where you park them. Rumor has it they melted the asphalt on more than one overpass.

  • @derrickwong5337
    @derrickwong5337 3 года назад

    This is amazing!

    • @cartersol38
      @cartersol38 3 года назад +1

      Such great footage! Thank you for sharing the memories.

    • @derrickwong5337
      @derrickwong5337 3 года назад

      @@cartersol38 You're welcome 😁!

  • @xfiles-thetruthisoutthere8038
    @xfiles-thetruthisoutthere8038 3 года назад

    AMAZING ! 👽

  • @rearspeaker6364
    @rearspeaker6364 3 года назад

    that was the fastest baldwin road switcher i ever seen!! that explains the EMD repowering- that poor engine died right after filming this.

  • @leehuff2330
    @leehuff2330 3 года назад +1

    4:35. Those Ann Arbor geeps riding on Alco type B trucks.

    • @fmnut
      @fmnut  3 года назад +1

      Yes, EMD offered a trade-in program specifically aimed at owners of Alco FA/FB type units for both models GP30 and GP35 that "recycled" the trucks. GM&O, Soo Line, and Southern all had Geeps on "Alco" (technically GSC swing bolster) trucks in addition to the Ann Arbor. Milwaukee also had "Alco" trucks under their GP30's, but they came from under Alco RS series units that had their trucks swapped for Blunt switcher trucks from retired S-2's.

  • @judpowell1756
    @judpowell1756 3 года назад +1

    26:50 Chicago North Shore & Milwaukee interurban at South Upton IL

  • @dougonodera8764
    @dougonodera8764 3 года назад

    Wow: Electroliners, Zephyrs, and a street-running Little Joe! How cool is that?! Thanks so much!

  • @baldwinfairbanks8630
    @baldwinfairbanks8630 3 года назад

    At 24:41 FP7 97C eventually came to the Maryland Midland for use on their excursion trains before going to Steamtown.

  • @warriorstar2517
    @warriorstar2517 3 года назад +8

    Was this film shot with sound or was it all edited in at some point? Either way, it's a stellar specimen of years gone by.

    • @fmnut
      @fmnut  3 года назад +7

      Film was silent, sound added in. Thanks

    • @pattym9182
      @pattym9182 3 года назад

      @@fmnut So wait, was the sound for these recorded separately? I know SOME cameras could record both video and sound back then, just usually on 2 different mediums that had 2 different machines (for lack of a better word at the moment) for playing them and you had to manually synchronize them when watching. Or did you actually grab sound from other videos and match them up to each train? Either way, this is LOVELY to watch.

    • @fmnut
      @fmnut  3 года назад

      @@pattym9182 None of the sound was recorded simultaneously with the filming. All of the sounds were dubbed in from various sources, such as my own videos, old VHS tapes, digital sound effects and the excellent Arkay records of various diesel sounds.

  • @fisherbridgeproductions
    @fisherbridgeproductions 3 года назад

    Nice 👍

  • @judpowell1756
    @judpowell1756 3 года назад

    EMD GP 35's with trade in Alco AAR type B trucks at 4:22

  • @deprecatedme
    @deprecatedme 9 месяцев назад

    Has anyone asked about the PINK passenger car on the NYC train at Englewood at 28:60 yet? 😆

    • @fmnut
      @fmnut  9 месяцев назад +1

      It's a through sleeper off the RI/SP Golden State train. The original bright red is a bit faded and the film color shifted, so it looks a bit pink.

  • @broncodaddy46507
    @broncodaddy46507 3 года назад

    I used to work at the prison in Michigan City

  • @nancyhaun
    @nancyhaun 3 года назад

    Wonderful! Wonder if the Saginaw Depot is still there?

    • @fmnut
      @fmnut  3 года назад

      Yes, derelict and boarded up, just like a lot of the rest of the city.

    • @nancyhaun
      @nancyhaun 3 года назад

      @@fmnut Sorry to hear that!

    • @terryboyer1342
      @terryboyer1342 3 года назад +1

      @@fmnut Ain't that the truth. I'm from Saginaw. Used to be a great place to live.

    • @danielward7230
      @danielward7230 3 года назад +1

      The yard in Saginaw is now the home of the Lake State Railway, selected as short line railroad of the year 2018, by Railway Age.

    • @terryboyer1342
      @terryboyer1342 3 года назад

      @@danielward7230 LSR is a great short line. But I sure miss the C&O!

  • @OnlyTheEd
    @OnlyTheEd 3 года назад

    That "Shovelnose" looks like "Rocketeer's" helmet.......in comics of old......

    • @fmnut
      @fmnut  3 года назад +1

      Both are products of 1930's styling, so the similarities are not surprising.

  • @Keikdv
    @Keikdv 3 года назад

    what was the set of coaches after 20:45 ? 1 wheelset supporting 2 coaches. Did it belong to the power unit at 21:47?

    • @fmnut
      @fmnut  3 года назад

      The articulated trainset is the Nebraska Zephyr set. It was originally pulled by a shovelnose single unit. In later years, it was coupled behind conventional equipment hauled by standard diesels. It is preserved at the Illinois Railway Museum along with a stainless steel E5 for power as the original power car was long since scrapped. Here's a video of the preserved set on tour: ruclips.net/video/1xIlMVLxaNY/видео.html The unit at 21:47 is the power car for the General Pershing Zephyr, which had conventional non-articulated cars. In later years it was separated from its coaches (which were retired) and used on secondary runs as it was underpowered for the heavier cars that came into use. It is preserved at the Museum of Transportation in St Louis, MO.

  • @Martin98Baumann
    @Martin98Baumann 3 года назад

    Excellent collection. What is the passenger car at 28:55 ? Looks like an experimental of some sort?

    • @fmnut
      @fmnut  3 года назад

      It's not experimental. It's a 4-4-2 Pullman sleeper from one of the western roads on a run through to/from the east coast. I can't identify the paint scheme, maybe someone else can help. The little windows above the main windows are peekouts for upper berth passengers.

  • @SamLovesTrains
    @SamLovesTrains 3 года назад

    How do you find these clips on eBay?

    • @fmnut
      @fmnut  3 года назад

      I buy the original film, then do a digital transfer. Search for 8mm or Super 8

  • @judpowell1756
    @judpowell1756 3 года назад

    articulated Zephyr train set at 20:50

  • @judpowell1756
    @judpowell1756 3 года назад

    24:16 Fairbanks Morse C-Liner B unit

  • @Pensyfan19
    @Pensyfan19 3 года назад

    Absolutely amazing footage! Is that a mixed train at 7:47, and if so, what railroad is it for? Also, is that a C&O Budd RDC at 6:26?

    • @fmnut
      @fmnut  3 года назад +1

      7:47 Not a mixed train, it shows MW camp cars attached to the rear of a regular freight. The RDC at 6:26 is the Duluth South Shore & Atlantic's sole example. It ran from Ishpeming to St. Ignace & return, but patronage was low so the train was discontinued and the car sold to Canadian Pacific.

    • @Pensyfan19
      @Pensyfan19 3 года назад

      @@fmnut Ok. Thank you for the history!

  • @Martin98Baumann
    @Martin98Baumann 3 года назад

    I asked the passenger car group at io: It is a ROCK ISLAND Golden State Car possibly Golden Dial

    • @fmnut
      @fmnut  3 года назад

      Yes! That just clicked in my memory. Thank you!

  • @iB0WL
    @iB0WL 3 года назад

    Who's footage was used during the Duluth segment? I want to see more of that! Long live the DMIR!!

    • @fmnut
      @fmnut  3 года назад

      The Missabe RDC was on a longer clip from the Prelinger Archives, original filmer not credited. It was very dark, I had to do a lot of software magic to make it watchable. The remainder not seen here will be the subject of a forthcoming production.

  • @ryanfrogz
    @ryanfrogz 3 года назад

    Do you have any other old footage from the St. Paul area?

    • @fmnut
      @fmnut  3 года назад

      See my Twin Cities to the Northwest video.

  • @veronicaramos8542
    @veronicaramos8542 Год назад

    Me waiting for the emd f3 to show up:

  • @OnlyTheEd
    @OnlyTheEd 3 года назад

    Ahhhh UP gas/turbines......well.....at least one of them......

  • @TweezersUnlimited
    @TweezersUnlimited 3 года назад

    18:57 11:41 23:30

  • @jdriley24
    @jdriley24 3 года назад

    1st thought: cool, old trains and cars!
    2nd thought: lots of pollution

    • @franks471
      @franks471 3 года назад

      3rd thought: character :)

  • @andyharman3022
    @andyharman3022 2 года назад

    So that's what trains looked like before they got covered in graffiti. A reminder from the past, when people took pride in their country.