Penn Central Volume-6
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- Опубликовано: 4 авг 2010
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Long after the Consolidated Rail Corporation, Conrail for short, absorbed the Penn Central and six other railroads in the Northeast on April 1, 1976, many locomotives continued to ply the rails in Brunswick Green paint, or in the paint schemes of the Erie Lackawanna, Reading, Lehigh Valley, or other roads.
Even as newly painted blue Conrail locomotives appeared here and there, the old power still held sway on the high iron, often with dark flanks after the Penn Central name had been painted over and with the "CR" initials stenciled on the nose where the interlocking PC emblem had once been.
Freight equipment went thorough a similar metamorphoses, as the newer cars were slowly repainted and the older rolling stock was replaced. This, then, is a very large railroad in transition, as Emery Gulash filmed the fading Penn Central giant during the late 1970s.
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Those Turbo-liners still look modern today.
Factory-fresh Amtrak Turboliners at 0:13 , 1:20 , and 4:40 . Gotta love them Turbos!!
Those Amtrak turbo-trains were nice. I remember riding on them when I was a kid in the 70's and early 80's. Certainly better than the cheesy "Amfleet" equipment they use today.
I wish Amtrak would've done for the Turboliners what they did the Metroliner sets. Order cars inspired by the Turboliner cars.
they look nice
Why amtrak stopped using them?
This is inspiring my next Trainz project, Alliance-Cleveland main line.
3091 was the first blue cr engine, and also the first blue engine i saw. i saw it in may,1976, carlisle,ohio.
The shot of the New Portage Branch is an interesting shot. Not too many scenes from there.
Ah, I remember this era well! I was a kid, growing up across the Ohio River from the Conway to Mingo Junction "River Line", a large part of which is the Pittsburgh to Cleveland main line. I remember the old Alcos hauling coal and iron ore trains for the steel mills which once thrived in the region.
I don't know when they paid off their debts, but I believe CR started to make money in 1981, after the passing of the Staggers Railroad Act of 1980.
@FastFlyingVirginian The narration is wrong. It says it's on the New Portage Branch when the train is dropping down into the New Portage Tunnel.
Till about the mid 80's, could be wrong, but I think CR paid the last debts and starting making money in 83' or so, give or take a year.
Poor MC station.....