Maybrook and Lehighton
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- Опубликовано: 22 май 2024
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Two film clips too short for their own video, but I couldn't get away without sharing. Footage from two interchange gateway railroad towns in the northeast: Maybrook, NY (L&HR/EL/NH) and Lehighton, PA (LV/CNJ). Features Alcos and kicking cabooses and cars in the yard. These may not have been taken in the same year, but guessing 1968-71 on the date.
Thanks for posting, this has everything I love and miss about railroading, Alcos, cabooses, graffiti free freight cars, old time switch stands, long gone fallen flag lines!
Outstanding color film ... much better than early video tape!
Incredible historical footage!
1:54 Just casually kickin' that caboose lol
Now, THIS was railroading!!! Excellent job, and THANK YOU!!!
Wow! Brings back good memories! Thank you for sharing!!!
The footage with Quakertown & Eastern #4 would have been from one of several excursions in 1969 and 1970.
The shots at Lehighton have to be between 67 and 71. The ex-B&O SD40 leading the CNJ westbound is the giveaway. Those were delivered to the B&O in 1967. The CNJ pulled out of Pennsylvania in March of 1972, so with these scenes being in summer, it limits it to 1971.
No graffities!
Outstanding
That’s when the New Haven still used the Poughkeepsie bridge to connect to the maybrook yard before the bridge fire in 1974 which was the demise of it all. I grew up near Hopewell junction in New York were the Maybrook line went through. A lot of the tracks are still there. My brother is an engineer for Metro North. He told me the tracks are owned by them. They use the yard in hopewell to teach guys how to use hi rail truck equipment.
I would say closer to 66-67 timeframe, no ACL labels in sight.
thanks ! that must be very rare footage, i don't think i have seen any videos before from Maybrook.
Yes indeed!! Was great seeing the old road colors!!
Yes! I still remember the article in a popular magazine about railroad, well before theYear 2000, (mid 1980's?), titled: "Visit to a Ghost Yard, Maybrook, NY." This article showed a lot of photos from how the Maybrook, NY appeared not long after the Poughkeepsie bridge fire of May 8th, 1974. (I visited both ends of this bridge way back it became the Walkway over the Hudson.
I was enroute from Hudson, NY, after visiting the location of the bar scene (also in front the location of the street running tracks), the location where the late Paul Newman and Bruce Willis met, in the movie "Nobody's Fool."
(Enroute south I passed by the Cornelius Vanderbilt mansion.)
I like that curved diamond you show in the video. It kind of helps me piece together the history here. Thank you so much! (Diamonds are supposedly hated by many railroads. I would assume today that the diamond be replaced with crossover switches, like that in Framingham, MA, from its past.)
Thanks so much for another video in this series. Not only do I enjoy watching trains from this era as a railfan, but also as a model railroader. My layout is set in 1962 and the shots of the freight cars in these old movies is great reference material. I'm particularly happy that they validate my memories of there being lots of cars with only "light" and "subtle" weathering due to Mother Nature. Cheers from Wisconsin!
Ah yes, I miss the old times and hope I can see them despite me not born within that era. I wanna ask, permission to reupload one of your videos?
Super. 💙 T.E.N.
I work in a medium where sound is front and center. It pains me not to have it here. It’s like an incomplete story.
Super 8 sound film was not around until the mid 70s.
@@RailroadMediaArchiveI respect it, the fact that the inclusion of sound was not present back then.