I lived on the west side of Cleveland until I was 10. I spent a lot - A LOT - of time down on the NYC and Pennsy railroad before the lift bridge was built. That's when they still had the turntable bridge across the Cuyahoga, and the switching shanties on both sides of the river. I watched as they were digging and pouring the foundations for this lift bridge. I see that the Huletts were still in operation when this video/film was taken. They are now long gone. Thanks for the memories.
The vertical lift in Cleveland was brand new and prominently featured in an episode of Rt.66 starring Martin Milner George Maharis and Nehemiah Persoff in the the early 1960's.
i spent many a night running from toledo going over CP Draw on my runs from toledo to buffalo or toledo to conway , i remember working whiskey island before it became a ghost town , i miss those days , or being stuck at the signal on the flatts side watching all the debauchery go down at 3 am
1984. The unions agreed in that year to reduce crew size on road trains from 4 or 5 men to two or three (depending on the amount of switching to be done en route), thus eliminating the need for cabooses. The technology for rear end devices and improved wayside detectors had already been developed at that point by Florida East Coast due to their long-lasting strike. Some states, like Minnesota and Virginia, enacted "full crew" laws to circumvent the agreements at the behest of the rail unions. In these states as well as Canada, cabooses didn't come off road trains until 1990-91.
I lived on the west side of Cleveland until I was 10. I spent a lot - A LOT - of time down on the NYC and Pennsy railroad before the lift bridge was built. That's when they still had the turntable bridge across the Cuyahoga, and the switching shanties on both sides of the river. I watched as they were digging and pouring the foundations for this lift bridge. I see that the Huletts were still in operation when this video/film was taken. They are now long gone. Thanks for the memories.
I worked the bridge from 1976 to 1980 the best block operator job.
The vertical lift in Cleveland was brand new and prominently featured in an episode of Rt.66 starring Martin Milner George Maharis and Nehemiah Persoff in the the early 1960's.
Pretty impressed at how well the ship maneuvers beginning at 13:00. That's a tight set of curves in the river.
Man I can almost smell the cool marine air, creosoted ties and diesel exhaust from the passing trains. What a great video!
I spent a lot of time as a kid in the 80s on my dad's sailboat in and around this area. Thanks for posting this video
i spent many a night running from toledo going over CP Draw on my runs from toledo to buffalo or toledo to conway , i remember working whiskey island before it became a ghost town , i miss those days , or being stuck at the signal on the flatts side watching all the debauchery go down at 3 am
Wow what great memories keep them coming
Awesome footage...takes me back to when I was kid.
AWESOME CATCH of CR #7670. Ex-Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines GP38.
Great video, thanks for sharing!
6:12 Noticed the Huletts working away in the background.
charles97th yes
Awesome shots of the bridge. Been to the area myself, I live in a nearby suburb.
Now known as cp drawbridge for NS great shots dude
too cool., I drive by two of those type sstructures at Little rock ark, been trying to catch one in action
Any clips of Livingston Ave Bridge (LAB Tower), Alb/Ren?
Cool video!!!!
So when did Conrail stop putting cabooses on the rear of their trains exactly?
1984. The unions agreed in that year to reduce crew size on road trains from 4 or 5 men to two or three (depending on the amount of switching to be done en route), thus eliminating the need for cabooses. The technology for rear end devices and improved wayside detectors had already been developed at that point by Florida East Coast due to their long-lasting strike. Some states, like Minnesota and Virginia, enacted "full crew" laws to circumvent the agreements at the behest of the rail unions. In these states as well as Canada, cabooses didn't come off road trains until 1990-91.
Sad that I was born in the 2000s and not the 80s