"Jay Winn: 75 Years A Railfan"
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- Опубликовано: 10 сен 2024
- Jay Winn's been a railfan since the late 1940's when his grandfather began taking him to Utica NY's Union Station to watch New York Central passenger and freight trains. He's written numerous books on his trackside adventures (sometimes misadventures). Jay also built/repaired model trains for many years and had a great interest in recording railroad sounds and collecting recordings from other rail enthusiasts.
This led him to start a business of selling railroad audio CDs. He's sold many thousands of CDs worldwide. His business, vintagerailroadaudio.com, has now been transferred to Kenneth Gear (gearken@yahoo.com).
In this video, Jay talks about "Building Model Trains & Railroad Sound Recordings" (2:41), "Early Videography, Hoosac Tunnel Intro & An Encounter with the Utica PD" (9:33), "The Delaware & Hudson" (16:38), "New York Central/Penn Central" (32:25), "Boston & Maine's Hoosac Tunnel" (54:13), "Old School Detraining, Okeechobee, Fla, Seaboard Coast Line" (1:12:36), "The New York, Ontario & Western" (1:15:35), "The Erie-Lackawanna: 'We're NOT Stopping On This Grade!" (1:23:39), "Central New York Railroad's Richfield Springs Line" (1:29:24), "Concluding Thoughts" (1:34:22), "Audio of the Central NY Railroad East of West Winfield NY 1978" (1:37:56) and "Audio of a northbound 2-8-2 Steam Locomotive on Big Moose Hill, New York Central's Adirondack Division 1950's" (1:40:15).
Check out Jay's RUclips Channel: / @jaywinn481
Jay's books are all highly recommended and are available at very reasonable prices on Amazon. They include: "Utica Railroads 1950-2010", "Delaware & Hudson Railway: Beware of Sharks", "Grandfather, Oneonta & Me [D&H stories]", "Trackside Tales", "Oneonta, The Delaware & Hudson & Me", "50 Years Ago, A Look Back At Two Great Railroad Towns", "In Search of Historic Railroad Sound". and "InSites: Lessons From 40 Years on the Front Lines" (highly interesting tales of his experiences as a project manager of a well-known engineering firm including work on nuclear sub facilities).
Awesome. Thanks to all involved in this excellent, fascinating video. Really interesting stuff.
When covid hit I stumbled on Jay's channel and spent a few days watching his stuff. He has great stuff on his channel!
Excellent video. Too much of this sort of verbal history and firsthand accounts are slipping away, glad you were able to record some
Love Mr Js Conrail stuff.
Big fan!
This video is really good. I had an incident with my grandfather and we almost got hit by amtrak 706 train going 80 mph around a corner
Excellent informative video which was fascinating to hear Jay’s stories about railroads in the 50s ,60s,70s . I hope you can interview him again. I am in the UK and remember steam trains when they were in regular service and Diesels were rarely seen in my home town until the late 60s.👍🇬🇧😁😁😁😁🚂
So glad you enjoyed the video & commented on it! I think Jay will be up for another interview. He's got many more interesting stories...like the time he was accused of industrial espionage while at a locomotive manufacturing site!
@@railroadingrambler218 I hope so I will be watching it for sure
Great video, very informative, thanks ! Are there any old maps somewhere showing where the O&W tracks were around the New Hartford area ?
Great Job Jay!
*_I really enjoyed ! Thank you I'm from The Queen Village_*
I'm glad to have a viewer from Camden! Thanks for commenting.
Great stories.
Always awesome to hear the stories! Great video
Thanks, this was a blast to do!
@@railroadingrambler218 Your welcome and that's good to hear.
Very well done. Have to catch these people now before they pass away.
Swing by sometime and do video of the Richfield Branch today as the Richfield Springs Scenic Railway
Just want to say that this is really good stuff! I had no idea about any of this going on in my hometown area. And one more thing if you’re really pulling this off with that tiny little video camera, then I want to nominate you for an Academy award in cinematography.
First, glad you enjoyed the video! Jay's a great guy and I'm very pleased he went along with my idea to be interviewed although I do think he was a bit wary about doing so at first. Secondly, thanks for nominating me, when's the ceremony? Lol. Yes, I used that small camcorder throughout the interview. I've had it a few years now. My late brother, William, gave it to me. It works very nicely!
Never had any close calls while filming yet.
The reason why I decided to model the Southern Tier from 1992-2009 was because after 2009 everything became the same. The Dash 9 took over and all the SD40-2s and such became local power only.
Thanks for this - it’s great! Does Jay’s book have photos or is it all text?
Also, Jay’s painting of the model Sharks was discussed, with photos, in Railfan magazine back in ‘75 or so. I still have that issue, but it’s in storage ‘til spring of 2024.
Jay's books, while excellent, contain very few photographs. They're all great reads. I especially recommend "Trackside Tales" and "Utica Railroads 1950-2010". They're very reasonably priced and are available on Amazon.