My grandfather was an engineer on the Erie line. I remember the day when he told us at the dinner table they were getting rid of the Caboose. He was furious, for he did all his drinking and gambling in the caboose.
I had a great uncle. He was a conductor on the southern railway. It was his office and home while at work. If he were alive today he would be furious. Sometimes cutting a mans job is not progress.
My father worked for Sante Fe in the yards and he had a pass for the family. My mom, brother and I would ride in a passenger car that was in front of the mail car with the caboose last. We would take a lunch and travel from Barstow CA to Richmond CA to visit my mom's mom, my grandma. The workmen in the caboose would come and visit with us. We would travel all night until our destination. Very wonderful memories.
I remember when Norfolk western and southern quit pulling a caboose. That was about 10 years old somewhere in the mid 80s I remember my dad tell me they wouldn't be no more
Nice compilation of cabooses. I remember when they still were on back of a train. Miss them a lot. Now they have these things called FREDS. Not the same.
I love cabooses ... I was lucky enough to travel within 3 different cabooses in 3 different times here in Brazil ... Thanks for share! ;) ... If you have more, please tell me the link! ,,, Cheers ...
Thanks. Good stuff and it brings back those days when I was a brakeman for the now gone SP. I noted the lack of marred rolling stock, i.e., graffiti, and when new cars/pick ups were once shipped without any protection that we see today.
That was definitely worth "giving it a whirl" for those of us who remember cabooses! As a PC fan I appreciated all of the jade green Penn Central cabooses and cabin cars! Many thanks!
Looks like another winner! Love seeing pre-Conrail and Conrail era films. And you were lucky enough to have sound on them (that was a big deal in the Super-8 days). Thanks for sharing.
Hello Jack, How on earth could no one enjoy this? This was fantastic! Loved the cabooses (and want to see them come back). EL used to go through Washingtonville, NY where I live. If I was alive, that would've been a treat to see. This brought back memories of what that could be like. Such a joy to watch your videos Jack. God bless. -Don
Thanks for the memories of the EL. I started my rr career as a towerman and retired as a conductor from NJT. Observed many a freight train from the different towers that I was qualified at, always gave the hind end the proceed wave with the lantern at night. Trains were operating over the NJ cutoff.
Seguro que fue un icono. Echo de menos aquellos días de la ferrocarriles. Muchas gracias por su observación.Sure was an icon. I miss those days of the railroading. Thank you very much for your watching.
Jack, Thank you so much for posting this video, a great modeling tool when you are doing a project with pre-conrail northeast cabooses, the E-L bay window caboose with high speeds, sweet, thank you again and God Bless you also.
Thanks forthe postings, i very mutch enjoyed whatching your videos of my favorite locomotives and cars in the eara of the 1970s ,a treasure of color film indeed. 👍
Jack you just keep hitting them out of the park! Great video Alcos, GE's, EMD'S, GG1'S, fallen flag boxcars AND CABOOSES WOW!! One of my favorites is the Southern Pacific bay window caboose near the end. Thanks again and have a blessed Labor Day weekend, - Balerio
Thank you Balerio. I figured I'd give the caboose thing a try. If its a big hit, I may put another together of N&W cabbose I got down on the N&W/NS Poky Division. Thanks again for watching, and you have a blessed Labor Day as well.
Thanks for posting this nostalgic video. Brings back memories of teen years when a cordial local PRR crew let me take several rides up a branch line in N5 and N5c cabin cars back in the 1960s.
Damn! Lucky shot catching the CNW waycar in red. Grew up on the Twin Cities " Muscle Line" 25 miles from CPT according to the mileposts and it seemed like in 72 or 73 orders came down to paint them all and it seemed as if all but a few stragglers survived in red to the mass rebuilding in 80.
A lot of railroading from a bygone era. Be glad you caught what you did. I am. Loved seeing the blue Rock Island hopper as it was a fresh paint or new, and all the other fallen flags.
I am thrilled, and blessed to catch what I did. It sure is neat seeing all the old stuff still running. 40' box cars, ice hatch refers, and all. Sure do miss those days. Oh yah!!! No graffiti! Thanks for watching...
Never know what you will see taked on the rear back in those days. It was just as exciting seeing the head end, as it was the rear end. Thanks for watching...
Jack thanks for this video, growing up here in the Chicagoland area during the late 1970's & early 1980's I used to see a variety of different roads including Conrail who seems to be everywhere back in the hay day !!!!
Great idea to post a video with many caboose shots. I have watched several of your videos during the past couple days and enjoyed them immensely! You have done a great job of capturing the feel and flavor of railroading in the 1970's and your shots are all very nice. If you keep posting videos, I'll keep watching them. Thank you for taking the time to convert your fine film work to video for others like me to enjoy and savor. Keep up the great effort!!
Thanks. Glad you are enjoying them. I hope to get a few more up this coming week. Probably some more early Conrail, and probably get some D&H as well. Thanks for watching, and have a great Laboer Day...
The railroads sure looked good before all that graffiti! Whats also neat, is seeing all those old fallin flag freight cars as well. 40' footers and all. Glad you enjoyed it Tony. I spent most of the day putting this together as an experiment to see if there was an interest. Thanks for watching...
A freight train is NEVER complete without a caboose. There is a caboose at the ends of all Lionel freight trains that I run here at home. On a few occasions I'll couple a 2nd caboose for good measure.
I miss the 1970's. Disco, Free Love,Good Music,8 tracks,Sexy hippie chicks, seeing Star Wars for the first time,and of course Cabooses at the end of trains
the mid seventies was like puberty for the railroads; nothing looked as it should and everthing was broken and confused. still cool to see modern equipment being used with rolling stock and locomotives from the 1940s and 1950s though.
Oh Wowwwwww, how AWESOME, AWESOME!!!!! WHERE did did our Time , HAS TIME PAST, WHERE DID IT GO???😭😭 NOW LETS FOCUS ON THE GE U333/ U330 locomotives & the SD-9 locomotives, and or any other LOCOMOTIVES. Great VIDEO, and this was recommended to me.✌️💪👌👍
At 6:40 there is what looks like a helper set that disengages from the train while it's still moving...or is that an illusion? I've never seen them do that while still moving.
I'm still trying to understand how an engineer can operate without a guy watching the rear of the train. If I were working the locomotive, I'd just about have to kniw when we've cleared a crossing or frog and especially a diamond.
I throughly enjoyed watching this vid on your cabooses. I have a Pinterest account and 3 boards on cabooses, would love to add this to it but other people can pin it to their boards as well, so I don’t want to ask you to let me use your video. So I won’t use it. I don’t want to take the chance of what they would do with this vid. Thank you so much for putting these together for a chance to see them. I don’t know of anyone not loving the caboose. Saturday I missed a chance to see a caboose on the end of a train :-))
jackmp294.5™ I’m not sure I’ve seen any working ones in person but even seeing them in movies or in tv shows still caught my attention. Now I have seen caboose in a museum or play ground area but it’s not quite the same :-))
Cabooses pre-date any real interest in railroads on my part by a few years, so maybe some old timer can help me remember something. I'd have never remembered it if not for a video like this, but on seeing this, I seem to recall that cabooses always had a belt-drive generator on one axle. Is that right? It would only make sense. Can anyone provide more detail than that?
funny how the presence of the caboose was for safety concerns... then safety concerns were cited for getting rid of same said caboose (the claim was that riding in the caboose was too hazardous so we should get rid of it)
Didn't know that Jumbolix. Here in the states they are called many different things. They call them cabooses, hacks, crummies, bobber, cab, van, waycar, and a good many other things. Thanks for watching...
A train simply doesn't look right without a caboose. The other thing I like about these trains from 40 years ago is the lack of graffiti. To me graffiti is like a tattoo one a beautiful girl, it doesn't add anything.
Other than a sailor's 'anchor' tattoo or "Mom" no one looks good with tattoos !! Very stupid all this hideous useless fad is. For what ?!! It's conformity not individualism !! Defiling one's body ..Foolishness waste of $$ ...
I was Scott. I just walked out on it which is surprising, because I don't like heights. Back then, nobody bothered you. I sure wouldn't try that today. CSX would have you in a second. Here is a link to a few clips catching the head end of the train. ruclips.net/video/A68bKzObSEU/видео.html
Like Tomcat said Chris. It was a GG1. They were built from 1934 until 1943. A total of 139 units. The design was by Raymond Loewy. Here is just one of many pictures I have of them, Thanks for watching. www.flickr.com/photos/jackdk/16530168180/in/album-72157654731144869/
I know! Don't hear them much at all. Most 1st generation locomotives had those single note horns. They were Leslie A200 "blat" horns. Thanks for watching...
It seemed like it was a fire hazard to put a caboose next to a tank car because of the flammable & hazardous chemicals that some of those tank cars carry & you had a stove there in the caboose. Incase a derailment if a hot stove got near the tank car it could cause a fire.
seeing all those EL engines. did you know that,,, EL ordered GP38-2s? they ordered them thinking they were NOT going to be a part of CR. when it was announced EL was going to join CR, the order was cancelled.
i remember the summer of 1976(june?)a CR train was stopped in the "cut". i could see it and it looked to have one of those ubiquitous BAR GP38s on lead. no big deal right? well, after a while it came by as we were waiting, and to my astonishment,,,,it was pure EL 3638! the bicentennial SDP45. i would later see 3638 as 6669 several times in bicen paint along with SD45 6097.
Oh yah, they where sharp looking and caught them both several times. Back then, very early conrail, we use to catch BAR, SP, SSW, CNW, Southern and the CN on a regular bases. That was a neat time for railroading.
my buddy was a signal maintainer for CR from about 1977-79. one day north on cincinnati, while at work, a train came by with SP bicentennial U25B on point!
I understand why, for economic reasons cabin cars were eliminated, but I will never agree for safety reasons. Cabin cars provided a level of safety that a FRED never will. Eyes, and ears.
Railroads need to run cabooses on the rear for safety and, to offer minimal passenger service on every train (careless slack action and overly-long -- more than 50-car -- freight trains are disastrous for the whole train load, not just for the caboose passengers -- all railroad liability needs to be abolished in return for just having rail service available for the public to use).
I'm a retired engineer,1974-2011. Good riddance to the worthless pullman back there, the two "loads" should have gone also. Opinionated mouthy backseat drivers. All this should have been gone back in the'50s with diesels and CTC.
Do you notice one feature on these old films of the trains from the 50,60, and 70's. there is None of that ugly, trashy graffiti on any of the trains and they look so much better than what we see today with all that junk sprayed on the cars.
My grandfather was an engineer on the Erie line. I remember the day when he told us at the dinner table they were getting rid of the Caboose. He was furious, for he did all his drinking and gambling in the caboose.
Aweesome story
I had a great uncle. He was a conductor on the southern railway. It was his office and home while at work. If he were alive today he would be furious. Sometimes cutting a mans job is not progress.
I'm a tram and I approve this video! Love the footage!
From an old timer like me who remembers when cabooses were still a part of railroading, my thanks for posting this first class video!
Thank you oldtoot. Glad you enjoyed it, and I sure miss those days of railroading. Thanks for watching...
My father worked for Sante Fe in the yards and he had a pass for the family. My mom, brother and I would ride in a passenger car that was in front of the mail car with the caboose last. We would take a lunch and travel from Barstow CA to Richmond CA to visit my mom's mom, my grandma. The workmen in the caboose would come and visit with us. We would travel all night until our destination. Very wonderful memories.
They need to bring back the cabooses is Iconic
Wouldn't that be fantastic. I' for one, would love it.
If it doesn't make the railroad money-forget it! Today the only guy in there would usually be the Conductor! Oh well...
Cabooses were so very special.
I remember when Norfolk western and southern quit pulling a caboose. That was about 10 years old somewhere in the mid 80s I remember my dad tell me they wouldn't be no more
We all love &miss the caboose. Trains are incomplete.
I miss,the big Penn central green and my favorite Erie lawawanna the big e, Milwaukee road ,the rock .
Thanks for sharing your work and a films of a time gone by.
Simply outstanding...THANK YOU!
Nice compilation of cabooses. I remember when they still were on back of a train. Miss them a lot. Now they have these things called FREDS. Not the same.
I wish that I had grew up in the 1970's, but I was born in the early 1990's!
I love cabooses ... I was lucky enough to travel within 3 different cabooses in 3 different times here in Brazil ... Thanks for share! ;) ... If you have more, please tell me the link! ,,, Cheers ...
Thanks. Good stuff and it brings back those days when I was a brakeman for the now gone SP. I noted the lack of marred rolling stock, i.e., graffiti, and when new cars/pick ups were once shipped without any protection that we see today.
When did the graffiti actually start?
That was definitely worth "giving it a whirl" for those of us who remember cabooses! As a PC fan I appreciated all of the jade green Penn Central cabooses and cabin cars! Many thanks!
Glad you enjoyed it Ralph. It seems to be gaining popularity. Thanks for watching...
Looks like another winner! Love seeing pre-Conrail and Conrail era films. And you were lucky enough to have sound on them (that was a big deal in the Super-8 days). Thanks for sharing.
Hello Jack,
How on earth could no one enjoy this? This was fantastic! Loved the cabooses (and want to see them come back). EL used to go through Washingtonville, NY where I live. If I was alive, that would've been a treat to see. This brought back memories of what that could be like. Such a joy to watch your videos Jack. God bless.
-Don
Thanks for the memories of the EL. I started my rr career as a towerman and retired as a conductor from NJT. Observed many a freight train from the different towers that I was qualified at, always gave the hind end the proceed wave with the lantern at night. Trains were operating over the NJ cutoff.
¡ El Caboose !, un simpático vagón ; un ícono de los ferrocarriles de EEUU. Muchas gracias.
Seguro que fue un icono. Echo de menos aquellos días de la ferrocarriles. Muchas gracias por su observación.Sure was an icon. I miss those days of the railroading. Thank you very much for your watching.
Jack, Thank you so much for posting this video, a great modeling tool when you are doing a project with pre-conrail northeast cabooses, the E-L bay window caboose with high speeds, sweet, thank you again and God Bless you also.
Glad you enjoyed it Bob. Thanks for watching, and have a blessed day my brother.
Thank you very much for sharing.
Thanks forthe postings, i very mutch enjoyed whatching your videos of my favorite locomotives and cars in the eara of the 1970s ,a treasure of color film indeed. 👍
Great video lots of fun growing up on old EL mainline
I haven't seen a caboose being used on a train in 35 years.
Great video. Miss those days when you wave the conductor. God bless.
Thanks brother. Glad you enjoyed the clip. Sure do miss those days. Have a great day, thanks for watching, and God Bless.
Great to see the EL live again, for a short while. EL cabooses by Union agreement had coal stoves not oil. Thanks for this one Jack!
The big e.l. my favorite road
Thanks for posting this amazing footage from the '70s. It's very cool with sound---I was under the impression those cameras did not record sound.
Jack you just keep hitting them out of the park! Great video Alcos, GE's, EMD'S, GG1'S, fallen flag boxcars AND CABOOSES WOW!! One of my favorites is the Southern Pacific bay window caboose near the end.
Thanks again and have a blessed Labor Day weekend,
- Balerio
Thank you Balerio. I figured I'd give the caboose thing a try. If its a big hit, I may put another together of N&W cabbose I got down on the N&W/NS Poky Division. Thanks again for watching, and you have a blessed Labor Day as well.
@@1jackdk thanks for the video 👍👍👍👏👏👏👏😁😁😁
Nothing like the good old caboose days. Thanks for sharing Jack. Cheers, Dan
For sure Dan! It seems so long ago now. Wish I took more. Thanks for watching...
I love these sound videos. They're not something you come across often, in terms of vintage railroad footage. Thanks for all these!
Thanks for posting this nostalgic video. Brings back memories of teen years when a cordial local PRR crew let me take several rides up a branch line in N5 and N5c cabin cars back in the 1960s.
To move to ride cabooses looks like fun
Thanks for sharing! Wish I would have taken more picture's of caboose's before they stopped using them.
Damn! Lucky shot catching the CNW waycar in red.
Grew up on the Twin Cities " Muscle Line" 25 miles from CPT according to the mileposts and it seemed like in 72 or 73 orders came down to paint them all and it seemed as if all but a few stragglers survived in red to the mass rebuilding in 80.
Didn't know that Gary. Thanks for the info, and thanks for watching...
Great videos Jack, never seen a Caboose (power move) before! That was cool Have a Blessed Day!
Thanks for more of the great footage!!! Love all the Erie Lackawanna in it!!!!
Glad you enjoyed it, and thanks for watching...
7:20 Wow. 4 at once? Never witnessed that before.
A lot of railroading from a bygone era. Be glad you caught what you did. I am. Loved seeing the blue Rock Island hopper as it was a fresh paint or new, and all the other fallen flags.
I am thrilled, and blessed to catch what I did. It sure is neat seeing all the old stuff still running. 40' box cars, ice hatch refers, and all. Sure do miss those days. Oh yah!!! No graffiti! Thanks for watching...
2:01 classic EMD switcher!
very much enjoyed this !
I appreciate your work in
presenting, "the only way
to end a train."
Fred get lost !
Awesome! And mostly on the EL, too! :)
Thanks Paul. Glad you enjoyed it, especially the EL. Thanks for watching...
Yep, me too. Great video. I liked the pre CR stuff but I enjoy seeing any of it anymore. Lots of neat way cars there
Thanks Mark. An era I surely miss. Thanks for watching...
+jackmp294.5™ I totally agree with you there. thanks
I was amazed when I saw the Cotton Belt Caboose, I had no idea that they made it that far east!
Never know what you will see taked on the rear back in those days. It was just as exciting seeing the head end, as it was the rear end. Thanks for watching...
Thank you for sharing!
I think I remember the caboose. I wish they were still a thing.
Jack thanks for this video, growing up here in the Chicagoland area during the late 1970's & early 1980's I used to see a variety of different roads including Conrail who seems to be everywhere back in the hay day !!!!
Glad you enjoyed it CE. We sure have lost lots of neat stuff over the years. Thanks for watching...
jackmp294.5™ No again I Thank U !!!
I absolutely loved this.
Thanks Carla. Glad you enjoyed it, and thanks for watching...
Great idea to post a video with many caboose shots. I have watched several of your videos during the past couple days and enjoyed them immensely! You have done a great job of capturing the feel and flavor of railroading in the 1970's and your shots are all very nice. If you keep posting videos, I'll keep watching them. Thank you for taking the time to convert your fine film work to video for others like me to enjoy and savor. Keep up the great effort!!
Thanks. Glad you are enjoying them. I hope to get a few more up this coming week. Probably some more early Conrail, and probably get some D&H as well. Thanks for watching, and have a great Laboer Day...
Thanks Jack, Love the cabooses! Great to see those great trains WITHOUT all the graffiti!
FEC Tony Florida Space Coast
The railroads sure looked good before all that graffiti! Whats also neat, is seeing all those old fallin flag freight cars as well. 40' footers and all. Glad you enjoyed it Tony. I spent most of the day putting this together as an experiment to see if there was an interest. Thanks for watching...
Nice stuff. Always loved the caboose.
I do as well IBSteve. Sure miss seeing them on the back of a train. Thanks for watching...
A freight train is NEVER complete without a caboose. There is a caboose at the ends of all Lionel freight trains that I run here at home. On a few occasions I'll couple a 2nd caboose for good measure.
I miss the 1970's. Disco, Free Love,Good Music,8 tracks,Sexy hippie chicks, seeing Star Wars for the first time,and of course Cabooses at the end of trains
Those were the good ole days for sure. Thanks for watching...
+jackmp294.5™ Another thing I miss from the 1970's were Farrell's Ice Cream Parlours.All those big sundaes and a free sundae on your birthday
Once again lovely old footage ,,, many thanks for sharing ,,,
Glad you are enjoying it Alan. Thanks for watching...
outstanding video!!!! i love the old intermodal stuff
12:23 What kind of horn is that? He sounds like a boat coming down the tracks 😄😄😄
Leslie A200 "blatter". Common on early F units, GP7s, and I think they were used on the GG1.
1975-1977,to be exact.They did not have Red Strobe Flashing Lights yet at the time.Long after CONRAIL,they were in use.
the mid seventies was like puberty for the railroads; nothing looked as it should and everthing was broken and confused. still cool to see modern equipment being used with rolling stock and locomotives from the 1940s and 1950s though.
Oh Wowwwwww, how AWESOME, AWESOME!!!!! WHERE did did our Time , HAS TIME PAST, WHERE DID IT GO???😭😭 NOW LETS FOCUS ON THE GE U333/ U330 locomotives & the SD-9 locomotives, and or any other LOCOMOTIVES. Great VIDEO, and this was recommended to me.✌️💪👌👍
Wasn't it the introduction of roller bearings and the phase out of babbit bearings that did the cabooses in?
Nice topic and great footage! Thanks for posting
Thanks John. Going to see how this plays out. I may do another segment on cabooses if it goes well. Thanks for watching...
Thanks for a great video!
Thanks Ray, Glad you enjoyed it, and thanks for watching...
Great video
At 6:40 there is what looks like a helper set that disengages from the train while it's still moving...or is that an illusion? I've never seen them do that while still moving.
Yes they did cut off on the fly. Which was against operating rules back then I was told. But it was pretty neat catching this. Thanks for watching...
Yeah that's interesting. Thx
Interesting, the different styles of caboose. Also. how they compare to the UK guards van.
Great video thanks
Thanks for watching Paul and glad you enjoyed it...
All those looked like the ones that produced slack action injuries. Didn’t see any of those newer wide vision ones that the western roads used
I like Cabooses.
I do as well, and I miss seeing them on the rear of trains. Thanks for watching.
I'm still trying to understand how an engineer can operate without a guy watching the rear of the train. If I were working the locomotive, I'd just about have to kniw when we've cleared a crossing or frog and especially a diamond.
I throughly enjoyed watching this vid on your cabooses. I have a Pinterest account and 3 boards on cabooses, would love to add this to it but other people can pin it to their boards as well, so I don’t want to ask you to let me use your video. So I won’t use it. I don’t want to take the chance of what they would do with this vid. Thank you so much for putting these together for a chance to see them. I don’t know of anyone not loving the caboose. Saturday I missed a chance to see a caboose on the end of a train :-))
Thanks for watching Kathy. I sure do miss seeing those things on the back of a train.
jackmp294.5™ I’m not sure I’ve seen any working ones in person but even seeing them in movies or in tv shows still caught my attention. Now I have seen caboose in a museum or play ground area but it’s not quite the same :-))
thanks for the awesome video 😁😁😁
Glad you enjoyed it Erik, and thanks for watching...
Cabooses pre-date any real interest in railroads on my part by a few years, so maybe some old timer can help me remember something. I'd have never remembered it if not for a video like this, but on seeing this, I seem to recall that cabooses always had a belt-drive generator on one axle. Is that right? It would only make sense. Can anyone provide more detail than that?
I enjoyed that. Thanks!
Glad you enjoyed it, and thanks for watching...
Trains were really short back then.
funny how the presence of the caboose was for safety concerns... then safety concerns were cited for getting rid of same said caboose (the claim was that riding in the caboose was too hazardous so we should get rid of it)
6:32 Was that seriously a rare capture of an on-the-fly helper drop?
Yes it was! Surprised us as well, and not sure if it was legal or not! LOL. Good eye!! Thanks for watching.
jackmp294.5™ it was legal and still is legal today
In Switzerland we had smaller ones. We called them Sputnik
Didn't know that Jumbolix. Here in the states they are called many different things. They call them cabooses, hacks, crummies, bobber, cab, van, waycar, and a good many other things. Thanks for watching...
What does that cabboose say at 0:20?
Meaning, what railroad does it work for?
It is owned by the Erie Lackawanna Railroad. EL. Thanks for watching.
THEY KEEP GOING TODAY!
A train simply doesn't look right without a caboose. The other thing I like about these trains from 40 years ago is the lack of graffiti. To me graffiti is like a tattoo one a beautiful girl, it doesn't add anything.
Yeah, about the only thing you saw on freight cars back then besides the normal road dirt and grime was car inspector's chalk mark notations.
Other than a sailor's 'anchor' tattoo or "Mom" no one looks good with tattoos !! Very stupid all this hideous useless fad is. For what ?!! It's conformity not individualism !! Defiling one's body ..Foolishness waste of $$ ...
Soo true. Bring them back and catch these vandals who graffiti.
I know. It was not that long ago that a tattooed woman was only to be found in a carnival freak show. And that is where they still belong.
Lllllllllllllllll
In the last clip, it looks like you are shooting from the deck of the B&O Susquehanna River Bridge. How did you do that?
I was Scott. I just walked out on it which is surprising, because I don't like heights. Back then, nobody bothered you. I sure wouldn't try that today. CSX would have you in a second. Here is a link to a few clips catching the head end of the train. ruclips.net/video/A68bKzObSEU/видео.html
What is the electric locomotive at 7:45?
A GG-1 in Amtrak livery.
Like Tomcat said Chris. It was a GG1. They were built from 1934 until 1943. A total of 139 units. The design was by Raymond Loewy. Here is just one of many pictures I have of them, Thanks for watching. www.flickr.com/photos/jackdk/16530168180/in/album-72157654731144869/
12:16 never heard a horn like that on a locomotive lol...
I know! Don't hear them much at all. Most 1st generation locomotives had those single note horns. They were Leslie A200 "blat" horns. Thanks for watching...
Maybe you should face south to catch a northbound moose!
was the most expensive cost to the railroads. cabooses
It seemed like it was a fire hazard to put a caboose next to a tank car because of the flammable & hazardous chemicals that some of those tank cars carry & you had a stove there in the caboose. Incase a derailment if a hot stove got near the tank car it could cause a fire.
seeing all those EL engines.
did you know that,,,
EL ordered GP38-2s? they ordered them thinking they were NOT going to be a part of CR.
when it was announced EL was going to join CR, the order was cancelled.
Yes Jeff, that is true. EL also ordered GE U23B's, and they all went to the L&N. Thanks for watching...
i remember the summer of 1976(june?)a CR train was stopped in the "cut". i could see it and it looked to have one of those ubiquitous BAR GP38s on lead. no big deal right? well, after a while it came by as we were waiting, and to my astonishment,,,,it was pure EL 3638! the bicentennial SDP45.
i would later see 3638 as 6669 several times in bicen paint along with SD45 6097.
Oh yah, they where sharp looking and caught them both several times. Back then, very early conrail, we use to catch BAR, SP, SSW, CNW, Southern and the CN on a regular bases. That was a neat time for railroading.
my buddy was a signal maintainer for CR from about 1977-79.
one day north on cincinnati, while at work, a train came by with SP bicentennial U25B on point!
I'd like to have your RR memories when you are done with them, because mine of today's corporations ("RR") are down right depressing.
I understand why, for economic reasons cabin cars were eliminated, but I will never agree for safety reasons.
Cabin cars provided a level of safety that a FRED never will. Eyes, and ears.
nobody has given me a good reason why the rrs got rid of the caboose . wow , a cotton belt crumby on the hudson yet.!!!!!!!
Technology and cost. It’s a non revenue car and you take 2 people off the payroll.
All's they needs now is an axle gear generator, a Tesla Battery pack a hotsopt, and a fridge.
what could go wrong?
And WHO NEEDS AIR?
Cabooses are taken out of context in a park or museum
Railroads need to run cabooses on the rear for safety and, to offer minimal passenger service on every train (careless slack action and overly-long -- more than 50-car -- freight trains are disastrous for the whole train load, not just for the caboose passengers -- all railroad liability needs to be abolished in return for just having rail service available for the public to use).
I'm a retired engineer,1974-2011. Good riddance to the worthless pullman back there, the two "loads" should have gone also. Opinionated mouthy backseat drivers. All this should have been gone back in the'50s with diesels and CTC.
When they took the caboose off the trains, a little bit of America died.
Your not kidding. Sure lost a part of our railroad heritage. Thank for watching...
Caboose were not always red Penn Central we're green C&O we're yellow or midnight blue Conrail were blue
Do you notice one feature on these old films of the trains from the 50,60, and 70's. there is None of that ugly, trashy graffiti on any of the trains and they look so much better than what we see today with all that junk sprayed on the cars.