My dad, Winston Scaggs ended up a Forman there. Amazing machinist. Loved everyone that I grew up with. Governors shop, Load Box, everyone was an extended family. Thank you for this video. I went to the shops constantly. ❤ I was at HHS when this was taken. Dad trained me how to drive in there. LOL
What an excellent video! Thank God someone had the foresight to capture this time in our lives. My hats off to you! A great job! I thoroughly enjoyed this while we are homebound during the Coronavirus. (All in this series are worth watching!)
Wow, this is great. Sadly I was born too late to have known what this railroad scene was like in person. But I do have great memories of GP15T #1515 mentioned at 9:44 as it was in captive service as a yard switcher in my area for a number of years, albeit in CSX YN3 paint.
Some interesting six-axle Chessie System units here that I just can't place what models they are. They do not even have the moderate porches that the original SD40 had, and they don't appear long enough to be SD45-2s. What are they? Short-nosed SD9s?
@@Kayushi Definitely SD35s here - and SD38s, it looks like. Three roof fans, with the middle fan recessed some, is an SD35, and a six-axle unit with two roof fans must be an SD38. Didn't get the numbers and may look again (I've watched four of them, so far), but they looked rusty, dirty and high-milieaged, in a long line of locomotives.
My dad, Winston Scaggs ended up a Forman there. Amazing machinist. Loved everyone that I grew up with. Governors shop, Load Box, everyone was an extended family. Thank you for this video. I went to the shops constantly. ❤ I was at HHS when this was taken. Dad trained me how to drive in there. LOL
I remember some chessie units on the csx midland sub here in Columbus when i was a kid back in the early 90s..best paint scheme ever!
What an excellent video! Thank God someone had the foresight to capture this time in our lives. My hats off to you! A great job! I thoroughly enjoyed this while we are homebound during the Coronavirus. (All in this series are worth watching!)
My father grew up a block away from the C&O shop, in the early 70s. He’s going to get a kick out of seeing this!
- JP
Been looking at these a bit the last three days. Priceless stuff, so I subscribed. Chessie System - yeah!
Great video from a sad time. I saw most of these in Huntington then.
GP9s in 1987. Good catch
This is like being in your grandma s house after her funeral
Wow, this is great. Sadly I was born too late to have known what this railroad scene was like in person. But I do have great memories of GP15T #1515 mentioned at 9:44 as it was in captive service as a yard switcher in my area for a number of years, albeit in CSX YN3 paint.
Wish you to done some and Wilmington North Carolina
Priceless footage any idea who cut them up?
I’m surprised some of those survived the early ‘80s recession. Or had they been sitting there that long?
Some interesting six-axle Chessie System units here that I just can't place what models they are.
They do not even have the moderate porches that the original SD40 had, and they don't appear long enough to be SD45-2s. What are they? Short-nosed SD9s?
SD35s?
If you could provide engine numbers, that could help
@@Kayushi Definitely SD35s here - and SD38s, it looks like. Three roof fans, with the middle fan recessed some, is an SD35, and a six-axle unit with two roof fans must be an SD38. Didn't get the numbers and may look again (I've watched four of them, so far), but they looked rusty, dirty and high-milieaged, in a long line of locomotives.
3:39 looks like an sd-29