Railfanning with the Bednars Volume 5
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- Опубликовано: 19 янв 2025
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In Volume 5 of Railfanning with the Bednars, we'll look at the last 10 months of operation before Conrail.
Deteriorated facilities, uncertainty and termoil made for some of the darkest days on the railroads.
Derailments and other issues were common place. But even with these challenges, operations continued as usual.
But before we look at the last 10 months, we'll take a brief look back at found footage taken between 1973 and 1975, including footage of the wreck at Parryville.
Locations from Allentown to Sayre are featured as well as wrecks in Allentown and Lockport.
NARRATION BY MIKE BEDNAR
COLOR APPROXIMATELY 58 MINUTES RUN TIME 
Авто/Мото
Very good movies. Only an old railroad worker can explains this with theses emotions. Thanks!
Can’t get enough of this gentleman of the railroad. Mike we love ya.
This guys commentary is one in a million!
drby0788 // Yes, Mike Bednar sure knows his "chit"!
great video.
Thanks for Mike Bednar .
Your collection are very very good.
WOW...how could anyone dislike this or any of the vids in this set of dvds
The Bloom branch was still a busy line despite the slow pace due to the track stucture. I can recall one time summer nite 1971 me my 2 sisters & parents went up to Wolfey's Golf Course to play minature golf at the time & EL freight rumbled by hearing clickty clack of the jointed rail blowin it's horn for the next road crossing at Lime Ridge. The branch followed rt. 11 thru berwick up river thru Shickshinny on the way to a location named Bridge 60.
I had a similar experience near my house. A friend and I were golfing at a 9 hole short course and along the back of the course was the Soo Line track. As we were waiting to tee off I hear a train coming. Hear comes a Soo train with two GP-7s rumbling along. We just stopped and watched the whole train go by. I'll never forget how good those engines looked. But now the Soo is gone and so is the golf course.
He looks like his voice. Gotta love Mike?
Six C628's enough to scare any track foreman 😂
Great series - Love the "Bullitt" Charger at 0:48!
Thanks for sharing these great memories.
Man I know I keep saying this but your HD restorations are truly nothing short of spectacular. The restoration of the footage so it matches up to the speed of the locomotives as they were actually moving at makes me feel like I am not watching old film reels and like I'm actually there.
Fabulous works as always!
Enjoy watching your videos and the narration is great as well.
Mike is the man...
I thoroughly enjoyed this
"He got these F units on the Bloom because that's where the F units were" favorite line
Jersey Buff lol mine too!
There were many of the decrepid Fs working out of Marion on the West end too. Junk.
Beautiful video. Love this especially.
Very nicely done; a great piece of history.
this is great to me.i was about 10 then.love trains and model trains.major joy in life with along with cannabis
All I can write is thank you. People don't understand how it was back then. One didn't know where you'd end up at 12 hours. No idea. Then wait 2 more hours to get rescued. Good times? Eh. Young.
Now when I see a 10 or 25 slow order. Be calm. Again thank you.
Thank you. There are more to come!
@Bluejacket01
Thanks you. A lot of work goes into making a production like this
would love to see some LV on the Auburn line
LOL, this guys voice.
the green 3640 was the last loco shopped by the RDG. and was painted in solid green. she was saved and currently is being worked on.
I saw her 2 times during CR. once as RDG 3640 and once and last time in may 1977 in columbus as CR 3640, but still green. my father and I were attending the memorial (jack nicklaus) golf tourney in nearby dublin, ohio. (we saw president Ford, the only president(ex-at the time) I ever saw)
Nice!
Rollicking cars and the track down in the dirt. A rough way to run a railroad, no doubt. Erie Lackawanna had a lot of F7s.
The track on the D&H probably couldn't support the big six-axle trucks on the 628's.
Gee why not cover a little bit more of the Bloomsburg branch despite the slow moving freights that passed thru Rupert towards Bloomsburg? I could remember alot of Geep 35's as leaders plus other EL road power on the line late 60's into the 70's!
Branch lines were never really covered well as many were difficult to transverse and one never knew when trains would be running. By the time that these were shot, the trains were down to 10 mph due to track conditions. It would take all day and sometimes into the next day to travel the length of the line. It certainly was a yawner of a chase.
Not to mention that film in the camera only lasted a little over 3 minutes and was quite expensive to purchase and have developed. A trip down the Bloom could easily consume 8 or more reels of film if you recorded footage at many of the usual locations. At $3 - $5 per reel, in the 70s, that would be quite costly. The average weekly wage was under $100, so one trip could use up a good portion of a weekly budget in film.
i miss the cabooses.
He started in 73 but finished in 76. You missed the Bicentennial ALCO units and the caboose that had 1776 on the side.
Oh , to have a "boring" chase of EL F units again..... We did the same boring chase of Milwaukee Road F units in Iowa in the late 70's , ho hum ......
Hi. I was wondering how much of the Bloom is covered in that DVD. Thanks!
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why so many locos?????
Why were the alcos banned on the DH ?
Paul Unold because they ride like shit.
the monon thought that the 628s were damaging track so they unloaded them onto the LV.
I assume the DH had the same idea.
Heard they were damaging track
do you have a dvd out yet??
Gotta love Big Mike's pithy comments.
Wait, Wheres conrail? It's '73.