Cincinnati Railroad Club Excursion Cincinnati to Muncie and Return (October 3, 1965)
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- Опубликовано: 10 апр 2024
- CRRC trip on the C&O from Cincinnati to Muncie and return on October 3, 1965 from the perspective of the packed rear gondola. Thanks to @CurtisJones-zz7vr for ID'ing locations.
Mind boggling. I’d love to have been in that open gondola riding along.
About 20 or 25 years ago I crisscrossed this line in several places add thought to myself it must have been an interesting Mainline now relegated to ballast and weeds. Thanks for finding this and bringing it out of the vaults. Seeing that N&W Gondola for the open air trip the St Louis NRHS used one of them in a mid-1960s tour of the Manufacturers Railway behind Alco switchers.
I grew up in Indiana and lived in Cincinnati for a couple of years about 15 years after this film was made. The C&O exited Cincinnati and the Ohio River valley on a long trestle over the western suburbs, as I recall. And it was on a grade, too. After seeing some of the curvature and additional trestles of that line through eastern Indiana in this video, I'm not surprised that it was downgraded and then more or less abandoned in favor of other routes to Chicago--not that I don't miss it anyway!
that would be Cheviot Hill you're referring to. The @CincinnatiRailroadClub just had programs filled with vintage photos of Cheviot Hill. There are 2 videos on their channel with those programs :)
About 8:14 is in Muncie, going under the New York Central. Wish the photographer had caught the C&O depot in Muncie. In the beginning, they go up and over the bridge that spanned Southern's Gest Street Yard and whatever was there on the B&O at that time.
I wondered if that was Muncie... looked like about the only point along the line that went diagonally below another main
Absolutely fabulous! Wow!
To help with locations, it doesn't look like any are west of Muncie, and the footage consists of westbound and eastbound trips. Here's what I could identify.
Westbound:
0:41 is going up the ramp to Cheviot Hill.
1:44 is most likely trestle 25 over Quebec Ave or trestle 33 over Sunset Blvd.
2:14 looks to be the east end of Cheviot Yard.
2:53 is trestle 184 over the Miami River.
3:10 and 3:19 are Fernald.
4:08 is Okeana at trestle 200 Wynn Rd.
4:16 is Okeana at trestle 270.
4:50 looks to maybe be Cottage Grove. Not entirely sure.
5:14 is trestle 593 over Short Creek outside of Richmond.
5:34 starts Richmond, and the trestles are also in Richmond.
Eastbound:
8:15 is in Muncie under the NKP/N&W and across IN 32.
8:44 the meet here looks more like it is at Blountsville. Grey's east end was at US 35/Wheeling Pike outside of Jonesboro and the west end was just before the 10th street trestle in Jonesboro. Neither were visible in the footage, and Grey didn't have any sidings come off the main or passing track as in the footage.
9:06 with the powerlines looks like the approach to Losantville.
9:42 the meet here looks like it is at Williamsburg due to the tanks by the track. The previous scene with the water tower was most likely also Williamsburg. Converse didn't have a passing siding per se. It had a lengthy house/industrial track that ended up going behind the depot.
11:06 to the end are all back at Okeana trestle 270.
I think this might actually be a Cincinnati Railroad Club excursion from Cincinnati to Muncie and return. The photographer was not a C&O employee, and thus it would have been unlikely they would have been on an employee picnic.
Thanks a bunch for ID'ing locations. I'm going to pin this comment so it remains up top. Hopefully people read it. :)
@RailroadMediaArchive No problem. Glad I could help!
I think you are right in that it's not a C&O employee function and more of a charter excursion. I've only ever seen a couple photos of a C&O veteran's employee picnic special on this line. It was only 3 cars with a single GP-9 for power.
This really awesome to see!
Final scene on the trestle looks like Okeana.
So cool! I really wish I could tell you more specific locations, but it looks like the majority is various points where the C&O ran parallel along US 35 in eastern Indiana.
10:56 Probably crossing the Wabash River into Peru. The piers from this bridge are still there. That's about all I can tell you though. I'm surprised I have no idea where that viaduct right before the end is
The location of the runby at the end has me stumped too.
Looks like Okeana, Ohio but only part of the bridge matches what is there today.@@RailroadMediaArchive
@@johnprudent1398 That was my guess too, but I ran into the same problem
The bridge was replaced in 1998 to handle the heavy trains coming out of Fernald.@@LotusbandicootRR
Back in the day when railroads embraced rail-fans. Thanks for sharing!