Thanks for this. Out of an abundance of respect for the railroads property lines I never droned the yard. I live in Connellsville and often wondered what went on deeper in and what it was for. Dawson is decent spent a lot of time there perfect for rail fanning, I always like to watch them come around Jacobs Curve by the detector.
Ive always been a railfan and Im currently planning a model railroad but i lack rsilroad knowledge. The information and camera views in your videos are second to none. Your efforts are truly appreciated.
Thank you for the video! Fond memories of my dad taking me there. E. B. Fields, he was a conductor. Worked the railroad for 46 years. Most of my family were railroaders. ❤️
My grandfather worked at this yard when it was B&O and when I was very little he would take me down to see the engine house and sit with the guys as they worked the turntable and moved equipment around. Fond memories of here and BO West.
I have fond memories of Connellsville where my grandparents leaved. My Grandfather was a B & O steam and diesel engineer (1903-1953). I spent several summers there. I spent two summers after he retired staying near downtown. Hopefully before I die, maybe make a trip there. I'm sure I would not recognize much.
What a wonderful video; relaxing, educational, clear and easy to understand. You should teach people how to make good videos. A lot of people who make videos could learn a lot from you.
I love your videos about operations on a railroad. I worked mechanical at the (now defunct) AT&SF shops in San Bernardino. We never got close to operations, we were sort of the poor step children of the “real railroad.” I got to work on real power in the rewire program and ended up working in the traction motor end of the shops. Thanks for an education on the railroading that I missed.
Hey DJ. I’ve watched this video dozens of times. Growing up in Connellsville myself it is so cool to see your shots of the area. Also love seeing Dawson at the beginning. My pap lived just up the hill in Dickerson Run and worked for the P&LE. He’s the reason I got into trains myself. Anyways enough rambling from me. Great job as always on your videos! - Jake
Went to conductor and engineer school in Atlanta with the same bunch of guys from Connellsville. Sadly they all have been furloughed.... Hopefully things pick up and they get back
djstrains they’re having us bullshit work orders just to get cars off the clock cause we’re so short on manpower. We only got 2 guys on the conductor extra board
Hi DJ Trains. Hope you and all of your family are well and safe 👍🏻 Great drone footage with very interesting commentary 😊 It’s always a pleasure watching your videos. Cheers Stevie a train fan from the UK 🇬🇧
Talk about a post card town!! Absolutely breathtaking. First time I was more interested in drone views of a town more than railroads. Does CSX stand for Chessie System with the X meaning nothing? Always wondered. I appreciate your effort to take the time to post these videos. Especially because of your work, home, family life. Scott Taipale has a RUclips channel with awesome drone videos. I found him just by looking for Ohio trains. In my opinion he’s really good. If I won the lottery I would purchase that Victorian house in Dawson PA.
Great video! I was lucky to have been able to railfan Sand Patch a few years ago, and we made sure that we visited Connellsville. The Amtrak station is a great place to railfan safely. There's also a pedestrian bridge over the mains near the turntable where you can get a good view over the yard.
I recognized Dawson from a trip there in 2017 to see an amazing S-gauge layout in the Tri Town Area Historical Society. We visited the Sam Powell layout there that had been donated to the Society. A group of local volunteers had disassembled and then reassembled the layout in the Society building located at Howell & Main. The visit was one of the 2017 Pittsburgh TCA Convention tours that included Dawson and Connellsville, where we saw another terrific (HO) layout at the Connellsville Canteen. In addition to the layouts, there were tons of picture opportunities. Thanks for this video reminder of a pleasant afternoon in Western PA.
Great video! My grandfather's brother ("Dave Stambaugh") was an engineer on the B&O who lived in Connellsville all his life. I knew him as a gruff old man who loved kids and trains. He told me many stories about running the Capital Limited to and from Connellsville in the days of steam. My life-long love of trains got a big boost in 1962 when, at the age of 10, my grandfather brought me by train from Silver Spring MD to Connellsville where we stayed with "Uncle Dave" and "Aunt Marge". I got the thrill of my life that Sunday morning when Uncle Dave brought me up into the cab of an engine in the yard, let me notch the throttle, and then had me blow the horn a few times. He made me swear to secrecy, because he said he would get fired if anybody found out. I still remember the excitement. Of course, the Connellsville yard was much more extensive in those long-gone days. I still like to ride today's Capital Limited and take a quick walk around the Connellsville platform while the train stops there. Thanks for this great video.
Thanks DJ!!! These views from above are awesome but also show the hard work that was done to build a railroad thru the mountains and over rivers!! One takeaway thou is we need a BIG space to do justice to the railroad in HO scale or even N Scale!!!!! Now if I could talk my Wife into letting me build a sweet Barndominium I would be set!! 👍👍👍😁😁😁😂😂😂😂
Hi DJ. Great video. I live in Fairchance just south of Uniontown. At the end of your video the train is passing the Connellsville Amtrak which is just a shelter. It’s a good rail fan spot.
djstrains - Come down here to Fairchance. The SWP comes through 2 times a day serving an industry in Smithfield. The track ends just south of the industry
Super video. Thanks for you presentations of railroading around the Pittsburgh especially areas like Connellsville yard which i model. I have added this video to my collection of your videos to reference for my PTDR Pittsburgh Terminal District Railroad. So thank you so much. I look forward and cant wait for all your new videos.
It great to see the rails in some other place than your own home town. I can tell how serious you take this by the matter of factness in your speach. Great history and all around information. Thanks!
Such a nice little town. I'll bet you get to see a lot of nice countryside as an engineer if your not to busy. Thanks for all the great shots of the real railroads they help so much in see how real railroads are and work, this one was wonderful like the yard and the turntable was nice....thanks for sharing....Jack 👍👍
Thanks for the great (and scenic) video. I have been through Connellsville on Amtrak (both ways). It was dark both ways and all I could see was lots of cars. Great to see what the yard really looks like. I have also been through there on the GAP trail. That is a beautiful scenic trail.
Awesome job DJ, loved it, Connellsville and Dawson are some of my favorite places to watch trains. Love the history of the area. Thanks for this dignified video showing the cool railroad stuff 😎...Wilmer
djstrains I really enjoy your modeling videos. The way you explain day-to-day operations of railroads for folks like me, who don’t actually work for a railroad, really helps and puts things into better perspective. Keep up the great work!
Another really great video. I have to tell a friend of mine about this one..he grew up in Dawson and his dad worked for the P&LE. I've been to Connellsville with him a number of times but, we never got to rail fan while there.
DJ, I wanted to commend you on your use of a gentle and quiet bass-track in the background. Many content creators overwhelm their videos with distracting music, often at relatively high levels. What you did with the background adds that little bit of ambiance that gently moves us through the pauses in your (excellent) narrative as your drone footage segues into new part of your story. Also, the pauses with the gentle music invite the viewer to really appreciate the scene. This is really professional work!! Bravo!! 😊❤
Thanks for noticing. I am really trying to make the best quality videos on RUclips and a lot of hours and thought goes into every video. Much appreciated comment!!
Hey this is great to see, my hometown! Really such a different view from above. Thanks for covering it! On certain days, moreso in the winter, I can hear the horns blowing at the crossings all the way in Dawson. Nice to see an updated map of the yard with track capacities. I have some older ones. Do you ever think the yard will get some more tracks added again? Since they do some of the work that other yards used to do.
Fantastic video DJ love your drone footage of all these yards and the things most of us would never be able to see thanks for sharing stay safe and keep HIGHBALLING HOGGER 😎👉
My grandfather worked that yard until they moved dispstch to Jacksonville, he was a dispatcher. My mom and grandma both worked for anchor hocking glass, but that was way before i was a thought.
DJ, another wonderful video including the abandoned turntable. Also, FYI... I love block signals. I really like ''dropped signals''. If you could accommodate, I would be thrilled. Just askin'.
Looking at all this, DJ, I can't help but wonder where the WM came in to the Connellsville yard. Or did they have their own yard? (edit) Oh, okay the bike trail is the former Western Maryland, which is what I model. I had to chuckle watching one of your other vids "Crazy Train Handling" when your friend Steve (apparently a former WM engineer) said "the B&O built tunnels, the Western Maryland went over everything" .. although I DO know there were two tunnels on the WM between Hagerstown and Connellsville .. I love watching your vids, man, thanks.
@@djstrains ill be darn. I used to live in the area for school and work and since moving south your videos make me nostalgic because I railfan'd both lines on my days off
Really great video! Thank you so much for posting it! One comment I have is that the old piers that you mention a 9:02 were not part of a wye. Those piers were from the Ohio & Baltimore Short Line (O&BSL) bridge that existed prior to the time when the Sheepskin was built to Uniontown and further south. The B&O had hopes that the O&BSL would be a cutoff line that would allow traffic directly from Connellsville to Wheeling by bypassing Pittsburgh completely. The route was to head west across Fayette county and cross the Monongahela river from Newell to Coal Center, and head up the Pike Run Valley, and then follow the route of what is now I-70 into Washington PA. One pier of a bridge over the Monongahela was completed and still exists in Coal Center a few hundred yards downriver from the location where Pike Run enters the Monongahela. Partial grading of this line is visible along the north side of I-70 as you head west from PA 519 into Washington PA. The development of this route was stopped in the late 1800's amidst a financial panic.
Hi DJ. Thanks for Connellsville and Dawson. It looks so different from the air. In its heyday this area was quite prosperous due to the coke - making industry that fed the steel mills in Pittsburgh.
@@djstrains There were quite a few. There was even a Kaufmans located there just up Crawford St. on the right beyond the hotel. You had to have some prosperity there to support those kinds of stores. They were also escaping the smog. If the steel mill owners had taken seriously their need to modernize and make their plants more environmentally friendly, maybe they would still be in business. If was the norm for them to just dump their refuse into the rivers.
I’m curious about how trains are loaded. There aren’t any videos about how the train is loaded with cargo. Where are they loaded? Who keeps up with what is in each car? Coal and oil cars are self explanatory. But a box car. Where do they get loaded? Where do they get unloaded?
Hi DJ, You may already know this, the bridge over the B&O sheepskin line now SWP, is the former Western Maryland Railway. Just beyond that bridge and along the Sheepskin is the former WM Bowest yard. The P&WV use to have trackage rights over the WM from their connection with the P&LE on the West / North end of Connellsville. Yes the Western Maryland tied in directly with the P&LE on top of the Giant Wall that once divide Connellsville, like the great wall of China. The P&WV (then after the N&W leased the P&WV in 1964) and N&W had trackage rights over the P&LE and WM to reach the WM's BoWest yard. What's neat is the P&LE station is still at West Crawford Ave and Seventh Street and yes that large tower at the P&LE station use to be at track level. If you head over to check out the former P&LE station, be sure to also check out the building across West Crawford Street (Railroad East of the P&LE Station) that was literally built around the concrete supports for the "Great Wall Of Connellsville". Neat stuff and lots of history. This is another great video DJ, I really like the drone footage, keep up the great work. Cheers, Rich S.
I took Amtrak out of Connellsville last year. It’s nice to get some more background on the area. There was a auto rack train going back and forth in front of the station that I enjoyed watching while I was waiting for Amtrak. A westbound train also passed by the station while I was waiting (Amtrak earned its reputation of being late that day) and it was the first time I was close enough to a signal to see the light change as the engine passed. I wish I had the benefit of these videos before the trip so i could really appreciate everything, but I guess that might be an excuse to go back?
Excellent video!! I remember when I was a kid, we would go & visit my grandparents in Connellsville, there used to be a stone arch bridge that went across town & over Rt 119. What railroad went thru there at that time?
my new bli n scale engine is cx btw, i wanted wisconsin southern but csx and norfolk was my 2nd choice, also i love rolling thunder, one of my great joys
I can't say enough how valuable the prototype plant videos are. Thanks again, DJ.
Awesome! Thanks Ron.
Have to say I agree with you on this, Ron. It's great to have someone explain what's going on in a yard like this.
Hey Ron!
Now that's a lovely place. Small town America at its most charming.
Admirable drone video along with interesting and notable narration. The view of that part of the US was great from here, thanks djstrains.
Thank you for these yard breakdowns, they are very educational.
I am trying to teach all that I can since not many engineers are open to talking about the job.
Thanks for this. Out of an abundance of respect for the railroads property lines I never droned the yard. I live in Connellsville and often wondered what went on deeper in and what it was for. Dawson is decent spent a lot of time there perfect for rail fanning, I always like to watch them come around Jacobs Curve by the detector.
Ive always been a railfan and Im currently planning a model railroad but i lack rsilroad knowledge. The information and camera views in your videos are second to none. Your efforts are truly appreciated.
Thank you for the video! Fond memories of my dad taking me there. E. B. Fields, he was a conductor. Worked the railroad for 46 years. Most of my family were railroaders. ❤️
Anchor Hocking also had a Glass Manufacturing Plant in or around the Lancaster, Ohio, area.
My grandfather worked at this yard when it was B&O and when I was very little he would take me down to see the engine house and sit with the guys as they worked the turntable and moved equipment around. Fond memories of here and BO West.
I have fond memories of Connellsville where my grandparents leaved. My Grandfather was a B & O steam and diesel engineer (1903-1953). I spent several summers there. I spent two summers after he retired staying near downtown. Hopefully before I die, maybe make a trip there. I'm sure I would not recognize much.
What a beautifully detailed model railroad! I could swear it was real!
its soooooo real looking, lol.
What a wonderful video; relaxing, educational, clear and easy to understand. You should teach people how to make good videos. A lot of people who make videos could learn a lot from you.
Wow, thank you!
I love your videos about operations on a railroad. I worked mechanical at the (now defunct) AT&SF shops in San Bernardino. We never got close to operations, we were sort of the poor step children of the “real railroad.” I got to work on real power in the rewire program and ended up working in the traction motor end of the shops. Thanks for an education on the railroading that I missed.
That is well written.
great job explaining the ins and outs of the track yard...thanks for this..appreciated, dlg Maine
Dawson looks like a great place to get away to. I can imagine that whole area at full capacity in the 30s and 40s.
Great job DJ ( Trains and local history 👍 )
Hey DJ. I’ve watched this video dozens of times. Growing up in Connellsville myself it is so cool to see your shots of the area. Also love seeing Dawson at the beginning. My pap lived just up the hill in Dickerson Run and worked for the P&LE. He’s the reason I got into trains myself. Anyways enough rambling from me. Great job as always on your videos! - Jake
Went to conductor and engineer school in Atlanta with the same bunch of guys from Connellsville. Sadly they all have been furloughed.... Hopefully things pick up and they get back
Its horrible. WE NEED GUYS yet the company wants to keep cutting to raise the stock.
djstrains they’re having us bullshit work orders just to get cars off the clock cause we’re so short on manpower. We only got 2 guys on the conductor extra board
Hi DJ Trains. Hope you and all of your family are well and safe 👍🏻 Great drone footage with very interesting commentary 😊 It’s always a pleasure watching your videos. Cheers Stevie a train fan from the UK 🇬🇧
Great video i went down there last week to see Amtrak 30 and i stayed for about 4 hours and saw some great CSX action
Great video! Also Amtrak comes through here twice a day. Stops at the station right near the yard. (Sorry if I missed in video).
Talk about a post card town!! Absolutely breathtaking. First time I was more interested in drone views of a town more than railroads. Does CSX stand for Chessie System with the X meaning nothing? Always wondered. I appreciate your effort to take the time to post these videos. Especially because of your work, home, family life. Scott Taipale has a RUclips channel with awesome drone videos. I found him just by looking for Ohio trains. In my opinion he’s really good. If I won the lottery I would purchase that Victorian house
in Dawson PA.
X usuallys means corporation. In this situation I it means CHESSIE / SEABOARD corporation
@@djstrains thanks! Learn something everyday!
Beautiful video 👍 I was really impressed great job !!!!
Great video! I was lucky to have been able to railfan Sand Patch a few years ago, and we made sure that we visited Connellsville. The Amtrak station is a great place to railfan safely. There's also a pedestrian bridge over the mains near the turntable where you can get a good view over the yard.
yes
At last! A very well done video!
Glad you enjoyed it
Another excellent video with great drone footage... thanks DJ!
I recognized Dawson from a trip there in 2017 to see an amazing S-gauge layout in the Tri Town Area Historical Society. We visited the Sam Powell layout there that had been donated to the Society. A group of local volunteers had disassembled and then reassembled the layout in the Society building located at Howell & Main. The visit was one of the 2017 Pittsburgh TCA Convention tours that included Dawson and Connellsville, where we saw another terrific (HO) layout at the Connellsville Canteen. In addition to the layouts, there were tons of picture opportunities. Thanks for this video reminder of a pleasant afternoon in Western PA.
Very peaceful to watch and to listen to and to learn from. Thank you.
So nice of you
Great video! My grandfather's brother ("Dave Stambaugh") was an engineer on the B&O who lived in Connellsville all his life. I knew him as a gruff old man who loved kids and trains. He told me many stories about running the Capital Limited to and from Connellsville in the days of steam. My life-long love of trains got a big boost in 1962 when, at the age of 10, my grandfather brought me by train from Silver Spring MD to Connellsville where we stayed with "Uncle Dave" and "Aunt Marge". I got the thrill of my life that Sunday morning when Uncle Dave brought me up into the cab of an engine in the yard, let me notch the throttle, and then had me blow the horn a few times. He made me swear to secrecy, because he said he would get fired if anybody found out. I still remember the excitement. Of course, the Connellsville yard was much more extensive in those long-gone days. I still like to ride today's Capital Limited and take a quick walk around the Connellsville platform while the train stops there.
Thanks for this great video.
Too beautiful.
Thanks DJ!!! These views from above are awesome but also show
the hard work that was done to
build a railroad thru the mountains
and over rivers!! One takeaway thou
is we need a BIG space to do justice
to the railroad in HO scale or even
N Scale!!!!! Now if I could talk my
Wife into letting me build a sweet
Barndominium I would be set!!
👍👍👍😁😁😁😂😂😂😂
It’s really cool to see how towns grew along the railroad tracks. Towns and villages all over the place wouldn’t exist without the railroad!
Very cool. Love the curved bridge and old piers, that would be neat to model, as would the yard with turntable and a bunch of tracks removed.
Very nice. I have photographed in that area many times.
Outstanding video in all respects. Great insight into operations. Thank you! Gary
Glad you enjoyed it
Hi DJ. Great video. I live in Fairchance just south of Uniontown. At the end of your video the train is passing the Connellsville Amtrak which is just a shelter. It’s a good rail fan spot.
I'm working on a SWP video. Still need more footage.
djstrains - Come down here to Fairchance. The SWP comes through 2 times a day serving an industry in Smithfield. The track ends just south of the industry
Very interesting area. At the beginning of the video, you showed a fantastic town. I love the older designs of older buildings. Thank you.
Super video. Thanks for you presentations of railroading around the Pittsburgh especially areas like Connellsville yard which i model. I have added this video to my collection of your videos to reference for my PTDR Pittsburgh Terminal District Railroad. So thank you so much. I look forward and cant wait for all your new videos.
It great to see the rails in some other place than your own home town. I can tell how serious you take this by the matter of factness in your speach. Great history and all around information. Thanks!
Excellent, The Pennsylvania Tourist Board may soon be knocking on your requesting you work for them!
Such a nice little town. I'll bet you get to see a lot of nice countryside as an engineer if your not to busy. Thanks for all the great shots of the real railroads they help so much in see how real railroads are and work, this one was wonderful like the yard and the turntable was nice....thanks for sharing....Jack 👍👍
hobby store closed a couple years ago. The cantina is still open though.
You did a great job on this video.
Thank you!
That curved trestle is really neat. Would be interesting to model.
Thank you. This explains a lot to me about "small" yard operations.
Thanks DJ I really enjoy your videos, very informative and just plain relaxing!
Excellent video,full of information please make some more,stay safe from UK
Thank you for your time and the beauty of the road.
glad you like, my friend.
Thanks for the great (and scenic) video. I have been through Connellsville on Amtrak (both ways). It was dark both ways and all I could see was lots of cars. Great to see what the yard really looks like. I have also been through there on the GAP trail. That is a beautiful scenic trail.
Wow. Incredible foam.
Great video. That curve bridge over the river was really cool. Thank you for sharing
Awesome job DJ, loved it, Connellsville and Dawson are some of my favorite places to watch trains. Love the history of the area. Thanks for this dignified video showing the cool railroad stuff 😎...Wilmer
I wanted to contact you while I was filming but didn't have your number handy. I made this especially for you.
Thanks for posting that. I especially liked the sharply curved bridge over the river.
Nice video, DJ!
Glad you enjoyed it
djstrains I really enjoy your modeling videos. The way you explain day-to-day operations of railroads for folks like me, who don’t actually work for a railroad, really helps and puts things into better perspective. Keep up the great work!
Another really great video. I have to tell a friend of mine about this one..he grew up in Dawson and his dad worked for the P&LE. I've been to Connellsville with him a number of times but, we never got to rail fan while there.
Lovely looking town
What a beautiful area and Curved bridges
DJ, I wanted to commend you on your use of a gentle and quiet bass-track in the background. Many content creators overwhelm their videos with distracting music, often at relatively high levels. What you did with the background adds that little bit of ambiance that gently moves us through the pauses in your (excellent) narrative as your drone footage segues into new part of your story. Also, the pauses with the gentle music invite the viewer to really appreciate the scene. This is really professional work!! Bravo!! 😊❤
Thanks for noticing. I am really trying to make the best quality videos on RUclips and a lot of hours and thought goes into every video. Much appreciated comment!!
Connellesville Amtrak Station is where I go to rail fan. Plenty of action. Great Video DJ
DJ just amazing video. I have learned a lot from you please keep them coming.
Hey this is great to see, my hometown! Really such a different view from above. Thanks for covering it! On certain days, moreso in the winter, I can hear the horns blowing at the crossings all the way in Dawson. Nice to see an updated map of the yard with track capacities. I have some older ones. Do you ever think the yard will get some more tracks added again? Since they do some of the work that other yards used to do.
Wow that’s a huge yard
Fantastic video DJ love your drone footage of all these yards and the things most of us would never be able to see thanks for sharing stay safe and keep HIGHBALLING HOGGER 😎👉
Love the aspect from the drone gives a great perspective
Outstanding drone views. Keep up the great work!
Looks like a good town to model.
Thank you for sharing the beautiful US of A countryside and what on earth did we do before drones with cameras? JohnE UK 🇬🇧
My grandfather worked that yard until they moved dispstch to Jacksonville, he was a dispatcher. My mom and grandma both worked for anchor hocking glass, but that was way before i was a thought.
Excellent video in all respects.
Much appreciated!
DJ, another wonderful video including the abandoned turntable. Also, FYI... I love block signals. I really like ''dropped signals''. If you could accommodate, I would be thrilled. Just askin'.
Great idea!!
Great stuff, D.J.! I really enjoyed that....learned a lot, too! 👍
This is really neat you have got your self a new subscriber
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Superb video - really very interesting.
Thanks for sharing. Great video.
very nice DJ thanks again for your informative videos.
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Looking at all this, DJ, I can't help but wonder where the WM came in to the Connellsville yard. Or did they have their own yard? (edit) Oh, okay the bike trail is the former Western Maryland, which is what I model. I had to chuckle watching one of your other vids "Crazy Train Handling" when your friend Steve (apparently a former WM engineer) said "the B&O built tunnels, the Western Maryland went over everything" .. although I DO know there were two tunnels on the WM between Hagerstown and Connellsville .. I love watching your vids, man, thanks.
Other side of the river. Its a bike trail now.
Backed up pretty close to that pole at the end.
Wow I just want to go live there
Awesome video!
Glad you enjoyed it
There's another anchor-hocking glass facility with an absurd grade track lead just south of NS Conway Yard too(!) Out in Conway/Baden PA
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@@djstrains ill be darn. I used to live in the area for school and work and since moving south your videos make me nostalgic because I railfan'd both lines on my days off
The Anchor Hocking plant is in Monaca, PA off of old PL & E now CSX.
Really great video! Thank you so much for posting it! One comment I have is that the old piers that you mention a 9:02 were not part of a wye. Those piers were from the Ohio & Baltimore Short Line (O&BSL) bridge that existed prior to the time when the Sheepskin was built to Uniontown and further south. The B&O had hopes that the O&BSL would be a cutoff line that would allow traffic directly from Connellsville to Wheeling by bypassing Pittsburgh completely. The route was to head west across Fayette county and cross the Monongahela river from Newell to Coal Center, and head up the Pike Run Valley, and then follow the route of what is now I-70 into Washington PA. One pier of a bridge over the Monongahela was completed and still exists in Coal Center a few hundred yards downriver from the location where Pike Run enters the Monongahela. Partial grading of this line is visible along the north side of I-70 as you head west from PA 519 into Washington PA. The development of this route was stopped in the late 1800's amidst a financial panic.
Fascinating!!
Hi DJ. Thanks for Connellsville and Dawson. It looks so different from the air. In its heyday this area was quite prosperous due to the coke - making industry that fed the steel mills in Pittsburgh.
I heard most millionaires lived there back in the day.
@@djstrains There were quite a few. There was even a Kaufmans located there just up Crawford St. on the right beyond the hotel. You had to have some prosperity there to support those kinds of stores. They were also escaping the smog. If the steel mill owners had taken seriously their need to modernize and make their plants more environmentally friendly, maybe they would still be in business. If was the norm for them to just dump their refuse into the rivers.
@djstrains awesome video keep up the good work my friend
Fantastic! I love your fly-by’s videos 🤙
More to come!
I’m curious about how trains are loaded. There aren’t any videos about how the train is loaded with cargo. Where are they loaded? Who keeps up with what is in each car? Coal and oil cars are self explanatory. But a box car. Where do they get loaded? Where do they get unloaded?
i'll see, but that is not up to us and as crews we aren't informed about that part.
Very nice DJ, thanks from Erie, PA
Video was good! Seeing a creator on rise.
What a magnificent video. Well done!
Hi DJ, You may already know this, the bridge over the B&O sheepskin line now SWP, is the former Western Maryland Railway. Just beyond that bridge and along the Sheepskin is the former WM Bowest yard. The P&WV use to have trackage rights over the WM from their connection with the P&LE on the West / North end of Connellsville. Yes the Western Maryland tied in directly with the P&LE on top of the Giant Wall that once divide Connellsville, like the great wall of China. The P&WV (then after the N&W leased the P&WV in 1964) and N&W had trackage rights over the P&LE and WM to reach the WM's BoWest yard. What's neat is the P&LE station is still at West Crawford Ave and Seventh Street and yes that large tower at the P&LE station use to be at track level. If you head over to check out the former P&LE station, be sure to also check out the building across West Crawford Street (Railroad East of the P&LE Station) that was literally built around the concrete supports for the "Great Wall Of Connellsville". Neat stuff and lots of history. This is another great video DJ, I really like the drone footage, keep up the great work. Cheers, Rich S.
Roy Ward did an excellent presentation of it at the historical society last year.
That camera shot is incredible.
DJ, awesome! As always. Thanks.
I love how the real life bridge doesn't look prototypical :) Thank for another wonderful video full of ideas
You are so welcome!
Another great informative video, thanks for sharing!
I took Amtrak out of Connellsville last year. It’s nice to get some more background on the area. There was a auto rack train going back and forth in front of the station that I enjoyed watching while I was waiting for Amtrak. A westbound train also passed by the station while I was waiting (Amtrak earned its reputation of being late that day) and it was the first time I was close enough to a signal to see the light change as the engine passed. I wish I had the benefit of these videos before the trip so i could really appreciate everything, but I guess that might be an excuse to go back?
Knocked another one out of the park, DeeJay! Very enjoyable video!
Excellent video!! I remember when I was a kid, we would go & visit my grandparents in Connellsville, there used to be a stone arch bridge that went across town & over Rt 119. What railroad went thru there at that time?
On one side of Connellsville you had P&LE connect with Western Maryland on a viaduct
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Gorgeous views!
It really is!
Awesome drone shots!!
How come CSX doesn’t have any heritage engines?
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Cool video DJ, thanks for all the information.🚂🚂🚂
my new bli n scale engine is cx btw, i wanted wisconsin southern but csx and norfolk was my 2nd choice, also i love rolling thunder, one of my great joys