Great video. I live in Altoona, and it was almost seeing all the familiar locations with Conrail equipment, old signals and more. Awesome seeing the track east of AR, torn up for the DoubleStack project.
Leslie S3L's were the best horn Conrail had. That deep, lonesome sound coming from those horns was epic. Sounded great on a foggy or humid night. You could hear that thing for miles 😊
The glory days. How I wish I was born 10-20 years earlier. This is the kind of action one could dream for today. Gallitzin and the Slope are still awesome places even today, but still a far cry from what once was.
Those cars are for remote maintenance-of-way work crews. They were used for projects that lasted over several days or weeks away from a crew base such as Altoona, in remote areas or where hotel space wasn't readily available. I photographed a cluster of them parked in a siding near the state Rt. 271 bridge at East Conemaugh, just east of Johnstown in 2007. There was a large hi-railer truck parked there, and the crew had set up a portable canopy with a couple of chairs to relax in. I think they were in the process of ripping out East Conemaugh Yard, which served the steel mills and the Railcar America plant there, most of which have been torn down or had operations severely curtailed. There are still some storage tracks and a couple of sidings for MOW equipment remaining at the site.
Beautiful part of the country and Conrail's Royal Sky Blue, or whatever they called it, was the most striking of the modern railroads, second, maybe, to Chessie System. Lots of beautiful SD40-2s, which wikipedia states, " became the industry standard". I think Conrail purchased 167 SD40-2s, in addition to old Penn Central SD40s.
I love how con rail was unique sorry if I’m wrong but I never seen so many back engines on trains like con rail I love it I wish the could bring them back those blue machines need to ride the rails again!!
You have to have helpers on a lot of the Pitt line. Its quite a climb over the Allegheny Mountains and its a rollercoaster coming out of them. NS still uses them
@@juankintana6533 Yes its pretty common in mountainous territory. NS has dedicated crews that do nothing but run up an down the mountain shoving at the rear or trains otherwise they could possibly break a knuckle or even string line. Going downhill they add additional braking power. Its also pretty common now on CSX and NS to see unmanned DPU (distributed power units) in the middle of trains. CSX does it a lot, you'll see one engine up front and another in the middle of the train
Mike Pilyih i get gotcha now, yesterday I got to see 2 small freight locomotives of florida east coast railway haulin like 5 6 cars and 1 locomotive on each end
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I miss those position lights already! Outstanding video!
Real nice video!! I am impressed with the sharpness of the picture considering it was from the early 1990's.
If you think this is clear for it’s time period you should check out some of fmnut’s videos that are even older than this footage.
Epic video. Didn’t realize how much NS and the current state of the Pittsburgh Line could suck until I watched this
Great video. I live in Altoona, and it was almost seeing all the familiar locations with Conrail equipment, old signals and more. Awesome seeing the track east of AR, torn up for the DoubleStack project.
Beautifully shot!
Wonderful video! Loved the horns back then.
Leslie S3L's were the best horn Conrail had. That deep, lonesome sound coming from those horns was epic. Sounded great on a foggy or humid night. You could hear that thing for miles 😊
The glory days. How I wish I was born 10-20 years earlier. This is the kind of action one could dream for today. Gallitzin and the Slope are still awesome places even today, but still a far cry from what once was.
Wonderful video. Love the scenery on the Pittsburgh line. I would love to visit that sometime in the future
I've been to it before. I loved it, and I think you will too!
Conrail Blue set against the colorful backdrop of the Northeastern part of the Country was totally unbeatable.
Great video!
what is that train at 2:00 hauling? Fema trailers? Conpail.
Those cars are for remote maintenance-of-way work crews. They were used for projects that lasted over several days or weeks away from a crew base such as Altoona, in remote areas or where hotel space wasn't readily available. I photographed a cluster of them parked in a siding near the state Rt. 271 bridge at East Conemaugh, just east of Johnstown in 2007. There was a large hi-railer truck parked there, and the crew had set up a portable canopy with a couple of chairs to relax in. I think they were in the process of ripping out East Conemaugh
Yard, which served the steel mills and the Railcar America plant there, most of which have been torn down or had operations severely curtailed. There are still some storage tracks and a couple of sidings for MOW equipment remaining at the site.
Beautiful part of the country and Conrail's Royal Sky Blue, or whatever they called it, was the most striking of the modern railroads, second, maybe, to Chessie System.
Lots of beautiful SD40-2s, which wikipedia states, " became the industry standard". I think Conrail purchased 167 SD40-2s, in addition to old Penn Central SD40s.
I love how con rail was unique sorry if I’m wrong but I never seen so many back engines on trains like con rail I love it I wish the could bring them back those blue machines need to ride the rails again!!
You have to have helpers on a lot of the Pitt line. Its quite a climb over the Allegheny Mountains and its a rollercoaster coming out of them. NS still uses them
Mike Pilyih I had no idea honestly in Florida it’s a really rare thing to see back engines on the CSX Or Florida east coast railway
@@juankintana6533 Yes its pretty common in mountainous territory. NS has dedicated crews that do nothing but run up an down the mountain shoving at the rear or trains otherwise they could possibly break a knuckle or even string line. Going downhill they add additional braking power. Its also pretty common now on CSX and NS to see unmanned DPU (distributed power units) in the middle of trains. CSX does it a lot, you'll see one engine up front and another in the middle of the train
Mike Pilyih i get gotcha now, yesterday I got to see 2 small freight locomotives of florida east coast railway haulin like 5 6 cars and 1 locomotive on each end
Gotta take all these CR reels, and make a DVD 🔥
2:37 was the line being built or demolished?
Rebuilt. Lowering the track for the double stack project.
I like great video
Isn’t Cresson west of gallitzin? 😂
Why was the line that ran East of AR Tower to the New Portage Tunnel ripped out?
It was ripped out because they were clearing the tunnel for double stacks.
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I see.
🙏👊
No graffiti on the freight cars either.
Working Christmas New year party next year we need 12 billion in full swing Baldwin locamotive Green Bay main hub rights to print stock $104 a share 12,000,000 under Conrail CRS railroad to the public at a quarter dividend stocks company hold 8,000,000 4,000,000 to test the waters of the stock market printed color green
My daughter doesn't now my legal ability her Hebrew name hanna gallion Ohio she hardle now me but we talk a little she go by Day as name that worth fighting for in my book there a watt in me legal will make me fight for justice equility nice helper Conrail when it ore by fore now