These were the days of manned helpers that waited in Hyndman, PA. to push a manifest over the grade, and then return back down to wait for the next one. I grew up in the area and walked through Falls Cut tunnel quite a few times to get to the swimming hole.
This is great! Love watching the Chessie era I grew up in! The old B&O mainline to Chicago was just 20 miles north of my home in Indiana. If I wasn't up there taking pictures, i was listening to them on the scanner from home! Thanks!!
Nice video babyhars93. I really enjoyed the phase 3 amtrak at the beginning (with short baggage cars!) and the variety of early CSX paint schemes. I always liked the Chessie paint scheme and even the stealth CSX and Seaboard System scheme and it is nice to see those old locos still doing their job pulling heavy tonnage up the grade.
Thanks for posting this. I read about Sand Patch in an old Trains magazine a long time ago. I’m from Minnesota and will probably never make it there but this video gives some kind of feel for the grades that I couldn’t quite get from the article. I imagine all those grades are compensated-it would be wild to accurately model the curves in HO scale.
These were the days of manned helpers that waited in Hyndman, PA. to push a manifest over the grade, and then return back down to wait for the next one. I grew up in the area and walked through Falls Cut tunnel quite a few times to get to the swimming hole.
This is great! Love watching the Chessie era I grew up in! The old B&O mainline to Chicago was just 20 miles north of my home in Indiana. If I wasn't up there taking pictures, i was listening to them on the scanner from home! Thanks!!
Nice video babyhars93. I really enjoyed the phase 3 amtrak at the beginning (with short baggage cars!) and the variety of early CSX paint schemes. I always liked the Chessie paint scheme and even the stealth CSX and Seaboard System scheme and it is nice to see those old locos still doing their job pulling heavy tonnage up the grade.
Thanks for posting this. I read about Sand Patch in an old Trains magazine a long time ago. I’m from Minnesota and will probably never make it there but this video gives some kind of feel for the grades that I couldn’t quite get from the article. I imagine all those grades are compensated-it would be wild to accurately model the curves in HO scale.
Sand Patch Grade at its best!