Your lessons on the history of the northeastern railroads are really delightful. Bring back the days of the good-old train! America needs to get back into training.
@@Trains21 You are welcome. Not only I 💙am a keyboard specialist who is growing computer literate, I am also a subway buff. Thank you for typing to me. Happy Railroading!
As a model railroader I follow the Union Pacific with its Heritage Units and big steam engines and I have collected many of their locomotives, rolling stock and passenger cars. You introduced me to a new can of worms to open for collecting. Oh No! Great video with lots of history!
An Awesome Video covering Rail Road history. Never realized how "intertwined" these many railroads are, much like NS & CSX are today. Very educational and obviously a result of lots of hard work and research over a period of time. Might take a few views to soak in ALL the history here. Thank you for building this video.. :)
Thanks, Commander.. To date, this is my flagship video!! Mainly because I had to capture 21 one-of-a-kind locomotives to make it!! Took me just over 3 years and at least 5 misses!!
An outstanding railroad video. Interesting and informative, much time, effort and attention to detail went into the production of this masterpiece. Thank you for posting your hard work for all to see. And many thanks to Norfolk Southern for their legacy presentations of fallen flag railroads.
AC, you've become a railroad system historian in your own right. You've completed such a wonderful presentation covering these heritage unit locomotives. You briefly touched on the systems that merged or sold, that was the Erie Lackawanna Railroad. It has been a while that I can recall, but I believe they were still in business through the 1960s. They had an East and Western corridor freight and passenger service into Indiana. This would be through communities of Decatur, Ossian, alongside the U.S. Federal Highway route 224, and further West. Most of the rural areas between the Rail Right-Of-Way and the Federal highway were growing fields full of Sugar Beets through the 1930s and 1940s. Now, there is only an empty right-of-way, similar to a property easement, and void of any rails. Then you mentioned the Penn-Central, and how they suffered until they had become a part of Conrail. Actually, the Penn-Central Merger was a business plan going awry. Whose responsible? Why the venerable CEO, who attempted, after his demise from the railroad, to take down Navistar Corporation. His Name was Archie McCardell. Yes, this guy! LINK: www.google.com/url?sa=i&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwia8KnE_7rbAhXumq0KHbsQC7oQjRx6BAgBEAU&url=http%3A%2F%2Fqconline.com%2Fbusiness%2Fmccardell-s-reign-as-ih-boss-wasn-t-dull%2Farticle_bd99422b-f2fd-5d4c-9405-10baeffbc6b5.html&psig=AOvVaw1btuXDJR3L88sSVqiMna4w&ust=1528235636864810
Thanks for your kind words Timothy, they're very much appreciated.. Old Arch had quite a controversial couple of years with IH to say the least!! Thanks for sharing.
Man, you did it again. Outstanding. I work around 70+ hours a week And dont have the time to do something like that out here with BNSF. With the harbor and all the container traffic plus all the other freight moving through here I’m sure there is a great story there. You must do a huge amount of research. So well done and very entertaining. Again, Bravo!!!
Thanks Don.. Yes, you do have a bundle of incredible stories way out west to tell.. Hopefully one day I can tell a couple of them but until then, maybe someone out there will take up the mantle!
Thank you for posting this. At least you did get the #8101 in action and I thank you for that. First, a really great video. You have some very nice HD video and stills. I wasted 30 minutes looking at a previous video (not by you) on the Heritage engines at Spencer, NC. They didn't even put the 8101 on the turntable, but I saw it sitting on the track. Secondly, thank you for your service. I served in the USMC from 1969 to 1973 and made Sgt. when I went to Vietnam in 1971. Well, by far the engine #8101, the Central of Georgia, is my favorite engine. Central of Georgia is one of the first railroads in the history of big roads. Central of Georgia acquired the Atlanta and Savannah which then was subsequently acquired by the Southern Railways which was then acquired by Norfolk Southern. So Norfolk Southern goes all the way back to Georgia! I would love to see a consist of Norfolk Southern followed by Southern, Central of Georgia and Atlanta and Savannah. I used to live in Georgia and have known quite a few former employees of the Central of Georgia. I guess that's why my model railroad is based on the Central of Georgia. Although I model the Central of Georgia, I permit Southern, Atlanta and Savannah, Louisville and Nashville, Tennessee Central and Norfolk and Southern to run on my layout. (P.S.- Just subscribed to your channel) W Rusty Lane in eastern Tennessee (Witherington Place Railroad)
Thank you for your honorable service to this great nation and your subscription to this channel and for your detailed and descriptive comment.. It's been a few years since I've been in Tennessee but I'm dying to get back to Nashville!! Love that place!!
Thanks for your prompt reply. Yes, sir, come on down to TN and do some shooting here. I'm sure you will enjoy it. W Rusty Lane in eastern Tennessee (Witherington Place Railroad)
Great job AC! That is large collection of railroad history as well as videos. It sure took a lot of railfanning to get all those shots. We ALL thank you! Cheers Dan. PS, I think the Wabash was my favorite.
This is the Best video I have seen in this Day, excelent historic content and of course a good job and effort to bring us all vídeos and pics of every heritages. This great channel deserve to hit the subscribe button.
I really enjoyed this. Love how NS went the extra mile with heritage units. I really love how you save the best for last and it’s my personal favorite RR.
The Southern will always be my favorite as my Dad's career was with Southern... retiring from Norfolk Southern in 1987. SOUTHERN RAILWAY SERVES THE SOUTH LOOK AHEAD LOOK SOUTH
I have had the pleasure of operating the Southern locomotive ( my Favorite), the Pennsylvania, and the Conrail locomotives on the CNO & TP from Chattanooga to Burnside KY. I have had my hands on the controls of the GE Southern locomotive more than any of the others. Unfortunately the last few times I saw SOU 8099 she was looking rode hard and put up wet. That's the real RR, it about running the crap out of stuff and making profits. It's fun to catch one of the Heritage units head out on the consist. Typically there are an abundance of railfan's along the route to greet you with camera's, smiles, waves and the pumping fist to blow the horn. It always gives me pleasure to oblige.
Thanks, Pixamite.. It's always nice when I hear from the people who run the railroad.. I wish I could see the world through your eyes.. I'll be railfanning (the old) Rathole hopefully next year.. Take care, and don't be a stranger, a lot of people on this channel would love to hear about your experiences.
Thank you for the wonderful reply. Yes I’ve seen a lot neat things through the windshields of a locomotive. Some things crazy, some outright bizarre, and many foolish acts as well. Yesterday I took the Erie 1068 north from Chattanooga to Burnside KY as head end power on empty coal train 709. I’m not a huge fan of EMD locos, but like the GE locomotives best. However the 1068 served me well. No issues and quieter and less cab vibration than many of the Older SD’s. Enjoy your railfan experiences and above all be safe! Maybe I’ll see you on the 2nd or 3rd district one day.
Love love love love this video. Your narration is superb and absolute stupendous. Hi Logan here been a subscriber of your channel for over a year. I’ve seen the NS SD60e Heritage unit #6920 honoring our veterans. The only one I’ve ever seen. Your history of all of NS’s predecessors are really neat. You mentioned my state of Ohio again
Excellent work. As a kid in the 50's, I recall seeing the rolling stock of America's railroads passing through my small town, which had the SP and MoP. As a brakeman for the SP out of Houston in the late 60's, I saw L&N and Southern engines at the 'round house' on Hardy Street. Coming and going on the H&TC [Houston & Texas Central - SP]. we would go through interlock systems in Houston with the MKT [Katy], in Navasota with the Santa Fe, and the MoP used SP tracks from Bryan, Tx to Navasota, Tx. I even had occasion to see a Rock Island freight on our line because of a derailment Now I live by the BNSF tracks, which passes by the farm, and I see engines from surviving railroads, such as NS, etc. Even saw a Southern Pacific engine a few years back.
Thanks, Scott.. I'm glad that you enjoyed it.. BTW, I didn't mention this on your page but congrats in catching the Jersey Central leading out there in the Altoona area..
In my Town (Manhattan, IL) a lady who got a N&W Caboose on display in downtown, her father was a station foreman for the Wabash, i cant remember what station it was. Wabash took over the railroad that went through my town so NS does have a small local that comes in usually around winter and never sees operation through my town after. my town is the last stop on Metra's Southwest Service commuter line.
csx has more important things to do with the little $$$ they have. like paying big bucks for executives. or paying off lawsuits. or giving back big dividends to the people who fronted the $$ for the csx takeover. csx as we know it will not exist in the long term. get those photos now.
If Norfolk Southern REALLY wanted to go over the top,they should arrange for each Heritage Unit to work the areas where those road names came from. Would be nice to see the old Pennsylvania,Reading,Lehigh Valley,Erie,New York Central locomotives on a regular basis.
NS has an Erie Lackawanna SD45-2, #1700, along with the SD70Ace. 1700 was actually originally built for the Erie Lackawanna, and was put in as an official heritage unit in addition to it's more modern counterpart.
Henry Huttleston Rogers is buried in Fairhaven, Massachusetts, just down the street from where I live. He built a high school, church, and elementary school here as well.
I actually caught 1030 on a manifest leaving NS Conway Yard heading Southeast, I believe it may have been 12G, but I didn't have a scanner, that same day, I caught the Savannah and Atlanta arriving in Conway, and the Wabash made a surprise appearance, although I wasn't able to get a photo, as I thought he had already passed.
The first NS heritage unit I’ve seen was 1074, and she went through at 08:16 CDT Christmas morning of 2020! She was rear DPU on an NB UP SATX coal train. I’m hope I can catch the other 19!
9:35 To celebrate CNJ's Blue Comet excursion train anniversary to Atlantic City, NJ, the leader is a Camelback 4-6-2 Pacific steam locomotive as the engineer sat in the cab in a boiler while the fireman worked inside the firebox. It runs with one steam locomotive "Camelback", two coal tenders, a CNJ diesel locomotive facing backwards, and 150 passenger cars. (Sleeper, diner, cafe, business class, club class, coach, coach baggage, and observation dome lounge car on the rear of the excursion train)
the conrail logo represents 2 wheels rolling down parallel tracks. something that was not always the case with predecessor PC. btw, i photoed 3091, in fresh paint in may,1976, also was my first blue CR loco.
The Original Norfolk Southern being my first heritage unit and the Interstate my second, they hold a special place in my heart. Especially since I caught them both by accident.
Penn Central was the merger between Pennsylvania and New York Central. The passenger service became Amtrak. The freight service became part of Conrail.
@@ajknaup3530 correct. Technically The Chessie System merged with The Seaboard System to become CSX. Chessie was the merger of B&O, C&O, and Western Maryland. The Seaboard System was a much larger merger of many southern railroads. NS also bought part of the old Delaware & Hudson in 2015. Union Pacific is another example of a Class 1 that bought up all competitors. They are the only Class 1 railroad that has not been formed from some sort of merger, or been bought out. They have Heritage units as well.
@@7GL6 In 2018 Norfolk Southern had 4100 locomotives according to their own reporting. So 20 would be a mere 0.49% of their fleet. Yes, I would say ludicrously unique, so unique that most of us will never see one, EVER. Even if they had 5 of each unit painted up that would still only be 100 total units. Not counting the NS heritage one. That would still only be 2.45% of their fleet.
@@sabgab you see them more frequently that you would think. There’s a phone app called heritage units that you can kinda track where they have been spotted
about 2000, I was at the tire store and behind ran the old PRR/NW richmond,Ind branch. While waiting for the new tires, Southern green painted GP59 went by on the point. never to see it again.
Conrail is all I knew. At the age of 14 I was old enough to notice the little service branch 1 block from my house. The line was below street grade and above as I lived on a hill. So 1977 it was Conrail running the freight. The best part was hopping a train as the train never went more than 10mph.
This answered a lot of questions I’ve had since Conrail was dissolved and CSX and Southern Norfolk SN split up Con Rail now I see who got who in the arrangement. Can you do the same for CSX who makes up CSX. That would be nice
I saw the Southern Heritage Unit (NS #8099) at the Horseshoe Curve during the day, and the Virginian Heritage Unit (NS #1069) in Downtown Altoona at night recently. The first NS Heritage Unit I ever saw was the Interstate Heritage Unit (NS #8105), but I only saw it briefly because It blurred by heading east while I was riding AMTRAK's Capitol Limited westbound to Chicago.
I saw one of these, out in the country in western Virginia, and thought I was going goofy. Had no idea there was an effort to do this. Railroads have a deep history in the US, and, it seems every time one of them goes away or gets purchased by one of the bigs, it just vanishes. I've never understood why the bigs, who now control most of the high iron and either directly own or have strong influence over local lines, haven't been aware of how important it's to keep the lines heritage, or identity, intact. Many lines were around for a long time and were connected to their home areas in many ways. Some were iconic, like the New York Central, the Penn, Erie, Boston & Maine and the New Haven. I think Connecticut started the trend when the began painting their power in the last New Haven colors, which were considered weird and strange when released back in the 50s but today are considered railroad high art.
![[GL][T-29] The History of Norfolk Southern's SD70ACU](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/RD4gZPAkqtY/mqdefault.jpg)
Your lessons on the history of the northeastern railroads are really delightful. Bring back the days of the good-old train! America needs to get back into training.
Thanks Captain.
@@Trains21 You are welcome. Not only I 💙am a keyboard specialist who is growing computer literate, I am also a subway buff. Thank you for typing to me. Happy Railroading!
Conrail was always my favorite. The blue was so iconic.
just saw it todat
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It's power consisted of hand-me-down locomotives from the Pennsylvania Railroad and the Southern and a handful of ALCO RS3s.
Amtrak was my favorite when they had the F-40ph fleet!...but Conrail was a second since blue is my favorite color
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As a model railroader I follow the Union Pacific with its Heritage Units and big steam engines and I have collected many of their locomotives, rolling stock and passenger cars. You introduced me to a new can of worms to open for collecting. Oh No! Great video with lots of history!
Awesome video! Thanks for helping me learn more about the NS Heritage Units. They are all beautiful-looking locomotives!
Thanks Man!!
An Awesome Video covering Rail Road history. Never realized how "intertwined" these many railroads are, much like NS & CSX are today. Very educational and obviously a result of lots of hard work and research over a period of time. Might take a few views to soak in ALL the history here. Thank you for building this video.. :)
Thanks, Commander.. To date, this is my flagship video!! Mainly because I had to capture 21 one-of-a-kind locomotives to make it!! Took me just over 3 years and at least 5 misses!!
An outstanding railroad video. Interesting and informative, much time, effort and attention to detail went into the production of this masterpiece. Thank you for posting your hard work for all to see. And many thanks to Norfolk Southern for their legacy presentations
of fallen flag railroads.
AC, you've become a railroad system historian in your own right. You've completed such a wonderful presentation covering these heritage unit locomotives. You briefly touched on the systems that merged or sold, that was the Erie Lackawanna Railroad. It has been a while that I can recall, but I believe they were still in business through the 1960s. They had an East and Western corridor freight and passenger service into Indiana. This would be through communities of Decatur, Ossian, alongside the U.S. Federal Highway route 224, and further West. Most of the rural areas between the Rail Right-Of-Way and the Federal highway were growing fields full of Sugar Beets through the 1930s and 1940s. Now, there is only an empty right-of-way, similar to a property easement, and void of any rails. Then you mentioned the Penn-Central, and how they suffered until they had become a part of Conrail. Actually, the Penn-Central Merger was a business plan going awry. Whose responsible? Why the venerable CEO, who attempted, after his demise from the railroad, to take down Navistar Corporation. His Name was Archie McCardell. Yes, this guy! LINK: www.google.com/url?sa=i&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwia8KnE_7rbAhXumq0KHbsQC7oQjRx6BAgBEAU&url=http%3A%2F%2Fqconline.com%2Fbusiness%2Fmccardell-s-reign-as-ih-boss-wasn-t-dull%2Farticle_bd99422b-f2fd-5d4c-9405-10baeffbc6b5.html&psig=AOvVaw1btuXDJR3L88sSVqiMna4w&ust=1528235636864810
Thanks for your kind words Timothy, they're very much appreciated.. Old Arch had quite a controversial couple of years with IH to say the least!! Thanks for sharing.
Thank you for this detailed history of the heritage locomotives.
Man, you did it again. Outstanding. I work around 70+ hours a week And dont have the time to do something like that out here with BNSF. With the harbor and all the container traffic plus all the other freight moving through here I’m sure there is a great story there. You must do a huge amount of research.
So well done and very entertaining. Again, Bravo!!!
Thanks Don.. Yes, you do have a bundle of incredible stories way out west to tell.. Hopefully one day I can tell a couple of them but until then, maybe someone out there will take up the mantle!
Thank you for posting this. At least you did get the #8101 in action and I thank you for that. First, a really great video. You have some very nice HD video and stills. I wasted 30 minutes looking at a previous video (not by you) on the Heritage engines at Spencer, NC. They didn't even put the 8101 on the turntable, but I saw it sitting on the track. Secondly, thank you for your service. I served in the USMC from 1969 to 1973 and made Sgt. when I went to Vietnam in 1971. Well, by far the engine #8101, the Central of Georgia, is my favorite engine. Central of Georgia is one of the first railroads in the history of big roads. Central of Georgia acquired the Atlanta and Savannah which then was subsequently acquired by the Southern Railways which was then acquired by Norfolk Southern. So Norfolk Southern goes all the way back to Georgia! I would love to see a consist of Norfolk Southern followed by Southern, Central of Georgia and Atlanta and Savannah. I used to live in Georgia and have known quite a few former employees of the Central of Georgia. I guess that's why my model railroad is based on the Central of Georgia. Although I model the Central of Georgia, I permit Southern, Atlanta and Savannah, Louisville and Nashville, Tennessee Central and Norfolk and Southern to run on my layout. (P.S.- Just subscribed to your channel)
W Rusty Lane in eastern Tennessee (Witherington Place Railroad)
Thank you for your honorable service to this great nation and your subscription to this channel and for your detailed and descriptive comment.. It's been a few years since I've been in Tennessee but I'm dying to get back to Nashville!! Love that place!!
W. Rusty Lane SALUTW AND SUB ME AND I SUBBES
Thanks for your prompt reply. Yes, sir, come on down to TN and do some shooting here. I'm sure you will enjoy it.
W Rusty Lane in eastern Tennessee (Witherington Place Railroad)
Great video and an excellent summary of history of these railroads. Well done AC.
Thanks, Paul.. Glad you liked.
Great job AC! That is large collection of railroad history as well as videos. It sure took a lot of railfanning to get all those shots. We ALL thank you! Cheers Dan. PS, I think the Wabash was my favorite.
Thanks, Dan.. Yes it was a lot of railfanning!! 3 years and 2 months worth!!
This is a GREAT video! It oughta be seen by every railfan and model railroader. Incredible amount of work done, and it's appreciated! Thank you.
Thanks Kevin.. I'm glad that you enjoyed it!!
just found your site..Awesome Information along with your great videos...Thank you for sharing...new sub..
Thanks, Shivas!! It's an honor to have you along for the ride!!
This is the Best video I have seen in this Day, excelent historic content and of course a good job and effort to bring us all vídeos and pics of every heritages. This great channel deserve to hit the subscribe button.
Thank you Alejandro, I'm glad you enjoyed it and thank you for subscibing.
I’ve never seen a heritage locomotive before, but I have seen a penn central coal car which was pretty cool
I really enjoyed this. Love how NS went the extra mile with heritage units. I really love how you save the best for last and it’s my personal favorite RR.
I'm glad that you enjoyed it.
AC, that was very good work. I really enjoyed that video, a lot of good information.
Thanks Kenney, I'm glad that you enjoyed it!
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Congratulations on a job well done!!
Thanks for giving America the greatest show on rails!
Thank you for a very well done history of NS's heritage units. Keep up the great job!
Thank you very much!
Very well done AC. I totally enjoyed watching. Excellent video.
Thanks, Hans.. It was 3 years and 2 months in the making!! LOL
I can't make mine. I haven't seen them all yet.
The Southern will always be my favorite as my Dad's career was with Southern... retiring from Norfolk Southern in 1987.
SOUTHERN RAILWAY SERVES THE SOUTH
LOOK AHEAD LOOK SOUTH
An excellently prepared and presented, and informative video! Thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it!
SUPER!!! Much Love ♥♥♥ Ivana
Thanks.
I have had the pleasure of operating the Southern locomotive ( my Favorite), the Pennsylvania, and the Conrail locomotives on the CNO & TP from Chattanooga to Burnside KY. I have had my hands on the controls of the GE Southern locomotive more than any of the others. Unfortunately the last few times I saw SOU 8099 she was looking rode hard and put up wet. That's the real RR, it about running the crap out of stuff and making profits. It's fun to catch one of the Heritage units head out on the consist. Typically there are an abundance of railfan's along the route to greet you with camera's, smiles, waves and the pumping fist to blow the horn. It always gives me pleasure to oblige.
Thanks, Pixamite.. It's always nice when I hear from the people who run the railroad.. I wish I could see the world through your eyes.. I'll be railfanning (the old) Rathole hopefully next year.. Take care, and don't be a stranger, a lot of people on this channel would love to hear about your experiences.
Thank you for the wonderful reply. Yes I’ve seen a lot neat things through the windshields of a locomotive. Some things crazy, some outright bizarre, and many foolish acts as well. Yesterday I took the Erie 1068 north from Chattanooga to Burnside KY as head end power on empty coal train 709. I’m not a huge fan of EMD locos, but like the GE locomotives best. However the 1068 served me well. No issues and quieter and less cab vibration than many of the Older SD’s. Enjoy your railfan experiences and above all be safe! Maybe I’ll see you on the 2nd or 3rd district one day.
Love love love love this video. Your narration is superb and absolute stupendous. Hi Logan here been a subscriber of your channel for over a year. I’ve seen the NS SD60e Heritage unit #6920 honoring our veterans. The only one I’ve ever seen. Your history of all of NS’s predecessors are really neat. You mentioned my state of Ohio again
Thanks Logan for subscribing, watching and enjoying my videos.
Your quite welcome
Hey Trainz21 what’s your name
another 5 star presentation... great history on all these locomotive... thanks for sharing.. vinny
Much appreciated Vinny.. I'm glad that you enjoyed it..
Love the channel and your narration. I just subscribed!
Thanks Man, subbed you back!!
Gotta love heritage units, a glimpse into an alternative universe without leaving our own.
Indeed.
Pity bnsf will never do heritage units same with csx. Miss seeing bn colors
Excellent work. As a kid in the 50's, I recall seeing the rolling stock of America's railroads passing through my small town, which had the SP and MoP. As a brakeman for the SP out of Houston in the late 60's, I saw L&N and Southern engines at the 'round house' on Hardy Street. Coming and going on the H&TC [Houston & Texas Central - SP]. we would go through interlock systems in Houston with the MKT [Katy], in Navasota with the Santa Fe, and the MoP used SP tracks from Bryan, Tx to Navasota, Tx. I even had occasion to see a Rock Island freight on our line because of a derailment Now I live by the BNSF tracks, which passes by the farm, and I see engines from surviving railroads, such as NS, etc. Even saw a Southern Pacific engine a few years back.
Where have you been Dave?? As always your recollections are fascinating.
Outstanding video AC, very nice work. Also nice job getting all 20 units! Enjoyed the video very much.
Thanks, Scott.. I'm glad that you enjoyed it.. BTW, I didn't mention this on your page but congrats in catching the Jersey Central leading out there in the Altoona area..
Great work as always, love these videos
Thanks, Akin.. Glad you liked
Really enjoyed this video. Good info, much of which I didn't know before. Thanks for sharing it. I'm a fan of the NS Heritage units.
Awesome video AC, Very well put together. Glad ya finally got your 1065! Now i just gotta finish off the 5 i need and get some redo’s. Congrats!
Thanks, Tyler!! Couldn't have done it without ya!!
Trains21 No problem AC! Thats what friends are for!
A very cool video. Great history on each unit. My favorite is the Wabash, although Ms. Connie is very pretty also! Thanks for sharing, Bro!
Thanks, Trav.. I like em' all obviously but if I had to pick just one it would be the VIRGINIAN.. I really love that yellow!!
I hve learned an awful lot of history watching your videos, awesome my compliments sir
Sir, yes sir!! Thanks, Gunny.. And thank you for your service.. Air Force here!!
Trains21 thank you for yoyr service as well sir
In my Town (Manhattan, IL) a lady who got a N&W Caboose on display in downtown, her father was a station foreman for the Wabash, i cant remember what station it was. Wabash took over the railroad that went through my town so NS does have a small local that comes in usually around winter and never sees operation through my town after. my town is the last stop on Metra's Southwest Service commuter line.
My Favorite has to be the Pennsylvania Rail Road (PRR) one I think it's the coolest :) Good video!
Great job on this! I love those Nickel Plate and Wabash units. CSX should have taken a clue. I miss those kitty cats.
Thanks, Man.. I'm kinda partial to the Virginian.
csx has more important things to do with the little $$$ they have.
like paying big bucks for executives.
or paying off lawsuits.
or giving back big dividends to the people who fronted the $$ for the csx takeover.
csx as we know it will not exist in the long term. get those photos now.
If Norfolk Southern REALLY wanted to go over the top,they should arrange for each Heritage Unit to work the areas where those road names came from.
Would be nice to see the old Pennsylvania,Reading,Lehigh Valley,Erie,New York Central locomotives on a regular basis.
Great job putting this video together!
Thanks, Joe.. Glad you enjoyed it!
I am a subscriber now so ill be watching you as always
Thanks, Man.. I hope that I don't disappoint
Great video!
I don't know how I missed it until now.
i didn't know that they had so many heritage units. that is awesome . ty. Love the Conrail..
Yep, 20 of em'.. And a lot of specialty painted locomotives too.. I think NS may have more than any other railroad.
NS has an Erie Lackawanna SD45-2, #1700, along with the SD70Ace. 1700 was actually originally built for the Erie Lackawanna, and was put in as an official heritage unit in addition to it's more modern counterpart.
Nicely done and well organized. I enjoyed it all.
Thanks, Mike.
22:05 Pan Am Railways #3402 is an EMD SD38.
22:04 Uuuuuuuuu...huuuuuuuuuuuuurrrrrrrrrrrr... PAN AM RAILWAYS
Always nice to learn history about old railroads
Great stuff. It's nice to see a sense of history in the railroad industry like that of the old B&O.
Thanks, Austin.
Awsome Video, great narration! I have 1071 in HO Scale, love that engine.
I subscribed by the way
Thanks, Man.. Much appreciated.
Great narration and editing AC!
Thank you Eric!
Boom!.... Perfect! Norfolk Southern should include it on their website 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 Bravo AC. Bravo
Thanks, Brat.. Much appreciated!
my two favorites have to be 1069 and 8098, not sure why but i really just love em
Henry Huttleston Rogers is buried in Fairhaven, Massachusetts, just down the street from where I live. He built a high school, church, and elementary school here as well.
Small world.. Thanks for that enlightening little nugget of local history..
I actually caught 1030 on a manifest leaving NS Conway Yard heading Southeast, I believe it may have been 12G, but I didn't have a scanner, that same day, I caught the Savannah and Atlanta arriving in Conway, and the Wabash made a surprise appearance, although I wasn't able to get a photo, as I thought he had already passed.
The first NS heritage unit I’ve seen was 1074, and she went through at 08:16 CDT Christmas morning of 2020! She was rear DPU on an NB UP SATX coal train. I’m hope I can catch the other 19!
Born in an N&W town of Williamson, WV. They still ran some steam locomotives on the Pocahontas Division until the early 1960s.
Nice
I just saw the Wabash unit not long ago just outside Buffalo ,NY. Looks great in person.
Indeed it does.
9:35 To celebrate CNJ's Blue Comet excursion train anniversary to Atlantic City, NJ, the leader is a Camelback 4-6-2 Pacific steam locomotive as the engineer sat in the cab in a boiler while the fireman worked inside the firebox. It runs with one steam locomotive "Camelback", two coal tenders, a CNJ diesel locomotive facing backwards, and 150 passenger cars. (Sleeper, diner, cafe, business class, club class, coach, coach baggage, and observation dome lounge car on the rear of the excursion train)
9:36
9:29
9:55 Conrail detours on CNJ in 1976
thanks again for another great video, learned much thank you.
Thanks, KD
Fantastic Job AC I Love It
Thanks, Tim!!
Trains21 You’re Welcome Man
Love your videos Keep up the good work
Thanks Travis.
NS 8100 is hands down my favorite NS heritage unit
Mine is the 1069
the conrail logo represents 2 wheels rolling down parallel tracks.
something that was not always the case with predecessor PC.
btw, i photoed 3091, in fresh paint in may,1976, also was my first blue CR loco.
Cool.. What a great catch.
@Trains21 Thanks! That Pan Am SD40-2 is all yours. Let's add it to your collection.
Now I just have to get a model of one!
Thanks for the history lesson!
Anytime, Robert.
The Original Norfolk Southern being my first heritage unit and the Interstate my second, they hold a special place in my heart. Especially since I caught them both by accident.
For me the 2 ones are CP 7018 snd CSXT 5500.
18:05 It’s nickname came from the Norwalk Ohio Chronicle that billed it as the great New York and St. Louis double track Nickel-Plated Railroad.
Fanatic work guys u so rock
Thanks DJ.. I'm glad that you enjoyed it
I got the Lehigh Valley in Johnson City TN a dew days ago
Thanks for this: I'm working out which railroads preceeded which, especially with Penn Central & Conrail.
Penn Central was the merger between Pennsylvania and New York Central. The passenger service became Amtrak. The freight service became part of Conrail.
@@UrMomsChauffer Great, thanks. Then Conrail was bought up by Norfolk Southern & Chessie?
@@ajknaup3530 correct. Technically The Chessie System merged with The Seaboard System to become CSX. Chessie was the merger of B&O, C&O, and Western Maryland. The Seaboard System was a much larger merger of many southern railroads. NS also bought part of the old Delaware & Hudson in 2015. Union Pacific is another example of a Class 1 that bought up all competitors. They are the only Class 1 railroad that has not been formed from some sort of merger, or been bought out. They have Heritage units as well.
Excellent video.
Thanks, Allen.. Has it warmed up there in Canada yet?? LOL
20 Heritage units, that is cool, but what is sad is that there is ONLY ONE OF EACH!!!
Yeah, right!
@@7GL6 In 2018 Norfolk Southern had 4100 locomotives according to their own reporting. So 20 would be a mere 0.49% of their fleet. Yes, I would say ludicrously unique, so unique that most of us will never see one, EVER. Even if they had 5 of each unit painted up that would still only be 100 total units. Not counting the NS heritage one. That would still only be 2.45% of their fleet.
@@sabgab you see them more frequently that you would think. There’s a phone app called heritage units that you can kinda track where they have been spotted
I caught 1067 at the NS intermodal yard in Charlotte. My first time seeing a herritage unit and now 1067 is my favorite.
My first too
Oh YES! So great to see this! I was getting worried.
Thanks, Bethany.. Always nice to be missed!! LOL
about 2000, I was at the tire store and behind ran the old PRR/NW richmond,Ind branch.
While waiting for the new tires, Southern green painted GP59 went by on the point.
never to see it again.
Nice memory.. Bad that you didn't get a picture though..
13:37 An early advertising character whose white gown remains spotless when riding Lackawanna's passenger trains.
Great video! Cheers to the CEO that ordered the paint jobs!
Thanks. Charles Moorman.
Awesome, thanks for posting.
Thanks, Bob.
Conrail is all I knew. At the age of 14 I was old enough to notice the little service branch 1 block from my house. The line was below street grade and above as I lived on a hill. So 1977 it was Conrail running the freight. The best part was hopping a train as the train never went more than 10mph.
This answered a lot of questions I’ve had since Conrail was dissolved and CSX and Southern Norfolk SN split up Con Rail now I see who got who in the arrangement. Can you do the same for CSX who makes up CSX. That would be nice
I have seen the savannah to Atlanta heritage unit at the Sam crossing in hahira Georgia
It was in Binghamton few weeks ago
1014 has the best horn I've heard on a modern diesel.
N&W 2156 Y6a you should hear the central of Georgia horn it’s a k5hla
@@ironhorsemedia2881 eeh
On the other heritage unit, I did remember a GEVO for Kansas City Southern de Mexico. Nice! :D
That's cool that you noticed that.. It kinda bummed me out that I couldn't bring more attention to it.
I saw the Southern Heritage Unit (NS #8099) at the Horseshoe Curve during the day, and the Virginian Heritage Unit (NS #1069) in Downtown Altoona at night recently. The first NS Heritage Unit I ever saw was the Interstate Heritage Unit (NS #8105), but I only saw it briefly because It blurred by heading east while I was riding AMTRAK's Capitol Limited westbound to Chicago.
Interesting
Nice catches of the heritage units!
Thanks, Man!!
Great video A.C.
Thanks for the trains that we never get to see
You're most certainly welcome.
this video brings back horrors of 1976.
seeing PC
I feel your pain.
26:13 Owner George Brenson completed 43 miles before he ran out of money in 1909, and New York Banks took over and completed the line.
My hometown (Kent Ohio) was built around the Erie railroad and still has a few old cars in their original scheme and an old Erie station.
Nice
Can you please talk about the Amtrak P30CH locomotives for the next video???
I thank you for the suggestion but I have to ask what in particular you'd like me to talk about??
Excellent. Great lesson in railroad history.
Thanks Dingle, glad you liked
Great stuff A.C.
Thanks Carl.. It was a pleasure to meet your acquaintance.
awesome video and catches.
Thanks, Phil.
I saw one of these, out in the country in western Virginia, and thought I was going goofy. Had no idea there was an effort to do this. Railroads have a deep history in the US, and, it seems every time one of them goes away or gets purchased by one of the bigs, it just vanishes. I've never understood why the bigs, who now control most of the high iron and either directly own or have strong influence over local lines, haven't been aware of how important it's to keep the lines heritage, or identity, intact. Many lines were around for a long time and were connected to their home areas in many ways. Some were iconic, like the New York Central, the Penn, Erie, Boston & Maine and the New Haven. I think Connecticut started the trend when the began painting their power in the last New Haven colors, which were considered weird and strange when released back in the 50s but today are considered railroad high art.
Cool!! Do you remember which engine that you saw??
Can you history on Union Pacifics heritage next???
Sure will.. Just as soon as I see them all! LOL
Thats gonna take a while to see the UP heritage. LOL
this shit is awesome, its like watching a game with throwback uniforms
21:43 The Allinoy terminal continued to operate as a freight railroad until the Norfolk & Western bought it in 1981.
Outstanding video.
Thanks, John.