Allow me to use ONLY - the under 10 seconds (Cuz of what you told me last time I wanna keep the usage as minimal as possible.) of the Centipede? (If not why?)
I remember the "To Hell & Back". 🙂 I grew up in Oakville, near the Ford plant and recall seeing TH&B trains in that area. I also recall TH&B passenger trains leaving from Union Station in Toronto.
Former CN employee here, though I was a telecommunications tech. Back in the mid 70s, when I worked in Northern Ontario, I frequently rode freights, either in the engine or caboose. While I was based in Capreol, I traveled over much of the province, as I was a relief tech, relieving other techs who were on vacation, training or simply needed a hand with some extra work. I'd get up to Armstrong or down to Stratford. When I rode in the caboose, I'd usually be up in the cupola and in the middle seat when in the engine. One thing I recall is when I hopped on or off a freight, it was usually moving slowly, as the engineer didn't want to stop the train, if he didn't have to. I also occasionally was a passenger on the Ontario Northland, when I was traveling to or from Kapuskasing. As for the different tracks at Washago, that goes back to when the Bala and Newmarket subs were entirely different railways. There is or was a similar situation at Oba, where the Algoma Central crossed CN, with the ACR tracks on the north side of the station and CN on the south.
I've got this on VHS when it first came out. It's the reason why I started making annual trips to the Pokey.....until they started replacing the N&W CPL signals and Obama's War on Coal decimated the traffic.
It really sucks that the other electrics the New Haven had at this time were all either scrapped or sitting out of service rotting away. All thanks to the idiot management's efforts to de-electrify. Thanks to them no one other than New Haven fans knows about the EP-3 flat bottoms, EP-4 streamliners, or the EF-3 monster power machines. 😢
Big SD's, F units, 40- and 50-foot box cars, open auto racks, cabooses, kerosene markers, open stations, tissue-paper train orders, and jointed rail. While today's railroading is certainly dynamic, it lacks the character of that earlier time.
I like to picture a bunch of NYC executives leaving a screening of The Great Race discussing the brilliance of Professor Fate's rocket rail sled. I also imaging somebody inside this thing yelling "Hit the button, Max!!!" just before take off.
Notice most of these trains have several head-end cars. Passenger trains carrying mail were still somewhat profitable. When the Post Officd cancelled most mail contracts, the railroads started petitioning the ICC to drop passenger service, citing heavy losses. Some pundits still think the airlines bribed either Post Office officials or LBJ, to get mail off of trains and onto planes.
Would you allow me to use a bit of UP footage (Like OttoMatic in his C855 video.)for UP music videos? NOTE: My channel is anti-profit, means only for beautiful videos and sometimes educational vids or songs. ~Lexie
Thank you for your support on our videos, unfortunately we have to decline further granting of usage of this footage. Best of luck with your UP projects though!
@@greenfrogproductionsltd. Sorry? Could you make an exception? PLEASE! (My deepest apologies for this outburst but this is the only footage I could find and I'm startin' to get desperate cuz again - NOTHING FOUND. As I said, my channel is anti-profit. Go take a look if you don't believe me sir.)
Well Sir the issue is that we have allowed a good bit of footage to be used as it is from our library, at some point this waters down our normal Disc sales which is our living!
