I remember, pre-Amtrak, when we would go to the various stations in Chicago. They were like railway museums, with so many train companies with their own car styles, locos, and paint schemes. So bland nowdays.
Thanks for posting this video! Was that an Amtrak turboliner?! WOW! THIS IS an incredible video! This gives us model railroaders an insight on the equipment that was used back then to replicate on a layout! Again, thanks for posting this!
My grandmother’s house was 200 feet from the KCS mainline in Ravanna, Arkansas. This brings back memories of those days when I’d spend hours waiting for and watching trains. I loved those old ghosts.
I really enjoyed reading the comments on this video, I also remember the 70’s as a boy, I was born in Sacramento in 1965 and lived in Roseville when the Roseville yard blew up! That was insane, the house rattled forever it seemed. Then a year later we moved to Dunsmuir then Klamath Falls, OR. Dad worked for SP since 1965 and hired out of Oakland and retired about 12-15 years ago. I remember rural California just as seen in this video, everything then was a lot slower and wasn’t flooded with people. Then I consider how life is today for the people in California and it’s shocking how people tolerate all the garbage from the State government, not to mention how bad the illegal immigrant population has grown to, unbelievable. We sacrificed so much to build our country and State all to just gradually give it over to a replacement population. Oh well.
2:56 This unit (96-C) ran trains at the Indiana Transportation Museum for several years. It hasn't run in a while and right now it's sitting in a field with a few other former ITM units, awaiting eventual pickup and delivery to the Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society. I'm not sure if they just plan on cosmetic restoration or getting everything running, but they've got a long way to go either way.
Some of the crisper and clearer '70s footage I've seen! The sound always adds so much too. The looks of the trains already had a lot more personality than today, but the sounds seem to even more so. So many mechanical bells, EMD 567s, and a wider variety of horns.
This has to be fake or photoshopped/edited. There was no graffiti ANYWHERE!!? Not on the rail cars, street signs, building walls, bridges, basically anywhere spray paint could be applied 😂🤣 j/k. Great video though, thanks 👍
Amazing footage!! The sights of railroads in the past are always one thing, but the sounds are a whole different level. Also, I was frantically trying to track down the location of the shot at 11:03. Somewhere in the back of my mind I thought I'd been at that same crossing in recent years on a trip to Chicago, but I doubted myself on it. Turns out I was right, and it's on Canal St. It just struck me as odd that there was an at-grade crossing in downtown Chicago when I crossed there, but I assumed there were probably several more at the time of the video and the one seen here was probably somewhere else. As of 2021, it looks like the Cassidy Tire building in the background is still standing and doing good business. There's still quite a bit of crossing equipment there and even a mechanical bell still on one of the signals as of the 2021 shot.
I lived and grew up with my parents backyard facing Airline Hwy Metairie Louisiana and Kansas City Southern track was right outside my parents backyard! I'm 59 years old so i got to see all of the old engines when they were in service including the F9 locomotives and man i miss those days! Locomotives back then had character unlike the ugly locomotives of today! The U boats and GP's and SD's were a common sight and even the old high hoods which i usually saw on the Central Ave tracks which was at the back of my parents neighborhood!
Hey Nick, love your stuff. Would it be okay if i use some of your clips for an upcoming video project on the grand railway hotels of Canada. I’ll credit you appropriately on screen for everything. Thank you
A great vid to be sure , I rode Denver to SLC and return in 1974 on two Kodachrome days and had a blast , spent several days later chasing trains on the Front Range and west. Man, I miss the Rio Grande !!
So weird to watch GM&O E8m 100A (rebuild from B&O EA 52) pulling the Abraham Lincoln NORTH out of Union Station on the St Louis to Milwaukee through Chicago route.
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I miss the Cascade green, I miss the EMD Fs the variety of freights, no boring unit trains, well I really miss my youth! The 70s were a good time in the NW for me.
Here in the BNSF rail yard in Superior, Wisconsin there are a couple locomotives in their original Cascade green doing yard duties with the white diagonal stripes on their fronts. There is also a green caboose that is on the rear of small consists that go around the city 😊
My dad worked for the railroad in the early ‘50’s in Chicago when I was a child. As our relatives started moving west, we would take several trips by train to visit, I guess he got special rates and first-class accommodations. I so loved those train trips: exploring the train, sitting for hours watching the country roll by from our bedroom, heading to the observation dining car for meals with linen tablecloths and silver utensils, running to the last car and watching the ribbon of rail speed by. Getting off at the longer stops and running to the front to look at, smell, and hear the drumming of the engines. The colors so bright and vivid. Cokes and snacks in the lounge car, and of course going to bed in a the upper berth and being lulled to sleep by the clickty-clack. That got me hooked on trains and model railroading.
Great shots of the Alhambra station area. Not long after this the Sunset Route was lowered into a trench, the station was abandoned, torched by vandals and subsequently demolished.
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