Tops, Steve & Cheers ! Excellent narration/footage too. It looks like some of the areas are around 'bad' surroundings with Security watching closely. My bad experience was riding my bike around the back of Distribution warehouses with angry German shepherds leaping at us from behind a tall fence, their teeth were showing as they barked at us riding by, we exited to a better area though safely by, and yes, it was fun in those '70's teen years after summer school ended for me @ 12 noon, good memories. Fun times.
8:16, I do believe this is an Alco C628. If not, then it’s either a C630, or a C636. Anyhow, the Alco Century diesels all look very aesthetically pleasing. I, who is someone born in 2006, never got to see any of these, but I still say they look great.
Well your picture of 676 with the Northwestern cars has inspired me to recreate it in HO scale. I already had the coaches and I was shocked to learn that Walthers actually made 676.
With the water level in the canal dropping over the last couple of years due to El Niño and the number of boats passing through restricted to save water, now would be a great time for the Railway to further improve its intermodal capacity and transit times to further prove its worth as an alternative and competitor to the canal.
Terrific photos, especially considering the era when film and processing costs prohibited taking an unlimited number of snaps. The rail industry really was in tough shape then, both freight and passenger. Who would want to board some of that rickety rolling stock for a ride to work downtown?
6:45 the A.20 must’ve been so much different from now. I’ve been there a few times, and I always see this siding where it looks like the C&M was triple tracked up until the Northbrook Metra stop. I wonder if that was there when you were young.
I’m from Hong Kong and I’m really surprised you took pictures of our EMD, sadly since the freight service has closed in 2010, they were used for maintenance until 2021 because of signal change leading to their retirement, unfortunately only three were preserved. I’m also surprised that you visited my family’s Chinese home city Chongqing and my current city Hong Kong, also you have showed a lot of rare locomotive and the steam factory. (a lot of the railway lines you’ve seen it already gone or has been replaced by high-speed lines.)
Ha! “They’re called EIGHTHUNDREDS” I can hear the tension in your breath… hahahaha! This was great. I was stationed at Great Mistakes Naval Painful Center 1989, 90 then went to the Gulf War and Somalia, then back to Grave Mistakes in ‘93 I saw some memories brought to life here, so thanks. I didn’t do as much rail fanning as I could have, but I walked out to Rondout tower from the base and the J used to grind by the Navy base just about every afternoon. Rode the South Shore but not the IC electric. Got a few decent slides of the BN E unit fleet.
Great video. Thank you for capturing an historic time in railroading. I started rail fanning around the same period. A lot more diversity of railroads and locomotives back in those days. Really liked Rock Island too bad they didn’t merge with Southern Pacific.
28:58 and to think they would build there last JS class a few years later for one of the last ones to be sent to the states, since it was cheaper then rebuilding even with shipping.
This is definitely one of the best video I have ever seen on youtube. Thank you so much for it. My parents are both the same age of you, they graduated from university in 1985 and just started to work at this time. My dad then went to the US in 1989 to do a research degree in computer science, after he returned to China he worked as a system engineer for telephone and mobile exchanges and travelled to every single province of China for his work. Your photos allows me to see my parents' early age and how it was back then in the country. I'm very grateful to your courage of travelling in a complete foreign country all by yourself, which brings such precious records of what China was like back in the time.
Amazing what pops up in RU-vid! An excellent timpiece, capturing the colonial differences along with mixed British and American practice. And yes, those Bulldogs are hanging in!
