Along the Jersey Central Volume 5 

With the Wall Street Journal , had the Hershey squirts looking for the nearest tree. Best line in all your videos

Just found this series...my Dad was a locomotive engineer on the Jersey Central for 42 years, mostly on the Bay Head to Jersey City shore run. He did do the coal run for a few years when I was a kid. His dad ran the coal route his entire career....and met my grandmother in the hard coal region.

Great picture quality film and fun commentary.

Hershey Squrits lol great footage

I grew up along side of a new jersey freight line called "Penn Central". It is NOW known as "The River Line". When I was growing up '60s-'80s is was Penn Central then Conrail before it was turned into the River Line. Most of my life it was a single track from Trenton to Camden that clearly had been double track at one time. I also know it was originally built as "The Camden Amboy Railroad" - one of the very first passenger services in the entire country. They claimed to be THE FIRST but as I later learned, several railroads were competing for that distinction and several railroads claimed it in spite of the facts. I don't know which one is correct, only that several claim it. In its current incarnation, its under the banner of NJT although it is being run almost entirely as an independent service by Bombardier. Neighbors tell of passenger service along that line up into the '50s when a named train "The Nellie Bly" came around a corner too fast or found the bridge out - I don't recall which. All I know is that is crashed into the Rancocas Creek. I am wondering if you have any films about my line. I will always think of it as Penn Central but it has so much history surrounding it.

One of the best videos of its kind - very folksy and unprofessional - two qualities which make it wonderful. Great footage and interaction with real railroaders.

Wow! Onboard on the back track! Can’t wait to get my hands on this gem!

I wish these are organized but hey these videos are epic

Great video!! Thanx.👍🏻👍🏻

Great video love it

Hey John? Can we get a Wilkes-Barre area films collection? So the Wyoming valley. Idk buy that up in a heartbeat beat even if it was 80 bucks!

I was gna say this sounded like one of the voices from alcatraz

There's no shitter in a caboose?

The switch at 4:02 that Walter is closing, what is the purpose of that one rail switch?

The clip at 4:30... is that push up past stefko blvd to where Just Born is?

Hershey squirts 🤣😅🤣

Do you have any footage of the CNJ’s operations in South Jersey? I don’t think their passenger trains went that far, but I believe they had freight operations that went all the way down to the Delaware Bay.

This amazing, Mike caught a man running to take a dump 60 years ago on camera. Fantastic footage! Bravo!!!

I bet Mike Bednar had this voice when he has 7yrs old !! Lol : D "Hershey" squirts !!!!! HHHHhhhaaaa ; D

This guy is the best narrarator ever!-I"m 61 years old,grew up in High Bridge,NJ.Freight trains came thru town slow enough that you could grab a ladder of a slow moving freight car& hitch a ride to wherever ya wanted to get off.What great memories!_thank you!

Thanks Big Mike. And John thank you for your dedication. Your both great Americans.

are there any videos of The Blue Comet?

Do you have anything on the NYS&w

Hey! Show me the camelbacks again; LV flogged those loco's also. Wonderful production. Loved the Wilkes-Barre shots.

Is there any movie footage of the link from perth amboy to elizabethport/jersey city? I had an opportunity to ride it once when the newark/rahway got closed in an emergency and that was the only way south!

Unbelievable footage...I didn't know footage this old could look so darn good!!! Two Thumbs up!!!

I wonder if Mike has relatives in Neptune, NJ? By the way, he is an amazing commentator!

Mike Bednar, you are a great railroader. Thank you for your hard work and passion. You are a role model to freedom loving people everywhere!!

One of the best clips I've ever seen. Thanks.Long Branch was a big railroad destination.

Nice footage! My late Uncle worked for Jersey Central right up to when Conrail took over in the late 70's. Back then, he gave me the Lady Liberty logo from a scrapped locomotive window. I still have it in my curio cabinet.

Absolutely awesome! Great for modeling ideas!

Always enjoy your videos John ! Makes me want to go back in time !

Narrator sounds like Jesse Ventura.

When I was in middle school, I would see a pair of Budd Cars(what they called them?)run thru Plainfield/Netherwood station headed east, Raritan Valley Line almost every morning. This was 1977-78, I THINK one was marked LACKAWANNA still.

Good Work.

Sure liked the shot in Wilkes-Barre. At about 6:39 you can see the gateman's tower across Market Street. At one time a one-legged man operated the crossing gates; he was injured in a rr accident and the company gave him the job at the gates to keep him employed. I lived just up Brewery Hill on North Fulton Street. The wonderful aroma of fermenting barley mash from the Stegmeier plant permeated the Heights neighborhood.

Jersey Central, high iron and zero ballast.

Excellent video with historic pictures, Thanks, from Germany

Also video John. Any chance you and Big Mike have anymore clips of the Valley and Conrail in the Phillipsburg area. I know it’s been touched on in some ,but I would love to see some more stuff from my home town.

Do you have any footage between Elizabethport and Bound Brook? I’d love to see some action at Aldene or something.

The Black and White footage is exceptional!

Big Mike rides again!

Always wondered what the locomotive engineers thought of going from steam to the new diesel engines. ? Im a retired engineer from Canadian National/ Michigan based, never worked with anyone old enough to remember the switch from steam to diesel. 🤔

The engineers don't wave from the trains anymore; not they did back in 1954!

Awesome 👍🏽👍🏽🤯🤣💥😭🥳😂😉🥰

Thank you for putting together these videos. My great grandfather Kermit worked for the CNJ at the train station in Allentown.

Hope the flagman got past the Hershey squirts lol

Was weed killer agent orange? Out BH.

This is so cool. To have lived during steam to Deisel.

Nice video! Absolutely love the Jersey Central logo!

Hershey Squirts are better serviced by ny post or the Daily Snooze!!! LMBO!!! Check for Eggs 8:13 ? As in REAL Eggs, or rail-speak for something else?

Can anybody explain the steel drums on the trestles @3:44?

Pretty cool. Enjoyed that.

great video.

I came here to listen to Mike Bednar.

I love Big Mike's commentaries.

Very good, thanks.

Beautiful shots! :)

Great stuff. Would love to see Alden, Wanamie, and the Lee section of Glen Lyon

Great video. I plan on getting it as soon as my income tax refund arrives.

Definitely enjoy these videos. Do you have any footage of Hopatcong junction near Wharton New Jersey?

Thanks 😊

The Hershey squirts?

2:04 i smell cn 89

That stuff the weed sprayer train used was nasty! It would kill anything and I'd bet that included some of the guys that worked w/it!

I really enjoy the Jersey Central, especially with all the footage of diesels.

Rode the CNJ on the Raritan Valley line when I was a young man. Real memories.

Been looking for video of any trains coming thru cementon on the old lines.

I love these Jersey Central Videos !!

what is in the 55 gallon barrels on the bridge at 3:50

Great Clip!

An excellent video. ♡ T.E.N.

Good stuff!

I so love your vids, John! More RDG steam!!!

I was just working on reclaiming ties over the curve for the ashely miners park for our next few railcars. The caboose track is in place and part of the main. Seeing it in the 40s is q treat knowing i waled that ROW and among the yard. Standing in a Turntable pit.

How many strokes has this guy had???

It’s amazing to see railroading in the days before today’s society decided to destroy it with graffiti. What a sad world we live in today