Amtrak and Early Conrail Around Harrisburg

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The last stand of the GG-1s on Amtrak and Conrail circa 1977. Almost all of this film was taken around Harrisburg along the spiderweb of lines Conrail and Amtrak were still operating, including a short scene at Lemo tower, the only at grade crossing of electrified lines on the former PRR. The sequence toward the end with the Silverliners and Amtrak I think was Thorndale near Philadelphia.

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@JosephMusgrove День назад

Love seeing these rare gems of railroad history! As a model railroader modeling the 1970s era, these films are also a very useful reference. Thanks for posting!

@karlfey 2 дня назад

This footage is gold! The 60s/70s were a particularly "gritty" time in the Northeast. It's what I grew up with and I still love it. I can only imagine the work and time that goes into digitizing the original film and editing. Much appreciated!

@RailroadMediaArchive День назад

This was a 400' reel that was digitized in real time about 10 years ago. What takes the longest is post processing (grain reduction, etc), which takes about a day (just letting the software go). Luckily, this film was shot in a way it didn't need a ton of editing, but I did do a little additional color correction in Davinci Resolve.

@michaeldennis1728 День назад

Iconic blast from the past. Thank you very much indeed.

@mitchmatthews6713 11 часов назад

I will never turn off a video that shows a GG1 in action!

@GlennFresch 2 дня назад

Wow. This has to be one of the few movies of the GM6C electric out there.

@0759trainz 2 дня назад

Was confused when I saw those two CNW units until I remembered Conrail was short on power in its beginning and leased power from BAR, CN, and CNW

@AhmearClayIombo-dj6di 2 дня назад

Awesome Catches

@Conrailfan2323 6 часов назад

Unreal footage. Hope there is more!!

@b3j8 2 дня назад

These scenes no doubt are gold to fans who lived there at that time. Truth was, those first couple of yrs Conrail was around were tough if one of the Railroads that folded into it was a favorite. You'd still see your once proud Railroad's units wearing their old paint scheme but w/a Conrail number and just a simple "CR" logo over the roadname. Not a great time.

@karlfey 2 дня назад

I fully understand your sentiment. My local line on the PRSL one day abruptly changed from perpetually dirty black PRSL geeps to those shiny baby blue locomotives. I was only a teenager at the time, but I was devastated. Took me nearly forty years to accept it. Now I miss that Conrail blue.

@b3j8 День назад

@@karlfey Sounds like we were about the same age. The Erie Lackawanna was my railroad. Watching that 2 track mainline pulled up was truly one of the saddest times in my life! I couldn't help but grudgingly admire what Conrail was accomplishing tho. I too miss ol Big Blue.

@karlfey День назад

@@b3j8 very sad indeed. I guess we should consider ourselves lucky to remember our respective railroads pre-Conrail. We experienced history.

@FreihEitner День назад

That continues to this day. My road was the AT&SF. Now almost all of their once proud "Super Fleet" red & silver warbonnet units are so faded they'd almost might as well not be painted at all, and most of the rest have been repainted in BNSF orange and green (which was formerly Great Northern orange & green).

@b3j8 День назад

@@FreihEitner True indeed. I remember when they first came out.

@floppaeditz123 2 дня назад

First comment!!! Love the GG1 content!

@HenrikSweden1 2 дня назад

another great video ! and tons of gg1s ! the gg1 with the number 4896 was marked amtrak, and all the rest of amtraks in the 900 series. Why is that ? To my knowledge Cr had their gg1s in the 4000 series. this was a nice Time Machine , who wouldn't go back to a place like this ! that's sure is drama...thanks !

@RailroadMediaArchive День назад

I think the Amtrak Gs were renumbered to make room for the AEM-7s, and this was shot while this was occuring.

@AnthonyAnthony-tk4ye 2 дня назад

Erie Lackawaxen!!!

@carltonkeys6205 День назад

Those electric locomotives would catch on fire 🔥

@WeenyBeanyHere 2 дня назад

7:11 *Bonk*

@Approach_Medium День назад

I love this but the ticking of the projector drove me nuts after 5 minutes

@ekapus День назад

Agreed. I love the footage on this channel but can’t watch more than three minutes at a time.

@AnthonyAnthony-tk4ye 2 дня назад

Lol I don’t think Ive ever seen a GG1 in Amtrak colors… one tuscan red and PC puke black-green

@carltonkeys6205 День назад

Brunswick green

@AnthonyAnthony-tk4ye День назад

@carltonkeys6025 Like I said, puke black-green….🤣🤣🤣🤷‍♂️

@ekapus День назад

Can you do anything about the projector sound. Even just dubbing in some elevator music would be better.

@dfw_railfanner День назад

Any northeast corridor Maryland action?, grade crossings?

@RailroadMediaArchive День назад

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_-fZAVSBt8Q.htmlsi=6jHywsRr5SlrGv64 The beginning of this video has footage at Havre de Grace and Aberdeen.

@dfw_railfanner 20 часов назад

@@RailroadMediaArchive any NEC crossings from the d.c area? Like Glenn dale or seabrook or Bowie? Also do you know anybody who has footage of these crossings?

@RailroadMediaArchive 15 часов назад

@@dfw_railfanner I don't have any, nor do I know of any.