Great video AC. Spent many Saturdays sitting along the rails with my uncle, Wilmer Hendricks. We were regulars at Newberry Yard and most of the guys there knew him. Got me some seat time in Conrail's 3002 (GP-40) on one excursion. How things have changed! We chased the coal train from Clearfield to Strawberry Ridge and spent many hours sitting, watching those Pennsy signals at Montgomery, the Montgomery bridge, Linden and Montoursville. From Enola to Lock Haven, no place was safe from our lenses! I have fond memories of those days. Thanks for freshening them up and serving them in a new way. Makes me miss my uncle Wilmer all the more.
A-1 video.....You are the master of train video's....No two ways about it.....Everyone should bow down to you.....The master has done it again!!!!!!!!!!!
While attending Penn State, I worked summers '68-'70 for Penn Central on the Buffalo line from hometown Emporium, Pa (12:30) north to Delevan, N.Y. That stretch has the infamous steep 2.6% grade between Emporium - Keating Summit.
I know exactly where the Linden Wye is. Lycoming Valley, a North Shore subsidiary, had to use it twice and run on the Buffalo Line until their line was fixed. First was around 2014 when Loyalsock Creek flooded and washed their rail bridge out. The second time was around 2017 when their Maynard Street grade crossing underwent maintenance to put in a new concrete crossing and a second cantilever.
Have you ever thought of doing a video retracing the steps of photographer O. Winston Link in terms of the locations and railroad routes he photographed, id love to see something like that
@@Trains21 I've been to the museum in Roanoke and it is really well done and I'm pretty sure if you ask them they might help you with the project but I say do it as something that could be uploaded in the future that way you can get as much information as you can to show how much the places in locations have changed over the past 60 years
And a little insight into the Nisbet, PA portion of the Buffalo Line includes the fatal derailment of two steam trains at the now nonexistent filling station as well as a more recent derailment at the River Road crossing during a family reunion. During that derailment, over 100 tons of coal bound for Washingtonville, PA spilled out of 4 overturned coal cars. Coal dust was everywhere. I actually saw the aftermath. The community lot seen in the video is where the Nisbet Volunteer Fire Department (NVFD) normally holds their tractor pull fundraisers in occasional connection with car shows and chicken barbecues. The building at the community lot is the Susquehanna Township Municipal Building, which is where the backhoe, plow truck, and lawn mowing tractor are kept. The backhoe is normally used during tractor pulls to add weight to the sled for the different weight classes.
I witnessed NS interchanging freight with the B&P at Driftwood several times during the summer of 2017. I don't think all of the B&P freight interchange traffic at Driftwood is gone.
I did some more research on it, and NS still delivers limestone to Driftwood, and the occasional string of tank cars. Stone goes to the WNYP at Driftwood too. So the traffic is still going on for now at least
Honestly, I think it really depends on the lines themselves and how well they market their services.. The North Shore was the Shortline RR of the Year for 2017 so they're off to a good start.
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