Erie Lackawanna Marion to Ashland, Ohio 

Wonderful video!! Brought back a lot of wonderful memories when my dad worked for the railroad. I've been to all of these in the video!! Thank you!!

Incredible!

I read that the EL bought the longer SDP45s not for passenger service but the expanded fuel tank.

wonderful seeing the fallen flags ! E-L, PC, Chessie too! great piece of history of the railroad!

This was awesome, interesting to see Marion with the tower in the original location!

Another awesome super great video

That sure is a great movie, good quality ! never seen that one before. Thanks ! a great xmas gift to me being a big EL fan ! merry xmas and a happy new year ! 🎀

Having worked in all of those places, watching this was certainly a sentimental journey. Thank you so much.

Fantastic stuff!

Really enjoyed those shots in Ashland.

Awesome video and enjoyed watching.(Steve)

I miss the old trains with caboose 😢New York central , Pennsylvania RR ect

Someone sure knew when the trains were coming. Freight trains, with a striking selection of motive power, making their way through a bleak landscape.

The EMD E8 817 was the last in the fleet to still have the port holes on the sides. However the Alco PA units were always my favorite. Great sounding and could make some smoke as well. And the Erie Alco FA A-B-B-A pulling freight were also cool.

The footage is really good considering the age. Whomever was behind the camera knew what they were doing.

Wonder if those Southern hoppers got delivered to Cincinnati via Marion and Dayton.

Happy 70th Birthday to my Uncle Rodney! His favorite railroad growing up. Long live the EL!

A lot of this footage showed up in Ron McElarth's EL West End video and it's really cool seeing a much cleaner copy of the footage.

At 5:58, the PC geep shown idling at the old NYC freight house is prob the AM Marion switch run out of Galion Ohio. There was also a PM version.

13:56 Overpassing the old Lincoln Highway.

EL's unique red-white-blue SDP45s were painted in bicentennial livery, so that would date it 1975 or later. Once Conrail arrived, most of Erie's mainline west of Buffalo was torn out. Most of the tracks you see here are likely gone today. Note the 'hogback' rails causing the cars to sway. Bad shape.

Such great footage, thanks as always for preserving and sharing. I'd love to see anything EL in Indiana between North Judson and Huntington especially, if it ever surfaces

At 10:20 is PC F7 1865. I would photo 1865 at Conway engine terminal in June 1977. 1865 had just been "white lined". Ironically, 1865 was still running! If I remember correctly, 1865 was the highest number on a NYC F7.

Love it between 1960 and 1970 I think

was that alco swither being used as a dpu unit,excellent

16:18,,,trailing loco is one of two former SD45s that were wrecked in Ohio in 1973 and rebuilt as SD45-2s. Note the standard SD45 fuel tank. A regular EL SD45-2 has the extended range fuel tank. Some punk kid threw a mainline switch in front of a train and said train derailed into a siding killing a crewman. One of these ended up on the MRL then to Cincinnati Eastern, last spotted in Chicago going where???

Starting at 1:11 you can see the piggyback trailers rocking badly on the Penn Central train. Looked like they were going to tip over.

love the big e and my smoking alco s 2 death

EL moved a lot of tonnage for a bankrupt RR. They wanted to stay out of Conrail but joined per force at the last minute. Too bad.

Sad to see former Lackawanna E8s downgraded to freight service and looking very shabby, too. Looked like oil leaks on the sides.

the trains are great, but that fake projector noise ruins the show. white noise would be better.