Erie Lackawanna Volume 2 

You gotta know the guy narrating this is the real deal!

Great footage! Mike Bednar’s narration is extra special. He’s a railroader’s railroader.

I love Big Mike's commentaries. They're simple, but he keeps you interested!

Love this series. Simple narration and no annoying music. Great footage and audio. Thank you!

Big Mike Bednar adds so much to the videos, check out his interview with Jerry Hoare, excellent look into the job. He was there to see many years of history, and he's a very nice person. I applaud John Pechulis for having Mike narrate, it makes the videos!

Those big EL SD45’s looked awesome-that paint scheme looked just right on them. See a pair of those whipping around one of EL’s overbuilt superelevated curves, that was big time railroading.

Great production. Camera operator is a real artist. 'Course it really helps that this was filmed in the prettiest part of the US.

Excellent quality of the clarity and color

I used to ride the EL commuter trains on the Main Line and Bergen Line in the 60s and 70s. For a while I’d catch trains out of Goshen NY; all heading to Hoboken with a change to either the ferry or the PATH to Downtown NYC. So good to see these videos!!

This was great. Many good memories running Susie-Q trains over the southern tier line.

The narration is my favorite part and such great footage im ordering 2 vids now

❤️ Love the voice on the running commentary! The Erie Lackawanna has become one of my favorite railroads. The EL and I both have the same birth date - October 17th 1960. I'm thankful that I'm still around and that we can still find parts of the EL that are still around. Inspired by this video I'm modeling the Phoebe Snow. Just got an E-8 from Life Like and some rivarossi Passenger cars. The passenger cars are labeled Lackawanna but it's a start! Hopefully I'll be able to build an accurate rain even if (God Willing) I have to purchase brass. Thank you again for the posting and inspiration!! Sincerely, David 😷 in Chicago

Beautiful trains, beautiful scenery and Big Mike to boot! Another winner, John!

Thanks for the footage. Really enjoy it

The narrator/train guide’s voice is the real deal. He has that real Northern Jersey/Upstate NY and Eastern PA voice.

loved the C425 roaring the curve

I like the way he narrates

I love seeing these older videos of trains the way i remembered them growing up in N Jersey. Always on the move!!!!

Thanks for the memories. I forgot how good they looked back then.

I have very pleasant memories of riding the Phoebe Snow from Corning NY to Hoboken, then the LIRR out to visit family on Long Island. My favorite part of the trip (as a 10-year-old) was going out to the platform at Hoboken and savoring the diesel exhaust while we waited for departure. Of course, nothing could beat the view from the observation car forward as we passed through the Delaware Water Gap. Train travel was such an adventure!

Great video as always. Brings me back to 1967 when I got my DL and head up to Port Jervis area on a weekend. Then I put four years in the Navy and picked up railfanning again when I got out. The Bergen line ran adjacent to my parents house in Wallington, so I didn't really have to travel.

Great footage. Appreciate the narration describing locomotive tyoe and location.

Outstanding video and narration. Thank you for posting.

Another great video, Thanks, from Germany

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excellent video

Wished I could have seen the Erie, DL&W and EL in person. Neat stuff!

l have this on DVD. Great program. l need to get Vol 1.

My father used to take the Apollo to Port Jarvis in the 1970s with Mousy and Bushta !!!!

Great footage !!

Norfolk southern is showing their heirtege with the extreme! Erie lackawana had tons of sd45-2s and NS repainted one of theirs acquired from conrail back in erie lackawana!

thank you for sharing!!!!

Love it

this is some pretty cool stuff

The same man that fricken rode on the prr this dude been everywhere

From what I've read, Erie Lackawanna was set to join the Chessie System, but didn't happen for some reason(s). The 1972 hurricane certainly destroyed a lot of their trackage and not financially viable to rebuild. It resisted joining Conrail, but that's where it ended up. They lost a lot of the coal business, but got some of it back, getting it away from Penn Central due to PC's woeful track conditions, and they began generating a lot of truck trailer traffic. I love their paint scheme.

Excellent!

Appears to have been filmed in the 1960s...good work mr....

Man Erie Lackawanna Railroad sure is old but I wonder if The Erie Lackawanna Railroad use to run the Northern Branch line

Brand new Ford heavy duty trucks being transported at 5:35

You can see why they went bankrupt with local passenger business - you can' t make money with one diesel hauling two coaches...

Do you guys have any footage of the old Erie repair shops located in Meadville Pennsylvania? If not, do you know anywhere i might find some?

I remember riding the Phoebe Snow as a college student in upstate NY, The observation car was a great place to have a scotch and watch the scenery go by, then the steward would come in with his chimes announcing lunch, remember sitting in the Scranton depot during lunch. I've surprised the staff at the hotel/restaurant there now about having lunch at the same spot forty years before ("this wasn't here then" was the reply-- I'd explain). Why does the upper tier in NY get train service (without even a snack car) while Binghamton/Elmira are left without? What happened to the stewards with the Amtrak takeover? the sleeping car porters was a little secret among the black community, a good white salary at a time when that rarely happened for blacks. Furthermore, back then food on trains was good, not so on Amtrak. I rode the Super Chief before Amtrak too, nice dining while crossing the Prairie.

Great..

Im a west ender but this is awesome!

Any actual audio to these scenes or is it all dubbed over sound effects?

Do the geeps and alco road switchers have dual control stands? I see some running long hood forward and others nose first when running passenger trains.

if the tracks were not like tipped over those trains would len and just scrape the mountain pass

Had a relative who works for them.

cool

Seems a little too fast around that curve.

One reason I prefer the older movies is you don't see that awful Conrail blue yet....