Despite the poor video quality, this one is worth watching for all of the rare locomotive types shown. I have never seen an EMD BL, except in still pictures. Seeing a Baldwin Sharknose was special, too.
I recently saw a video done a couple months ago about a coal mine that was shut down and tracks take being taken up and a Jeep 30 stranded at the site appears it could still run but possibly facing a Scrappers torch sad ending unless it could be saved...
This is an excellent video to watch if you want to show someone why we don't use VHS recording equipment anymore. It is a good promotional film for DVD recorders.
I have the tape as well, & it plays pretty much the same regardless of trying to set the tracking. 30+ years doesn't improve old VHS tape. I was always curious what or who did the music tracks in it.
10:01 Can we stop and appreciate the sheer foresight of this line? Not only has Metra acquired quite a few locomotives from Amtrak over the years, but the F40's have become their standard. Not just in the same was the E's were decades before, but in the same way the F40's were for Amtrak when this was made
This was fun to watch..brought back some memories when I was a kid used to watch trains at the Niagara Falls, N.Y. train yard most of the locomotives were the small end-cab switchers but every once in a while caught a passenger train pulled by EMD F-units usually in New York Central livery. I believe Adirondack Scenic Railroad in New York State has at least one F7 locomotive that they use to pull excursion trains.
I can say when this video was recorded they were trying to record and preserve real road history if this video was lost the history they tried to preserve is lost......
Would it be safe to say that since this was first recorded in 1985 and is now 2020, that most or all of these engines and cars, unless preserved in a museum or private collection are razor blades?
If one were to be done this year, it would most certainly be about Second Generation Units. The F40's would unquestionably take the place that the E-units have in this program, especially since I feel that Metra will be the last to operate them in regular use, just as most of the E's finished up in Chicago
It would be nice if it could be somehow digitally "cleaned" up for better clarity and resolution. I don't know if we have the technology to do that yet. Thinking back to the old VCR days, didn't they call that interference at the bottom "tracking"?
Not long ago I saw a video of a closed-down coalyard in either Virginia or West Virginia with a stranded gp30 High Hood I think would be worth Salvage vandals have not got to it already order Scrappers torch finished it off with but baby dick can be saved PS it looks like it will still run and move....
