Great stuff as always! I love the footage from the western half of the Pittsburgh Line. The 321 signal bridge was just put in in that footage - you can see the 320 bridge in the distance minus its signals for a frame or two. I would love to see any more Pittsburgh Line stuff, especially from CONPIT west.
at 13.05 that is my brother Fred Barnett Jr handing up orders..He did it correctly by touching the first rail with his stick then getting it up high from the bottom of the hoop
@@RailroadMediaArchive List is long, but I worked CP and AL Both in Alliance, I worked Minerva Yard, Piney Fork, Newton Falls, Berea , DB, OX Hudson Rave Warwick Stoneboro Pa, City tower in Monongahela Rickville in Mingo Jct, Bayard Yellow Creek, Midsteel in Midland Pa. 37 in all and 5 Dispatchers Desks for CR and NS
I was in the Orrville tower several times during the 70s and once in the McKinley tower. McKinley tower had a CTC machine then. Orrville had a different control system.
Is that the National Limited detouring through Marion? It ended service 10-1-1979. That would be one heck of a reroute for the Broadway. Both trains crossed Ohio at night, so it's definitely running very late.
@@wmuzeke Now that I look at it again I think you're right. Would have been rare mileage for sure. The only other time I know of Amtrak detouring through Marion was when one of the FWL Amtraks side-swiped a CSX train at Upper Sandusky and the other westbound detoured via Marion, turned north at Ridgeway to go to Toledo and then west. It was 1988 or 89.
@@RailroadMediaArchive I watched it again as well, and the consist of this train would be unusual for either the Broadway or the National Limited. There's no dining car or sleepers and by its end, the National Limited was mostly Amfleets and a single F40. I did a little digging and in Trains Magazine, May 1981, in the Arrivals/Departures section it mentions that for the holidays, the U.S. Army sponsored an Amtrak Military 'Christmas Special' train that ran between Fort Leonard Wood, MO and New York City and return. It mentions that the train was run the previous year (1979), too. I think this is that train. The time period of the footage looks to be about December for Central Ohio. It sold 610 seats and turned away 400. There wasn't a photo of it but for the number of coaches I see here, that's about right.
@@wmuzeke Yes, that special also ran in 1979. An article about the 1980 train said that the late famous rail mileage collector, Rogers E. M. (Frimbo) Whitaker was allowed to ride the special for the mileage. He died in May of 1980. He might have been on that train in the movie.
