The sound & video quality was fantastic for being shot on what this Super 8 film? Love sounds from the WM/B&O/C&O road power giving their all shoving the freight up the grades! Then seeing the rolling stock not graffiti strewn all over unlike today's freight cars covered with that krap! Keep these videos coming. Love it! 2 thumbs 👍.
How can anybody give this video a =thumbs down" . Watching the old Penn Central and the Wmd and B&O engines go by and all the old box cars and piggy backs. Awesome ..I just loved watching this. I think I felt a lumb in my heart when that old Western Maryland caboose went by.
I'm just getting back into model railroading again. Trying to set up my layout for around the early-mid 1970s. These old videos are an excellent reference.
I so completely enjoyed this film. I grew up first a model railroader then railfan. My education in trains was through the pages of model train magazines and in the 1970’s it was models of railroading like what’s featured here. Lacking firsthand exposure to this as subject matter...it’s enjoyable to see what inspired so many. I’m looking forward to seeing more from your channel. Thank you.
I did most of my train spotting between 1972 and 1979 so this video brings back some great memories for me. This is also one of the only videos I have seen where the helpers cut out.
The horns back then were something else. Back then every time a train came you would hear a different sounding horn, now they all sound the freaking same.
Trains up until cabooses were no longer used had so much more character than today's trains. Seeing the diesels pushing the consist suddenly reminded me of an "I Love Lucy" show where Ricky and Lucy went to a dance with Fred and Ethel. When Lucy asked Ethel what it was like dancing with Fred, Ethel replied that he "huffed and puffed like a locomotive" to which Fred immediately replied "Well a locomotive has to huff and puff real hard when it has to push a heavy load!"
there's a touch of sadness here..... the overcast skies, the diverse motive power and the many, many fallen flags.... thanks for the upload... Bill in Bellows Falls
Amazing. Three thoughts: 1) The crossing at Aberdeen would have given me the creeps in either an automobile or locomotive, 2) Remember when no two cars on a coal drag looked exactly alike? and 3) Nice to see the helper cut off on the fly.
Really Cool Footage! I live in Harford County and see these locations every week and I have always wondered about their past. Awesome Fun Fact - Cal Ripken Jr. was raised 1.7 miles from that station in Aberdeen!
WOW! I can’t believe I didn’t “like” this video! This is probably my 5th time watching it. Thanks so much for posting. My brother and I always loved trains. Born 1962 so still had the opportunity to see the last of the A E Unit engines. Love the Leslie A 200 horns. Penn Central, Erie Lackawanna, B&O, and Chessie System is what we saw growing up in Ohio. Sorry for the grammar. On mobile.
Love and miss the Western Maryland AKA The Wild Mary. I grew up in York Pennsylvania in witch the WM served .. Until Chessie gobbled it up then CSX and finally short lined to Emmons Railroad Group aka YorkRail. Thanks for sharing this!
This is awesome. I've always wanted to hear what a real WM freight sounded like working that grade out of Cumberland and I finally can. Thanks for posting!
I'm so glad I've seen the 1st and 2nd Gen diesel era (the Best for me, variety and RR liveries ), for me started about 1966' as a young kid going out with my older Brother and Father. Great times : ) And there is always the time warp of NY/PA and the Awesome Alco roads with 1st/2nd Gen units !!!
I love this video... It was so nice to see all of the different road names on the graffiti free freight cars and you definitely would not see any open air car carriers in today's world!!!
Fantastic video of a unique part of American railroading history! :D I was just wondering, would it be possible for me to use this footage as part of an upcoming documentary I'm creating about the history of the Budd Metroliner?
With all due respect to those who rail fan and love the modern diesels, I just think the old F units and SDs and GPs had more style and elegance, not to mention a caboose at the end.
This is some superb video. I know B&O had controlling interest in the Reading but seeing a GP35 at the summit of Sand Patch was something else. Amazing stuff all around. Glad it has the sound too.
The passenger runs on the now Northeast Corridor man they were flying. Sad to see the Pennsy's marroon & gold pinstripes fade into the basic black of the PC!
I just bicycled the Great Alegheny Passage from Pittsburgh to Cumberland. Is some of this train footage now the bike trail? How much of it? I saw Aberdeen and obviously that is nowhere near the trail.
Super 8 is 18 fps. This was transferred to Hi8 videotape (29.97fps) in the 90s I'm guessing using some sort of pulldown method. I didn't do any pulldown removal for this video.
How is this not high speed rail? Some of those trains are going at least 75 mph. Do people realize we measure in miles not kilometers per hour? 75 mph is 120 kph. I think french TGV averages 200kph. We were pretty close.
Ben Small yes in 1982 is when the bel air avenue crossing was closed. The overhead walkway at Aberdeen is where the crossing once stood. NS still runs freight on that part of the corridor buts mostly at night w/ the occasional daytime appearance.
All of the railroads in the Northeast Corridor were taxed to death by the liberal welfare Warfare State and unlike companies that could pick up and move they were stuck there. I remember on the Long Island Railroad they repainted a bridge and they got hit with a 256,000 beautification tax.
