N&W Buffalo to New Haven and Everywhere In Between 

Nothing beats 70's, 80's and early 90's railroading before the mega-mergers homogenized everything.

This is the definition of train porn. My gosh... Look at all those High Hoods, ALCOs, GEs, Cabooses, first, second, and third generation diesels!!! And original sound without wind noise! My oh my!!!

This is probably the best quality of footage and sound from those times on those cameras that I've ever seen and heard on RU-vid. The fact that it's my favorite historical railroad is just a bonus :)

A real gem of railroading videos. BTW, no graffiti and waves from the crews!! Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!

This made me shed a tear because I missed out on the glory days of railroading

Guilford Rail System bought a lot of the old N&W GP35s and SD45s and ran them on the old Boston & Maine in the 90s through the early 2000s, usually in groups of 3 or 4. They sounded great climbing out of the Hudson Valley and they still had the same horns that they had in this video.

Films were made by Ed Durnwald - Super 8 mm sound starting in 1974. Yes that is my white Corvette setting in front of Green Springs, Oh tower. Was an operator there 1971 - 72, 73, tower was closed sometime after those years

The best railroad video on RU-vid, hands down.

One of the best rail videos I have seen on you tube!! That NW Bicentennial unit was a nice bonus!!

I ♥️ watching this ! My dad was a breakman/switchman for N&W Railway in Roanoke Virginia from 1967 - 1981. Seeing this brought back great memories ! And the footage was great as well ! This is exactly how NW freight trains looked and sounded back when I was a kid in elementary school during the mid 70s and as well as when my dad worked on them. Once again really enjoyed this 😀

The scene at 27:13 with the classy old boy getting after it with the 1594 is golden. This stuff is solid gold! He looks like he had a golf game! And good for him!

Growing up in Conneaut during the 70's brings back great memories...Thanks Ed.

567 music. Alco & GE music. M horns, OC P horns, S3's & s5's. Pretty sure the F unit had a WABCO horn. One of the best 8mm rail videos on the internet. Thanks for sharing.

Very nostalgic! My beginnings to all things trains in this era. Deeply missed

The live sound makes this so much better. Nice catch of the Bicentennial unit leading. Thanks for posting this!

The two Fs pulling a TOFC is probably the highlight for me. That they were still running in the mid 70s is fantastic.

That lead ALCO at 5:50 is still around today operating for the Durbin and Greenbrier Valley Railroad in Staunton, VA.

I hired with NS 1995. Worked between Chicago and Bellevue. Remember some of these older engines now long gone. Great vid!

Fantastic!!!! An era I've always wished I could see and you brought it to life!

Thanks for the videos. Railfanning in a corvette, cool. Love the old engines giving their all. Cabooses, cool. And the best, not a spot of graffiti on any equipment...

Thanks for that trip in the Time Machine! Those scenes are now long gone...

This has to be one of the coolest trains videos I’ve ever seen, amazing work!

Great video! Proud to see that the very first train is led by a unit I’ve run many times. N&W 2517 ex NKP 517 and currently Winchester & Western RR #517.

The “puttering” of a 567 in a GP9 coupled with the chug of an ALCO makes for musical exhaust sounds!

Awesome video Thanks! N&W Southern and Norfolk & Southern are my favorite Railway’s out of all. That’s what my model railroad is all about.

Phenomenal video!!! Such classic sights and sounds! Thanks for sharing a classic!

40:18 to 44:22 are my Favorites because I grew up around these areas, But these trains were filmed way before I was born, But it's nice to see what the railroad was like back then. I know this track once had a Bridge crossing the Albemarle Sound, Bridge was Dismantled in '89 because Norfolk Southern Deemed it to be a "Maintenance Nightmare". But to this day, I always wonder what the Railroad would be like if they didn't Dismantle the Bridge.

These videos are just fantastic.

Great video, excellent look at N&W history and variety of engines that made up the N&W fleet.

32:00 I saw NS 6151 back in 2007, I think... pretty cool to see it running back in its original heritage.

Reminds me alot of the trains i use to see in bristol tn as a kid in the early 80s

This stuff is incredible! Thanks for the effort and great work!

Incredible footage! Thanks for sharing.....this video really brings back some great memories!

Great video. Worked summers for N&W, two on the track two as a brakeman at East 55th street. I remember those SD-45s on the point of Apollo 1 And 2. Rode CC-1 once to Chicago. Great memories thanks so much!

That was awesome! A fine way to spend 45 minutes on a Sunday morning. Thank you for posting!

9:20 my favorite scene

That engineer at 5:40 never left off the horn haha

Love these videos, the N&W sure used a variety of power... love the high hood U-boats

Great video, was the best of times to watch the N&W!

I like that corvette in the first 2 videos

I loved the video. The sights the sounds. That rumble that you hear before you see the locomotives. Brings back great memories of growing up in the 70s and early 80s. The Western Maryland is my favorite.

This brings back memories I grew up in southern West Virginia and saw these trains all the time

Great great video prob one of the best old school filming with the sound. Also cool to see some B&LE coal cars on some of those trains and seeing Conneaut Ohio great stuff!!!

Had to look once more, so good. This must be ca 1976 or a tad later, at 32 a Conrail hi cube, freshly painted, rolls by !

Some of those alcos sound extra gritty in this, like how a proper diesel should sound

Fantastic! Thank you for posting!

Lots of ex-NKP engines and cabooses. Very cool. Nice work.

wow fantastic video..alot of nice shot of locos.. any N&w fan must watch this.

Great video! Love the high hoods

Reminds me of the days of sitting on my bicycle watching watching a crew switch off the main at night using laterns lights to signal the engineer for clearance to back. Completely different feel. Graffiti free was so nice also

The best railroad...and the best Corvette body style ever.

Nice video. Photographer: Ed Durnwald. Also, AUTHENTIC SOUND! :D This is a treasure for all railfanners.

Thanks so much for posting, great video.

Great video. Nice quality. Love the alcos

Holy crap.

This is an enjoyable video. Excellent job.😊😊

Thank you for uploading

This was all killer and no filler ...loved it

Nice to see all the old fallen flag road names on the freight cars that I used to see watching trains in the Baltimore area back in the 1960s and '70s, as well as the older diesel engines.

Just Amazing!!! Awesome scenes!!!!

What beautiful history!!!

Excellent video! I love the white ‘Vette, too.

Interesting how you can hear the film going through the camera.

great video! love those shorter trains...its so nice to not have to fast forward thru a gazillion freight cars

I enjoy seeing these old films from the winter. With the snow you can get an idea of the power of the train as it pushes the snow and flies thru the place. I've always wondered what it would be like to be holding down the shift in the caboose. Cooking the meals, playing some cards, listening to the radio and even talking to your fellow worker. Some of the shifts could go on for awhile especially if there was seriously bad snow or if your relief/replacement crew was stuck in that snow. If it was possible to ride in one today, and maybe have some light function to do like checking track conditions or receiving messages to make it interesting, I'd sign-up quicker than I delayed reporting for my draft notice. Wonder if the caboose guys ever ate C-rats.

The Southern horns along the original Norfolk Southern at the end. Priceless.

I lived in that exact area watching trains all the time I've lived in Fremont Ohio all my life chased the locals the heinz local ran by Don Hansburger and then Johnny walker and I drank with John walker in 1978 was some crazy times wow I've been living in Fremont Ohio 62 years now some great memories of Fremont trains 🚆 🚂🚂👍

This is an awesome video!!

The n&w sd40-2 6151 is a very powerful locomotive!

great film and sound

23:30 NW 1776! I had the Tyco HO set with that engine in it.

That was very cool. Takes me to being a kid.

Great video, Thanks from Germany

Gotta love the big waves from the crews, always makes you enjoy railfannin even more 24:40, 26:20, 27:10 (Even dead head crew in second unit and caboose!), 31:13, and 32:44! Also awesome to see the F-Units at 37:40! Very glad that sound is with these films as well. What years were these taken?

Great film. Looks like early 70s, yellow ttx, lube plates, LV caboose. Wish i was there ! In summertime....

Awesome video!

Very nice.i miss the Norfolk and western as do I the southern.i miss all the hi hoods coming thru bristol Tennessee where I live

Those double train meets look awesome.

Pretty awesome seeing brand new sd40-2s in fresh paint

it certainly was hopping back in the day.

Nice Business Train with the reddish GE unit, and later in the clip, two F7s on what looks to be a local freight. Bet the Fs were ex-Wabash. Add a cabless booster unit between the Fs, and they would have made better looking units for that Business Train. It was a solid ralroad and whatever government agency that helped to meddle many railroads out of business, forced NW to run the beleagured Erie Lackawanna. I read in Trains Magazine (long back) that the N&W folks referred to Erie Lackawanna as, "The Erie Lackamoney," lol!

I forgot to also say that tho the NKP side of NE "tower" seen at 4:59 usually didn't see high speed moves, the old Wabash main where the photographer is standing did! ! It was abit un-nerving to stand in the building watching a hot move like KD-12 coming around that curve right at you at 60 plus! Busy place.

A lot of Ex NKP cabooses on these freights too! Love it! JWB

great video !

These are really brilliant... that super 8 rig must've had some serious audio capability 'cause the sound is epic... Thanx for the upload and... cheers

Wow, great footage. Original sound included? Even better. Also, Mid 70s? I was thinkin Alcos were gone on the N&W by late 70s.

Great stuff!

Back when Leslie horns were dominant.

Ahhhhh The smell of locomotive smoke back in the day.

Either High 8, or 16 mm video w/sound. Pretty high tech railfanning for that era. If we'd only had VHS 10-15 yrs earlier. But I'm not griping. The good stuff is the good stuff!

no one else makes an ass forward GE look better. Wonderful!

Excellent simply excellent 😊

that is cool 3 locomotive,Caboose... very cool

wow..a lauhoff grain boxcar at 26.33..nice to see that. wonder if its from my hometown of Danville, IL?

Nice Vette man!!

only problem is these are sped up just slightly from the original speed... beautiful though

Southern units was a nice touch

There was also a guy named Don xrofta that also took train videos of Fremont and surrounding areas with 8 and 16 milmeter cameras I new him personally he is since passed away very good train photographer took alot of steam train videos of Bellview Ohio and surrounding cities 😉

remembering back to the late 70s early 80s as 4-5 year old. the high hood GP's of N&W were somewhat frightening

What a sweet pearl white Corvette!