These types of videos make me realize how much better trains looked before grafitti

I’m dead at the end when Mike said “There’s a Norfolk Southern train master following behind.” He throws so much shade at NS.😂

Love that Centralia footage.

Always enjoy seeing the variety of old roadnames on freight cars that are free of graffiti. Brings back memories of train watching days in the 1960s.

Wish we had a guy like Mike Bednar to narrate old PRR film across Indiana and Ohio! Man I love listening to retired Railroaders give commentary like this!

@williamoverton1548

2 жыл бұрын

My best childhood friends father worked erie shops as electrician..Iron men don't waste words.

@b3j8

2 жыл бұрын

@@williamoverton1548 Wasn't at Marion Ohio was it?

Loved watching this video! I grew up in Woods Hole, Mass. on Cape Cod, trains ran for many years there. I remember the New York, New Haven, and Hartford trains, as they arrived at WH depot to drop passengers off to catch the ferries to Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket. My childhood home was on a steep embankment right next to the train tracks and every time I heard a train approach I would drop everything and run to the train bridge next to my house to watch them coming and going.When I was 10 (1963) an engineer let me "help" drive the train, pushing the lever forward and traveling the shot distance from the Steamship Authority to the chicken coop. I love every about trains and wanted to become a Lady Engineer!

This narration gives me life

You had me at Big Mike....

Loved the Oscar Mayer reefer car at 3:01, a classic in itself. All Excellent footage. Thank You.

@stevebradbury101

3 жыл бұрын

When I saw that reefer car I thought that is what it said. I wasn’t sure so rewound the video to be sure.

@williamoverton1548

2 жыл бұрын

Not sure, i heard consist closest to locomotive is hot merchants..high profit.

Great video from a Golden Era!!

Priceless stuff. Thank you!!!

Love the LV. Dad grew up in Ithaca. I grew up hearing about the Black Diamond.

I especially enjoy the narration.

@abbush2921

3 жыл бұрын

You could hear it over the noise ?

@cody8217

2 жыл бұрын

@@abbush2921 can hear it perfectly. Get your ears checked.

Love these old rail fan videos!

Great video of the Lehigh Valley Railroad. 7 members of my family worked for the Lehigh Valley Railroad out of Coxton Yard. My great grandfather Stephen Kearney, 4 grand uncles & 2 second cousins worked for the Lehigh Valley from about 1868 up tp 1976 when it became Conrail & my 2 second cousins worked for Conrail up to about 1985.

Wow! Great video, and tons of eastern PA history. Centralia - a town that in ‘58 had only 4 more years. Who knew? I love to hear Mike Bednar’s narration.

Hard to believe this is 8mm. Quality is superb. Thanks

Great footage, those old passenger trains look so recent.

7:16 I've never seen footage of the tracks in Centralia- for that matter, I've never seen any footage of the town in it's heyday.

That video quality is incredible for the 1960s

This production is beautiful… thank you.

Like Mike's narration with info on the people that worked for the LV.

Thanks for making this video. A real trip back in time!

Keep these coming. Thanks.

Mike jabs Norfolk Southern relentlessly 🎯🔥😂💯

Pretty cool at 3:45 you can see him knock down that old semifore signal as he passes by

Fascinating segments of film, well produced. I’ve ordered volumes 1 and 2 and look forward to seeing the full stories.

Great video, Thanks from Germany

amazing video 😍 thumbs up 👍👍 greetings from Indian railfan 💐

I'm not much of a diesel guy but these scenes were filmed with a Kodak camera around the Allentown area, The CNJ mainline went through the city Parallel to the Lehigh Valley and Reading railroads since the place was served by the Bethlehem steel mill that produced most of the material used to make famous landmarks such as the Empire State Building and George Washington Bridge.

Love it, your videos are great!

Wonderful!

Those Alcos were really something.....

See how awesome it was to rainfall in the 70's . Different engines , beautiful cars ( no graffiti ) caboose's, the engineer would wave . Now today they're all the same

he says Bethlehem like the Bethlehem steel workers n families do BETH'LEM. I say it now after living in Johnstown PA area a few yrs. wow the fair train and a coal train with a steamer. god i missed the good stuff by 50yrs haha

Gr8 stuff

I was happy to see an Orr train.

2:18 LV 414 still operates in LV paint under Delaware Lackawanna

This warmth seems gone from RRs here in 10/15/2020 !!!

As usual great video and hearing Big Mike and who hiding hitching about 3;18 on circus train?

The Lehigh Valley Railroad is still around, it is now an inactive subsidiary of American Premier Underwriters which was formerly known as Penn Central and before that it was formerly the Pennsylvania Railroad before it absorbed the New York Central; so the Pennsylvania Railroad and Penn Central is the same railroad, not two different railroads. Unfortunately the Reading Company did not survive as Reading International merged the Reading Company into a newly created limited liability company like 1-2 years ago.

OK...wonderful.....

It looks like the Lehigh Valley Railroad had a thing for Alco's.

I watch these all the time man. Do you have a link where I can buy?

@JPMediaRR

3 жыл бұрын

www.johnpmedia.com

At 1:31 I wonder if that lv emd sw1200 had a wabco a2 or not?

Gotta do more Prr

Budd RDCs...pre wet-noodle CNs...lots of pretty ALCOs...like Christmas!

Train Sim World on PS4 Xbox and PC ..... great game

Bethlehem Steel

Interesting that 90% of their business was generated on 20% of their track.

What horn is that at 4:53 ?

@3nglehart

2 жыл бұрын

A leslie rs 3?

6:38 That's an odd stretch of track, I assume it's that way due to clearance issues?

@4est57

3 жыл бұрын

The road crossing is right where the switchpoints would throw, looks like they extended it towards the curve to avoid having to move the crossing. I've never seen construction like that, very interesting.

@danielparent9702

3 жыл бұрын

Pretty sure he called it the gauntlet track, so assuming there's a bridge that both tracks share somewhere in the distance.

@4est57

3 жыл бұрын

Looking at this closer, it’s apparently built that way for close clearance near stations. The inner track is what the passenger train would run on as it serviced the station. The thru freight uses the outer track to stay further away from the station.

Belle époque ferroviaire.... Aucun contrôle sur la pollution, la propreté des trains, des voies et de leur stabilité.... On utilise, on use... Jp lobet

Bound Brook!!!

@CrossOfBayonne

2 жыл бұрын

It was also the CNJ main which was also used by the B&O and Reading RR

@UnionCountyPhotography

2 жыл бұрын

@@CrossOfBayonne CNJ>RVL LV>Lehigh Line (B&O) Reading> PRS

When life was simpler

I'd love to meet the idea that didnt come from here

Does it seem that the LV trains always seemed to be a little dirtier and weathered than other operators of that era? I like the well-worn look but maybe my eyes are playing tricks on me.

@JessicaKasumi1990

3 жыл бұрын

Not really. The Lehigh Valley Railroad operated in some very dirty areas. Including in and around many Anthracite coal mines.

@BOBXFILES2374a

3 жыл бұрын

Coal dust is good for you.

@JessicaKasumi1990

3 жыл бұрын

@@BOBXFILES2374a It builds character. Puts hair on your chest, etcetera.

Do I detect a slight disdain in Mike's voice towards Norfolk Southern?

@jonathanwreck8914

2 жыл бұрын

That’s an under understatement

Dude talking sounds drunk lol