The Rivals - B&M vs B&A vs CV
"The Rivals" is a look at the waning days of the Boston & Maine Railroad and its competition with the east-west former Boston & Albany route vs it Fitchburg mainline and also the battle between it's north-south Connecticut River Route vs the (now former) Central Vermont Railway. Nearly all of the footage differs from that previously used in the B&M Fitchburg and Conn River videos that were released earlier.
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Beautiful, got the sound back, this is one of my favorite videos, thanks for sharing !
In my opinion, this is definitely the greatest railroad video ever made.
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GE once was the largest employer in Berkshire county. GE has long left Pittsfield and New England area for overseas. Even the once robust paper mills have closed. There is now little industry left in the area so there is a economic depression. The region now solely relies on tourism, retail and the service industry. GE may have moved its headquarters to Boston from CT, but it has little manufacturing left in Massachusetts and New England. CSX now runs through Pittsfield but they no longer stop there to drop off cars. Norfolk Southern and Pan Am now control the nothern route and seem to be putting pressure on CSX but they are still hamstrung from the low overhead through Hoosiac tunnel and the bridges after it.
I enjoyed the video greatly. The narration was informative and added to the visuals.
Recorded with a digital camera of a VHS tape off a computer screen. Amazing, somewhat.
Enjoyed this very much.....great story. But something seems to be missing from the run-by scenes. Oh...now I know.....the cars looked quite unusual with their sides not being all marred and vandalized by graffiti . Somehow ,in the present age, spray-paint vandalism is just accepted as normal. How did we get to this point ?
That CN boxcar sure took a rough hit LOL!
Great video!
Another great video of times gone by! One question, who is the narrator? Is that you Scott?
awesome footage and documentary.. I love this part of the country..though not a fan of G at all..still I love Railroading..and I love New England..that trumps..Guilford.. Tom
liked the B&M DPU at 39.09
Flat pulling freight.helpers three of them pulling four of them as movement of fright maine
Have you done any other New England Railroads?
So, what you're saying now is that you have more chins than a Chinese phone book?
What happened to the sound/narration
where can I buy this?
Hmmm... I had black hair and only one chin then.