B&O C&O Railroad 1955-1971

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Жыл бұрын

shot on regular 8mm, this film features trains from the b&o and c&o railroads. Lots of great Trainspotting. this film is part of a large collection we recently purchased, all content is by the same enthusiast

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@blainenodes8182 Жыл бұрын

As a railfan since 1949 I sure rejoiced at your post 👍👍

@Buffalodiv1968 Жыл бұрын

Fourth generation B&O railroader here. I love the footage of the freight and passenger trains in some pretty famous places. I also worked one summer on the C&O in Newport News Va. thanks so much for sharing this!

@jerrywoods4845 6 ай бұрын

Well done. My uncle was a brakeman on the C&O in Clifton Forge, Va.back in the late 60s. As a kid he'd take me right out onto the yard and into the locomotives and cabooses that had quite a lasting impression on me.

@the8mmrailyard-vd6jd 6 ай бұрын

thanks so much for watching, sounds like an amazing experience.

@saberridge6867 Жыл бұрын

I lost all my old super 8mm film from the 60s thru the 70s. I had a bit of film showing the B&O 20th Century Limited pulling into Chillicothe, Ohio for a passenger stop. I can still hear in my memory the rhythmic high pitch bell dinging slow as it pulled in to a stop, followed by the loud hiss of the air brakes being set for the stop.

@US-191 Жыл бұрын

Great stuff! Thanks for sharing. 4:52-4:33 is Hinton, WV. Then heading east over the mountain and arriving at Clifton Forge at 5:48. Great shot of the Gordonsville cabin-operator running back up the stairs after roll by inspection at 6:43. 6:55 is obviously Richmond, from there on out it looks like the Peninsula SD. Wonderful old film.

@HuntOfficial1776 Жыл бұрын

6:50 is Bumpass, VA. It looks almost identical today but no signal tower and there’s a historical marker. The video is sometime after 1963 because the station was still there in 66’

@Greatdome99 Жыл бұрын

Note the set out sleepers at Clifton Forge. Some were routed to Hot Springs, others to the Greenbrier at White Sulphur Springs--both from Washington DC.

@armandisip2287 Жыл бұрын

Fantastic film! 2:15 Love those RDC’s snaking through the switches!

@svenmartin840 Жыл бұрын

Wow what an awesome video. What a colourful time to be a rail fan. No Amtrak, pre-merger of CSX,Metra was just beginning so was the MBTA in Massachusetts

@dwightbrowning1494 Жыл бұрын

Fantastic film! Would love to find a set of films like those at an estate sale some day!!! Brought back a lot of memories of riding the Southern Rwy in the 70’s

@AndrewNeilFalconer Жыл бұрын

With the early AMTRAK train this would mean there a few 1971 scenes.

@lynneurbanik8703 Жыл бұрын

Love the old time projector sound , notice how the trains looked much cleaner then comparison from today with all the graffiti on every boxcar lol

@mmi16 Жыл бұрын

Earliest clips with steam and double digit numbered diesels are from earlier than 1957 as that was the time of the big renumbering - renumbering diesels that held 1 to 3 digit numbers to 4 digit numbers and renumbering steam that had 4 digit numbers were renumbered to 3 digit numbers.

@munsonstrainswildlife9734 Жыл бұрын

Nice film! My guess is the train from approx. 3:45 to 4:35 is the "Shenandoah" due to the presence of a dome sleeper with a mostly heavyweight consist. Love the eclectic consist. Thank you for sharing.

@paulw.woodring7304 Жыл бұрын

Nice stuff. Clearly the B&O steam is no later than early 1958, when steam officially ended for them. However, I do not think that the fan trip with the gondola was the last trip. Photos I have seen of that trip (from Cleveland to Holloway, Ohio) do not show a gondola full of fans at the front of the consist (can you imagine the fit the FRA would throw today if a railroad did that!?). Concur that at least some of the scenes on the C&O on the New River and Mountain subs were shot after Amtrak started, probably into 1972, when cars started getting the Phase I "Pointless Arrow" logos. Charlottesville, VA was clearly shown, and the first C&O scenes were at Hinton, WV. In one scene, one of the coaches is painted light blue. Could it possibly have been used in the 1969 Golden Spike Centennial train, which I believe was painted a similar color?

@videothen Жыл бұрын

Some possible locations: 0:15 - Washington, D.C.? - because of the Pennsy-style catenary towers 1:45 to 2:10 - Philadelphia 2:11 - Point of Rocks, MD 3:22 - Oakland, MD? 4:30 to 4:45 - Cumberland, MD? 4:46 - Grand Central Station, Chicago 5:55 to 6:30 - Charlottesville, VA 6:45 - Gordonsville, VA 6:55 - Main Street Station, Richmond

@chuckm6486 Жыл бұрын

The overhead wires at 0:15 look more like of Reading Railroad design (black with a criss-cross metal work pattern) - so perhaps this is in Philly? The other Philly scenes starting at about 1:14 are mostly crossing the Schuylkill River in the East Falls section of the city and heading into Center City where the station stood - across the river from Pennsy's 30th Street. At 0:53 I think (check me) this is the bridge across the Susquehanna River near Havre de Grace, MD. What I especially like about this film is that we get to see entire trains - not just of the locomotives passing as I think too many photographers seem to cut away once the locos pass. Great stuff!

@videothen Жыл бұрын

@@chuckm6486 Seriously: as someone big into passenger train history, it infuriates me no end when they never show the consists.

@shortliner68 Жыл бұрын

Definitely looks like the Oakland, MD station at 3:22. I used to ride excursion trains from Baltimore to Oakland in the Fall back in the 1960s and 1970s.

@HuntOfficial1776 Жыл бұрын

6:50 is Bumpass, VA I live not far from it and it looks identical just now it has a historical marker

@KatyPacific382 13 күн бұрын

0:30 -0:47 is anyone going to point out the fact a B&O Mikado is pulling a fantrip/excursion?? I never realized this happened, what was the number of that Mikado?

@ATrainGames Жыл бұрын

Is this footage from Emery Gulash?

@the8mmrailyard-vd6jd Жыл бұрын

Unfortunately, I don’t have any information about who originally shot the print, I acquired this film from a deale, It is very similar to his work however, I understand he mainly shot on 16 mm, this is from a 200 foot real of reg8 mm film.