CONRAIL... 1977, "THE COLORFUL YEARS", Part III

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8 жыл бұрын

Here is a third part to "Early CONRAIL, THE COLORFUL YEARS," and I am out with my Kodak Super 8mm sound movie camera. This was state of the art technology at the time. Movie film with sound. Only problem, was that the film cartridge only held 3-1/2 minutes of film. It usually always ran out in the middle of a subject. These old films have been digitalized, and preserved for all to see these early days of Conrail.
As in "Part I and II", you will see locomotives that make up the newly formed Conrail of April 1976 and now continues in "Part III". Units from Lehigh Valley, Penn Central, Reading, Erie Lackawanna, along with freshly painted Conrail units, and leased units from BAR and CN. The locations covered will be in northern New Jersey, New York, and PA.
Another neat thing to watch for in these old clips, are the 100's of classic freight cars. 40 and 50 footers, open side and open top auto racks, old tank cars, and reefers. What's really nice! No graffiti on any of it! Those where the days!!!
Hope you enjoy some of these classic images, even though the quality isn't the greatest with the antiquated system of filming back in the 70's. Sorry for the shaky camera. I was truly an amateur photographer in these early years of Conrail. But history has been documented, and shared with all to see these early images...
Thanks for watching, and God Bless...
Here is the link for "Conrail Early Years Part I"----
• CONRAIL... 1977, "THE ...
and "Conrail Early Years Part II"
• CONRAIL... 1976, "THE ...
Please do not use without permission
All my videos and images are Copyright protected.
Locations are of filming are,
Glen Rock, Ridgewood Junction, HoHoKus, Haworth, Rutherford, E. Rutherford, Secaucus, Waldwick, NJ...
Mechanicsville, Hillburn, NY... and Bethlehem, PA
Taken with a Kodak 8mm sound movie system in 1977
God Bless our troops, and God Bless the United States of America
Copyright Jack D Kuiphoff © 7/14/2016
John 3:16

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@WideWorldofTrains 7 жыл бұрын

Great old footage, I dream about finding some old film like this. My Dad retired from Conrail about this time

@PennCentral-jn2ow 4 жыл бұрын

I remember watching them growing up in 1976 when the merger was just announced, a compilation of them all, EL, PC, LV, Reading, NJ; all lumped together saying to myself "that's so cool!!!" and wouldn't leave the tracks wanting to see more. Th for sharing this.

@christopherstehn 2 жыл бұрын

That all become NJ transit

@christopherstehn Жыл бұрын

this reminds of twa american airlines us airways merger american west united merger

@JosephMusgrove Жыл бұрын

As a model railroader, this would be interesting to model. Thanks for posting!

@lotusbandicoot 7 жыл бұрын

More great stuff! I'm a huge Erie Lackawanna fan, so it's great seeing EL units in action. I live somewhat close to the EL's West End (Marion Division) in Indiana and explore the abandoned track bed several times a year. It's hard to picture trains barreling through the area at 50 mph nowadays.

@apmazurka 5 жыл бұрын

I was 11 Years old in 1977. At the bottom of Oread street in Worcester Mass "Were I grew Up" was the old B+A main lines transforming from Penn Central To Conrail (Now CSX) over looking the Old New Haven Yard (Now P+W). I Remember seeing the same type of power line ups in your videos. Simply THE BEST YEARS OF MY LIFE. Thanks For Sharing. Andy M

@1jackdk 5 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed them Andy. It does jar some good memories of days that don't seem all that long ago. Time flies. Thanks for watching...

@Artines999 3 жыл бұрын

♥.♥ Nice Work.Thanks...

@kelvintorrence5994 3 жыл бұрын

Live the big e.l. my favorite road then the Milwaukee road .rock island and other old roads.

@buixrule 4 жыл бұрын

Amazing footage.

@stephengrybowski9573 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this! This was the railroading I missed when I was not yet a railfan.

@bluel7162 3 жыл бұрын

so very prescient of you to catch these moments, and so much appreciated now. top marks old chap.

@jamesswigart3858 8 жыл бұрын

Thanks again for posting these videos bring back a lot of memories this is the best one yet hope you have a lot of EL am from Kent Ohio now live in New York State thank again for posting

@MrPictovid 8 жыл бұрын

as with the first two volumes I love this one too!

@TylersNeighborhoodGarage 8 жыл бұрын

CN 5581(now renumbered) was still going strong in 2012, 36 years later.

@1jackdk 8 жыл бұрын

Good to know the old girl is hangin in there. Thanks for the update, and thanks for watching...

@SlaterDozierRailroadMedia 8 жыл бұрын

Great stuff! Its cool to see all of the Fallen Flag schemes on the locomotives.

@gauge5546 8 жыл бұрын

Pure awesomeness!!! I'm from Maine, it is fantastic to see Maine Central and Bangor And Aroostook Railroad boxcars and gondola's!!!!

@1jackdk 8 жыл бұрын

There is some fantastic fallen flag cars in those clips. Now I wish I took pictures of each one of them. Thanks for watching...

@sacredf8 8 жыл бұрын

+jackmp294.5™ You Filmed All Of This?

@iusetano 8 жыл бұрын

I'm glad you captured this brief time in history. Thank you for the upload. Excellent video Jack.

@1jackdk 8 жыл бұрын

Thanks, and glad you enjoyed the history. There will be a few more coming in the future. Thanks again for watching.

@johnjablonski553 3 жыл бұрын

i remember hearing and seeing documents that the Reading, Co. had some of the best maintained locomotives and rolling stock, and the Penn Central some of the worst when they were added to the Conrail pool

@ShawnyNorburn 5 жыл бұрын

Fantastic footage!! Miss Conrail.

@30yrsengr41 5 жыл бұрын

Good stuff jack helps us all remember when

@christopherabbood8181 8 жыл бұрын

Great to watch the old stuff again, I remember several of these trains as I was probably standing somewhere close to you at the time, I'm surprised you managed to keep us troublemakers out of most of your movies! That was fun times for sure Jack!

@1jackdk 8 жыл бұрын

LOL, No doubt, I probably got you somewhere Chris! It WAS great times back then. There are several clips where there are guys ducking and weaving to get out the way, but I still got you all. There might be soom up on KZfaq, or may be still hiding in the archives... Glad your enjoy this old stuff. I just just spent the last 3 hours editing stuff on the NY&LB in 1975-1976. I'm getting ready to put it up on KZfaq now, if the storm we're having doesn't knock the power out on me. Thanks for watching...

@rayhakim4466 5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I'm guilty of being in a few frames. I recognize myself even 40+ years later. Some of those trains bring back memories, just like Chris said!@@1jackdk

@montyvox0510 8 жыл бұрын

To go back in time.....great stuff Jack!

@1jackdk 8 жыл бұрын

We just got to build a Time Machine. That would be great, and have the camera equipment we have today. Fantastic. Thanks for watching...

@Charonview 7 жыл бұрын

Great video! I think that was my favorite time period for watching trains. I really like the types of locos and rolling stock from that time. Interesting to see SP locos with EL locos! Never knew that happened. Trains today are very beautiful with great paint schemes, but for me the graffiti detracts from the experience of watching them - it just does not fit with the paint schemes. Thanks for posting!

@SD457500 7 жыл бұрын

Great stuff as always!!

@wesleybarnett6860 6 жыл бұрын

Awesome stuff! Sure makes me wish I was older back then to take pictures and film trains.

@1jackdk 6 жыл бұрын

I hear yah Wesley. Sure wish we could go back in time with todays equipment. Thanks for watching...

@donconklin1770 8 жыл бұрын

Hello Jack! Really nice video you published here. It is a real treat to see CN and early Conrail before all of that power was painted over. I think I spotted a Reading locomotive also. God bless Jack, and thanks for all of your wonderful videos and hard work. -Don

@1jackdk 8 жыл бұрын

Thanks Don. I just posted a video taken in Abo Canyon in 1997. If you get a chance, check it out with your speakers cranked up! It will knock your dishes off the shelf! LOL. Take care buddy, God Bless, and thanks for watching...

@donconklin1770 8 жыл бұрын

jackmp294.5™ I saw it. Notch 8 alright. All dishes in tact on shelves lol. I shall Jack; you take care as well. My pleasure to watch your videos. I really enjoy them.

@simonetaormina7080 3 жыл бұрын

I was 12 when this was going on and I thought seeing these different roads running together was the norm till I started model railroading and found out the reality

@arejay54 8 жыл бұрын

Great stuff! That 3 1/2 minute limit with Super 8 was frustrating. It discouraged me from even trying to shoot trains--I couldn't have stood to miss catching the entire train, but I wish now I had shot some anyway. Better than the older Regular 8mm, though, where you had to flip the film over halfway through under darkroom conditions. As I recall, it was about 10 or 12 dollars per roll for the film and processing. Now we get a couple hours of High Def video for about the same price. Anyway I'm glad you took all the films you did. Thanks for going to the trouble of transferring them to digital and sharing them!

@FrehleyFan3988 5 жыл бұрын

There were more than the colorful trains u mentioned. There was Lehigh valley, Penn central, Erie lakawana, Monongahela, jersey Central, and as you mentioned new conrails

@rayhakim4466 6 жыл бұрын

Jack, thanks for the memories. Sorry I got in at least one of your shots (@WJ)

@Hanksabutt 4 жыл бұрын

I’ve been going through a lot of these older videos, it’s pretty cool that you had the 8mm film especially with sound, and how it’s aged so well. Seems like a lot of the time there was no sound, must’ve been expensive.

@1jackdk 4 жыл бұрын

It was pretty costly. Each cartridge of sound movie film was good for 3-1/2 minutes of filming time. So you tried to be conservative, and always ran out at the worst times.

@JAILRail 8 жыл бұрын

Certainly colorful.

@1jackdk 8 жыл бұрын

There was a little bit of everything back then. Early Conrail was neat. Thanks for watching...

@kelvintorrence5994 3 жыл бұрын

Those bad rails must have been Penn central that I seen in their video to get cash from the u.s. government. Those trains where rocking and rolling hard.

@HVACSirenTowerTrainFanFan2012 2 жыл бұрын

3:22 Ah Yes, U25Bs

@zachmalcolm6342 5 жыл бұрын

Whats the name of the horn on that ex EL U Boat at 5:55

@MSRTA_Productions 5 жыл бұрын

I think its a Leslie RS

@zachmalcolm6342 5 жыл бұрын

@@MSRTA_Productions Which one

@lasagna19.6 4 жыл бұрын

the only color it made was orange (*cough fire)

@daniellaubsch1605 3 жыл бұрын

Just as each unit was losing their own identity turning Conrail Dress blue as the government took over the entire east coast rail network and make it competitive from the wrecks of each railroad owners own messes.