Priceless material. Excellent video Jack.

Awesome these pictures thanks for sharing

Jack, this footage is really special to me. I was just a teen during these years. Back then I had little interest in trains.. I would see D&H running where I lived in upstate NY (Albany, Schenectady, Troy area)..Now many years later I've developed a love for trains and seek out footage such as you provide. I model D&H primarily with a sprinkle of nearly all New England roads just because. Until recently I just collected and ran what I liked without any thought about actual routes or operations. Now here I find myself wanting to focus on that era gone by. So, this footage really hits a chord with me. Being able to see actual footage of these older engines..and hear the horns of that day. Most everyone today is doing modern railroads..and fallen flags are harder to come by. Maybe that's why it appeals to me..yearning for that day gone by. Thank you for sharing.. Tom

I remember seeing GP-30's 2216,2217, and 2225 working on the A32/41 on the Robbinsville secondary as well as GP10 7573. Really takes me back to a simpler time.

Love video i was born in 1978 and ownel see railways in 80s 90s and today wow nicely done.

Love your old videos! Takes me right back to when I was a kid! I would have been 15 in 1978.

Tons of executives. Great Video

This is excellent. Thank you for sharing.

Another Gem thanks Jack.

Very cool! I love seeing trains in those days with all the mergers occurring, the old power you never see on Class I Railroads, and those perfect horns that don't even sound like anything you hear trackside today. Even though i wasn't alive in 70's 80's and 90's i still have an attachment to old diesels a little more than steam. Anyway, thanks for sharing and great footage!

Thanks Jack for publishing these great videos. The sounds are wonderful and having lived through the years of transition from the LV, RDG, EL, and D&H into Conrail and PC, these videos bring back many fond memories. Just hearing those SD45 horns again is great. Thanks.

Absolutely first class "retro" videos, hope you have more of these.

Awesome footage and great sound ( until the malfunction ). Love those GP30'S and all the EMD motive power. Thanks once again Jack for your great work ! Greetings from Southern California, regards brother! - Balerio

Thanks Jack.

Hey Jack, Again you hit the jackpot. This was so fun to watch! Boy those times must've been amazing to be around in. Thanks for another great video brother and God bless. -Don

Absolutely something than can no longer be repeated today! I miss the early days of CONRAIL! Hard to believe it was 41 year's ago!! My friend and I railfanned Emaus hill in 2005! Though it was no longer CONRAIL. At least we could enjoy NS action there!

great video! nice to see some old footage of classic trains from my home area.

Jack..........liked that region and time so much that I modeled it in my basement in HO gauge.

God bless you, Jack.

Thanks for the cool video I was born in 77 and I recognize some of the buildings in the video are still there today. I wish I would have went with the railroad for my career

Back when emmaus was a nice small borough where everyone sat out on their porch and watched out for each other

The dust at 7:13 leads me to believe someone neglected to close the angle cock before cutting off, note how the motors stop on a dime.

My Dad had a super 8 sound movie camera. But NO WAY was he going to let me, a 14 yr old kid, use it to film trains! Sigh. Oh well. Good stuff as usual Jack!

Nice!

Love the helper cutoff on the fly. Saw 2 Pennsy logos on locomotives in Conrail's third calendar year. In Ohio all units I remember had mating worms by 1976. Note how overbuilt the railroad is, with sidings on both sides of double track. Today that level of traffic would warrant single track. Just look at CSX going north out of the Atlanta metro area or NS going west, SSE or northeast.

to the right on the 4th St bridge is the emmaus movie theater, and movie nite was not complete unless a train went through 😄😄

Going to set up a gathering to watch this😂

Back to the alco era eh? It's nice to see the Delaware and Hudson. I went around in 1978, and a few other times, like 1957 to see a lot of this

NICE: 4 GP30s in a row!

For working up a grade, many of these trains still seem to be making time.

Those were the interesting days- you could see just about anything come by. I miss that sound of the old jointed rails, and trains still look weird to me without the caboose. I noticed there was a man at the throttle of the ALCO cut in on the second train. The MU connection must not have been operational.

good one jack, think when I was younger back on 88 or 89 I saw a black CR unit on the east penn drill coming through Allentown and I'm almost sure it was black with a can opener logo.

Fantastic footage of sights long gone. By chance, do you have any footage from this era from the south west?

I wonder what these clips would have looked like in the steam era.

Turbo problems on CCRU-1's SD35?

At 5:44, why does the D&H unit have its red light on. I know you can turn it on manually, but why would they do that?

What type of unit is at 4:36?

I wish I was born in the 70s🙁

5:15 lol red gyro?

What is this "movie camera" you speak of?!?!? LOL

The real days of railroading not the stupid techno stuff we have today stupid throttle restrictions and dumb countless rules.