Conrail's Kaleidoscope Years Volume 3

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6 ай бұрын

This is a preview of Conrail's Kaleidoscope Years Volume 3. The full DVD is available from our website: www.johnpmedia.com/dvds/conrails-kaleidoscope-years-volume3
DVD summary below:
Conrail’s Kaleidoscope Years is a series covering the first few years of operations featuring a wide variety of motive power color schemes inherited from the former Anthracite Roads, as well as leased foreign power. The random colorful lash-ups made for an interesting and exciting time on the former northeast railroads.
Volume three covers Conrail’s traffic in western PA from Altoona to Cresson, in the eastern Ohio area, the traffic between Alliance, Mingo Junction and Weirton, West Virginia and finishes with scenes in Allentown. Photographed between April of 1977 to October 1977.
Footage in this volume comes from photographers David Latshaw and Jonathan Reck.
Narrated with commentary by Mike Bednar
Color and sound; approximately 61 minutes runtime

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@brilliantman79 Ай бұрын

Great footage! It was great seeing the Cleveland Electric “yellow birds” make an appearance! I used to seem them all the time go through Brilliant, Ohio.

@WaffleDragon 21 күн бұрын

This must have been an expensive camera for the time. The video quality is great and having live audio is incredible. For as beloved as Conrail is, it's a shame we had to give up all of these other colorful railroads to get it.

@leehuff2330 6 ай бұрын

You're getting into MY neck of the woods now! The opening video of the Panhandle Bridge before the new US 22 bridge was built was a sight for sore eyes. And I can still remember those big Centuries lugging coal and ore trains from Mingo to Conway. The Cleveland line passes right across the Ohio River from my house. Also, my late uncle worked in the old Canton yard at that time. And I can stil smell those mills even after all these years of them being gone!

@luvindemtrains 6 ай бұрын

I said the same thing. I walked across that bridge a few times in my youth.

@leehuff2330 6 ай бұрын

@@luvindemtrains I can also remember when the line from Weirton to Newell continued to Chester and served TS&T, Celotex, and Harker. When I was in elementary school, I used to walk up to TS&T and watch the guys switching the clay silos and the warehouse until my dad got done work, then I would ride home with him.

@luvindemtrains 6 ай бұрын

nice and I always wondered where that line went to@@leehuff2330

@ArcadiaJunctionModelTrains 6 ай бұрын

Fantastic footage and we are so fourtunate to have this archive to have captured it.

@MyVideos-fm7ug 6 ай бұрын

Yeah, that’s excellent for 1977 for sure. I saw a Pentrex video one time on Sand Patch that was filmed 1978… yet, the entire time I thought it was early 90s footage, it was that good

@thedesertdwellerfromutah4354 6 ай бұрын

Outstanding 💯... Any early Conrail action is pure Gold 🪙

@azrailfan2717 5 ай бұрын

First scene was absolutely amazing. Conrail painted SDp45s. And seeing a train in the opposite direction with the Jeep/Eagle vehicles on a open auto rack 😎

@redthepost 6 ай бұрын

Nice work fellows. John is a beast.

@Charmaster04 21 күн бұрын

Lots of interesting lashups! I wish I could replicate these sorts of trains in model form. Now I'm scared I'm going to start collecting HO scale diesels as well as Lionel, Marx, British OO, D&RGW narrow gauge, Pennsylvania steam engines, Pokémon cards, etc., when I get older. Too many things to collect. I have to begin being selective somewhere. Honestly, I might want to buy the DVDs now, though. I'll need to watch some of my dad's railroad footage DVD's to see if I have the attention span.

@nysw252 4 ай бұрын

GP40's and 4 axle power were meant for intermodal trains as Conrail did in later years.

@MMID303 6 ай бұрын

Who is the guy who narrates? He's great. His voice reminds me of Teddy from Bob's Burgers lol.

@williammcgeehan3424 6 ай бұрын

Mike Bednar a Lehigh Valley employee.

@Charmaster04 21 күн бұрын

Also, this may sound like a bad joke, but I'm glad people are still selling DVD's. Much better for my self control than possibly doom scrolling on KZfaq, AND there's the added security of the DVD's surviving any attempt sort of an FBI campaign or a nation-enveloping tactical EM wave strike to take them away from the public at large. (Okay, maybe that second sentence is the one that actually sounds like a bad joke.)

@jimkelton4052 6 ай бұрын

Great video, but the EL power was by far in the best shape of any of the other roads that became CR. I can personally attest to that.

@danielhutchinson6604 4 ай бұрын

CR 6669 looks like an old SDP 45? (at about 2:30 ) I recall the Penn Central using a string of old E-units on freight in Ohio before Conrail became a reality. The distribution of old Passenger Units might seem like the subject of a Video? As Roundhouse foundations get covered up by "Progress", we seem to lose sight of the past?

@Charmaster04 21 күн бұрын

By the way, @JPMediaRR, what railroad was the engine from the front of the train at 1:12 in the volume 1 video from? I thought it looked like a D&RGW engine. It might also be from the same railroad as the engine at the back of the lash at 0:35 in this video.