Lively World of Great Northern (1960s) Part 1

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17 жыл бұрын

Part 1 of 2
A documentary produced by Great Northern Railway in the late 1960s
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@UCSPanther20 12 жыл бұрын

Their "big sky blue" (introduced 1967) is one of my favorite railroad liveries.

@newjackdoug 14 жыл бұрын

great video! groovy music! so much of what used to be produced in the United States now occurs elsewhere.

@htc6600 13 жыл бұрын

TheWoodsmanhunter: James J. Hill always wanted to merge GN, NP and CB&Q. He tried to long before the '60's with the Northern Securities Company. The BN merger was about marrying the best parts of three railroads to create the best possible railroad from Chicago to the Pacific Coast and had nothing to do with taxes. It was about increasing ton miles with minimum train miles, a Hill dictum and the biggest reason why GN was so successful.

@Brendon_John_Harrison Жыл бұрын

Later BNSF

@htc6600 13 жыл бұрын

I love the ending of this film with the boxcar door closing and then the geep pulling the car away.

@mafarnz 17 жыл бұрын

Agreed, it's so cool to see the old F units, and the mixed GN paint. Very cool old film.

@Robbi496 4 жыл бұрын

I miss cabooses, they were no longer necessary, but I still miss them

@BlackWolfessUSCM 14 жыл бұрын

@sd39hogger I volunteered out at a railway museum last year as the radio girl in the cab, and the engineer of the u-Boat I was assigned to actually has a class he teaches on how to properly do that. Although we're not supposed to do it, since that was his generation he taught me anyways :D

@UCSPanther20 12 жыл бұрын

I think that is the legendary GN #400 aka "Hustle Muscle" at 1:41. The first production EMD SD45 that rolled off the line, and is fully preserved and 100% operable.

@douglasskaalrud6865 6 жыл бұрын

UCSPanther20 ........and sitting out in the middle of the Northtown departure yard just north of Minneapolis, totally accessible to taggers and thieves 5/2018.

@Texasrailfan9021 4 ай бұрын

I’m A UP/BNSF Railfan/Foamer But This Is Great in the 60’s!

@bdtubbs 17 жыл бұрын

Best vid. on Utube. Period.

@QuadMochaMatti Жыл бұрын

@8:53 - Weyerhaeuser sighting - my late father spent all 43 years of his professional life with that one company, involved in the financial management of their R&D activities, and all but five years of that were spent within Washington State. Like everything else, WeyCo is nothing like it once was, even in the late '70s to late '90s, when I was a young boy/young-ish adult. 😢

@bradjames6748 Жыл бұрын

I worked for Macmillan bloedel their Canadian competitor until weyerhauser took us over closed all the mills and fired everyone....

@bnsffreighttrain 17 жыл бұрын

Awesome to see Great Northern in action!

@bertxblitzkrieg 14 жыл бұрын

Empty well cars were stored on the Casco sub between gunn and hibbing for quite some time... i often thought it would be pretty cool that when they moved them, they'd move all however many miles of them at once. that'd be a huge train.

@jschmid 15 жыл бұрын

excllent videos, i never thought I would find someonthing like this ononle, or even youtube! ty for posting this, iI really like how the conductor gets onto the locomotive at 7:52 ! :)

@AndrewNeilFalconer 15 жыл бұрын

The Great Northern Exterior-Braced 50' Box Cars in Big Sky Blue built in the late 1960's lasted in that paint scheme at least into the late 1990's. Have you seen a GN Big Sky Blue Box Car lately?

@whiteknightcat 7 жыл бұрын

Ah, the good old days when black horn-rim glasses, white shirts, and narrow ties was the height of business fashion.

@mikeggg5671 6 жыл бұрын

good old days, yes - but ewww. I prefer the 30s-early 50s, when a man could still wear a double-breasted jacket, and had a handkerchief for every tie. When men wore fedoras...

@AndrewNeilFalconer 15 жыл бұрын

In 2005 I did see a Great Northern 4-Bay High Sided Hopper in the original G.N. Scheme applied in 1966 just before Big Sky Blue. I wonder if they are sitting in railyards today.

@AndrewNeilFalconer 15 жыл бұрын

The all Big Sky Blue passenger train must have been a short lived sight since BN and AMTRAK came in soon after this film was produced.

@Brendon_John_Harrison Жыл бұрын

Now BNSF

@seankolker 17 жыл бұрын

Did`nt know such awesome GN video existed.

@Petermax99 14 жыл бұрын

You can still see GN cars from time to time watch the North Towns Yards in Minneapolis your bound to see one.

@KTrainz 10 жыл бұрын

just saw a gn hopper in a cn mixed freight passing by spences bridge B.C.

@MrJimmybgood 10 жыл бұрын

i rember as a boy watching great northern in the swithing yard here in spokane washington. real cool, i still love it.

@judgedredd8657 7 жыл бұрын

we still have big blue centerbeams on CN

@kenmartin9227 Жыл бұрын

No cars with taggers marked...nice

@progx8679 9 жыл бұрын

Wow look at those new fangled computer gizmo's !!!!! Lol we had sure come a long way ! But I shor miss 1st and 2nd Gen diesels !!!! Everything looks the same now ! Also NO Graffiti on the freight cars !!! I wonder how many cans of spray paint are stolen each year !!??

@skinnyshit8888 13 жыл бұрын

@greenwaterhose that is a geep! you can tell by the axle count. I saw double axles. SDs have triple axles!

@daylightbigboy 7 жыл бұрын

YEAH! Computers with individual transistors (not ICs) and Big Sky Blue!

@bigrezide 5 жыл бұрын

This music is cool as hell! Anyone know the the composer?

@tandemcompound2 5 жыл бұрын

nice ray of sunshine with new blue cars just before GN went bust.

@SpecificationR 17 жыл бұрын

wow that yard worker at 7:53 has balls

@paulnguyen8910 Жыл бұрын

Since 1987, Great Northern is today's BNSF Railways.

@chooch1995 9 ай бұрын

Since 1996….& part of it, yes….

@paulnguyen8910 9 ай бұрын

@@chooch1995 Actually, it was 1970. When Burlington bought the Great Northern, they merged into Burlington Northern. By 1996, when Santa Fe bought BN, it merged into BNSF Railways.