Preview Early Norfolk Southern 1987 1989

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This is the preview for our Heritage Series DVD "Early Norfolk Southern: 1987-1989."
During the last three years of the 1980s, the Norfolk Southern was still a holding company in control of the Southern Railway and the Norfolk & Western. Despite the two railroads being, on paper at least, separate entities, their motive power rosters were being repainted into the unified N.S. paint scheme. There were still plenty of locomotives yet to be painted, and many appear in this show.
This DVD features the former Southern Railway St. Louis Line in and around Centralia, Illinois, with a side trip east through Indiana.
Plenty of older power is seen, both in Norfolk Southern paint and in the schemes of the Southern and the N&W. Older models include GP30s, GP35s, GP38s, SD40s and C30-7s. The newest power of the period also appears, the SD60s, running long hood forward.
Cabooses were in use on most of the trains during this period, and the trains are loaded with cars from lines that are fallen flags today.
The DVD runs 1 hour and 49 minutes.

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@wirepuller127 5 жыл бұрын

Miss the high hoods high balling on the main running long hood forward.

@tommyhunter1817 6 жыл бұрын

Sure miss all those Southern 4 axle high hoods highballing on mainline runs. Everything is too cookie-cutter these days.

@ReadingAreaRailfan 4 жыл бұрын

Tommy Hunter NS still runs GP38-2 high hoods to this day

@floridianrailauto9032 3 жыл бұрын

Wouldn't they have been cookie-cutter too though if all Southern used was high hood geeps?

@BranchlineGeepProductions 4 жыл бұрын

So many high hoods! Awesome! Too bad so many have disappeared.

@northalabamarailphotograph7063 6 жыл бұрын

The IC line sold to ns was partially abandoned from Red Bank to Birmingham, the other is West Tennessee & Redmont Railways

@Rando-es4sq 4 жыл бұрын

The Norfolk southern owns the ex IC Birmingham district from Fulton KY to Corinth Ms but is leased to west Tennessee railroad, the CSX also has trackage rights from Milan TN to Jackson TN

@verastaki 3 жыл бұрын

Wow! I miss those days!!! I remember how EMD SD40-2's and such used to dominate the rails! Long hood forward! Caboose at the end of the train. You don't see that much these days! High-Hoods used to be a norm, nowadays, it's a surprise to see a High-Hood, or a B-Unit locomotive! I like that 2070, U.S. Army High-Hood locomotive @ 1:28! Miss those days before Burlington Northern merged with Santa Fe in 1995. Railroads were amazing back then. Miss the Long hood forward operation! Youngsters will never know how railroads used to be, unless they watch the videos filmed by us! But actually being there in person in 1988 is a whole different story!

@218422100 4 жыл бұрын

Southern 6 axles running Longhood forward was the best!!!!!

@Rando-es4sq 4 жыл бұрын

I remember the Norfolk southern coming through Jackson TN, trains 111, 112, 123 & 124 used to use the old IC Birmingham district from Fulton KY to Corinth Ms, the NS stopped running their through freights over the IC around 1996, due to the fact that the IC would hold up NS's trains at Fulton KY for extended periods of time, delaying many of their trains, so now the NS owns the trackage from Fulton KY to Corinth Ms but doesn't currently operate it, instead it leases the line to the West Tennessee railroad & the CSX also has trackage rights from Milan TN to Jackson TN

@erikthepirate8068 2 жыл бұрын

1:25 I love ALCO MRS-1! My Favorite Locomotive!

@lamontduplessis3552 5 жыл бұрын

So Good to see these locomotives!! Great, great video!! ☺✌Ty

@dontderockmeriz4546 4 жыл бұрын

Miss seeing freight action on the old Wabash line from Bement to Chicago line. Most of the line has been abandoned side the 80’s.

@jaiyanachowdhury5674 3 жыл бұрын

It’s so great to see the Norfolk and western sd40-2

@zachariassiefker9249 2 жыл бұрын

Nice video! Love the old school NS!

@mauricelong4678 Жыл бұрын

These trains are still around

@camsmith7651 3 жыл бұрын

How much cost is it to repaint, and decal a locomotive

@brianbooher7318 3 жыл бұрын

Alot

@larken24 2 жыл бұрын

Did anybody notice how short the MRS1 was compared to the locomotives pulling it. Like comparing scale model trains to a basic engine lol

@charlesgault3777 24 күн бұрын

I think that locomotive was originally designed to run on European railways, some of which have a smaller loading gauge than American railroads. That's why it is both shorter height and narrower width than the rest of the locomotives on the train.

@roberttrainor7659 6 жыл бұрын

looks like a lot of George Redmond footage

@kylenifong1046 6 жыл бұрын

Norfolk southern

@scottpool4777 5 жыл бұрын

Yeah hi hood there's nothing like them.

@cooperluna4137 3 жыл бұрын

Thats the baby norfolk southerns now we have newer norfolk southerns today lol

@kylenifong1046 6 жыл бұрын

@Drfjr72 3 жыл бұрын

whats with the white flags on some of the southern locomotives

@b3j8 3 жыл бұрын

White flags indicated a freight train "running extra." An unscheduled move in other words when most freights ran on a schedule. Green flags once denoted 2nd section following.