Southern Pacific Railfan Delight

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Southern Pacific Railfan Delight

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13 жыл бұрын

These are actual 16mm home movies films, made by the Late Robert G. Sage, SR. of Reading, PA. There were 12 Reels of movies from the late 1940's through the 50's. I bought these 16mm Films at a yard sale last year. I had them transferred through a freind of mind. All audio has been added. The pacing scene of the Daylight, sound was provided by pacing scenes from 1996 of the Eire Limed of C&O 614. Other train sound was from other steam locomotives I took audio of through the years.
Hope you enjoy.
Len

Пікірлер: 63

@normansilver905 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing and going to the cost of transferring these treasures. This brings back many good memories of a guy who grew up on the SP mainline in southern California.

@caltrain 11 жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing this incredible footage. Caltrain is celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Peninsula Commuter Corridor at the end of 2013 into 2014. We will definitely feature this video.

@jackchen7003 11 ай бұрын

Wow. Hard to believe that this area went from Southern Pacific Steam and now CalTrain electrification. Caltrain is nearly completely done with electrification

@AlcoLoco251 Жыл бұрын

5:30 jeesh! He locked up the wheels! That'll leave some flat spots.

@danielboone3770 3 жыл бұрын

I love the SP! Especially in the 1940's and 50's.

@Bob-ed9tc Жыл бұрын

I've got a Pentrex video from 20 years ago that has all of these clips.

@LeonardFShanerJR Жыл бұрын

Well, this footage came from 16mm movie reels I bought at a flee Market/Yard Sale. From The Late Mr. Sage's collection. His widow was selling them off. She had already sold a box of movie reels to another person a few years before, I bought the rest.

@prsearls 2 жыл бұрын

Ditto the thanks below. One of my favorite SP steam was the "streamlined" 4-8-2 Mountain. IMO, they have a handsome appearance. Too bad none of the 4-8-2's were saved. Fortunately I have a pair, one in HO and the other in O-scale (streamlined). I display my O-scale SP power at Christmas, after all, what's Christmas without trains?

@MichaelBryce1125 2 жыл бұрын

The color looks like the 90s era

@FabioSilva-mt9wr Жыл бұрын

Coast daylight

@Truthseeker4449 12 жыл бұрын

This is really nice, it's got both sound and a little music in the background, yet the music doesn't overide the sounds.

@LeonardFShanerJR 11 жыл бұрын

Thank you sir, My Name is Leonard F. Shaner Jr. Pottstown, PA. Journey Back In Time Productions.

@drrgperrin 10 жыл бұрын

Pure heaven! How do we thank you?

@LeonardFShanerJR 8 жыл бұрын

Thanks, You just did, :)

@LeonardFShanerJR 13 жыл бұрын

NSHammerhead , you just never know. Mr. Sage worked for the Central Railroad of New Jersey as a Big Boss and had a great hobby in rail fanning along with taking film. I'll be putting up other's in time. I have 8mm film he took too. Len.

@Ruiluth 10 жыл бұрын

God bless the man who took these videos! And the one who posted them too.

@megatwingo 10 жыл бұрын

Amazing footage. Thanks God there are people like you who are making all those efforts to digitalize the old films and load them up here for us railfans! Thumbs up and greetings from Mega :)

@bigfourroad 8 жыл бұрын

Thanks for this -- it isn't easy to edit and add sound and I don't know why anyone wouldn't be thankful for your efforts.

@zr1rob 11 жыл бұрын

they had a passenger and ferry terminal in sausalito too. freight yard was in tiburon, and freight ferry there too. fire in tunnel n of san rafael in the early 60's caused that trackage to be served by ferries again until the tunnel was rebuilt in '70. i loved the nwp too back then, i was a just a kid who bugged my dad back in the early 70's. after they got the tunnel back, they abandoned the tiburon line, and now its condos. The sausalito line had a yard at marin city.

@tejasnite 8 жыл бұрын

Thats great vintage photography

@JohnHorvath42 13 жыл бұрын

fantastic old footage

@aiforus 12 жыл бұрын

This video is fantastic! Great job on the sound-editing also!!!!!

@DonaldKirker 11 жыл бұрын

I believe that the Niles Canyon (Historical) Railway has some of the passenger cars that used to be used on the Peninsula Commute Corridor. I also believe that one of the steam engines is sitting somewhere (not sure what the condition is). You might be able to get a hold of these and set up a special historical train run. :D

@regmason2329 7 жыл бұрын

Great footage!

@lutrains 10 жыл бұрын

J'ai passé un bon temps merci.

@normansilver9834 7 жыл бұрын

I lived just about 150 ft off the Coast Line near Santa Susana and I sure do remember those SP steamers and in WWII they leased some Burlington steamers too! The most impressive to me were the 3 cylinder 4-10-2's. You could tell what they were fro 2 miles away. They sure had a distinctive sound.Thanks for sharing this!

@fabioanchieri8333 11 жыл бұрын

---> Precious movie, extraordinarily beautiful, thank you for sharing. ---> Prezioso filmato, straordinariamente bello, grazie per aver condiviso.

@MrSpinwoo 12 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing great film

@dadnyfur 11 жыл бұрын

This was some great footage, and the sound was great too, very nice job. The coast line runs by about 130 feet from my back yard, and now and then I get to see some vintage varnish and coaches for specials, it's nice to see the historic SP.

@Earthshaker513 7 жыл бұрын

Man, those Cab-Forwards sure had some get up and go when they needed to!

@prrbill1 10 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the time and effort you put into finding and converting these films. Beautifully filmed; I'm glad thee haven't been lost

@emdman1959 7 жыл бұрын

Awesome old video.

@wildcatindustries8030 10 жыл бұрын

Its rare to see GS-4s and GS-5s and what I'm guessing to be a GS-3 doing daily tasks. Also that cab forward shot really rumbled the ground when it caught some speed. I guess thats what they call "Rollin Thunder".

@kraigkasten 13 жыл бұрын

thanks for sharing, awesome videos and great quality video, hard to believe you could get such quality back then.

@WalterO1959 10 жыл бұрын

too cool ,great find

@bertsendobry9354 10 жыл бұрын

prima Video !! Walter O

@BalticFilms144 8 жыл бұрын

What engine did you record for the MT-4 going into the tunnel? I loved that small bit of a whistle.

@metalheadrailfan 12 жыл бұрын

Pure awesomeness!!

@randynewell1751 8 жыл бұрын

Rode a few of those Harriman's.

@dans49 10 жыл бұрын

Outstanding video! Thank you so much!

@NSHammerhead 13 жыл бұрын

These are just plain awesome, len! Glad u were able to find these! I wonder if there would be anything like this waiting at Green Dragon...

@owenmeschter9888 7 жыл бұрын

Everyone! Go look up the video "Murder in the Private Car 2"! It's 1934 film, based on the Southern Pacific Railway. There are train chases, shots of an active SP yard and roundhouse, and by far the coolest whistles I have ever heard. It's SP railfan heaven!

@HunterBHolmes 11 жыл бұрын

4449 and other GS Class steam locomotives had (and still do have) first generation air horns mounted on the front. Now in excursion service Daylight very rarely uses the horn (only in emergencies or to get attention) and is therefore very uncommon to hear in a video. But in the 40's and 50's these were the main auditory devices used at crossings as the air horn had a sharper noise and got your attention much more efficiently than the smooth pretty sound of the steam whistles. GS's had both.

@phillyfan-182 13 жыл бұрын

i love this

@gantondale 11 жыл бұрын

I really like US steam, even though I'm a Brit. Thanks for sharing these fantastic images. Pity it all ended so early in the US. They could still do a job today, as the UP challenger, 4449 & 844 among others still do

@espeeboy 13 жыл бұрын

Great Peninsula steam action! Love all of those MT's with the skyline casings. I assume the first film clips were from Coastline (looks like Santa Margarita in the opening scene?). Where is the closing footage from with the SP 3706 and the fairly long bridge? Somewhere in the CA central valley?

@haroldsmith8698 9 жыл бұрын

I WILL TRY SOME THING IF I CAN TO SEE IF I CAN GET A LIST OF MY FAVORITES LIKE THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAIL ROAD I USED TO WORK THERE. I SEE AQ LOT OF FAMILIRITY THERE.

@struck2soon 7 жыл бұрын

Great video and original sound track...why the totally un-necessary 'soft-rock' music?

@modernphotographer 11 жыл бұрын

I dont mind hard work myself... I don't fancy the way everybody seems these days either...

@modernphotographer 12 жыл бұрын

Why was I born in 1990?

@Greatdome99 9 жыл бұрын

Great video, but the '90s-era acid rock music was not appropriate. Maybe a little Perry Como?

@LeonardFShanerJR 8 жыл бұрын

I can't use copyrighted music, It get's my video's pull by KZfaq. So I used what I had in my video production program.

@lennyos 12 жыл бұрын

How did you get recordings of the Cab Forwards air pumps?

@utubewatcher806 11 жыл бұрын

Why is there a diesel horn on a steam loco?

@hjebone 10 жыл бұрын

Fantastic find. Great footage. They did have music in the 1940s and 1950s. It would have been a lot more appropriate than the 1980s "made for tv movie" soundtrack. Or just no sound at all. JMO

@LeonardFShanerJR 8 жыл бұрын

I can't use copyrighted music, It get's my video's pull by KZfaq. So I used what I had in my video production program.

@hjebone 8 жыл бұрын

Mozart? Khachaturian?

@robertgift 8 жыл бұрын

Wonderful coordination of the added train sounds. Delete the music. Did they really use the horn on that steam locomotive? How boring. But being directional it likely was louder ahead than the whistles.

@regmason2329 7 жыл бұрын

The GS-4 had both whistle and air horn.

@RaisedLetter 7 жыл бұрын

Secondary Horns exist too you know