Some of the crisper and clearer '70s footage I've seen! The sound always adds so much too. The looks of the trains already had a lot more personality than today, but the sounds seem to even more so. So many mechanical bells, EMD 567s, and a wider variety of horns.

Very high quality video for the 1970s. I love that it has audio as many do not.

Grew up along the Southern Main in Clemson, SC. Remember always trying to see the Crescent as it came through.

My Great Grandfather & great uncle were engineers on the L&N🚂🚂( new subscriber too! Great job Nick!)

Oh man, the memories!! Wish I could have bought all the available land around there back then. Always loved how The Crescent had the car with the platform on it on the rear or an Amtrak car or two. Always. Southern was just an awesome railroad to grow up around. All their quirks and traditions.

I love this video wish they were more southern railway videos on you tube their isn't that many southern railway videos outheir

I remember those years well. I remember when those E8's were black and seeing the green comeback. What a sight! I grew up in New Orleans and the southern railway was my favorite. Then the GM&O, L&N, etc..... I model the southern in ho scale and have a small N scale display layout with southern power. I think those caboose less freights must have been transfer runs. In New Orleans southern had transfer cabooses but from 1970 on I don't remember them being used. All the run through trains and of course the mainline trains had cabooses. But while other lines used cabooses on transfer runs I don't think the southern did. Someone else may know better as I was in highschool and then college in the 1970's. I know I missed a lot. I do remember when they switched to continuous rail . Fun times. Love your video. Thanks for sharing this with us.

Great video, I got down there every now and then. So much of our rail heritage is now gone with the wind 😔 😟

Love all those boxcars and the classic EMD diesels. Thanks for sharing.

As a child I would ride the Southern Crescent alone between Philadelphia and Gainesville to visit my grandparents. I remember the first time, I was about 10 years old and my Mom was walking down the platform. She headed towards the head porter, a middle aged black man that was dressed in the most elaborate suit I had ever seen. White suit, white hat and gloves, gold epaulets and tassles, gold buttons, etc. To me he looked like an army general from an old movie but I knew he's wasn't. No, I assumed anyone dressed like that MUST own the railroad, and my mother is taking to him! Traveling alone, he would always keep me close by and I would follow him around the train. I would ride this train each way twice a year and every time that porter made me feel like the most special passenger on the railroad. I will always remember him.

6901 sits in a museum in duluth ga now

I remember the Southern well during this era. Have some photos of the old downtown Terminal Station site from August, 1985. The Office cars are parked down there, and Omni and Omni International hotel, etc. Southern Railway, I read, was paying one million per year in property taxes on the Terminal and maybe 10 - 12 trains coming in and out of there per day by 1969. It'd stand to reason they had no romance for the station, which sat on 4 acres of prime real estate. It was an incredible edifice, though, with finely detailed friezes on each corner of the building, Spanish tile roof, gargoyle impressions and statues situated around the entrance... Used to ride The Southern Crescent, early 70s. Finest American passenger train running. Amtrak was getting it's legs in 1973. They were nowhere near what The Southern was offering - fresh flowers and fine China on the dining car, incredible meals, etc...a slice of Americana I feel blessed to have experienced, that is now long gone. You can ride a train, but you can't ride the Southern Crescent.

Excellent!

Great video thanks for sharing

Very,very Nice!!👍🏻

WOW!!!!

My dad worked out of Inman yard conductor to Chattanooga

Stunning video quality. Subscribed!

Must be around 78-79 or so, they had Amtrak coaches on the Crescent. Excellent stuff! Love it!

at 16:20.I guess SOUTHERN was experimenting with cabooseless trains as early as the 1970’s

good memories

How did you convert these? The quality is pretty good for what I assume is Super 8 sound film.

14:24 God I love the 70s What a wild time that would've been to be a railfan, during the era where railroads went "Put an SW1500 on a commuter? sure why not"