Southern Railway, L&N, Seaboard Cost Line Freight and Passenger Activity around Atlanta in the 1970's. Southern Railway Crescent Limited, West Bound stops at Peachtree Station.
Пікірлер: 32
@LotusbandicootRR2 ай бұрын
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.
@jkminnichАй бұрын
Very high quality video for the 1970s. I love that it has audio as many do not.
@ArtPhotographerLindsay7 ай бұрын
Grew up along the Southern Main in Clemson, SC. Remember always trying to see the Crescent as it came through.
@anthonyhunt70110 ай бұрын
My Great Grandfather & great uncle were engineers on the L&N🚂🚂( new subscriber too! Great job Nick!)
@tommyhunter1817 Жыл бұрын
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.
@brianbooher7318 Жыл бұрын
I love this video wish they were more southern railway videos on you tube their isn't that many southern railway videos outheir
@ericjohnson37469 ай бұрын
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.
@NathanPurvis-hm8nc10 ай бұрын
Great video, I got down there every now and then. So much of our rail heritage is now gone with the wind 😔 😟
@georgebenson6036 Жыл бұрын
Love all those boxcars and the classic EMD diesels. Thanks for sharing.
@kenharbin3440 Жыл бұрын
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.
@vuurvrproductions4656 Жыл бұрын
6901 sits in a museum in duluth ga now
@tommythomason6187 Жыл бұрын
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.
@UnionPacific1997 Жыл бұрын
They would have made great high speed rail stations ow if this country could get over its bullshit and put our tax dollars where they need to go. Expanding passenger rail networks to accommodate highspeed trains and expanding Marta should be a priority. I'm tired of hearing the "oh but the train will bring crime" fuck that. Needs to be done
@EastEndProductionsArchiv-lm3lq11 ай бұрын
Excellent!
@kennethtiller7916 Жыл бұрын
Great video thanks for sharing
@rogermccraney8119 Жыл бұрын
Very,very Nice!!👍🏻
@draytonblackgrove3 ай бұрын
WOW!!!!
@billbaber66534 ай бұрын
My dad worked out of Inman yard conductor to Chattanooga
@SamLovesTrains Жыл бұрын
Stunning video quality. Subscribed!
@DJGENEX Жыл бұрын
Must be around 78-79 or so, they had Amtrak coaches on the Crescent. Excellent stuff! Love it!
@UnionPacific1997 Жыл бұрын
Atlanta is a disgrace for demolishing Union and Terminal station three days before the formation of Amtrak and even more shameful how we neglect Marta's expansion and have no HSR services anywhere in Georgia
@DJGENEX Жыл бұрын
@@UnionPacific1997 oh so my comment is now the complaint department against Atlanta and Amtrak?
@UnionPacific1997 Жыл бұрын
@@DJGENEX damn right, why should trains be nostalgic make we should make them the future
@DJGENEX Жыл бұрын
@@UnionPacific1997 Yeah well commenting on my comment is a childish thing to do. Make your own comment because I really don't care what you think.
@UnionPacific1997 Жыл бұрын
It's childish to respond to someone's comment? I don't give a fuck what you think either
@MrJacMac1968 Жыл бұрын
at 16:20.I guess SOUTHERN was experimenting with cabooseless trains as early as the 1970’s
@billloffler863710 ай бұрын
Might have been a transfer up to Chamblee Yard
@mccoy79productions66 Жыл бұрын
good memories
@cbehr91 Жыл бұрын
How did you convert these? The quality is pretty good for what I assume is Super 8 sound film.
@trainknut Жыл бұрын
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"
@Slim_digi Жыл бұрын
It was actually a yard job that added/subtracted passenger consist to the Crescents