My beautiful Pennsylvania

you have no idea how much i wish i could have seen these in person

This is probably some of the best clear footage of these years that ive seen in a while

There’s something so fascinating about seeing these giants of the Pennsylvania Railroad in action

Great footage.As a young boy,my aunt to take me to an overpass &we'd watch the Pennsy go under us.Miss those days.💕

Dad started working on the PRR right after WWII. We took many free trips when they still ran passenger service. The most memorable was always boarding the trains at Union Terminal station in Cincinnati. Many a trip from that grand station on our way to sunny Florida. Wonderful memories.

The greatest railroad in the world

Talk about when times were simpler... none of the fencing that we see at the Curve today. You can't get anywhere near the tracks nowadays.

my favorite railroad

What a wonderful fleet of locomotives the PRR had. What I would give or do to be able to have been there.

Love those K4s! Built an HO model from a kit-weighs almost as much as the Lionel O27 engines! Great classic trains! Who needs that darn Acela??

The Pennsylvania rr had an impressive variety of steam locomotive types and many including the duplex designs were attractive and unique in appearance. It's a shame however that the PRR didn't preserve one example of their J1 class 2-10-4 type locomotives, I would really like to see one of the j1's on display in a park or museum today.

AMAZING FOOTAGE THANKS A TON!!!!

@mocus1 It doesn't say in the program when this was shot, but it's doubtful it was shot anytime after 1947, since that was when PRR began the "modernization" of it's steam fleet...(switching headlight and generator positions, cast drop pilots)...and all the engines in this video still have the old configuration. My guess is early to mid 40's.

Great steam action on the engineering marvel of Horseshoe Curve, achieving a climbable 2% grade over those high mountains by taking a circuitous route as opposed to building a shorter route with expensive bridges and its attendant steeper and more difficult grade. Even that 2% grade required helpers on many occasions.

We should have been in my life back then it would have been really interesting to see the penzi in its

It’s so bizarre seeing an I1sa on the head end a passenger train. Never knew they did that.

Awesome video!

Awesome! I think those are Oliver 60 tractors 1940-1947

Wow! Now, this is vintage!

Nice vid, even if it is old. I've been around Horseshoe Curve on PRR as a kid, when my parents & I traveled to NYC. It was long after steam was no longer being used, but I do remember the conductor coming thru and calling out "Horseshoe Curve" and everyone moving over to the other side of the coach car to look out the windows at this engineering marvel.

Kittanning is pronounced kit-TAN-ing not "kitten-ing." My grandma's brother was a brakeman. He was killed on the Horseshoe curve.

@adtrains75 There's an annotation at the beginning of the video telling who made it...it's Herron Rail Video.

I hope to own all 5 volumes one day. Same with Pocahantas Glory (their Norfolk and Western dvds.)

Interesting that those PRR men were also up there on the curve watching the action. The one looked like he was off of a passenger run. The other maybe a Brakeman.

Check out the Olivers at 1:51 definately late 30s early 40s. I cant put it into words how much I wish I could have been there.

The good old days!

Wow. Thanks! I need this one.

What music is that?

Standard railroad of the world is no oversight, the Pennsy rained true to it's word for many years, always in hard competing with the New York Central as well

Steam and Diesel on the Pennsylvania Railroad.

was there a siding on horse shoe at one time?

"Freight Train". Several versions on KZfaq. Chet's guitar is my pick.

Who does the narration on this Herron video? I've heard his voice several times on some of the RFD-TV shows called Trains & Locomotives. Some of the shows were produced by Herron. It's impossible to read the credits at the end of the shows. I always thought the narrator's voice exemplified someone with a vast railroad knowledge and it was perfect for a train show. I've watched every train show on RFD-TV since they 1st started broadcasting them 12+ years ago. I thought Ralph E. Morse did the narration, but I can't confirm that via Google. Can anyone tell me the narrator's name?

Can't wait for a friend of mine to get done with rebuilding part of the PRR on trainz the Rockville bridge will be on the route and way more like the Pittsburgh station and even Philadelphia and also the Horseshoe curve. It's gonna be a monster!

this is heaven

Why do steam loco's sometimes smoke like crazy and other times burn clean? Isn't the coal always smoking the same??

The thumbs down were from New York Central. :D A shame though what happened to both of them.

What freight did the PRR normally carry?

where do you get Glory Machines Vol. I?

how long were the k4 pacifics without the tender? I'm just curious, I want to do a math experiment with tender-to-engine length ratios and coal and water capacities.

@ :31 you can see the Glen White branch/siding at HSC 1:52 I love the tractors, Olivers I believe 2:00 train with a HIPPO on the head end would of been king on the PRR's Elmira Branch (my hometown named line) 2:15 Ive never seen a car like that one on that train.

@steelflexable No offense, but how can you tell what model year the car is from when all you see is the wheel and part of the headlight? Even if it is a 1930s model car, that doesn't mean that's the time period it's currently in. This is 2010, but not everyone drives a 2010-model car. 8mm or 16mm cameras capable of taking color footage weren't even made widely available to consumers until 1937 at the earliest.

Good camera quality for back then.

Great footage!! What year was this shot?

Was that J Szalai panning the camera??

"Central Motors diesel" right near the end? Huh? Whazzat? Stiffing the "General"?

I thought the B&O was the first railroad chartered in America?

Was there a siding on the horseshoe curve? I saw train cars sitting on one of the 4 tracks

Early intermodal shipment @ 1:56?

I think the name of the song is freight train going so fast.

Does anybody know the name of the song at the end of this video?

What’s the next show that has Steam related? Illinois Steam Safari 1989-2019!

Pennys was favorite of the eastern roads second only to N&W.

Théâtrale ,Spectaculaire Nos si chers convois tracté par des locomotives a vapeurs Ne les oublions jamais A 71 ans j'ai eue la chance de connaître ce matériel PARIS/NORD>LAON en deux heures ! Le Dijonnais Calais Bâle !

anyone know the name of the song at the end of this video?

Wow! No trees in the view of "Horseshoe Curve"!

@thegliderguy I was just going to say the same thing.

I think Rockville Bridge over the Susquehanna

"First railroad chartered in America" um no thatd the b&o

Great Video. Probably during WWII.

K a tanning not Kitt ning Ya gumps

"locomotives of great size and power"....not quite, when compared to articulated steam locomotives of other eastern RR's N&W, C&O, and VGN