I didn’t know this documentary existed. Thank you for posting it on you tube.

Such a pity most of these trains no longer carry cars, the Dusseldorf to Wien service was so useful for me, it was generally cheaper to take the train than to pay for fuel and an overnight stay, not to mention the time saving and lack of wear and tear on the car. I understand the reason for ending car transport from Dusseldorf is that the OEBB sleeper service was extended to Brussels so it would no longer call at Dusseldorf. After the Wien service ended you could still travel to Innsbruck but then even that was canned due to the reason above.

Modelled history.

Talk about bygone eras. No one makes documentaries quite like this anymore.

Does anyone know what the current modelling scene is for this era? Can anyone identify any books that cover tyhis era of the railways, obviously difficult as a lot of it was pre photography?

My grandmother's 2nd husband was a pipe fitter in the Roanoke Locomotive shops from '46-'65.

Just found this 😊I had a loads of the these tapes back in the good old days they were very good great sounds just close my eyes and I'm there 😊

Its cool to see another engine using the tracks, im from keith and ive never seen the line used for anything other than the Keith and Dufftown railway. The keith station looks a lot different to how it does now

Awesome video! I’m the guy you met on the Aberdeen Waterloo branch once, waiting for the freight train.

Priceless recordings! Thank You!!!!

Bought this , got to be late 70's early 80's ? First time I've heard it for over 40 years I think , brilliant !

Wonderful video, a real train fest. I like those red DB loco.s, a lot of them will be in the scrap yard now.

Loved every second 👍

Hornby hm7000 chip ?

Nice birthday present for the wife 😆

Love Blue Ridge

Great explanation. I just bought a N gauge Dapol 2D-007-014 - Class 66 66780 GBRF Cemex. I run it on Kato Unitrack and it constantly derails at the points and slips on inclines. None of my other trains have this issue. I also noticed that the front wheels lift when transitioning from an incline to a flat which causes the front wheels to lift of the rails and derail when it comes across the next point. It hardly pulls anything as well compared to even my tiny Fleischmann v60 so i am looking to put traction tyres to the outside wheels in an attempt to make the wheel radius bigger so it stays on the tracks and increase traction on inclines. Quite disappointed with Dapol for producing a product that doesnt work well.

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Thanks for the upload. I traveled this line for years. Class 51 & 59 to Aachen West, loved it. I also drove 55 TVM but only to Montzen. I remember well the engineering works in the Gemmenicher tunnel to add the third (middle) track to allow high loads like het huckepack trains.

Brilliant

Wow , I bought this from York Railway museum while I was still at school, not heard it for over 40 years. Thanks for posting it

I remember listening to my dsds copy growing up in the 80s/90s. How differnt the ,Westerns sounded (& the Hymek). Wish they would diigitally remaster and release it on cd.

The recording from IC tower is my favorite part. There is not to much film footage or audio recordings in Mendota. I work at the railroad museum in Mendota which has an HO scale replica of the Mendota train yards as they looked in the late 30-early 40s.

For anyone wondering there is a museum in Roanoke,Virginia and has pretty much everything Link took a photo of.

Fantastic. I used to love walking to the railway bridge and seeing the 37 haul the freight trains to the Isle of Grain. I love Insch, stunning up there. My nanna used to own the Mill of Bonnyton which had a very old railway carriage in the yard as a shed, it had the names of soldiers from the war (not sure which one) carved in the wood in the guards compartment. Miss that place, had some special memories there. Lovely scenery. 👍

The old LNER tender runs well

This layout has got to be one of the funnest looking ones to operate and build I’ve ever seen. I hope wherever it is it’s being taken care if.

Awesome.

Outstanding skill .

Saludos a todos desde Texcoco Estado de México mis papás me llevaron en ese tren en 1980 y quiero regresar con mi hijos😢❤😂

So many memories in one video ! 4:33 37 406 "The Saltaire Society" was my longest cabride: from Edinburgh to Fort William at the request of First ScotRail to undertake an assessment of the Deerstalker sleeper prior to the then introduction of the Class 67 on the route. 9:13. 47 019 was not my first loco, but my first loco I recorded for haulage. Working from Gidea Park to Kensington Olympia on Eastern Region Merrymaker No 30 which started at Shenfield, and 47 519 took over for the run to Newton Abbot and back, outward via Bath Spa and returning via Bristol Parkway. 11:30. March East Signalbox. I have worked that signalbox ! And I have also done the Y junction at March West to Wisbech on a passenger train.

Brilliant more please

Absolutely brilliant

Lovely locos 33 and 73

Amazing train lovely Scotland

O.W.L. worked hard to preserve what America was before our gov. became overtly corrupt. Why does NO ONE tell us the U.S. gov. passed tax laws that mandated the railroads buy diesel locomotives? (General Motors lobbied/ paid the gov to pass this legislation) hmm? The U.S. gov. has created EVERY problem America has today.. IF YOU can name 1 problem America has that is NOT CAUSED BY OUR GOV. Please post it here. R.I.P. O.W.L. Too bad we can not get together on 12/16 ( his birthday) every yr. to honor him.

You've brought back happy memories of my time at Gateshead MPD as an electrician (898) on Ray Fender's shift. Perhaps we even met? Have a great new year, and keep the old 52A as the best, 2451- I remember as the D foremans number (gone but not forgotten)!

I do hope this layout has been saved for posterity. It's a work of art, of that I have no doubt. The ultimate in scratch building, surely.

Sulzer

Those recordings from the line through Green Cove are very beautifully haunting.. wish that line was still in place

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Gorgeous! I live near Kyle and when I was wee it was always Class 37s or 40s that ran between there and Inverness. The noise and the diesel smell of them is something I still love. Great catch….id give my right tit to see that in action. My husband worked on a farm over near Huntly and played for the rugby team back in the 90s.

12:19 CB&Q 5632’s Whistle

Was that train at the start an stp service? I have never seen it on that line before.

Stupendous! The children playing and speaking with their mother was priceless.

This is the snow piercer 😮 👍👌 2:30 3:32

As an an amateur photographer in the early 70s I was greatly influenced by this man

Amazing footage & sounds. Don't think these scenes will happen to often in future with 'global warming'. Can I share a short clip of this video please? Thanks, Rod.

Greetings from Canada. I enjoyed this video. Something that may amuse you about the shot of the orange CN plow, it looks like the location where the CN line went under the CP Goderich line near Milverton Ontario. If it is, I worked on CP plows on the line above this one. I also recall working a trip on the higher line when a CN plow was running underneath of. Of course, I didn't have a camera that day. Both lines have since been abandoned & ripped up. You'll note the "north American" spelling of "plough" has been altered to "plow". On ploughs here, there is a crew riding in it, they operate the horn for crossings & the "nose" & wings. They communicate by radio with the Engineer (driver) to advise of signals, speed restrictions etc, as it is impossible to see anything from the locomotive in heavy snow situations.

A great video made by a great train enthusiast. Loved it!!!! Greetings from another rail enthusiast from Mexico City.