Conrail in the 1980s and early 1990s – Memories Of Big Blue
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Come along for a look at Conrail’s west end in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s.
We travel Missouri Pacific territory in Illinois as new owner Union Pacific was taking hold between 1986 and 1988.
Four years after Canadian National swallowed the Illinois Central we travel part of the Mainline of Mid America and look at day to day operations.
Paducah Geeps were plentiful at the beginning of 1990, but by the end of 1991 they were fast disappearing as SD40-2’s from BN were coming online.
As the 1980s came to a close, Norfolk Southern was coming closer to presenting a unified image, but Norfolk & Western and Southern Railway engines were still on the main.
When the Chessie System and the Seaboard System were combined, the new railroad had two routes into East St. Louis: the former Louisville & Nashville line from Louisville and the former Baltimore & Ohio line from Cincinnati. See a variety of traffic pulled by a variety of paint.
This is the Burlington Northern on the former Chicago, Burlington & Quincy line from Centralia to Metropolis, Illinois coal line.
See NKP 765 running on the Illinois Central’s Kentucky Division. Includes a brief history of the IC and Paducah.
Union Pacific ran its “Great Excursion Adventure” featuring 4-8-4 #844 in 2011 on a route picked by public contest! Its destination of Little Rock dubbed this “The Little Rock Express”. Catch it in Missouri, Illinois and Arkansas.
The Chester Sub is Union Pacific’s water level route through southern Illinois. This is the former Missouri Pacific line between Chester and Thebes, Illinois.
We visit the busiest freight railroad in the world: Union Pacific’s Council Bluffs Subdivision. Join us as we see hot spots such as Gibbon and Grand Island and Bailey Yard.
Nickel Plate Road 2-8-4 #765 was on the Wabash mainline from Fort Wayne to St. Louis in 2012 to handle a series of NS employee appreciation specials. With four cameras on the job, this is the most comprehensive coverage of this trip.
Big steam returns to the big curve in 2013: Nickel Plate Road 2-8-4 #765 pulled a series of three excursions from Lewistown to Gallitzin, including the assault on the grade west of Altoona and around Horseshoe Curve.
The 1990 National Railway Historical Society convention featured four active mainline steam locomotives: N&W 2-6-6-4 #1218, UP 4-8-4 #844, St. Louis & San Francisco 4-8-2 #1522 and St. Louis Southwestern 4-8-4 #819.
The Missouri Pacific became a part of the Union Pacific in late 1982. But even in the mid and late 80’s, consists of pure blue Missouri Pacific power could still be found.
1990 was a year of change along the Mainline of Mid-America. We see that last months of the double track mainline and the early months of single track operations between Effingham and Cairo in Illinois.
The trains in this program were shot at the end of the ICG’s existence, in the years before the railroad reverted to the Illinois Central name. At that time, there were three ICG paint schemes, and all of them make an appearance.
When the ICG became independent again, the move came with a return to the old Illinois Central name, and a new black paint scheme harking back to the days when the Illinois Central was known as the Mainline of Mid America.
This program covers Norfolk Southern early in its existence, with plenty of locomotives painted in the colors of the Southern Railway and Norfolk & Western mixed with newly repainted Norfolk Southern power.
This program examines the formative years of CSX from the end of the Chessie and Seaboard systems in 1985 through CSX’s own image in the early 90’s. We’ll see a lot of early paint.
It’s the late 1980s and the black, red and yellow scheme of the recently aborted SPSF merger are abundant along with units in the Santa Fe blue and yellow scheme.
Newly restored Nickel Plate Road 2-8-4 #765 in 1985 on her first appearance of what would be many on the famed New River Train. We see 765 up close and then climb aboard the train for a ride behind steam on the mainline.
Here is the last railroad to use steam exclusively in freight service in the United States, the Crab Orchard & Egyptian Railroad. Interviews with one of the railroad’s founders and the current president of the railroad add to the story.
See AND hear Southern Railway’s newly restored 2-8-0 #630. The DVD covers mainline action between Chattanooga and Cleveland, Tennessee. The included CD has 16 tracks of professionally recorded sound.
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