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Conrail’s Kaleidoscope Years is a new series covering the first few years of operations featuring a wide variety of motive power color schemes inherited from the former Anthracite Roads, as well as leased foreign power.
This is Classic Midwest Rails Volume 5 – Part 2. The second part of Jonathan Reck and friends’ trip to the upper Great Lakes region of Minnesota, Michigan and Wisconsin.
In volume 16 of Railfanning with the Bednars, it’s the late 1980s and Conrail is still busy removing the Lehigh Valley mainline. We go back in time with some found footage from the Bednar Collection.
In volume 5 of the Reading Blue Mountain & Northern, we’ll view freight and passenger operations from May of 1992 to May of 1993.
In Volume 5 of Railfanning the Delaware & Hudson, we’ll railfan the D&H from the early 1970s into the mid-1980s.
It’s a transition time for the EL as we leave the 1960s and head into the 1970s. Narration by Mike Bednar.
Railfan the DM&IR, then chase CNW ALCo C628s with ore train.
Lots of Conrail and D&H action, as well as chasing Reading & Northern 2102 on the mainline. Video from the Bednar family in 1987, 1988 and early 1989.
Conrail was selling trackage and the RBM&N was buying. Coal was the main product. To get the job done, RBM&N brought on additional diesels, including GE’s U23B.
We pick up where we last left the Bednars boys, in mid-1986 as Conrail began removing the Lehigh Valley mainline from Hokendauqua to the Lehigh Gap area.
We pick up the the new shortline’s freight and passenger operations in late 1991.
It was a time of much change in the Northeast railroad scene. We’ll see outgoing railroad’s such as Lehigh Valley, incoming and then outgoing such as Penn Central and then the coming of Conrail. Also brief scenes of 1972 flood near Wilkes-Barre. Informative narration & commentary by Mike Bednar.
In volume two of the Reading Blue Mountain and Northern, we step back a bit and visit various locations along the railroad from April through July 1991, including operations on the Minersville and Tremont branches.
In Volume 4 of Railfanning the Delaware & Hudson, we”ll railfan the railroad from Montreal Canada into Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania.
The Blue Mountain & Reading began operations in 1983 as a 13-mile short line, operating state-owned rail line between Hamburg and Temple Pennsylvania.
Trains tip-toe over deteriorated track, on roads trying to stay alive. Informative narration & commentary by Mike Bednar.
The last of the lost footage from early Conrail and D&H, from mid-1978.
The end of the Anthracite Roads. Informative narration & commentary by Mike Bednar.
Indiana, Michigan, Ohio & Missouri. Mike Bednar narrates.
We ride into the 1970s and tour from Hoboken to the Southern Tier.
Chase big diesels on the UP and BN in 1978.
Chase UP, D&RGW and the Utah Railway in 1977.
Lost footage captured by the Bednar boys of early Conrail and Delaware and Hudson from December 1976 to March of 1978.
Covering the Lehigh Valley and the D&H, with Contrail and Penn Central making appearances, the Kosin collection features Super 8mm railroad films photographed by the late George Naugle of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.
Rare film footage of the Lehigh Valley between the mid 1940’s and the early 1970’s. Fascinating narration and commentary by railroader Mike Bednar.
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