Cab Ride, Conrail Office Car Special, Pat 1, Philly to Harrisburg

SKU: DVD-GF-N042
(1 customer review)

$24.95

Not only will you see video shot from the cab of both E-8 diesel locomotives, but action photographed from the rear end, the full length dome car, and from the vestibule as well.

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Producer

Green Frog Productions

Run Time

1 hour

Narration

Yes

Shrink Wrap

Yes, Brand New

Technical Details

No Region Code, NTSC

Steve Neff received the offer of a lifetime when he was asked to ride along on the Conrail inspection train, more commonly known as the Office Car Special. The train departed Philadelphia’s 30th Street Station, on November 27th 1990, and headed west to Harrisburg. Since this was to be a round trip, the train returned to Philadelphia the same day but by different routing. Once the train arrived at Harrisburg it was dispatched back to Philadelphia by way of the Port Road Branch along the beautiful Susquehanna River and then onto the Northeast Corridor.

Not only will you see video shot from the cab of both E-8 diesel locomotives, but action photographed from the rear end, the full length dome car, and from the vestibule as well. Watch the engineer work the throttle and brakes, listen to the cab chatter between dispatcher and engineer, and enjoy the beautiful scenery along the way. Feel the excitement of these venerable locomotives as speeds reach 90 mph on the Northeast Corridor.

One hour, full color, sound, no narration and on-screen graphics.

1 review for Cab Ride, Conrail Office Car Special, Pat 1, Philly to Harrisburg

  1. rickyfreni

    The date is November 27th, 1990, as Steve took a ride aboard the coaches that was led by Conrail’s since been retired F-units with a cab ride from Philadelphia’s 30th street station on the route of Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor, to Harrisburg Pennsylvania, & back again with the Port Road route.

    Locations Between the 2 cities in the Keystone State include West Falls Yard, Pencoyd, Bridgeport, Norris Tower, Phoenixville, Pottstown, Neversink, the power plant at Titus, the viaduct at CP Cumru, Schlagel Park, CP Valley Junction with a meet from a Hi-Rail Inspection Vehicle, CP Lawn, Sink, Krick Road, Wemersville station, Lebanon Station, Palmyra station, the Chocolate Candy City of Hershey, alongside the Susquehanna River, CP Port, CP Cres, Mann’s Run Flume, Frey’s Run Flume, Safe Harbor Junction & Dam, State Route 372 Bridge, Bacon Interlocking, Newark Delaware, Davis interlocking, the New Castle Secondary, the swing bridge at Ward, Bell Tower, Alongside the Atlantic Ocean, Markus Hook Station, the abandoned site of the Baldwin Locomotive Works which is the original home of many surviving steam engines being built there raging from 4-4-0 Eureka to C&O 2-6-6-2 1309, Crumlynne station, Ridely Park, Sharon Hill, & Arsenal Tower before arriving back at 30th Street Station in the late afternoon.

    While there is commentary from the crew aboard the cab ride segments, this program like most of Steve’s titles are also Un-Narrated as well.

    A couple of Trackside Runbys are also included, as well as meets with Conrail Freights, the SEPTA commuter trains, & Amtrak’s since been retired AEM7s, & F40s.

    In the closing credits, Grant Geist of Berkshire Productions, was a camera operator for this program.

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