North Jersey Railroading, The End of an Era
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An action packed video featuring the last years of steam in North Jersey with a few electrics and first generation diesels. Black & White.
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Producer | Railroad Video Productions |
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Run Time | 1 hour |
Narration | No |
Shrink Wrap | Yes, Brand New |
Technical Details | NTSC, Region Free, View Worldwide on Computer |
An action packed video featuring the last years of steam in North Jersey with a few electrics and first generation diesels. Many railroads are represented including the Jersey Central, Reading, Lehigh Valley, Erie, Delaware A. Hudson, Pennsylvania, Rahway Valley and the Lackawanna. The first 30 minutes contains film shot by Neil Huff in the 40’s and 50’s, then excerpts from an early Union Switch & Signal Co. film, and we close with newsreel footage of the Pennsylvania Railroad wreck of “The Broker” at Woodbridge, N.J, i.n 1951. Black & White.
rickyfreni –
This program contains a huge mix of vintage railroading in the Garden State with electrics, early diesels, & Steam engines on the Jersey Central with Pacifics, & Camel-backs, Reading with the Streamlined Crusader, Pacifics, & T1 4-8-4s with Future Famous Survivor 2124 on a freight in one scene, Baltimore & Ohio, Lehigh Valley, Delaware & Hudson with articulated giants, Pennsylvania with K4 Pacifics, Rahway Valley with number 15 that is now on display at Steamtown with 2124, Lackawanna (with 2-8-2 number 1233 that is referenced to a Southern Pacific 0-6-0 on the Yolo Shortline), & Erie.
Aside from the countless run-bys that were photographed by Mr. Neil Huff, there is also some other segments like:
1. inside the signalbox
2. A ride on the rear of a passenger train
3. Yard work with junctions
4. more run-bys
5. more scenes from a signalbox
6. more junction scenes
And 7. A February 1951 aftermath of an unexpected Accident by Train number 733: the Broker led by K4 pacific number 2445 on the Pennsylvania Railroad in Woodbridge New Jersey with Helicopter Angles from the Sky & an appropriate musical background since these Black & White films were shot silent. There are Breakdown Cranes, Steel Cutters, & more & more people looking for stranded passengers onboard the damaged train, while countless doctors, nurses, & police, with the troops try their best to heal the poor passengers they rescued.