Conrail Southern Tier Line, Part 2
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Part Two of JPM’s “Conrail Southern Tier” series uses video from railfan Dave Deyo to explore Conrail’s former Erie trackage.

The Erie-Lackawanna offered commuters an on-time ride. Shippers received excellent service. And, until 1970, long distance passengers were afforded views of some of the best scenery east of the Rockies.

Rubber City region action from the 1950s to 1980s with steam, early diesels and a cab ride.

The early CSX years just after 1986 to 1990 brought an unprecedented array of colors to the Akron scene: B&O and C&O blue, WM red & white, Chessie orange and yellow, Seaboard System/Family Lines grey, plus Georgia, L&N and more.

View the variety of the 1950’s in the Rubber City region. B&O, Erie, Pennsy, New York Central and the AC&Y.

First Class U.S. Mail was sorted by clerks aboard a fleet of cars which once numbered over 4,000. Here you will enter their secluded world, hemmed in by stanchions stacked with parcels, rows of hanging pouches and, above, boxes lining both sides.

NKP’s famous 2-8-4 Berkshires strut their stuff across the system, from Buffalo to Chicago!

The covered wagon ranks were thinning rapidly! During 1978, classic EMD and ALCO cab units were being replaced by second generation models on passenger and freight roads. On a series of trips Chris Skow filmed some of the final regular assignments of E8s, F7s, FAs and even the PAs.

From bankrupt Penn Central to profitable Conrail. Watch fan favorite Big Blue move toward profitability and eventual sale to Norfolk Southern and CSX.

Before the merger. E and L and E-L scenes from the 1930s to the 1960s.

Imagine not slow, two-mile long, trains, but a racetrack – maybe even a drag strip – of railroading. In 1994, that describes the Santa’s Fe’s mainline between the West Coast and Kansas City.

Wisconsin Central Railroad action begins on the Mesabi Iron Range in Northeastern Minnesota and travels south over the DM&IR to reach the DWP yard at Pokegama.

The Erie Railroad trackage that ran through New York’s “Southern Tier” counties and then to Buffalo is what Conrail called its Southern Tier Line. The full route runs between Suffern and Buffalo. In Part 1, JPM looks at the line between Deposit and Gang Mills, New York.

From the camera of Roger Bee, C. Vision brings to you the Chicago and North Western in the states of Minnesota, Iowa and Wisconsin, along with the ore lines in Michigan.

From the camera of Emery Gulash, spectacular action on one of America’s best loved railroads, The Rio Grande!

The Pennsy, The ‘Standard Railroad of the World” was, beginning in the summer of 1952, the standard for filmographer Emery Gulash, when he began capturing prolific amounts of activity on the PRR.

Vintage MoPac, Frisco & more from Metro StL.

Conway Yard, near Pittsburgh, was the Pennsy ‘s major classification yard. Under Conrail and now NS, it is still very busy.

We see C&NW trains operating on former Rock Island, Chicago Great Western and Minneapolis & St. Louis lines in Iowa, Missouri and Minnesota. Classic Chicago and North Western, Volume 3 features Fred Crissey’s footage from the late 1970’s. Plenty of Midwest action is captured as trains operate over the Spine Line that runs from St….

In the late 1970s, many ALCo units were based at Huron, South Dakota, due both to their lightweight and pulling capacity. This suitability to the area’s light rail and slow speeds made the Pierre to Winona route the CNW’s “ALCO Line”.

Tour the brand new Conrail in May of 1976. See new and old: Erie Lackawanna, Lehigh Valley, Reading, Lehigh and Hudson River, Central New Jersey, and Penn Central.
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