Pennsylvania Steam and Electric Years 1936-1952
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Published 2022-12-31
All Comments (21)
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WWII-era film clips of PRR are rare. This program has an abundance of them. Incredible.
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Fascinating. Excellent retrospective. We lived near North Philadelphia Station during the 1950's; still some steam around. Loved watching the parade of famous trains in late afternoon and Evening, including the Broadway Limited, the Florida trains, C&O, the Southern Crescent to New Orleans, Texas Special, etc.
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My Father worked out of Broad Street Station as a car knocker when it closed. I worked out of Reading Terminal as a Conductor when it closed in 1984.
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The Pennsylvania R.R. was the only railroad in America that I know of that had its own fleet of subway trains. These were used from Newark, N.J. across the Hudson River to the terminal where the World Trade Center was. It passed also thru Harrison N.J. to Jersey City, N.J. before reaching Hudson Terminal before the World Trade Center was built. 😊
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Fantastic video of a unique part of American railroading history! :D
I was just wondering, would it be possible for me to use this footage as part of an upcoming documentary I'm creating about the history of the Budd Metroliner? -
Amazing video! I wish I could find more footage on the branch lines in the Philadelphia terminal division.
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Great footage. In an era that produced elegant steam and diesel engines those PRR GG1s were the exception. One of the most hideous looking locomotives ever.
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I ran trains to Thorndale in the 80's. I also live there. My how things have changed but Father saw all those changes. I'm also a Pennsy baby. P&T branch crossed over at Whitford.
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Thank you.
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Sounds of the times.
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So was every little spur equipped with over head electric to accommodate freight delivery
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Downingtown area!!
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Great video. Music is too loud.
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Destroying Broad St Station does not make me sad, but rather pissed off! We need MORE electrification - not less! In the early 80's 'Conjobrail' (Conrail) yanked down ALL of the electrification in PA except fortunately for Amtrak and SEPTA! Really? I mean seriously REALLY!? In this day and age of Climate Emergency and the huge carbon footprint brought on by DIESEL locomotives?
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Thorndale!
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Your Rodney Kantorski Has Join The Chat
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Request reupload gg1 footage because he deleted
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A really great video but you made the same mistake many other videos have . Why is the back round music so loud .I had to shut off the
audio about 1/3 through it . And you know this is wrong because you lowered it every time you gave narration . You made a terrible
mistake . Because of this I could not give you a thumbs up . -
WHERE WAS THE WARNING BEFORE YOU BLASTED A FULL VOLUME HORN IN MY EARS.l PAINFULL!!
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back ground music is terrible turn it down man
