Penn-Central Locomotives

What has always amazed me is that for a railroad that was so quickly in financial trouble, there were an awful lot of locomotives and freight cars repainted into PC colors. One would have thought that somewhere along the line someone would have said, "Here's a thought, it is not absolutely necessary to repaint everything, we could save a ton of money if we stopped!" I'm not saying that would have saved the PC, but it certainly couldn't have hurt.

Very thorough presentation ! Thank you very much. I miss the different makes and styles of power, ACTUAL valved horns (NOT solenoids) so folks knew who was at the throttle, different liveries of the various roads, the different tupes of vans on the ends, the volume of traffic, and the friendly waves -- I was a kid in the 60's who had been regularly taken to the tracks to watch the trains. My grandfather was a judge and knew everyone in town. A gentleman a few doors down from my grandparents was in administration with nyc/ pc/ cr. I was shown tower operations, had help throwing switches, was permitted to turn locos on the wye, stage them on the service and ready tracks, and ride the power and van on local runs. Was a great time to grow up ---

The PC 6105 came into Minerva Yard Ohio from Collinwood on MD 2. about 1970..It was dirty and dusty. The timetable said 6 axles were prohibited on former NYC branch lines..The 6105 sat outside my block station, for 2 days...until it was returned to Cleveland. I being a railfan and 20 years old, gathered up all the rags and a couple bottles of soap and gave it a like new scrubbing ...LOL

Neat video. I live in Orlando now but was raised in Columbus (Worthington) Ohio with 2 N&W and 1 PC tracks running right behind our house with PC being closest. At night from my upstairs room I'd watch the PC hoping to see the occassional F series with glowing orange stacks and sparks as it sped by. Wish i'd taken some photos.

Thanks so much for the video, especially for a short-lived railroad that should have had a lot longer life. One of the most interesting scenes was the Denver and Rio Grande unit where's the Penn Central logo. Thanks

Great video. The original photographers of the stills likely could have never imagined the photos being viewable around the world to strangers. Let alone over 4k people. Nice documentation of so many locos and the dates and places being included along with things I wouldn't have known about many of them or about what's unusual in the photo

Excellent production! Very informative.

This is a great presentation!!! As a PC fan I appreciate the time and effort to put this video together. Thank you for posting it!!

Outstanding overview of PC power! Very well done. Thank you for sharing.

Oh you made a good video ,thanks 4 that 1

Great video! Very well researched and well presented. With myself being a Penn Central fan, I'm really happy that PC is starting to get more attention. Also, I have more info on certain topics relating to PC if needed for any potential new videos regarding PC.

In my opinion the following PENN CENTRAL EMD SW Switchers were priceless. I especially liked the short Prime Mover SW-1’s through SW-9’s. Excellent video presentation. Thank you for posting and sharing, an A+++++.

Good video! A few photos out of place, such as 3:42 was a GP20, not a GP9. I’m assuming you put the GP38’s altogether, as opposed to separating them. All or most of the GP20’s were rebuilt into GP20M’s. Your photo of 2112 reflects this. The turbo was removed, and an air filter box installed as well as a four stack manifold. They were still rated at 2,000 HP. Just a little personal tidbit. I lived along the TP&W in the 60’s and 70’s when the TP&W had a power run through agreement with the PC. I saw all kinds of PC power. There weren’t supposed to be any 6-axles, but once there was an E-unit in a consist, although, now that I think about it, that may have been during the first few years of Conrail! It was mostly GP30/35/40 and GE U25/28/30/33 types. There were some instances where there were GP7’s or 9’s. I don’t think the TP&W appreciated that, since the power they sent to PC/CR wasn’t any smaller than a GP30! Another thing was that TP&W power was supposed to be turned back at Columbus, and returned to the TP&W on the next westbound run through. A railfan spotted the 1000, the only GP40 TP&W owned, in one of the New England states, Maine, I think! Anyway, I’ll quit rambling! Thank you for this trip down memory lane!

Soimeone inside the Pennsylvania Railroad moored a merger proposal in 1959 that would see the Pennsylvania Railroad swallowing the Southern Railway, the Central of Georgia the Norfolk and Western , and the Virginian. It never got out of the talk stage . Had that happened and the Pennsy would have been the biggest railroad company in the Eastern United States and later the merger with the New York Central would have made it larger still. In June 1970 had that whole thing happened , the bankruptcy of the Penn Central would have been even bigger.....

Does anyone else picture Donald Sutherland listening to the narrator? No disrespect. Great video. Just a voice doppelgänger

Thorough video! ❤’d it from a new subscriber👍🏻🚂 53:33

I would like to point out that another difference between the EMD E7A & EMD E8A was the windows on the sides of the car bodies: the E7's had squarish windows while the E8's had round "porthole" windows. As for the RS32 being identified as the ALCO "alligator", I was under the impression that the RSD15 were the "alligator" locomotives.

The SD-38 #6925 and the slug #1107 spent many years in Allentown, PA, on the hump. They replaced the #6909 and #6908 SD-9.

The drgw Fs were F9s, not 7s. There's several discrepancies but with a vast roster as the pc, it's only natural to lose track of some stuff

Fantastic reference, is there a DVD production?