PRSL 1930's to 1960's

Great video! My Great-Uncle lived in Atlantic City and commuted to the office in Philly every day. He used to say that after work he would walk to the station, buy a paper and read it on the way home. After reading his paper he would take a nap until the conductor opened the Dutch doors of the cars at Absecon and let the fresh sea air in. He would wake up refreshed and ready for the evening. What a way to travel!

This was like stepping into a time machine, thanks for your hard work on this.

Classy eastern railroading, loved every minute thank you for sharing

An excellent time line video showing both steam, diesel and the RDC. Thanks for all your hard work and the added sound effects were spot on. I really enjoyed this one.

Nice video. I was a block operator on the Seashore Lines from 1970 to 1974 and worked all the block and interlocking stations except Vernon and Alan which were gone before I started.

Fantastic footage from one of the great former railroads that ran through my neck of the woods, South Jersey!

Great video, indeed! Sadly, much of this rail network is gone today thanks to Conrail and lack of interest in the rail infrastructure in that area of New Jersey. In the mid-1980s, PRSL Budd RDCs found their way up to Boston and were put to work on the Boston and Maine along with those still lettered for the NYC, NH, B&O, PRR, PC, Reading, and Lehigh Valley, along with some from the CPR and CN. As the railroads were dumping them, the B&M was putting the Budd Liners as we called them to work as coaches pulled behind rebuilt E and F-units called FP10s which were painted with maroon, gold and a pink that we called "Easter Eggs". During this period, I rode Budd RDCs with one trip being PRSL inbound and Boston and Albany outbound home.

That made me weepy for days gone by. My grandparents lived in Newfield. Way back in the day, my mother took the train to Vineland every day for high school. When I stayed there in the summer, and whenever I heard a whistle. I ran out into the middle of Salem Avenue and as far as I could toward the tracks so I could see the trains go by or stop for passengers. My grandfather yelled at me every time when I leapt up during dinner and bolted. The PRSL was the reason I went to work on the railroad. There was a place that I think was called Fox Feeds (?) that a little switcher worked daily. And the GP38s, flying through with freight. I actually have dreams about those beautiful GP38s and Newfield. In the video, I saw a few electric cars, not sure where, but way before my time there was an electric line there that ran Newfield to to Ocean city. I really wish I'd borrowed my grandfathers wind-up 8mm movie camera and caught some of the action. To this day, I am unable to find any photos or films of the PRSL in Newfield. If anyone was links or photos to share, I would love to see them. Thank you for this video!!

I neglected to mention in my first comment how much I enjoyed seeing the marquee of the Warners Theatre at 0:14 with the lady cyclist going by. That was a beautiful atmospheric house that opened in 1929 as the Warners Embassy Theatre and seated 4,189 patrons and featured a 4 manual 29 rank Wurlitzer Theatre organ. The lobby and auditorium were demolished in the late 1970's for a casino yet the facade still exists and is on the National Register of Historic Places and serves as an entrance to that casino.

Some of those trains are absolutely FLYING! High speed rail! 2:08

Strange how this video brought up memories of Mantua's HO models of Reading engines and American Flyer's S gauge Reading Atlantic. The anthracite roads' engines were favored in the later '30s early '40s for those wide Wooten fireboxes, as even the smallest HO motors were pretty big in those days. I remember seeing a couple of O scale models sitting on the shelvesa above the "back bar" at the Milwaukee Model Shop on Lisbon Avenue in the "Near North Side" in the early '60s. The owner was 2 years older than God and kept inconvenient hours: 2PM to 6PM, six days per week, and one of my friends said, "The guy never rearranges his windows, just moves the old stuff out of the way and plunks the new stuff down." But he had an inventory that couldn't be believed, besides having a machine shop in the back room. Thanks for posting this.

Great memories of my old hometown of Haddonfield when we were kids hanging out in the tunnel that went from one side of the station to the other. Remember the steam and the RDC cars. Then watched as they built the Patco High Speed line and ruined everything. My grandfather was on of the first Reading engineers on the Jersey side of the river.

This was a nice new surprise. Hasn't been all that much on the PRSL. Love it! I was originally from Haddon Heights and mostly rode 609/610 but also from Haddonfield to/from Camden and Philadelphia, also to/from Ocean City, once to Wildwood. This was one exciting railroad. Whenever back in the area I miss it terribly. If there was service to the Cape May County resorts today I think there would be a few less traffic jams. New Jersey is so short-sighted. The Atlantic City Expressway and Garden State Parkway are very poor "replacements".

Almost as good as a time machine. Thanks!

Thanks for posting! Those RDC-1 Phase 1's are my favorite! Used to ride them from Lindenwold to Ocean City in the 70's.

Great footage! I remember years ago seeing a Budd RDC sitting in Rio Grande just off Rt 47. Must have been around 1970 when I was a kid. Bet it was a great time to be a railfan down there. Also made me think of the train scene early in the movie, The King of Marvin Gardens. Thank you for sharing these here!

Absolutely superb, this must have taken many hours of work to compile, edit, dub etc. Very much appreciated.

Great video, During my fathers era, as, a Reading Engineer o the PRSL.

Thank you for your video of the Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Rail Line which served PA and NJ for many years. I'm pretty sure that this brings back so many memories to people in the Mid-Atlantic region. Admired what looked like a silver commuter train (no locomotive). Wonderful video.

I was in the Rite Aid on Oak Ave. in Wildwood this morning and felt the ghosts of the station, K-4s and RDCs and so had to watch this. Good stuff, thanks for sharing!