Liked the video (got a copy as a Christmas gift), but a rather anticlimactic end to the series in my opinion - I was hoping for something closer to the 2 discs of Volume 1 to wrap it all up. I have to admit, I kinda cringed when the narrator ID'd the LHF unit on the work train as an Alco (it was a U-Boat), the same goof made it into the beginning of Volume 2 as well (ID'd a U25B as a Century IIRC). Valuable footage in any case though.
@NSHorseheadSD70 The CR stencil unit coming under the bridge and then going away from the camera? It actually looks awfully like the area around AR Tower, with the signals and the street bridge overhead, and then what looks like the start of the Slide going away from the camera. I wonder if they meant to say 'near the New Portage Tunnel' in the narration.
@NSHorseheadSD70 That's what I thought. I was just up in that area in November and shot a few trains from almost the same point - the black paint belonged to someone else though. ;)
Poor MC station.....
Automcanic 7 months ago
Liked the video (got a copy as a Christmas gift), but a rather anticlimactic end to the series in my opinion - I was hoping for something closer to the 2 discs of Volume 1 to wrap it all up. I have to admit, I kinda cringed when the narrator ID'd the LHF unit on the work train as an Alco (it was a U-Boat), the same goof made it into the beginning of Volume 2 as well (ID'd a U25B as a Century IIRC). Valuable footage in any case though.
FastFlyingVirginian 1 year ago
those shots of the mixed Amtrak trains at 6:22 and 7:00 are the same train.
Amtrak1194 1 year ago
Factory-fresh Amtrak Turboliners at 0:13 , 1:20 , and 4:40 . Gotta love them Turbos!!
nyshortline 1 year ago
The shot of the New Portage Branch is an interesting shot. Not too many scenes from there.
NSHorseheadSD70 1 year ago
@NSHorseheadSD70 The CR stencil unit coming under the bridge and then going away from the camera? It actually looks awfully like the area around AR Tower, with the signals and the street bridge overhead, and then what looks like the start of the Slide going away from the camera. I wonder if they meant to say 'near the New Portage Tunnel' in the narration.
FastFlyingVirginian 1 year ago
@FastFlyingVirginian The narration is wrong. It says it's on the New Portage Branch when the train is dropping down into the New Portage Tunnel.
NSHorseheadSD70 1 year ago
@NSHorseheadSD70 That's what I thought. I was just up in that area in November and shot a few trains from almost the same point - the black paint belonged to someone else though. ;)
FastFlyingVirginian 1 year ago
The Penn Central failed on epic scale!
RichardSwayne 1 year ago