The real story of what happened at the train tunnel is more tragic than the fake one about the headless conducter. Immigrants from ireland were sent to perkasie to build the tunnel(this was b4 work visas and medical benefits)there was an epedemic that made many of the Irish workers sick. Some of the workers rebelled because they were too sick and were shot to death by the national gaurd.
@TrainGuy33 Thanks for your comment and reminding that this line is still active. It would be great if someday it would return to passenger service. It runs through a beautiful part of Pa.
@TrainGuy33 Correction, it's operated by East Penn Railroad. When CSX operated the branch line, they only came as far as Telford. Now NPR took over operations between Lansdale to Telford and East Penn continues operations between Telford to Quakertown.
well... the line has never been decommissioned and they do still run freight on it every once in while. There is talk, about every 10 years, that someday it could run a passenger line again. Most of the stations are still there and a few of them restored. Its a beautiful area but I think the days of passenger trains are gone for this line. Thanks for your question.
Hey kids, let's all head down to the railroad tracks! It's a safe place for you and your kids to play! (I'm being sarcastic here) You're trespassing and why would you let your children play anywhere near railroad tracks? Dumb. Next thing you'll be posting video's of your family having a picnic lunch on the runway of an airport.
@SuperLocalyocal Let me tell you what I do understand. I've railroaded for almost 40 years. I've had to pick up bodies and pieces of human beings who were struck and killed by trains. I understand that a railroad right of way of any type is not a playground. Someone could see this video, and think that just because there's limited use of this line, that it's okay to play around similar other areas where traffic could be more frequent. Now do you understand? I doubt it. There's no pill for stupid
@pkmaster650 Actually, it's the father holding a light, you can see him right before the camera pans down quickly for about 1/2 a second. Pause it about 2:03, anywhere there you should be able to see him.
@Gawgy2 great work on your video! Very well thought out and narrated. Looks like we have our next blockbuster director right here!!!
@Calebhunsicker Thanks for your comment. The accident happened 67 years ago. I am pretty sure the 'legend' has been told since the 1980's..maybe longer. The train line has many interesting stories. If you happened to be a hobo traveling through Telford up the line towards Quakertown, you would most likely be thrown off (literally) before you entered the tunnel. Railroad men took their job very seriously and it seems like there was not shortage of adventure.
Ghost trains, what a load of crap, and even if it were real, what dumb arse runs away following the track rather than just stepping off the track to the side? Morons!!! I hope next time you decide to waste my time a real train comes along and you run away down the tracks.
@rattieboy82 Leave these kids alone. They worked hard on the video, and at such a young age. What were you doing at that age? Oh, right, picking your nose and eating the snot. Go back to your videos of 10 y/o girls, you pedophile. Get a life rattie fattie.
@rattieboy82 Leave these kids alone. They worked hard on the video, and at such a young age. What were you doing at that age? Oh, right, picking your nose and eating the snot. Go back to your videos of 10 y/o girls, you pedophile. Get a life rattie fattie.
@wraith0127 I share my youtube account with my daughter so i can keep an eye on what she watches, and because she has favourited videos that are for her you automaticly assume they are mine and call me a pedophile, you dickhead, it's people like you who really need to get a grip on reality, not everything in life has a sinnister motive. And 'rattie fattie'? Really? That's the best you can come up with? Wonder how long it took you to think that one up.
@fretdemon123 Yes. That is New Hope & Ivyland's number 40. It's one our favorite rides. It fit in well to our video. I wish we had some legends about that line. The most common story of the New Hope line is about an old movie short "The Perils of Pauline". There are no copies of the film and some believe it may never have been filmed. Thanks for checking out our old video. The history behind old legends is fun to investigate.
looks so fake. if you realy saw the ghost train (if there is one) why did you not film it. by the way the light looked to low and to small for a train The light would get bigger the farther away the train is. :(
@finding0 You are in good company, but I wouldn’t sleep inside the tunnel. There was a time the Governor of Pennsylvania camped there.... Well... it was on top of the tunnel at Camp Egbert in 1901. Over 3000 National Guard of Pennsylvania made the ridge the site for the Annual Encampments. During the exercises the crowds reached 10,000 to watch the Calvary and drills. The railroad brought the troops and the spectators. The railroad and tunnel are still active. Thanks for your comments.
@Gawgy2 oh yea i know its active lol.Been in there plenty of times while the train went through. Plenty of room on the sides. That tunnel used to be a second home to me. A place to get away. Been in there at least a few hundred times. i don't go there anymore though.
@finding0 hey there....i also was a former tunnel person.....i was in the class 2006 of pennridge....i use to go there to hide away from alot of things....would love to see it again
@4yoethanhawk Yes, you are correct. June 1853 construction began and lasted 3 years. Working in the tunnel was not easy... Nov 3 1886. 50 workmen inside the tunnel were overcome by smoke from a stalled train. Nearly all fell as if dead. All but one survived. One man fell unconscious and sank in a pool of water and drowned. Workers then demanded a pay raise of $2.00 a day.
I was travelling with my mum and dad at night once, and I saw a steam engine (looked alot like a 9F without one smoke deflector, rusty all over,) my mum and dad never saw it, I vividly remember it suddenly derailing and vanishing, not down a bank, it just DISAPPEARED!
@rockstarmonster90 Short line company East Penn Railroad out of Quakertown PA operates its train through the tunnel at least twice a week for freight traffic to drop off and pick up down at Telford PA from CSX out of Lansdale before heading back to Quakertown with the goods.
@pitbull426 Thanks. The event truly happened in 1944. Reading Railroad chalked it up as operator error. The tunnel has had other odd occurrences. In 1912 a very large piece of ice fell on top of the tunnel watchman, pinning him down on the tracks inside the tunnel. His son who also worked for Reading RR, not knowing what happened inside, waves a freight train in to the tunnel.... Ride safe, that tunnel has a lot of history.
@rockstarmonster90 yeh in the U.S in a little town called perkasie i chill at the tunnel all time i acually got chased by a train through there once i was like three quarters through when i heard it entering the other side i just ran and escaped easily.
The real story of what happened at the train tunnel is more tragic than the fake one about the headless conducter. Immigrants from ireland were sent to perkasie to build the tunnel(this was b4 work visas and medical benefits)there was an epedemic that made many of the Irish workers sick. Some of the workers rebelled because they were too sick and were shot to death by the national gaurd.
Factednateopinions 2 months ago
That's so fake.
steamtrain6000 3 months ago
They Still Run Some Freight In The Tunnel Operated By CSX.
TrainGuy33 3 months ago
@TrainGuy33 Thanks for your comment and reminding that this line is still active. It would be great if someday it would return to passenger service. It runs through a beautiful part of Pa.
Gawgy2 3 months ago
@TrainGuy33 Correction, it's operated by East Penn Railroad. When CSX operated the branch line, they only came as far as Telford. Now NPR took over operations between Lansdale to Telford and East Penn continues operations between Telford to Quakertown.
MMdrummer3153 3 months ago
May 18th is my birthday.. :O
kyle51895 3 months ago
I love visiting this tunnel. Me and my dad go here often.
TMANMAN16z 4 months ago
lol nice story.
missjacko1 5 months ago
@missjacko1 Thanks for your comment. Our video is really about history and the hard work railroad men faced. Glade you enjoyed it.
Gawgy2 5 months ago
2:03 that was a guy on a scooter
TheApplecorped 5 months ago
well... the line has never been decommissioned and they do still run freight on it every once in while. There is talk, about every 10 years, that someday it could run a passenger line again. Most of the stations are still there and a few of them restored. Its a beautiful area but I think the days of passenger trains are gone for this line. Thanks for your question.
Gawgy2 5 months ago
@Gawgy2 I can tell that its a person running down the tunnel with a flashkight in his hand
PalomboDylan 5 months ago
Is that line still active?
Landaux 5 months ago
Hey kids, let's all head down to the railroad tracks! It's a safe place for you and your kids to play! (I'm being sarcastic here) You're trespassing and why would you let your children play anywhere near railroad tracks? Dumb. Next thing you'll be posting video's of your family having a picnic lunch on the runway of an airport.
coldblue9mm 5 months ago
@coldblue9mm ~If you don't live in Perkasie, you wouldn't understand.
SuperLocalyocal 3 months ago
@SuperLocalyocal Let me tell you what I do understand. I've railroaded for almost 40 years. I've had to pick up bodies and pieces of human beings who were struck and killed by trains. I understand that a railroad right of way of any type is not a playground. Someone could see this video, and think that just because there's limited use of this line, that it's okay to play around similar other areas where traffic could be more frequent. Now do you understand? I doubt it. There's no pill for stupid
coldblue9mm 3 months ago
Erm I believe the light you see is the other end of the tunnel magnified by water dripping from the walls
pkmaster650 5 months ago
@pkmaster650 Actually, it's the father holding a light, you can see him right before the camera pans down quickly for about 1/2 a second. Pause it about 2:03, anywhere there you should be able to see him.
@Gawgy2 great work on your video! Very well thought out and narrated. Looks like we have our next blockbuster director right here!!!
wraith0127 5 months ago
Great video am glad that you are teaching you sons about history thank you for sharing =)
queentab25 5 months ago
I live right next to these tracks in telford. Never heard this story! Love the narration!!!! :-)
Calebhunsicker 6 months ago
@Calebhunsicker Thanks for your comment. The accident happened 67 years ago. I am pretty sure the 'legend' has been told since the 1980's..maybe longer. The train line has many interesting stories. If you happened to be a hobo traveling through Telford up the line towards Quakertown, you would most likely be thrown off (literally) before you entered the tunnel. Railroad men took their job very seriously and it seems like there was not shortage of adventure.
Gawgy2 6 months ago
forgot to say, if anyone had any thing paranormal happen in that tunnel message me. i heard 2 stories so far.
paranormalteam1011 6 months ago
im a local paranormal team, i still wan't to go their and do test to confirm its haunted. we'll go their on of these days
paranormalteam1011 6 months ago
@paranormalteam1011 Aww please do it.
KissMyDonkeyEditing3 2 months ago
Ghost trains, what a load of crap, and even if it were real, what dumb arse runs away following the track rather than just stepping off the track to the side? Morons!!! I hope next time you decide to waste my time a real train comes along and you run away down the tracks.
rattieboy82 7 months ago
@rattieboy82 Leave these kids alone. They worked hard on the video, and at such a young age. What were you doing at that age? Oh, right, picking your nose and eating the snot. Go back to your videos of 10 y/o girls, you pedophile. Get a life rattie fattie.
wraith0127 5 months ago
@rattieboy82 Leave these kids alone. They worked hard on the video, and at such a young age. What were you doing at that age? Oh, right, picking your nose and eating the snot. Go back to your videos of 10 y/o girls, you pedophile. Get a life rattie fattie.
wraith0127 5 months ago
@wraith0127 I share my youtube account with my daughter so i can keep an eye on what she watches, and because she has favourited videos that are for her you automaticly assume they are mine and call me a pedophile, you dickhead, it's people like you who really need to get a grip on reality, not everything in life has a sinnister motive. And 'rattie fattie'? Really? That's the best you can come up with? Wonder how long it took you to think that one up.
rattieboy82 5 months ago
@rattieboy82 Trololololololol
wraith0127 5 months ago
@rattieboy82 Trololololololol
wraith0127 5 months ago
is that newhoperailroad #40 at 2:15?
fretdemon123 7 months ago
@fretdemon123 Yes. That is New Hope & Ivyland's number 40. It's one our favorite rides. It fit in well to our video. I wish we had some legends about that line. The most common story of the New Hope line is about an old movie short "The Perils of Pauline". There are no copies of the film and some believe it may never have been filmed. Thanks for checking out our old video. The history behind old legends is fun to investigate.
Gawgy2 6 months ago
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fretdemon123 7 months ago
looks so fake. if you realy saw the ghost train (if there is one) why did you not film it. by the way the light looked to low and to small for a train The light would get bigger the farther away the train is. :(
MrCrispybake 9 months ago
Nice work! Nice narrating too!
Dinosorable 1 year ago
Believe it or not but I used to skip school at pennridge and sleep in here :)
finding0 1 year ago 2
@finding0 You are in good company, but I wouldn’t sleep inside the tunnel. There was a time the Governor of Pennsylvania camped there.... Well... it was on top of the tunnel at Camp Egbert in 1901. Over 3000 National Guard of Pennsylvania made the ridge the site for the Annual Encampments. During the exercises the crowds reached 10,000 to watch the Calvary and drills. The railroad brought the troops and the spectators. The railroad and tunnel are still active. Thanks for your comments.
Gawgy2 1 year ago
@Gawgy2 oh yea i know its active lol.Been in there plenty of times while the train went through. Plenty of room on the sides. That tunnel used to be a second home to me. A place to get away. Been in there at least a few hundred times. i don't go there anymore though.
finding0 1 year ago
@finding0 hey there....i also was a former tunnel person.....i was in the class 2006 of pennridge....i use to go there to hide away from alot of things....would love to see it again
billycartwright8 11 months ago
1855...woo so old,try 1053
4yoethanhawk 1 year ago
@4yoethanhawk Yes, you are correct. June 1853 construction began and lasted 3 years. Working in the tunnel was not easy... Nov 3 1886. 50 workmen inside the tunnel were overcome by smoke from a stalled train. Nearly all fell as if dead. All but one survived. One man fell unconscious and sank in a pool of water and drowned. Workers then demanded a pay raise of $2.00 a day.
Gawgy2 1 year ago
how do you get here?
kkeelboat 1 year ago
No rust on the rails probably means its still in use,so i'm thinkin all the ghosts must be the dumbasses who keep putting their heads on the rail.
mmmkaythen 1 year ago
I was travelling with my mum and dad at night once, and I saw a steam engine (looked alot like a 9F without one smoke deflector, rusty all over,) my mum and dad never saw it, I vividly remember it suddenly derailing and vanishing, not down a bank, it just DISAPPEARED!
crazyracer12 1 year ago
Do the trains still use the tunnel?And is there really a ghosts train that comes Out?
rockstarmonster90 1 year ago
@rockstarmonster90 Short line company East Penn Railroad out of Quakertown PA operates its train through the tunnel at least twice a week for freight traffic to drop off and pick up down at Telford PA from CSX out of Lansdale before heading back to Quakertown with the goods.
MMdrummer3153 1 year ago
@rockstarmonster90 As for ghost, yes there is a ghost train.
MMdrummer3153 1 year ago
i lived in perkasie my whole life and i never heard of that story i just ride my dirtbike threw there to get to the quarry but coool vid
pitbull426 1 year ago
@pitbull426 Thanks. The event truly happened in 1944. Reading Railroad chalked it up as operator error. The tunnel has had other odd occurrences. In 1912 a very large piece of ice fell on top of the tunnel watchman, pinning him down on the tracks inside the tunnel. His son who also worked for Reading RR, not knowing what happened inside, waves a freight train in to the tunnel.... Ride safe, that tunnel has a lot of history.
Gawgy2 1 year ago
Were this at is it in the united states?
rockstarmonster90 1 year ago
@rockstarmonster90 yeh in the U.S in a little town called perkasie i chill at the tunnel all time i acually got chased by a train through there once i was like three quarters through when i heard it entering the other side i just ran and escaped easily.
vprcjimi 1 year ago
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Gawgy2 1 year ago
I'm a perkasie native. I really loved this video. you guys did a good job. thanks for the bit of history!!
chevyfanf41 2 years ago