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Oh, I didn't realize you were born in the 90's, lol. Then how did you get old TV shows from the 80's? Did your dad tape them when he was a teen or young adult in the 80's?

I wish NS would overhaul this again and run it again. After all, it did sit at VMT at Roanoke, VA for two decades from 1960 until it was sent to Birmingham in 1981 and emerged under steam in 1982 and pulled the then new Norfolk Southern's (formed in 1982) steam excursions until Dec 1994. Then it ...

In my opinion music started to suck after 1989. I love 70's and 80's music.

Some of the songs were actually released in 1983. Karma Chameleon, Miss Me Blind, Girls Just Wanna Have Fun, What a Feeling.

Remember the song American Pie? Well, Dec 31, 1989 was "the day the music died" as music started to suck after that.

This is rare stuff you have there. This station is no longer in existence or was it bought out by a mega corporation in the 90's? I'm from Allentown, PA so we would have had this station on our cable system (Service Electric) we get NY and Philly stations on the lower numbered channels.

The 142 no longer does the long excursions in NJ like from Susquehanna Transfer across the river from Manhattan to Baird's Farm Warwick, NY? When did those stop? I was on the train Oct 2000. 142 actually hooked on to the train at Little Ferry, NJ with the E diesels on the rear. I was on the 142 a...

Is there ever a time that steam goes past Lahaska? They did have a photo freight to Ivyland a few years ago, which I was on, but they should have more runs to Buckingham Valley and Wycombe with steam. Oh, is #40 running yet? Will it be running at all this year even on the December trains?

40 could have been used south of Warminster, but the SEPTA genset #70 probably would have been tacked on in front of 40 for operation in SEPTA signaled territory.

Back to the Future was released a month after this. 1985 had some great music hits. 1980's music was a lot better than all the crap from 1990 onwards. MTV was much better in the 80's, too. We as a nation also weren't as doom and gloom in the 80's, but we worried about Soviet missiles hitting us. ...

Who were the announcers at the old WLEV FM 96 in Easton, PA in the 1980's? Joe McClain? Jeff Bolden? I remember hearing those on my tapes from 1986.

Wait...is this a new operation of New Hope and Ivyland? Why did CSX give up operating it? Is East Penn still running out of Quakertown? With CSX out of the picture, they seriously should start thinking about starting a new tourist train. They could use some ex-LI coaches that the NH&I has, the mo...

Mikearpowell, how about Ronald Reagan in charge? He was a great president for the US. Can't say the same about the current president. I wonder why Ronald's son Ron never ran for president? The George Bushes, father and son, people hated them for some reason because they BOTH caused economic reces...

I believe this is the only steam excursion train running on a class 1 freight railroad (Canadian Pacific) in the eastern US, until NS starts it's steam program again on a wider scale starting next year. Yes, they're really bringing back steam, but on a limited basis, most trips will be for NS emp...

Also, there are currently no operating Reading steam, either with BMR/RBMN 2102 out of service since Oct. 1991.

Why do so many RR crossings have those fake sounding bells nowadays? What is that baggage car for? Is it a power car? Don't they have a snack bar car on the trains anymore? They used to years ago on long distance excursions by the BM&R and R&N.

It sounds exactly like the original recording from 1986 or 1987.

Does anyone agree that most music after 1989 sucked? Especially 1997 and up? More like sick to your stomach and nauseating to hear?

BTW, the BM&R was at it's best during the Reagan years, (1985-1988) 2102, 425, PRR and Reading diesels operating at the same time, off line excursions on Conrail to places like Philadelphia, Harrisburg, Port Jervis, NY, Gettysburg, and Horseshoe Curve as well as Jim Thorpe where they still go to ...

Why are the cars waiting for the train the wrong way? Did they think a train was coming on the old BM&R tracks, lol? They should have had a clear path since there wouldn't have been any closed gates on that side.

A new connection with R&N at Hamburg would be the only way to have train excursions from the PRR branch Reading Tech museum to the R&N main without having to go through NS at Temple. Not sure if NS would even permit the old Reading Blueliners with friction bearing trucks on their tracks, even if ...

It's also a shame that the 2102, 1223, 7002, 1361 are no longer operating. All 4 operated at the same time in 1987, 1988. And 2102, 1223 and 7002 all did mainline excursions, 2102 in 1985, 1987, 1988 and 1223, 7002 in 1985 and 1986 to Harrisburg and Philly, the outbound run to Harrisburg went via...

I was born in January 1974. I loved the radio in the 80's, because the "newest" music was whatever was released so far of the best music of all time! It was the "feel good" decade! Ronald Reagan, Back to the Future, big hair, Rubik's Cube, Atari, Nintendo. My school years happened to be all of th...

There's actually talk of starting a tourist train. BM&R/Reading and Northern did several runs with steam #425 and a yellow R&N GE diesel on the other end in 1992 boarding was at Boyertown and rides went to Pottstown and return.

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Yeah, NS back in the 80's and early 90's 425 and 2102 traveled around, in 1985, 1987, and 1988 on off line excursion trips on Conrail, in 1987 425 and Reading GP30 ran excursions from Souderton to Quakertown, and 1991-92-93-94 2102 and 425 ran on the Perk Branch Emmaus Pennsburg, 2102 only ran Se...

You know what this is? It's a STEAM excursion over a Class 1 freight railroad! A very rare thing today, especially with old friction bearing coaches. Didn't Steamtown convert those to roller so that they could run excursions on that line and perhaps others?

Why was there a Norfolk Southern coach in the train? NS was running steam themselves at that time but they didn't get any further north than Hagerstown, MD and Alexandria, VA. I wish Steamtown would run to Binghamton again. They do to the Viaduct very rarely it often sells out quickly but that's...

Where was the steam engine? Steamtown is still doing that today, running diesel only excursions. 3254 only runs some of the long distance excursions, and 2317 is down for an overhaul. The Viaduct excursion northward which used steam earlier this year sold out in a few days. A few years ago, it so...

Why did they run back so late? To avoid masses of foamers lining the tracks for a steam movement over Conrail? I was on that train, early Sept 1991 from Emmaus to Pennsburg. It was my second time behind 2102, my first time was from South Hamburg April, 1988 and the tender had no logo on it, just ...