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CLINCHFIELD CAB RIDE 1977 VINTAGE

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Uploaded by on Aug 5, 2010

In 1977, Tom Moore, President of the Clinchfield gave me a head-end pass to ride the Marion - Spruce Pine local. I was only 14, so please forgive the questionable quality. Sadly I lost most of the footage and this is about 25% of the original shown here. Thanks Mr. Moore!!!

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  • Train master Croft (I believe it was), from Bostic. There is a shot of the engineer in the video, but don't know his name, nor do I the train crew in the caboose, but I remember everyone was extremely friendly and accomodating. Wish I knew them to give them credit. Looking back on it, I'm sure it was a bit of a high-profile day for them because the other names who made it happen were Mr. Lonen and the President of the railroad Mr. Tom Moore. I consider myself extremely lucky!

  • Glad you appreciate the residual footage. As time goes on, anything that remains is a treasure. Remember this, what we today perceive to be just everyday, is tomorrow a only memory. Thanks for your comments.

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  • In October 1972, my family and I rode the Clinchfield steam excursion from Spartanburg, SC to Erwin, TN. I loaded up on ham and cheese sandwiches that day. Two of my cousins loaded up on candy apples and got sick as dogs from it. Ah, the good ol' days. Sadly, one of them is no longer with us as she died on Dec. 27, 2007 from Lou Gehrig's Disease.

  • Really excellent footage of the old Clinchfiled sir.

  • Do you remember who the crew was that you rode with?

  • I too have some great memories of the Clinchfield,Check out this one

    check out my Youtube channel and take a look at my clinchfield Video.

    thanks for posting

  • Cool to see some vintage Clinchfield footage!

  • Nice video! I'll bet that was a great experience.

  • man who cares about the quality you got to ride the clinchfield hahaha thats awsome good vintage film i live in hickory about 45 minutes from marion wish the clinchfield still ran.....but now its CSX

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