Legends of the Rails

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Uploaded by on Dec 31, 2008

A video collage, inspired by James Coffey's song 'Legends of the Rails", of rail scenes captured between 1948 and 2008 in 8mm, super 8 mm, VHS, miniDV and HDD by two generations of railfans. Hope you enjoy watching this as much as we enjoyed making it possible.

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  • Super nice to look at the American steam locomotives, but even nicer is like in August sees among them the old Polish Passenger steam locomotive with 3-axle Sluggish Oi2 (ex BR 24 DRG) of the Polish State Railways. (PKP). Wheel arrangement 1'C h2. Operating status: end 1960. Use: Mainly passenger

    trains. Thanks it's nice.

  • @andrzejs42 Glad you like it. I always enjoy your videos also. I include many scenes from my two trips to Poland in my "music videos." This one includes the clock on WL tower in Wolstzyn at 0:13, throwing a fire in the Pt47 at 0:52, and me driving an Ol49 at 1:09.

  • 2:00 looks like a big boy.

  • @MacGyver0076 Its a Challenger, #3985.

  • Do you rember the number of the train at 2:17?

  • @24GTrainDude No. Wish I did know the number. Its a N&W 4-8-0 like the #475 at the Strasburg -- but you probably figured that out. My dad shot that in the late 40's at the Transamerican Trucking Co depot in Columbus, Ohio, up in the north end, I don't remember exactly where it was located now.

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  • at 1:18, it's like crap crap crap CRAP! ouch

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  • So that's why UP borrowed #3977's elephant ears. They dressed up UP #3985 to look like one of the freight challengers that had elephant ears, in this case UP# 3967. I only have seen video of #3985 in the UP steam shop with these on but not actually in action.

  • that is EXACTLY what I did today- went to school for bout 8 hours and biked for a mile to the tracks and saw 937 :)

  • 2 People don´t like trains.

  • Every young Boy, when growing up has a dream of being a real Locomotive Engineer, I grew up with Lionel Trains, always had a love of Trains.

  • This is great. I have a train song tooo.

  • awsome video man

  • @gothpapa just wishful thinking then, LOL. love the video anyways.

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