Lively World of Great Northern (1960s) Part 1
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@greenwaterhose that is a geep! you can tell by the axle count. I saw double axles. SDs have triple axles!
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what type of locomotive is in the opening scene? Is it a SD-?
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what type of locomotive is in the opening scene? Is it a SD-?
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I love the ending of this film with the boxcar door closing and then the geep pulling the car away.
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TheWoodsmanhunter: James J. Hill always wanted to merge GN, NP and CB&Q. He tried to long before the '60's with the Northern Securities Company. The BN merger was about marrying the best parts of three railroads to create the best possible railroad from Chicago to the Pacific Coast and had nothing to do with taxes. It was about increasing ton miles with minimum train miles, a Hill dictum and the biggest reason why GN was so successful.
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As a logistics and economics major, and a railroad buff, this is gold to me, I really LOVE it! Capitalism baby!
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This was back when you were allowed to smoke and drink alcohol while driving/working on trains
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Ahhhh smoking on the train
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The one person who dislikes this isn't a rail fan.
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@sd39hogger I volunteered out at a railway museum last year as the radio girl in the cab, and the engineer of the u-Boat I was assigned to actually has a class he teaches on how to properly do that. Although we're not supposed to do it, since that was his generation he taught me anyways :D
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As for that switchman tying onto that moving geep at 7:53, that was perfectly normal back then on the GN. Nowdays, the BeaNSnifF is just one of a handful of roads, that actually has a no boarding on/bailing off moving equipment policy. Sheesh, when I worked at the Soo/CP in the Twin Cities, that was one of the things that kept the job fun ( not to mention more fluid for productivity ), tying on and bailing off moving equipment.
sd39hogger 3 years ago 7
THANK YOU!!! Ive been with NS for 18 yrs. The "railroad" has been taken out of the railroad hasn't it?? Im all for working safe...but there is something about catcing up on a moving locomotive or boxcar that you just can't beat!!
DRG1939 3 years ago 5