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ConJob was a Government start up. Like Union Pacific of the west. Formed by Wall Street banks to bailout the bond holders and creditors by the government. Some of the bailout would be recovered by a quick sale of the assets. The plan was to jack up rates by getting rid of competition. A major reason for the recent inflation was lack of competition. Free markets can not operate with out competition that business hates. With just a handful of the thousands of railroads your Official Guide to the Railways had. Rates are sky high with half the track in the country GONE. There is little regulation , they do what they want and charge what they want today. Safety is a cost to the bottom line. The Federal Express still runs as NO Name Amtrak train 66 and 67 in New York Penn Station at about 3am! This is a ls a limited service train with only coaches.

Went, to college in upstate NY, rode this train many times. A big factor in ending this train was the loss of post office cars, that happened to all passenger railroads, PO traffic went to either trucks or the airlines. I loved riding that train, the club car in the rear, the dining car (they had really good cooks), it was a great travel experience and way better than the alternative, riding the dog (greyhound).

Nice to hear of a local train on the interwebs. There is an original Marconi tower near the Binghamton station to check out. You can see part of it on the far right of the photo. Not sure but that photo of the owego station does not look correct. The lackawana station was quite large. It used to stand pretty close to my house. Too bad there is nothing left of the large currved bridge over the Susquehanna

Nice to see some young people interested in this stuff.

on times the trip, ends without slip as phoebe sadly takes her grip loth to aright bows left and right Goodbye dear road of anthracite

Dover pop of 18,000. Lots of trains. Cities of millions have no service. The election of Nov will decide if the Scranton gets the service back.

Reinstatement of the name, was done as a distraction for the removal of Pocono Express and Twilight Limited. Removal of trains and services reduced ridership Of course, trains ran with one coach no matter the demand. . No reservations to keep people off when full. Last day Phoebe Snow was NOV 1966 in FOUR SECTIONS! Equipment scrapping started right away of the extra equipment. About 3 cars of the 30 coaches are left. All there New Jersey stops were restricted look at time tables guys and the remarks in them.

Phoebe Snow was a local train, it depended on mail and package express. Removal of them was the end of the train. Which was 16 years close to needing replacement. End of the mail and packages to the trucking lobby. Lead by GM . The last trains were night trains when the mail moved. Removal of mail from the Owl and the Lake Cities Oct 1, 1967 ended them tool Being a local train there never was much business between major cities at the end points. Major loading was out of New Jersey restricted\ stops NOT NEW YORK.

Came for Phoebe Snow (the musician) stayed for the trains. Looking forward to checking out more of your train videos. Cheers!

I have written on some of these doodlebugs; the EBT M1, and the LO&S one at Strasburg.

Still pissed I deleted the video of the 2 coming in, it had a good horn

853 is peak. Shit regularly gets 4 full coaches. Nice captures, dover is a fun place.

I couldn't help but notice the "Caution, Do Not Cross Tracks When The Gates Are Down" sign. Amazing what you have to tell people, isn't it?

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You're right. I never heard of them until now. Thanks for the enlightenment.

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Damn the intro was a third of the video

Impressive diesels to say the least. I love em! Great to know a couple are still on the White Pass & Yucatan railroad in Alaska, which I didn't know even if I had seen them on other videos.

UM20B looks to share some styling design DNA with Alco's PA-1'S and FA-1's

Those UM20s have the same body shape as Alco’s FA series of freight units. Another little known GE loco is the UD18. A small group were built that went to the NdeM railroad in Mexico. They were 1,800 HP and looked like an Alco RS11 with noses that looked like the original U25B demonstaters.

Fine video and I like short videos. Too many UA-cam contributors are making their videos much too long. 👍

MO-PAC AND GM&O MENTIONED!!!

I never heard of this engine, but those GE trucks are unmistakable. The corrugated steel bodies really differentiate them from an EMD F-Unit.

I own a half-finished scratchbuilt model of a UM20. Picked it up for practically nothing at a train show. The old guy selling it unfortunately lost his fine motor skills and couldn't finish the model. One day I'll get around to finishing it...

Absolutely never heard of these units. Great video!

Never thought I'd see the day where someone would mention these rare oddities on UA-cam (I'm only familiar with them because of the U-Boat book by Greg McDonnell outlining the production history of the U-Boats). In that book, it mentions the UD18B for Mexico which came out about a year after the UM20B making it the second U-Boat as opposed to the U9B

NSWGR Australia, had six locomotives that used the same body style, powered by a 244 Alco. One is preserved. 43 class. Smaller dimensions 6 Axle trucks.

I didn't even know "GE" locomotives even existed anymore; I thought they were just branded as Wabco something or other under their present ownership, given GE's disintegration into nothing of importance.

I was shocked when i saw the thumbnail, i have never seen that class of locomotives ever! And tbh they don't look bad.

Likely one of GEs most gorgeous locomotives,sure wish they made more of these "Covered Wagons"

I not know about GE made the Streamline unit until you, sir, make a video about it. 😂 I'm an Indonesian. I could say, GE's in Indonesia (in my opinion) is bellow EMD. There are some reason. - The long coal train in South Sumatera are designed to hauled by EMDs, particularly EMD G26MC-2U (SD38-2 equivalent) and before those EMD came, it needs 3 and sometimes 4 GEs (GE U18C with 1950hp), while the EMD only needs 2 to pull the same sake of wagons. - There is a story that a G18A1A (BB202) with 8-645E with 1010hp, rescue a GE U18C that broke down along with 7 fully loaded passenger cars (that is as far as I know about the story). The funny thing is, the BB202 that rescuing the train is hampered by engine issue, yeah, because of the lazy nature of us to buy spare parts. So, the 8-645Es could only topped at notch 4, and sometimes 5 but not in really long time. Long story short, the BB202 could carry the packed-up train with the broke down loco and arrive in the next station just in time. - Then, there's the reliability. The EMDs, especially the older 567s (8-567B in G8A1A a.k.a BB200 and 12-567B in G12A1A a.k.a BB201) and the only 8-645Es (in G18A1A a.k.a BB202), could work even the spare parts are scarce, well, when I say scarce, I mean we are lazy to find spare parts. While the GEs... The reliability is depends on the work that done and the driver that used it. And it is ludicurously smoky, like ALCo, but it didn't have the same tone that ALCo was chugging along. That is my opinion, and I genuinely thought that GE never made Streamliner other than the Erie-built for the FMs. Nice video though 👍🏽

Wonder when some enterprising modeling company (calling you, Lionel) will offer a credible model of the UM20B (heck, if they can do an Erie Triplex why not an A-B-B-A set of UM20B's!). Great video!

An interesting video! I knew of the UM20 from one of my books on the "Weary Erie." According to the author the UM20 was strictly a rolling laboratory and GE had no intention of putting it into production. The whole idea was to find out what worked, what didn't work, and once the data was in GE would jump into the diesel locomotive market. To hide it's real purpose from competitors GE described the UM20 as an "experimental export locomotive." Thanks for posting!

Great to see someone cover these GE oddities. A little fun fact about them is that somehow, one of their prime movers still survives, I believe at the Erie plant or somewhere nearby, as it's listed as a feat of Mechanical Engineering. I remember briefly covering it in a Pensyfan Periodical about a year or two ago.

I wonder what this area looked in the steam era, Probably it was an overpass for the Pennsy crossing the Erie

Fast n' furious Westwood action! Thanks!

I found this an informative video! I've heard of the _Bayonne_ _Flyer,_ but now I know how it works. Also, I like how you refer to all of the other Hudson-Bergen Light Rail lines by their color, which sounds a lot better than what they are officially called: "8th Street-Hoboken" (Blue), "Hoboken-Tonnelle" (Green), and "West Side-Tonnelle" (Yellow). Thanks for the video!

Do a video about the Cape May Seashore Lines

Do a video about the Cape May Seashore Lines

All those 10mph turns don’t help lol

Norfolk’s Tide alignment was based on an old narrow track railroad that ran from the Norfolk Terminal (now harbor park) to Virginia Beach’s oceanfront. It was a starter line that was planned to eventually run the same route but Virginia Beach voted to not extend. They also wanted to bring back a type of streetcar that’s why it also runs in mixed traffic. Norfolk used to have a large excellent streetcar network that was torn up in the 1950s, so it’s kinda light-rail and streetcar mixed into one. It is a good train and I hope it expands one day but like you pointed out, some of the stations and design were questionable. Great video, thank you.

forgot to mention one thing yes even though the Bayonne stops at Liberty State Park going Southbound to Bayonne it does NOT stop at liberty state park going northbound to Hoboken. Northbound Bayonne Flyers go express from 45th and go straight to Essex then its regular skip-stop section.

This is first clip about the Flyer that made complete sense to me, thanks for putting it out there - they've been trying to tell me about it, only you have succeeded \m/

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So was the accident in Camden or Atlantic City? I missed something.

This is a beautifully done video...Bravo!

Excellent historical documentary. Thank you.