Virginia Trains in the 1950s (N&W/SOU/C&O)
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- Опубліковано 6 тра 2024
- N&W mixed train on the Abdingdon Branch (abandoned 1977...now a trail), followed by SOU action at Abingdon and Culpepper (with a C&O freight). I'm not sure where the SOU passenger train is at the end.
I tried to stabilize the footage as best as I could.
Great video thanks for sharing
Fantastic material , thanks for posting. To see this great area in this era is a treat. I have ridden my bicycle from both ends and it never gets old , and never gets any easier going up from Damascus to Green Cove !!
Amazing. How I wish I could go back in time and spend a week exploring that.
That was a lot of fun following the GP9 through the countryside with 3 freight cars and a couple of passengers cars!
N & W's Abingdon Branch was a charm, well documented by O. Winston Link. In steam days, they used the locomotives they called Mollies, 4-8-0 fat boilered beasts. There's one preserved at the Strasburg RR. The Town of Abingdon was a major source of revenue. The building behind the station was a hosiery mill that had a contract making socks for the U. S. Army.
Wow! Stylish country gal grabs the train for an afternoon in the big city. There are a few interstates in the USA by now and a lotta fokes have automobiles, but nothing like today, seventy-something years later. What a profoundly simple, beautiful piece of nostalgia/snapshot of a bygone era...and how cool how YT delivers it right to my hand. Absolutely amazing channel you've got here. Thanks indeed!
What's sad only one man living today worked the abingdon branch, that is a trackman Winfred Monk. And he is 70 something.
Awesome Footage
Outstanding '50s color footage! Hard to find...even had a couple boxcar roofs which are very difficult to find for model prototype weathering.
I had the very same though regarding the boxcar roofs. I was looking hard at all the boxcar sides, as well.
Looks like this is actually in the '60s. I spotted a '60 Dodge and a '60 Ford, along with what looks like a '62 Plymouth Valiant at 8:02. Doesn't really matter though, this is awesome footage and we all appreciate your preservation efforts.
Early in the film at Taylor’s Valley, the engineer jammed that poor woman. Made her walk in the weeds to get to the RPO car!
Yes he did
It looks like the condition of the track is just before abandonment
This is 60s not 50s
I may be wrong here, but that general store at the beginning is where O Winston Link was married.
That would be Green Cove , not Taylors Valley .
I Hope You Realize What You Have Here, I Follow Everything Abingdon Branch, This Is Footage Never Been Seen Before No One Knew Exsisted.
This piece would be wonderful with music, beethoven 9th .
at 0:50, she's bringing the mail bag to the RPO.