This morning I ran across an old 2014 email between us where you mentioned "The Richardson" video. I looked around and I was so happy to find this - so glad to see it. Great work, Jason!
Excellent!! I am thrilled to see this. My dad was a small kid in Carlisle, a Wobbly stop east of Trinity. He lamented when the lake construction inundated the Onalaska rail area that he remembered. Later living near Groveton, he heard many stories of the WBTS. I still look for traces when I'm around there.
I just finished watching this (05/13/2021) and was blown away! The footage is phenomenal and deserves to be shown on more than merely a website. This is real Americana - the sort that from time to time shows up on, for example, CBS Sunday Morning. I was searching online for remnants of WBT&S and had read (or in my case it could have been in a David Lynch inspired dream) that there were still pieces of WBT&S iron beneath intersections along Maple Street in Trinity, Texas. I have saved your link and took the liberty of sending it to other railfans. That this was filmed in 1946 makes it a year older than me. Eeeeeeeee.... .
Jason -- this is incredible. Going to write you more about this on your e-mail, but have to say -- THANK YOU for staying on your efforts to bring this film footage out. Everyone, if you are interested, Bob Richardson wrote a narrative of this day of filming in his book "Chasing Trains," and it is a delight to clearly see what he was referring to in that narrative, which by itself is priceless. Good work Jason Rose!
Thanks Murry. I appreciate it and I'm glad there are more Wobbly fans out there. For a while I thought I was the only one. Bob Richardson's story about the Wobbly is a fantastic companion to the video and it's posted on the website under "Stories."
Oh mercy the condition of the bridge timbering, especially on the long truss bridge! I've seen a LOT of bad shortline track...the old Yancey Railroad just before it shut down in the 1990's and the former Rockton - Rion RY. before the takeover by the South Carolina Railraod Museum, but THIS has to be the WORST "in service" track I've ever seen!
This morning I ran across an old 2014 email between us where you mentioned "The Richardson" video. I looked around and I was so happy to find this - so glad to see it. Great work, Jason!
Thanks, Rus. I was speechless the first several times I watched the footage. It's a bit like finding the Holy Grail of obscure railroad videos.
This is really neat. I was 5 at the time and know I passed through the area many times. Thanks.
Excellent!!
I am thrilled to see this.
My dad was a small kid in Carlisle, a Wobbly stop east of Trinity.
He lamented when the lake construction inundated the Onalaska rail area that he remembered.
Later living near Groveton, he heard many stories of the WBTS.
I still look for traces when I'm around there.
Do you have any family stories or photos you can share for the website?
WBTSrailway.net
I just finished watching this (05/13/2021) and was blown away! The footage is phenomenal and deserves to be shown on more than merely a website. This is real Americana - the sort that from time to time shows up on, for example, CBS Sunday Morning. I was searching online for remnants of WBT&S and had read (or in my case it could have been in a David Lynch inspired dream) that there were still pieces of WBT&S iron beneath intersections along Maple Street in Trinity, Texas.
I have saved your link and took the liberty of sending it to other railfans. That this was filmed in 1946 makes it a year older than me. Eeeeeeeee....
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5:45 pretty sure some OSHA regulations were violated here.
Jason -- this is incredible. Going to write you more about this on your e-mail, but have to say -- THANK YOU for staying on your efforts to bring this film footage out. Everyone, if you are interested, Bob Richardson wrote a narrative of this day of filming in his book "Chasing Trains," and it is a delight to clearly see what he was referring to in that narrative, which by itself is priceless. Good work Jason Rose!
Thanks Murry. I appreciate it and I'm glad there are more Wobbly fans out there. For a while I thought I was the only one.
Bob Richardson's story about the Wobbly is a fantastic companion to the video and it's posted on the website under "Stories."
Oh mercy the condition of the bridge timbering, especially on the long truss bridge! I've seen a LOT of bad shortline track...the old Yancey Railroad just before it shut down in the 1990's and the former Rockton - Rion RY. before the takeover by the South Carolina Railraod Museum, but THIS has to be the WORST "in service" track I've ever seen!