Growing up on the Southern mainline my first trip to DC we pulled into the station next to an ACL train and I was captivated by the purple and gold coaches. I can only imagine how Jacksonville looked in 1963. Thanks for this video
I am from Jacksonville and took a trip to Washington DC as a reward for being a patrol boy in the 6th grade. It was the summer of 1967. All of the patrol boys and a teacher rode in the observation car. It was a wonderful time to be a kid!
I’m sitting in the Prime Osborn right now. I spend a few days a year here for a work conference with a lot of down time. This building and it’s history absolutely infatuate me. I try to learn everything I can about it’s history by reading online and talking to the staff. I’ve seen lots of photos, but this is the first time I’ve found actual video of its days as an active station. Thank you so much for sharing! It means the world to me
I remember you. You used to volunteer on the Suwanee Steam Special back in the eighties and early nineties. I rode it almost every year back then. Joe Miller was the conductor. I used to love his stories about working on the railroad. Great video. Thanks for sharing.
That was a real treat! Thanks for sharing! Very strange looking dome/observation car in there with the squared off door/roofline! Looks like a former C&O low height dome? Good shot of the Seaboard Coast Line (now CSX) headquarters building @ 15:56! Obvious former C&O car (now lettered for SCL) @ 18:00! Thanks again!
The "City of Miami" was a perfectly matched chocolate, orange and yellow consist with a beautiful round end observation tavern lounge car on the rear before this film was made.
Thanks for the memories. Rode the Champion to NYC as a child so many times. Brought back great memories of the "Silver Gate Bridge" we used to call the bridge just north of the station. Standing at the end of our sleeper car as the train backed into the station watching the movement between the vestibules going through the switches. A far better time one that this let me relive.
Brings back so many memories, Jacksonville to Wilmington, and then when they shut down traffic, passenger traffic to Wilmington, then it was Jacksonville to Fayetteville.
Had many great memories in that station in the 60's. Dad had an ACL pass and I rode free ( mostly) as a pre-teen and teen. Many trips thru there. Spent nights at the Desoto Hotel across the street. Ate at I believe was Fielding's(?) restaurant across the street from the station. Good food. Railroad folks ate there. Sure do miss those days. Bill not Jennifer
Fantastic video. Seeing so many different Railroad passenger cars that came to Jacksonville in this time. Gives me a great insight to what ran down here, as I'm modelling this line here in Australia, mainly passenger trains.
This is so awesome. I was about 1 or 2 years old when this was captured and living here. I'm looking at Google Earth now, viewing the Prime Osborn rear parking lot to get a general idea of where some of these scenes might have been.
Wonderful stuff, this video was linked off a Facebook post. I was a frequent traveler on the Silver Meteor from 1962-1973 and so remember some shuffling in Jacksonville, and being in the observation car with the flagman operating a horn and brake from a cabinet near the rear window.
Thank you for cool video. My grandfather loco. engineer for southern railway in alex va. Right outside wash. dc. Back in late 60s i remember rf&p merged with scl.
Nice to see this. Seems there isn't a lot of footage of action at the grand, intercity passenger terminals in the South - Atlanta and Birmingham Terminal Stations, and Jacksonville Terminal. And, no footage, that I know about, of Atlanta Union Station, used by L&N and The Georgia Railroad. Rode Southern's Royal Palm to Jacksonville, early 1960s. Lots of Sailors aboard both southbound and northbound trains between Atlanta Terminal Station and Jacksonville. I remember the train left Atlanta @ 10:00 p.m. and backed into Jacksonville Terminal the next morning. Looks like Seaboard Coast Line was working to keep the service good. The locomotives look shiny and clean. Their New York/Miami trains remained popular up through Amtrak .
@@ChromeShade Yes, "fmnut," has one called, Railfanning The South, 1960s/1970s. Has all the big stations in Birmingham, Atlanta, New Orleans. I'm sure Jacksonville is in it. 30 minutes long.
Sir, enjoyed the video about union terminal in Jacksonville. Great to see all the different railroads that used the station. Did you ever video any of the inside of the station from room to room. I model in o gauge and would like to see what it looked like inside.
Incredible footage , thank you for sharing . Living in Jacksonville now it was hard to imagine what the Prime Osborne was back in it's hay-day without footage like this. Reminds me of the Johnny Cash song , "the l&n don't stop here anymore"
Growing up on the Southern mainline my first trip to DC we pulled into the station next to an ACL train and I was captivated by the purple and gold coaches. I can only imagine how Jacksonville looked in 1963. Thanks for this video
I am from Jacksonville and took a trip to Washington DC as a reward for being a patrol boy in the 6th grade. It was the summer of 1967. All of the patrol boys and a teacher rode in the observation car. It was a wonderful time to be a kid!
I’m sitting in the Prime Osborn right now. I spend a few days a year here for a work conference with a lot of down time. This building and it’s history absolutely infatuate me. I try to learn everything I can about it’s history by reading online and talking to the staff. I’ve seen lots of photos, but this is the first time I’ve found actual video of its days as an active station. Thank you so much for sharing! It means the world to me
Good one. Thanks!
I remember you. You used to volunteer on the Suwanee Steam Special back in the eighties and early nineties. I rode it almost every year back then. Joe Miller was the conductor. I used to love his stories about working on the railroad. Great video. Thanks for sharing.
That was a real treat! Thanks for sharing! Very strange looking dome/observation car in there with the squared off door/roofline! Looks like a former C&O low height dome? Good shot of the Seaboard Coast Line (now CSX) headquarters building @ 15:56! Obvious former C&O car (now lettered for SCL) @ 18:00! Thanks again!
The "City of Miami" was a perfectly matched chocolate, orange and yellow consist with a beautiful round end observation tavern lounge car on the rear before this film was made.
Thanks for the memories. Rode the Champion to NYC as a child so many times. Brought back great memories of the "Silver Gate Bridge" we used to call the bridge just north of the station. Standing at the end of our sleeper car as the train backed into the station watching the movement between the vestibules going through the switches. A far better time one that this let me relive.
Wow, thank you for sharing. A true time capsule.
Brings back so many memories, Jacksonville to Wilmington, and then when they shut down traffic, passenger traffic to Wilmington, then it was Jacksonville to Fayetteville.
Had many great memories in that station in the 60's. Dad had an ACL pass and I rode free ( mostly) as a pre-teen and teen. Many trips thru there. Spent nights at the Desoto Hotel across the street. Ate at I believe was Fielding's(?) restaurant across the street from the station. Good food. Railroad folks ate there. Sure do miss those days. Bill not Jennifer
Great video i went through here on the Champion NY to St pete in 1967 remember it a busy place then
Fantastic video. Seeing so many different Railroad passenger cars that came to Jacksonville in this time. Gives me a great insight to what ran down here, as I'm modelling this line here in Australia, mainly passenger trains.
Thank you! That was a trip back to another era I wish I had been old enough to have experienced.
This is so awesome. I was about 1 or 2 years old when this was captured and living here. I'm looking at Google Earth now, viewing the Prime Osborn rear parking lot to get a general idea of where some of these scenes might have been.
Wonderful stuff, this video was linked off a Facebook post. I was a frequent traveler on the Silver Meteor from 1962-1973 and so remember some shuffling in Jacksonville, and being in the observation car with the flagman operating a horn and brake from a cabinet near the rear window.
Thank you for cool video. My grandfather loco. engineer for southern railway in alex va. Right outside wash. dc. Back in late 60s i remember rf&p merged with scl.
Great video- would be nice to see other old railroad footage of Jax
Were you ever able to find any?
Can't ever get enough of those E units painted up in all of those fallen flag colors.
Progress sucks a lot of the time!!
Nice to see this. Seems there isn't a lot of footage of action at the grand, intercity passenger terminals in the South - Atlanta and Birmingham Terminal Stations, and Jacksonville Terminal. And, no footage, that I know about, of Atlanta Union Station, used by L&N and The Georgia Railroad.
Rode Southern's Royal Palm to Jacksonville, early 1960s. Lots of Sailors aboard both southbound and northbound trains between Atlanta Terminal Station and Jacksonville. I remember the train left Atlanta @ 10:00 p.m. and backed into Jacksonville Terminal the next morning.
Looks like Seaboard Coast Line was working to keep the service good. The locomotives look shiny and clean. Their New York/Miami trains remained popular up through Amtrak .
Do you know of any other footage of the Jax terminal?
@@ChromeShade Yes, "fmnut," has one called, Railfanning The South, 1960s/1970s.
Has all the big stations in Birmingham, Atlanta, New Orleans. I'm sure Jacksonville is in it. 30 minutes long.
@@tommythomason6187 Thank you very much my friend. I’ll check it out
The dome car was amazing. The streamliner was the best train ever in looks
Wow - a great video! It looks like even at this era, the train station was a busy place. Thanks.
The terminal closed prior to Amtrak, right?
Back when railroading was railroading. Those men and some women were family
Sir, enjoyed the video about union terminal in Jacksonville. Great to see all the different railroads that used the station.
Did you ever video any of the inside of the station from room to room.
I model in o gauge and would like to see what it looked like inside.
Incredible footage , thank you for sharing . Living in Jacksonville now it was hard to imagine what the Prime Osborne was back in it's hay-day without footage like this. Reminds me of the Johnny Cash song , "the l&n don't stop here anymore"