Western Maryland (and some B&O) 1974-75

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  • @BaltimoreAndOhioRR
    @BaltimoreAndOhioRR 4 роки тому +9

    Great old footage! 👍👍

  • @LotusbandicootRR
    @LotusbandicootRR Рік тому +3

    Such great footage, as always
    Also I love that the short little blasts at 4:58 actually sound like someone is saying "Toot... toot toot"

  • @jacobswope6179
    @jacobswope6179 5 років тому +12

    This is a very unique situation as most of this film was taken after the Chessie System stopped using the West Sub past Big Pool and parts of the New Line to Connellsville
    PA. The mix of B&O WM and N&W power is quit interesting. The WM passing under its own bridge at North Branch is awesome. Trains on the WM were reversed on and off of there own tracks from the old Mainline onto the B&O using a connection switch after the 1975 abandonment.

  • @MilePost106
    @MilePost106 4 роки тому +7

    The 60’s and 70’s were the best years old railroading! The unique sounding air horns and the Bettendorf Trucks smoking from the oil. Great memories from these old videos.

    • @patrickrancourt4782
      @patrickrancourt4782 4 роки тому

      Oh yeah
      The past was and still so BLAST !!!!!
      Thanx UA-cam to protect America Railroads heritage's

  • @billsellman6675
    @billsellman6675 5 років тому +6

    A very proud railroad.thank you. I'm a younger guy Like me would never see it.

    • @the.porter.productions
      @the.porter.productions 5 років тому +1

      Bill Sellman same
      I wish I could have seen the old days of the b&o and Chessie. My father got to see the last c&o days in Huntington, WV.
      PS - Those who know, use the B&O. The B&O is the way to go!
      - JP

  • @erbewayne6868
    @erbewayne6868 11 місяців тому

    I have walked across the Salisbury viaduct many times and still impressed with the structure and the view is great.

  • @bobpaulino4714
    @bobpaulino4714 2 роки тому +1

    Loved the mix of old power in the 60's and 70's. Wish I had been around 50 years sooner --
    Grateful that my grandparents, parents, and uncles knew that little boys should take excursions to the tracks and harbor in a town built by railroads and shipping.
    My grandmother later took the oldest from each family to Europe and central America.
    Memories I'll never forget.

    • @Greatdome99
      @Greatdome99 Рік тому

      If you were around 50 years earlier, you would be very old today.

    • @bobpaulino4714
      @bobpaulino4714 Рік тому

      @@Greatdome99 indeed. My grandmother's both lived to be nearly 100 (dads mom within a month and a half), and my dad is 93 and still driving and practicing law part time -- you'd think after nearly 7 decades of practicing he would be an expert rather than still 'practicing' Lol

  • @mikemorris631
    @mikemorris631 5 років тому +2

    B&O F units during that time especially working with WM Funits was a great catch!!

  • @stgislander
    @stgislander 5 років тому +2

    The location at 7:18 reminds me of Meyersdale, PA.

  • @tommythomason6187
    @tommythomason6187 2 роки тому

    Lots of F7s. I remember, railfanning back in that era, seeing Southern Railway Fs on freights around Atlanta. Some were FP7s. Amazing how they were still using them - and on heavy trains, at that - not on Locals.

  • @vicodumb
    @vicodumb 4 роки тому +1

    You have to love the WM if for no other reason than their air horns were epic.

  • @shortliner68
    @shortliner68 5 років тому +1

    Brings back memories of riding Fall excursion trains on the WM back in the 1960s and '70s from Baltimore to Cumberland. Guess it was only natural the WM would be my favorite local RR since I was born only a few blocks from their tracks in west Baltimore back in 1950.

  • @user-xz9ed8pw2s
    @user-xz9ed8pw2s 7 місяців тому

    Wow, trains really haven’t changed that much lol

  • @jalilmuhammad8270
    @jalilmuhammad8270 4 роки тому +2

    The WM was absorbed into the B&O in 1983.

  • @woods840
    @woods840 4 місяці тому

    Fantastic! Would have been nice to disclose locations though...

    • @RailroadMediaArchive
      @RailroadMediaArchive  4 місяці тому

      I don't know where much of it was taken. I recognize Helmstetter's Curve and Keystone Viaduct, that's about it.

  • @jacobswope6179
    @jacobswope6179 5 років тому +2

    Please keep this up. More Williamsport MD and the West Sub.

  • @thomassalerno5203
    @thomassalerno5203 5 років тому

    Oh wow BL2 in the lead...Actually got see one in the Hagerstown MD yard back in the mid 70’s

  • @sst568
    @sst568 2 роки тому

    Dog or cat running across track @ 17:31 !

  • @kindcake
    @kindcake 4 роки тому

    Were some of those trains coming from slatyfork WV

  • @kindcake
    @kindcake 4 роки тому

    Where is that place with the white building

  • @davidvanschaick5565
    @davidvanschaick5565 4 роки тому

    Good Stuff !

  • @briteidea08
    @briteidea08 5 років тому

    Maybe I missed or didn't recognize the area. Was any of this footage recorded along the Hanover sub. Glyndon and Owings Mills?

  • @wildmaryfoamer
    @wildmaryfoamer 3 роки тому +1

    Wish the WM still existed... heard a rumor that the WM could have been bought out by the N&W but that never happened

  • @BAS19.6
    @BAS19.6 2 роки тому +1

    It’s always sad to think about why footage from 1975 is so common

  • @ChadsRailfanExperience
    @ChadsRailfanExperience 3 роки тому

    wow

  • @woods840
    @woods840 4 роки тому +1

    8:10 sand patch summit

  • @mikeythesoulace
    @mikeythesoulace 5 років тому

    What are some of these horns on these locos?

    • @dannylittle6766
      @dannylittle6766 5 років тому

      The majority sound like Nathan M3s and M5s.

    • @ArturoRailProductions
      @ArturoRailProductions 5 років тому +1

      Your close. But they are Leslie S5T's as well. WM was well known for them. They did use M5's but mainly on there F units.
      52% S5T's and 48% M5's

    • @tommythomason6187
      @tommythomason6187 4 роки тому

      Read, and have seen on film, that they kept their locomotives clean. And, the track was in great condition - a contrast to The Rock Island of that era. Those Rock Island trains were reelin', rockin and rollin," at least until subsidies fixed their commuter lines. I say this, having just seen a comparable video of The Rock (one of the most interesting of railroad) befire I watched this. WM made good motive power choices. Lots of F units, GP40s and SD40s.

    • @TK-ec5bv
      @TK-ec5bv Рік тому

      WM's GP40s and SD40s all had Nathan M5's too.

  • @stevemcwhirter6746
    @stevemcwhirter6746 5 років тому +1

    total emd power all the way

    • @b3j8
      @b3j8 5 років тому

      Yep! Works for me! Lol

  • @raywills4709
    @raywills4709 3 роки тому +2

    Bring back the F units!!!

  • @TK-ec5bv
    @TK-ec5bv Рік тому

    14:18 looks like it might be Parsons WV