These were some of the most trying times in the D&H’s history, but Walter Rich and the NYSW helped us through it with these new B40-8 locomotives hauling our trains. He certainly helped us through those days of uncertainty! Great video!!
Excellent footage. Love the footage with no RR Crossing we get to enjoy the rumble of diesel without interruption of a horn... Thanks for these great memories caught on film.
That spot right above the (former) angelica lake and alvernia university has got to be one of my favorite spots around reading, it's so removed from the city yet it's right on the outskirts.
Big Flats, NY on the old Erie Railroad mainline at 23:03. The small Erie bridge is no longer there. Conrail took it out sometime in the 1990's after they single tracked the entire line and replaced it instead with a concrete culvert, which still stands today. The former DL&W mainline once ran beside the Erie mainline here, but that's long gone since the late 1950s now.
Love that borrowed NS in the lead, ex high hood SOU 3302 SD40-2. I wonder if NYSW was required to run it long hood forward as was the old NW/SOU custom.
I believe they had dual controls and could run with the engineer on the correct side either way. As you say, long hood forward was a custom, not a requirement.
@@fmnutThe N&W units had dual control stands but the Southern ones didn’t. N&W’s SD40-2’s were all low hood, making this one a former Sou. unit, and therefore it isn’t a dual control stand unit. Excellent vid!
The scenes in the video jump around a bit. Up to 4:05 is the former Erie Southern Tier line west of Binghamton NY. From there to 12:05 is the Reading PA area and Lehigh Line. After that it's a mix of former EL/Erie, EL/Lackawanna, and D&H lines radiating out of Binghamton NY.
These were some of the most trying times in the D&H’s history, but Walter Rich and the NYSW helped us through it with these new B40-8 locomotives hauling our trains. He certainly helped us through those days of uncertainty! Great video!!
Excellent video quality…very clear, no visible shaking. Great job!
Excellent footage. Love the footage with no RR Crossing we get to enjoy the rumble of diesel without interruption of a horn... Thanks for these great memories caught on film.
AMEN to that! I mute the sound for most railfan vids for just that reason! Super annoying to me!
Excellent sound!!and watching them at speed reminding me of sealand days
The double track on the old Erie is glorious. Too bad that’s mostly been single tracked with no more blades. Grateful the line exists at all, I guess.
That spot right above the (former) angelica lake and alvernia university has got to be one of my favorite spots around reading, it's so removed from the city yet it's right on the outskirts.
Big Flats, NY on the old Erie Railroad mainline at 23:03. The small Erie bridge is no longer there. Conrail took it out sometime in the 1990's after they single tracked the entire line and replaced it instead with a concrete culvert, which still stands today. The former DL&W mainline once ran beside the Erie mainline here, but that's long gone since the late 1950s now.
Love seeing the semaphore signals on the line. Probably all Darth Vader signals now.
A touching tribute to D&H at 11:44... Oh Susie-Q, I love you. Susie-Q!
Love that borrowed NS in the lead, ex high hood SOU 3302 SD40-2. I wonder if NYSW was required to run it long hood forward as was the old NW/SOU custom.
I believe they had dual controls and could run with the engineer on the correct side either way. As you say, long hood forward was a custom, not a requirement.
@@fmnutThe N&W units had dual control stands but the Southern ones didn’t. N&W’s SD40-2’s were all low hood, making this one a former Sou. unit, and therefore it isn’t a dual control stand unit. Excellent vid!
For several years, we used to regularly see Susquehanna units as far south as NS Linwood, NC yard. Always a treat! Miss that era!
At 1:22 it's 4002. I have a model of that same exact locomotive.
Right at the start is Spring Rd Attica NY
Sorry to disillusion you, but that's Chestnut St. In Blandon PA, about a mile from my current home.
great video.
3:50 Is that NYSW train going through Big Flats? It looks like a location along the Southern Tier line.
If I'm not mistaken this must have been part of the Erie Railroad and later the Erie Lackawanna before the NYS&W
The scenes in the video jump around a bit. Up to 4:05 is the former Erie Southern Tier line west of Binghamton NY. From there to 12:05 is the Reading PA area and Lehigh Line. After that it's a mix of former EL/Erie, EL/Lackawanna, and D&H lines radiating out of Binghamton NY.
@@fmnut Okeedokee thanks for the info
@@fmnut, the scene at 1:44 is actually the still the Erie Delaware Division.
Great action
K5h's sound great if those are
They were B40-8s
great video what is the location at 17:21
Conklin Yard engine terminal. Just outside Binghamton, NY
Please list locations otherwise great video
D&H 7418 has a nice K5LA
B40-8s not B39-8 are the units that csx financed.
12:04 Alco confirmed anyone know if it's a RS 27 ????
RS 36.
16:18 Alco C636 Confirmed
Not even close, it's a C430. At least you recognized it as an Alco.
1998 to 1991?
A typo, I meant 1988. The description has been corrected. Thanks.
1987 to 1991
It was 1988 they filed
B40's - not B39's....
Description corrected, my bad, thx for the correction.
Nysw ran the dh in till 1991
16:20 Alco 630 confirmed
Cannot wait for the Binghamton-Utica line to officially reopen!!!
Patiently waiting Oxford Greene🚂🚂💪💪👍🍻