This is some very rare footage to say the least! The Alcos weren't on the N&E long at all (they were soon sent off to the West Tennessee Railroad). My understanding was that they were bought to power the rock train from Gordonsville to Nashville but wound causing too much wear on the rails. This might be the only footage of them on the N&E (though I do have a photo in my collection of one of them by the hump at CSX's Radnor Yard). The Broadway hung around until around the year 2000. I only rode it once as part of an excursion for the L & N Historical Society's convention back in 1993. The wye in the yard at Old Hickory (where they turned the locomotive) is still there, although one leg of it is out of service. A crew is based out there and usually works to Stones River and return on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.
Thank you so much for sharing this video! I remember the N&E locomotives in 1998 because I saw them when I was in the preschool that they had at Hermitage Hills Baptist Church that year. Those old GEs would chug by almost every time I was out on the playground, headed for Old Hickory, and I would always stop what I was doing, run over to the fence, and watch them go by. To be honest I don't see why the Tennessee Central Railway Museum doesn't do an Old Hickory branch line excursion. Heck, they could even call it "The Broadway Dinner Train Excursion" and just serve snacks on the snack car like they always do and most people probably wouldn't know the difference...
I rode on an excursion train here a while back where they had the E8 you see here and a leased new york central E8 with an m5 powering the train. Best excursion ever.
Thanks. Yes, I thought the first guy was pushing it, but when I saw the second guy go across right in front of the train I thought I was going to film a collision!
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Excellent video. Those Alco's and GE's look good.
That's some beautiful GE! I wish there were still places to see stuff like this. That's the way a horn should sound!
Old GE's & Alco Alligators , made my day .
The ALCo "alligators" were RSD15, 2,400 hp. These here are 1,800 hp RSD12 engines.
This is some very rare footage to say the least! The Alcos weren't on the N&E long at all (they were soon sent off to the West Tennessee Railroad). My understanding was that they were bought to power the rock train from Gordonsville to Nashville but wound causing too much wear on the rails. This might be the only footage of them on the N&E (though I do have a photo in my collection of one of them by the hump at CSX's Radnor Yard).
The Broadway hung around until around the year 2000. I only rode it once as part of an excursion for the L & N Historical Society's convention back in 1993. The wye in the yard at Old Hickory (where they turned the locomotive) is still there, although one leg of it is out of service. A crew is based out there and usually works to Stones River and return on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.
Beautiful rs5t
Thank you so much for sharing this video! I remember the N&E locomotives in 1998 because I saw them when I was in the preschool that they had at Hermitage Hills Baptist Church that year. Those old GEs would chug by almost every time I was out on the playground, headed for Old Hickory, and I would always stop what I was doing, run over to the fence, and watch them go by. To be honest I don't see why the Tennessee Central Railway Museum doesn't do an Old Hickory branch line excursion. Heck, they could even call it "The Broadway Dinner Train Excursion" and just serve snacks on the snack car like they always do and most people probably wouldn't know the difference...
Wow!! It's amazing how much they've changed! They just scrapped the last of the U30Bs 5772
I rode on an excursion train here a while back where they had the E8 you see here and a leased new york central E8 with an m5 powering the train. Best excursion ever.
Isn't that E unit and some of those Passenger cars part of the Tennessee Railroad Museum?
@@TexasRailfan21-RailfanRyan Tennessee Central Railway Museum
Man, that why we have gates - because some people can't handle the privileged of having just lights. Awesome videos, I loved every minute of it!
Thanks. Yes, I thought the first guy was pushing it, but when I saw the second guy go across right in front of the train I thought I was going to film a collision!
The good old days
this is awesome
These are GE U-23 B's
U30Bs more HP
That Mustang was taking a big risk of a collision
what year is the dinner train from? reason I ask is there is a mid 90s mustang and Oldsmobile Cutlas supreme 4 door at the crossing.
1995
What street was at 2:23?
Hermitage Ave - US 70.
@@fmnut Huh, never would've guessed. Some of the equipment at that crossing remains the same, yet one of the bells has disappeared, strangely.
Do you know when in 1994 the dinner train clip is from? Was 6902 on the property yet?
July and I don't know.
Yes, they used both at that time.
I’d like to use the dinner train footage for a documentary a friend and I are making about the railroad museum, if that’s possible.
Sure, feel free. Send me a link to the finished product if you don't mind. Thanks.
@@fmnut appreciate it!
Did the N.E survive?
Yes. They were just purchased by RJ Corman
i ve never knew this is were these ex bo ex lsi rsd 12 went