Western Maryland Railway, in the 1970s | A colorful time! | Emery Gulash
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
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** About this video: Mountain railroading in the east at its best. Multi-unit lash-ups of F7’s and Geeps were the mainstay of the WM. Over three days, Emery Gulash shot exciting footage of the "Wild Mary's" struggle through the Appalachians.
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This is an Emory Gulash video I used to have it ! I'm a huge Western Maryland fan , serviced my hometown of York Pennsylvania as a kid.
Oh yes, Emery Gulash did a great job with a film camera - and he seemed to be everywhere in the 1960s and '70s! Thank you for watching! -DeAnn
Got it on VHS when it came out, now have a DVD of it. Those days and scenes are long gone.
This bring me memories of the fallen Flag railroads. 1970's and 1980's are perfect.
Those pre-merger years sure were more colorful! Thanks for watching! -DeAnn
Awesome video both my parents worked for the Western Maryland at Port Covington love the WM
i'll bet you have some great memories of that time! Thank you for watching! -DeAnn
I miss seeing cabooses on trains. Have a Happy New Year 🎆
Happy new year! I miss seeing a caboose at the end of each train too. Thanks for watching! -DeAnn
These were very cool. Locomotives from way back.
Yep, big steam too. Some of those pushers/helpers are just brutes! Thanks for watching. -DeAnn
I have this video by Green Frog, to say that this one was well put together is a huge understatement and I’m not sure if the photographers behind the cameras get nearly enough credit, like Mr. Gulash but in my opinion they did. Putting themselves in possible dangerous situations more than occasionally. Excellent work by Mr. Gulash and the rest, they left us with something to look back on. 👍👍👍. Thank you
I would like to add that although Mr. Gulash filmed this video 45+ years ago, the clarity of this film being 16mm and the audio, is outstanding.
5:50 is Al Brown Road on the Stony River Subdivision outside of Bayard, WV.
7:08 is the second crossing on Al Brown Road.
Thanks for the info, as you can tell by some of my pronunciations, I am not familiar with the area...and thank you for watching! -DeAnn
I have fond memories of the WM from 50's & 60"s. Those were good days for them. Always took excellent care of ther equipment.
I liked the "smaller" roads. They seemed to be more unique. The WM, the Monon, the anthracite roads, etc. -DeAnn
Nice to see those cabooses on trains ☺
That's what I thought too! :-) Thanks for watching! -DeAnn
Great video! I remember as a kid,visiting my father's friend,who was a retired L&N conductor,and eating caboose stew. He had so much railroad
memorabilia, in his house! It was like a museum. I hated to leave. My own model railroad was pale in comparison, but I shoveled a lot of snow,and mowed a lot of lawns to make it that awesome! It sounded like an interesting life at 8 years old,and they definitely ate well! Happy New Year!
Great memories! Thank you for sharing!! (And thanks for watching.) :-) -DeAnn
Great video for the WM fan.
I've always liked the WM. Colorful and alwaying punching above its weight. Thanks for watching. -DeAnn
@@Railfandepot Then you might like this video from another of my channels: ua-cam.com/video/fL1XAmZXKVM/v-deo.html
Great video. I always liked how WM managed to get F units in consists. While I miss most things about the 1970s, plaid pants - 1:16 - are not on the list! Sadly, I saw a few of the WM "Northeastern" cabooses cut up at the Fairmont car shop in 1986.
Great to see the late great WM in mountain grades with helpers and pushers prior to integration into Chessie and later CSXT. Very heartwarming to revisit areas familiar to me. Thank you
So happy you enjoyed this. It really is nice footage! Thank you for watching! -DeAnn
Emery Gulash is one of my favorite railroad photographers he documented the Santa Fe railroad in Santa Fe Odyssey volumes 1 and 2 his favorite diesel on the Santa Fe was the GP20
Gulash was quite prolific. Which is great for us...more footage out there (like the Santa Fe)! Thanks for watching. -DeAnn
Probably my favorite video from your catalog. Although, being from Elkins and routinely traveling past the majority of this, I’m a little bias. Love seeing how it was, and wish it was still like this.
I like the sound of the horns on them "F" units.....
That goes in to the "loud and proud" category, eh? :-) -DeAnn
So cool to see the eastern mountain railroading from back in the day. Thanks for posting.
Glad you enjoyed it. Mountain railroading in the East, especially during steam, could be quite different than the West. Thank you for watching! -DeAnn
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The AJ (Alpha Jet) trains always been an interest of mine. To have coordinated service with NKP, W&LE, P&WV, WM, RDG and CNJ (hence, the Alphabet Route) is fascinating. I like this one. It goes good with French Roast. LOL!!
Agreed. I thought he Alphabet Route was a great way for the little guys to take on the big guys. But then the little guys were brought up by the big guys. :-( -DeAnn
Got a chance to see the remnants of the WM and the #1309 out of Cumberland a couple weeks sgo... pretty cool...
Oh, yes...1309 is now high on my locomotive bucket list. Thank you for watching! -DeAnn
Very Good Video !!! Love those F Units !!! ❤️👍
Thank you very much for the kind comment! F-units *and* cabooses - a pretty good combination! :-) Thanks for watching. -DeAnn
I really enjoyed this video! Thanks for sharing!
Thank you Deann and crew....
Keep well and have A healthy new year
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I love your emojis! I wish you a healthy, happy New Year too! Thanks for watching. -DeAnn
I hired out on the B&O in 1967 as a fireman . I remember a few years later going from new castle to cumberland for my air brake classes to be an engineer I was met with a lot of disention from former western maryland employees that the B&O had taken over the western maryland , and they were taking the B&O to court .at that time I was very glad to get back to new castle.
Hubert, I'm glad you made it! I appreciate the story. It's so great to hear from railroaders about their experience. Thank you for watching. :-) -DeAnn
I have met quite a few western Maryland modelers and they all hate Chessie!
I heard there was also some animosity by B&O employees toward WM employees because of labor troubles in the 1920s. However, my late grandfather, a B&O trainman and conductor from 1943 to 1975, always regarded the WM crews he knew as "really good railroad men".
@@B-and-O-Operator-Fairmont The animosity came from the fact that WM employees were grandfathered into the B&O with a much better Union agreement in terms of compensation and claims.
This is great, the WM always fascinated me
The WM is a great railroad...seemingly an underdog, and yet always there in the running! Thank you for watching. -DeAnn
Nice Maryland video you’re getting closer to my Jersey Central.
We'll get there eventually! :-) Thanks for watching! -DeAnn
Growing up in the Midwest, east side of the Big Muddy. We never got to see eastern RR power. Except for the very rarely seen PC, or Chessie power unit. So glad I get to see video's.
Southern Indiana saw B&O paint, and then Chessie, but yes, West of Chicago and East of the Mississippi missed out on much of the eastern roads. Thanks for watching! -DeAnn
@@Railfandepot grew up in rural Galesburg Illinois. Hub of the CB&Q. Right at the time of the big merger into the BN.
Our biggest thrill was seeing all those colors. Except for SP&S. Didn't see any of those. A few WP would roll thru sometime.
@@scotteakins7203 Also in Southern Indiana we got to see the Milwaukee Road! It dead-ended for years at Westport, near Seymour. How's that for oddd! :-) -DeAnn
@@Railfandepot That's cool! We took rail fan trips up to Moline, Rock Island area to chase the Milwaukee, The Rock, & C&NW routes. Those were the days! Seen my first ALCO's & FM back then!
@@Railfandepot That area was the L&N & old Walbash runnin grounds. Over here in SE Iowa we still have old Walbash tracks out here. CN uses 1 line now.
A family not far from here, I heard, have a caboose in there backyard for a "She Shed" Funny the only steam trains I ride on are at Knott's Berry Farm and Disneyland, they just go in big circles but still fun. Have you ever made it to the UK to ride on some of the Heritage Lines?? Thanks for posting
The UK's heritage steam lines are HIGH on my list of things to do - if given the chance. On that steam list is the Romney Hythe & Dymchurch Light Railway - so tiny! -DeAnn
Happy New Year’s eve enjoy the video
Happy New year to you too! -DeAnn
Bay Window cabooses are still in use to this day
Yep, but we no longer see a caboose on every train. It's what I grew up with and still what I like to see! Thanks for watching. :-) -DeAnn
Cabooses today are mostly used in train yards I believe
@@thatoneguy611 Yep, and on a rare occasion on short stretches where the train has to go rear end first up a grade (think coal mines up short branches). I saw that on one of our DVDs! :-) -DeAnn
Thank you for posting. Do you have anything on the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie? They connected to western Maryland at Connellsville
I don't know if we have any independent P&LE. I will ask Tim. Thank you for watching! -DeAnn
WOW The Western maryland Used to run around my Grandparents house.
Great memories! Thanks for sharing. -DeAnn
I wish I could have seen trains with cabooses on them.
Those of us who did...took it for granted,until one day...boom they were gone. -Tim
Don't see many of those F units any more
Those "covered wagons" do look good. I am partial to the F3's myself. -DeAnn
I don't know if it's my phone but this particular video is being blemished/mixed with some other footage..FYI
Hmmm... that's odd. I looked at it on my computer and it seems fine. I'll have Tim, our computer guy look at it. -DeAnn
I'd like to see some Illinois Central Railroad
I'm going to put the IC on our to-do list. I'll tell Tim he needs to dig up the video for us! :-) -DeAnn
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When there is more than one caboose do they refer to the pair as cabeese??
Or is it cabooses? I don't know! :-) -DeAnn
Rail trail. Out BH.
Why did they do away with the Caboose?
Like many things it was more than one reason, but cost and being able to operate a train with fewer crew (cost, again) did the caboose in. A few still survive in transfer duty and for long backing moves. -DeAnn
@@Railfandepot CSX considers them "shove platforms".