Cool video. I grew up watching DT&I trains from our farm adjacent to the RR north of St. Paris. I remember when tney switched from steam to diesel. I also had an uncle who was in charge of the wreck or derailment crew on the DT&I in the Detroit area.
@@steveneff5402 I remember the Cottermans. I think there was a Tom Cotterman. We rode the same school bus to school. Our farm was about a 1/2 mile north from where they lived.
I had a similar experience as you did when I watched a video on interurbans such as the Cincinnati & Lake Erie. Someone with a movie camera was riding in an interurban car and could see the motorman operating the car and a view looking out the front window when it passed a white house and I recognized that house immediately as the house I grew up in near Medway. I couldn’t believe my eyes. The Cincinnati & Lake Erie ran beside Lower Valley Pike. The years it was in operation was from 1930 to about 1939. I was born in 1943 so the tracks were long gone when I was growing up. However, when I was going to first grade at Medway Elementary, I would wait for the school bus and noticed along the shoulder of the road, that there were a few rotting ties buried in the grass.
@@steveneff5402 I had a little help because the one auto repair building in the video is still there and looks exactly the same 😂. Thank you for posting such cool clips! Really neat to see and imagine what the railroad in my hometown would've looked like.
Steve, bringing back horse tears as a brat growing up seeing this. Used to trespass DTI at 10 years old to NYC overpass from E. High St. Collecting train orders thrown out wayside.
Wonderful footage there. 8mm camera?? Pity like me you couldn't affords a sound version. I consider the end of the 1970s the end of the golden era of rail. Those rooftop Cupola were not much use in those day with the high box cars . The bay window one were better.
Some of the tracks in the street of Springfield go back to the days of the electric Inter-urban railways such as the ST & P (Springfield Troy & Piqua) which interchanged in NE part of town.
Hi, since all this footage was shot on cameras that were silent, the only thing I could do would be to add a musical background. From past experience, most people don’t like music. The only other option would be to add movie projector sound.
I “think” it’s near where the DT&I crossed the Conrail Main which would be east of East Street. East Street had a tower too. I’ll look at a map to see if I can see exact location. It’s all grown in now with vegetation and buildings.
Piqua and Lima are DEFINITELY NOT SW Ohio.... You should just say western Ohio and leave it at that. The most unusual things were the TP&W trains and the Budd RDC's at the end of a passenger train.
Loved seeing the shots of the old Pennsy Panhandle through Piqua, Ohio. The city I grew up in. Wish there were more videos about this line.
Good to see you back again saving history Dave jakubiec
Hi DJ. Great to hear from you!
Love this old footage! ✔✔👍👍
@15:02 a quick clip of Garrett Mile post 57.0 exactly 10.2 two miles away from Urbana crossing with the erie at Mile post 46.8 just before Rice 48.0
Hi Jim, neat to hear from you. Haven’t seen you since DeGraff Curve many, many years ago. Hope all is well.
Thank you, Steve! I am 43 and came along after much of this was gone. Hope there is more to come!
Thank you! There is more footage to sift through. I’ll post more in the future.
Cool video. I grew up watching DT&I trains from our farm adjacent to the RR north of St. Paris. I remember when tney switched from steam to diesel. I also had an uncle who was in charge of the wreck or derailment crew on the DT&I in the Detroit area.
I had some relatives that lived on a farm north of St. Paris near the DT&I. Their name was Cotterman.
@@steveneff5402 I remember the Cottermans. I think there was a Tom Cotterman. We rode the same school bus to school. Our farm was about a 1/2 mile north from where they lived.
I had a similar experience as you did when I watched a video on interurbans such as the Cincinnati & Lake Erie. Someone with a movie camera was riding in an interurban car and could see the motorman operating the car and a view looking out the front window when it passed a white house and I recognized that house immediately as the house I grew up in near Medway. I couldn’t believe my eyes. The Cincinnati & Lake Erie ran beside Lower Valley Pike. The years it was in operation was from 1930 to about 1939. I was born in 1943 so the tracks were long gone when I was growing up. However, when I was going to first grade at Medway Elementary, I would wait for the school bus and noticed along the shoulder of the road, that there were a few rotting ties buried in the grass.
Awesome history, Thank You for sharing!
You should use this footage to track down these locations and do a Then and Now.
Great idea and has crossed my mind several times. Thanks!
thanks steve, lots of memories here
Last clip was taken in my hometown of Covington. I was born way after the Pennsy was gone, but I recognize my town when I see it.
Great that you could recognize that location!
@@steveneff5402 I had a little help because the one auto repair building in the video is still there and looks exactly the same 😂. Thank you for posting such cool clips! Really neat to see and imagine what the railroad in my hometown would've looked like.
Neat, thanks for letting me know. Yes, there was Tom, Joyce, and Norma.
Would love to see real sw Ohio trains.🚂 ❤
I found it amusing that the big hook was on the ground!
Older times better times.
great footage. I wish there was audio, however, seeing the photographer's Chevy Blazer in some of the shots makes up for it!
Steve, bringing back horse tears as a brat growing up seeing this. Used to trespass DTI at 10 years old to NYC overpass from E. High St. Collecting train orders thrown out wayside.
I have been wanting to get that overpass shot myself. Someone told me to get access to that location, walk along the edge of the golf course.
Thanks Charlie
What became of DT&I yard in Springfield?
The yard is still there and is used for switching . A private business took over all the old DT&I buildings.
Wonderful footage there. 8mm camera?? Pity like me you couldn't affords a sound version. I consider the end of the 1970s the end of the golden era of rail. Those rooftop Cupola were not much use in those day with the high box cars . The bay window one were better.
Looks like the house @12:27 is still there.
I didn't know they had tracks in the street in springfield.
I think the tracks stayed in place but they removed the street.
In Springfield Snyder park there are RR Tracks and trestle over n Buck Cteek
Some of the tracks in the street of Springfield go back to the days of the electric Inter-urban railways such as the ST & P (Springfield Troy & Piqua) which interchanged in NE part of town.
Hi, since all this footage was shot on cameras that were silent, the only thing I could do would be to add a musical background. From past experience, most people don’t like music. The only other option would be to add movie projector sound.
As long as it's period music to match the time the video was made I like it
Video is great as is!
Hello, I'm originally from Springfield and could you give me an idea where Carney tower was at? That area looks familiar but I can't place it.
I “think” it’s near where the DT&I crossed the Conrail Main which would be east of East Street. East Street had a tower too. I’ll look at a map to see if I can see exact location. It’s all grown in now with vegetation and buildings.
Ok, found where it was located (approximately). It was between Burt Street and S. Burnett Road.
@@steveneff5402 awesome thanks for looking into that!
Sound???
Piqua and Lima are DEFINITELY NOT SW Ohio.... You should just say western Ohio and leave it at that. The most unusual things were the TP&W trains and the Budd RDC's at the end of a passenger train.
You're wrong. Piqua and Lima are in Southwest Ohio.
@@pablohernandez9405no pablo hernandez, lima is a city in NORTHwest Ohio
@@pablohernandez9405 You're a special kind of stupid. Look at a map idiot.
Lima is in Northwest Ohio, in Allen County, so unless there was a tower or yard with that name...