Conrail's Final Months in Indiana and Ohio (with some NS)
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- Опубліковано 4 чер 2024
- Some tape glitches at the beginning. Most of this tape is taken up by a trip to Berea, Ohio on April 2, 1999.
-Locations-
0:00 - Title card is Wabash taken off NS (PSA to not try this today).
0:30 - Marion
10:19 - Wabash (s-curve is between Silver Lake and North Manchester)
13:15 - Alexandria
18:40 - Berea, Ohio
1:25:32 - Marion
1:39:17 - south of Wabash
1:40:06 - Speicherville?
1:41:24 - Marion
1:43:14 - Largo and Wabash
1:56:35 - Marion
Bonus footage at 1:59:40 of the beginning of a trip to the Rathole in the Daniel Boone National Forest near Tateville and Burnside, Kentucky, which I guess you could consider a teaser to the next video.
I come from a long line of railroaders out of central Ohio. Dad retired from Conrail (PRR before that) in '97 after 51 years. Grandpa 60 years for PRR. And my Great Grandpa worked 62 years for PRR. Good memories.
Love no music but injecting location of each train would have been nice. I started on the NYC in late 67 on the Chicago Division at Lawrenceburg Indiana and was pulled from service medically in 1988 at that time running Avon to East St Louis. In between I worked from Indianapolis to Cincinnati, Indianapolis to Louisville, Kentucky, Indianapolis to Bellfountaine Ohio and Indianapolis to Elkhart Indiana. I also worked a lot of local in different areas ending with 21 years of service. I’ll be 83 tomorrow.
Did you not read the video description? Most of my videos are broken into sections by location, if known.
I had been to Berea a few times before the bridge was put in to bypass the tracks but I had forgotten how it looked before the bridge was installed for the most part. I recently started getting back into railfanning after about a 10 year hiatus. I have been up there a few times this year and its always fun.
Good-bye Conrail for final months!!!!!! A great tribute to Conrail
Can absolutely confirm you shouldn't even get near that bridge in Wabash on the title card. I just parked in the gravel by the edge of the road once and two cop cars showed up and looked for any signs of heroin in my car. I'm guessing that was a drug dealing hotspot at the time
Also, as always, more details on a few of the Wabash area locations
1:43:14 Taken at General Tire on west side of Wabash at Bond St. crossing
1:45:36 Same
1:51:48 Between Wabash and Peru at N 550 E crossing
1:53:27 Same
1:55:00 Back at General Tire
yeah, PSR really sucks today. these video make it painfully obvious. C36-7 #8525 15:40 Thanks for posting, best regards, chuck
Awesome stuff, the good old days of railfanning!!
Some good Marion Branch footage in there.
Berea must have been super busy then. It's almost like the crossing beyond the interlocking tower had a noise curfew. I didn't hear any horns until the trains later in the afternoon.
If time travel was a thing, one of the locations I would go to as a railfan would be Berea say 1946. The place was crawling w/ mostly steam-powered trains!
I love conrail quality railfanning trains
Unit Steel between Detroit and Granite City
Should have left Conrail alone.
There were many at Conrail that wanted to go it alone in the private sector. "Let Conrail BE Conrail" was one slogan I heard sev times.
David LeVan had delusional visions of a CR/CSX railroad. Forgot about a Trojan horse named Goode.
INGR Avon Yard to Grand Rapids
I would love to use to use different Conrail clips on your channel from every state it ran in? Am I allowed to just an fyi? It would be a used with a song creating a music video for Conrail it's self based in the 90s - early 2000s
As long as you credit me have at it.
@@RailroadMediaArchive Yes I will put your credits in the Description of the video.
@@999-98 Sorry, I didn't complete my thought. A donation is also welcome, but not required. paypal.me/railroadmediaarchive?country.x=US&locale.x=en_US
@@RailroadMediaArchive Alright whenever I can enough money I might try and donate to ya whenever I can tho fyi.
You have my permission to use these videos as I am the person who shot them originally on this particular show. I have only asked to be credited for the videos that are being shared. And I have yet to see the my name mentioned
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Good INEL BOMB Train the Marion Branch was the best. To bad you didn't go to Milford Jct
I didn't take this, and there's plenty of videos from Milford Jct. in this collection in other videos.
@@RailroadMediaArchive I figured that you didn't but but least it one of the best spots in the Conrail Days of the 80s and 90s was the Good Days minus the clips. The Whole train of the Action was Good between CR was in the Prime days in the Mid to Late 80s to Late 90s was awesome and the Early stages of CSX Was came to play began in 1987 to late 1998 was full effort
Awesome footage I remember these days!! Used to watch trains in Mentor Ohio and Youngstown back in the 90’s I do miss seeing Conrail blue I was very happy to see that CSX just unveiled the Conrail heritage unit!
Is this line still in service today?
Everything in this video is in service today.
Yes it is, Mainly has local traffic these days with occasional Grain Trains
Why did Conrail come to an end?
It was split up roughly 70-30 between NS and CSX with the split being effective June 1, 1999. Conrail still exists as a contractor and switching railroad in Detroit and New Jersey.
@@RailroadMediaArchive It also exists in Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, I used to run trains on the Shared Assets Conrail Del Air branch which runs through some of the worst parts of Philly , it goes to Frankfort yard in North Philly then crosses the Delaware river to reach Pavonia yard in Camden New Jersey , Conrail, CSX, and NS all use this line. There are some other branches and industrial tracks in Philadelphia that belong to Conrail. There are still quite a few customers in the city, but nothing like how it was in the Pennsy days. Thanks for the great video.
From what I've read, conrail never went anywhere. They just offloaded their physical plant and equipment. I've seen csx guys in Selkirk wandering around with fresh Conrail Quality safety vests.
Only in ohio😊
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