I remember green frog from national train day Toledo long ago.
@TPW900GP35
Жыл бұрын
Overall good video! I worked for the TP&W from 1978 until taking severance pay in 1985. I saw the decline after CR removed Logansport from their customer routing guide and rate tariffs, which was our bread and butter (bridge traffic from ATSF Lomax/Ft. Madison to CR at Logansport) (also traffic received from our many Peoria area connections to CR at Logansport). It went from as many as 80-100 loads per day to less than 20, on our eastbound hotshot train no. 20. Good video, enjoyed it. Incidentally, you missed Alco C424’s no. 800-801 in your loco line up.
@railfanadam1944
Жыл бұрын
That's awesome, I live in Logansport and the TP&W trains go right by my house. Although not the old Alcos, it's still nice to hear the GP50s, GP15-1s, and SD40-2s roar by.
@richardfoster9499
Жыл бұрын
I'm from Peoria Illinois, we would fish and hangout under that train bridge
@tonnage4u
Жыл бұрын
On hot summer nights, you'd hear that lift machine from a long way off, working the TP&W yard during the height of their Intermodal years. I would love to have seen the first years of their existence, when much of the line through East Peoria going east through Farmdale was, before the building of the Farmdale Dam - on the opposite side of Farm Creek. Many of the old bridge footings and/or abutments can still be seen today. So to can old roadbed remnants.
@TPW900GP35
Жыл бұрын
Yes, I remember that lift! Did you ever get close enough to the roundhouse to hear the bang bang bang of their steam pump? I can still hear it these many days gone bye. I worked in the roundhouse area as a crew caller, when they had it set up there. That job got moved around. It started out in the new operations center, next to the dispatchers office on the upper floor, then it moved to the lower floor, next to the control operator. This was during the Santa Fe era; this job received track warrants from the dispatcher and repeated them to the train. Later, they just became like dispatchers and gave them out, themselves. Then the callers moved over to the roundhouse area, to be closer to where the crews went on duty (they used to go on duty in the hallway between the caller and the control operator; then got moved to the roundhouse area).
@christophercarey3232
2 жыл бұрын
I sure miss living near this line. I was raised in El Paso.
@dirtycamerarailfan3302
2 жыл бұрын
This is likely the first video of footage from the original TP&W to be on KZitem.
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