There's a bittersweet melanchony with that music! Also watching those decommissioned locos remembers me that some locomotive types from the past were intirely scrapped, not one preserved! Such a shame!😞
@daleburrer1546
Ай бұрын
Good to see this era of railroading again. Brings back memories. Thanks for sharing.
@JosephMusgrove
Ай бұрын
Another great post! Makes you wonder how much forgotten footage is out there.
@Mrruneight
Ай бұрын
A great trip down memory lane as this is how it was for me growing up in the 70's. Thank You for sharing this.
@MichaelBerry-yr9ev
16 күн бұрын
You should watch this while listening to 1970s music.😅
@highrx
Ай бұрын
Looking at the scenes, no mega houses,mega condo’s, or fast food restaurants in the towns. Just modest living, working class families. People just required less to be satisfied.
@suppylarue220
Ай бұрын
before rampant graffiti and woke correctness. inhale the sweet diesel exhaust!
@paulbrugger9610
Ай бұрын
Don't forget the smell of creosote, oozing from the ties. I sure miss it.
@suppylarue220
Ай бұрын
@@paulbrugger9610 yes, down by the tracks on a chilly morning -dew on the railheads, or at high noon, with their expansion creeking, and popping; finally the day's absorbed heat radiating from the tracks as the sun sets.
@Tirpitz_44
Ай бұрын
It's so interesting and cool to see this heritage still around, finding actual footage from this time period can be a hard job and back during that time it seems most people didn't think it would be valuable in the future. As a current conductor at UP this is so cool to see how it used to be. The guys I work with were from the 90s era of UP so it's so nice to hear how it used to be
@Benjamintrains
Ай бұрын
Wow! It's nice to see what railroading in the west was in the 70s. Do you have any videos of railroads in the Midwest/Heartland like Kansas, Oklahoma, Illinois, Iowa, Arkansas, or Missouri in the 70s?
@suppylarue220
Ай бұрын
in the final days of real railroading and trains. gone forever. adios!
@Retireddriver
Ай бұрын
Good to see all those classic railroad,just thinking most of all those roads are now UP and BNSF with some short lines thrown in.
@hartmutlorentzen9659
Ай бұрын
Another great video, thanks for posting, from Germany
@ChrisKinoshita7
Ай бұрын
I love 70s footage, thank you so much for posting! The sequence running 29:13-31:04 is taken at the Tucson, AZ, depot. The freight with the GP35 leading is westbound and the Amtrak train with SP 6461 is eastbound. The Hotel Congress sign can be seen above the F-unit at 30:29.
@JosephMusgrove
Ай бұрын
Did anyone notice the guy riding atop the boxcar?
@StormySkyRailProductions
Ай бұрын
Super duper sweet collection, like seeing this vintage footage! (Dave).
@taoskid8769
Ай бұрын
17:00 SP Taylor Yard, 17:38 UP East LA hump. How many Chevy Vegas can you find in this video!?
@RailroadMediaArchive
Ай бұрын
Thanks. I assumed the SP yard scenes were Taylor. I did not know UP had a hump yard in LA, but I'm not terribly familiar with LA in the past.
@taoskid8769
Ай бұрын
Yes its gone now. They moved sorting to Yermo Hump. Used to go down there in the 70's. Would take the RTD Washington Blvd bus from Brea Mall in the OC as as teen. Happy memories.
@remylopez4821
22 күн бұрын
@@taoskid8769at 19:35 looks like Hobart Tower crossing the ATSF tracks heading towards San Pedro
@taoskid8769
22 күн бұрын
@@remylopez4821 That was a good spot to watch trains!
@ericjohnson3746
Ай бұрын
Those were my high school and college years. I took lots of still photos back then. I still use them as references when modeling . We thought the world was so modern then. We got more excited about steam excursions and rare oder diesels. And shortlines were cool with lots of dead equipment around. Southern railway mainline near my house had jointed rail and semaphores until about 1978. What I remember often was the scream that a bunch of first generation EMD s would make when leaving a yard and trying to get up speed.
@danieltemple5545
Ай бұрын
A snapshot in time. I love these older videos
@kcsthebetterway
Ай бұрын
Simple railfaning 😊
@pgronemeier
Ай бұрын
I'm probably wrong, but at the 10 minute mark, I swear that looks like a Santa Fe Chief going through New Mexico. ?
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