This is some great footage on the Siskiyou and Cascade lines. Neat seeing the Salt Creek Bridge before the trees and other vegetation have grown up around it, you can't get a lot of those shots today. Miss the SP.
It’s nice to see those EMD SDP45’s pulling Amtrak. SP used to run them back in the 1970’s on their commuter service between San Francisco and San Jose. I rode behind many of them on my week day commute between San Carlos and San Francisco.
I love the proto video of SP in Oregon. I model the SP in the late 70's and I like the various freight cars SP used. And the Loco fade and weathering is great to model from!
Yes, I'm glad Harris traveled around and got more than just Rio Grande and UP. I've had some comments that didn't like me using music. I just suggested they turn the volume down.
I enjoy these videos it s nice to be able to go back in time like that but sort of a shame to think all regular passenger trains had gone out of service
EMD 645 refers to the prime mover rather than the actual locomotive class. This prime mover was introduced sometime in the early 1960s and was utilized in EMD locomotives up until the GP50 in the 1980s I believe. F units and early diesels use the 567 prime mover and today's SD70MACs and SD70ACEs use the 710 prime mover. To get back at your question, ALL the scenes show a 645! Glorious, isn't it? By the way, Merry Christmas!
Lee Witten It's a thing Bay Area and I do. Basically if you are excited, you try to push !!!!!!! but you forget to push shift so it appears 11111111. It's just a silly thing.
Good catch! I knew it was a B unit but couldn't see it clearly enough. I'll correct my master copy but will wait to upload a corrected version until others have had a chance to find errors. I enjoy having people out there who are able to give me the right info. Thanks.
Great video, but this is another foamer video only showing the locomotives, then its on to the next train that merely only shows locomotives passing by.
Harris was a UP engineer and I guess his main interest was in the locomotives and not the whole train. Besides when you're shooting 8mm film back then, you only have so much on a reel in the camera and have to choose your shots sparingly. I've been there in years past. So catching a whole long freight is costly. Lucky us in the digital age where we can have a 62 gigabyte memory chip and catch all the long trains we want.
@Danny Davis It's interesting to think back and wonder if our modern technology had been available. Think what it would have been like to have videos of Columbus landing in the New World, or life in Ancient Rome. Anyway, Super 8 film was the top of the line for the common man to record movies but of course it suffers compared to today and then the image is further degraded when converted to digital. We do with what we've got. Thanks for your comment.
This is some great footage on the Siskiyou and Cascade lines. Neat seeing the Salt Creek Bridge before the trees and other vegetation have grown up around it, you can't get a lot of those shots today. Miss the SP.
Glad you enjoyed this. I'm so glad that Stephen Harris and his little super 8 camera captures this era of railroad history.
This video was amazing! I'm a huge SP fan and the Oregon routes were my favorite. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it. There's more Harris films with SP in the Northwest.
@@LeeWitten Thank You! That's nice to know.
I feel the same way warren William's I have f o n d memories of those days too
It’s nice to see those EMD SDP45’s pulling Amtrak. SP used to run them back in the 1970’s on their commuter service between San Francisco and San Jose. I rode behind many of them on my week day commute between San Carlos and San Francisco.
Glad this brought back memories for you. I'd like to find a good HO model of that locomotive.
I love the proto video of SP in Oregon. I model the SP in the late 70's and I like the various freight cars SP used. And the Loco fade and weathering is great to model from!
Glad a fellow modeler enjoyed this.
Some great SP action and music in this film!
Yes, I'm glad Harris traveled around and got more than just Rio Grande and UP. I've had some comments that didn't like me using music. I just suggested they turn the volume down.
@Lee Witten I did have to turn my volume down in certain parts but it was still a very pleasant experience!
@@AlikStansberry I think I did have the volume to high in the early films but I reduced it in later ones.
@Lee Witten No worries sir! I don’t mind it as much as everyone else.
I enjoy these videos it s nice to be able to go back in time like that but sort of a shame to think all regular passenger trains had gone out of service
Yes, I miss the classic era of train travel also. I had a chance as a young guy to ride them before Amtrak took over.
Wow! More than half of the video took place in Oregon for Southern Pacific and Amtrak trains.
I like the sound of the rumbling cars.
Narrow nosed, EMD 645 equipped, and filthy! Beauty at its finest! I love all your videos, keep up the great work!
Thanks. Educate me, which scene shows EMD 645?
EMD 645 refers to the prime mover rather than the actual locomotive class. This prime mover was introduced sometime in the early 1960s and was utilized in EMD locomotives up until the GP50 in the 1980s I believe. F units and early diesels use the 567 prime mover and today's SD70MACs and SD70ACEs use the 710 prime mover. To get back at your question, ALL the scenes show a 645! Glorious, isn't it?
By the way, Merry Christmas!
Hey thanks for that. I didn't have any idea about that aspect of EMD's. Nice to have that info.
Enlighten me, what does a series of 11111 mean??
Lee Witten It's a thing Bay Area and I do. Basically if you are excited, you try to push !!!!!!! but you forget to push shift so it appears 11111111. It's just a silly thing.
12:33 There's some smoke coming out of that puppy!
That might be steam from the steam generator to keep the passenger cars warm.
1.30 is not a GP9B ...it is an SD24B
Good catch! I knew it was a B unit but couldn't see it clearly enough. I'll correct my master copy but will wait to upload a corrected version until others have had a chance to find errors. I enjoy having people out there who are able to give me the right info. Thanks.
We’re most of these Harris films recorded without sound?
All but 10 films were without sound. I've already put a couple of sound films up that deal with the Union Pacific 844 and 3985
Great video, but this is another foamer video only showing the locomotives, then its on to the next train that merely only shows locomotives passing by.
Harris was a UP engineer and I guess his main interest was in the locomotives and not the whole train. Besides when you're shooting 8mm film back then, you only have so much on a reel in the camera and have to choose your shots sparingly. I've been there in years past. So catching a whole long freight is costly. Lucky us in the digital age where we can have a 62 gigabyte memory chip and catch all the long trains we want.
@Danny Davis It's interesting to think back and wonder if our modern technology had been available. Think what it would have been like to have videos of Columbus landing in the New World, or life in Ancient Rome. Anyway, Super 8 film was the top of the line for the common man to record movies but of course it suffers compared to today and then the image is further degraded when converted to digital. We do with what we've got. Thanks for your comment.
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