Beautiful snowy scenery, loved the catches of the FL9 in the New Haven livery and, Conrail autoracks, nice shots across the Hudson River, awesome thanks for posting ! - Larry
God I miss those turbo-trains. True, they did have more than their share of mechanical problems, but when they ran, they were a smooth, quiet, comfortable, and fast ride.
No, I think the last FL9 I saw was in 1998. I moved out of the area. It was in that simplified blue and silver paint scheme which matched the new P32s.
Wonderful video. Recalls a couple of things. NYS spent a gazillion dollars on clearance work to induce GM to build a new vehicle(forgot the name) there. GM eventually pulled out, closed the plant and NYS was the loser in the deal. The SPV-2000 was supposed to be Budd's new version of the reliable (and still running in some places) RDC. The SPV-2000 was apparently as reliable as a Yugo car and was ditched by the railroads that bought them. I remember seeing a lineup of SPV-2000s on a storage track (waiting to go to the scrappers) at Harmon decades ago.
Thanks for watching and commenting. I did not know NYS got burnt on the GM deal. They definitely got burnt on the Turbo rebuild program (which is a shame). On the SPV thing, I wonder why they didn't gut the engines and run those as coaches. Certainly they could have had a long life span as coaches, perhaps it wasn't economically feasible to do so.
@@1990sRailfan The Danbury Railway Museum still has an SPV-2000. As for autoracks on the Hudson, over 50 years ago, there was a commercial for Plymouth that used a rewrite of "Sunday Will Never Be the Same," by Spanky and Our Gang as the jingle, and had footage of the newest (1969 or 1970) Plymouth models on Penn Central locomotives and autoracks along the vicinity of the Bear Mountain Bridge. The trouble is, I don't really think the Lower Hudson Valley was Mopar territory.
The Oldsmobile Silhouette was being produced in Tarrytown back then. It's because of GM that the lower Hudson division has those high arch bridges in Dobbs ferry and Hastings.
When I lived in Cold Spring, we used to walk to Garrison along the RR tracks. It was pretty cool!
Nice! Wow! Shot on the day and year I was born!!!!!!
That's cool!
Beautiful snowy scenery, loved the catches of the FL9 in the New Haven livery and, Conrail autoracks, nice shots across the Hudson River, awesome thanks for posting !
- Larry
I loved those cab units, a classic. Thanks for watching Larry.
This is my old line when I lived in Wappingers falls and i loved seeing the auto rack train that was so nice
Glad you enjoyed it Eric, thanks for watching.
1990s Railfan have u ever ridden on the Amtrak's turboliners
God I miss those turbo-trains. True, they did have more than their share of mechanical problems, but when they ran, they were a smooth, quiet, comfortable, and fast ride.
Nice the 2019 off all the fl9's have you seen her lately. Nice SPV2000 running
No, I think the last FL9 I saw was in 1998. I moved out of the area. It was in that simplified blue and silver paint scheme which matched the new P32s.
RMNE did amazing job fixing her up. it even went to North carolina museum for one of there events
Was that event the "streamliners at Spencer"? that was awesome!
yes it was
Wonderful video. Recalls a couple of things. NYS spent a gazillion dollars on clearance work to induce GM to build a new vehicle(forgot the name) there. GM eventually pulled out, closed the plant and NYS was the loser in the deal. The SPV-2000 was supposed to be Budd's new version of the reliable (and still running in some places) RDC. The SPV-2000 was apparently as reliable as a Yugo car and was ditched by the railroads that bought them. I remember seeing a lineup of SPV-2000s on a storage track (waiting to go to the scrappers) at Harmon decades ago.
Thanks for watching and commenting. I did not know NYS got burnt on the GM deal. They definitely got burnt on the Turbo rebuild program (which is a shame). On the SPV thing, I wonder why they didn't gut the engines and run those as coaches. Certainly they could have had a long life span as coaches, perhaps it wasn't economically feasible to do so.
@@1990sRailfan The Danbury Railway Museum still has an SPV-2000. As for autoracks on the Hudson, over 50 years ago, there was a commercial for Plymouth that used a rewrite of "Sunday Will Never Be the Same," by Spanky and Our Gang as the jingle, and had footage of the newest (1969 or 1970) Plymouth models on Penn Central locomotives and autoracks along the vicinity of the Bear Mountain Bridge. The trouble is, I don't really think the Lower Hudson Valley was Mopar territory.
@@DTD110865 I've watched that video several times, I think it opens with the shot over the Rondout Creek bridge in Kingston.
The Oldsmobile Silhouette was being produced in Tarrytown back then. It's because of GM that the lower Hudson division has those high arch bridges in Dobbs ferry and Hastings.
My birthday was today(I was born on the 13th
Happy Birthday! Were you around then?
1990s Railfan no I was around in 2006
First and cool video
Thanks for watching!
Congrats! And thanks for watching...it isn't too hard to be first on my videos...;-)
+1990s Railfan lol tru dat keep up the good work