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- In March 1990 I spent a weekend with some friends on Conrail's lines around Clearfield, PA. The first segment is a chase of an empty PEPCO coal train southeast out of Clearfield through Phillipsburg to Osceola Mills, followed by a brief sequence of a PP&L coal train loading at the Kinport Mine. The second segment is a run on the Snow Shoe Industrial to the refractory plant at Clarence, PA. The air horn on the 8049 is a WABCO E2B1 chime horn which is very rare, and I am told most likely came from a PRR GP9. At the time of the video this line was on borrowed time, last run was in 1993. This stretch of track is now a recreational trail. The third segment is along the Cherry Tree Secondary heading towards Clearfield. Our chase was interrupted when the train got a knuckle near Curwensville.
I had no idea any video of Conrail activity on the Snow Shoe Industrial line existed on the internet. As somebody who has spent his entire twenty-one year existence thus far growing up and living in the Snow Shoe area, well after the railroad was long gone, this is really, really cool.
thank you soooooo much for sharing this video my Grandfather was shown in it several time aboard train 8049 he retired from Conrail man I loved when he'd take me on the train. soooo proud of my Grandad ♡
i grew up in and around osceola mills and philipsburg pa. loved this video it took my back to when i was growing up around here.
Awesome footage of the train loading at the power tipple in Osceola. This footage is golden
A very nice video! Absolutely love those classic EMD consists, especially the loaded coal trains! Very cool also to see how empty coal hoppers are loaded with coal! Very educational! And, also, long live the Conrail blue!
Moms side of family all grew up in clearfield, dads currwensville. Dad grew up in front of the train tracks and watched the ol conrail shuttle coal back and forth every day. Sure wish i was there to see it all. Too bad conrails a goner. All run by ns and corman now. Awesome vid. Ive seen as much of cr as i possibly can thru the years.
All Corman on the line Clearfield Cluster. I live in Clearfield and love seeing old photos n videos of the CR era. Sad the Industrial line is gone.
This is pure gold! I live in Tyrone and only wish that the segment to Osceola Mills had been intact and active in my lifetime. I believe it was removed by PC in 1975.
Correct
That's me riding on the engine at 10:22, 10:47, and 13:25.
“Branch Line Empires” by Michael Bezilla tells the whole rr story of the Clearfield Phillipsburg area.
Wonderful video!
Great video. I'll watch as many as you have.
Gotta love the old days,i wish i was a railfann back in those days,never see the good old stuff now days.
The whole video is great! Love the sound especially from 17min on until the end. My last name is Trump. Our family was large and scattered but anyone in the Clearfield county area with that last name is related to me.
They closed the old Snow Shoe rr bridge to forwheelers and atv. Said they were afraid bears were jumping off. So now you have to find a way around the bridge. I wish RJ Corman would reopen that rail line. Be pretty cool to see trains going on it when you cross I-80 West.
Love this stuff. All nice to see but really like the pacing shot towards the end
As a michigan Railfan this is some great footage!
By the time conrail was done here there was only one line left in Clearfield
when those snow shoe to Clarence rails taken out, I live a few minutes from the old halls market and wish they put the rails back in and run trains again
Agreed seems like they wasted more money taking them out then just leaving the things alone other than to make paths for ATV which they destroy or want you pay yo ride on anyway. Things sure have changed a lot in 20 years around here. Peal is also gone now, epa came in and leveled everything.
1995 they were pulled up
A excellent video. I just went through this area about 5 days ago.
Love how he stopped for the dogs lol
Not Houtzdale or Madera that line was done in around 77
What mine did the coal train in the last segment load at? Also, was there truly only one more run on the snow shoe industrial after this video?
Mr. Interesting question 1...I don't remember.. question 2.....yes
The Wabco E2B1 is probably my favorite horn, or very close to it.
Not this line but when I was a kid. Contrails had aline from Philipstown pa through new Bethlehem to Brookville it was a low grade I geuss.. 200+ cars 3 times a day..most days.. we lived in right beside the tracks with ft 28 between us ..lol load at 2 am
.. awys where did these trains go after Brookville? I have no idea..
Great video. Wish conrail was still around
awesome video
Great video & I think the engineer said send him a copy of the video
Awesome video ... great railroading, Any word on them putting the track back in to viaduct for the garbage dump? Any possibility this may still happen?
Very unlikely. Resource Recovery, LLC, the company that wanted to put in the landfill, was all but chased out of town by local opposition. They still own the land that they wanted to use for the landfill, but the landfill project itself has been dead for nearly ten years.
do you know what the siding at 8:45 was for?
Mr. Interesting A runaround or passing track. Switches at both ends.
OK thanks. Also, were there ever any other rail customers on the snow shoe industrial besides the refractory plant? Or was the refractory plant the only reason for the track?
Mr. Interesting during the PRR years there was coal traffic with several mines in the area. By the time Conrail took over the refractory plant was the only customer left.
OK thanks, I was just wondering because I found the name "Conrail Winburne industrial track" mentioned somewhere and was wondering if there was brach line to a customer in Winburne or if that was just the name of the section of track that passes Winburne
I'm pretty sure I've heard similar sounding "ferry horns" on Guilford in years past.
Was this the line that went through Houtzdale and Madera?
Yes
So the snow shoe line literally only saw one train every few years?
@@Pgh412aviation no, service was once a week up until the end serving the last remaining customer.
@ how come it went from 1990-1993 with no trains?
@Pgh412aviation 1990 was the last service to the customer at Clarence who stopped shipping by rail. The line was officially abandoned in 1990. Any further rail operations (I assume you have some evidence of this given your citing of a 1993 date) were probably associated with track removal.
@ according to a family friend who’s camp is right across the creek from the line, last run was in 1993. Only thing he could recall was that it was a single CR unit
It does say in the description as well that the last run was 1993
What did eh say at 7:44?
No idea.
Believe he says "the action begins"
Would you know of anyone who could I could get more information from on the history of the conrail clearfield cluster?
Mr. Interesting try the Conrail Historical Society
Ok thanks, I am trying to figure out which lines were abandoned when. I am most interested as to when the snow shoe cluster lines, like the snow shoe industrial, were abandoned.
Mr. Interesting STB abandonment filings would be a place to start
Do you know how I could access those?
wheres the location at 8:30?
8:54 I LOVE. I rode my bike up to the bridge from Winburne area .
10:00 the bridge is still standing.
10:37 i dont recognize
08:30 is at PA 144 Sycamore Rd facing towards Snow Shoe.
10:37 is the north end of the wye at Munson. The underpass shown is Casanova Rd.
I shoud be called the story of 1 lone engine
What year was this?
As stated in the description, 1990.
Formerly PRR or NYC?
@@KenMeluso some of each
@@fmnut Thank you.
That horn sounds like a truck horn.
I LOVE THOSE OLD HORNS FROM THE PASS NOT THESE SO CALL HORNS WE HAVE TODAY NOW THAT'S WHAT YOU CALL A TRAIN HORN
i live in osceola mills PA
Wow
Ns An CSX won't stop me at buying locamotives of Conrail CRS RR under McCarty RR Baron yardleyville has the rights of a duel track an good track lines we need if we're to make a come back
Stallion has 4100 locamotives an CSX is in debt for the 4 tier system an I'm a part of granite RR an looking for the Eastern sea board right an the back money owed
conrail... an abandonment story of all the towns that were reliant upon the railroad .. what a joke it was
You clearly have no clue about how anything works
McCarty rail road valued at three hundred million after paid for yardleyville pa yard for CRS RR we've ninety day to a quite title as home base of operations under resturcting reorganize over head of taxes two million a year on McCarty RR yardleyville RR an we haul for fourteen cent a mile
I agree to the merger as C®SA as Conrail route shared assets RR as call letters. And we've a fight to stand for as coalition look at tracks of yardleyville first thing An what it going cost us to be a railyard an we go to FRA on yardleyville under grant of three Percent federal grant , yardleyville paid off 30,000,000 on lien of property first lien of new title two million in rail track as two mile railtrack or yardleyville yard your part as shared assets if merger go thought