Susquehanna Today! NYSW (1984)

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Run 8 Videos LONG out of production VHS "Susquehanna Today" that was filmed between 1982 to 1984. Some of this footage was recycled into Mark1 Videos "Susquehanna Spectacular" that was released in 1988 that is readily available. Also shown is "From Mud to Yellowjackets" which I believe was a company film for investors for the Sparta Mountain rebuild.

[@harrychest4303]

This video brings back so many memories. After the Morris County Central left in 1980, these tracks sat dormant. I used to ride my bike along the old rails, at the junction with the Jersey Central
Along the reservoir.
Now I live in Upstate NY, and the NYSW is 300 feet from
My house. I see 2 trains per day.
Great video

[@henryostman5740]

Back in the '40s, I rode the SuzieQ regularly as a passenger, mostly on their ACF motorcars, got my taste of the smell of diesel oil from riding these, still own three diesel cars myself. As I remember you could hear the engineer shifting gears in the ACF cars as it wized from Hoboken to Hackensack where my grandmother lived, I would pay good money to ride that trip once again for the memories. The suzie was established to bring PA hard coal to the NY market and that all dried up in the late forties when everything switched to oil, most of the railroads that did this are now history, I'm glad that the suzie has found a new purpose and can continue, sure wish they'd bring passenger service back on the old Erie to the wester tier of NY and from Scranton to NYC.

[@mrbrown3462]

Wish this project was going on today miss sawing ties. We sawed a lot of the ties for this project here in NY it was fun back then running the mill.

[@danhoyland142]

Boy, do I not miss my times as a grunt track laborer. Seeing all those cross ties on the side of the rails brought back bad feelings and self doubt lol. Seriously though, that it hard hard work.

[@henryostman5740]

bet you still have back pains from this, just be glad they didn't use cement ties back in the day!

[@ArcadiaJunctionModelTrains]

Wow and what a magnificent railroad it was to become. Loved this.

[@donaldrodgers8389]

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[@georgestreicher252]

Cool. As a youth in the sixties, I'd enlarge pennies on the track in Warwick. There are many tracks throughout the country that can be rehabilitated. It would be beneficial to run RDC's for passengers on these tracks.

[@stevenvgs]

37:41 This is probably the only known video footage of the old High Mountain Road Railroad Crossing at Crystal Lake in Franklin Lakes, NJ. There was a train station across the road to the right of the tracks until it was torn down in the 1960's I believe. Where the station and crossing used to be is now underneath an offramp on State Route 208 that goes onto Interstate 287. While everything to the left is now also gone and is now part of Interstate 287.

[@BurritoFarmer46]

Interesting to see how track rehab methods have changed. Especially the snipping or severing of the ties in place prior to removal. Today they just get removed in one piece instead of three. And they no longer furrow where the new tie goes in. They just jam the new one in pushing the dirt aside.

[@Emdpwr645]

amazing how clean and "untagged" rolling stock was back then! Thanks for sharing.

[@ESPN7554Railfan]

Really cool video !

[@plnl77]

The rehab of the Southern Div west end was in the summer of '86 first Stacks in Oct '86.

[@matthewposthumus3885]

Yes, and as stated in the description "from mud to yellow jackets" a company film was also added. That was shot in 1986.

[@RHJ3]

Thanks for the video, I really enjoyed it. Seeing the tracks get rebuilt in the 80s was cool. I photographed the NYS&W GP18 in the late 1990s that was leading some of the ballast trains. How time flies. Greetings from Rochester NY.

[@patricknoveski6409]

So cool

[@wilber53]

Got me in this..

[@matthewposthumus3885]

Where at?

[@wilber53]

@@matthewposthumus3885 Climbing on the FJ&G unit..

[@wavesnbikes]

Would there be a reason today to rebuild the Susie-Q from Sparta Junction to Slateford Junction/Delaware Water Gap?

[@ericposey3782]

What to their container business and this line that they rehabbed?

[@cbalducc]

Has the track been upgraded even more since this was filmed?

[@Davidlabar4]

It’s all 156 lb CWR rail now. At least most of what I can see.

[@cbalducc]

Do any of those old Alcoa survive?

[@billjoang]

50:18 yikes. Looked highly unsafe

[@jamescompton1042]

Whatever happened to the steam engine they had back in the 90s

[@matthewposthumus3885]

It's owned and operated by the nysw tech society out of Phillipsburg, NJ on the former PRR beldel branch

[@matthewvogel3071]

52:13 before I-287