At about the 21 minute mark is the 1971 Snow Train to N. Conway. I was on that trip. The '72 Snow Train had the Geeps on the head end. I'd forgotten how SHARP that curve behind the IGA in Rochester was. The steps between the Budd Cars would just about ride up over one another! Great stuff here!
At 5min mark I see #1567 gp7, that was leased by morristown & erie for 2months in summer 1974 when their loco’s were down I love that old battered paint job=nostalgic..much better than the blue they added after this.
1:10:31 to 1:13:13 shows the move of Canadian National #7470 (then under Dwight Smith’s ownership, number #47) to North Conway, NH, where in 1974, it would return to operating status at the Conway Scenic. 100 years old and still running today.
At the 1:10:51 mark of this video there is footage of steam engine # 47 of the Conway Scenic Railroad. This footage must be # 47 being taken to North Conway for the first time sometime in 1972 or 1973 because # 47 was running under his own power in August 1974 when the Conway Scenic Railroad first opened. If anyone has any info on when and where this move of steam engine # 47 occurred, I'd love to know more about it.
OMG! You got video of the Central Mass Branch! Wow there's very little footage of the branch. I've been working on a documentary of the railroad and have been looking for anything from photos to video. Would it be possible to get a copy of the piece from 40:50 to 42:00 and the piece from 1:05:08 to 1:08:28? I would love to include them in the documentary with your permission of course.
Sad seeing the North Conway depot boarded up and neglected like this.
All I could wish for is the locations identified.
Then B&M, then later Guilford …. now NS also CSX.
At about the 21 minute mark is the 1971 Snow Train to N. Conway. I was on that trip. The '72 Snow Train had the Geeps on the head end. I'd forgotten how SHARP that curve behind the IGA in Rochester was. The steps between the Budd Cars would just about ride up over one another! Great stuff here!
Are you frickin kidding me? These are classic movies. Just blew me away. Thank you for share! P.j.Carpiteria Ca.
At about 18.38, there's a yellow piggy lifter, lifting a trailer off a flat car. Is this a B&M piggy machine?
At 23 minutes is Greenville, NH. May, 1971. I was on that trip also.
Amazing archival video. Thanks.
1:05:00 ride along on the Central Mass starting in Wayland all the way to North Station.
At 5min mark I see #1567 gp7, that was leased by morristown & erie for 2months in summer 1974 when their loco’s were down I love that old battered paint job=nostalgic..much better than the blue they added after this.
I didn't mind the blue, especially after shithole guilford, st pan am garbage ...
1:10:31 to 1:13:13 shows the move of Canadian National #7470 (then under Dwight Smith’s ownership, number #47) to North Conway, NH, where in 1974, it would return to operating status at the Conway Scenic. 100 years old and still running today.
Beautiful to see, thank you!
At the 1:10:51 mark of this video there is footage of steam engine # 47 of the Conway Scenic Railroad. This footage must be # 47 being taken to North Conway for the first time sometime in 1972 or 1973 because # 47 was running under his own power in August 1974 when the Conway Scenic Railroad first opened. If anyone has any info on when and where this move of steam engine # 47 occurred, I'd love to know more about it.
Awesome catch!!!
Yes, this is indeed the move of #47 from Rigby Yard in Portland, ME, to the Conway Scenic Railroad, in North Conway, NH.
Art Purchase I took the movies in late 1971.
Awesome footage! Thanks for sharing!
Sequences at Biddeford, Me. at 3:04
Thanks!,, Great Stuff!
this is Art Purchase there are movies I took between 1969 & 1983
Hi Arthur! Excellent stuff in here. I never realized you were shooting movies that early. How are you doing? Where are you living these days?
@@Kendallian132 living in Illinois for about 30 years . the Csrr 7470 is from 1971 .I hepled on weekend at Rigby yard .
Ahh the days when I started railfanning in the late 60s, when Switchers shitched !! Lol and Locals had Geeps and SW's not SD40's !!! : D
OMG! You got video of the Central Mass Branch! Wow there's very little footage of the branch. I've been working on a documentary of the railroad and have been looking for anything from photos to video. Would it be possible to get a copy of the piece from 40:50 to 42:00 and the piece from 1:05:08 to 1:08:28? I would love to include them in the documentary with your permission of course.
I could send you a copy of the dvd..
that would be great, just email me what i would need to do to get the dvd, my email is rezukejohn@gmail.com.
email sent!
Very cool!
Whatever became of Arthur? He used to live over in Medford just outside of Magoun Sq.