CSX, The Early Years, Part II. Never knew what you would see. Filmed September & October 1988
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- This is some video that I took of the newly formed CSXT. It was a time that you never new what paint scheme you would see when a train passes. All this video was taken on the ex-B&O Keystone sub, now the CSX Pittsburgh sub. I sure hope you enjoy, and if it works out well with viewership, may add more clips taken in other months.
Hope you enjoy this clip of the "CSX Early Years. September & October 1988"
Thanks for watching. Please be sure to check out my many other video clips from the 1970's up to today.
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I was born after this time period. Although as a younger rail enthusiast I find it cool to see raw footage of railroading from years back. It’s all so different. Don’t ever really see 4 axle locomotives anymore and those liveries are priceless. Also no GEVOs anywhere in those times. But times goes on. All will be replaced and forgotten but thankfully we have folks like yourself who filmed this great moments. Hope you got more in store. I’ll definitely be tuning back in.
I find it amusing that people call these renumbered ex chessie engines,,,,,,,,,chessie. they are not chessie.
chessie had over 400 GP40s alone. add all those GP7,9,30,35,38s and about all you ever saw was 4 axle.
chessie was class and very friendly,,except some former C&O yards.
C&O was a bit different with SD18s,and all those U-boats.
The vast majority of my chessie paint photos are pre CSX.
After CSX I slowed down rail photography.
What really made chessie photographing a treat is when you would run into WM power,,especially the F units.
I even photoed 7173 and 7163(WM F7s) on one of the last ever freight runs for WM F units,,they were heading to baltimore for the nrhs convention(late august1979) which held a farewell to the WM Fs fan trip starring these 2 engines. all those WM F units were awesome.
Back in the day when the engineer would give you a friendly toot instead of calling the NSA!
You can thank railfans like Millenium Force for the attitude change. More and more railroaders are tired of the 5% of railfans who spend their time criticizing and second guessing those of us who spend our lives out here moving freight.
@@cdavid8139 I agree about Millennium Force. Stopped watching him a long time ago. See him sometimes on Jawtooth channel. He's a clown.
My grandfather worked for the Reading Railroad when they had steam and diesel. Those were great trains. Loved hearing the train whistle, especially in the night. We were not too far from the track.
@C David- Watch Distant Signal (Danny Harmon). He's from the same neck of the woods as MF, but is a true professional.
@@richardgerlach5156 Love that website. You can learn a lot from him, too.
It's amazing no graffiti on those trains, it was only 30 years ago, our country has changed.
Thanks for sharing with us what CSX looked like from back in the days. I never got to see it myself but always wanted to.
Back when most trains weren't led by a CSX GEVO.
For sure Jessica. I don't go out much anymore, cause I'm tired of seeing the same stuff for years. Thanks for watching...
@@1jackdk Always enjoy your videos of a bygone era in rail history when it was a more unique time.
Yall say that now but in 20 years today's stuff will be classic
Great video by the way!!
So true Jessica :/ It's GEVO's everywhere now...........where you know what you'll always see sadly :(
Old school, lots of 4 axle power back then. I lived along C&O’s River division in ‘88 and saw the “rainbow parade” quite often. Nice touch with the B&O geep 30s. Good stuff Jack, keep ‘em coming.
I don’t know why I’m so fascinated by these vintage train clips, but I just am. I wasn’t alive when this was filmed, so it’s super cool to see all these trains from 30+ years ago. I’m not even a hardcore railfan, but your channel is becoming one of my favorites.
Ahh the Chessie system! My family got a black cat when I was a little boy (the cat is still alive today) and we named him Chester with his nick name Chessie because I liked the Chessie units and had some H.O. Scale models.
Thats a good choice. I know several guys that had named their cats Chessie. Thanks for watching...
I remember the chessie system when I was a kid. Still love the colors. Crazy seeing how many units they used to use
I still can't believe how you were able to film all this years ago. It's really amazing.
Sometimes it wasn't easy Trainmaster. But now I sure am glad I did. Thanks for watching...
Mergers are sad in a way because you know fallen flags are going away, but the early transition years are very interesting. Even some B&O and C&O units in their pre-Chessie system paint. Also, love the piggyback and autorack trains.
The best footage I have ever seen. this is how I remember trains when I was a kid
Nice to see so many Geeps Great 👍🏻 to see the classics!🚂🚂🙏🏼Thanks
Great video Jack. I know there's a lot of EMD fans out there, but you gotta love that U36B clucking along at about 5:50 into the video.
I like that Seaboard System. Don't see them anymore. 😭
Great video! For those of you confused about the location like I was, this is not in Laurel Run, PA (near Wilkes-Barre) on the former CNJ (present day Reading & Northern). Lauren Run, the creek, is just above Frank Lloyd Wright's Falling Water in Mill Run, PA. Great place to visit!
Friendly, yes. I was about 13 in 83 and we were vacationing in Manistee. There was some switching going on in the yard by Solbergs warf. They were humping. Didn't know that's what it was called back then, but it was cool watching the hoppers rolling by themselves. One of them came up to me to talk and said they would be back the following Monday and would give me a ride if I was there. Unfortunately we were leaving Sunday. Being from Lansing, I saw Conrail and GT all the time. The C&O tracks were on the wrong end of town and I never got to see Chessie. Lived watching these guys that week and my favorite was the dark blue, old C&O they used up there. That was before they removed the tracks that followed US 10. And many of the current rails to trails in northern Michigan. Thanks for the video.
Fantastic. It was great to see all the Chessie locomotives.
I loved CSX back in the early '90s when I started railfanning, loved all the pre-CSX power and rolling stock. It seems that their pre-CSX rolling stock in their original paint and reporting marks are fading away fast. I don't see a lot of that anymore.
I saw the Rock in operation, albeit not much.
summer 1978. E8s at south chicago. 4-4axle u-boats leaving burr oak heading west. C415s,GP7s U28Bs,F7 and E7 at burr oak yard.
but i have boxes and boxes of slides of chessie from mid70s-CSX.
Great video!😉
Thanks B&ORR. Glad you enjoyed it. Some more neat pure Chessie stuff coming up today. Hope you enjoy, and thanks for watching...
I work on the railroad and one of my machinists brothers worked for the B and O railroad. He had about 40years of railroad time.
mr.r mr.r
A family friend worked for the Boston & Maine. In the 50’s. When the trains ran by my back yard.
These are awesome! Thank you for sharing your collection with us. My grandfather was a Engineer out of Cumberland and it's great to see the equipment he ran
Thanks Heavy! There will be a new one today all shot arounf 1989-1990. All on the line your grandpap ran on. Glad you enjoyed it, and thanks for watching...
@@1jackdk Awesome! Thank you again
Love the chessie system paint.
I think they where one of the best Steve, and they are missed.
Great video. The one consist with 7 or 8 there I could hear in my headphones the "schlukka schlukka" gurgling of a GE engine. Nowadays here in N.Ontario, its all GE, its rare to see an EMD on the mainline, rare like chicken teeth. My engineer friend (from Hornpayne) says the EMD's of CN get sent to the US then get stripped.
loved that Chessie paint scheme
Can't beat it with a stick Joe. Putting one up today, just pure Chessie in the CSX era. Thanks for watching...
jackmp294.5- Love those old CP signals
Miss the ol Chessie System. CSXT seems to have lost it's way to be honest. Keep posting there Jack!
Thanks, I'll probably get to editing some more stuff soon. Going to see how this one does. Might hit some Conrail stuff up from the 80's. See how that does. Thanks for watching...
@@1jackdk
you know of the site,,,
CSX-SUCKS.com?
It sucks for a very good reason, b/c it SUCKS.
(a former CSX conductor)
Great stuff!! Thanks for caring and sharing!
Thanks MrElvin. Glad you enjoyed it, and only to happy to share this classic old stuff. More coming soon. Thanks for watching...
This was a great video! Thank you for posting it!
Glad you enjoyed it, and thanks for watching...
You don't see trains like this in more amazing footage
Great video, loved to see all the different roadnames.No ditch lights to be seen.
The pre ditch light era.
Always nice to see this classic stuff :) I vaguely remember seeing this type of stuff go by me when i was younger but sadly i never was into it enough to get shots of anything and such :/ By the time i started doing so all of this was long gone unfortunately :(
Thank you for sharing!
Sure thing GLT. Thanks for watching.
Thanks for posting, CSX was way cooler back than with different types of power, and, there weren’t operating Gevos yet
Glad you enjoyed it. Probably the main reason I don't go out anymore. Everything looks the same, and all the good stuff is long gone. Thanks for watching...
and hunter harrison had yet to make his dastardly appearance.
this is awesome... i am starting to model this era CSX/Chessie and this is very helpful
chessie,,,yes, but CSX still sucks.
Always liked your old videos of these scenes 30+ years ago. There was a lot of variety in locomotive types and rolling stock, especially all of the different partially and fully enclosed autoracks on these early CSX trains. Another thing I noticed is the use of old GP30/GP35s still going strong before being rebuilt into road slugs.
old GP30-35s?
hell, I am older than them!
I would often venture west a bit and shoot my all time favorites,,,,
ex-GM&O GP30s.
ICG never renumbered these until they got the ICG repaint treatment.(though ICG had a bad habit of not washing their locos)
along with these GP30s, we would see black and white GP35s, red and white GP38s and SD40s.
once caught a train in east Stl with 4 former GMO GP30-35s. 2 ICG paint and 2 still in black and white. with the arch in the background.
talk about old, we made to Bloomington and caught 2 ex GMO F3s still running. now those were old!
Super. Excellent such a movie chronicle vomties.
Now it’s the same boring crap on CSX lines. I don’t even waste my time going out anymore. Nice old videos, thanks for sharing.
It'll be better if they have some heritage color schemes on some of the engines, but no, they just slap a sticker on it and called it a day, smh.
Same it's hardly worth going out. Only things worth seeing are some old heritage railcars sometimes.
That it is Engine201. I feel the same way you do. I have all this camera equipment, and don't even use it. Just get bored with today's railroading. Thanks for watching...
Though I havent checked recently, I heard CSX's stock was going down. CSX is not doing to good..
I think it depends on where you're rail fanning. The Water Level Route always has something interesting passing through. Never a dull moment.
It's always hard choosing what time period I'd go back to if I had the chance, but this era would be one of them. So much variety in those days
I was only a wee lil tike during this time but i remember when I used to see lots ofconrail and n&w units around where i live. Riding up and down the east coast with my dad, who is a truck driver, I remember being around Chesapeake va and seeing Chessie engines everywhere. And when we went to Erwin TN to visit his friends I remember watching coal trains all day long, and no wide bodies at all. Just sd40s mostly. These videos make me miss childhood for sure, and if I wasn't so vested in the equipment I have, I definitely would try to model something like this
I was lucky to ride the last ever clinchfield, elkhorn to spartanburg fan trip.
behind the 1 spot 4-6-0 and F units.
In Erwin deadline was the last grey painted F unit awaiting its final trip. no CRR locos were painted Family lines yet,,,,but on property were some new "CRR" GP38-2s in FL paint.
every train(coal) we passed had CRR power. they say Erwin is now a RR ghost town and parts of the CRR is embargoed.
@@jeffreymcfadden9403 I remember last time I was there, in 93' ish, the main part of town was an old yard and I remember old relic, rusted equipment sitting in random spots. There was a pretty busy main yard on the outskirts of town near the high school, and a decent size storage yard behind Nuclear Fuel Services, or it may have been the far end of the main yard. Not sure.
I figured by now it was pretty desolate, and barely used, if at all. I never knew where all those coal trains were coming from, or where they were going. I always loved going there, and remember even as a pre teen how beautiful and quaint of a town Erwin was.
Since I wanted to be an engineer my whole life, there was a time that I considered trying to get on with CSX, attempt to finagle my way to that region. Glad I didn't. I ended up hiring with NS right here at home in 2002. I have a conductor that catches my route once in a while, whos father in law works for CSX somewhere in TN. He said that he has been with them since 2002, been a licensed engineer for 9 years, but now barely stands for the conductors extra board.
Excellent video Jack!!!
Thanks Jeff. Glad you enjoyed it, and thanks for watching...
Your welcome!!!
Good video buy it makes me feel old lol
Thats for sure T S! LOL. Makes us all feel old, and it only feels like yesterday that I took them. Thanks for watching.
Great video!
Thank you CH. Glad you enjoyed it, and thanks for watching...
Great video with trains before the GEVO virus!
Enjoy it? Try loved it! Great video!
Thanks. Glad you enjoyed it, and thanks for watching...
Those B&O's look great.
Gotta love thos old B&O's. Sure do miss that old stuff. Everything looks the same no a days. Thanks for watching...
I just started posting my videos from the early to late 90's and it's crazy to see all that has changed.
Lots of changes Chad. Keep posting the old stuff. Nothing like it.
It does make you wonder how different things will be 20 years from now though
Another great video, Jack! Boy do I miss the trains from back then. Thanks for the memories.
Thanks. Glad you enjoyed it. Might be some more coming this week. Thanks for watching...
Not a single wide cab in sight.
Pretty much looks the same here on the West Shore line now . GP38's SW1500's mixed in the consist. Lol
The GP40 was their engine, no doubt. It packed a punch, at 3000hp.
Kind of like amtrak in the beginning with the rainbow trains.
Man I love Geeps. Wish they were still common mainline power.
Yah! Me to! Hard to believe that four axle power was the choice of Class 1 railroads. Hard to find them anywhere anymore. Thanks for watching...
Do you see any chessie or seaboard engines anymore?
Sorry to say Steve, the Chessie and Seaboard units are nothing but a memory now.
When EMD ruled the rails.
that's when they still had men in all the engines, right?
Yah it was Patricia. But by this time, the guy, and the cabooses where go. Sorry to say. Miss those years. Thanks for watching...
Hey Jack Remember me??
I DO!!! How yah been?
Where were you for 10 months?
LOL. I know! I have been getting pretty lazy. LOL. I guess its time to dig back into the archives. LOL. Thanks for watching...
@@1jackdk Ok.
The only thing frustrating about this video is and this is with pretty much every train video please show the freight cars locomotives are great but they are only part of the train
I get a graft report on my TH-cam viewership for each clip that I post, if I show the entire train, which I like myself, BTW, viewership drops off sharply. So I try to keep it shorter, and to the point. Back years ago, before everything got covered with graffiti, was the good time to show the whole train. Thanks for your input, and I do understand what your saying. Thanks for watching.