Green & Gold: The Southern FP7 (1988)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 ต.ค. 2024
- In 1988, Lasting Impressions Productions released this VHS program about Norfolk Southern's Southern FP7A locomotives in excursion service. The four FP7As featured in this video were built in 1950 by EMD and were used in passenger service until being retired in 1988 by Norfolk Southern.
The first portion of the video depicts a pair of the F units on an excursion between Birmingham, Alabama and Chattanooga, Tennessee in the Spring of 1983. Some scenes show excellent high speed action, and the videographer gets plenty of pacing video along the way as well. Also, Amtrak's Crescent is shown near Birmingham, and a Southern high-hood can be seen in the siding at Springville.
Later on, we see another pair of FP7As on an excursion between Louisville, Kentucky and Huntingburg, Indiana in the Fall of 1984. This line contains plenty of great locations, including sweeping curves, bridges, and even a tunnel! Another train meet occurs during this segment as well, this time featuring SOU 3305, an EMD SD40-2.
I've decided to post this VHS tape to my channel in an effort to preserve its historical contents. To my knowledge, Lasting Impressions is no longer around.
Sit back, relax, and enjoy some F unit action on the Southern mainline!
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The green and gold of the Southern Railway, was always majestic. Grew up in a Southern Railway family. Fantastic video.
This reminds me of when I took the train from CT to NC and back in the early 70's. The last leg was on the Southerner after Amtrak had started but before the Southern RR stopped running its own passenger trains. I had a roomette and it was a great ride both ways. I particularly remember seeing one of their passenger trains with a TOFC tacked on the end. Good times!
There is something so satisfying about watching a Southern FP7 blowing its Nathan M-5 airhorn
That lead unit is thankfully still alive and well, turning up miles for RJ Corman.
Beautiful keep the trains going so our grand children can see and listen to them
Back in the early to mid seventies the FP7’s pulled the Piedmont through Greensboro,NC. The often had piggybacks on the rear of them. My father was a SR trainman working out of Winston Salem, NC.
Despite the F unit's design nearing 100 years, to many, it still looks modern and smart! The SOU's green and white separated with a gold stripe is very appealing!
This is some circle of life stuff. Even though I’m from the west coast, I would visit my grandparents in Meridian, MS in the summers. I remember the Southern Crescent even when it ran the all black EMDs. My grandad used to take me to see the steam engine when it came to town and now I find myself reminiscing about the old EMDs. Appreciate your video! ❤
I know about the trains in these old times and I think grandpa remembers those too
Sam, you did a wonderful job on this film. As a child I rode this with my parents between TCL and CLT frequently. I’m an avid railfan now and sorely miss those F series beasts I loved so much. Again great job and thanks for the memories.
This locomotives still running today
Rode in one of those about in 1960, dad was NS conductor just happened to get passenger work that day, he called it a break from freight work didn’t happen often, you need about 50 years seniority
Sam, you really DO love trains.
Excellent. Ageless. It flows. .
The Good Ole Southern That Serves The South!
Enjoyed it!
Love the F units!! Also love the high hoods!! It's what grew up on watching go up and down.the main line from Washington to Atlanta.
I love nathan 5m horn
I wonder where the whereabouts of both FP7 locomotives and I wonder if they’re steam generator are still functional
Two went to R. J. Corman in KY; two are at Stone Mountain , GA . All repainted and still operational.
@@johnuhelski8613 very awesome news to hear that they’re all operational
Man I miss those!!!
Nice video, Sam!
😊😊Hell , Yes !
I Miss Those FP7's
What happened to these units, did they get sold off to a tourist railroad, or scrapped?
Uh oh, 3456 looks like it dropped a spark plug, around the 20:15 mark 😳
I hope you aren't serious.
By the way she was smoking, looked like a bad fuel injector (spark plug)
@@jamesstrickland631 Oh good you didn't literally mean spark plug. 👍
@@williambryant5946 LOL 😆 no. I been a Diesel Truck repair Technician for 28 years now and it's a technician joke, calling injector spark plugs.
Very COOL 😎😎 I like it when a passenger train halls ass like that, pretty cool 😎😎, you can tell it means business when it runs like that, I know that over at the NC Transportation Museum in Spencer NC, they have a couple of green Southern locomotives, but since they on museum grounds, they can't run that fast
Used to see them on freight trains in Atlanta back in the late 1970s. They were painted black back then.
I rode a similar (perhaps the same) excursion train with my then-fiancé in 1981 from Winston-Salem, NC to Asheville, NC. Good memories. Love those 567s.
The train is moving on
The Chatt to Birmingham line is relatively straight and flat with a hill outside of Irondale.....the Southern used that route for years after maintenance was done to any steamer currently in the program to test.
Man , this vid brings back the memories ! I chased these beauties all over the south back then shooting slides and driving like a maniac . One I regret NOT chasing was the run from Emory Gap to Crossville , TN . SR ran steam from Chattanooga to Emory Gap and the F Units went west . Did ANYBODY shoot this run ? I did later when SR put two GP 30' s on for this run..... GREAT VID !!!
Were these the NS F7s they used for NS OCS train or completely different F7s ?
These are FP7’s. They’re a few feet longer than the original F7’s. These are designed for passenger service. The addition space was used to house a steam generator for coach heat, and in later years and rebuilds an HEP generator. The F7’s NS used were nothing close to their original design. They more closely resembled a GP38-2 with a cowl body.
@@CPAlburtisRailfan Ah
Nice video love trains as a child.i watch the train go down the rail at night you could hear them when I was growing up.but no.no more trains to watch its sad that they are gone
I was there shooting slides with 3 other friends - it was Awesome!!!!
I know you were shooting this run and I am STILL waiting for the slides to arrive in my mailbox , David !! Happy New Year , Bro'
The last shot is nearly 2 minutes of continuous footage of the same train. Not bad. Anyone know where that shot was taken?
Nice video!