Volume 1 44:52
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3nZPy1QZ-Y[/youtube]
Somebody pass the popcorn. Light butter and salt, please.
Ralph said I hadda put these here, so here they are…
Interesting videos. Fun to watch, but the statistics will make your head spin :]
Steve,
Just watched the first one. Great video.
Very nice. The info on the iron ore docks was very well done. Thanks for putting these up on the site.
tom
The second one is really interesting with the passenger and mail consists. They really liked to mix things up.
Got any of the old electrics? Y-1s, Z-1s or even the HUMUNGOUS W1?
Please?
tac, ig, ken the GFT & The Cascade Tunnel boys
tac & ig,
One of the hardest things to find on U-tube are films of the Great Northern Railway. I’m guessing that Mr. James Hill did not put as great an emphasis on public relations as did Mr. Harriman of the UP or their opposite number at the PENNSY.
Dunno why this is so, but it seems to be the case.
As it is, I just got lucky and stumbled upon this while searching for something else, entirely unrelated.
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If you look at page 237 in that wonderful book - ‘The Great Northern Railway’ by Chas & Dorothy Wood - you’ll see the smiling face of the grandpa of a grear friend of mine. ‘Little Mich’ is seen at the throttle controls of his Y-1 #5012 as his train ‘The Cascadian’ it heads out towards Wenatchee. I have that loco in H0, modelled by Tenshodo. My pal has a Z A+B unit, custom-painted and numbered for when his grandpa, Little Mitch, was its main engineer.
I have all of them in H0 [and a bunch of plans that will never come to anything] to build a Y-1 or two in 1/29th scale.
We have a deep love on the railroads of the PNW in our house, GN and SP&S both.
tac, ig, ken the GFT & The Cascde Tunneller Boys
Tks’s Steve… One heck of a find… I’ve seen a lot of the Northern R.R. from the 50ths… Sure brings back memory. I must of had three cups of coffee and munchies watching them.
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tac Foley said:
Got any of the old electrics? Y-1s, Z-1s or even the HUMUNGOUS W1?
Please?
tac, ig, ken the GFT & The Cascade Tunnel boys
tac, your wish is my command. See Volume II beginning at 38:50 to the end. Rare film of the Y-1, Z-1 and the W-1. It even shows #5011, which was rebuilt with F-3 cabs, front and rear, after a wreck along the Wenatchee River, sometime in the late 40’s, I believe.
Here’s another GN video. This one is a safety film from the transition era…
Nice video’s for a non NYC Railroad…
Thanks, Jon. It even opens with footage from Wenatchee, WA, my home town.
Here is 12 year old “Sarah’s” video project for National History Day.
Old stills with narration. She knows her history.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phiTK_rSEDc[/youtube]
She doesn’t now how to pronounce Wenatchee, though.
She even has G Gauge trains as props.
Steve she did a great job on the video. i learned a bit of ‘New’ today. Thank you
I don’t have enough beer in the fridge for this right now!
The 61 mile long Great Northern Mansfield Branch began at the Columbia River near Rock Island, which is east of Appleyard in Wenatchee, WA, and ran up Moses Coulee to Mansfield, WA. Along the way, it interchanged with the Waterville Ry Co, which connected at Douglas, WA. As you can see from these stills, it is very rugged country, at least as far as the Watervill Plateau. It served the grain elevators along the way. The route was abandoned in 1985, but still makes a great hike. Some of the photos show the abandoned right of way/Rail Trail.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jkJqPr9Qk0[/youtube]
Simple map of the Mansfield Branch.
The Waterville Ry Co was built in 1910, using GN labor and equipment, and operated by the Waterville Ry Co. It was the shortest Common carrier in the US, at 4.7 miles from end to end.
Here is a great blog about the Mansfield Branch.
To say that I am excited to find this information is an understatement.
Neat finds… tk"s.
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