by njmidland
The Erie Lackawanna Dining Car Preservation Society is proud to announce that it is exclusively distributing a brand-new video from RonRail Productions. "Erie Lackawanna in the last days of the Golden Years" covers the EL system-wide during the decade of the 1960s and early 1970s. The "Golden Years" in the title refers to the years of passenger operation. Here's a brief review:
The tape is introduced and narrated by Ron Wallace, a former EL and NJT employee. The films were all shot by Ron on 8mm stock. The tape covers the line from east to west, starting off on the cross-Hudson ferries. All lines in New Jersey are covered, including some very noteworthy footage shot from and around NX Draw in Newark, the big bascule bridge on the Newark Branch that has been locked in the up position for several decades now. The trains seen are primarily passenger, but of the "pre-U34CH-and-Comet-I" era. There are quite a few Sussex Branch-bound trains seen with former Erie express cars on the rear for milk, and a great sequence of a Sussex Branch train switching out cars at the Becker Creamery at Straders. The variety of equipment is pretty neat, too. There's a sequence of a Boonton Line train at Montclair that has a DL&W heavyweight coach (!!!) as its first car. There are also a few sequences of MU trains with the rare RPO-combines (not just plain combines) at the head end!
After the NJ/NY area, there are scenes all along the line in Portland, Bangor, Scranton with some really nice action shots from the vestibule going up to Clarks Summit (you can see I-81 under construction). Then it’s on to Binghamton and west, including well-known locations such as Marion, Huntington and Chicago. A neat little segment follows the D&H Baldwin RF16 "Sharks" between Binghamton and Sayre, NY. The very last sequence of the video is the "farewell to the MU" trip run in 1984, a fitting farewell to EL passenger operations. While the majority of the video focuses on passenger operations, we do get glimpses of freight activity here and there.
As a bonus, at the end of the video is a very nice selection of Ron's still-image slides (made a bit more interesting through creative panning and zooming of the images).
At 92 minutes in length, this is one action-packed video. There will be plenty of "oohs" and "aahs" in there - something for everyone, many surprises to see.
Details about the video, as well as three brief clips from it, can be found at:
http://www.eldcps.org/store/books/lastdays.html
The video is $22.95 for ELDCPS members, $24.95 for non-members; shipping is $3.00
per video. You can order the video (VHS or DVD-R format) at:
http://www.eldcps.org/store/order.html
or by mail order to:
ELDCPS
P.O. Box 5821
Parsippany, NJ 07054
Highly recommended!
The tape is introduced and narrated by Ron Wallace, a former EL and NJT employee. The films were all shot by Ron on 8mm stock. The tape covers the line from east to west, starting off on the cross-Hudson ferries. All lines in New Jersey are covered, including some very noteworthy footage shot from and around NX Draw in Newark, the big bascule bridge on the Newark Branch that has been locked in the up position for several decades now. The trains seen are primarily passenger, but of the "pre-U34CH-and-Comet-I" era. There are quite a few Sussex Branch-bound trains seen with former Erie express cars on the rear for milk, and a great sequence of a Sussex Branch train switching out cars at the Becker Creamery at Straders. The variety of equipment is pretty neat, too. There's a sequence of a Boonton Line train at Montclair that has a DL&W heavyweight coach (!!!) as its first car. There are also a few sequences of MU trains with the rare RPO-combines (not just plain combines) at the head end!
After the NJ/NY area, there are scenes all along the line in Portland, Bangor, Scranton with some really nice action shots from the vestibule going up to Clarks Summit (you can see I-81 under construction). Then it’s on to Binghamton and west, including well-known locations such as Marion, Huntington and Chicago. A neat little segment follows the D&H Baldwin RF16 "Sharks" between Binghamton and Sayre, NY. The very last sequence of the video is the "farewell to the MU" trip run in 1984, a fitting farewell to EL passenger operations. While the majority of the video focuses on passenger operations, we do get glimpses of freight activity here and there.
As a bonus, at the end of the video is a very nice selection of Ron's still-image slides (made a bit more interesting through creative panning and zooming of the images).
At 92 minutes in length, this is one action-packed video. There will be plenty of "oohs" and "aahs" in there - something for everyone, many surprises to see.
Details about the video, as well as three brief clips from it, can be found at:
http://www.eldcps.org/store/books/lastdays.html
The video is $22.95 for ELDCPS members, $24.95 for non-members; shipping is $3.00
per video. You can order the video (VHS or DVD-R format) at:
http://www.eldcps.org/store/order.html
or by mail order to:
ELDCPS
P.O. Box 5821
Parsippany, NJ 07054
Highly recommended!
