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Nice layout Richard. Love the red white and blue engines!

Great ops session. Thanks for sharing. Dave

great clips, fun video! :)

Thanks for subscribing. I'm checking out your channel and am very impressed. I will subscribe to keep up to date with your layout. Looks very interesting!

Thank you for sharing this. I’ve always wanted to see Gainesville in its prime

What brand is the J class made by?

Good session!

Nice video of the Operating Session, I have caught the 1:1 scale 5571 before, nice to see in HO Scale. I've seen them for sale, this is the first time I've seen one operating.

Looks like fun times!

Great video sir, A+ Nice

Nice Video, and some very nice Loco's

Ty for sharing. Do you know if they allowed eating in the other cars? Or did you have to sit in the table car to enjoy the pizza? Thanks 😊

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Nice running!

do like a good Christmas train.. I run one on my layout till the big day is over. then back into the box she goes

Cool looking layout and love the HighHood, Sub'd up for the ride! -Ken

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nice collection Richard!

When I was a small child in the 70s, we'd take those trains from Spartanburg, SC to visit friends in Atlanta, Alabama and Louisiana. I loooooved the Crescent so. I adored the restaurant car and playing cards with my mom in the club car. Those were the days!

My grandparents lived in Laurel Mississippi which the Crescent went through going North to New York in the morning and South to New Orleans in the evening. I don’t know how many Crescents we saw back in the 60s when visiting on vacation. Great times and great memories.

Love those E-8's.

Nice layout!! Where did you get the sign for the facia for the town names etc?? I like that, and need to add some good signs on my layout facia.

This is friggin’ awesome. I was born in Gainesville in 1970. In ‘77 I was regularly at the depot in Gainesville watching trains with my dad. I remember the Crescent well and the semaphore signal at the depot. The Crescent always seemed to have an Amtrak car on it. I thought that was so cool. Always wanted one for my Lionel set. The bonus of the old GM 10 SD40 is GREAT. A close personal friend of mine was an engineer for the SCL and loved operating it. Interestingly I now live near Hull.

Sorry that I couldn't make the show this month Rich. Maybe next time.

I got to ride in the 1st Gainesville, Ga Diesel , the GP-40.. My Uncle was the engineer.. He would let me blow the horn at crossings.. I had that down pat !! 2 longs, 1 short, 1 long !!! If I hadn't went in the Army, I would have been a Train Engineer.. instead, I went to the Army Corps of Engineers.. Go figure~~.. LOL..

I grew up in Gainesville, GA.. Our farm house was on the Gainesville Midland RR. I was so fortunate to get to ride the Gainesville Midland w/ my Uncles who were Engineers and Conductors back them. I was young back then.. I'm 70 now. Those were glorious days riding the train !! I'll never forget it !!

Excellent filming!

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At this time I was riding 10 speed bicycle races in New Orleans. I was the only railfan. As we went down Haynes Blvd the southern tracks were parallel. When the crescent passed several riders would let go of the bars and act like they were pulling a whistle cord. When the engineer saw us he would blow his whistle for us we would wave and continue our bicycle race.

That was interesting. The bridge (trestle) is impressive.

Sorry that I missed the actual parade when I was at the show on Saturday. Thanks for capturing it all.

Here's a 1980 version with a surprise!czcams.com/video/RWrV-tjjRiA/video.html

You'll like this one of a 1976 Southern Crescent on my layout.czcams.com/video/pDY44sjYCzU/video.html

So that's where all the Pacemaker box cars went!!!!

Enjoyed all the trains running and views of the club layout

I somehow came across this video and I remember going to this event when I was younger. And at 2:24 you can hear my dad talk about how they used to build bridges. A few seconds later you can see me with my glasses. No wonder why this layout looked so familiar

The streamliner is the total best looking train ever built. The lines are so good. From the engine to the last car on the train 🚆

what a great video!! That you for sharing !!!

It's nice to know there are still some coal-burnin' steam locomotives running around. 👉 8:08 I am NOT too thrilled with oil-burners. 😏

Is very interesting 1977 the southern ran their own passenger consists and weren't under Amtrak?

The sleeper ahead of the baggage car was likely used as a dormitory car for the crew of those long trains.

Just happened to trip over this video... At almost 80 years old I'm getting back into model railroading and it will be S gauge. Great video but we don't need all the guys talking in the background I just want to hear the trains. Great stuff, thanks for posting.

4:51 *not many people model the Florida east coast railway's 4-8-2s* nicely done

thanks for the sub….realized I was already subbed to you but not getting notifications even though the 🔔 was rung…this was a cool video of the SOU Crescents…makes me wanna model a crescent passenger train now but Crescent E’s are hard to find

Like train

Cool Train operations

Cool Railroad 👍