The Rivals - B&M vs B&A vs CV
Vložit
- čas přidán 21. 08. 2024
- "The Rivals" is a look at the waning days of the Boston & Maine Railroad and its competition with the east-west former Boston & Albany route vs it Fitchburg mainline and also the battle between it's north-south Connecticut River Route vs the (now former) Central Vermont Railway. Nearly all of the footage differs from that previously used in the B&M Fitchburg and Conn River videos that were released earlier.
This original VHS tape version of "The Rivals" is being presented here as a preview to the now in production remake version which will appear sometime on DVD. Subscribe to these releases and when the final products are produced you'll be amoung the first to find out!
Also visit the NMRO Products page for more material. See it at:
www.nmro.org/pr...
Beautiful, got the sound back, this is one of my favorite videos, thanks for sharing !
GE once was the largest employer in Berkshire county. GE has long left Pittsfield and New England area for overseas. Even the once robust paper mills have closed. There is now little industry left in the area so there is a economic depression. The region now solely relies on tourism, retail and the service industry. GE may have moved its headquarters to Boston from CT, but it has little manufacturing left in Massachusetts and New England. CSX now runs through Pittsfield but they no longer stop there to drop off cars. Norfolk Southern and Pan Am now control the nothern route and seem to be putting pressure on CSX but they are still hamstrung from the low overhead through Hoosiac tunnel and the bridges after it.
In my opinion, this is definitely the greatest railroad video ever made.
I enjoyed the video greatly. The narration was informative and added to the visuals.
I never really thought of the CV, B&A/ Conrail/CSX, B&M/ Guilford as rivals. They always seemed geographically isolated in away to me. The B&M and B&A never really had a presence in CT/ VT like the CV did and the CV never really had a presence in NY, ME, NH. I guess they competed for traffic at times but the CV was never the RR that the B&M or B&A was. Although it has always been one of my Favorite New England RR's.
MSK47 The point of the rivalries was not as a whole but east-west against each other and then north-south. While the B&A/B&M traffic to Boston rivalry is quite obvious, that between the CV and the B&M was a bit more obscure but did involve traffic coming from Canada and going to the B&A or New Haven.In truth, the battle for the Connecticut River Route still goes on today!
9:25 the GP15-1 was online, this would be unheard of on CSX
Enjoyed this very much.....great story. But something seems to be missing from the run-by scenes. Oh...now I know.....the cars looked quite unusual with their sides not being all marred and vandalized by graffiti . Somehow ,in the present age, spray-paint vandalism is just accepted as normal. How did we get to this point ?
How did we get to any number of things that are present in our society today.
Recorded with a digital camera of a VHS tape off a computer screen. Amazing, somewhat.
Another great video of times gone by! One question, who is the narrator? Is that you Scott?
That CN boxcar sure took a rough hit LOL!
Yes, it did!!!
awesome footage and documentary.. I love this part of the country..though not a fan of G at all..still I love Railroading..and I love New England..that trumps..Guilford.. Tom
Guilford no longer exists. They are now Pan Am.
it is kind of interesting to see the Pan Am logo on a train..lol
So, what you're saying now is that you have more chins than a Chinese phone book?
Flat pulling freight.helpers three of them pulling four of them as movement of fright maine
Great video!
liked the B&M DPU at 39.09
Have you done any other New England Railroads?
What happened to the sound/narration
CZcams happened to it. The sound is there during editing and is not there during normal play. I am attempting to correct it and if that fails I'll have to upload the whole thing again.
Hmmm... I had black hair and only one chin then.
where can I buy this?
At present you can't. It has never been redeveloped for DVD sales.