1990: Year In Trains - Northern Indiana
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- This is mostly Milford Jct. Some other locations include South Bend, Lydick, Fort Wayne, Walkerton, Claypool (one grab shot of N&W 1218), & Nappanee. March 1990 was when CSX unveiled the YN2 (CSX-bc) scheme, which became the standard for CSX for over a decade. November 11, 1990 was the day that Amtrak switched the Broadway Limited (# 40/41) from the Pennsy to the B&O route across Indiana & Ohio. The footage from January to March was filmed with a Sony BMC-110 BetaMovie Camcorder and from then on was with a Panasonic OmniMovie VHS Camcorder.
Thanks for watching!
~ Zeke
00:00 Milford Jct. - January 7, 1990: EB CSX 2602, SB CR ELIN with 3 SD50s, EB CSX empty coal train with CSX 5564 in fresh CSX-y paint
03:46 South Bend - Arnold St. - January 11, 1990: windy day, Conrail, GTW, & Amtrak # 49 (266/345)
08:52 Milford Jct. - January 21, 1990: WB CSX 8248, WB CSX light power
10:33 Lydick - Quince Rd. - January 22, 1990: WB CR & CSS&SB
11:51 Milford Jct. - February 4, 1990: EB CSX takes the south track. Camera battery died
12:48 Milford Jct. - February 11, 1990: WB CSX 8703 - nice K5LA, WB CSX 383 (CSX 6641), WB CSX 8219 coke hoppers
16:24 Milford Jct. - March 4, 1990: EB CSX
17:08 Nappanee - March 11, 1990: WB CSX with 2 SD60s in CSX-g paint
17:45 Milford Jct. - March 11, 1990: EB CSX 384 (CSX 5575 - B30-7)
19:02 Milford Jct. - April 1, 1990: NB CR ENS (CR 6793), CSX U680 east (CSX 8162), CSX 7568 west, CSX J828 west (CSX 6679) with setoffs, CSX 4358 (ex-B&O GP35) setoff
28:25 Walkerton - April 13, 1990: WB CSX 6236 & CSX 4120 (ex-B&O GP30), EB CSX WEPX (CSX 6571)
31:25 Milford Jct. - May 6, 1990: WB CSX 5501 - slow
33:20 Milford Jct. - May 27, 1990: EB Curtis Turn (CSX 2165)
34:20 Milford Jct. - June 13, 1990: WB CSX 5917
35:20 Milford Jct. - June 17, 1990: EB NRE 6414 (ex-BN)/CSX 2123 light engines, WB CSX 2048 (Operation Red Block paint)
37:19 Milford Jct. - June 24, 1990: NB CR ENS (CR 6798), WB CSX 6358 (ex-SCL)
39:10 Gravelton - June 28, 1990: WB CSX 5722 fast with 168.8 detector
39:57 Milford Jct. - July 5, 1990: NB CR INEL (CR 5062), EB CSX 2597, coal hoppers, short train
41:40 Claypool July 7, 1990: N&W 1218 eastbound, NRHS Chicago Chapter excursion - Chicago - Fort Wayne round trip).
42:15 Milford Jct. - August 5, 1990: WB CSX 7580, CSX 6080 with setoff work,
46:53 Fort Wayne - Winters Rd. - September 2, 1990: NB NS 7084 welded rail, SB NS 2877
49:48 Milford Jct. - September 9, 1990: EB CSX 6791 (ex-WRA), engineer Dave waves.
51:08 Nappanee - September 30, 1990: WB CSX 4226 light power with S2 horn, WB CSX 6142 local
53:25 Milford Jct. - November 4, 1990: WB CSX 6157
55:14 Milford Jct. - November 16, 1990: EB CSX R138 (CSX 6146), Amtrak # 41 (323/277), EB CSX (ATSF 8078 Kodachrome), WB CSX 6080
01:02:12 Walkerton - November 18, 1990: WB CSX 8429 with SUPERB K5LA, EB CSX 3210 (U23B), Amtrak # 41 (266/390)
01:08:25 Milford Jct. - December 2, 1990: EB CSX R138 (CSX 6095), Amtrak # 41 fast (no engine numbers noted on this train), WB CSX 6080
01:11:41 Milford Jct. - December 14, 1990: EB CSX R138 (CSX 6124), Amtrak # 41 with mixed P5a - I think this was most likely AMTK 273 leading but is unconfirmed, engineer Phil calls the signals, WB CSX with GP30 leading with S2 horn.
01:15:30 Walkerton - December 16, 1990: EB CSX 8075 short train empty coal hoppers, WB CSX 6618, EB CSX 5558 with fouled K5LA - Auta a dopravní prostředky
My screen frosted over just watching this.
386 on the Dec 2nd clip, 357 leading on the last!!, Back when the Broadway was a high priority mail train , Chief being the other.
You’re right about 8429’s K5LA. Absolutely amazing tuning! Fantastic compilation!
I will never get tired of the Broadway Limited with the mixed cast P5A. That is such a good clip with some of the best distant audio I have ever heard.
Back when you could run an engine and be the engineer you were trained to be!
Man I miss these days.
i love seeing all the fallen flag rail cars on these trains. Chessie colors. Wonderful
Such a great collection as always. Also that RS5T Doppler at 20:44 was absolutely perfect
Edit: Watched further and also heard that beautiful K5H at 42:22
Appreciate it! Yeah, it does not seem too long ago (at least to me) that K5H's were everywhere.
@@wmuzeke I probably heard a lot of them when I was a kid, just didn't quite pay attention to different horns back then. I'm about 90% sure I remember hearing one some evening in 2004 that sounded exactly like the one I timestamped, on what might've been an NS B32-8. I just remember it sounding particularly eerie
I'm lost for words.....Seeing this line in the pre Conrail merger days and before the line being re-double tracked for the massive traffic increase after the fact. Wish I could have seen this in it's classic B&O signaled form. How many trains ran along this stretch of the B&O back then before the Conrail merger?
The R138 pig trains and Amtrak 41 seem to be pretty on spot meeting east of Milford Jct at the same spot back most days from your footage it seems. Something you won't see much of these days on any railroad.
Great footage! Really enjoyed finding and seeing this! Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for chiming in. R138 was one of CSX's top priority trains back then so it was mostly in the same spot, same time each day. It was probably more on-time than #41. As far as the pre-merger traffic, in the mid-1980s during the Chessie years, the B&O was dead - maybe 8 trains per day. It picked up a few more trains when Soo Line added 2 trains to the line in 1986 and then 3-4 more trains were added when CSX abandoned the C&O of Indiana through Peru. Around the time of this video, I'd say there were maybe 15 trains per day. When CSX got the RF&P more traffic was added. In the few years before the merger, it was pretty busy - so busy that I can remember around 1995 or so there was nearly always a meet happening at Milford Jct. I have videos on the B&O main dating back to 1986 on here where you can see the Soo Line trains I mentioned, the ex-C&O trains, etc. Thanks again for the comments!
Of interest, during this time CSX would be leasing 16 newly rebuilt locomotives from Morrison Knudsen letter MPI during their power shrotage in early to mid 1990. Along with 50 Santa Fe C30-7'S on lease from General Electric.
Holy cow. Amazing video!
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When I saw those first two CSX moves that you had there at Milford Jct. I thought, hmmm, those look familiar. I checked my slides and sure enough, I caught those trains myself a bit further down the line at Garrett. That B30-7 with the yellow-nose paint was the first engine I caught in that new paint scheme.
Same here with the B30-7. Nice you were out on the same day. I'd like to see those shots of yours.
Nice Video! And also, What is CSX 301 K5LA? On 17:21 what type is it? It sounds beautiful.
It's a K5LAR24. In that example you are hearing it just a few months old, too.
Cool stuff as usual!
Thank you!
42:49 CSX 7580 is notable for colliding with a school bus in Tennga, Georgia (on the GA-TN border) in March of 2000, killing 3 children.
Second! If that's even a thing 😁 Trains are cool
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