Penn Central in Eastern Ohio and Around Pittsburgh From the Cab (1971)

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View from the cab from Uhrichsville to Conway Yard via Yellow Creek and Rochester, then we move to a yard I don't know (I suspect Pitcarin) with what looks like a high-and-wide move and take it back west via the Port Perry Branch and Mon Line back to the Panhandle (at least I think...I recognize the Panhandle bridge and Duquesne incline, but not the single track tunnel or the crossing with the watchman).
This was taken by Paul Geiger during a time of furlough as a tower operator when he briefly entered train service (as a fireman), took his camera along, and did not care if everyone knew he was a railfan.

[@artillerest43rdva7]

what a great piece of railroad history! it is so sad that so much of that is gone!
thank you for sharing those great cab movies! it brings back so many memories!

[@elsdp-4560]

Thank you for sharing.👍

[@davidsharp3110]

Another awesome video from Penn Central. I was 9 in 1971 and started watching trains in Cleveland on the Water Level Route and then on the Cleveland Pittsburgh Line in 1974. It's cool to see Mingo Junction and Yellow Creek. Thanks!!!

[@Commysumngtus]

In 1971 (I was 11) used to go with my dad to the Penn Central team track to unload boxcars at Livernois hump yard in Detroit. Watched locomotives push cars over hump. A switch crew let me up on a switcher during they're break, gave me a doughnut and let me go forward and backward then said break over got to go kid. Great memories. Hump and bowl gone, intermodal yard now.

[@AdamKlimchock]

The yard is definitely Pitcairn. You can see the Mosside Boulevard Bridge in the background. Tremendous stuff, really enjoying these!

[@Poker2662]

So awesome, thanks for sharing this.
0:37 along Route 151 east of US250
0:56 going over Route 151
1:15 Tunnel Hill Road west of Bowerston
2:00 Amsterdam road overpass east of Jewett
2:36 Fairplay

[@MP_67_Productions]

Thank you so much, I’ve looked all over for footage of Dennison and Uhrichsville for a while now. It’s crazy to think that the CL&W actually had trains 🤣

[@WAL_DC-6B]

Interesting to see what appears to be a retired, steel mill, steam, switch locomotive that the camera man is zooming in on at 5:11 (I wonder if it was preserved somewhere). Fascinating to see the mills as they once were before either being completely demolished or at best scaled back to a shadow of what the facilities once were. Thanks for sharing!

[@ConductorSmith]

Thanks for posting this video! Always wondered what the panhandle looked like before Ohio Central days.

[@davenitsch6094]

Watched through StormySky Rail Productions, great video our friend! Thanks for sharing!

[@discodave4190]

A couple of guesses: That single-track tunnel may be the Cork Run Tunnel on the ex-PRR Panhandle route and the crossing with the watchman may be in Carnegie, PA.

[@RailroadMediaArchive]

Is that (railroad) west of where the line that bypassed Scully yard took off from the Mon Line? I think that was called Corliss?

[@discodave4190]

@@RailroadMediaArchive I'll try to explain it this way: Proceeding west on the former PRR Panhandle Line, a train would pass by the Monongahela & Duquesne inclines as shown in your video. Continuing further west a train would come to a junction for the line used by PRR passenger trains destined to St. St. Louis. If the train used this line, it would pass by Corliss Yard and then enter the Cork Run Tunnel. Upon exiting the tunnel, the train would pass through Crafton and then Carnegie. If that same train did not enter this line, it would pass by the junction for the OC (Ohio Connecting Bridge) to the right. Continuing further on this line, the train would turn southwest and then continue further until entering Scully Yard. Hope this clarifies things. Thank you for sharing the video.

[@woods840]

Tunnel at 9:35 is Port Perry.

[@discodave4190]

@@woods840Thank you. I wasn't sure which is why I wrote "a couple of guesses."

[@StormySkyRailProductions]

That was so cool. thanks much for sharing with us! (Dave).

[@uberlpn]

Thank You, that was fun lol!

[@isaacpangrazio4767]

Love it!! Thank you!

[@rodneykantorski736]

13:25 Too Cool! A Gauntlet Track! 😃

[@141runn]

5:28 sciotoville trussell

[@ohiovalleyrailfan]

Quick note: 4:22 is not Rockville, it's just outside Mingo Junction near Steubenville, OH. This is my local railfanning spot, so cool to see what it looked like over 50 years ago.

[@RailroadMediaArchive]

The tower name was Rockville.

[@Poker2662]

Yeah... the diamond just north of Mingo is still called Rockville today. It's correct

[@luisp5036]

4:41 Why does that SW have longer handrails?

[@GogglesPisano13]

Probably for switching hot metal cars.

[@corduerorose9747]

Another Piss Central video the railroad company that did this to themselves 😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣😈😈😈🔥🔥🔥

[@RailroadMediaArchive]

I've also heard "Pennyless" Central.