Rarest Multiple Unit Consist I Ever Saw In My Life Back In 1993 SF, SP & BN B-Units - Video

WrawroacxOGR Forum Member

Here Is A Recording I Recorded Using My New SONY HDR-CX405 Digital Handycam HD Video Camera Camcorder of A Old VHS Tape My Dad Recorded When I Was 2 Years Old. You Can Hear My Mom Say Wow. The Yelling Is Me. And My Dad Is Filming The Video. This Is Probably The Rarest Train I Have Ever Seen In Person. Reason Why Is Because This Was Filmed Back On Wednesday October 13th, 1993 in Olmsted Falls Ohio. This Conrail Westbound Freight Is Lead By ALL ORIGINAL EMD ELECTRO MOTIVE DIVISION & GE GENERAL - SF SANTA FE BLUE BONNET SD45 #5398, SP SOUTHERN PACIFIC B38-8 DASH 8-38B, VERY RARE BN BURLINGTON NORTHERN B-UNIT B30-7AB #4098, BN BURLINGTON NORTHERN B-UNIT B30-7AB #4064 & BN BURLINGTON NORTHERN GP50 #3138. This Is Some Train Consist You Will Never Seen Again. Anyway, I've Decided I Wanted To Upload It Since Was The Rarest Train I Ever Saw In Person. It's Even More Rarer Then Today's Trains. But I Thought I Would Share. Also Note The Great Sounding Nathan 3 Chime K3L or K3LA Train Horn. Also Note The Few Blasts of The Horn And How Olmsted Falls At The Time Was Not A Quite Zone Like Today.

12/18/1610:09 PM

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falconserviceOGR Forum Member

Several Chicago & North Western 2-bay covered hoppers that most likely have been sold by UP.

There were several SOO LINE box cars which have been painted over by now.

There were a the two former Penn Central/Conrail double-plugged door box cars for KELX that have now been scrapped.

Andrew

12/18/1611:44 PM

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WrawroacxOGR Forum Member

falconservice posted:
Several Chicago & North Western 2-bay covered hoppers that most likely have been sold by UP.
There were several SOO LINE box cars which have been painted over by now.
There were a the two former Penn Central/Conrail double-plugged door box cars for KELX that have now been scrapped.
Andrew

Andrew, yes though's were on this train. Amazing how railroads can just scrap a piece of history. I have to say this in the video below -

12/19/167:23 AM

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Rusty TraqueOGR Forum Member

wrawroacx posted:
falconservice posted:
Several Chicago & North Western 2-bay covered hoppers that most likely have been sold by UP.
There were several SOO LINE box cars which have been painted over by now.
There were a the two former Penn Central/Conrail double-plugged door box cars for KELX that have now been scrapped.
Andrew
Andrew, yes though's were on this train. Amazing how railroads can just scrap a piece of history.

Are we now expecting the railroads to preserve everything they ever owned?

Rusty

12/19/169:45 AM

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WrawroacxOGR Forum Member

Rusty Traque posted:
wrawroacx posted:
falconservice posted:
Several Chicago & North Western 2-bay covered hoppers that most likely have been sold by UP.
There were several SOO LINE box cars which have been painted over by now.
There were a the two former Penn Central/Conrail double-plugged door box cars for KELX that have now been scrapped.
Andrew
Andrew, yes though's were on this train. Amazing how railroads can just scrap a piece of history.

Are we now expecting the railroads to preserve everything they ever owned?
Rusty

No, I know they won't do that. But on a note, I just seen a freight this past Tuesday in Mentor that had this -

12/22/1610:42 PM

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illinoiscentralOGR Forum Member SUPPORTING MEMBER

Excellent! Yes, will never see that again.

There are other ways to transfer video from VHS. I have a PCI TV tuner card that has baseband inputs that you can record the baseband output of a VCR; I think its called composite video, the inputs are yellow for video, then white (left stereo), and red (right stereo).

12/23/1612:12 PM

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WrawroacxOGR Forum Member

Dennis & Mike, thank you so much. Dennis, yes my parents grew me up on trains. Especially my dad. Yes, also the graffiti on today's trains is 100% more then it was back in 93. There's a train called the UP Produce Express or Salad Shooter Bowl that travels on the CSX Erie West Sub that's Q090 & Q091 which I saw back in Jan 2015 in Perry Ohio and you can call it the graffiti express to if you want as in the video below I got. Mike, yes your right, you'll never seen that again unless at a museum. As for VHS conversion, I've thought about that, but right now I'm sticking with just placing the video camera in front of the TV and recording it the way you see it. But thank you for giving some input.