http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zdbnqMg0JI&mode=related
I knew that Southern mixed “piggyback” cars with passenger cars on their trains. But this movie shows the new “Big Johns” mixed with them. Including a run thru sleeper car behind one of the “Big Johns”. Oh, those must have been the “REAL GOOD OLE DAYS”, the year I was born.
Grainy video and shaky camera…that was great. A step back in time. It was really neat to see those kids get excited when the train approached.
Thanks.
ed
Great vid!!! I loved the part with the mail crane at work.
I am very critical of my own photographs, try as I might, cant do what the good photographers do. There is always something wrong. But, when looking at that Southern video, with all of the flaws…no one would say it is a TECHNICALLY great video…I see a wonderful snippet of life in an era gone by.
Lesson learned from it is save the shots that dont look great, in 30 years those same shots might be special.
ed
I must be missing something here. I watched the video several times, and I’ve seen it before. I see a Souther Railroad locomotive, some head end cars, and some silver sided passenger cars. Where are the big Johns?
The only one I noticed was in the “middle” of a passenger train.
The “Big Johns” are the covered hopper cars on the end of one of the trains, NOT “Big Johns” (restrooms) in the passenger cars.
OK I see it now.[:I] I watched the first train several times.[D)]. The third or fourth train, that is at about the 1:30 mark is the one with the big john(s). I wonder if they’re just transfering a bad order car on the back of a passenger local?
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