Trains of the West in the 1970s Part 2

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• RA

  @RailroadMediaArchive · 2 years ago (edited) · pinned

  Here are the known locations. Corrections and other IDs welcome.<br><br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWWAsPRthv8">0:00</a> - Stockton, California area <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWWAsPRthv8&amp;t=92">1:32</a> - Gibbon Jct., Nebraska (OK, not the west, but it was the next thing on the reel) <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWWAsPRthv8&amp;t=124">2:04</a> - I think is Dale Jct., Wyoming. <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWWAsPRthv8&amp;t=330">5:30</a> - Along the UP Overland in Wyoming and Utah. <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWWAsPRthv8&amp;t=660">11:00</a> - Elko, Nevada <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWWAsPRthv8&amp;t=717">11:57</a> - Reno, Nevada <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWWAsPRthv8&amp;t=880">14:40</a> - not sure <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWWAsPRthv8&amp;t=919">15:19</a> - Elvas Tower, Sacramento <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWWAsPRthv8&amp;t=1000">16:40</a> - Williams Loop and Keddie Wye <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWWAsPRthv8&amp;t=1278">21:18</a> - Roseville Yard, Sacramento and Stockton Tower <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWWAsPRthv8&amp;t=1647">27:27</a> - San Francisco <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWWAsPRthv8&amp;t=1697">28:17</a> - Tehachapi area <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWWAsPRthv8&amp;t=1894">31:34</a> - LAUPT <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWWAsPRthv8&amp;t=1943">32:23</a> - Colton Tower <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWWAsPRthv8&amp;t=2037">33:57</a> - Barstow and Yermo <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWWAsPRthv8&amp;t=2381">39:41</a> - Somewhere in the Mojave Desert. <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWWAsPRthv8&amp;t=2452">40:52</a> - Topok &amp; Kingman Canyon <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWWAsPRthv8&amp;t=2573">42:53</a> - Along Route 66 east of Kingman <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWWAsPRthv8&amp;t=2630">43:50</a> - Flagstaff <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWWAsPRthv8&amp;t=2646">44:06</a> - Sunshine (between Flagstaff and Winslow) <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWWAsPRthv8&amp;t=2690">44:50</a> - Belen, New Mexico <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWWAsPRthv8&amp;t=2807">46:47</a> - East Tower, Amarillo, Texas

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• IG

  @IGuessIDoThings · 1 year ago (edited)

  Watching these clips with the calm serene music fells like living in your nostalgia. But your older now, so you don’t wish for those memories to be your current life, instead you now understand they are in the past and that is how you appreciate them.

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• JA

  @jake531ful · 1 month ago

  I started my career in 1974 in New York looking at this and looking at the freight cars with the railroad names I remember coming into the yard where I worked brings back a lot of memories.

• DA

  @David-nl1zt · 2 years ago

  Wow, I can&apos; not even tell you how much emotion the scene in Reno brought up for me. I went to high school in Reno, graduated in 1987, and would train watch all the time. My entire family is gone now, and I miss my dad, mom and brothers. Just watching these amazing images from the past are priceless. Thank you for sharing this video.

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• 2U

  @2unknown · 2 years ago

  Wow! Very nostalgic footage. &nbsp;The music was the perfect touch too. &nbsp;Being born in the late 80s, trains didn&apos;t become a thing for me until the 90s, and by then the ruggedness of the railroads were already transitioning into what we have today. &nbsp;Something about the brute force of man, machines, and the vast undeveloped land they traveled through. &nbsp;What a era to witness and to see what it has become today.

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• NW

  @NWFProductions · 2 years ago

  I think its times like watching this video I best remember why I go railfanning and exploring history, the thought that what is the norm today will be extinct in my lifetime.

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• NI

  @nicktynan1355 · 2 years ago

  Mood music to go along with fond memories of that which is no more.

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• DA

  @danielwalton9012 · 2 years ago

  Farewell Charley!

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• TO

  @tommythomason6187 · 2 years ago

  My favorite railroad channel - because it has the most videos like this.

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• TI

  @timlabell · 2 years ago

  The great old days. I&apos;m 67 . I remember when. 😊

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• NA

  @NavyVet2243 · 2 years ago

  Love the fact there&apos;s hardly any tagging and things look good🎉

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• CH

  @chiconian49 · 2 years ago

  Most enjoyable. I remember some of these places.

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