Northern Pacific Home Movies, 1959

[TrackWalker]

The first two of many short 8mm clips of the railroad I have edited out from the TrackWalker family home movies taken by my dad.

Enjoy.


http://www.flickr.com/photos/17456491@N00/5458677780/
Northern Pacific Stacy Street Yard, 1959

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWsRyrwHw00
New Northern Pacific line relocation, Green River, WA. 1959

 

[Eastern Railfan]

This is excellent! I do hope to see you post more of these.

 

[Trackside]

Glad to see a post by the Northwest's own TrackWalker! Really cool to see some video of the line change and the original West Portal! Thanks for sharing it!

 

[Steve Thompson]

Thanks for these! I grew up in an NP family and was riding trains with dad during the late 50's and early 60's. Great to see the NP the way I remember it!

Steve

 

[Ragnar]

I was born about 10 years after these films were shot, so it's sure interesting to see how things used to look.

I noticed that before the train enters Stampede Tunnel, you can see the signal for the ventilation plant. Now I'm trying to remember what the different signal aspects were for that signal.

Thanks a lot for transferring these films to digital.