Conrail's Kaleidoscope Years is a new series covering the first few years of operations featuring a wide variety of motive power color schemes inherited from the former Anthracite Roads, as well as leased foreign power. The random colorful lash-ups made for an interesting and exciting time on the former northeast railroads.
The first volume focuses on the former railroads that operated out of the Lehigh Valley to Pittston, Easton and Reading areas, including Delaware & Hudson trains, and the former Pennsy territory from Princeton to Horseshoe Curve in western PA, during June of 1976 to April of 1977
Narrated with commentary by Mike Bednar
Color and sound; approximately 62 minutes runtime
The first volume focuses on the former railroads that operated out of the Lehigh Valley to Pittston, Easton and Reading areas, including Delaware & Hudson trains, and the former Pennsy territory from Princeton to Horseshoe Curve in western PA, during June of 1976 to April of 1977
Narrated with commentary by Mike Bednar
Color and sound; approximately 62 minutes runtime
Customer Reviews
- 4 of 5
A nice tribute to the predecessor railroads that lead up to Conrail. Nice footage of all of them, but particularly nice was the great shots of LV, EL, D&H. It seemed that virtually all of the freights shown, had a nice combination of power and paint schemes. I was happy to see ample footage from the Horseshoe Curve/Benny areas, with lot's of PC power. Considering the age, the film-quality and clarity was good.
Additional comments:
Narration: Just enough.
Image quality: Good.
Value: Fair.
Recommend? Yes.
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