• OLD!!! Dewitt Yard action

  • Discussion relating to the NYC and subsidiaries, up to 1968. Visit the NYCS Historical Society for more information.
Discussion relating to the NYC and subsidiaries, up to 1968. Visit the NYCS Historical Society for more information.

Moderator: Otto Vondrak

  by BR&P
 
A link to some silent, B&W movie action at Dewitt in the 1930's. The cars coming over the humps, complete with riders, are fantastic! Overall quality is about what you'd expect from that era, and one sequence is backwards making the loco "inhale" the smoke, but overall.....wow!

http://www.cnyhistory.org/video/video.h ... 44DE92D64D