Vintage Cab Units is a collection of films gathered over the years from various sources. We begin with some pre-Amtrak footage around Washington, D.C, and Richmond, Virginia. This is mostly passenger trains including B&O, RF&P, ACL, SAL, and a couple of GG1's. We then ride a C&O excursion from Cincinnati to Huntington with a pair of F-units, likely in the 1960's also. After a couple of scenes in Cincinnati, we head for Chicago and a variety of railroads and mostly passenger trains, with E-units, and F-units mostly, including N&W, B&O, PRR, NYC, CNW, Burlington, Santa Fe, and more.
Our next segment is footage around Chicago by different sources, and includes the Upper Mid-West segment to Minnesota, including Illinois and Wisconsin. We see a lot of nice Burlington including the Shovel-Nose E-units, and other power, including Fairbanks-Morse, Milwaukee Road Hiawatha's, Burlington Zephyrs, and much more. Some of this is shot in 1947. We also see Northern Pacific, Great Northern, and |
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