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Title: Youtube videos UP switching Tribune Freedom Center
Post by: haggar on March 07, 2021, 12:43:18 PM

Added some more videos taken 12/08/09. UPY 707 switching Freedom Center.

https://youtu.be/0Oie_gb81TE

https://youtu.be/vMEuOAQ84yo

https://youtu.be/1J3A_WSNjL4

https://youtu.be/h4ZRUqEUhvY

Joe

Title: Re: Youtube videos UP switching Tribune Freedom Center
Post by: TBurke on March 08, 2021, 07:53:17 AM

Quote from: haggar on March 07, 2021, 12:43:18 PM

Added some more videos taken 12/08/09. UPY 707 switching Freedom Center.

https://youtu.be/0Oie_gb81TE

https://youtu.be/vMEuOAQ84yo

https://youtu.be/1J3A_WSNjL4

https://youtu.be/h4ZRUqEUhvY

Nice capture. Back in the days when they still had a healthy amount of business as shown by all of the boxcars. Lou Gerard posted a picture a few days ago of a UP crew with just one boxcar for the Tribune...

Joe

Title: Re: Youtube videos UP switching Tribune Freedom Center
Post by: Ethan on March 08, 2021, 12:11:32 PM

Cool to see all those newsprint boxcars. My other modeling interest in the Central Vermont circa 1980 and they had tons of those 50' newsprint boxcars running north and south through New England, perhaps picking up newsprint destined to the Tribune!

Best,
Ethan

Title: Re: Youtube videos UP switching Tribune Freedom Center
Post by: TribuneFreightFanatic on March 08, 2021, 09:51:17 PM

Fantastic footage! I miss photographing all those 50' newsprint boxcars. Thank you for documenting and sharing this.