I'm looking to find footage of Pennsylvania railroad steam in the 1940s and '50s, possibly with live or at least authentic PRR audio. Anyone have some recommendations for a video that may have what I'm asking for?
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@GameBreaker64 posted:I'm looking to find footage of Pennsylvania railroad steam in the 1940s and '50s, possibly with live or at least authentic PRR audio. Anyone have some recommendations for a video that may have what I'm asking for?
Herron Rail Videos, to start with.
Yep, Herron put out some good footage, Mark 1 video also. The T-1 trust on youtube put up this teaser of a Mark 1 video showing footage of horseshoe curve with sound..lotsa Pennsy action 
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Also try YouTube, just looked now and found one i had not seen.
Tom
@Penn-Pacific posted:Yep, Herron put out some good footage, Mark 1 video also. The T-1 trust on youtube put up this teaser of a Mark 1 video showing footage of horseshoe curve with sound..lotsa Pennsy action
mark 1 video definitely has good footage, although a lot of the audio is not from the PRR
@GameBreaker64 posted:mark 1 video definitely has good footage, although a lot of the audio is not from the PRR
Why would you make such an off-handed statement without knowledge of exactly how the late Mark Balkin and the late Jim Boyd edited and mixed those Mark I videos? I knew both men very well, for many many years, and they tried to produce those steam videos as accurately as possible.
That "Off the beaten track" video showed so many places around where I once lived...Shamokin, Sunbury, Mt. Carmel...Can't say I enjoyed my brief stay there, and the Central PA area is an absolute shadow of what it must have been during the days of the Pennsy trains running through there. But those locomotives sure looked majestic!
@Hot Water posted:Why would you make such an off-handed statement without knowledge of exactly how the late Mark Balkin and the late Jim Boyd edited and mixed those Mark I videos? I knew both men very well, for many many years, and they tried to produce those steam videos as accurately as possible.
A lot of the audio comes from their other productions. There's definitely PRR stuff in there, but that's mainly from 1361. There's also audio from UP 3985 and CN 3254 in there. It's odd but they did a very good job of syncing the audio correctly! They do make great videos!
@GameBreaker64 posted:A lot of the audio comes from their other productions. There's definitely PRR stuff in there, but that's mainly from 1361. There's also audio from UP 3985
Just my opinion but, I find it interesting that you can "pick out" sounds from UP 3985. I guess your ears are a LOT better than mine, and I spent some 17 years as a contract Fireman for UP, on both 844 and 3985.
and CN 3254 in there. It's odd but they did a very good job of syncing the audio correctly! They do make great videos!
@Hot Water posted:Why would you make such an off-handed statement without knowledge of exactly how the late Mark Balkin and the late Jim Boyd edited and mixed those Mark I videos? I knew both men very well, for many many years, and they tried to produce those steam videos as accurately as possible.
Anyone with eyes and a brain can tell they aren't accurate sounds... no doppler effect, not sync'd to the drivers rotational rate... plus I've seen other videos with the same sounds. Ironic all the double header scenes have both engines in sync?? Don't think so.
@GameBreaker64 posted:mark 1 video definitely has good footage, although a lot of the audio is not from the PRR
Well, sound quality was not a big thing with home movies in those days, so many of those had to be remastered. I've found several vids that have the pennsy sound recording and just a still picture slide show accompaniment, like this one, for example;
