Stumbled across this network and series channel surfing late last night.
Through a pair of slightly blurry and half-sleeping eyes I think I spotted our friend and resident EMD expert Jack aka @Hot Water in this episode on the development of the diesel locomotive.
I watched a couple episodes and they were well done.
Bob
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That channel now shows lots and lots of old History Channel programs from back when the History Channel was actually about "history", instead of "reality TV".
By the way, the man in that photo clip, above, is the late Bill Withune (sp).
@RSJB18 posted:Through a pair of slightly blurry and half-sleeping eyes I think I spotted our friend and resident EMD expert Jack aka @Hot Water in this episode on the development of the diesel locomotive.
Nah, I think that was Hot Water's much younger kid brother! I enjoyed watching such a factual, non-sensationalized presentation.
@Bob posted:Nah, I think that was Hot Water's much younger kid brother! I enjoyed watching such a factual, non-sensationalized presentation.
Yep- reminded me of the old documentaries we would sit through in school. No agenda "just the facts ma'am"
I Will have to search this out!
I can’t think of sitting through documentaries at school, but Jack is right about the History Channel.
For some reason, the discussion reminded me of the olast military training films they showed us at Penn Tech when I studied electronics in the mid ‘70s. The artwork was antiquated for the time, the acting was rather stiff, but the theory they taught was right on. We used to watch for the date at the end of the films. Transistor theory films were newer, but the rest were all dated in the ‘40s and at least one was 1939!
Watched that last night. Very informative.
Jack is the guy with the black hair and mustache wearing an EMD shirt. He has about 8-10 minutes of talking. He also talks a bit comparing horsepower for a Corvette vs a diesel.
Oops, looks like Engineer-Joe beat me to the punch.
I haven't seen this series about, but then as stated about THC not really having good programming in a while. The last good program I had seen on trains was some PBS special on running railroad(scenic tours) across the US and Canada. I believe that was two hours(and a little bit) long and pretty in depths on what these tours offered.
We don't get the Story TV network in my area. But I VHS taped several episodes of Trains Unlimited on the History Channel in the late 1990s. They were great episodes back when the History Channel was worth watching.
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