Vintage Photos from 1975 of the Mobtour Railroad

NICE PICTURES AND GOOD TO SEE ONE OF THE SMALLER ROAD NAMES FEATURED

Great Pics!! Nice layout! I used to chase them on my motorcycle. In later years, the tracks were so bad they would have lots of derails. They were part of the P&LE but it all went sour in the '90's   Mike CT loves the bike trail now!! You can find great history of The Montour and the coal mines on the internet. 

Love your work, the detail is incredible. 

Great looking photos.  The cornfield shot with the scarecrow is particularly good.

In later years, the tracks were so bad they would have lots of derails.

I attended a presentation by someone who was a Montour employee in those later years.  He said that nearly all trains at that time had triple-headed SW's.  The reason was so that when one of them derailed, the other two had enough power to drag it back onto the rails.  If one of a doubleheader derailed, the other unit might not be able to rerail its partner.  He had great color slides of numerous derailments.

Is that a General Models diesel? Don

And nice work by the way. 

I thought they were real until I got to the one with 3 rails. 

Nice.  Very nice.