Railroading in the northeast and the Guilford D&H merger full directors cut.

The full directors cut version with new added/corrected content.

YouTube user credits:
Jay Winn:
Remembering Conrail Part 5 Aug 1990
Personal Favorites Vol. 10 The D&H at Oneonta Oct 2, 1991

babyhars93:
D&H Guilford East Binghamton Yard Late 1980's

Jason Asselin:
Almost 40 Years Being Hidden Away, This Rare Baldwin RF-16 _Sharknose_ Appears!

Other credits:
Picture of Guilford SD-26

Picture of peen signals

DVD:
Vignettes of the DELAWARE AND HUDSON-2
©CLEAR BLOCK PRODUCTIONS

Jay Winn:
Remembering Conrail Part 5 Aug 1990

A couple of brief visits to Rigby Yard in 1992 & 1996 old VHS

Personal Favorites Vol. 10 The D&H at Oneonta Oct 2, 1991

MBTA Rockport

babyhars93:
D&H Guilford East Binghamton Yard Late 1980's
YouTube Credits Continued:
DHDISPR SMITH:
Guilford/B&M Bow coal UB44P and EDDH June 3, 1990

Footage by Harrison Smith North Country Trains:
WATERVILLE MAINE! Exploring the Heart of the Maine Central, Pan Am Power Galore!

skyman2002:
AAPRCO Pine Tree Limited on The Patriot Corridor, Wendell

Other Credits:
Picture NS dash 8 40bp

[wjsj]

This was very informative and more in-depth than I ever thought about the northeast RR debacles of the last half-century. Thank you!

[Clavichordist]

I saw Guilford destroy the B&M. Everything was nice with increased traffic then it all stopped after they busted unions and deferred maintenance on the mainlines outside of the MBTA commuter territory. What used to be 40 mph freight lines were reduced to 10 mph or less. Lawrence yard, located in Lawrence MA, where the brakeman was crushed by a falling freight car suffered from standing derailments. The crew showed me where they occurred because I was friendly with them and at one point, they wanted me to hire on which I declined to do. The tracks were sinking in the ground with barely rails sticking above them. In other locations, water was up to the rail tops and ties were missing.

Engines ran out of fuel or died enroute, sometimes catching fire. hey discouraged branch line operations and focused on their mainline forcing many businesses to trucks even when companies asked for freight services, they were told to suck it up and go elsewhere. Management basically didn't care. From what I heard, some came from the Penn Central and to me it appears they ran GTI the same way.

As you said, the management was the same when Pan Am Railways was formed. The only difference was the dark blue paint scheme with 20 mph being a bonus on the mainlines. They ran some shuttle flights too out of Portsmouth, NH and Bedford, MA but the FAA shut that down due to poor maintenance on their airplanes. Management was running the airline just like the railroad.

Since CSX has taken over, the freight business has increased on the MEC and B&M and some maintenance has finally been done on the lines starting with the Worcester to Ayer MA section which was down to 5 and 10 mph in some sections. The word is they're going to start work on the other parts as well especially on the MEC where the tracks are in worse condition.

Out of all this, the funny part is CSX gets their Dash-8s back after they sold them to the leasing company that PAR purchased them from.

[stephaneduguay]

A lot of informations in this film, wow I'm breathless. Very very good 👍👍👍

[GreatNW]

I live on the west coast but have always been fascinated by the small eastern railroads. The look the feel of them just is so captivating to me.

[jeffreyhunt]

I really enjoy this kind of long-form content. You did a fantastic job on this video. Thank you for putting this together!!

[NELSONRRVIDS]

I love your informative videos. Great work.

[danhoyland]

I love these in depth documentaries you do especially bc you focus on the northeast railroads. Very cool stuff. Keep pumping these out.

[pfflyer]

Thanks for NOT adding unnecessary noise.

[gregmilliken]

I live in Maine, and used to work next to Guilford's former Boston & Maine Biddeford, Maine yard, most of Guilford's rolling stock looked like rolling junk piles. When Guilford took over, us Maine railfans, knowing that the Mellon Family a long time railroad owning family, had high hopes. Then we were disappointed to the nth degree.

[danseluk]

Great video, very comprehensive. Thank you.

[dhdisprsmith]

I feel I must respond to a couple comments made in your video. The D&H unions NEVER went out on strike against Guilford. The unions supported the MEC BMWE by honoring the pickets which were set up on D&H property and not crossing their lines. The next strike against Guilford was by the UTU on the B&M over safety issues, and they never set up picket lines on the D&H because at the time we had been placed in bankruptcy by Guilford.
In bankruptcy the court appointed Francis DiCello as the trustee, and the NYSW as appointed the Directed Service Carrier on the D&H property with financial support from CSX. When CSX withdrew their funding, the NYSW could not afford to continue operating the D&H property and so they also pulled out as Directed Service operator. The D&H then ceased operations and under an ICC order all traffic on line was diverted to Conrail and all future traffic was embargoed. With financial support of several big customers on the D&H such as GE, International Paper and Georgia Pacific, local service resumed by the employees under control of the Trustee. It was the Bankruptcy Court Trustee who selected CP’s bid to purchase the railroad, since CP had the greatest financial and operational plan to resume operation of the railroad.

[richardfay]

Thank you for your efforts. This was very informative for people like me, with an interest in railroading and industry.

[CarmineRC]

Can't believe I've watched 12 of your documentaries, and am only now commenting! Fantastic docs!! Especially the ALCo series.
I don't know if you remember me, I've been out of Model Railroading for almost 9 years... I have just enough money and space to bring the Pacific Belt back, in N scale!

[fernjet]

So informative. Great job!!! Loved every second of it.

[janvaneck]

It was called "Guilford Transportation" because Tim Mellon, the owner, lived in Guilford, Connecticut. He was well known as a "colorful character."

[greenstrat]

C&O/B&O didn't become Chessie System Inc. until 1973. However, the C&O had been know by its nickname "Chessie" for many decades before then.

[gregmilliken]

Great video! I wonder what would have been if New York Central and Pensy hadn't merged. I'm an alternate history nut. I suppose New Haven's Boston to New York segment of the Northeast Corridor was a consideration by the ICC.

[fficialdregs]

i enjoy this beautiful documentary with a good meal and got tea

[tommythomason]

Seems like Penn Central might have fared better if Perlman were given the leeway to run it. Having to take in the New Haven was certainly a no-win situation.

[robswan]

This was just as good as the 3 episode about pencentral from there your problem