8mm film of the Mopac 1970-73

[Charles Duckworth]

Not the best quality movie but it’s better than none at all…plus no graffiti spray paint anywhere.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8v9vkEQXzJ0

[anonymous]

That is a pretty good video. Yes, the quality is not so great, BUT there is a whole lot of interesting freight cars in there. I saw a Lehigh Valley X58. Very cool and then there was a brief glimpse of an odd (I think) cement car. It had three separate round containers all connected together. It was read and white. I have seen this car before.

Brian

[anonymous]

I’m going to watch this show several times more. I never thought I’d be sentimental about the Jenks Blue era.

All those cabooses! F-units! Alco RS’s! GP 18s with Alco trucks! Tank cars with domes! All those fallen flags! Buzz saws everywhere! Friendly crews waving! Work trains with passenger cars!

That 3 tank cement car looked like an athearn flat car with a “load”.

Trailers on flat cars, which I never thought I’d be sentimental about, are a thing of the past.

What is that grey thing that flashes by for a milli second at 3:10? Looks like a tender with portholes added.

[R. D. LaVoise]

@Patrick wrote:

What is that grey thing that flashes by for a milli second at 3:10? Looks like a tender with portholes added.

Looks to be an passenger car, perhaps a diner due to the side door, now in MOW service. May not even be Mop as there were a few clips of Frisco equipment in the film.

I’d like to know the area where this was filmed and date(s). Must have been over several years as there are full F-unit lash-ups (pre-1972?) as well as locomotives in the last Jenks blue scheme (buzzsaw Eagle) and the 1974 re-numbering. Also saw de-turbo’d GP35’s which would be later. And a quick shot of an Amtrak SDP40F.

[anonymous]

I also saw, several times, a tank car right in front of the caboose.

[Ted Ferkenhoff]

The video description says this footage was shot around Claremore (OK) which accounts for the Frisco action, and also on the southern Illinois joint line, which would be the MP-SSW Dupo-Illmo route.

The red & white 3-silo car is a Halliburton car for transporting dry bulk ingredients for oil well drilling mud.

There was and is no restriction on having tank cars next to a caboose…the restriction is if cars contain certain hazardous materials.

This is indeed great footage….kudos to the filmographer for capturing freight cars as well as locomotives.

[Webmaster]

I believe the gray car, a former passenger coach, has been converted to a weed sprayer control car. Look at the piping below the side sheets.

[Patrick Hiatte]

Brief glimpse of the last hurrah for covered wagons on the Frisco; if I remember correctly, all were gone by the time I started in ’74.

Pat Hiatte
New Bloomfield, MO

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