Home Movies: Hudson River Streamliner (1985)
1985 · Ephemeral film · 13 min
Synopsis
Record of a railway excursion in 1985 organized by the Tri-State Railway Historical Society, Inc., in cooperation with New Jersey Transit and Conrail. Leaves Newark and goes over Hell Gate Bridge; views of Queens and Manhattan in background. Many POVs shot out of train window. Tour of Conrail's Selkirk Diesel Terminal in Selkirk, New York Conrail diesel engine runby for fans with cameras (good shot of fans shooting passing train).
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- Running time
- 13 minutes
- Collection
- Prelinger Archives
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- home movies
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★ · Reagan-era Northeast · PDGazette2 · 2016-10-20
The train-eye-view footage of the first 6 and last four minutes would be good in a music video or a film set in the mid-80's. The sky is generally overcast, and there's a light mist around some of the bridges they pass. The latter part of the film shows a large graveyard. Middle section is for train fans only.
★★★ · Don't leave the permitted area please. · Spuzz · 2020-06-28
Interesting trip that documents (I guess) a train loving group across New Jersey to a Conrail facility to ooh and ahh over their train displays. Curiously, lots and lots of yellow tape around. Not looking for a lawsuit I imagine. The beginning of this film is really amateurish, shooting from a distance OVER some people and THROUGH a window on a train, that doesn't really quite work lol. What was going on on your side? He figures it out on the way back though.