 Pennsy Army - Navy Game Trains 1955 - 1965
A grand event with great trains.
The film footage presented here were shot by Richard T. Lane, a 20-year employee of the
Pennsylvania Railroad. Mr. Lane's work captures the spectacle of the Pennsylvania
Railroad's finest moment as it staged the transportation service for the Army-Navy Games
in Philadelphia from 1955-1965. Philadelphia's Municipal Stadium is the focal point
of our historic tour of this classic annual rite of railroading. View the action at
STADIUM, ARSENAL, WEST PHILADELPHIA ELEVATED BRANCH and GREENWICH YARD. See B&O
trains transporting Annapolis midshipmen and the PRR arriving with West Point cadets in
NYC coaches. Catch the GG-1's, MP-54's, MK-85's, and E8's with their spit and polish
shine on review, pulling all manner of heavyweight PULLMAN varnish to Budd built stainless
steel coaches. Witness the parade of pooled foreign road passenger equipment the PRR
enlisted for the game.
Mr. Lane has given the viewer factually correct, narrative detail, rendering this tape a
truly great piece of history. After retiring from the Pennsylvania Railroad, Mr.
Lane became the curator of the Trolley Museum in Kennebunkport, Maine. He continues
his interest in railroading as a member of the National and the Philadelphia Chapters of
the Pennsylvania Railroad Technical and Historic Society and a member of the National
Railway Historic Society. OPB-3 |
