Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 17 hours ago
See Selkirk Yard like no other video: You're in the Hump Tower, Shops & Dispatching Center. You'll see the yard and engine servicing, and trains entering and leaving the yard and on the River Line - 88 trains! We even jump in an airplane! CSX control Selkirk now, we visited in the last years of Conrail.
*No AI was used to bring this show to you.* Read about our AI Policy and how we get videos ready for YouTube at: Pentrex.com/AI
*About Pentrex:* For over 40 years we've been the leader in railroad video entertainment. See us at Pentrex.com and right here on YouTube, with the Official Pentrex Channel!
Pentrex also owns these railroad video entertainment brands: Highball Productions, Green Frog, Valhalla Video, Donner Rails, WB Video, Main Line Motion Pictures, Broken Knuckle Video, Midwest Video and distribute Revelation Video. You will see shows from all the brands on our channel.
*About Broken Knuckle Video Productions:* Railfan and Videographer Ken Buckman decided he needed a way to promote and share his love of all things railroad - the result is BKVP. Over the span of several decades, BKVP grew from a hobby into documentaries cataloging historic transitions, regionals, shortlines, and major mainlines - such as Conrail, the Guilford Rail System, and busy corridors like the Mohawk Subdivision - all this just before merger mania permanently altered the railroad landscape.
*About this show:* We visit the largest classification yard in the Northeast as well as the lines that lead to it. The title is "Exploring Selkirk" and we will certainly do that! With the cooperation of Conrail this show takes you inside the Hump Tower, Maintenance Shops and the Dispatching Center. We'll see the yard in action and engine serving facilities too.
A complete look at any yard includes the traffic coming into and out of the yard. We'll see 88 trains! They're arriving, waiting, departing and on the River Line too. Plus,. we board a plane and see the yard and area lines from the air! This show is packed with action and information.
* Buy this on DVD* Get better quality and a permanent addition to your collection with the DVD:
pentrex.com/DVD-Exploring-Selkirk-DVD_BKSEL-DVD
0:00 Conrail's Selkirk Yard, from the air
3:01 Ground level train action: Arriving and departing
10:31 Cascade Green BN unit lead an arrival from Chicago
15:57 4:00am, and the trains keep coming
18:54 Three CN units lead SECN, Selkirk to Montreal
23:06 Yard congestion leaves trains waiting
27:09 A snow mainline
29:21 Voorheesville, NY
34:24 New Scotland, NY
37:05 CP "FB" , west end of the yard
43:02 Conrail Hump Yard and "slug"
52:14 Engine servicing facilities, open 24 hours
55:55 Inside the Dispatching Center
57:11 A snowy hump yard, from the tower
58:35 The view from inside the Hump Tower
1:02:11 Maintenance Shops
1:03:47 Back in the Hump Tower
1:05:41 TVLA on the inbound lead
1:06:47 Viewing the mid-yard area
1:09:42 Continuous yard action
1:17:50 CP "SK"
1:24:54 Conrail's River Line
1:27:38 CSX foreshadowing
1:32:30 Ravena, NY
1:39:00 Alfred H. Smith Bridge
1:44:04 Back in the air
1:50:35 State Line Tunnel
1:55:15 CP "RJ", Rotterdam Jct
1:59:05 TV-14, Chicago to Boston
See Selkirk Yard like no other video: You're in the Hump Tower, Shops & Dispatching Center. You'll see the yard and engine servicing, and trains entering and leaving the yard and on the River Line - 88 trains! We even jump in an airplane! CSX control Selkirk now, we visited in the last years of Conrail.
*No AI was used to bring this show to you.* Read about our AI Policy and how we get videos ready for YouTube at: Pentrex.com/AI
*About Pentrex:* For over 40 years we've been the leader in railroad video entertainment. See us at Pentrex.com and right here on YouTube, with the Official Pentrex Channel!
Pentrex also owns these railroad video entertainment brands: Highball Productions, Green Frog, Valhalla Video, Donner Rails, WB Video, Main Line Motion Pictures, Broken Knuckle Video, Midwest Video and distribute Revelation Video. You will see shows from all the brands on our channel.
*About Broken Knuckle Video Productions:* Railfan and Videographer Ken Buckman decided he needed a way to promote and share his love of all things railroad - the result is BKVP. Over the span of several decades, BKVP grew from a hobby into documentaries cataloging historic transitions, regionals, shortlines, and major mainlines - such as Conrail, the Guilford Rail System, and busy corridors like the Mohawk Subdivision - all this just before merger mania permanently altered the railroad landscape.
*About this show:* We visit the largest classification yard in the Northeast as well as the lines that lead to it. The title is "Exploring Selkirk" and we will certainly do that! With the cooperation of Conrail this show takes you inside the Hump Tower, Maintenance Shops and the Dispatching Center. We'll see the yard in action and engine serving facilities too.
A complete look at any yard includes the traffic coming into and out of the yard. We'll see 88 trains! They're arriving, waiting, departing and on the River Line too. Plus,. we board a plane and see the yard and area lines from the air! This show is packed with action and information.
* Buy this on DVD* Get better quality and a permanent addition to your collection with the DVD:
pentrex.com/DVD-Exploring-Selkirk-DVD_BKSEL-DVD
0:00 Conrail's Selkirk Yard, from the air
3:01 Ground level train action: Arriving and departing
10:31 Cascade Green BN unit lead an arrival from Chicago
15:57 4:00am, and the trains keep coming
18:54 Three CN units lead SECN, Selkirk to Montreal
23:06 Yard congestion leaves trains waiting
27:09 A snow mainline
29:21 Voorheesville, NY
34:24 New Scotland, NY
37:05 CP "FB" , west end of the yard
43:02 Conrail Hump Yard and "slug"
52:14 Engine servicing facilities, open 24 hours
55:55 Inside the Dispatching Center
57:11 A snowy hump yard, from the tower
58:35 The view from inside the Hump Tower
1:02:11 Maintenance Shops
1:03:47 Back in the Hump Tower
1:05:41 TVLA on the inbound lead
1:06:47 Viewing the mid-yard area
1:09:42 Continuous yard action
1:17:50 CP "SK"
1:24:54 Conrail's River Line
1:27:38 CSX foreshadowing
1:32:30 Ravena, NY
1:39:00 Alfred H. Smith Bridge
1:44:04 Back in the air
1:50:35 State Line Tunnel
1:55:15 CP "RJ", Rotterdam Jct
1:59:05 TV-14, Chicago to Boston
