"NEW DIRECTIONS IN MODERN RAILROADING" 1966 RAILROAD INDUSTRY PROMOTIONAL FILM 87044
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- This 1966 color film highlights the return of the high use of railroads to transport goods due to new train car developments. It was backed by the Association of American Railroads was produced and directed by Robert Yarnall Richie Productions Inc. and narrated by broadcaster Chet Huntley. The video begins with footage of various angles of Hoover Dam (0:06-0:32). The poster to the grand opening of the Union Pacific Platte Valley Route is shown, and the camera pans around Joseph Pickett’s 1914-1918 Manchester Valley folk painting (0:33-1:25). A train passes through tunnels and the Utah ghost town and former railroad hub Wahsatch; the tracks and cargo containers are shown up-close (1:26-4:16). Construction equipment and workers improve tracks, and dynamite is used to clear an area (4:17-5:43). Engineers, managers, and typists receive and analyze real-time data from automated checkpoints along the track (5:53-7:00). A scanner is demonstrated identifying train cars with color-coded barcodes (7:01-8:00). Specialized freight cars and loading, including a Monsanto tanker car, are shown up-close (8:01-8:40). Lumber is forklifted into side-loading cars, workers fill a specialized car full of liquid hydrogen, materials are pumped into specialized cars, and a turbo-generator is loaded onto a specialized flat car (8:41-10:46). The business deal for the automobile rack-car train is reenacted, with the railroad Vice President speaking to a Detroit auto-manufacturer representative, presenting ideas, and engineers building models and drawing blueprints. A finished version with hundreds of cars being transported down the railroads is shown. Cars are rolled off the train and into a lot for last-mile transport (10:47-14:59). Workers and forklifts remove car chassis frames and heavy components from high-capacity box cars, and move cars back unto the rack-car train (15:00-17:38). Elephants help push Strates Show carnival midway circuit cars up unto the tracks (17:39-18:06). A crane picks up 18-wheel trailers and loads them unto the train (18:07-19:55). A unit train of grain cars carrying wheat is unloaded rapidly unto a boat for export (19:56-20:53). Magnetic cranes move steel into cars and coal is scooped into a specialized box car, while an operator monitors and controls the movement of the cars (20:54-24:30). Men and women pile into commuter trains and trolleys in San Francisco. Demos of experimental passenger trains are shown (24:31-26:07). Trains go through the mountains at high-speeds. Produce is loaded and unloaded from train cars; cartons are labeled Panoche Dawn (26:08-26:56). A family boat is pulled from the water and a rocket takes off from a launching pad (26:57-28:14).
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As I have said before: Why don't railroads make these kind of films anymore, so that people realize just how much railroads STILL are an important part of logistics??
Because they want to degrade the railroad workers and try and pass them off as just a warm body they want to trivialize the workforce
Executives and shareholders are the only ones that matter in the railroad industry at least in their minds. everything else is important only as long as it's turning a profit including the employees, it's a sad sad story to see what has become of the railroads of today.
And politicians and rich people who are un American enough and have there own selfish agenda
@@alvinmorris5404 I wish that weren’t true but it is
People will realise that just when the railroad disappears
Chet Huntley, later of Big Sky Ranch fame, was on NBC's Huntley Brinkley Report back then, which was their prime time, nationwide news show. So he had a lot of fame and credit back then. A good choice by the AAR for their spokesman. It's also nice that his contract with NBC let Chet do independent, outside work.
The interstate highway system and the trucking industry very nearly spelled doom for the railroad. Even though it's a shadow of its former glory, it's still going.
As can be seen, the growth of railroads and their impact on the ever increasing economy is nothing like it once was, today.
I noticed this film was narrated by Chet Huntley; the same Chet Huntley that was a part of the NBC-TV (US) network news in the 1960s as the "Huntley-Brinkley Report." It was in direct competition with CBS-TV network news with Walter Cronkite back then.
Oddly enough, PeriscopeFilm has another video posted with Cronkite hosting/narrating the film of the Interstate Highway System (US) that was produced in the late 1950s.
At just the right time delivery reduced not only the cost of storage , but in taxes assessed on inventory too.
Those labels for the Automatic Car Identification never were always accurate due to weathering so the system was abandoned in the late 70s. In the 1980s, today's modern car scanners were developed.
The all door boxcar never really panned out either. And that 4 unit hopper car set up.... that was the first time I ever saw anything like that. That obviously never worked out. The super heavy tank cars were outlawed after a while also. Kind of funny, these supposedly futuristic innovations shown here never really caught on. Since the 1960's the use of covered hoppers has really increased, also the center beam flatcar for lumber products was developed. But really the only "revolutionary" concept since that time was the container system for intermodal traffic.
In this film @12:05 the topic of 'rack cars" is explained; the transporting of vehicles via railroad.
Back then the rack cars were open, the the railroads eventually had to go to enclosed rack cars. The reasons why? According to my brother that worked in the automotive industry in the 1980s, hobos would climb into the vehicles, and ride in comfort from one part of the US to the other.
The other reason: The enclosed rack (railroad) cars also protected the vehicles from vandalism, such as in rural or desolate areas, people taking pot-shots at the vehicles' side windows with rifles or slingshots. A moving target that would shatter upon impact was a temptation for some.
Back to the subject of hobos and the rack cars . . .
The comfort aspects for the hobos as live cargo in those vehicles being transported via railroad:
The comfort of cushioned seats.
Being fully enclosed in the vehicles, shelter from the elements.
Since all vehicles in the rack (railroad) cars had to possess ignition keys, the hobos could run the car heater; play the radio; and use the cigarette lighter. It all combined with vehicles reaching their destinations with dead batteries and empty fuel tanks . . . as well as the interior of the vehicles being filthy, too.
The standardized shipping container enabled globalization, which allowed low wage Asian products to be transported around the world. Starting in the 1980's, that reduced inflation in the USA and other developed countries, but at the cost of eliminating millions of manufacturing jobs, which were moved to Asia. Containers reduced transportation cost for some items from Asia by 90%, over what they were before shipping containers were developed. Transportation cost became so low, that some products are shipped from the USA to Asia for further work, then shipped back to the USA for final sale !
The simple steel boxes changed the entire world.
It wasn't just the containers but low labor wages that drove the exodus of manufacturing jobs out of the US. Typically labor is the highest cost for a manufacturer and once NAFTA was approved it was off to the races to find the lowest cost countries. It started with Mexico then went to China and other Asian countries, then eastern European, India and even African locations. It continues today, automation has increased production while lowering cost thus increasing profits.
Be Amish. Out BH
I worked my entire career in intermodal logistics. America, and the world, benefits hugely from containerization.
It is not just wage differentials that pushed jobs overseas. It's easy to point at wage rates. What is less visible it higher corporate tax rates in the US.
"Good night, David"
I've been a fan of railroads since the steam days. I'm happy to see many steam engines returned back to life, the best ever is the Union Pacific #4014 'Big Boy'. I'm sad to see cabooses have become obsolete. As for auto-rack cars, they had to surround them with metal screens to prevent vandals from throwing rocks at the cars loaded on them.
Instablaster...
Too bad the vandals still deface cars with paint.
It also protects them from the elements. We also use chocks now instead of chains.
I think at 13:48 its Hartford Connecticut. going north on interstate 91, as a kid, there were parking lots with no businesses around. and lots of train tracks. and I always looked to see if the lots were full of autos. if this is Hartford that's the Bridge to interstate 84 north in the background going over the Connecticut river.
and that building with the smoke stacks is just like the power plant that is still there.
it may be San Diego but wow the scene fits just right.
The trucking industry was exploding as the interstate system was expanding in the 50s and 60s. This must have been a cry from the RR industry
Worse yet they were regulated as if a monopoly and forced to compete against the tax payer subsidized competition of truck and airplane.
Well, this film might have at least kept a few shippers and attracted and convinced a few more to switch from trucking. Perhaps.
Proud to be autorack rail loader
In color!
A bit dark in the viewing, if not the message.
15:00 Great Northern Railway along Puget Sound/Seattle!!
How is the “Mike O'Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge” at Hoover Dam visible in this 1966 film, even though it wouldn’t be constructed until 2005?
Must be a glitch in the matrix…
@Nuts McGillicuddy
Wow, great detective work! Thank you for finding that out.
Does the name "Glen Canyon" ring a bell ?
Bar code inbound car scanner did not work very well at Alfred E Perlman Selkirk yard outside of Albany ,New York when it was introduced in late 60’s, and was finally abandoned?
Before precision scheduled railroading ruined the railroad industry 😑 😒
Precision scheduling euphemism for operating on a shoe string.
8:39 / 9:07 - names that did not age well...
Filmed at night!
watching this on a 4k screen is a bad idea.
Wondering how many years after the design of the auto rack car did the engineers face the need for an enclosed car that would protect vehicles from the idle hands of track side vandals?
Just about a decade or so (1960-70). Don't forget, hobos--not vandals--loved to ride in those autos which were all unlocked. Rich Corithian leather seating, too,
@@Greatdome99 Never thought of the first class transportation in the unlocked vehicles. Thanks.....see you learn something new everyday.
A little bit of passenger train discussion, but understandably, not much.
I'm surprised they released this without enhancing the color or brightness. Not very enjoyable as such.
2:23 sounded like a K5HL
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*CLEAN THIS UP, IT'S UNWATCHABLE.*
We don't "clean up" films. We present them as they were seen originally.
Worst film transfer I think I've ever seen on YT. Looks like the whole thing was filmed during a total solar eclipse.
At 18:42 it says Mueller Report and Impeach Trump.
You’re fake news.
And at 18:43 it seems you are a jackass!!!