Railroadin' - 1941
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- čas přidán 11. 05. 2012
- A documentary on the development of US railroads produced bl ALCO and General Electric. Topics include: Steel manufacturing. Troop trains. Carrying livestock. Specialized rolling stock. Car floats. Coal handling. Classification yards. Maintenance: track and right-of-way. Rotary snowplows. Standard time zones. Passenger travel. Railway Express. Carrying mail. Food products carried by rail.
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Can remember in grade school on days when it was either too cold or it was snowing so much we couldn't go out on the playground, but sent to the Gym after lunch, and we got to watch films like this. A lot of kids would go to sleep but I enjoyed the films, and didn't wanna miss any of it.
"The nation moves forward in a common purpose." And so it did, by rail. Great video.
Well... it used to anyway...
Someone please build a time machine. I want so bad to live in that time
I love the up to the minute musical score.
Love these old videos. Thanks.
Interesting video and thanks for posting!
Awesome Video! Why I collect the old original Lionel, Marx and American Flyer Trains. They are the closest thing we'll be getting to these grand old days of when railroads were the lifeblood of our nation. We won 2 world wars because of such things.
Make Railroading Great Again!
Panther Platform vote for someone who appreciates our railroads.
@@thavvolf9157 good luck with that... ever since the staggers act politicians don't even have even looking at railroads on their radar... their attitude "it ain't bothering us so we don't bother it"
Great video!
ahh the good old days. I remember triple steam engines pulling mile long trains on.the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie RR down the Beaver Valley to the steel mills in smokey Pittsburgh.
I love this railroad documentary
This was a great film.
I have been watching railroad films for years but had never seen this one.
Hope you have more films from when GE and Alco were partners.
Alco made some beautiful diesel locomotives.
this is awesome "throbbing pulse of a lagging nation. these are the city's arteries - the life lines of our nation"
check out the guys at 12:08. this was when young men worked their asses off..for the railroad. of course they are long forgotten and gone..like nameless people..very sad. no credits or names are ever given on these PR movies.
They should have listened to the guy with the poster
No cow ever walked from Texas to Chicago.
This I know this song! I've been working on the Railroad was composed in this Documentary!
Check out the stud at 12:08 second one , dam a real young man of the times
very nice movie, however the digital stabilization is horrible to watch in this.
1:15 (paraphrasing) before the city, the area was just "an empty, lifeless waste", but thanks to the railroad, that lifeless wasteland is transformed into a mighty, bustling metropolis. whaaa...
Yeah, and look what society has done with it... sad.
This was a really good film with a lot of info and rare footage. But is it possible to remove that auto stabilization feature? It gets very distracting and annoying.
oh dear god i feel like im going to be sick.. and i don't get motion sick!!!
CZcams stabilization rocks!
This is while the railroads plan to rebuilding tracks and designing retro equipment from the early twentieth century.
Trains art the noble and mysterious creations of thy corporate lords and masters! Prostrate thyselves at the grade crossings of the mighty train! For if thou shalt not yield, then thy car or truck shall be transformed into dust and thy blood will be drained! Without trains, thy nation would look like Arizona from sea to sea and boils may appear on thy flesh ! Tax not, the holy railroads, for they spendeth their own treasure to build mighty empires! No man hath a higher calling than to service the tireless machines of the benevolent and merciful railroad! So sayeth the Conductor.
i notice a preponderance of ALCO locomotoves, with GE traction motors, in this film
+Sandra J. Syx-Spears GE started in the Locomotive business because of Alco, they were located in the same city and across from each other, all Alco Electric components were made by GE, Alco built the engines at their Auburn Engine works at Auburn NY and the Locomotive parts, GE built the Gens and traction motors, controls, and wiring,
Thanks for that info nfd1960! I looked at another GE railroading film on here (You Tube) and I noticed no EMD diesels but, all Alco diesels and now I know why, LOL!
I don’t think I’d feel too comfortable with a straight razor against my neck in a 1940’s train. One pull of slack or ill timed bump and it’s all over.
Great video, but can you remove the CZcams stabilization?
CentralFan1976 A year later, and it's still enabled. It's terrible how it makes the image jump.
Have you seen the new video"1941: The Year of One Zillion Major Earthquakes"? I thought it was presented by CZcams stabilization.
Our senses can reconcile camera movement but not budget image stabilisation, what a mess.
CentralFan1976 please
It's colourful what they ever made in the United States of America.
This WAS America.
Darn right, the real America.
MAKE RAILROADING GREAT AGAIN!!!
Sad, isn't it....
@@CarminesRCTipsandTricks
We need local community organizing to resist the third world invasion of America.
25:53...Mail sorters, open carry. When did that stop?
When the RPO ceased operations in 1977.
@@swingrfd 1968, not 1977
@@stevenjohnson7086 Last RPO ran 06/30/1977
@@swingrfd OK, I’ll buy that for a minute, but Amtrak was formed in 1971 and the post office awarded the first class mail contract to the airlines in 1968. So what you’re saying is between 1968 1977 there was still RPO service. I don’t know everything. Could you provide some more information as to where this was occurring and how widespread it was? This is the first I’ve heard of RPO service beyond 1968.
@@stevenjohnson7086 Between NYC and DC
Who invented time zones? Me thinks there’s a bias here.
This is cool. Reminds me of a Disneyland documentary...
The postal worker at 25:52, and 3 seconds later, a different postal worker at 25:55, appear to have a revolver strapped to their waist belt? Can anyone explain this? Train robberies were a thing of the past when this was produced. Why the handguns?
Paul, your statement that train robberies were a thing of the past is not true. Many items were, and still are today, stolen off of trains, often while stopped in yards. Rail Post Office employees were required to carry because they handled Federally-protected regular mail, including many high-dollar packages. No other rail-employees, except for railroad cops, could carry a firearm.
b3j8 that is not true almost all COULD carry but they didn't
Were they RR employees or employees of the Post Office?
My late dad was born in 1941 approx. two months before Pearl Harbor...
Getting shit done.
What about the post master at frame 25:56? I'm guessing that carrying .38 special went bye bye a long time ago! Can you imagine postal workers carrying weapon today? scary.
+Vincent Dow it only took a few years to pass the NFA after the threat posed by the advent of fully automatic weapons became apparent. Today that wouldn't happen.
In the days of railroad post office cars all railroad post office employees were issued smith & Wesson model 66 revolvers 38 special 5 shot
With a 2 inch barrel. They were issued to protect the mail.
07:47 hobo!
It could be a brake person, believe it or not they used to ride on top of the trains back then. I know, stupid. But they did it.
That was probably a brakeman
Calling nature, the plains, barren, lifeless waste, LOL.
froggleggers b
"The Old Cisholm Trail from Texas to Chicago and the steers walking all the way." 100% wrong.
But the steers walked to Abiliene, Kansas, then were put on trains to Chicago, where they were carved into tasty steaks!
And the Rail Roads were directly responsible for the decimation of our native peoples.