"Ridin the Rails - The Great American Train Story" JOHNNY CASH
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So surreal seeing a documentary by Johnny Cash
he really liked trains
@@WesternOhioInterurbanHistory you could say he had a thing about trains
@@Harpdashian love that song
Johnny Cash got in the train and drove off like he was going to the liquor store
That'd be more appropriate for the Rogers 4-6-0 that *starred* in _Petticoat Junction._
But, yeah, I was jealous a) when he climbed up in the cab, and b) when he took her away.
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@@77thTrombone he did a good job of getting the motive power on the track all right. unlike William Knight the under cover engineer in the Andrews raiders did when he took over the General and took her out of Big Shanty on April 12th 1862. I understand that he tried make her crash into the Texas at the end of the chase but there was very little steam pressure left in the boiler to do that thankfully
@@eliotreader8220 I wonder: did knight have any real experience on a loco? He couldn't have If he didn't even shovel. Esp as this was the early days of stream, and most folks had ag backgrounds. He'd've been way ahead of times to have much experience at all. For all I know, he could've gotten so wrapped up getting the throttle and back-off worked out under threat of rifle fire that he forgot about the boiler fire. I'll read up on the story.
@@77thTrombone I Understand that he was a proper locomotive engineer
Andrews needed men who knew how to drive steam engines. he was nervous about starting her up. he might have been the last of the raiders to leave the General when she ran out of steam. they looked after her well
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This locomotive today is at the Tennessee valley railroad museum in Chattanooga
Former southern MS Class USRA 2-8-2 Mikado number 4501
@@TheAtlantaRailfan sure is
@Ferro Equus correct, it was built by Baldwin and when it was built it had domes that were closer together and further back, a pointed pilot, a boiler mounted bell, and a high mounted headlight, in the 1930s the southern overhauled 4501 into a USRA design style with further space apart domes, a smokebox mounted bell, a less pointed pilot, and a smokebox mounted headlight, it's inner workings we're already very similar to the USRA 2-8-2s and the changes on the outside basically turned it into a USRA Mikado design copy.
is that right ! thanks !
@@TheAtlantaRailfan oh yea ? thanks
My son is six years old, and is a lover of trains. From toddlerhood, he watched "Riding the Rails," which I found on CZcams while searching for Johnny Cash songs for him. He would watch in rapt fascination as every segment could unfold, before he could even talk. When he learned to talk, he'd shout "Done!" along with the "last spike being pounded in" segment. He loved the folk tunes.
One day, it disappeared from CZcams. I tried to secure a physical copy, but it's hard to find, and I now lack most of the necessary equipment. Then, this summer (ironically, while riding Amtrak's Southwest Chief with my kids), I searched on a whim, and found it! Now my son requests it each night to fall asleep. Thank you so much for the upload, American Rail Club...even if it appears that CZcams cut the Ballad of John Henry segment...I guess I get it...the film depiction *is* a tad minstrel-ish. But we do miss the song.
This really was an unexpected hidden gem. Really thankful to Demetrius for this
When I was a little boy my dad would play videos of UP 844 and I would fall asleep. I grew up around trains. Now I play videos of UP Big Boy and my girls when they where little would fall asleep.
A family friend burned this off the air onto VHS when I was young (too young to remember the exact date) and for the last 30 years, I have watched this over and OVER. The only difference is that I now watch online and can skip to the best songs!
I love the excitement on the engineer's face at about 40:35 when he's hanging out the window saying, "Hey! That's Johnny Cash!"
So we're not gonna mention that Jim Varney just appears out of nowhere for a cameo at 12:46.
Absolutely!!
They oughta show this in schools
Such a nice movie and Johnny Cash is certainly the best voice for this subject. I enjoy both his
musical style and his calm demeanor. Johnny Cash is deeply missed. Thanks American Rail Club for uploading this. :-)
Hi from Green Bay!! GO PACKERS!!!!! Almost 45 years ago when this special train show was on TV 38 on p.b.s. I recorded the sound on audio cassette tapes by using my parents tape recorder. Plus now in 2022 A.D. I STILL have these cassettes. But since they have only 30 minutes per side. I lost a few seconds when I flipped the tape over in the old Panasonic recorder. Luckily, there were 2 versions, with a shorter version with some segments cut out, or edited. Thus between the 2.sets of audio tapes, I got the Complete Program. Now in 2022 A.D., I REALLY want to transfer this classic video onto a DVD or flash drive and watch on a Big Screen T.V.!!!!! GOD BLESS THE U.S.A.!!!!! IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST THE MESDIAH!!!!! AND THE POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT!!!!! ALLELUIA!!!!! AMEN 🙏. HAPPY SAINT VALENTINE DAY 💝 ❤ 💖 ♥ 💕 2-14-2022 A.D.!!!!!
I love how excited Johnny Cash sounds while narrating this. Such a good telling of the story
the hair of back of my head stands up whenever i see the man in black singing unplugged
that shit eating grin on johnnys face when his hand is on the throttle and hes got it wide open
He's just having the best time
a music legend and a railroad legend in the same film, fantastic
The last Civil War soldier at 12:49 is Jim Varney (Ernest P. Worrell).
Back when you had to wait for TV to air something you liked, I always waited for this to air again. I guess because he did snappy train songs, I became a big Johnny Cash fan, and managed to see him in concert once when I was a kid, the only time he ever came to my hometown. This special came at a pivotal time in history, when the railroads weren't looking good at all. You could see lots of reminders of the steam era all around long after steam was gone from the main lines. This special showed what it was like before then and at that time
What a brilliant piece of Americana
I always wave back. You have the blessing.
Wow! Johnny Carson did a great Johnny Cash impersonation!
came to the comments and it seems not a of people are mentioning this
Lol! Read your comment OBS. You forgot "lot" in "a lot of people". We're all only human! 😅 @@OBS-ip2hy
God Bless Johnny Cash.
I am 78 and have been a Johnny Cash fan most of my life and have never before seen this video. I loved it. Thanks for posting it.
Nothing about Chuck Norris, but seeing Johnny Cash drivin a steam locomotive is steam-brezzin cool. Thx ARC.
My grandparents bought me a DVD copy of this when I was a little kid, and I used to watch it so much that I think I broke the disc. This is my first time watching since I was mabey 8.
Probably the best thing on Utube !... EVER !
thank you lord for this man he was a great man great singer and i will go on singing his song and the steam locomotives that roamed around the countryside through big citys and lord i pray you will bring back the old iron horse and let her steam and smoke blow in jesus name Amen
This is gold!
The two wrecks Cash sang about in this were the Vaughan wreck better known as the wreck of Casey Jones Occurred on April 30th, 1900 when a passenger train pulled by Illinois central 382 with Casey jones at the throttle collided with the rear end of a stalled freight train Casey Jones was the only one killed in the wreck, he is attributed with saving the lives of the passengers by decreasing the trains speed from 80 miles per hour to 30. The second wreck is not as well known it is known as the Wreck of old 97, The train was called the old 97 because its official name was fast mail #97 it was bound for Spencer North Carolina pulled by southern 1102 the train was an hour late and the engineer was pressured to speed to get to spencer on time as the train had not ever been late. The train jumped the track on the stillhouse trestle in Danville Virginia killing 11 and Injuring 7.
Loved this when I seen it when I was a kid. I always wave
Awesome production. Another facet of Johnny Cash’s interest in the progress of American history.
Never knew he did events like this. Thanks for keeping him and train life alive!
Thank you, really enjoyed this. Can't wait to ride the train again. Keep up the good work.
Bet that conductor didn’t expect to see Jonny Cash there at 40:34
Probably not but i bet he got excited! I know i would have been!
Very cool Johnny cash could have been a school teacher lol this is the coolest documentary. Can’t get better than this narrated by my favorite singer on the the topic of my favorite machines
I love railroad history and it's so neat to see the Man in Black felt the same way!
Love it!
Just an outstanding video thanks for the upload! Thought it was really awesome how he teamed up with Lionel trains in the 70s!
He also became the spokesman for the Victoria Station restaurant chain and even wrote a song for them!
Fantastic documentary. Thanks for sharing.
Delightful! Deeply grateful for Johnny Cash and the beautiful songs he left behind.
Nice, really nice.
THANKS FOR SHARING!
Absolutely beautiful documentary, with a class act as the head!
The night they drove old Dixie Down I love the blue grass version!!
This program is what made me a Johnny Cash fan...many, many years ago when I had myLionel layout.....
Great entertaining history lessson with one of my favorite singers.
Johhy Cash was such a great artist. Charisma is all over the screen!
And trains will come back! It's the gentleman's way to travel!
Johnny cash could literally narrate the entire history of the United States just in song.
a legend ... God rest his soul
Randomly found this. Very neat piece of American history
Lovely video, thanks for posting!
As a kid growing up in Los Angeles in the 1960s-1980s my favorite place in the world was Travel Town in Griffith Park. And my favorite place to eat out? Victoria Station, of course, followed by Carney's on Ventura Blvd in Studio City...
i my self am a 17 year old boy who loves trains and works on the railroads in new zealand and i grew up listening to cash with songs like folsom prison blues, give my love to rose, ring of fire and many more and i sound just like cash i got a baritone voice so you know how it goes
singers and songwriters are super human
4501 is our proud locomotive here in Chattanooga
Who forgot Johnny's Martin guitar in the last seen? Wonder what he thought when they handed that yamaha to him.
This is the best
Great documentary The story re enactments and music go together really well. Johnny Cash was a great choice of presenter. Sadly the railways in UK have gone the same way Freight is still very important in US and still the best way of moving things long distance long may that continue. Here we concentrate more on moving people and most of our intercity trains now run at 125mph.
Johnny Cash history narratives are interesting..... I kind of tried for that in my video with a locomotive. This is cool!
LEGEND ♠️♠️♠️
This was not on my punch card in 2024, but I watched every minute.
400th like (coming from a musician and history buff; excellent video by the way)
I found this video while trying to find where the train footage from Cash's "Hurt" music video came from.
All aboard
Ole 4501
Great video, love being tthe son of a RR Engineer
And that old locomotive still running that was the beginning of the southern steam program
Gold.
Watching JR again is like looking at a ghost. If memory serves, this was televised when I was young.
Heeeeeere's Johnny!
I just purchased the Lionel Boxcar that was made the year this was on TV. I am so thrilled to find this video. Am I mistaken, or is that Actor Jim Varney at the 12:49 mark (aka Ernest P Worrell)? Amazing history, amazing trains, amazing Johnny Cash......
I was thinking the exact same thing about Jim Varney. Thats gotta be him
Locomotive 4501 Lot of History Right there..
The chorus of KC Jones song is "Steamboat Bill" from 1911 !!
The Casey Jones song came first, I think published in 1903 or 1909.
@@davefrompa5334 ah yes......
This is a perfect documentary for history in schools
Tbh with Covid it’s happening again, Amtrak has lowered there standards with its new owner and are losing passengers. Kinda sad for passenger trains to be put on the backburner. The machines that helped build this country have been forgotten about and only exist in museums.
This hasn't been my experience... I've been a regular Amtrak rider since about 2005, up till 2020/Covid. This past summer, I was able to start riding again, and was actually really impressed at the state of the trains.
But passenger trains have always been back burner, TBH. The right of ways are owned by the freight lines, and they're forever the priority.
@@jessierobinette8790 This is not true. Passenger trains have always had priority over freight trains, even today's Amtrak. this from Amtrak : The freight railroads make dispatching decisions about which trains have priority. Federal law requires Amtrak passenger trains to receive preference over freight transportation, according to Amtrak.
@@ken9503 Amtrak still gets put in the hole, a lot.
I didn't realize how into trains Johnny Cash was.
this is a cool documentary in less than an hour about the trains. now i understand some of the history. in fairlee vermont at the oldn ely train depot. from 1909. there is a stack of iron rail that has a forging with a 1940 year stamped on i. there must have been lots of material on that old track. it is very worn nut it was part of the green mountain rail.
ithe ely depot was for cooper ore from the ely cooper mine from copperfield road in a town now called vershire ( vermont/ new hampshire) in the 1880s thru 1900s copper was king in vermont. it was rumoted that george westinghouse of train brake technology was there to find a way to smelt better copper out of the ely mine ore. cool train history from the 1880.towns like bradford were built and grainte was mined in fairlee vermont. in some small obsolete quarries.
foster and lloyd sang about the cowboys in texas in the 1880s. steam was big in vermont along the connecticut river. in 1960× steam toen eas in bellows fall vt. it has been dismantled and move to thr national train and museum in Scranton pennsylvania in the heart of coal and iron country .lots of history and changes in this country we call america
Where was the “great locomotive chase” segment filmed?
Johnny cash my hero for 40 years I seen him in concert in Newcastle in the 70s and 80s he loved trains but sings in the title the man's name he did not know well it was George Stephenson who invented the steam train in Newcastle UK
"English engineer and principal inventor of the railroad locomotive" Wikipedia
I often wonder if he knew that when he visited Newcastle on a concert
Had all his records ever made along with Kris kristofferson
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I'm sure he've got a thing about trains. When he's little boy says daddy what was it like to ride a train he'll just say it was a good way to travel, when things didn't move quite so fast
I just noticed they cut out entirely the John Henry part in this video cause I seen this before as a child on dvd
CZcams did, I uploaded the entire thing and they just took out that part. Shame on them!
Yeah I loved the gandy dancer part. They suck!
@@AmericanRailClub Where'd you find the original version? I'd love to get my hands on it
"JOHN HENRY'S BALLAD" WAS CUT OUT!!!!! BUT IT WAS THE VERY FIRST SONG THAT PRAISED THE BLACK MEN WHO WERE THE GANDY DANCERS WHO WORKED 💪 👷♂️ IN THE WORST OUTDOOR WEATHER, FOR THE WORST PAY. FOR THE WORST RACIST BOSSES. AND EVEN WORSE WERE THE PRISON CHAIN GANGS. ⛓ 😕. BUT THESE BRAVE MEN WORKED ON, AND MAFE THE TRACKS FOR THE NEW HIGH SPEED PASSENGER EXPRESSES THAT RAN AT 100 M.P.H. WITH THE BRAND NEW SUPER POWERED STEAM LOCOMOTIVES.!!!!! GOD BLESS THE U.S.A.!!!!! 🇺🇸 🙌. THROUGH JESUS CHRIST THE MESSIAH OF ISRAEL 🇮🇱 🙏 🙌 ❤!!!!! AND THE POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT!!!!! ALLELUIA!!!!! AMEN 🙏. HAPPY SAINT VALENTINE DAY 2022A.D 💝 ❤ 💖 ♥ 💕 !!!!!
Jim Varney @ 12:50.
Him and Clint Eastwood scream Wild West to me we are also blessed with red dead redemption
I wonder why they cut out the part about John Henry??
I Remember Johnny Cash for his Railroad songs Which are 26:31 Casey Jones and 27:51 The Wreck of the old 97
24:31 I have that little sofa.
Hoora
Mr. Cash was a rail buff wasn't he
It's been many years since I've seen this but I feel like there's a massive cut when they started talking about section Foreman's and stuff. I'm like 80% to 90% positive there's supposed to be a story or The Ballad of John Henry there and it was just a massive cut to the next scene I see this was re-uploaded and premiered in 2021 so I don't know if it was cut for some b******* political stuff, licensing/copyright stuff, or if I'm not remembering this right but I'm almost certain there was supposed to be a set up there for John Henry. Like I said I might be remembering it wrong but I swear that was the set up to at least a short Ballad of John Henry the videos only around 46 minutes long so the feeling something was cut but as I said I might be wrong
Quick update, I just checked & looked online at the original copy that they put out for DVD that's no longer in print. It did feature The Ballad of John Henry in the original film was about an hour long for some reason the American Rail Club channel here either got a copy of the film that didn't have John Henry in it or chose to cut it out for weird political, licensing/copyright stuff, or something but for some reason The Ballad of John Henry along with possibly a couple others are supposed to be in here that are missing. John Henry's inspiring folk song and one of the few African American folktales we have in our nation it seems really inappropriate to not have it.
The Ballad of John Henry segment was definitely cut.
The reason I know is because my son, now six, spent his toddlerhood obsessed with this film. One day, it vanished from CZcams, and we were so disappointed. I was thrilled to see it back this year. But his favorite was the John Henry segment...
I know that segment exists, because I have a dvd with that segment, but that poor dvd doesn’t work so well anymore.
19:30 the Ballad of John Henry is cut out. Anyone know why? Was it a copyright thing?
Whats the name of the letter font used for the title ""Ridin the Rails - The Great American Train Story" ?
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On this awesome video, the opening intro has or says Johnny Carson not Johnny Cash.
Je vais m'acheter le même
Ms class 2 8 2 mikado 4501
this is one of the best vids i seen of johnny cash he loved trains and he loved history may god rest his and and his wife poor souls there are truely missed
God rest your soul, I hope to see you in heaven
Where's the part about John Henry's hammer ?
Why is the southern logo covered up on the cab?
My guess is they couldn’t get the rights to use Southern’s likeness or something
I never knew D&RGW 346 was in this
29:09 what locomotive is this?
Clinchfield No.1, She resides at the B&O railroad museum in Baltimore today
Does anyone know where @34:00 train depot / station is and if it still exists? Thanks!
Also the ones shown around @41:05 Thanks!
Steam loco 4501 had a multi million dollar rebuild back around 2012 to 2015, and it was taken apart, and many parts were replaced. And new features installed, like a new lubrication system. And a new 2 wheeled trailing truck with roller bearings on the axles that hold up the firebox. And a new Mechanical Stoker for getting the coal onto the fire grates and helping to take the strains off of the human fireman. And this work was performed in CHATANOOGA, TENNESSEE, at the TENNESSEE VALLEY RAILROAD MUSEUM. THUS, "ALL ABOARD!! HIGHBALL!!-! RIGHT ON TIME!! NEXT STOP: THE FUTURE IN 5 MINUTES!!" GOD BLESS THE U.S.A.!!!!! IN THE BLESSSED AND HOLY NAME OF JESUS CHRIST THE SON OF GOD AND MESSIAH OF ISRAEL!!!!! IN THE POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT!!!!! ALLELUIA!!!!! AMEN 🙏. HAPPY SAINT VALENTINE DAY 2-14- 2022A.D 💝 ❤ 💖 ♥ 💕 !!!!!