1954 was the heyday for railroad passenger travel. Bygone era.

Off goes Bob to the ranch, never to be seen again 😂

I never understood why people book a luxury train with an observation car, vista dome car, pay the added cost, and then stare at a newspaper the whole time 😂

bobby is wearing the same thing when he gets on, and then the next day gets off---how crass can you get

i spent a long time in one of the sd50s theres nothing like a sd 40 s sd 45s as well sd50s man i miss my old job

Lucky Bob. I never got to ride on The Super Chief, or in a dome or observation car. Though I have ridden on the successor Southwest Chief and in a Superliner Lounge car which is today's equivalent to the dome car of old. It's a wonderfully relaxing way to travel and to see the country -- not crammed into a 3x3 foot space with no leg room at 40,000 feet and seeing nothing.

The observation car (Navajo) that was at the end of the Super Chief is on display at the Colorado railroad museum.

It's just incredible that people spent money to write produce a movie that's as stupid and wooden as this.

It even kept the same train number.

I suppose that's what happens -when previous generations have killed "all the Buffalo" and shot all the Red Indians "They get BORED"!

3.14 THAT'S IN CHATTANOOGA CHOO CHOO!!!

Three cheers for the Buckeye coupling -the Americans knew what they were doing when they invented that!.

Helen --- "Can I vote now " Boss--- " No! "

make some more at aldine junction

Now, people wear PJ’s on airplanes like they would wear to Walmart. Society has truly devolved.

Are those Chinese balloons they're shooting down? 😂😂

I see that the only black people who get to ride the train are low paid servants.

The engineers don't wave from the trains anymore, not like they did back in 1954!

You did an excellent job on these videos! I'm a native San Franciscan born and raised in the city from the 1950s-1970's. I rode the N Judah streetcar from 45th & Judah to Market Street many times in those years to shop at JC Penny's, the Emporium, and Macy's in Union Square plus many other shops.

I really dig Cold War toys. Made Boomers like me so screwed up. Russia, Russia, RUSSIA. (And China too!) 🤠

So Bobby was sent off to a dude ranch, "an adventure, with cowboys and horses".....hmm. Very nice train though.

30 YEARS AT&SF EMPLOYMENT, STILL GOT MY PASS!!!! “PRICELESS”

Ah yes, back in the day when people were people.

Does anybody remember when this country was ninety percent White European Caucasian descent?

I got to live the dream in 1976 on the Murtalbahn in Steiermark, Austria, driving an 0440 1913 Krauss Maffei through a snowstorm into Mariapfarr. Volldampf forever!

Definitely better to watch this in the films true fashion- without sound! The music sucks.

I really wish they would paint another SD50 or SD40-2 like this. It was such a beautiful paint scheme. It's a shame this thing blew up.

What a gem I love to watch these railroad promotianal films no one makes them quite like the USA great 👍

1969 was the last passenger train I rode from Louisiana to Chicago. I was 11.

So funny ! (though made me nervous)!

Love the commercial, that starts before the movie clip .

The PRR T1 Was the best of them all. Change my mind

By using some of the preserved steam locomotives from museums, and excursion train, we can recreate this movie in color in 2021. And also use miniature live steam locomotive model for special effects. And some of the exact locations even after over 100 years. Now, WHO is the Modern Helen????? Hi in September, 2021.

With the modern synth music Hopefully somebody can make a new music score with THE MIGHTY WURLITZER THEATRICAL PIPE ORGAN which was preserved be A.T.O.S. of the usa.🇺🇸 GOD BLESS THE U.S.A!!!!! AMEN.

Helen was quite proficient at the Morse code Telegraph, ---...---! Helen to the rescue on the motorcycle but no leather helmet for her only a checkered cap!! Helen in charge!!! She told the engineer of the excursion train to uncouple from the coaches and give chase after the runaway 3201 4-6-0 Ten Wheeler. Helen the Brave!!!! Riding the foot boards on the front of the cow catcher. WOW!!! WHAT A GAL!!!!! hi in Sept, 2021 a.d. GOD BLESS!!!!!

I guess it's in my blood.

Great video, My dad was a Reading RR Engineer, retired from Conrail as an engineer, I am a proud son of a almost fogotten era, I have memories as a kid of dad comming home from work with coal dust on him .

This is truly sick. Who on earth would send a young child on a train trip by themselves?

Great movie, but it was too short!

Great stuff!

3:41 im curious to where that is (was). im sure that scene is an apartment complex or something now. 4:13 doesnt seem to amazed to be on one of the most famous trains in history. 4:25 the Super Chief DID NOT carry coaches in 1954. It was an All-Pullman extra Fare (extra fast heh heh) train. The Super Chief i think was faster then the 20th Century Limited. It covered the 990 miles from Chicago and La Junta, CO in 15h 52m. 8 minutes faster then the Limited 960 at 16hr. Amtrak probably takes 21.

I noticed an error. The bell sound on the engine is a crossing bell, not a locomotive bell. Automatic locomotive ringers didn't ring this fast.

What station is the train at at 5:22?? Why did they have to change engines?

I thought it was 1906. Not 1905.

Nice work! Some outstanding shots, especially the curves. Archival Images were excellent, too.

Did we all came here for PRR 1223

My uncle has a model railroad layout that takes up his entire basement. When I help him operate it for NMRR train shows, my favorite diesel train is the Santa Fe Super Chief.

Such a smoke belcher!

My name is Ray and I live in Santa Fe!

This movie was made in 1940-41, not 1936. Also, the 3 bridges that are shown starting at 8:48 are over Sherman's Creek just south of Duncannon, PA, (though it appears the train is heading north away from Harrisburg), the Rockville Bridge heading east over the Susquehanna towards Harrisburg, and finally the train is shown stopping under the State Street Bridge in Harrisburg. The railroad bridges are still in use today, owned and used by Norfolk Southern and shared with Amtrak. Though the State Street bridge is at least a quarter mile north of the of the Harrisburg train station, it's possible that filming was moved a short distance so as not interfere with passenger service at the Harrisburg station, which surely would have been extremely busy during December 1940 and January 1941 when this movie was filmed. The GG-1 shown pulling out of Harrisburg and passing the nearby steel mills in Steelton, PA, was no. 4904. It was brand new, being built in 1940. Eventual disposition: scrapped.