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@Worces2000 6 күн бұрын

38:14 Is that a polygon? I thought they just started using those, but judging by this documentary, it looks like they've been used for years. The technology is just here now to sound the outdoor warning sirens within the polygon

@joefried6604 14 күн бұрын

He has 12 Rings if he had Brady

@crwmdp9 22 күн бұрын

Wow! What American citizens need to hear!

@mumujams 27 күн бұрын

a new type dropped: the one who drives directly into the tornado and lights fireworks inside of it for youtube clout

@stevopotpie 27 күн бұрын

Those bells are horrific

@mikekelly5822 27 күн бұрын

I was a big fan of Omnibus. It came on late Sunday afternoon in the MIdwest. Somehow I missed this episode when I was eleven years old. How and where was the poster able to retrieve this NBC broadcast?

@brandonoconnor1079 29 күн бұрын

WOW! What a wonderful piece of railroad history!! Thank you for sharing this piece of history with us. This is like traveling back in time.

@Mrbeahz1 Ай бұрын

Grand Central Terminal, not station.

@charlesmorschauser5258 Ай бұрын

46 people to service that great train wow wish it was still running

@drewguild3879 Ай бұрын

Amazing for the time...TY Carl. And to see DPM in person. The antiquated way to reserve a Pullman. Now I just click my mouse for a roomette. TY

@mrpeel3239 Ай бұрын

Omnibus was a terrific, "you-are-there" show. This episode is truly historic. Thankful GCT not torn down and still a living, breathing rail terminal to this day.

@wiedep Ай бұрын

Awkward and stilted, like an Ernie Kovacs comedy sketch. They're trashing the railroad, why would NYC allow this?

@alexisgalvan8259 Ай бұрын

Hi, can you playback and convert Video8 and Hi8 videos via Firewire?

@cbehr91 Ай бұрын

@@alexisgalvan8259 Yes.

@user-qm7nw7vd5s Ай бұрын

Too bad there is no longshot, establishing shot of the train platform. Love that classic Scottish/ Irish accent of the train engineer. What a civilized city.

@johnemanolis Ай бұрын

I like the mention of model railroading. The apex of the hobby.

@JackF99 Ай бұрын

I didn't realize they had model railroading back then. I thought it was just toy trains for kids at that time.

@braised44 Ай бұрын

Such an interesting piece of railroad history!

@Ken_in_Wisconsin Ай бұрын

So this was 70 years ago. Just about every single person you see in this video is deceased. It's a reminder of the ephemeral nature of our very existence.

@rayshowsay1749 Ай бұрын

Oh my! 'David P Who?' said Grand Central Station. Uh oh; and looking outside just now, that looks more like pieces of sky than rain that's starting to fall ...

@JoseMorales-lw5nt Ай бұрын

Just wanted to point out an easily forgotten fact about this great structure. Yes, the facade of the building indicates this is GRAND CENTRAL TERMINAL. The IRT train station below street level is officially designated GRAND CENTRAL STATION. Here's the fun fact. There is a structure officially known as Grand Central Station. That's courtesy of the United States Postal Service. That's right, the building located at Lexington Avenue and E. 45th Street is officially known as Grand Central Station. Passports can be obtained at that particular station.❤

@ThomasELeClair Ай бұрын

,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,And I was four years old in 1955.................I remember around 1958 , my dad took me to the terminal......his mother was coming in from their home state , Nebraska.................As a young gearhead nothing amazed me more than the giant power of trains......................As a gifted machinist today ; I still love trains.................

@b3j8 Ай бұрын

Still a proud 1st class train. But the glory days of both train and railroad were over by then.

@essessessesq Ай бұрын

yes, just 3 years later coach cars added

@jorgenroed6213 Ай бұрын

Warren signed my Storm Chaser book wayyyyy back in 1996 when he came to Las Vegas…it’s still a prized possession even though it’s well worn.

@ronbennett7885 Ай бұрын

Passenger rail was in slow decline prior to WWII. During the war, the RRs had some of their best years due to rationing of goods, such as cars, and moving troops. However, afterwards, the decline continued rapidly. RRs tried with aggressive PR, such as this, to attract more passengers. For the RRs, freight had long been more profitable. By the 60s, it was clear there would be no turnaround. Leaving the remains of passenger rail largely to various government authorities.

@donreed Ай бұрын

07/15/24: Ah, back in the days when we could trust the news. All gone now. Bye bye.

@donreed Ай бұрын

07/15/24: I was three years old when this film was created. Thank you very much. It's a real fine film. It was shot just before New York City went to hell in the late 50s-1960s (stay the hell out of NYC today, if you value your life!).

@manidig Ай бұрын

There were a few changes but Grand Central still works the same way every day. Nothing goes to Chicago but during rush hour trains leave with the same frequency. The same switch motors move the frogs on the many switches but it's all digitally controlled. The passengers might not be going to Detroit or Chicago but when there's a Yankees game extra trains are added just as many people are on these trains as was when this was shot.

@epe1238 Ай бұрын

They flew out of there in the day compared to the crawl out today.

@Neil-ru7kw Ай бұрын

Pretty amature editing , and tv broadcasting was still teething .

@yuckyool Ай бұрын

David P Morgan was actually Editor of "Trains Magazine" through 1987, well into the era of deregulation and railroad merger-mania that transformed the railroad "hobby" into profitable businesses. Many changes, and yet all built on the legacy of hundreds of thousands of miles of smooth grade, ballast, ties and steel rail 4' 8.5" apart.

@chriswright2250 Ай бұрын

Nice to look back in time.

@philipciaffa6643 Ай бұрын

Transfer cars were a post-war experiment, that was abandoned by the late-1950s. The Santa Fe westbound sleeping cars with ATSF customers would join the Santa Fe Super Chief in Chicago bound for Los Angeles, CA for a trans-continental trip from New York City. The eastbound Santa Fe Super Chief would carry New York Central 20th Century Ltd sleepers with their passengers to join the eastbound train for trans-continental service from LA to NYC. Ridership declined as passenger jets wooed the train-riding public to air traffic.

@patrickcalabro8718 Ай бұрын

I liked the newscaster’s 🎙 microphone setup and interviews with the train crew without the “stick it in your face” go-between, 🎤 as seen in today's exchanges. It sounded like a conversation, not an interaction between two sides. And the interviewer, having no gloves, 🧤 could keep his hands 🙌 in his pockets on this cold 🥶 day. thank you 🧑‍🎤 🏁 👩‍💼👩‍🎓

@ebf82234 Ай бұрын

That "interviewer" is the immortal David P. Morgan, Editor Emeritus of the iconic "Trains" Magazine.

@Ken_in_Wisconsin Ай бұрын

46 crew members on that train. Wow.

@jefflewis4 Ай бұрын

46 crew for only 170 passengers, most were probable sleeping car passengers who paid a premium price though. It was the luxury domestic travel of its day. The baggage handlers likely worked multiple trains though. Most of the porters stewards, and waiters (almost all of them were black) were paid very little and had to rely on tips for their income.

@xr6lad Ай бұрын

How fast the decline set in. Barely ten years later they couldn’t be bothered to wash it and keep it polished daily and onboard service was gradually cut till the meals became like dog slop.

@donreed Ай бұрын

By 1970, NYC was a cripple.

@markmartindale7215 Ай бұрын

Pig slop

@CampSwampy18 Ай бұрын

The decade after this was filmed people in upstate NY were sitting naked in the dirt smoking weed at a music festival. The decline was everywhere.

@markmartindale7215 Ай бұрын

@@CampSwampy18 What does that have to do with passenger rail service?

@richphx Ай бұрын

Great video!

@simonf8902 Ай бұрын

In 1958 this train was a star of North by North West.

@simonf8902 Ай бұрын

Alistair Cooke is an absolute star reporter. This is an amazing document.

@lucasrem Ай бұрын

He does not understands terminal station, funny.

@simonf8902 Ай бұрын

Fabulous outside broadcast equipment. The 20 the Century Limited was still a big deal in 1955.

@nrd515 Ай бұрын

I wish I had been on it back then, but I wasn't born until '56. I did ride the 20th Century in 1966, and it was pretty sad by then. The B&O/C&O train we went to Washington D.C. the next year was a lot nicer. We did have an adventure on that train, we hit a pickup truck near Willard, Oh, at about 70 MPH. The truck exploded and the driver was killed. Our lead E unit had damage to the front end, and it was leaking air, and another one had to be brought in to replace it. Before the new E Unit arrived, our train was joined up with another short train, and it's loco and the replacement one joined the undamaged loco that was trailing on our train, so we made the rest of the trip with 3 E Units. We were over 4 hours late getting to DC.

@harri2626 Ай бұрын

What a wonderful piece of railroad history. Good to see the much respected, British-born, TV and radio reporter Alistair Cook. He was well known for his weekly "Letter from America" talks on BBC radio for many years.

@stephenvanwoert2447 Ай бұрын

Did New York Central and Santa Fe serve the same station in Chicago? If not, how did they exchange those Santa Fe through cars?

@johnplampin7274 Ай бұрын

NYC was at LaSalle St. Santa Fe was at Dearborn. Switcher took cars to yard, then over to to other rr which then made up the new train. Most passengers got off and enjoyed shopping at stores like Marshall Fields, or dining at the Pump Room or elsewhere. If you stayed in your car, you had to endure loss of AC, etc. the transfers usually took several hours (cleaning, etc also). There were various other transfers also. I think all gone by 1958 sometime.

@stephenvanwoert2447 Ай бұрын

@@johnplampin7274 Interesting. Thank you. I know that there were several RR termini at a former time. It must have been a hassle to make connections.

@johnplampin7274 Ай бұрын

@@stephenvanwoert2447 Parmelee transfer buses ran between the various stations ...luggage (if not on a through car) could go by transfer van to the new station for a small fee....so if you did go shopping or whatever you did not have schlep your luggage around.

@locojohn6637 Ай бұрын

Wow… simply wow. From 1955 when live TV was cutting edge and looking into the past almost 70 years ago. Look at how folks are dressed. Simply a more refined time of travel. Love hearing the guy yelling (at work somewhere in the background off camera). Those engineers were all trained on steam too as diesel-electrics had only been in service for about a decade and the engineer wearing a tie !! Everything classic here! Thank you for putting this on YT.

@christopherstory2136 Ай бұрын

When rail travel was truly awesome.

@johnmurray8428 Ай бұрын

A wonderful video. Thank you.

@paulmatulavich7321 Ай бұрын

Wished they had shown the locomotive pulling the 20th Century Limited, with the well known lightning stripe motif and New York Central medallion on the nose.

@Ken_in_Wisconsin Ай бұрын

@paulmatulavich7321 I think you may be forgetting that the Century was pulled out of Grand Central by an electric motor. The engine change to the diesels was done at Harmon.

@davidsharp3110 Ай бұрын

Great video! 100th like.

@jfchonors8873 Ай бұрын

Gotta love the woman sitting in the rear observation car wearing a fur stole

@cats0182 Ай бұрын

What a look at the past. I was transfixed the entire time. Two things I noted. First, there was no mention of the red carpet; wonder if that was eliminated by 1955. Second, it looked looked like the train was pulled into the station; there was the engine at the end of the platform that followed it out. I remember the train being pushed into the station so that the Observation Car with the drumhead was clearly visible from the station.

@jfchonors8873 Ай бұрын

Diesels are always kept at the far end of the platform so as not to fill the waiting room or Waldorf/Astoria with exhaust

@cats0182 Ай бұрын

This was 1950 --they were still using the NYCRR electrics to get the train from the Mott Haven Yard and from GCT to Harmon.

@jaygatz4335 Ай бұрын

Right at the beginning, it looks like you can just see the edge of the carpet on the platform.

@Ken_in_Wisconsin Ай бұрын

@@jfchonors8873 There were no diesels used whatsoever. The train was pulled into the platform by the S Motor electric as shown.

@danabrown4628 Ай бұрын

I was in Grand Central to catch a train to CT in 1963, and I noticed passengers walking on the famous red carpet to board the Century.@jaygatz4335

@J.M.Chadwick6 Ай бұрын

A wonderful glimpse into the past of the great New York Central Railroad and its magnificent Grand Central Terminal. Thank God the Terminal was saved and may it last forever!

@johnmurray8428 Ай бұрын

Indeed.

@simonf8902 Ай бұрын

Absolutely. Unlike the tragic fate of Penn Station.

@johnmurray8428 Ай бұрын

@@simonf8902 and London’s Euston.

@whereisthedollar Ай бұрын

Where the heck did you find this ?

@ctrlzyx2 Ай бұрын

Yeah, this is nuts! Alistair Cooke, too. Beautiful find!

@Robbi496 Ай бұрын

Always wanted to know what David Morgan sounded like when he spoke

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