Big Trains Rolling Film 1955 [4K]

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[@PajamaManFan]

When I was little I used to watch Big Trains Rolling! That’s My Childhood Train Film!

[@jhcranmer]

This is from 1955, and this is the year 2020, which makes it hard to believe this film, wonderful as it is, is now 65 years old.

[@OriginalBongoliath]

And in 2022 just like in 2020 it is racist to love your own country. The New World Order Globalists did a real number on us.

[@ocsrc]

You tell me the 50s weren't just better than what we have today Imagine sending your 10 year olds across the U.S. by themselves, by train, over a series of days You'd be arrested, but back in the 50s it was normal

[@qmopar]

That was a great window back to a time when railroads ruled the land. I envy Jimmy & Carol. Hoped they enjoyed their trip. I know I would have loved it!

[@renegadetenor]

Fascinatingly, two pre teens in the fifties are smarter than most 'adults' today. It was true because my 8th grade educated grandmother was smarter than any typical group of 10 college kids today. (Don't yell at me, I am college educated...means nothing though.)

[@utubewatcher360]

I wish you would have had the opportunity to do the same. It was a great childhood memory of mine that still lasts today!! I traveled from Los Angeles to Montgomery Alabama and back again with my Grandma. It was a spectacular adventure.

[@CarminesRCTipsandTricks]

Carol and Jimmy had SOME Train Ride!!! They started out with a rare FM Consist up front... Then they're behind a F7 lashup... They Arrive behind F3s, THEN the Train leaves them behind an ALCo PA-1 set!!!! 😱 I want to ride THAT! Kidding aside, that was entertaining, informative, AND we got to see Espee GS-4 *Daylight,* doing its ACTUAL Coastal Run, NOT as a recreation Excursion!! 👍👍😎🍺🍺🍻 THAT was definitely a highlight.

[@renegadetenor]

We weren't supposed to notice that:)

[@marciebalme588]

a different world and a better one I think

[@doanster]

Thanks for the nice video! Now that's some extremely rare footage of Santa Fe's only Fairbanks-Morse consist at 9:40.

[@eduardodeazevedoesilva6833]

Wonderful FILM. Even fir the Present times, 2021, the concept of this Film is Still VERY IMPORTANT for the Economy. And Certainly, l Love Trains. Specially Diesel Power.

[@bboomer1948]

The music accompanying these Fifties railroad films make it sound like we are attending an NCAA Football game long ago.

[@carlosalvarado7203]

This is the USA I loved so much. It grows based in his own natural resources and human capabilities. I am very desapointing view of USA today. Our investors looked for another shipper countries to produce what our workers used to. Now we want to make war against those countries because they did well. Seriously? It their fault? It is american workers fault? NO. The fault it was done by the same that now wants to fight the whole work because they are doing well. When you see 1950's videos you see a lot of factories, industries, workshops. 70 years after all of them are gone. No more USA muscle. We cannot reestablish that fact by US ARMY fighting the world. Take away those politicians, bankers, big corporations leads and make America really great again.

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[@davidbarnett9312]

The 1950's construction of highways across the land, thus making it easier for folks to travel in the family car and trucks to go where railroads could not, killed passenger travel and freight service. Cheaper air fares because of the 747 was the death knell of passenger service. Of course, the great robber barons of the late 19th century who gutted their railroad properties, i.e., NYC, Erie, Pennsylvania, didn't do anyone any favors except themselves so they could live like potentates. It's great to see rail cars from the old railroads no longer in existence, and to see them without graffiti. I grew up in that era and was fortunate to see steam as well as the new fangled diesels. My small burg had a bustling SP rail yard complete with car repair shop, roundhouse, turntable, ice rack, and 13 tracks was complemented by the MoP, which shared an interlock system next to the depot. All are gone and put out of service by the UP takeover.

[@TheUrbanGaze]

"No matter where we are, there are beautiful, comfortable, passenger trains for us to travel on." If only people could have the same pride in rail travel today... our transit systems could be on par with Europe's, if we tried. This film here is what America once had, and what we could have, and more, if we didn't spend all our money on interventionist wars, didn't let big oil rule our government, and built national high-speed rail. One day, I hope, the US will once again have a strong transportation system that doesn't get traffic jams and destroy the atmosphere, so we can all go where we want to go without destroying our world, and we can do it faster. I know it can happen, and its not that hard. The US is a rich country, and we have the money. The question is, will we have the will?

[@G0IMB]

You have to dethrone the Russell Trust (aka Skull and Bones)

[@Englishkin]

Government's socialism won't bring it about in any healthy way. Liberty is what built that original rail system. Liberty is what would re-build it. Alas, though, a society hooked on socialist tyranny won't want it nor deserve it.

[@Mark-jl6tl]

Build a rail system for a limited amount of the public to use? Should the government also fund wagons and stagecoaches, steamships and sailing vessels so a limited number of people who can afford the cost and the time can utilize those methods of transportation too? As much as I would love passenger rail travel to be available the way it used to be, it also has to be economically feasible. The public should not be forced to pay for a niche market that few will actually use.

[@OriginalBongoliath]

@@TheUrbanGaze Here's the thing, we aren't Europe. We aren't densely populated microstates bunched up together to make an endeavor possible. We are like Australia and Canada, continental-size first world countries that have the same problems with time, space, and their railroads like we do (which is funny that you never bring them up in your comparisons, you libtards never do). What works in little hivemind Europe is not possible in America with the vast distances that must be covered, the amount of floods, natural disasters, decline of workmanship, and overall laziness of the general population to maintain such a system. The only profitable section of track is the Northeast Corridor because....ta da...it's geographically like Europe!! The Northeast Corridor isn't like the rest of America..... Whatever the government touches turns to crap, the highways as well are a complete joke that you funnily bring up as a beacon of the government doing a great job!! I-66, right outside Washington DC of all places, has been under non-stop construction for over 30 years under government planning. A road so dangerous with non-stop accidents, gridlock on Sunday afternoons, and worksites that dangerously interefere with traffic patterns that only the government planning it thinks it is a great idea!! I'm in my mid-30's and they were still constructing it when I was in my teens!! I wouldn't expect an ignorant libtard who doesn't know history, geography, or economics to understand though......just watch more Stephen Colbert and Rachel Madcow to tell you how smart you are because the person on the TV said you are!!

[@DiscothecaImperialis]

Didn't AAR consider making animated promo with the same quality as Carl Dudley's works?

[@TheRrxing]

Hopefully air travel will become even more of a hassle than it is now along with the traffic congestion and the longer distance passenger trains will return. Everyone I talk to hates flying and would rather travel by train. We need to repair and update our infrastructure first, but less cars and less jet fuel would help the environment. Such a shame greed destroyed such a wonderful thing.

[@sarjim4381]

Unfortunately, the Yosemite Valley Railroad was torn up in 1945, ten years previous to this film, so the only way Carol and Jimmy could get there was by bus from the Merced Santa Fe station to the park.

[@davevan8864]

WOW.....so much of what was presented in this film is either gone or out of style. We would do well to return to much of the sentiment of this film. Thanks for sharing it....I needed it.....

[@bboomer1948]

I prefer the blonde @ 22:10, says Groucho ! Aside from the joke, what a wonderful video. 61 years old, very nostalgic and wonderful.

[@stevehomeier8368]

I'm Troy McClure and you might know me from such films as..... seriously though, great film

[@legoose1380]

Lol u forgot the hiiiii

[@sarjim4381]

Back in the days when railway postal clerks were still armed. They carried Colt and Smith and Wesson .38 S&W revolvers so they could shoot it out with any bandits that showed up. If they were carrying especially valuable registered mail liek loose diamond, they were even issued Thompson submachine guns. I doubt Jimmy and ?Carol had to worry about a gunfight on their train, but it does show how our attitudes about guns has changed over the years.

[@johnnyrocco]

I went to work at the post office in Aug 1977. I got to know a old timer who had been a railway postal clerk back in the day. They did in fact have guns and would be backing down the mail as the train was rolling down the tracks.

[@seaboardairlineproductions7185]

Big train a rollin: *_shows a picture of a SP engine in the thumbnail_* Actually a Rock Island video. *_seems legit_*

[@DiscothecaImperialis]

That's when F-Unit was a symbol of American Railroad systems.

[@MikesProjectsandHobbiesMC]

Too bad rail travel is the most expensive way to travel these days. Id love to take a 1000 mile over night ride but the last time I priced a trip out on Amtrak 90% of the ride was spent in a bus. If I wanted to ride a bus Id go to the bus station. Not to mention the rail trip was 4x more than airfare.

[@peryzapata167]

Bonito video

[@Surfliner450]

6:37 Santa Barbara hasn't changed much in 65 years. I go there a lot to see trains.

[@kiwitrainguy]

All that's missing is the steam-hauled Daylight Express.

[@timpriddy349]

they left on a Santa Fe something.......motors kept changing

[@raspergrey4935]

like train

[@robertheinkel6225]

I had to laugh when it stated half offs the trains carry cargo, instead of passengers. Maybe true back in 1955, but not today.

[@hifijohn]

13:24 that food looks good enough to eat..well I hope so.

[@tallpaul9475]

Any idea who the narrator is? Heard his voice hundreds of times in PSA videos and other 1950's clips.

[@rainbowrailroadcrossing7798]

4:28 that sounds like a south korean railroad crossing! now I know where the sound came from

[@bethwingeier3956]

Derek has 5 Vgygggg Ttggftgf Hgugyyut

[@jeffdemition2308]

OMG AN sp daylight in its coastline not excursion likr 4449

[@doubleutubefan5]

yup my favorite

[@DiscothecaImperialis]

0:28 Isn't that GN Empire Builder?

[@malcolmmarzo2461]

Great historical and cultural time capsule of a time I remember well. Of course this is propaganda of the time that informed my childhood. The good and the bad has become clearer over time. A time when the U.S. was a country of accomplishment, when we innovated and produced a cornucopia of products. Still, the upper class Whites on the streamliners were supported by Mexicans down on the tracks and Blacks up in the cars preparing, cleaning and serving. Their kids were not going to the schools in the film. The happy days music belies the sense of anxiety of the Fifties held for us too. The underlying dread of nuclear annihilation was a part of the background music. For everybody. As a ten-year-old living near the Nevada Test Site I well remember being issued dog tags for body identification in case the "Duck-and-Cover" drills didn't work out. The world of the 1950's was, as Herman Melville said of the 1850's, a "magnificent and terrible world." Just like 2020.

[@bboomer1948]

Good points, Malcolm. I'm 72 and remember those days and mores well.

[@stefanwladyka4666]

There’s another video on KZbin with nearly the same script (if not the same) but better videos and different actors for Carol and Jimmy.

[@blaneycrabbe3390]

More like a vacation commercial that includes trains.

[@jamesroberts2115]

Nice to see cars not defaced with the spray painting graffiti of imbeciles and sociopathic savages.

[@RafaelHinto]

Min 12. I see men in postal car have revolvers..

[@davidbarnett9312]

Yeah, Cagney robbed the mail car in 1949's "White Heat". lol

[@video0s310]

Credits to the cameraman!

[@HoboHeaven]

4K? Quality is still crap in highest resolution

[@williamkesler2373]

It’s a 65 year old video. Even with modern technology quality will still be limited.

[@HoboHeaven]

@@williamkesler2373 True, but than dont write 4k, when it isnt 4k

[@patricknoveski6409]

Propaganda films of the 50's. Rail industry was broke 10 years later. 🤣

[@suppylarue220]

most railroads were always in red ink, worldwide hazard, main reason most countries had nationalized them.