Norfolk and Western Railway The Power Behind the Nation

The Norfolk and Western Railway produced a company film The Power Behind the Nation. If you enjoyed this video please hit that LIKE and SUBSCRIBE button. I really appreciate & value all of the LIKES and SUBSCRIBERS to my Videos & Channel!!
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[@sirbarongaming2138]

It's amazing and shameful how far we've let ourselves go,

[@brentmiller3951]

Greed has destroyed so much .Nothing is about quality only the investors.

[@RobertlArnoldjr-sj4ic]

Advocate for bringing coal back look how many jobs it created just saying

[@rgj8044]

Real hard jobs, real hard men, real hero’s that we owe our high standard of living to. My opinion.

[@DanielPRails]

This was a great watch. I really enjoy old documentaries like this that highlight how instrumental railroads were.

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[@NW-gi1cp]

The good old days

[@rut5161]

Amazing what a wonderful country we once had.

[@1940limited]

Isn't that the truth. My thoughts exactly. The industry was mind boggling.

[@hartmutlorentzen9659]

A great documentation! Thanks, from Germany

[@DiscothecaImperialis]

4:33 And coal today must be scrubbed off, purging out sulphurous contents before putting to a good use.

[@kristoffermangila]

This fine documentary is brought to you by the Cargo Movin' People of Norfolk and Western.

[@christopherdibble5872]

The engineer's engineer's don't wave from the trains anymore, not like they did back in 1954, keep waving to trackside.

[@jamiemackie3994]

Well this video aged well.

[@irvinklugh8858]

VERY GOOD FILM

[@gregleuze6657]

I enjoy the educational films from the past. Interesting to see how things change over times.

[@gleanerk]

Thanks again !!!

[@franciscoleonardo151]

So very much comes from coal. Next: I remember our coal ben and the delivery of coal to our house. Hardest thing was carrying out the ash from the basement

[@1940limited]

My great uncle shoveled out the furnace every Sunday and put the ashes on the driveway.

[@kishascape]

Garden rail with gondolas to carry it out for you.

[@braised44]

My father always referred to our trash cans as"ash"cans.

[@DiscothecaImperialis]

3:58 And still coal even in the age of oil and atomic powerplants.

[@NW-gi1cp]

Cried

[@jongillette7895]

I am an avid(rabid?) N&W modeler. This was a great film a look at things we will never see again. I didn't cry, but understand how it could happen.

[@danielboone3770]

I love the N&W! Great video I have to say.

[@1940limited]

Even today we generate 30% of electricity from coal. WB mines 80 million tons a year, much of it for export.

[@MarkInLA]

Is this a film about the N&W RR or an ad for coal ??! More than half way through and still coal this coal that !!

[@tombarnes7196]

The N&W was one of the last railroads to abandon their coal-fired steam engines. In the day, RRs used about 20-25% of coal produced. No doubt coal was huge commodity for them. So it's no surprise that the N&W would sell themselves... and coal. But despite their efforts coal production has dropped ever since then.

[@DistanceNsVeterans]

That's when the A class and the y6 locomotive was used to pull tunes of coal hoppers up those mountains but yea in the future some steam locomotives like the EFE aka 844 or the GS-4 aka 4449 burnt oil well the 4449 was ment to burn oil since it came out the factor as well as the SP cabforward well cause they were all western types and there was not alot of coal in the southwestern areas so they used oil

[@Greatdome99]

Steam engines in the American southwest burned oil since there was no nearby source of coal. Plenty of oil wells in Texas and California!

[@DistanceNsVeterans]

@@Greatdome99 ok

[@1940limited]

Maybe you noticed 1208 go by, I presume it was an A.

[@2011traincrazy]

Are there ever any steam locomotive meets on these films, like say an A or a Y meeting a J-class locomotive?

[@BackshopRailProductions]

Yes, They are meets on this film

[@2011traincrazy]

I saw there are supposed to be meets between other Js but what about As or Ys?

[@2011traincrazy]

How many of them are Js meeting freight locos?

[@1940limited]

As and Ys were used in tandem at times to move heavy trains and as pushers. I've seen pushers running tender first, too.

[@stevengoldstein7890]

Sadly that proud Nation that proud people is slowly undecline look at America that once was yes there was inequality it was unfairness this is the plight of the human race anywhere anytime however America represented and still does represent Humanity's greatest hope and achievement

[@gmac8852]

Yeah Right 😂

[@semperidem7679]

What year was this film mad? My guess is sometime in the mid to late 1930s.

[@DaleThePig]

Post 1950. The streamlined locomotive you see with the red stripe is known as a Norfolk & Western J class which were constructed in 1950.

[@Eggomania86]

I'm going to say post ww2 mid to late 40's. The first J class was constructed in 1942.

[@viktordubowskii695]

This looks like late 40s because, all I see is cars from the 40s, I didn't see any cars from the 50s.

[@douglasjackson5007]

I would say late 40s. This is when more widespread use of color film was available as the allies 'acquired' the process from AGFA as spoils of war.

[@gmac8852]

Bought to you by Bituminous Bob who died from Black Lung. 😮

[@SteamKing2160]

Uh 6:49 It says Coke Coal is Coke? Seems legit.

[@backyardblacksmith]

Yep, just "bake" coal in a reduced oxygen oven, and you cook off the tar, oils, and other volatiles in coal to leave behind almost pure carbon chunks, known as coke ! #themoreyouknow

[@1940limited]

@@backyardblacksmith I used to run the charge coal on the coke oven bank at Allied Chemicals coke plant in Ashland, KY. It was quite an experience.

[@aaronhuffman4852]

No obesity epidemic then!

[@nikerailfanningttm9046]

Skinny people are lame. Weight loss programs are for loosers. You skinny people will die early anyways. We larger people are the future.

[@sirblack1619]

It is hard to watch some of these old documentaries that are a bunch of fluff.

[@1940limited]

I enjoyed it thoroughly.

[@RobertlArnoldjr-sj4ic]

They should bring coal back look at the jobs created maybe not ships but clothes heating food cooling ECT jobs jobs jobs just saying