"CHALLENGE FOR TOMORROW" VINTAGE SANTA FE RAILROAD SAFETY FILM 71002

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This 1950s Santa Fe Railroad promotional film produced by the Santa Fe Safety Department applauds the railroad company for its efforts in modernizing machinery while not cutting corners in its safety record. The film opens at Santa Fe’s Centennial Celebration of 1950 with railroad president Fred G. Gurley in Atchison, Kansas. The celebration marks the end of the steam era and welcomes diesel locomotives; however this film is primarily about progress, efficiency, and the development of the railroad, as well as safety. Throughout the film there are many examples of preventable accidents as well as safety guidelines and features that work to keep Santa Fe employees safe. The film features steam-era locomotives like the Locomotive No. 1, aka Cyrus K. Holiday, a 2-8-0, and 2-10-4 Texas type No. 5034 while diesel locomotives Warbonnet F-units, E-units, and Alco PAs, and a section of the film is devoted to the Santa Fe Railroad Tugboats.
Opening credits (0:09). Cyrus K. Holliday steam locomotive train (0:26). Press conference with Santa Fe Railroad President Gurley in Atchison, Kansas to celebrate its centennial since the company founding (0:53). Unveiling of the new Atchison Santa Fe Depot (1:18). Santa Fe Warbonnet F7 beside the Cyrus K. Holliday steam locomotive train (1:30). F7A Santa Fe Cigar Band (1:44). Santa Fe 5034 steam engine retires (2:00). Upgrading and laying new flash-butt welded rails (2:24). CTC (centralized traffic control) command (4:20). Improvement to railway coupling method (5:39). New machinery to replace railroad ties (7:15). Employee operates a motor car in Jim Crow Texas - sign for “colored waiting room” in background (10:46). Another employee in California prepares to operate a motor car (11:09). Fairmont motor car and train collision (12:15). Employee demonstrates how to safely climb the train car ladder and stand on the roof of the train car (13:14). Barge transports Santa Fe train cars in the San Francisco Bay under the San Francisco - Oakland Bay Bridge (14:11). Repair of diesel train car and new repairmen safety measures (16:05). Modernized specialized repair machinery (18:48). Wheel lathe (20:06). New machine for wheel truing (10:10). Diesel engine (20:44). Mechanical temperature control (21:00). Emergency response planning (21:30). Metallurgical microscope to identify equipment flaws (22:36). Chemical lab (24:06). Safety signs (24:32). Interior of dining car (26:32). Santa Fe shipping containers (26:36). Santa Fe Warbonnet F7 comes towards the camera and cuts to the closing scene (26:51).
Cyrus Kurtz Holliday was a capitalist and railroad builder who established the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway.
The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, often referred to as the Santa Fe or AT&SF, was one of the larger railroads in the United States. The railroad was chartered in February 1859 to serve the cities of Atchison and Topeka, Kansas, and Santa Fe, New Mexico.
One of the developments cited in the film is the new butt welded rails being installed along the ATSF: "the Santa Fe of yesterday has been rebuilt from the ground up. The days of fifty and sixty pound rail are long gone, and even the heavier rail which replaced it is now itself being replaced by rails a hundred and thirty pounds or more..." (2:30). The film also cites CTC, the centralized traffic control form of railway signalling, better, automatic coupling systems,
This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD and 2K. For more information visit www.PeriscopeFilm.com

[@rvltch]

OMG! I'd always heard about the film and my dad's participation in it but never realized that KZbin would have it! The "bad" employee named Skippy who had to leap off his motorcar was my father, A L Lawhead. He did the entire scene including the stunt. He also hated being called Skippy which, if you know railroad guys, never went away.

[@desertbob6835]

Lesson learned from old heads of long ago....when the company comes around with a film crew, dIsappear... FAST! You won't earn anything from it, and you'll NEVER live it down.

[@georgeshelton6281]

@@desertbob6835 It's nice to know; just how fast, diesel engine trains have replaced steam engine trains.

[@georgeshelton6281]

In reference to this subject; I never knew that the actor, Alan Hale Jr. played as the train engineer Casey Jones.

[@ontarioguy4707]

Thats a very interesting film.I worked on the Canadian Pacific Railroad and i would have been the guy played by your dad.Ihad a few close calls on the motor car.Not sure when this was filmed appears to be the 50s.How long did your dad work for the railroad?

[@DanzigFan-vq3zf]

And. Don messick done narration

[@THATNI99AJOHN]

It all started with shaking hands with danger , now I’m watching all the older safety videos .

[@FerroequinologistofColorado]

Your not the only one

[@MayankPrasad111]

Ikr

[@justforever96]

Exactly the same with me.

[@jamesc5993]

I can also recommend the color of danger.

[@78FullSizeBronco]

May be nearly 70 years old, but holds a good message still!

[@justforever96]

What I like about our local railroad is that it _is_ the same railroad the trains used to run over. It was part of a small road of about 50 miles, from the late 18th century to the 1950s. it shut down in 1957, and torn up, except the first 10 miles or so that ran through town to the next town, which was abandoned for a few decades. Now they run trains of granite grout to the junction with mainline railroad outside town. They relaid the rails and ties and ballast ten years ago when they restarted operations, but the rails are still the old ones, marked Bethlehem Steel, 1928. Still bolted together. I like that. Not the original rails, but they carried steam locomotives.

[@deadfreightwest5956]

This is, hands down, the finest safety film ever made. It respects the employees it was made for, who made it possible, all with a stirring score and in Technicolor. Today, we have safety videos just as long to tell us about ladder safety, at a kindergarten level. Baby-proof your workplace, babies.

[@jaminova_1969]

I once had a guy read the entire safety presentation and OSHA 10 that was printed out for 2 days, in an office the size of a closet with 5 of us!

[@stiffels0ear]

It is strange that these older films are more beautiful in color than the newer 70s.

[@JakobHill]

My grandpa had a Skippy incident back in the 60s. Northern Manitoba didn't even have gravel roads yet, so conservation officers often hitched rides on CN speeder cars. One minute they're minding their own business, the next there's a headlight coming around a blind corner. They all managed to get off in time, but the speeder was toast. Between that and all his bushplane stories I'm not sure how he survived up there.

[@coltonregal1797]

That scene with the link-and-pin couplers was sphincter-clenching. Watching somebody actually put their hand in between the ends of two moving pieces of rolling stock really puts it in perspective for you.

[@joepuckett4963]

It's amazing how they stopped the train so quick after they hit .skippy on the motor car.

[@rogerhuber3133]

A great safety film. Not many show actual things happening. Grabs your interest much better this way. Nice seeing all the older equipment.

[@pauls.3400]

Reminds me of my Dad & Grandpa. My Grandpa's engine is in the railroad museum in Portola, CA. Western Pacific #805

[@ThirdRailProductions]

Do you remember what the name of it was

[@ThirdRailProductions]

?

[@pauls.3400]

@@ThirdRailProductions I'll see if I can find out

[@waynemiller7382]

I've been to the Portola museum and drove the Geep 9 :)

[@pauls.3400]

@@waynemiller7382 Cool Wayne! My brother says there is someone on Facebook that always posts Western Pacific stuff. Hope you liked seeing my Grandpa's engine

[@nickbarman4145]

love these old videos

[@johnmcculloch4491]

This is the best santa fe video ever made, Santa fe is the best railroad that ever existed

[@Handlesarestoopid]

@@johnmcculloch4491 to me the union pacific is the best railroad in existence

[@nofeargaming9403]

John McCulloch It’s to bad that the Santa Fe railroad shut down in 1996. Edit: actually they joined forces with Burlington Northern to form the Burlington Northern Santa Fe.

[@pinrapplerex4344]

Yes

[@finnishman9624]

*Three years ago*

[@Inflec]

The narrator of this film should be familiar to any cartoon buff. It's none other than the late, great Don Messick. For those not in the know, he did loads of voice work for Hanna Barbera cartoons, most recognizable as the voice of Ranger Smith in the Yogi Bear 'toons and Dr. Benton Quest from the original Jonny Quest series, and scores of others. Very versatile voice artist.

[@bulldogsbob]

I knew it sounded familiar

[@deadfreightwest5956]

Nice to see it in non-smeared VHS quality, yet I notice some minor differences from the old tape from Pentrex. At 23:18, the narrator says, "He subjects them to a current of 10,000 volts" (well, potential) but the subsequent scene is missing. It should show a glove with a bright pinprick of light. "See that light? Reject it!"

[@RobertMCotter]

Thanks Dead, I was wondering that.

[@fromthesidelines]

Originally released in 1954, as Atchison, Kansas celebrated its 100th anniversary that year.

[@switchpointproductions7927]

It's sad that the railroad isn't the same today.

[@aestheticcruise8807]

Indeed... When the rails were ruled by steamers and now are ran by diesels and electrics...

[@SgtChip]

Yeah, if the airplanes hadn't showed up, I bet we would have high speed trains by now all across the country.

[@RailPreserver2K]

@@SgtChip now that kind of makes you wonder if maybe those companies were put in to try and completely rid of America Railroad and heck even now we're still probably going to lose the remaining passenger services that Amtrak offers as far as long distance train travel is concerned

[@SgtChip]

@@RailPreserver2K Thanks!

[@putridvomit]

We can’t stay in the past. We need more efficient and advanced forms of transport.

[@earlyjr.deloach7183]

Relic from the past: a Colored Waiting Room sign appears from 10:29 - 11:00 at a Santa Fe station somewhere in Texas in the 50s. Nice video none the less.

[@lanapoulliot7682]

I love the music in these old films

[@amtrak706]

6:45 that seems like original sound! If so, that’s quite cool. 79mph for sure

[@DK640OBrianYT]

Delightful and excellent colour. It sure is a true pleasure for the eyes. I wonder if Eastman Color Positive film stock was used, simply based on my eyeballing it because of the nature of the colours and since it has kept the imagery this well for so long, like ordinary color positive 35mm photographic film stock. The liveliness and natural saturated colour indeed points in that direction.

[@dirtydave2691]

I had the privilege of riding one of the last Santa Fe Coastliners from Los Angeles to San Diego in 1970. I was 5 and it was fascinating. Before each stop a Conductor would walk through the cars yelling out the upcoming station. "OCEANSIDE OCEANSIDE NEXT STOP OCEANSIDE". We still giggle today when I yell that to my sister. Next came Amtrak and it was a disaster.

[@jaminova_1969]

Wow, I'm envious! I once had a security guard try to kick me out of the Santa Fe Depot waiting room after the Coaster had an accident and my friend was late! Not quite as fun!

[@shanecochran1969]

I'm glad I found this gem of a video on railroading. I'm a fan of old Railroad documentary's... Thank you for uploading this.

[@sarjim4381]

Atchison was founded in 1854, and the station was built in 1954. The centennial must have also been in 1954.

[@danielkennedy1524]

Outstanding! Santa Fe all the way!!!(from Chico)

[@PeriscopeFilm]

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[@GevoGenesis92]

Bro, Santa Fe had it's own ships? That's awesome!

[@desertbob6835]

SP had a much bigger, but older, fleet. They also had the Dumbarton bridge in 1901, and the Caquinez Strait bridge by 1930. SF was SP territory.

[@PowerTrain611]

Lots of railroads did! The Central Railroad of New Jersey had car floats, tugboats and ferries. They would even serve complimentary breakfast on the ferries, not to mention the transfer from trains into Jersey City Terminal to ferries headed for Staten island was free with your ticket!

[@TheMNrailfan227]

More barges than ships

[@KutWrite]

CSX has a container fleet.

[@justforever96]

Even the Central Vermont had a fleet at one point, from New London, Connecticut. The B&M had a fleet of lakes freighters, IIRC. It was extremely common. Especially if it was just to cross a waterway on the line, that is just a thing you do when the water is too big to bridge or go around. Railroad ferries, etc.

[@kamala2111]

These are gold

[@missdebbie8131]

How cool is this channel! What a great evening watching these videos of great eras....

[@billdougan4022]

16:00 - Fairbanks Morse, Erie-Built - 6 axle passenger diesel l. They only had 2 A units, and 1 B unit. Pretty rare.

[@desertbob6835]

Pretty crappy, too! When the 90 would go up Tehachapi on the SF Chief, they used to have a rider in the engine room to reset the overspeed trip due to wheel slip. The FMs didn't have sanders! There were no repeat orders.

[@georgeshelton6281]

@@desertbob6835 This educational video also has a strong reference to when I was; listening and watching the classic Warner Bros Looney Tunes cartoon episode, it's where Foghorn Leghorn played a joke on the male cartoon barnyard hunting dog. The male cartoon barnyard hunting dog moved upward out of the way; and then Foghorn Leghorn got on the railroad tracks, this is where the diesel engine train ran him over. Daffy duck had Foghorn Leghorn all bandaged up.

[@georgeshelton6281]

@@desertbob6835 The diesel engine train didn't even kill Foghorn Leghorn, that's what.

[@jarrietfair6497]

Great video of the Santa Fe rail road

[@eoj2495]

Great copy of a great film!

[@ultramagahoosierhermit2767]

I love this channel 🇺🇸✌️

[@freighttrainsahpassing9790]

Awesome ingenuity !!!

[@splodium]

Had an ad for the car called the "Santa Fe" before the vid LOL!!

[@steadyashegoes7763]

"With CTC, trains no longer wait in sidings!" This is NOT accurate! LOL

[@desertbob6835]

"You're in for 3" is more the norm...or wait for the dog catcher.

[@Iowarail]

That was a complete line of shit, I could have earned a doctorate degree with the time I spent sitting in a siding!!!

[@oron61]

There was this politician named "Benito M." who fixed all those problems in his country once. Made all the trains run on time. Wonder what happened to the guy...

[@soarinskies1105]

Lmao from my experience talking to train crews, I knew a guy who literally sat in a siding for almost an entire day before he finally got the signal. He said after that he went straight home ate some food and went to straight to bed

[@colinanderson6421]

Santa Fe stopped using steam locomotives in freight service in 1953, Southern Pacific in 1957, and Union Pacific in 1960.

[@bboomer1948]

That E-1 @ 6:50 ? I didn't realize SF still ran E-1's in 1954. Interesting.

[@daylightman8459]

It’s got the shovel-nose for sure, but the headlight looks a bit off, as it’s protruded, not flush. Could be an E6 unit though.

[@williamschlenger1518]

Love the old fire trucks.

[@elleryparsons5766]

Love the Video.

[@johnstudd4245]

I wonder how many years of use that "new depot" saw before passenger service was eliminated. No more than 10 or 15.

[@PatsTrainVideos]

15:57 Erie Built! And that's probably why it's in the shop...

[@desertbob6835]

ATSF was indeed a great road. Robbie Krebs did his best to screw that up! I was on the SP when he screwed THAT up, too.

[@floridianrailauto9032]

What did this Robbie Krebs do?

[@briancarothers]

Hmm...maybe that was why ATSF became BNSF.

[@briancarothers]

@@floridianrailauto9032 He was president of both ATSF and SP.

[@scoobycarr5558]

@@briancarothers Maybe that's why SP became Union Pacific.

[@Handlesarestoopid]

@@scoobycarr5558 well actually SP was bought by the UP

[@oron61]

I guess the real difference between then and todays is: -Brakes (every car is now a caboose with today's pressure brakes and digital monitors) -Clothing (put a yellow vest on top the overalls, exchange the hats for hardhats, and add sunglasses) -The trains' contents (much longer, pulled with 3 locomotives, much less passenger movement.) -Communication (I'm pretty sure everyone in the crews has a walkie-talkie.) Anything I missed?

[@KutWrite]

PPE for train crew, such as gloves, boots, eye and ear protection, no reading or electronic devices on the job, "Red Zone" protection when between cars, no walking atop cars (thus no "tell-tales" as shown at the end of the film), electronic devices similar to iPads for switchlists, setoffs, pickups and to log work done, also for employee time and work records, remote control locos, almost no more human control operators (I was one) or switch towers, talk of one-man crews, alerters instead of dead-man pedals, no dropping or even riding loose cars (kicking cars) in the yard to make up trains, ETDs instead of cabooses, and I think the air brake systems were different, called ABD or something like that.

[@codyandrew2029]

@@KutWrite wait you guys can’t kick cars anymore?

[@KutWrite]

@@codyandrew2029: They did away with dropping first, back in the early 2000s. Later on, while I became a control operator, a conductor told me that kicking was made illegal, that is, with a conductor aboard the car. We had been allowed to do it as long as the conductor was firmly aboard a ladder on the trailing side of the car, holding with both hands. I did it a few times. It was scary at first, then a fun test of skill, applying the handbrake just enough to allow the car to couple, but not stop too early or bash the stationary car ahead.

[@djscrizzle]

Yesterday... Semaphores, Searchlight signals, extensive pole lines, electro-mechanical signalling systems, and Fairmount Speeders zipping from place to place. Today... The "Darth Vader" color light signals, hy-rail trucks, and 100 percent digital end to end PTC signal equipment replaced all that vintage gear which served so faithfully for years.

[@samuelanketell8190]

Great old film 👍

[@PeriscopeFilm]

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[@sdkfz2512]

Poor skippy! Lol

[@SgtChip]

When that F7A came up behind him... My brain screamed Skippy, you're an idiot.

[@whiteknightcat]

At 23:18, "he subjects them to a current of 10,000 volts". No, no, NO! He's subjecting them to a current of X number of AMPS, or he's subjecting them to an electrical charge of 10,000 volts.

[@emilychb6621]

*potential. Charge is coulomb

[@georgeshelton6281]

@@emilychb6621 This also has a strong reference to; the 'Monkees' George Mickey Dolenz Jr's 'Steam Engine 99.'

[@Benjamin0119]

Seen this video before and it's awesome. I had no idea those 1800s steam engines were that big compared to an F-unit. I thought they were smaller than that. So whatever happened to getting rid of that clickety-clack? :) Were the steam engines shown here preserved? They saved that old time loco until the time this video was made so I'd like to hope they kept it around after this if they already kept it that long.

[@justforever96]

The clickety-clack is from the joints in the rails, nothing to do with steam. Steam goes "chuff-chuff". That's why he said the clickety-clack is gone now that welded rail (semi) is being used. That is a relatively large 18th century steam loco, a Consolidation type, probably from the 1890s, so it is bigger than, say a 4-4-0 from the 1860s or 70s. But it is still pretty small. It can't be _that_ much smaller, though, since they are both running on standard gauge. The size difference is less apparent from the front, since width and height changed a lot less than length. Loading gauge has stayed relatively static, but you will notice that the cab takes up most of the height of the steam engine, and the boiler,l which is the actual locomotive, is barely as high as the headlight of the diesel. Later steam engines had much larger boilers, and were actually larger than a diesel. There is an 0-6-0 switcher in New Hampshire we pass sometimes, and it is amazing how large that actually is. They haven't made small locomotives since the 1870s, really. The "small" wheels on that engine are as big as me, and the thing is like 15' high or so.

[@Benjamin0119]

@William Walker I understand that it's the track making the clickety-clack noise. And boy, do I ever know where the chuffing sound comes from haha. I just don't understand why the clickety-clack didn't go away, like it was claimed would happen here. I still hear it when trains go by to this day. Unless it used to be even louder back then? But the sound is still here. Although, this isn't a complaint. I like the sound, heh. I will have to check the video again. I knew that wasn't a 4-4-0, still I wouldn't expect an old time consolidation to be that large in comparison to the F-unit. But, you are right that most of the height is from the cab, smokestack, domes, etc, and it is not as easy to tell from the view we have here. I wish we had another angle!

[@marvman2887]

For a German like me it’s very interesting to see this. We have nothing similar to this in Germany.😅

[@justforever96]

Nothing similar to what? Old railroad videos? I know you don't mean old locomotives, since Germany has plenty of old steam engines.

[@marvman2887]

Some kind of these Locomotives. Or something similar to the Super Chief

[@terrymcnaughton1430]

All this safety talk but not a single hard hat😃 Thanks for another great video, periscope,their great 👍

[@phantomrail7791]

Man I really wish that the southern pacific,Burlington northern,and the Santa Fe would come back,they were really cool trains miss them!! And keep BNSF in too it would be cool old vs new.

[@matthewbarge6988]

Am I the only one who had a heart attack at 5:45

[@FerroequinologistofColorado]

Nope. Your not the only one. The link and pin coupler makes me feel so nervous.

[@zigman8550]

Love the "colored waiting room" sign at 10:30

[@PeriscopeFilm]

Thanks this is a detail I'd never noticed.

[@customkey]

It shows the true reality of bigotry. Everything wasn't great in the old days.

[@altermike3197]

@@customkey Yeah, glad we moved on from that The big F7's look cool though

[@tetsuoswrath]

@@customkey It wasn't anywhere close to as racist as Hollywood and the left want to make it look either. :{

[@customkey]

So it's ok to be a little bit racist, eh?

[@dougbadgley6031]

Poor Skippy!

[@RaisedLetter]

10:45 and if you look hard enough, segregated waiting rooms

[@kpkndusa]

The Soo Line had separate waiting rooms for men and women in the early days.

[@RaisedLetter]

@@kpkndusa I can imagine many railroads had adopted Jim Crow practices such as segregated waiting rooms. Particularly in the South.

[@wtxrailfan]

1954: The beginning of the great decline and dismantling of passenger rail service. But, hey, the music is upbeat and all the workers are wearing rose-colored safety glasses ... lol. The "colored waiting room" sign shows Jim Crow was alive and well in the West as well as in the South.

[@class87srule]

A decline engineered and sponsored by the automobile industry. This is why the US is in hock to the motor car today without a continent-wide transport network.

[@PowerTrain611]

@@class87srule Can't deny that.

[@THATNI99AJOHN]

WTX Railfan didn’t see the waiting room lol

[@oron61]

That and airlines. Trains are now for some commutes in the northeast, and for its real talent of heavy and HazMat transport. It would be nice if non-hazardous trains would have a coach or two for cheap transportation for the poor, but then there are lawyers.

[@KutWrite]

No, that's only in the Texas waiting room. Western and northern racism was more subtle. Still is.

[@timosha21]

I'm a tram and I approve this video! :D

[@GenXRailMedia]

Quickest stop ever at 12:20

[@altermike3197]

Yeah, makes you wonder how they hit the guy at all

[@KutWrite]

I must've missed when the crew pulled the plug to go into emergency. They seemed too busy waving and shouting at "Skippy."

[@sturmovik1274]

Is that a Super Dome in the background at 1:50? Didn't know the Santa Fe ever had full-length domes.

[@LALtd001]

Yup. ATSF had two types of Big Domes; straight lounge cars (as used on the El Cap, Chief, and Texas Chief) and lounge-dorms (as used on the SF Chief).

[@sturmovik1274]

@@LALtd001 I knew about the El Cap Hi-Level cars, but not the others. Thanks!

[@DP-hy4vh]

7:11 - now they have big machines with hydraulic controlled arms that roll down the track to replace the ties.

[@sclpete2917]

Red over green=medium clear 30 mph for entire length of train over the switch.

[@kevinrichards3288]

Wow I didn't know they had remote control track switches back then.

[@mytech6779]

Is Skippy deaf? Quite a horn on those locomotives.

[@rvltch]

No, but he was color-blind (red-green). That was something he kept very hush-hush about and managed to cope somewhow.

[@bobbydale1938]

Safety. !! Willie

[@mobiletaskforceepsilon1112]

The steam whistle at 14:49 sounds like a N&W Y6A

[@Ccota38]

6:43 train approaches 12:12 train arrives

[@SgtChip]

When the F7A came up behind Skippy, and he was hit, he won't be getting back on the job for quite a while.

[@rvltch]

During the stunt he broke his glasses and ripped his pants. Santa Fe did not reimburse him if I remember the story correctly.

[@FerroequinologistofColorado]

Can someone explain to me how the motorcar indicator works? I’m a bit confused by how it operates.

[@RailPreserver2K]

Where the steam locomotives shown in this film saved?

[@daveyboy_]

5:46. HOly Christ does that look dangerous

[@MFXdump]

Daveyboy _ I’ve thought about that before. If it were me, I would have carried a thin piece of steel to lift the link with. Forget putting my hand in there!

[@altermike3197]

It was, imagine getting your hand smashed

[@DawsonTMiller]

A buddy of mines grandpa lost a thumb because of those couplets

[@mytech6779]

Even with the modern auto couples the guy must get in there and connect the air hose for the brakes. Although there is no smashing problem after coupling the guy can still stumble and the train start moving.

[@satanofficial3902]

This makes me think of Under Siege 2. The baddies certainly didn't practice train safety.

[@raymondleggs5508]

I wonder what happened to the 2-8-0 and 4-4-0

[@williamschlenger1518]

These machines are now antiques.

[@satanofficial3902]

Without proper training, trains can't become truly trained.

[@givemepizzaorgivemedeath3983]

Skippy was fired by the railroad... But Skippy went on to create his own brand of peanut butter and made a fortune.

[@thebusterdog6358]

Looks like Skippy bit the big wazoo. Now he'll get his railroad retirement early.

[@po9318]

No, because he'll probably get fired for his stupidity and lose his railroad retirement as a result.

[@oakrail8100]

When the train headed to skipper Me:OH NO,IT THE SUPER CHEIF

[@gr8guitarplayer]

LOOK OUT SKIPPY!!! AAAHHHH!! Living in Cali, Skippy was smoking weed.

[@kevinrichards3288]

I miss the cabooses although the FREDs which replaced them make the job a lot easier & faster.

[@santafewarbonnetproductions]

0:51 wait. what is Hannibal & St. Joseph (CB&Q) 35 doing in a Santa Fe promo

[@kleetus92]

Lol... 70 years ago californians were lost in a haze... good to see some things never change!

[@CovBert]

What wheel configuration is #5034?

[@rootbeerking2892]

The key note in knowing with alot of ATSF Steam locomotives, theyre all classified by the first two numbers. The 5000 class are Texas Types, being the wheel configuration of 2-10-4

[@greenfuzz13]

14:15 Car Float Service Richmond to China Basin

[@ronniegranillo]

this video pairs well with music by Elizabeth Cotten

[@DiscothecaImperialis]

24:05 Didn't he forget a pair of chem-proof goggles too?

[@MrUhwoody]

Trains are cool, Beavis.

[@MrUhwoody]

"Santa Fe... all the way. It's FUN to ride the train!"

[@DiscothecaImperialis]

4:23 Does this means mainline doubletracking isn't really neccessary?

[@JohnNack]

1:03 shows this is from 1957 because Santa Fe was founded in 1857

[@25mfd]

"skippy" better wake the hell up.

[@Iowarail]

Most safety advances were shoved down the throat of the railroads by the government..... Boiler Act, Safety Appliance Act, PTC, and the Rail Safety Act.

[@genreynolds6685]

Back when America was great.

[@WasatchGarandMan]

TAKE ME BACK. THE TIMELINE IS BROKEN AND WE HAVE TO GO BACK. WAKE ME UP FROM THE NIGHT MARE

[@iak2960]

Why on earth would they allow anyone to stand that close to a streamliner traveling that fast?!

[@dangrub4347]

ツiak can’t take ur bitchass seriously with that profile pic

[@altermike3197]

I dunno, they seem experienced though

[@altermike3197]

@@dangrub4347 no need to be rude, it was a year ago

[@RobertMCotter]

Especially since this is a safety film...

[@ryanwilson9555]

Metal on metal has smaller coefficient of friction than wood on metal thus lowering the force of friction between the two surfaces. As a result, 10:00 is more likely to happen. Never underestimate the power of basic physics.

[@cinnamontoast9999]

The Santa Fe phrase “nothing is permanent except progress” really need to be told to the class 1 railroads today who support psr

[@jamesroberts2115]

I noticed there were no fat guys on that track laying crew. Hard work.

[@kamilkarwat2706]

Wait a minute! Is that personal rail car @10:00 an actual thing from the past? You can use your own vehicle on the rails? That seems like a poorly thought out idea😱

[@RailPreserver2K]

Does 5034 still exist ?

[@bulldogbently]

Great video ! Not like the modern safety vidoes !

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[@RustOnWheels]

Wet Willy @18:15

[@waynemiller7382]

Not a hard hat in sight ……… I used to work in the battery shop too when I worked for a national bus company starting in 1980.

[@damiandelapp5490]

What I kinda noticed was the great advancements they boast about back savers...uh more like it penciled to do a little automation instead of having 3 guys do it.

[@KutWrite]

I'd say both economics and back-saving. Lost work days cost money, too. Plus some managers manage to maintain their humanity.

[@kjramirez3751]

*time travels to 1957 to ride the super chief*