Southern Pacific Railroad Film Dangerous Playground [4K]

This is a company film produced by the Southern Pacific Railroad in 1950 showing the danger that faces children when they use railroad property as a playground. If you enjoyed this video please do not forget to hit that LIKE and SUBSCRIBE button.

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[@danielcarroll3358]

"Danny", the youngest, is me. My father was Edward Carroll who made this film. That was a long time ago!

[@cambridgeh.lutece6658]

Whoa, that's so cool! You got to see the Southern Pacific steam engines before they all disappeared. Lucky.

[@jackboerner1901]

@Jim 762 it’s a film, it’s not real. Lol

[@crr311sux5]

@@jackboerner1901 They didn't have CGI back then, my bet is they actually made this film in person

[@louisaugustexvi4515]

wow! ur a celebrity

[@danielcarroll3358]

@@louisaugustexvi4515 And I was on a program filler about making puppets on the Mickey Mouse Club too. I got my 15 minutes of fame in 4th grade when Captain Fortune, a local children's TV show host, showed *Dangerous Playground* on his show.

[@cambridgeh.lutece6658]

Someone has to give that organ player a medal.

[@mackpines]

7:56 "One of the worst things children do is to throw rocks." Nowadays, the worst things they do is tag the cars. 8:47 Nice Alco PA. 9:37 Guy on the left teleports into the twilight zone.

[@Caje-zf8md]

Back in the late 50's-early 60's there was a small railroad located near our neighborhood. Beyond the railroad were the hills where we spent a lot of time hiking and climbing. Long lines of parked boxcars formed a barrier so to get to the hills, we had to either climb over the boxcar couplers or make a dash under boxcar. Before doing so, we'd pause and listen to see if a locomotive was pulling out the slack just prior to moving. If our parents had only known what us kids were doing back then it would've given them nightmares.

[@WesternOhioInterurbanHistory]

hey atleast you checked for a train, unlike most people

[@michaelhd]

the organ player is outta control someone needs to stop him!!!

[@BackshopRailProductions]

LOL I know!!!

[@johnnyjames7139]

I think the Hammond player did a good job. Perhaps you have never attended a silent film accompanied by a Mighty Wurlitzer?

[@keithjackman8718]

I saw myself in this entire video, from riding the "Acorn Train" in Paralta Park, Oakland, CA (now gone), to playing on and around the rail cars in the Santa Rosa, CA yards. Yes, I even played on the NWP trestle just north of Hearn Ave., Santa Rosa. I rode up and down on the lift span of the Benicia Bridge with the operator, Stan West many a time (post steam era). Rode in the caboose with pop on the NWP over the long trestle just outside the tunnel (seen in video) near Tiburon, CA. Visited the Bayshore yards as a kid in the early 50"s also seen in this video. And yes, I did chase the trains for filming purposes, but didn't come as close as the guy in the Studebaker. Okay, I'll quite rambling and say "I WAS THERE!" Great memories of a bygone era. Keith

[@Tone76602]

I used to look forward when our grandfather took us to Paralta Park to ride the steam and diesel Daylight Passenger train in the early 1960's, which was beside the Oakland Auditorium. Two sets of tracks.

[@1958]

Another winner from the SP, but OMG that organ soundtrack! I didn't think anything could make me miss mid-century program music, but I was wrong!

[@BackshopRailProductions]

I know, that organ music is something else lol

[@desertbob6835]

That's a Hammond with a Leslie 31H. Whoever was the organist was an old-time theater organist. Sounds like Gaylord Carter, ol" "Flicker Fingers." Sounds screwy now, but in 1950, the steely sound of a Hammond sounded somewhat like a real organ to most people. It doesn't.

[@General-Eclectic]

Awesome backward smoke at 6:30

[@TakeMeToChurchill]

That grand scale locomotive from the beginning’s actually still running at Whiskey River in Wisconsin... I run and fire her occasionally. Sure doesn’t look like that now!

[@berkeleygang1834]

Was it originally at Balboa Park, in San Diego?

[@dlchambers]

6:34 - air pollution solved!

[@celrailfan4449]

The railroads are my all time favorite playground, I'm obviously very much aware of the very dangerous things about it, so I always make sure if there ain't no locomotive going back in fort while I'm there, and if there is one, then I'm going onto one that there's no locomotive moving so I make sure everything is safe to walk around

[@JamesParsons-ds1pn]

Love this video -- at the 5:45 mark it starts showing the Tiburon Trestle, and my current house sits on top of where the tunnel (leading to the Trestle) entrance was. The oak trees are still there, but the tunnel was filled in late in the 1960's after it partially collapsed. Fun to see this old history of this area.

[@jacksalvin364]

Dangerous Playground on the Southern Pacific Railroad.

[@tommytruth7595]

8:00, beautiful whistle on that steam locomotive.

[@RandomRetroTrainGuy82]

That’s an air horn

[@JoyceLund]

A leslie a 200 air horn

[@crr311sux5]

That's a Leslie A-200

[@dalecomer5951]

I've read that the later GS Class locomotives had both a steam whistle and a Nathan Air Horn so the later cab forwards may have had a steam whistle and a Leslie air horn.

[@b3j8]

You youngsters you! Why I oughta...

[@nostall123productions]

This film is cool in all, but I love how obvious it is that the train isn’t coming towards don at 6:34, it was reversing but likely was fast forwarded in post!

[@danielcarroll3358]

No CGI available. This was all edited in the next room from where I am now in the basement of my mother's house.

[@JungleYT]

Hell, this made me nervous and have butterflies watching them! LOL That creepy, dead body in the attic music... Hey, fancy Ride! - 9:09

[@HoosierDaddy_]

That's a beautiful locomotive

[@phillyfan-182]

8:56 like the Thomas the tank engine episode whistles and sneezes when the boys threw stones at Henry’s passenger cars and broke the glass

[@christopherdibble5872]

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

[@aldoclaverini903]

It's perfect

[@alandunstan5485]

At 2:45 when they're supposedly entering onto railroad property, they're actually exiting. If you pause the video at that point you can see the four tracks which were behind them.

[@BackshopRailProductions]

Good eye Alan! I didn't catch that until you pointed it out.

[@alandunstan5485]

I continued to watch the video and they're actually just going through the fence to get from one section of the yards (either receiving or departure tracks) to the classification tracks. When they make their way back through the fence when running from the cop they meet the engineer who has just arrived or is getting ready to depart.

[@joshuatoro8977]

Are we sure the officer wasn’t trying to arrest us kids and put them in jail

[@TehBellcarl]

Really need mike and the bots here.

[@craigtorso]

Would love a list of locations. Some of it looks like Oakland, maybe Martinez?? Regardless, it almost all looks like the Bay Area.

[@raym1811]

I recognized the Penninsula as well, was trying to make out the name of the street with the wig-wag signal. Burlingame? San Mateo?

[@PowerTrain611]

Yards are the worst place to screw around. No air on the cars, less braking force. You really have to plan way ahead when you're switching a cut of 10 cars with only the independent brake to slow you down, anything gets in your way, it disrupts your planning. Usually doesn't end well.

[@johnfitzgerald1192]

11:20

[@jackhollandcsxnsandawvrfan3800]

👋👋👋

[@Tolya1979]

Good moral education.

[@b3j8]

That silly Don on the bridge! He didn't see all those side platforms where the barrels(of water) were?

[@franciscoleonardo151]

I have been asked if I brake when ever I see some one trying to cross the tracks in front of me... I stated, ' NO' I hit them first then I only apply a service application. Once the train is set up I will take more air. You do not understand what you are asking". The person seemed horrified about my statement therefor, I explained how all the operation worked. I did say I could use up all my air then have no brakes when I needed to stop. Sort of quick and not all true since I would stop but that was simple enough for them to understand. I am surprised at the attitude of Me first and you watch out for me.

[@fordlandau]

Creepy organ music