STREAMLINER TRAINS 1940 PASSENGER RAILROAD EDUCATIONAL FILM "THE PASSENGER TRAIN" MD86534

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This 1940 black and white educational film is the first edition produced by Encyclopaedia Britannica Films Inc. The focus is on making train travel look enjoyable while expounding on the streamliners safety and comfort. It opens at a large railroad station - Union Station in Washington, D.C.- , where 1930s buses, taxis, and cars drop off passengers (:18-:32). Inside the train station, the waiting room has benches for seating (:33-:45). Passengers by their railroad and pullman tickets at windows. Money is shown being slipped under the bars and a ticket given in return (:46-1:03). Passengers show their tickets to a gateman before heading to the streamline diesel-electric locomotive train (1:04-1:33). The engineer looks over his controls while further back, the engineer’s assistant performs maintenance on the many motors and the pipes (1:34-2:00). Each passenger gets to bring one trunk free, which are loaded on the baggage car (2:01-2:10). The train also carried bags of mail, sorted inside the train in a mail room (2:11-2:20). The railway conductor looks at his stop watch, calls “All Aboard” and signals the engineer. The train door is closed and the engineer opens the throttle (2:21-3:00). The train gathers speed on the tracks. The many side tracks are shown, as are the signal switches to indicate which track the train should be on. It indicates top so he put on the brakes, shown operating, before the signal changes to go (3:01-4:00). Inside a coach, the conductor is punching tickets while passengers sit upright or reclined. Overhead are places for bags and purses (4:01-4:25). The conductor walks through the vestibule, which attaches one coach to the next (4:26-4:35). The engineer pulls on the whistle chord to indicate a road crossing. The cross gates are down and cars and kids wait to cross (4:36-4:56). The throttle is closed a bit for the sharp curve ahead (4:57-5:30). The last car is the observation car with windows, easy chairs, and lounges. People chat, read newspapers, write letters at desks, and play cards (5:31-6:10). It passes a steam engine freight train (6:11-6:17). The train passes through the deep cuts in a hillside, through a tunnel at Harper’s Ferry, and over the Potomac River (6:18-7:00). Inside the dining car, the steward seats people and hands out menus. Waiters bring the food from the kitchen, where chefs prepare it (7:01-8:13). The engineer is shown and his view as they pass towns (8:14-8:50). The Pullman porter changes seats into beds and pulls down upper berths, attaching a ladder to easily climb up (8:51-9:55). The train headlights approach the camera at night. Inside, another view of the motors is given. The engineer pulls the whistle chord (9:56-10:22).
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@RickyJr46
@RickyJr46 4 жыл бұрын
Nice to see Engineer Schroeder isn't texting while at the controls.
@davidpost428
@davidpost428 4 жыл бұрын
love it !
@Jimmyzb36
@Jimmyzb36 4 жыл бұрын
Very nice observation! We need more "Engineer Schroeder's".
@Bigbuddyandblue
@Bigbuddyandblue 4 жыл бұрын
Or drunk😜
@emmgeevideo
@emmgeevideo 2 жыл бұрын
We didn’t see his hip flask…
@alshotrodsandratrods8780
@alshotrodsandratrods8780 Жыл бұрын
They didn't give him anything to eat from the dining car. He must have packed a sandwich to eat while he drove the train. He probably had to pee in a bottle. The passengers get to sleep but Schroeder had to stay awake all night staring at the tracks.
@MrPerfesser
@MrPerfesser 4 жыл бұрын
This was most likely B&O Railroad's Train #5, the Columbian/Capitol Limited, which left Washington Union Station just after 4pm, went through Harper's Ferry, past Smithburg (Antietam battlefield) and Hancock along the Potomac River, and arrived in Pittsburgh just after 11pm en route to its final destination in Chicago at 715a the next morning. In September, 1966, I took that train in the other direction, leaving Pittsburgh in the middle of the night, to arrive in DC at 930 in the morning on my way to my first day of college.
@DerrickBoundsMusic
@DerrickBoundsMusic 6 ай бұрын
I have a brick from the Chicago B&O station's facade that was demolished decades ago. Condos have replaced most of the station on Harrison St, but they named the high-rise after the station.
@krisguntner4805
@krisguntner4805 4 жыл бұрын
Trains the most civilized way to travel.
@kevinloving3141
@kevinloving3141 4 жыл бұрын
Yes from downtowns that even today 05/31/20 large businesses are located and not somewhere in the boonies like airports are
@dexterricketts8313
@dexterricketts8313 17 күн бұрын
@@kevinloving3141 Look Ma! No having to dance the TSA Shuffle!
@RickyJr46
@RickyJr46 4 жыл бұрын
Three years ago I traveled from southern California to Florence, Italy using only trains and an ocean liner. It was a great experience.
@zlopez-steele3362
@zlopez-steele3362 4 жыл бұрын
Wow never knew that was possible
@crabbymilton390
@crabbymilton390 7 ай бұрын
Sounds interesting and I’m glad you enjoyed it. However, most people don’t want to take that much time to get there. That’s why flying is the preferred way.
@steverudder3321
@steverudder3321 4 жыл бұрын
Boy, that Mr Schroeder sure gets around. He's the engineer of all of these diesel passenger trains!😯👍
@jimhogan3446
@jimhogan3446 4 жыл бұрын
Love It. It was a great thrill riding the trains in the 40s and 50s.
@Game_Hero
@Game_Hero Жыл бұрын
Wonder why it couldn't still be the case in the 2020s like in Europe.
@crabbymilton390
@crabbymilton390 7 ай бұрын
@@Game_Hero If there was truly a widespread demand for long distance passenger rail service, the freight haulers would be tripping over themselves to offer it. AMTRAK as a whole losses money.
@Game_Hero
@Game_Hero 7 ай бұрын
​@@crabbymilton390 Almost no more. It's frankly a miracle it's still there given how car-centric design desincentivized non-car travel and made it less accessible. Manufactured lower demand means losing customers, losing customers mean losing money, with losing money the trains lose trains to make losses, making them less conveniant and pleasant, making them lose customers, making them lose demand, it's a vicious circle to the loss of all. Meanwhile in Europe, train travel put airlines out of business in Italy and Spain, freeing people of the expensive car monopoly. It's not a question of demand, it's a question of profits for the rail companies.
@crabbymilton390
@crabbymilton390 7 ай бұрын
@@Game_Hero Well most companies view profits as a good thing as do I. I think some AMTRAK lines could be turned over to private companies and they may turn a profit. Nostalgia and sentimentality are fine but should never go beyond that. You can always check out those wonderful regional railroads that provide excursions. Or rail museums. In none winter months, check out the Milwaukee County Zoo’s train. Very popular and beautiful 1.25 mile ride thru wooded areas.
@stevewhite6252
@stevewhite6252 4 жыл бұрын
Interesting that the narrator had to explain what a menu was and what a chef did. It makes you wonder what the target audience was.
@davidpost428
@davidpost428 4 жыл бұрын
second graders - we used to have explanatory films like this about the big world in the fifties.
@cathrynharrison4734
@cathrynharrison4734 4 жыл бұрын
children I think
@gonebamboo4116
@gonebamboo4116 4 жыл бұрын
Yea, I caught that too. Apparently some think children never went to a restaurant.
@slamboy66
@slamboy66 4 жыл бұрын
Attendant is now deaf from lubing valve rockers.
@chrisgottschalt7471
@chrisgottschalt7471 4 жыл бұрын
I was thinking the same thing. No hearing protection back in those days.
@gonebamboo4116
@gonebamboo4116 4 жыл бұрын
What?
@Bigbuddyandblue
@Bigbuddyandblue 4 жыл бұрын
5:40 passengers in the “observation” car with “plenty of windows” with their noses buried in newspapers and books!🤣
@Prolificposter
@Prolificposter 4 жыл бұрын
Nowadays, they take up valuable space in the Amtrak Sightseer Lounges texting and surfing the web with their tablets.
@jerroldkazynski5480
@jerroldkazynski5480 4 жыл бұрын
I criss-crossed the USA by train during the 50s & 60s. Amtrack continued passenger service afterwards, but train travel had lost its glamor. Interstate highways, comfortable autos and air travel took passengers too.
@placentahelper1
@placentahelper1 4 жыл бұрын
@Percy Harry Hotspur I love to travel by train
@gaborgredely1848
@gaborgredely1848 Жыл бұрын
@@placentahelper1 Nálunk Európàban lassan kényelmesebb vonattal utazni mint repülővel. nem kell kimenni legalább 3órával elötte , , nincs csomag vizsgálat, nem törik össze, lopják meg a csomagodat, a repüllőtérre kijutás is költség, az üllések is szélesebbek tágasabbak. Nem vársz a csomagodra, nem tünik el. Étkezési lehetõségekről nem is szólva. Budapest, Bécs bő két óra. Autóval sem lehet gyorsabban oda jutni. Nálunk van autópálya dij. Kettöt vignyetát kell venni. Osztrákot, Magyart. Az sem kevés.
@robertklose2140
@robertklose2140 2 ай бұрын
Yes, we used to travel with other people; now we are isolated in our cars, staring ahead at endless highways, racing to see who can get "there" first. As for air travel, it use to be an adventure; now it's a burden and an exercise in frustration ("Take off your shoes!").
@wtxrailfan
@wtxrailfan 4 жыл бұрын
Mr. Schroder never eats or sleeps.
@lwilton
@lwilton 4 жыл бұрын
In those days a shift was 12 hours on duty. You got beans when you went off shift at your destination. In steam days, a shift was 16 hours.
@jillsmith633
@jillsmith633 Жыл бұрын
LOL, that's what I just said above. What the heck.
@biancamatthews6844
@biancamatthews6844 2 жыл бұрын
This station is union station in DC. I live near DC, I love Union Station. Always busy, that hasn’t changed. But in the inside it has. Glad they didn’t tear down the building, the gates, doors, etc are the same.
@robertklose2140
@robertklose2140 2 ай бұрын
People so well dressed
@satanofficial3902
@satanofficial3902 4 жыл бұрын
Next ... a stop at Willoughby
@jacksons1010
@jacksons1010 4 жыл бұрын
@Gman 2060 Yes, please...Trump goes in 2020.
@Cleveland.Ironman
@Cleveland.Ironman 4 жыл бұрын
Satan Official Great Twilight Zone reference!
@GalootWrangler
@GalootWrangler 4 жыл бұрын
You're running late, Schroeder. Push push push!
@danabrown4628
@danabrown4628 4 жыл бұрын
No Trump at Willoughby
@incognito4rico
@incognito4rico 4 жыл бұрын
A place that looks like something right out of a courier and ives painting.
@OldsVistaCruiser
@OldsVistaCruiser Жыл бұрын
You can take the exact same route today on Amtrak's Capitol Limited, at least east of Pittsburgh.
@slamboy66
@slamboy66 4 жыл бұрын
At 2:58 on the front wheel you can see the traction sand pouring out .
@RIXRADvidz
@RIXRADvidz Жыл бұрын
7:25, The Trialon and Parasphere on the cover of the restaurant car menu. from the '39 World's Fair. Big Hopes for a Future
@JackieontheTrunk
@JackieontheTrunk 2 жыл бұрын
The dining car and kitchen showed how "rough" some of the tracks and cars were.
@71kaye
@71kaye 4 жыл бұрын
I can just imagine small school children watching this with undivided attention while the teacher grades their papers.
@slamboy66
@slamboy66 4 жыл бұрын
In the 70's we only had like 7 channels on tv . In those days a Magnifying glass and a dead leaf was all I needed. These days kids just go into a VIDEO COMA.
@Prolificposter
@Prolificposter 4 жыл бұрын
Some of us were those little children back in the ‘50s and 60s. Remember yes, imagination was reality😀
@Game_Hero
@Game_Hero Жыл бұрын
Watching this while the teacher grade their paper, definitely. I'm less sure about the "undivided attention" :D
@photosbyjf
@photosbyjf Жыл бұрын
I had to stop and replay to make sure, the postal worker in the mail car was packing a gun
@hedgeapple685
@hedgeapple685 Ай бұрын
RPO clerks were required to be armed.
@WesternOhioInterurbanHistory
@WesternOhioInterurbanHistory 15 күн бұрын
I met a railway post office worker once, he indeed carried a gun. It was required.
@alexturner8104
@alexturner8104 8 ай бұрын
I NEVER knew the cars and busses had to stop in order for the passengers to get out
@texaswunderkind
@texaswunderkind 6 ай бұрын
That part had me confused. Also the following bit about having to exchange money for a ticket to get on the train. SO COMPLICATED!
@gonebamboo4116
@gonebamboo4116 4 жыл бұрын
7:15 and gives them menus . . . large cards with lists of of food.
@michaelfleming40
@michaelfleming40 4 күн бұрын
I wonder if those passenger trains had feather pillows? 😊❤
@barbararussum7283
@barbararussum7283 4 жыл бұрын
Golly, doesn't the engineer get to eat or sleep? Or take a break?
@mulgerbill
@mulgerbill 4 жыл бұрын
He'll have a packed meal in his kitbag, usually sandwiches or something else that's easy to eat on the go. Most engines also have an electric hotplate that will get a lot of use brewing coffee. "Needs breaks" as we call them have to wait until the train stops at a town for passenger or mail loading and unloading. Many modern engines are fitted with chemical toilets in a very cramped compartment right next to the diesel, they aren't enjoyable places. Sleep will happen at the end of the run. Hope this helps
@masterbondofox8982
@masterbondofox8982 7 ай бұрын
Engineer never eats, he never sleeps, he never pees nor poos
@texaswunderkind
@texaswunderkind 6 ай бұрын
Have you ever been inside of an engine? They have a little potty in there.
@therandomytchannel4318
@therandomytchannel4318 29 күн бұрын
Canadian locomotive even have a microwave oven in there 😊
@zelphx
@zelphx Жыл бұрын
What a time!!!
@greglivo
@greglivo 7 ай бұрын
They keep saying how Engineer Schroeder keeps a watchful eye to make sure the tracks were clear. In reality there is nothing he could do to stop the train in time. He would just hit the brakes, blow the horn, and hope for the best.
@texaswunderkind
@texaswunderkind 6 ай бұрын
You are right. A passenger train could stop in a shorter distance than a big coal train, but still not quickly enough if a vehicle or person appeared suddenly in front of the train.
@jvolstad
@jvolstad 4 жыл бұрын
It looks like a very pleasant way to travel. And look, no looters or rioters in sight. 👍
@DistanceNsVeterans
@DistanceNsVeterans 3 жыл бұрын
Those good OH F units
@uncinarynin
@uncinarynin 2 жыл бұрын
Really, was there a guy maintaining the engine all the time while the train is running? I thought that was done in workshops.
@PRR-xx2hp
@PRR-xx2hp 10 ай бұрын
At 3:36, the motion of the piston is releasing the brakes, not applying them.
@azmike1
@azmike1 7 ай бұрын
Somewhere on the east coastal area maybe Vermont?
@stevetaylor8698
@stevetaylor8698 4 жыл бұрын
It is cheaper for me to fly the Atlantic than take a train from my local station in northern England to say, Madrid (Spain)
@jillsmith633
@jillsmith633 Жыл бұрын
So the engineer doesn't get to eat, sleep, or go to the bathroom all day and all night? Well, that ain't right.
@cats0182
@cats0182 2 жыл бұрын
Looks like DC Union Station
@hg60justice
@hg60justice 2 жыл бұрын
the very first diesels is why they must be promoting it. wasn't many years before this ge tested their steam turbine electric. and over the next decade steam pretty much disappeared.
@beegee22
@beegee22 2 жыл бұрын
👍👏
@ebt12
@ebt12 7 ай бұрын
Any idea which town was shown at time point 8:29?
@aliakyuz8173
@aliakyuz8173 2 ай бұрын
Tren tipi guzel
@personalbyedl
@personalbyedl 10 ай бұрын
Oh my God... so cool! The train when it emerges from the tunnel at Harpers Ferry, West Virginia shows the overhead view of the trestle to the right. It was here my wife and I walked over to check out the train tunnel and the multitude of combination and padlocks around the support beams of the trestle. A freight train did come through the tunnel that day and I captured that footage. kzbin.info/www/bejne/qYu2n4iNed2Bl5Ysi=hyAkU7ZqbyuBG52I&t=498 Additional footage of the tracks and side trestle can be seen at: 4:34 and 7:02
@MatthewBaileyBeAfraid
@MatthewBaileyBeAfraid 4 жыл бұрын
It is a pity that we allowed the Automobile Industry to dismantle not just interstate Train Travel in the USA, but also 98% of all Local, Intrastate Train Services, and especially the Local, Intra-City Rail-Services, such as the Red-Cars in Los Angeles, or the Dallas Streetcars in Dallas Texas (which used to run from Oak Cliff in the Southwest of Dallas, to South Dallas, then a rather “tony” neighborhood” in Dallas, through East Dallas, and all the way up to “The Park Cities” in what was the “Suburbs” of North Dallas: Highland Park, and University Park. The East Dallas destination of Lakewood, which had a rail line along Swiss Avenue, where the “Upper Class” of Dallas lived (along with those in “Cedar Springs”). These Electric Rail and Streetcar lines also ran to Waco, Corsicana, Terrell, Tyler, Plano, Denton, Dennison/Sherman, Arlington, Fort Worth, and even to Huntsville and San Jacinto (just to the North and Northeast of Houston - Houston at the time was a small suburb of Galveston, although by the 1920s, Houston had begun to slowly emerge as the preferred Port over Galveston, due to the devastation of the 1900 Hurricane that killed between 6,000 and 12,000 people; roughly 1/10th to 1/5th of its population at the time. Galveston was one of the Largest Port-Cities in the world prior to the 1900 Hurricane, and while it began to recover as a tourist destination during Prohibition due to the ease of smuggling liquor from Mexico into the USA through Galveston or Houston, it never recovered its status as the Primary Southern Port of the USA, a status that transferred to both Mobile and Houston, who have vied for that title ever since). But, back to Trains... Even with the growing competition of Air Travel, Passenger Trains, and Rail Transportation as a whole would have survived, competing against the automobile quite successfully to this day had not the larger US Automobile Companies colluded to buy-out all of the passenger rail services in the USA, and to begin shutting them down to force the population to spend more money on cars. Would that not have happened, it would now be possible to travel from Alaska all the way to the southernmost portions of Argentina, or Terra del Fuego in Chile, by very affordable and comfortable rail services (that the USA barely has anything remotely similar existing today). And... We would likely see a much more integrated country, where Urban Centers were not so vital (nor so large) to our current economy and Social Structures. That is beside the fact that Global Warming would be a vastly less dire problem that we are currently facing due to the dominance of the Automobile and displacement of rail transportation.
@alshotrodsandratrods8780
@alshotrodsandratrods8780 Жыл бұрын
It wasn't the automobile that killed train travel. 18 wheelers took the freight business and Greyhound and the airlines took the passengers.
@crabbymilton390
@crabbymilton390 7 ай бұрын
Most people appreciate the freedom of their own cars which isn’t a bad thing.
@MatthewBaileyBeAfraid
@MatthewBaileyBeAfraid 7 ай бұрын
@@crabbymilton390 Which is a completely different subject than depriving THE EVEN GREATER NUMBER without cars the ability to HAVE ANY FREEDOM OF movement at all. Most people in the USA have never owned a car, and never will.
@MatthewBaileyBeAfraid
@MatthewBaileyBeAfraid 7 ай бұрын
@@crabbymilton390 Never mind that it isn’t a mutually exclusive thing. People CAN both “Own a car” AND want to travel cross country by a means MORE ECONOMICAL than Air traffic OR driving themselves. Dismantling the infrastructure to sell a marginally few more cars to people who would eventually buy one anyway IS STILL depriving those exact same people of an option that permits of just as much, if not a greater freedom, due to being able to use either local transportation systems (as in NYC, Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, and other cities to a lesser degree PRIOR to the exact same people finally getting around to sabotage these transportation systems (or in EVERY CITY, EVER in the REST of the developed world, where people have BOTH options - Spain is a really good example. No place in the country is more than about 90 minutes from your front door, even in the most rural parts of Spain.. i.e.: most of it), AND the ability to rent a car at any destination in the USA. The choice at the time WAS NOT “We have to choose one or the other,” but rather was THREE COMPANIES deciding no one but them should have the means of making that choice at all. There is a very famous movie from the 1980s about this very subject that nearly everyone in the audience missed. It was SORT OF about an animated rabbit framed for a murder. But most people missed WHY he was framed, for which there were two reasons, both applying to OUR reality, even if one was metaphoric. The larger reason was LITERAL: 1) Showing how some people justify genocide (look at the year in which the movie is set). 2) That the “Big Three” (which would become four before shrinking again to three) of the Auto Makers in the US systematically took over and dismantled the VAST Inter-State AND Intra-State/Local Transportation systems to BOTH a) Confine those they wanted included in that”Genocide” they couldn’t make happen in the USA to specific locations, denying them BOTH the freedom of movement AND a means to build Generational Wealth, and 2) Prevent as MANY in the remaining Middle-Class reaping ENORMOUS DIVIDENDS with the GI Bill from KEEPING that wealth as Generational Assets that could then lift even more into the Middle Class of the USA. I got to learn all of this by being in the class of people who wanted to do all of the above (the “Upper” and “Capitalist” classes, called in Europe “The Ruling Classes”). We COULD have BOTH Had not people of my Grandfather’s and Great-Grandfather’s generations been so attached to their bigotries and prejudices.
@MatthewBaileyBeAfraid
@MatthewBaileyBeAfraid 7 ай бұрын
@@crabbymilton390 All things that accompanied the dismantling of “Main Street” businesses and Family Farms, the latter no longer viable for any purely “Family Business” due to the nature of Agricultural Technologies, and their expense (both in acquisition and operation/maintenance). Norman Borlaug was a Family Friend and who my mother studied under for her work in Agricultural Horticulture. This was something he TRIED to prevent, but failed to do. Which could very well have consequences FAR BEYOND something as trivial as National and Regional/Local Transportation systems in comparison.
@boathemian7694
@boathemian7694 7 ай бұрын
Today we prefer being less comfortable sitting in traffic paying far more.
@texaswunderkind
@texaswunderkind 6 ай бұрын
Airlines are significantly faster, but much more expensive. Automobiles are about the same speed, but can be customized to go exactly where you like, and cost nothing for additional passengers. I still think a modern approach to passenger rail could work (like how Uber changed taxi services), but navigating around the limited freight rail capacity would be very tough.
@mikerice5298
@mikerice5298 4 жыл бұрын
in 1941 more than three million cars where made in the USA only 139 more where made during the entire war
@davidpost428
@davidpost428 4 жыл бұрын
wow !
@OldsVistaCruiser
@OldsVistaCruiser 4 жыл бұрын
There were far more than 139 examples of 1942 models built between December 7, 1941 and the end of civilian manufacture on February 1, 1942.
@jacksons1010
@jacksons1010 4 жыл бұрын
@@OldsVistaCruiser You are correct. I see that Plymouth alone built about 24,000 cars in January of 1942, most of which were then requisitioned for military use. I expect the other manufacturers did not immediately shut down either.
@mrpeel3239
@mrpeel3239 4 жыл бұрын
What station at start?
@frankweiss597
@frankweiss597 4 жыл бұрын
I'm guessing Baltimore.
@MrPerfesser
@MrPerfesser 4 жыл бұрын
Washington Union Station. Built in 1907. Restored to its original glory in the 1980's.
@xr6lad
@xr6lad 10 ай бұрын
Bit of a concern that same engineer is driving the train day and night with no replacement. Was Fatigue a city in Ohio then?
@texaswunderkind
@texaswunderkind 6 ай бұрын
If the engineer fell asleep, you might get a free trip to Denver rather than stopping in Chicago.
@s.o.g.298
@s.o.g.298 Жыл бұрын
I refuse to ride a train with no crime, just joking, imagine what was and what is, then and now, past and present, sad...
@nateswoodentrainstudios3806
@nateswoodentrainstudios3806 3 жыл бұрын
Wait so this film is from 1940 but diesels weren't around until the 1950's or 60's.
@PeriscopeFilm
@PeriscopeFilm 3 жыл бұрын
No not true. There were diesels in WWII and before ...
@nateswoodentrainstudios3806
@nateswoodentrainstudios3806 3 жыл бұрын
@@PeriscopeFilm oh really I guess I got my history wrong.
@OldsVistaCruiser
@OldsVistaCruiser Жыл бұрын
Diesels came out in the 1930s. Railroads would have dieselized by 1945-1950 if it wasn't for World War II.
@OldsVistaCruiser
@OldsVistaCruiser Жыл бұрын
And ALL the railroads were completely dieselized before 1960.
@alshotrodsandratrods8780
@alshotrodsandratrods8780 Жыл бұрын
The Yankee Clipper was a streamlined diesel with a stainless steel body. It was in regular service in 1937.
@godrakull
@godrakull 3 жыл бұрын
When the USA had the fastest trains ... not anymore
@raan2deep
@raan2deep 9 ай бұрын
Trains are faster now than they were before. Trust me, I have to work around live tracks.
@williamkeith8944
@williamkeith8944 4 жыл бұрын
It was a concerted effort by auto and airline manufacturers and their lobbyists that killed widespread American passenger train transportation.
@lwilton
@lwilton 4 жыл бұрын
More like it was the fact that the railroads were taxed to support construction of roads and airports, which were government funded by taxes and railroads weren't, combined with obtuse and restrictive fare rulings by the ICC, and finally by loss of the mail contracts, which by that point had been all that was keeping passenger trains alive. If course the fact that you could get a long distance in hours in an airplane rather than many days in a train ate into long distance passenger numbers, and highways and cars did the same for shorter distances.
@wtxrailfan
@wtxrailfan 4 жыл бұрын
@@lwilton The post office terminating mail contracts with railroads in 1967 was the final nail that killed passenger rail service in the U.S. Most people don't realize how much passenger rail service was subsidized by railroad mail contracts, even during the heyday of rail travel.
@curtislowe4577
@curtislowe4577 4 жыл бұрын
How disappointing. Even when this documentary was made producer(s), director(s) and writer(s) were already idiots ignorant of the subject matter. The signal scene at 3:30 shouldn't have been written as though trains start and stop the way auto traffic does.
@mulgerbill
@mulgerbill 4 жыл бұрын
Script was written for most likely third graders, demonstrated by the description of dining car menus at 7:15. The finer points of block working and interlocking theory could wait. From the way the signal went straight from Stop to Clear Normal without cycling through Normal Warning suggests that it was regulating a junction and not mainline follow on moves
@K1OIK
@K1OIK 4 жыл бұрын
They are all dead
@gonebamboo4116
@gonebamboo4116 4 жыл бұрын
Wages if sin
@seththomas9105
@seththomas9105 Жыл бұрын
The boy at the RR Xing is alive. 97 years young Buck Nekkid is living in a adult entertainment actors retirement community 100 miles northwest of Fargo, ND. Asked about his most memorable role he excitedly exclaimed "Either my role as 'excited young boy in The Passenger Train' or the Marilyn Monroe basement tapes" said Mr. Nekkid with a twinkle in his eye.
@emmgeevideo
@emmgeevideo 2 жыл бұрын
Before anyone gets too nostalgic, notice how the menial jobs were performed by people that the railroads didn’t think were worthy of the more highly skilled and highly paid jobs. No one should be nostalgic for those days.
@keithdukes5990
@keithdukes5990 2 жыл бұрын
Why ever not???🤔🤨🙄
@emmgeevideo
@emmgeevideo 2 жыл бұрын
@@keithdukes5990 I guess if you were a black man who couldn't get a higher paying job and were relegated to menial jobs that were hard and boring you might not be very nostalgic.
@Nunofurdambiznez
@Nunofurdambiznez Жыл бұрын
There's a race baiter in EVERY crowd. sheesh... can't you just enjoy a video for a video's sake?!?!
@emmgeevideo
@emmgeevideo Жыл бұрын
@@Nunofurdambiznez The truth will set you free...
@s.o.g.298
@s.o.g.298 Жыл бұрын
Sky caps, so called menial labor , were skilled and employed, my grandfather took great pride in his job, he picked cotton before a he was a waiter, a cook, saving his money raised 7 kids, was was married to the same woman for 76 years, owned his own business, and filled a park with kids grandchildren and great grand children many family reunions were people of color, my family, Irish, native American, African american, Spanish, we were Americans, I don't know what we are now.
@ergot57
@ergot57 Жыл бұрын
A shame the way the USA treated its railroads, but hey, we all got 4 cars in the driveway.
@slackthompson6984
@slackthompson6984 10 ай бұрын
RIP B&O , enjoy your scamtrak Americans
@zelphx
@zelphx Жыл бұрын
I notice: the waiters are "clever", and not "skilled". An innocent sentence like this shows the disregard for the black table help.
@Nunofurdambiznez
@Nunofurdambiznez Жыл бұрын
There's nothing wrong with being "clever".. race baiter....
@Wildstar40
@Wildstar40 3 жыл бұрын
The narrator finishes his sentences kind of weirrrrd. Like thissss. He seems to add extra inflection at the end of what ever he saysssss. Do you notice it tooooo ? Why does he do thaaaaaat ? So annoyingggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg.
@joebufford2972
@joebufford2972 9 ай бұрын
I know. I know you're already going to say the servants were black and I can't help that some say it was the best job and the worst job. I'm not black. I can't say I just wish it didn't happen 😪
@simonjackson7269
@simonjackson7269 4 жыл бұрын
That Narrator!!! I can't listen him....
@keithdukes5990
@keithdukes5990 2 жыл бұрын
You can't put a sentence together either!!!🤨🧐🙄🤪
@crabbymilton390
@crabbymilton390 9 ай бұрын
Sounds like Ed Sullivan
@ebt12
@ebt12 7 ай бұрын
This sounds like it was made for kids.
@EcosseZA
@EcosseZA Ай бұрын
Did they always speak llike thiiiiiiiiiiis, in days gone byyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyye? I'm not so suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuure. It's just fakeeeeeeeeeeeery.
@steverudder3321
@steverudder3321 8 ай бұрын
Whenever Mr Schroder is in the cab operating the train all by himself with nobody to talk to, he casually sparks up a doobie 💥😮‍💨😙💨🥴 and enjoys himself as the miles and miles go by. Keep on trackin', Mr Schroder! RxR 🛤
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