Streamliners of Yesteryear

[@jackchen7003]

The streamlines were so luxurious !

[@tombarnes7196]

A real treat of COLOR shots from the Golden Age of railroading!

[@JackF99]

This video really brings home the idea that after the steam era (when railroads had unique appearing locomotives) all the trains became alike, powered by Alco PA or EMD F Unit Diesels and those locos were nearly identical to one another.

[@natehill8069]

I always liked the water troughs they added to allow them to refuel under way.

[@trainsupporter9088]

Wonderful video! I wish I could have experienced those trains!

[@kyletroknya2419]

Me too! The Hiawatha looked like a dream to ride 🚂 🖤🧡💛

[@trainliker100]

Mistake on the Chicago Aurora & Elgin (CA&E) by saying the cars were "gas electric". They were pure electric.

[@mike32277]

Narrator made an error on the Zephyr and M-10000. It was in fact the gasoline (not diesel) powered M-10000 that was scrapped for the war effort. Not the diesel powered Zephyr.

[@djfitzgerald111]

I counted a half dozen mistakes in the narration, but heck, I've never seen most of this footage before.

[@HSMiyamoto]

That first clip of the Southern Pacific Daylight powered by a GS-4 4-8-4 locomotive is probably between Ventura and Santa Barbara, where the Pacific Surfliner and Coast Starlight run by many times a day. The paralleling highway is, of course, now a multi-lane freeway, US 101.

[@berkeleygang1834]

Single headlight - either an earlier GS-2 or GS-3. GS-4 (and GS-5) had two headlights stacked vertically. Later GS class 4-8-4s, like the original GS-1, were not streamlined.

[@mediatrainfan0282]

From the 1820s to the late 1950s, considered to be the golden age of American railroading.

[@maxwellwalcher6420]

Would my friends and i restore the Streamliners.

[@xqqqme]

The mountain pass in New Mexico is Raton (Ra-TONE), not Ratan.

[@stephenheath8465]

omg haha

[@jamielacourse7578]

The only thing missing is the projector noise at the back of the room and the cranky teacher......

[@DASCO2136]

Hey do you know the name of the song that they play during the credits of this video tape? Been looking for it for ages, heard it lots of times but don't know the name of it

[@davidrichie9570]

Are the train sounds dubbed? Were movie cameras available to consumers back then that could record sound?

[@BalticFilms144]

The streamlined 4-6-4s were actually F7s. The F6s were non streamlined

[@BalticFilms144]

@@Matts_Conrail_Chicago_Mainline Why wouldn't I be here

[@Greatdome99]

And here I thought I knew what a 'streamliner' was. Guess I was mistaken.

[@jslasher1]

Too bad about the lack of focus. However, despite many factual errors by the narrator, the film serves its' purpose well.

[@alcopower5710]

Awesome video . 8:35.....im from Alton, IL

[@RSDX99]

No matter who posts a video there is always a few people who like to point out errors. I wonder when we can see their mistake free videos?

[@andrewandreas2625]

Never mind you got Amtrak now.

[@andgate2000]

Lots of picky rail fan comment here.

[@djfitzgerald111]

Relax kiddo. Just breathe into that paper bag. Mommy will be home soon.

[@marka5478]

Too much foam, not enough facts.

[@geoffreylee5199]

At the end, the SP and PRR roach coaches were terrible.

[@Robbi496]

Actually, the SP made sure their trains were clean as a whistle, even if you had to tolerate an Automat Car!

[@christopherorourke6543]

The SP always made sure that the Coast Starlight made its run from Los Angeles to Seattle on time. Today the Coast Starlight makes the run in 35 hours, back in the mid to late 1970’s before the damned FRA imposed the maximum speed limit for all trains can only go up to 79 MPH. The Coast Starlight made the run from Los Angeles to Seattle in just 28 hours.

[@tompao7832]

@@christopherorourke6543 As far as I know there never was a SP train called "the Coast Starlight"...

[@christopherorourke6543]

@@tompao7832 Southern Pacific did have a Coast Starlight that ran at night between Los Angeles & San Francisco along with the Lark which was an all sleeper train at night. I have a 1954 national railroad book of timetables of all railroad in the mid 1950’s. The Southern Pacific Coast Route had the Coast Daylight, Coast Starlight, the Lark & the San Francisco-Salinas train called the Del Monte which was their most favorite train.