The Pennsylvania Railroad Fire Safety

This very rare color film, produced by the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1955, centers around fighting fires aboard several locomotives, and was intended to teach crews about the types of fires they are likely to face. Also included is what equipment is available to flight the blazes and how to specifically fight each type of fire.
This highly collectible train video gives us a chance to see excellent color footage of vintage Pennsylvania Railroad diesel and electric locomotives (some of them on fire!) plus real 1950-'s railroad men at work. Some of the engines shown are GG1's, B-5's, VH-50's, switchers, and a few Pennsy Steamers!

[@jaminova_1969]

I can't believe the "most labor friendly" president doesn't think these hardworking railroad employees deserve paid time off like everyone else!

[@PaulNoake]

We had an engineroom fire in an ALCO locomotive here in Victoria Australia in 1990. Fortunately it was 3rd unit it was well involved in fire all we could do is uncouple the units and place the ALCO in the cripple siding and call the local fire department. Unfortunately it was DBF it was later hauled to Ballarat Loco depot and scrapped on site the other 2 locos which were Australian built EMD GT-26s were put back on the train and back on the move to Adelaide South Australia

[@dustbowlhammer7119]

I assume the silent part was when the two men were cursing up a storm😆

[@FerroequinologistofColorado]

The sound was cut out due to copyright reasons

[@mattskey1]

@@FerroequinologistofColorado ah I now

[@DanknDerpyGamer]

@@FerroequinologistofColorado * due to fraudulent ContentID claims that one could appeal if they wanted to (and even if unsuccssful, worth a try).

[@rapman5791]

@@DanknDerpyGamerwhat are you waiting for?? Get your brief written esquire.

[@CoasterQ]

The fire on 5755 put out less smoke than the normal Alco.

[@s.sestric9929]

So, they were expected to go into an enclosed, smoke-filled engine room with no breathing apparatus and discharge CO2 in there? That's nuts.

[@cobrellie]

S. SESTRIC I was thinking exactly the same thing ...

[@hoganrichard9627]

Sure, a man's life is cheaper than a train engine don't you know.😵😠 oh yeah it's "safety first" until it cuts into profits. That's why asbestos is STILL being made and used today.

[@vondumozze738]

I imagine it was expected of them. OBA's and Scott packs were unheard-of. Can you picture them telling the HFIC, or supervisor "Well, it was too smokey so we lett it 🔥 ". I'm not taking a side, just looking at it differently. 🤔

[@loganbaileysfunwithtrains606]

I’d assume that there’s got to be decent ventilation inside the engine room with the car body length vents but yeah, it’s a bit strange to use CO2, dry powder would be safer for crew to use and I’m surprised they didn’t equip dry powder in engine rooms, powder works better than gas on typical grease and oil fueled fires anyways

[@DowntownDeuce2]

@@loganbaileysfunwithtrains606 Dry powder? That is used for flammable metals. I don't think it would do the turbos or electric motor windings any good either.

[@youtubeaddict-1868]

There's always a guy named Bill in these old videos. Bill sure was a popular name back in the day.

[@QuadMochaMatti]

Billy, don't be a hero.

[@williamhetrick1550]

Still is

[@anthonygonzalez7488]

04:20 / Life never changes. Put the blame on the workers first, then excuse the management team of responsibility.

[@hoganrichard9627]

That's never changed. No matter what business you're in.

[@minidriversouthsweden5137]

There’s something about the older instructor video that I like. It’s simple and not like today where’s the same video is much more complicated and harder to understand but this one is sweet.

[@erzahler1930]

We also didn't have billions of $ or € in liability claims, or someone instituting a $1 million lawsuit because he "suffered" a hangnail on the job!

[@minidriversouthsweden5137]

@@erzahler1930 true so.

[@jackhackett80]

if only training videos today were produced this well. They all have new-age music and real people "acting" so unconvincing one finds themself in a constant state of cringe while watching

[@mattskey1]

Agreed

[@williamhetrick1550]

Educational. I like it. History

[@frankortolano5886]

Ah good old GG 1s

[@mattskey1]

their beautiful

[@ReadingAreaRailfan]

Good ol' alco PA's and EMD E6's

[@QuadMochaMatti]

Baldwin Sharknose sighting at 15:51?

[@H-24-66]

Oh wow a Baldwin Centipede

[@stephenheath8465]

I had no idea that the Pennsy had Alco PA's

[@mattalbrecht7471]

"Engine room is full of smoke.... And the sound drops out at 2:23 . What should we do???"

[@Thunderbolt_1000_Siren]

Copyright is why the sound was muted

[@DanknDerpyGamer]

@@Thunderbolt_1000_Siren I thought it was from a ContentID claim that was over one of the sounds - IF that IS the case, they should appeal, as naturally occurring sounds are not eligible for ContentID protection.

[@Thunderbolt_1000_Siren]

@@DanknDerpyGamer No the claim was for a certain music track. Though the claim should be invalid due to the age of the music which very likely lost it's license. Just another way for music royalties to keep robbing creators and even worse music companies to exploit it with false claims so they can make fraudulent money. It's sickening but fascist Google could care less.

[@DanknDerpyGamer]

@@Thunderbolt_1000_Siren Still, worth it for the uploader to at least try to appeal, you never know. (Your content is really awesome btw :D )

[@joshuabessire9169]

Here's what they said: Fireman: engine room's full of smoke. Engineer: you going back there to spray smothering CO2? Fireman: hell no! Pensy don't pay enough for me to kill myself. Engineer: smart man. Let's get the hell out of here.

[@moregltfirephotography4857]

You must be actually insane if you think I'm going into an enclosed space with minimal lighting filled with smoke to save an engine with 1 minute of CO2

[@loganbaileysfunwithtrains606]

We have an electrical room at work it’s built from a 40ft shipping container so it’s rather solid and airtight, we have a CO2 system inside and management is like “if you are in there and the alarm goes off you better be out the door before the first cycle of the siren because you’ll be trapped and suffocated” needless to say I don’t spend much time in there

[@williamhetrick1550]

PA LOCO

[@yz8302]

Some shops have many fire extinguishers in every place but employees were told once fire alarm goes off, don’t fight against fire, run to the muster point. What are those fire extinguisher for? For bylaw only?

[@theq4602]

P much

[@MajorT0m]

Here in UK the general consensus is to ring the fire brigade, then use fire extinguishers to fight the fire _if_ you are not putting yourself at risk.

[@loganbaileysfunwithtrains606]

Could be for self rescue purposes

[@rapman5791]

Insurance regulators require them. They are for looks, not for use. As soon as an employee uses one the insurance company raises the rate and denies the claim.

[@timpriddy349]

Logo 40 footers.........now boxcars are dull......thanks future

[@SocialistDistancing]

When life was so much simpler. Everyone didn't need or want a voice.

[@ssbohio]

The sounds fails between 2:30 & 2:55.

[@thatredfokker]

ssbohio The original uploader said two copyright claims were hitting that portion of audio. He said the best thing to do was to remove it.

[@ssbohio]

MohawkNotMountain That's unfortunate.

[@ssbohio]

MohawkNotMountain I wonder how there could be copyright claims on ringing bells and sounds of fire?

[@SgtChip]

Yeah. Pretty unfortunate. I wanted to hear what happened!

[@Zebrails]

PRR Training Film "What In Blazes" More introduction and no skipped sounds. In two parts, however.