America's Railroads Volume II A Great Railroad at Work

[@asullivan4047]

Interesting/informative/entertaining. Excellent photography job enabling viewers to better understand what the orator is describing. Remember the " Singing Break Men " 🎸🎶 Jimmie Rogers. Whom was a genuine steam locomotive break men till changing careers to a singing entertainer ( 1926 thru 1933 ). Most memorable song. " Break Man's Blues 😭 ". Had the good fortune to travel on 2 different steam locomotives 🚂scenic train rides. Smoky Mountains N.C. Durango & Silverton Colorado. Very relaxing viewing the countryside.😉. Those meals served in the dining cars. Sounded very edible& served professionally -!!!😋

[@ctfirebattchief]

If you watch around the 34 minute 50 second mark on the video. the scene where the woman is purchasing a lower birth from NYC to Boston on the night owl. The date of travel, is December the 6 1941. She will be in Boston, when the world changed.

[@alecbutler2450]

Wow. Nice catch there. I have watched this film many times since I was a kid and had no idea of this moment of time.

[@cannonheubner569]

my dad used to have a boxed set of these tapes

[@TomedysTrains]

Thanks for uploading the full version of A Great Railroad at work! Well, alright, the intro with the boy at the station watching the old New Haven Ten Wheeler steam locomotive and its train is missing. But it has the track work scene as well as the travel agent in Grand Central scene to name a couple that are in the "full" version of this film. This was one of the most impressive public relations films any American railroad put out during the 1940s. They got Lowell Thomas to narrate it, he was a celebrity in his day; it's kind of like having Tucker Carlson narrating a public relations video for CSX today. However, one thing that I find irritating about this is with the script. Whoever wrote the script that Lowell Thomas read put WAY too much emphasis on New England throughout it, almost in a biased way. "NEW ENGLAND at work, NEW ENGLAND on the move" NEW ENGLAND NEW ENGLAND NEW ENGLAND etc etc. The New York New Haven & Hartford Railroad served lots of [Southern] New England AND [Downstate] New York, they had a huge amount of trackage in both. In fact, in the days before the Penn Central was formed, the New Haven was the railroad that served the most boroughs of New York City; serving every borough except Staten Island.

[@johnhagan7742]

Yeah, my favorite part was track laying and repair.

[@jesseusgrantcanales]

Could you upload part one?

[@0759trainz]

This is my favorite Railroad promotional film for many reasons

[@asullivan4047]

Well researched and presented -!!!😉.