OMG! I'd always heard about the film and my dad's participation in it but never realized that RUclips would have it! The "bad" employee named Skippy who had to leap off his motorcar was my father, A L Lawhead. He did the entire scene including the stunt. He also hated being called Skippy which, if you know railroad guys, never went away.
Lesson learned from old heads of long ago....when the company comes around with a film crew, dIsappear... FAST! You won't earn anything from it, and you'll NEVER live it down.
Thats a very interesting film.I worked on the Canadian Pacific Railroad and i would have been the guy played by your dad.Ihad a few close calls on the motor car.Not sure when this was filmed appears to be the 50s.How long did your dad work for the railroad?
This is, hands down, the finest safety film ever made. It respects the employees it was made for, who made it possible, all with a stirring score and in Technicolor. Today, we have safety videos just as long to tell us about ladder safety, at a kindergarten level. Baby-proof your workplace, babies.
What I like about our local railroad is that it _is_ the same railroad the trains used to run over. It was part of a small road of about 50 miles, from the late 18th century to the 1950s. it shut down in 1957, and torn up, except the first 10 miles or so that ran through town to the next town, which was abandoned for a few decades. Now they run trains of granite grout to the junction with mainline railroad outside town. They relaid the rails and ties and ballast ten years ago when they restarted operations, but the rails are still the old ones, marked Bethlehem Steel, 1928. Still bolted together. I like that. Not the original rails, but they carried steam locomotives.
John McCulloch It’s to bad that the Santa Fe railroad shut down in 1996. Edit: actually they joined forces with Burlington Northern to form the Burlington Northern Santa Fe.
That scene with the link-and-pin couplers was sphincter-clenching. Watching somebody actually put their hand in between the ends of two moving pieces of rolling stock really puts it in perspective for you.
Relic from the past: a Colored Waiting Room sign appears from 10:29 - 11:00 at a Santa Fe station somewhere in Texas in the 50s. Nice video none the less.
My grandpa had a Skippy incident back in the 60s. Northern Manitoba didn't even have gravel roads yet, so conservation officers often hitched rides on CN speeder cars. One minute they're minding their own business, the next there's a headlight coming around a blind corner. They all managed to get off in time, but the speeder was toast. Between that and all his bushplane stories I'm not sure how he survived up there.
@@SgtPotatoChip6356 now that kind of makes you wonder if maybe those companies were put in to try and completely rid of America Railroad and heck even now we're still probably going to lose the remaining passenger services that Amtrak offers as far as long distance train travel is concerned
@@waynemiller7382 Cool Wayne! My brother says there is someone on Facebook that always posts Western Pacific stuff. Hope you liked seeing my Grandpa's engine
I had the privilege of riding one of the last Santa Fe Coastliners from Los Angeles to San Diego in 1970. I was 5 and it was fascinating. Before each stop a Conductor would walk through the cars yelling out the upcoming station. "OCEANSIDE OCEANSIDE NEXT STOP OCEANSIDE". We still giggle today when I yell that to my sister. Next came Amtrak and it was a disaster.
Wow, I'm envious! I once had a security guard try to kick me out of the Santa Fe Depot waiting room after the Coaster had an accident and my friend was late! Not quite as fun!
Delightful and excellent colour. It sure is a true pleasure for the eyes. I wonder if Eastman Color Positive film stock was used, simply based on my eyeballing it because of the nature of the colours and since it has kept the imagery this well for so long, like ordinary color positive 35mm photographic film stock. The liveliness and natural saturated colour indeed points in that direction.
At 23:18, "he subjects them to a current of 10,000 volts". No, no, NO! He's subjecting them to a current of X number of AMPS, or he's subjecting them to an electrical charge of 10,000 volts.
Nice to see it in non-smeared VHS quality, yet I notice some minor differences from the old tape from Pentrex. At 23:18, the narrator says, "He subjects them to a current of 10,000 volts" (well, potential) but the subsequent scene is missing. It should show a glove with a bright pinprick of light. "See that light? Reject it!"
Lots of railroads did! The Central Railroad of New Jersey had car floats, tugboats and ferries. They would even serve complimentary breakfast on the ferries, not to mention the transfer from trains into Jersey City Terminal to ferries headed for Staten island was free with your ticket!
Even the Central Vermont had a fleet at one point, from New London, Connecticut. The B&M had a fleet of lakes freighters, IIRC. It was extremely common. Especially if it was just to cross a waterway on the line, that is just a thing you do when the water is too big to bridge or go around. Railroad ferries, etc.
Seen this video before and it's awesome. I had no idea those 1800s steam engines were that big compared to an F-unit. I thought they were smaller than that. So whatever happened to getting rid of that clickety-clack? :) Were the steam engines shown here preserved? They saved that old time loco until the time this video was made so I'd like to hope they kept it around after this if they already kept it that long.
The clickety-clack is from the joints in the rails, nothing to do with steam. Steam goes "chuff-chuff". That's why he said the clickety-clack is gone now that welded rail (semi) is being used. That is a relatively large 18th century steam loco, a Consolidation type, probably from the 1890s, so it is bigger than, say a 4-4-0 from the 1860s or 70s. But it is still pretty small. It can't be _that_ much smaller, though, since they are both running on standard gauge. The size difference is less apparent from the front, since width and height changed a lot less than length. Loading gauge has stayed relatively static, but you will notice that the cab takes up most of the height of the steam engine, and the boiler,l which is the actual locomotive, is barely as high as the headlight of the diesel. Later steam engines had much larger boilers, and were actually larger than a diesel. There is an 0-6-0 switcher in New Hampshire we pass sometimes, and it is amazing how large that actually is. They haven't made small locomotives since the 1870s, really. The "small" wheels on that engine are as big as me, and the thing is like 15' high or so.
@William Walker I understand that it's the track making the clickety-clack noise. And boy, do I ever know where the chuffing sound comes from haha. I just don't understand why the clickety-clack didn't go away, like it was claimed would happen here. I still hear it when trains go by to this day. Unless it used to be even louder back then? But the sound is still here. Although, this isn't a complaint. I like the sound, heh. I will have to check the video again. I knew that wasn't a 4-4-0, still I wouldn't expect an old time consolidation to be that large in comparison to the F-unit. But, you are right that most of the height is from the cab, smokestack, domes, etc, and it is not as easy to tell from the view we have here. I wish we had another angle!
The narrator of this film should be familiar to any cartoon buff. It's none other than the late, great Don Messick. For those not in the know, he did loads of voice work for Hanna Barbera cartoons, most recognizable as the voice of Ranger Smith in the Yogi Bear 'toons and Dr. Benton Quest from the original Jonny Quest series, and scores of others. Very versatile voice artist.
Pretty crappy, too! When the 90 would go up Tehachapi on the SF Chief, they used to have a rider in the engine room to reset the overspeed trip due to wheel slip. The FMs didn't have sanders! There were no repeat orders.
@@desertbob6835 This educational video also has a strong reference to when I was; listening and watching the classic Warner Bros Looney Tunes cartoon episode, it's where Foghorn Leghorn played a joke on the male cartoon barnyard hunting dog. The male cartoon barnyard hunting dog moved upward out of the way; and then Foghorn Leghorn got on the railroad tracks, this is where the diesel engine train ran him over. Daffy duck had Foghorn Leghorn all bandaged up.
1954: The beginning of the great decline and dismantling of passenger rail service. But, hey, the music is upbeat and all the workers are wearing rose-colored safety glasses ... lol. The "colored waiting room" sign shows Jim Crow was alive and well in the West as well as in the South.
A decline engineered and sponsored by the automobile industry. This is why the US is in hock to the motor car today without a continent-wide transport network.
That and airlines. Trains are now for some commutes in the northeast, and for its real talent of heavy and HazMat transport. It would be nice if non-hazardous trains would have a coach or two for cheap transportation for the poor, but then there are lawyers.
I guess the real difference between then and todays is: -Brakes (every car is now a caboose with today's pressure brakes and digital monitors) -Clothing (put a yellow vest on top the overalls, exchange the hats for hardhats, and add sunglasses) -The trains' contents (much longer, pulled with 3 locomotives, much less passenger movement.) -Communication (I'm pretty sure everyone in the crews has a walkie-talkie.) Anything I missed?
PPE for train crew, such as gloves, boots, eye and ear protection, no reading or electronic devices on the job, "Red Zone" protection when between cars, no walking atop cars (thus no "tell-tales" as shown at the end of the film), electronic devices similar to iPads for switchlists, setoffs, pickups and to log work done, also for employee time and work records, remote control locos, almost no more human control operators (I was one) or switch towers, talk of one-man crews, alerters instead of dead-man pedals, no dropping or even riding loose cars (kicking cars) in the yard to make up trains, ETDs instead of cabooses, and I think the air brake systems were different, called ABD or something like that.
@@codyandrew2029: They did away with dropping first, back in the early 2000s. Later on, while I became a control operator, a conductor told me that kicking was made illegal, that is, with a conductor aboard the car. We had been allowed to do it as long as the conductor was firmly aboard a ladder on the trailing side of the car, holding with both hands. I did it a few times. It was scary at first, then a fun test of skill, applying the handbrake just enough to allow the car to couple, but not stop too early or bash the stationary car ahead.
Yesterday... Semaphores, Searchlight signals, extensive pole lines, electro-mechanical signalling systems, and Fairmount Speeders zipping from place to place. Today... The "Darth Vader" color light signals, hy-rail trucks, and 100 percent digital end to end PTC signal equipment replaced all that vintage gear which served so faithfully for years.
There was this politician named "Benito M." who fixed all those problems in his country once. Made all the trains run on time. Wonder what happened to the guy...
Lmao from my experience talking to train crews, I knew a guy who literally sat in a siding for almost an entire day before he finally got the signal. He said after that he went straight home ate some food and went to straight to bed
Man I really wish that the southern pacific,Burlington northern,and the Santa Fe would come back,they were really cool trains miss them!! And keep BNSF in too it would be cool old vs new.
Metal on metal has smaller coefficient of friction than wood on metal thus lowering the force of friction between the two surfaces. As a result, 10:00 is more likely to happen. Never underestimate the power of basic physics.
The key note in knowing with alot of ATSF Steam locomotives, theyre all classified by the first two numbers. The 5000 class are Texas Types, being the wheel configuration of 2-10-4
10:48 "Let's look at two people who operate motorcars, one in Texas and one in California." The sign for the "Colored Waiting Room" tells me we're starting in Texas.
Daveyboy _ I’ve thought about that before. If it were me, I would have carried a thin piece of steel to lift the link with. Forget putting my hand in there!
Even with the modern auto couples the guy must get in there and connect the air hose for the brakes. Although there is no smashing problem after coupling, the guy can still stumble and the train start moving.
Most safety advances were shoved down the throat of the railroads by the government..... Boiler Act, Safety Appliance Act, PTC, and the Rail Safety Act.
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OMG! I'd always heard about the film and my dad's participation in it but never realized that RUclips would have it! The "bad" employee named Skippy who had to leap off his motorcar was my father, A L Lawhead. He did the entire scene including the stunt. He also hated being called Skippy which, if you know railroad guys, never went away.
Lesson learned from old heads of long ago....when the company comes around with a film crew, dIsappear... FAST! You won't earn anything from it, and you'll NEVER live it down.
@@desertbob6835 It's nice to know; just how fast, diesel engine trains have replaced steam engine trains.
In reference to this subject; I never knew that the actor, Alan Hale Jr. played as the train engineer Casey Jones.
Thats a very interesting film.I worked on the Canadian Pacific Railroad and i would have been the guy played by your dad.Ihad a few close calls on the motor car.Not sure when this was filmed appears to be the 50s.How long did your dad work for the railroad?
And. Don messick done narration
May be nearly 70 years old, but holds a good message still!
It all started with shaking hands with danger , now I’m watching all the older safety videos .
Your not the only one
Ikr
Exactly the same with me.
I can also recommend the color of danger.
This is, hands down, the finest safety film ever made. It respects the employees it was made for, who made it possible, all with a stirring score and in Technicolor. Today, we have safety videos just as long to tell us about ladder safety, at a kindergarten level. Baby-proof your workplace, babies.
I once had a guy read the entire safety presentation and OSHA 10 that was printed out for 2 days, in an office the size of a closet with 5 of us!
What I like about our local railroad is that it _is_ the same railroad the trains used to run over. It was part of a small road of about 50 miles, from the late 18th century to the 1950s. it shut down in 1957, and torn up, except the first 10 miles or so that ran through town to the next town, which was abandoned for a few decades. Now they run trains of granite grout to the junction with mainline railroad outside town. They relaid the rails and ties and ballast ten years ago when they restarted operations, but the rails are still the old ones, marked Bethlehem Steel, 1928. Still bolted together. I like that. Not the original rails, but they carried steam locomotives.
It is strange that these older films are more beautiful in color than the newer 70s.
love these old videos
This is the best santa fe video ever made, Santa fe is the best railroad that ever existed
@@johnmcculloch4491 to me the union pacific is the best railroad in existence
John McCulloch It’s to bad that the Santa Fe railroad shut down in 1996.
Edit: actually they joined forces with Burlington Northern to form the Burlington Northern Santa Fe.
Yes
*Three years ago*
That scene with the link-and-pin couplers was sphincter-clenching. Watching somebody actually put their hand in between the ends of two moving pieces of rolling stock really puts it in perspective for you.
Relic from the past: a Colored Waiting Room sign appears from 10:29 - 11:00 at a Santa Fe station somewhere in Texas in the 50s. Nice video none the less.
My grandpa had a Skippy incident back in the 60s. Northern Manitoba didn't even have gravel roads yet, so conservation officers often hitched rides on CN speeder cars. One minute they're minding their own business, the next there's a headlight coming around a blind corner. They all managed to get off in time, but the speeder was toast. Between that and all his bushplane stories I'm not sure how he survived up there.
A great safety film. Not many show actual things happening. Grabs your interest much better this way. Nice seeing all the older equipment.
It's sad that the railroad isn't the same today.
Indeed... When the rails were ruled by steamers and now are ran by diesels and electrics...
Yeah, if the airplanes hadn't showed up, I bet we would have high speed trains by now all across the country.
@@SgtPotatoChip6356 now that kind of makes you wonder if maybe those companies were put in to try and completely rid of America Railroad and heck even now we're still probably going to lose the remaining passenger services that Amtrak offers as far as long distance train travel is concerned
@@RailPreserver2K Thanks!
We can’t stay in the past. We need more efficient and advanced forms of transport.
It's amazing how they stopped the train so quick after they hit .skippy on the motor car.
Reminds me of my Dad & Grandpa. My Grandpa's engine is in the railroad museum in Portola, CA. Western Pacific #805
Do you remember what the name of it was
?
@@ThirdRailProductions I'll see if I can find out
I've been to the Portola museum and drove the Geep 9 :)
@@waynemiller7382 Cool Wayne! My brother says there is someone on Facebook that always posts Western Pacific stuff. Hope you liked seeing my Grandpa's engine
I had the privilege of riding one of the last Santa Fe Coastliners from Los Angeles to San Diego in 1970. I was 5 and it was fascinating. Before each stop a Conductor would walk through the cars yelling out the upcoming station. "OCEANSIDE OCEANSIDE NEXT STOP OCEANSIDE". We still giggle today when I yell that to my sister. Next came Amtrak and it was a disaster.
Wow, I'm envious! I once had a security guard try to kick me out of the Santa Fe Depot waiting room after the Coaster had an accident and my friend was late! Not quite as fun!
Originally released in 1954, as Atchison, Kansas celebrated its 100th anniversary that year.
How cool is this channel! What a great evening watching these videos of great eras....
I love the music in these old films
Outstanding! Santa Fe all the way!!!(from Chico)
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Delightful and excellent colour. It sure is a true pleasure for the eyes.
I wonder if Eastman Color Positive film stock was used, simply based on my eyeballing it because of the nature of the colours and since it has kept the imagery this well for so long, like ordinary color positive 35mm photographic film stock. The liveliness and natural saturated colour indeed points in that direction.
6:45 that seems like original sound! If so, that’s quite cool. 79mph for sure
Great video of the Santa Fe rail road
At 23:18, "he subjects them to a current of 10,000 volts". No, no, NO! He's subjecting them to a current of X number of AMPS, or he's subjecting them to an electrical charge of 10,000 volts.
*potential. Charge is coulomb
@@emilychb6621 This also has a strong reference to; the 'Monkees' George Mickey Dolenz Jr's 'Steam Engine 99.'
Great copy of a great film!
Nice to see it in non-smeared VHS quality, yet I notice some minor differences from the old tape from Pentrex. At 23:18, the narrator says, "He subjects them to a current of 10,000 volts" (well, potential) but the subsequent scene is missing. It should show a glove with a bright pinprick of light. "See that light? Reject it!"
Thanks Dead, I was wondering that.
Bro, Santa Fe had it's own ships? That's awesome!
SP had a much bigger, but older, fleet. They also had the Dumbarton bridge in 1901, and the Caquinez Strait bridge by 1930. SF was SP territory.
Lots of railroads did! The Central Railroad of New Jersey had car floats, tugboats and ferries. They would even serve complimentary breakfast on the ferries, not to mention the transfer from trains into Jersey City Terminal to ferries headed for Staten island was free with your ticket!
More barges than ships
CSX has a container fleet.
Even the Central Vermont had a fleet at one point, from New London, Connecticut. The B&M had a fleet of lakes freighters, IIRC. It was extremely common. Especially if it was just to cross a waterway on the line, that is just a thing you do when the water is too big to bridge or go around. Railroad ferries, etc.
These are gold
Atchison was founded in 1854, and the station was built in 1954. The centennial must have also been in 1954.
I love this channel 🇺🇸✌️
Is that a Super Dome in the background at 1:50? Didn't know the Santa Fe ever had full-length domes.
@@LALtd001
I knew about the El Cap Hi-Level cars, but not the others. Thanks!
Seen this video before and it's awesome.
I had no idea those 1800s steam engines were that big compared to an F-unit. I thought they were smaller than that.
So whatever happened to getting rid of that clickety-clack? :)
Were the steam engines shown here preserved? They saved that old time loco until the time this video was made so I'd like to hope they kept it around after this if they already kept it that long.
The clickety-clack is from the joints in the rails, nothing to do with steam. Steam goes "chuff-chuff". That's why he said the clickety-clack is gone now that welded rail (semi) is being used.
That is a relatively large 18th century steam loco, a Consolidation type, probably from the 1890s, so it is bigger than, say a 4-4-0 from the 1860s or 70s. But it is still pretty small. It can't be _that_ much smaller, though, since they are both running on standard gauge. The size difference is less apparent from the front, since width and height changed a lot less than length. Loading gauge has stayed relatively static, but you will notice that the cab takes up most of the height of the steam engine, and the boiler,l which is the actual locomotive, is barely as high as the headlight of the diesel. Later steam engines had much larger boilers, and were actually larger than a diesel. There is an 0-6-0 switcher in New Hampshire we pass sometimes, and it is amazing how large that actually is. They haven't made small locomotives since the 1870s, really. The "small" wheels on that engine are as big as me, and the thing is like 15' high or so.
@William Walker I understand that it's the track making the clickety-clack noise. And boy, do I ever know where the chuffing sound comes from haha. I just don't understand why the clickety-clack didn't go away, like it was claimed would happen here. I still hear it when trains go by to this day. Unless it used to be even louder back then? But the sound is still here. Although, this isn't a complaint. I like the sound, heh.
I will have to check the video again. I knew that wasn't a 4-4-0, still I wouldn't expect an old time consolidation to be that large in comparison to the F-unit. But, you are right that most of the height is from the cab, smokestack, domes, etc, and it is not as easy to tell from the view we have here. I wish we had another angle!
10:45 and if you look hard enough, segregated waiting rooms
The Soo Line had separate waiting rooms for men and women in the early days.
@@kpkndusa I can imagine many railroads had adopted Jim Crow practices such as segregated waiting rooms. Particularly in the South.
The narrator of this film should be familiar to any cartoon buff. It's none other than the late, great Don Messick. For those not in the know, he did loads of voice work for Hanna Barbera cartoons, most recognizable as the voice of Ranger Smith in the Yogi Bear 'toons and Dr. Benton Quest from the original Jonny Quest series, and scores of others. Very versatile voice artist.
I knew it sounded familiar
Awesome ingenuity !!!
I'm a tram and I approve this video! :D
Love the "colored waiting room" sign at 10:30
Thanks this is a detail I'd never noticed.
It shows the true reality of bigotry. Everything wasn't great in the old days.
@@customkey Yeah, glad we moved on from that
The big F7's look cool though
@@customkey It wasn't anywhere close to as racist as Hollywood and the left want to make it look either. :{
So it's ok to be a little bit racist, eh?
16:00 - Fairbanks Morse, Erie-Built - 6 axle passenger diesel l. They only had 2 A units, and 1 B unit. Pretty rare.
Pretty crappy, too! When the 90 would go up Tehachapi on the SF Chief, they used to have a rider in the engine room to reset the overspeed trip due to wheel slip. The FMs didn't have sanders! There were no repeat orders.
@@desertbob6835 This educational video also has a strong reference to when I was; listening and watching the classic Warner Bros Looney Tunes cartoon episode, it's where Foghorn Leghorn played a joke on the male cartoon barnyard hunting dog. The male cartoon barnyard hunting dog moved upward out of the way; and then Foghorn Leghorn got on the railroad tracks, this is where the diesel engine train ran him over. Daffy duck had Foghorn Leghorn all bandaged up.
@@desertbob6835 The diesel engine train didn't even kill Foghorn Leghorn, that's what.
I'm glad I found this gem of a video on railroading. I'm a fan of old Railroad documentary's... Thank you for uploading this.
That E-1 @ 6:50 ? I didn't realize SF still ran E-1's in 1954. Interesting.
It’s got the shovel-nose for sure, but the headlight looks a bit off, as it’s protruded, not flush. Could be an E6 unit though.
Great old film 👍
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For a German like me it’s very interesting to see this. We have nothing similar to this in Germany.😅
Nothing similar to what? Old railroad videos? I know you don't mean old locomotives, since Germany has plenty of old steam engines.
Some kind of these Locomotives. Or something similar to the Super Chief
Love the old fire trucks.
1954: The beginning of the great decline and dismantling of passenger rail service. But, hey, the music is upbeat and all the workers are wearing rose-colored safety glasses ... lol. The "colored waiting room" sign shows Jim Crow was alive and well in the West as well as in the South.
A decline engineered and sponsored by the automobile industry. This is why the US is in hock to the motor car today without a continent-wide transport network.
@@class87srule Can't deny that.
WTX Railfan didn’t see the waiting room lol
That and airlines. Trains are now for some commutes in the northeast, and for its real talent of heavy and HazMat transport.
It would be nice if non-hazardous trains would have a coach or two for cheap transportation for the poor, but then there are lawyers.
No, that's only in the Texas waiting room.
Western and northern racism was more subtle. Still is.
Where the steam locomotives shown in this film saved?
All this safety talk but not a single hard hat😃
Thanks for another great video, periscope,their great 👍
Had an ad for the car called the "Santa Fe" before the vid LOL!!
Without proper training, trains can't become truly trained.
Red over green=medium clear 30 mph for entire length of train over the switch.
Santa Fe stopped using steam locomotives in freight service in 1953, Southern Pacific in 1957, and Union Pacific in 1960.
7:11 - now they have big machines with hydraulic controlled arms that roll down the track to replace the ties.
ATSF was indeed a great road. Robbie Krebs did his best to screw that up! I was on the SP when he screwed THAT up, too.
What did this Robbie Krebs do?
Hmm...maybe that was why ATSF became BNSF.
@@floridianrailauto9032 He was president of both ATSF and SP.
@@briancarothers Maybe that's why SP became Union Pacific.
@@scoobycarr5558 well actually SP was bought by the UP
I wonder how many years of use that "new depot" saw before passenger service was eliminated. No more than 10 or 15.
I guess the real difference between then and todays is:
-Brakes (every car is now a caboose with today's pressure brakes and digital monitors)
-Clothing (put a yellow vest on top the overalls, exchange the hats for hardhats, and add sunglasses)
-The trains' contents (much longer, pulled with 3 locomotives, much less passenger movement.)
-Communication (I'm pretty sure everyone in the crews has a walkie-talkie.)
Anything I missed?
PPE for train crew, such as gloves, boots, eye and ear protection, no reading or electronic devices on the job, "Red Zone" protection when between cars, no walking atop cars (thus no "tell-tales" as shown at the end of the film), electronic devices similar to iPads for switchlists, setoffs, pickups and to log work done, also for employee time and work records, remote control locos, almost no more human control operators (I was one) or switch towers, talk of one-man crews, alerters instead of dead-man pedals, no dropping or even riding loose cars (kicking cars) in the yard to make up trains, ETDs instead of cabooses, and I think the air brake systems were different, called ABD or something like that.
@@KutWrite wait you guys can’t kick cars anymore?
@@codyandrew2029: They did away with dropping first, back in the early 2000s. Later on, while I became a control operator, a conductor told me that kicking was made illegal, that is, with a conductor aboard the car.
We had been allowed to do it as long as the conductor was firmly aboard a ladder on the trailing side of the car, holding with both hands. I did it a few times.
It was scary at first, then a fun test of skill, applying the handbrake just enough to allow the car to couple, but not stop too early or bash the stationary car ahead.
Yesterday... Semaphores, Searchlight signals, extensive pole lines, electro-mechanical signalling systems, and Fairmount Speeders zipping from place to place.
Today... The "Darth Vader" color light signals, hy-rail trucks, and 100 percent digital end to end PTC signal equipment replaced all that vintage gear which served so faithfully for years.
Poor skippy! Lol
When that F7A came up behind him... My brain screamed Skippy, you're an idiot.
Quickest stop ever at 12:20
Yeah, makes you wonder how they hit the guy at all
I must've missed when the crew pulled the plug to go into emergency. They seemed too busy waving and shouting at "Skippy."
0:51 wait. what is Hannibal & St. Joseph (CB&Q) 35 doing in a Santa Fe promo
Wow I didn't know they had remote control track switches back then.
Poor Skippy!
I wonder what happened to the 2-8-0 and 4-4-0
Am I the only one who had a heart attack at 5:45
Nope. Your not the only one. The link and pin coupler makes me feel so nervous.
"With CTC, trains no longer wait in sidings!"
This is NOT accurate!
LOL
"You're in for 3" is more the norm...or wait for the dog catcher.
That was a complete line of shit, I could have earned a doctorate degree with the time I spent sitting in a siding!!!
There was this politician named "Benito M." who fixed all those problems in his country once. Made all the trains run on time. Wonder what happened to the guy...
Lmao from my experience talking to train crews, I knew a guy who literally sat in a siding for almost an entire day before he finally got the signal. He said after that he went straight home ate some food and went to straight to bed
Man I really wish that the southern pacific,Burlington northern,and the Santa Fe would come back,they were really cool trains miss them!! And keep BNSF in too it would be cool old vs new.
Back when America was great.
The steam whistle at 14:49 sounds like a N&W Y6A
6:43 train approaches 12:12 train arrives
Those damn link and pin couplers.
Back then, you knew how long someone worked for the railroad by the number of fingers he had missing.
8:39 Ouch!
Love the Video.
Safety. !! Willie
Metal on metal has smaller coefficient of friction than wood on metal thus lowering the force of friction between the two surfaces. As a result, 10:00 is more likely to happen. Never underestimate the power of basic physics.
Is Skippy deaf? Quite a horn on those locomotives.
No, but he was color-blind (red-green). That was something he kept very hush-hush about and managed to cope somewhow.
When the F7A came up behind Skippy, and he was hit, he won't be getting back on the job for quite a while.
During the stunt he broke his glasses and ripped his pants. Santa Fe did not reimburse him if I remember the story correctly.
1:03 shows this is from 1957 because Santa Fe was founded in 1857
14:15 Car Float Service Richmond to China Basin
These machines are now antiques.
Can someone explain to me how the motorcar indicator works? I’m a bit confused by how it operates.
This makes me think of Under Siege 2.
The baddies certainly didn't practice train safety.
What wheel configuration is #5034?
The key note in knowing with alot of ATSF Steam locomotives, theyre all classified by the first two numbers.
The 5000 class are Texas Types, being the wheel configuration of 2-10-4
TAKE ME BACK. THE TIMELINE IS BROKEN AND WE HAVE TO GO BACK. WAKE ME UP FROM THE NIGHT MARE
Lol... 70 years ago californians were lost in a haze... good to see some things never change!
LOOK OUT SKIPPY!!! AAAHHHH!! Living in Cali, Skippy was smoking weed.
Looks like Skippy bit the big wazoo. Now he'll get his railroad retirement early.
No, because he'll probably get fired for his stupidity and lose his railroad retirement as a result.
10:48 "Let's look at two people who operate motorcars, one in Texas and one in California."
The sign for the "Colored Waiting Room" tells me we're starting in Texas.
5:46. HOly Christ does that look dangerous
Daveyboy _
I’ve thought about that before. If it were me, I would have carried a thin piece of steel to lift the link with. Forget putting my hand in there!
It was, imagine getting your hand smashed
A buddy of mines grandpa lost a thumb because of those couplets
Even with the modern auto couples the guy must get in there and connect the air hose for the brakes. Although there is no smashing problem after coupling, the guy can still stumble and the train start moving.
@@mytech6779 Thus the modern red zone and related rules.
"skippy" better wake the hell up.
4:23 Does this means mainline doubletracking isn't really neccessary?
Does 5034 still exist ?
The Santa Fe phrase “nothing is permanent except progress” really need to be told to the class 1 railroads today who support psr
Why on earth would they allow anyone to stand that close to a streamliner traveling that fast?!
ツiak can’t take ur bitchass seriously with that profile pic
I dunno, they seem experienced though
@@dangrub4347 no need to be rude, it was a year ago
Especially since this is a safety film...
When the train headed to skipper Me:OH NO,IT THE SUPER CHEIF
Why do they place rocks by the track?
Its ballast. It acts as a foundation for the tracks. They also acts like a gutter for rain
@@Handlesarestoopid He's right. There could be an accident without it.
Most safety advances were shoved down the throat of the railroads by the government..... Boiler Act, Safety Appliance Act, PTC, and the Rail Safety Act.
I'm intrigued by the "Colored Waiting Room" sign at the station
1:30 What is the BNSF 'Future'? Japanese style highspeed trainset?
Trains are cool, Beavis.
"Santa Fe... all the way. It's FUN to ride the train!"
15:57 Erie Built! And that's probably why it's in the shop...
I miss the cabooses although the FREDs which replaced them make the job a lot easier & faster.
this video pairs well with music by Elizabeth Cotten
Wet Willy @18:15
24:05 Didn't he forget a pair of chem-proof goggles too?
I noticed there were no fat guys on that track laying crew. Hard work.
Great video ! Not like the modern safety vidoes !
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