The Passenger Train, 1954
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- Опубликовано: 11 ноя 2008
- An educational film about train travel in the 1950s. To purchase a clean DVD or digital download of this film for personal home use or educational use contact us at questions@archivefarms.com. To license footage from this film for commercial use visit: www.travelfilmarchive.com
It's a real shame that the U.S. no longer has this quality of rail passenger service. Trains use much less energy per passenger mile than airplanes. They are also a far more comfortable way to travel, with more room in the seating, and one has the ability to get up and walk around, to go to the dining car or cafe car for a snack. I wish that Amtrack would expand its services to once again be what passenger rail was in the 1950s. I am old enough to remember traveling on trains back in those days. I remember them fondly. I have also traveled on trains more recently. I still enjoy train travel much more than flying.
It’s a shame but, not surprising. Even back then the trains made a profit loss and were basically advertisements for the freight side. They are companies after all, so…I don’t like it either though, and wish we had this outside of museum runs
Their frozen pizza Rules! Still like them detroit to Chicago Florence SC to DC even greyhound quicker b/c of shared track issues even single track with siding some places in 21st century!
The zephyr was the first diesel Loco back in 1936 they didn't really become common until decades later way cleaner more efficient no fireman...
yes they use less fuel, but that’s not good for fossil fuels bottom line, is it?
now they’ve allowed electric cars (invented long ago) for control purposes, the 15 minute concentration camp (I mean city)
other great nostalgia train docs can be found at National Film Board on youtube. ✌️❤️🔥🚂
However, speeds exceeding 1000 km/h on land would be dangerous and not very efficient. Air travel is more suitable in the United States
Such class..From a time in American history that will never be repeated..Those days are gone forever..
Did anyone else get a little nostalgic even though you weren’t born during the 50’s?
Reminds of Eva Marie Saint & Cary Grant romancing aboard New York Central's 20th Century Limited in North By Northwest, filmed 1958. "I never discuss making love on an empty stomach" says she in the dining car. "How did a girl like you get to be a girl like you?" says he. All the serious lovemaking that took place in Eva's drawing room compartment between them was left to your imagination, this was the 1950's after all.
yes
I got a lot nostalgic -- of course I was born during the 50s. My mom took us on a couple of long train trips, from Missouri to Connecticut, but we didn't have a bedroom. My first trip by myself was in an airplane, though.
Absolutely!
Absolutely
OMG. Brings back many memories of when time was so much simpler and enjoyable than they are now.❤ Truly miss those days.😢
I still dream of taking a train trip on a vintage train like this, even today, as a full grown kid...
In the late 50's, my mother, sister, and I, traveled from Washington State to New York via train. It didn't take long to adjust to the movement of the train, and the trip was wonderful. I remember we had a "bedroom", and the dining car with its white linen and crystal was magical, as were the views from the Dome (my favorite). The staff was attentive to us kids, and small toys, coloring books, crayons, were always available. As for the food, I clearly remember loving two items... the pancakes and the tuna sandwiches... they are still favorites. Sometimes I feel nostalgic and want to take a train ride, but I don't believe the beauty would be there, so I just browse through my memories.
Very nice comment. I, too, took the train (unaccompanied) from Boston back home to NYC when I was 12 (1957). My uncle bought me magazines but I was sad because I did not want to go home (I was having a great time). Memories are wonderful, thanks for yours.
Bob Lewin
Lucky you. :)
ScrapofKindness ik
This route still exists as the Amtrak Southwest Chief. I know because I've ridden it from Chicago to Los Angeles. And the stop in Lamy NM, where young Bobby got off, is still there. And yes, the beauty is still there, too.
So much style, no cost cutting, no rush just good old fashioned service.
My wife and I recently rode the Amtrak from Wash. D.C. to El Paso, Tx., via Chicago. The first leg, we had a roomette, sleeper. From Chicago to EP we had a bedroom with shower and toilet and a separate vanity and wash area. All sleepers include meals in the dining car and coffee, juice snacks and bottled water during the trip. A separate attendant in each car prepares the beds each evening and morning. It was like traveling in your hotel, going 80 - 90 mph. No worries, no regrets
Amtrak does the best it can. But it is a mere poor imitation of the glory days of rail travel.
True. Problem with AMTRAK is that its passenger trains travel tracks that are not owned by it or the government. Hence, service sucks because the railroad companies give priority on their tracks to FREIGHT trains, which pay the bills. So virtually ALL AMTRACK trains are delayed in one way or another.
Still, Amtrak sleeper service is an excellent way to get from DC to Chicago. Leave in the afternoon, enjoy the scenery, go to sleep in a roomette, and wake up the next morning in Chi. Only thing I really miss is slumbercoach, that would be great on the DC to Boston Night Owl route.....
QuantumRift , It is amazing how the railroads violate the rules about some passenger trains having priority.
@ i would love to take a train trip from Bakersfield CA where I live to Seattle then to Chicago then to LA then back home. Also would not mind taking the CA Zephyr from Emeryville to Chicago and/or vise versa.
a time where people were passionate about their Jobs and when life was simple
Life's never been simple.
A time when hard work and honesty were rewarded.
@@pfs5812 White Only, u toss a bad dice roll into black, u get lynch
@@jake9854 Baloney. Not if you behaved yourself. Or would you prefer the out of control black on black violence of today?
@@pfs5812 ...and people took pride in their jobs no matter what they were. Most people realized that not every job was designed to support a family; that some were indeed 2nd income jobs.
Videos like this one are GOLD.
Beaver Clever
they certainly are golden. I miss those days.
@@williamgilmore4554 I would like to have been there so I could have ,at least, seen those trains...
3superpar Yep, he visited aunt Martha .
You might like British pathe then
The nicest part of youtube. Hello everybody from Malaysia!
I was lucky to travel on the short lived "Orient Express" from Washington to Chicago back in 1990. The cars were restored sleepers, dining and club from the late 40's - absolutely gorgeous! The food was outstanding, the quality of the fittings far superior to anything today and you were on a real train not something that tries to emulate a plane. Unforgettable. It was expensive but worth every penny!!
You said it $$$$$$$$$$$$
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I took my 11 year old son on the Empire Builder from Seattle to Chicago and then from Chicago to Syracuse on the Lakeshore Ltd. 14 years ago....and then back again...we'll never forget it!.......not only does it beat flying but in reality it only takes a couple days longer and you get off a train feeling relaxed and filled with sights and sounds.great food.great conversation with fellow travelers.I'll never fly again......
You son's 35 now, right? Time sure does fly.
I remember this period of time! I was the same age as Bob in 1954. I rode these trains and visited Uncles, Aunts and Friends. Too bad times changed!
I watched this and said that Bob's father wouldn't let Bob travel allow by himself today!!!
I love American trains of the 50s, smashing little film.
Do yu liek twaiinz?
If you enjoy looking at American passenger train videos of the 1950's you should really think about getting a streamlined passenger train from Lionel trains. I got one 6 years ago and periodically I am rushing home at night to play with my trains. Go figure....And I am 52 by the way!!!
@@Aviationsim4862 Yes more than smart asses
Our trains then were somewhat run down at the heel but acceptable compared to others. Now we sadly trail most 3rd world countries in availability, quality, speed, and service. Acela seems to be the pinnacle. Even that is less compared to the best of Europe...not to mention China and Japan.
Cheerio
Wow! What an amazing train... to my English ears there's no sound on Earth can match that of an American train horn blowing loud & long - just makes you want to get on board & go!
Teh technical name for those train horns was klaxon. American train klaxons were designed to sound musical (source: 60 Minutes segment from the 1960s or 70s); they played a minor 7th chord, a very common chord in American jazz.
A full throated klaxon can be heard for a number of miles.
An American diesel electric locomotive can deliver up to 6500hp. I spent my boyhood near a major CSX grade. I clearly recall the roar of 4 diesels workng full throttle to pull a 2km freight up that grade. I could feel the vibration throgh my feet even though we were a km distant from the right of way.
The horn on a diesel loco is called a klaxon. American klaxons are built to emit a minor 7th chord, a standard jazz chord that suggests both contentment and wisful loneliness.
When I worked in the Soo Line shops we threw out horns that didn't work for liability sake. Sometimes after rebuilding them with new diaphragms they didn't work, I don't know why, so we just bolted new horns on the locos. When the foremen weren't looking I would fish some out of the trash bins and now have several complete sets including Nathan P1 thru P5, K3s and some Leslie Supertyfon sets. Used to have the Nathan P set under the hood of my '76 Ford LTD wagon, I no longer have that car and now drive a Camry and I can't even get the smallest trumpet to fit under the hood of that car :-(
I truly love the sound of a triple-chime under steam. Beats air horns every time. Nothing wails & moans like steam. Grips your very soul.
What about the bell?
I got to do this many times. It was the greatest experience and I will never forget those family train trips out west.
i have always loved train travel. This video is before my time. Yet what amazes me is how well people dressed when they traveled years ago.
Yes, back then Americans had decorum and class. Today they look and act like slobs.
Passenger train travel had begun to wane by the time I was born in 1957, and my first commercial airplane flight was around 1964..and up until the mid-70's people actually dressed nice to fly on commercial airliners. In 1968 I flew by myself from Columbus OH to Tampa FL to visit my grandparents, and it was soooo cool....Eastern Airlines.....
Billy Capps, Travel in those years was expensive. You saved up for it. Credit cards were only for? Nobody! So it was a big deal to travel cross country.
People had one suit which they wore everyday. Hardly glamorous.
QuantumRift the “Wings Of Man” and then “The Official Airline Of WDW”. My first job as a college student was “ramp rat” for EAL. When I started there were still a few Lockheed Electras” but quickly replaced by “Whisperjet”.
A simpler, more civilized time that will never come again...
A simpler time? Ok.
But it will come again and will be better than before when Jesus returns and sets things straight, which, according to prophecy won't be much longer.
JRNipper pray some more gay away. You’re falling way behind.
@@SnickasBah Will do, always glad to accomodate such requests.
Sandee Grey .....yes a much simpler time.
The charm, elegance, luxury and majestic train travel
THe 30's-the 50's were truly the golden age of travel in the US
It really started in the 1880's.
I would add the 60s too (the golden age of flying)
@@jiddern973 60s sadly also began to kill off passenger train travel and ocean liners.
@@joemancini327 Sadly?
@@georgesteele2157 Yeah passenger train travel became impossible thanks to Cars and Jet travel. Ocean Liners became ugly boxy cruise ships and they were basically all replaced with cruise ships, except for the QM2.
How in the World did that poor boy survive such a long trip, without a gameboy, TV, laptop, cell phone, MP3 player, or even a radio. We where totally abused as children. I remember having none of these things growing up. It may sound nuts, but we did things like, read books, draw, write stories, and played with our friends in person. When not on a train, we would ride our bikes, build hide outs, fish, play with our dog, work in the garden and do chores around the house. We had it good.
62636263c yes we did. Best of times.
Crazy how its 2018 and you can sit on your phone and watch videos of trains from the 50's on your phone anywhere in the world. We have it good............. get with the times, things advance.
That stuff wasn't even thought of then.
Its probably even worse in 2019!
And child obesity issues were uncommon....
In the sixties I worked on the Santa Fe for a summer as a waiter, a couple of years ago I spent a month travelling on Amtrak and in many ways things have hardly changed. So those of you who yearn for the old days , they still call out " all aboard" and arrive several hours late . But the city stations have been restored and you can imagine being in the glorious fifties.
In the old days, the trains did not arrive several hours late. Most ran on time.
Tommy Truth, The freight lines constantly violate the rules on passenger priority and that explains why some passenger trains are late.
That is true.
Took the Southwest Chief from LA to Chicago and Capitol Limited to Washington DC two years ago on AMTRAK. The terminals ARE beautiful. Thoroughly enjoyed it except for one stretch of rough track in Kansas that could only be compared to the "Shaky Quaky Schoolhouse" earthquake simulator. The desert southwest was especially beautiful (and I already live in the desert). Met interesting people (including Amish, whose religion prohibits travel by air). Do it if you get the chance.
Interesting, there are two actors in this film that are also in the Sante Fe Railroad "The Super Chief" promo film. The guy with a cigarette that opens the wash basin also opens a wash basin (while holding a cigarette) on the SuperChief film, and the woman in the dome car at 5:16 is also the main character in the Super Chief film. She's wearing the same outfit on that film, and the two people in the seats behind her are the same also. The Super Chief film is in color, but apparently filmed at the same time as this one.
Charming film. Simpler times for sure. Trains remain relaxing. You can have real conversations, enjoy the views, and not curse at traffic. California has some great routes including Santa Barbara station just 3 short blocks to the beach, pier, and quaint hotels. Free shuttle bus around town or down to the zoo. Great long weekend. Leave the car at home.
Our family used to take the train to Glenwood Springs, Colorado for a couple days in the mountains & stay at an old hotel, Glenwood Hot Springs Lodge, just a short walk from the station & adjacent to the big pool. Didn't even need a car & us kids swam until we were out of energy, which was about 4 hours a day.
I had to smile watching this film. I can recall seeing it when I was in elementary school a long time ago and now I not only have a locomotive engineer's license but I have had many hours operating an FP-7 locomotive like the one in this video. Perhaps seeing this film in elementary school had an influence?
I have taken the Southwest Chief many time from Newton KS to Flagstaff AZ and back. That is the route of the old Chief in this film. Interestingly the little New Mexico town of Lamy (in the video) is the closest that the Santa FE RR got to Santa Fe NM. It never went into Santa Fe proper, but Lamy is only a few miles away. Lamy was named after an early Bishop in Santa Fe.
Years ago, I used to work for CN and had both service and work passes. The service pass was available for any employee and good for any CN passenger service. The work pass was issued to those who needed to travel for their work and was good on anything that moved over the rails. I often traveled on both passenger and freight trains. I have taken trains across the entire width of Canada, all the way between Cape Breton Island on the east coast to Vancouver Island on the west coast, but most of my travel was in Ontario. I have had both berths and roomettes for sleepers, but not a full bedroom. With my service pass, my basic travel was covered, but had to pay for my sleeper. When traveling for work, I expensed the sleeper cost. In this video, they mentioned "chair cars" which I knew as coach. On those trains, they made a distinction between sleeper and coach passengers. Sleeper passengers could use the full dining car, club car and dome car and meals were included. Coach passengers were pretty much confined to their seats, with only the lunch car available to them and they had to pay for their food. They also were not allowed in the sleeper part of the train. I have always loved trains and my first memories of riding on one would have been when I was about 4 years old.
Felt a Time Travel in this trip.. His Voice is so loud and clear..
I've taken several trips on the Coast Starlight from LA to Tacoma and back too. If you're not in a hurry, it's a great way to travel.
When I was in 7th grade I had almost a similar experience as this train example. In the train I was not sure how to contact the driver that supposed to drive me to my uncles farm. The train was going to reach small town located 250km (150mi) from my city and from there my uncles friend a driver was going to drive me further 10km away. So the train reached the town at 10:30pm. But fortunately in that small town of 10 000 people they knew one another really well and one nice lady guided me to that drivers house in the evening and I met with driver and next morning he drove me to my uncles place. It was during 80s very nice quite time. In the train I was probably little bit nervous and asked few people about whether they know that driver in the town so several adults kind of concerned about my safety and that nice lady was quite sure that knew him so she helped me.
My name was Bobby too. This reminds me of the trip from LA to Chicago in 1954 on the 'El Capitan'. Sure wish I could remember more from age 7. Notice that people actually dressed...
+Robert Darmody - trains dident get rolling until at least 1955 I invented them in 1954 at the formation of the grand trunk railroad in Port Huron Mi.
+Robert Darmody Today the people look like a bunch of homeless people.
Before I invented everything from 1953 forward they all lived in abject poverty rich and poor due to lack of my inventions. The rich had a roof over their head and primative automobiles but thats about it.
+Tommy Truth For the most part they are.
Well thank God you came along or I wouldn't have been born
ya know what's hilarious? The Lamy station still looks EXACTLY like that and hasn't changed. :)
I just checked it on Google StreetView. You're right! Lamy NM. Crazy!
Crazy? Is glorious!
And that is a good thing.
Yeah and the Santa Fe train never did enter Santa Fe, NM. Lamy was as close as it got.
Did not go to Atchison either.
This was so much fun to watch! My wife and I just got back from an Amtrak Excersion from Chicago to Flagstaff to the Garland Canyon and back. It was incredible! But the train trip hasn’t changed much. We had a roomette and it was so nice to sleep on a bed as the train moved. We slept well! And the observation car was a great place to play cards and drink a beer! The food in the restaurant was fairly good too. We would highly recommend a trip by train.
*Grand*? You gotta watch that auto correct computer.
@@janetmiller2160 I remember the Garland Canyon..........not far from Falstaff, Arid Zone. 🙂 🌵
@@rizzlerazzleuno4733 ok, I"l) buy that
My grandmother and I road one of those to Baltimore in the 50's. I was so excited. I only remember standing in the yard looking the steam engine going by about three blocks away.thank for sharing.
Dude! Stop showing your age. 😃👍🏾
Wow....heart-breakingly beautiful film of an era we will never see again. Cried for part of this.
Wow... childhood memories of my train books, post-war UK. The Santa Fe diesel electric was a big one from an ocean away, but I've never forgotten it. Ahhhh.
I fondly remember traveling on the Santa Fe Super Chief from Chicago to Los Angeles in a compartment with my Grandmother. What a wonderful experience!
how awesome it was back then. simple things in life.
+PAMAROSHOUSE Yes, it was God's country back then. Literally.
+Tommy Truth And now, Donald's!
And he will help us get back to being God's country.
Bob is in his 70's now, if he's still around.
He jumped in front of the train
Ralph Goober I remember that, but I wasn’t in shock. Takes a little bit more to shock me. 9/11, yeah!
Why is that your pfp picture?
My wife and I love Train travel. It's a lot of fun. You meet all kinds of great people, and see the country. Now, try that while your flying at 30 thousand feet.
But see, Trains in the US slowly got less used because they're costly to run. Fixing the tracks and operating the trains is just too much nowadays. Plus people want to travel faster in the US. However you can get such experiences in Asia and Europe!
Great to see a train shiny and bright as compared to covered with graffiti. I had the good luck to take a long trip from San Diego to Redding, California. I had my guitar and we played it in the club car just about the whole route. We had a ball and all the while the clickety clack of the tracks.
What type of guitar do you used?
I’ve enjoyed Amtrak trips many times and many times ppl had guitars with them, such great times passing a guitar around and letting ppl sing their favorite songs! Always in the club car where you could have a drink and smoke a cigarette! Now I think there’s no smoking allowed on the trains what a bummer. Can you imagine being a smoker and having to go three days without one except at the service stops??
I was not born in the 1950s but there is a lot to love about this time. There were far less immature people. People kept their word and if they said they were going to do something they did it. If you made arrangements or plans with people they stuck to them and did not pull out at the last minute unless there was actually some really good reason. The fact it was possible to even live of one wage and live a comfortable life, eat well, buy a house, have children and heat your home as well as have some money for entertainment all on one wage shows how much the cost of living has gone up.
Don't get me wrong there are things that are great about today as well such as healthcare being much better and safer cars etc etc all I am saying is there is also a lot to love about the 1950s. Life was more simple, people were less stressed and people had a lot more time to wind down and relax. The work/leisure balance was much better. People were not complaining anything like as much and showed much more basic respect for others as there are too many people that throw offensive names around and feel they can do whatever they want just because they don't get their own way which there was so much less of in the 1950s.
The 1950s was way way before I was even born but I have seen and heard a lot about it.
"Life was more simple, people were less stressed ..."
Less divorce, less abortions, less singles, less single-parents, less drug addiction, less alcoholism, less violence, etc. Yeah, more "simple".
Today, unfortunately, people take themselves WAY too seriously. That takes the fun out of day to day living and travelling with other people.
Photographylover Hey, it's 2019 and I still keep my word. Maybe you need some new friends? Good luck.
@@gwarlow FYI...Photographylover's comment/analysis is true and quite accurate.
I was born in the 50's. People didn't expect a brand new anything when they were just starting out. You scrimped and saved for a down payment on a starter home that was modest and the neighborhood was selected for families and children. You drove a used car till you were financially stable then drove it for years. Manners and respect were very important as was being taught to honor a commitment. People have always wanted nice things but young people seemed to accept that they would work their way into nice things. Nobody wanted to live at home at 25.
The other thing was it was ver common to have friends who grandmother or grandfather (or maybe an aged maiden aunt) who lived with the family. Now old people are just shipped out to live in old people's assisted living facilities.
Pretty cool vintage Santa Fe passenger rail footage here! At least Amtrak tries to keep it going into the 21st century, with their "Vieweliner" and "Superliner" trains.
wileyk209zback The low funding from the government makes the Amtrak experience not the best, but at least they are trying like you said.
Too bad the Santa Fe never made it to Santa Fe, NM
@@slobama They have a branch line.
Interesting thing is The Santa Fe was the first railroad to use Superliner cars, on the Santa Fe El Capitan.
@@doct0rnic You're thinking of the Hi-Level cars from Budd. They were similar in concept to the Superliners, but that name was originated by Amtrak when the first set of Superliner rolling stock was built in the late 1970s and early 1980s (originally built by Pullman-Standard), indeed inspired by the Hi-Level cars they had gotten from Santa Fe.
I rode a Chicago and Northwestern streamliner from Chicago all t he way to Ishpeming, Mich in the UP of Michigan.
Trains are making a comeback! The Acela Express serves the Northeast corridor and goes from Washington D.C. to Boston. It is also one of the first train lines to take passengers away from the airlines. I have found the staff and fellow travelers quite pleasant and polite. The Acela is not inexpensive, but the experience of going to Boston from New York in a few hours is exciting. We may never see the innocence of yesterday, but good things are on the horizon in the future of rail travel.
Right. But the Acela is the exception.
Trains keep making a comeback, but everytime that R party is in power, they try to cut funding, and the attempted comeback goes out the window.
Hope so
I have never been on a real passenger train on a real train trip somewhere, would love to go. It seems to me so idealistic and nostalgic to experience something like this. My experience with riding on trains has been limited to short distance, couple miles up and back, museum type, historic attraction train rides only, like on an old steamer, and then metro rail transportation in cities like DC, etc..., if that even qualifies as a "train" ride. Videos like this make train riding seem so exciting and inspirational!
When I was about 5 or 6 years of age, I rode the train from Detroit to Seattle with my mother and a sister who was about 10-12 years old herself. I do not remember if we had a bedroom or not, but I do remember having to switch trains in Chicago, boarding the Empire Builder at Oh-Dark-30. I also remember being in the Observation car, and looking forward to the train. I miss them both (RIP).
Wow such beautiful time. Look how much the people cared about their image. Well dressed and well groomed.
Fascinating stuff. It's always great to watch the past come alive when presented like this. Thanks you sharing!
When I was in elementary school in the 60s, every Friday was film room day. We would watch these old films all day. When the teacher put on the last one, she left. At 3 o clock we left. All the teachers went home early.
Love all this old stuff! Love it!
those were the good ole' days...i was knee high to a grasshoper back then, and remember they both had diesels and steamers in my area(WNY)
the Golden Age, for sure. Modern AMTRAK is still pretty cool, travel from Chicago to L.A. or anywhere in between...it's a blast.
I love this. We traveled by train in 1958 from Minneapolis to L.A. to see my older brothers graduation and got sleeper berths and I loved the trip. I remember looking out at the changing landscape and the eating on the train in the dining car. Walked to the dome car. I WAS HOOKED.
The video shot in 1954 uploaded on yt in 2008 and yt recommends me now 😂
How can anyone dislike this?
Such dressing formality, just to ride on a train. Todays T-shirts and flip-flops are common. And the box-meals.... Good old times.
People look like slobs today. And they think that is the way it should be.
I sailed accross the Atlantic in 1st, black tie every night and I was only 13! and loved it
So uncomfortable
In my country only have people's in t shirts and etc. Trains is entire remove by Highway.
Change is inevitable
This video really made me happy.. The narration is amazing..
I noticed that too. I'm a Wabash fan & brightened up when I noticed the Monon & Erie trains listed. Just visited Dearborn last week when the 4449 headed west.
I wish we could still travel like this all over the US!
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Trains are even in 2017 still a civilized way to travel! I love traveling by train and find it restful. Something about the movement of the car and sounds. (Typically I try to travel in the 1st class car or take a room in the sleeper car (for overnight trips) for the extra room.)
I enjoyed with this video!. Thanks.
Great video, I love videos about trains both old and new.
The good old days. The days when railroading was at its best. The days when people were caring and before the country went to shit. Wish we could go back to a time like this.
+Heinrich Berthold That is your recollection but the truth is that things were just as bad with just as much evil in the world. It was just that we didn't hear about it as much. Meanwhile the past is gone. What can we each do to make the future better?
From what I have read, little boys get molested mostly by heterosexual males many of them married with children themselves.
God what a shit show this comments section is. Firstly, I am 13, I've done train journeys alone, and I survived perfectly. Maybe the US is just shit compared to the UK, but I doubt any of you would say that.
Secondly, suggesting pedophiles aren't all gay is not a communist statement, you idiot. Neither is disagreeing with racism anti white. You are just trying to cram as many stupid buzzwords in your comment as possible, that or you're drunk.
Third, the third world can grow food, it just happens living in a desert where little grows and you can die by not getting under a tree often enough can make developing civilization as fast as a nation where the temperature is perfect, there are no natrual disasters, there are loads of animals, and there is enough rain not to die of dehydration.
Dubsy 102 Don't waste your time with this people lmao
Maximiliano Amaral stop having 15 kids and maybe there would be enough to go around
To me, these are the most beautiful train engines ever. I just love them. I can still hear the unique sound of their air horns in the crisp still night air from across the hills where I was raised. Amtrak's new Loco's have nothing on these old engines. They may not be as fast, nor fuel efficient. But man they were beautiful!
Many, many years ago I lived in a small northern NY town. Our home was very near the railroad tracks which actually past the town😅 itself. I remember steam engines passing through. I loved them. My mom, hanging her wet-wash outdoors, didn't. Soot from coal cinders, you know. The diesels were beautiful, and cleanerl. New York Central.
That was wonderful. This was made in 1954 and in 1957 my family made a trip from california headed east to tennessee. A favorite uncle had passed and his three sisters living on the west coast hopped a train with all the kids to attend his funeral. Complications ended our trip in Albuquerque, NM, just 50 miles southwest from Lamy, the destination for this kid. That was one fun trip for as long as it lasted.
I miss this!
Santa Fe passenger service was something to be experienced,
CRAM TRAK Really should work to emulate it.
Then people would want to ride again!!
What do you expect? It's run by the government.
People do ride the trains today, I can remember riding a train from St. Louis to Chicago in the middle of September and the train left at 4:40 in the morning. It was sold out. Their just isn't enough of them to ride and the service isn't as good because of budget. Constraint's.
Bobby in the 1950's: Gee I'm going to ride on a passenger train!
Bobby in 2020: What's a passenger train?
Took a train from Berlin to Munich in Germany back in 2002 with my daughter. It's an awesome country. Great food, people and BEER of course !! I loved Germany very much, would LOVE to go again !!
Traveled numerous times from Needles, CA to New York, Via Chicago and once from LA. Great experience. Very friendly passengers and crew. If you have the time, you must give it a try.
The train stops at Raton in one frame, then Lamy in another to let the boy off..and a good shot coming out of Raton tunnel westbound.
Santa Fe all the way!
That tunnel is in the area where you can see the tail (or head) of your own train. Neat!
I pls want this cool and good,clean times back..😎✌️
In summer of1954 my mother, my one year old sister and myself took the train from Washington, DC to Hartford, CT to join my father one summer as he was working there temporarily. As I remember the trip looked just like this video except the A/C broke down as we neared NYC and that was pretty miserable (I was dressed in a suit and tie.) Of course my sister was very cranky from the heat. Until the day I die I will remember the "fit" my mother had when she saw our dining car bill and my tunafish salad sandwich on plain white bread was 17 cents which to her was outrageous. And this was the good old days.
Great film thanks for showing this.
Such a generalization of a train trip. Sixty years ago, the media could get away with a film such as this, but not today. Many errors, most obvious was the final shot at Lamy, showing an eastbound leaving the station. I don't recall the Chief turning there??? (the drumhead on the Navajo read "Chief"). Yes, I have been to Lamy. Also, departing Chicago (based on the Monon trains shown on the arrival/departure board,) the Chief had the Navajo on the rear of the train. The Navajo was removed from regular service shortly after WWII ended, and used is reserve Also, the Chief never had Pleasure dome lounges; not sure about the lunch-counter diners, maybe in peak season. I could go on.
The other error that I noticed was that the film shows coach chair passengers. How could there be coach chair passengers when the Chief was an all-Pullman train? However, the Chief lost its all Pullman status eventually so maybe by the time this film was made the Chief had added coaches to rectify the losses that passenger trains were starting to incur by the mid 1950's.
The bigger room with a bed was called -- get ready -- a "bedroom." Very appropriate.
Yaron Steinbuch I was literally about to say that.
"Literally", I was about to say that.
And the car where are you dine is called ...are you ready for this, the dining car
... "and sometimes the train goes through a mountain itself, through a tunnel" 😁
Love the old Santa Fe.No class today, no observation car.I miss those days.
Thanks for the video here of the 50s
Really it is nostalgic....
Thank you for posting this video. :-)
I'm a train fan, I'd rather ride on a train than fly any day! That said, the trains were much more luxurious back then.
Ah...I remember when...
Thanks again for the video :-)
Who would put a kid on a train by himself these days ? It was a simpler time with less lunatics to worry about.
Someone’s who’s kid is not a pussy. Pardon my French but an insane amount of kids still travel alone on trains in America alone. And I think it’s way safer nowadays if the kid has a cell phone on them and there are security cameras all over the train and train stations now. Also lunatics have always been around in the same numbers as they are today, you just never heard about them in the news back then
Don't be ridiculous--kids fly alone on airplanes every day. And the lunatics have always been there; I can think of at least three times in my childhood when I was approached by child molesters. But my parents had taught me to be street smart, so nothing came of it.
I remember when I was 10 and my sister was 7, our parents dropped us off at the mall while they were at a wedding. They told us to be back out front at 5:00. They would probably be arrested for that nowadays.
@@bigtime69420 A 23 year old kid on vacation from college disappeared on Amtrak's California Zephyr. His decomposed body was found 100 miles from the tracks a year later. His name was Robin Putnam.
I am speechless, Great example of perfection...
Nicely done!!
First & favourite model loco FP9, loved Santa Fe “Chief” scheme.... b4 I knew it was anything 👍
Bobby's traveling in style
I road the L&N Hummingbird to my Grandparents in Louisville Kentucky in the 1960’s. This film makes me think of those wonderful time of my childhood:
I'm from a railroad family, and I rode many many Passenger Trains in the 40's & 50's. Traveled by train from Atlanta to San Diego( 1954) , to U.S.NAVY Training Center San Diego for Boot Training. A very memorable trip. I had a very special childhood living next to Two Railroad Yard in Atlanta, and In those days I was allowed to ride the Big Steam Engines, Big Diesel Engines baggage cars & Cabooses many trips. I wish every young girl& boy could experience the Train Travel Era. It make for thrilling Memories. Paul Adams
At the 8 minute mark I almost expect to see "The Fugitive" running away fro the train! Ha Ha!
before amtrak took over, train travel was 1st class with the observation cars, the dome cars & the dining cars. the dining cars had much better service than amtraks dining cars.. i have been on a few of today's amtraks that the dining service hasn't been too bad though. it is what is & things will never be the same as it once was.
My father came from Germany in 1956, aged 21, flew on a Flying Tigers DC-7 at 7000’ above the Atlantic stopping in Greenland and Bangor Maine before arriving at Idlewild Airport in New York. Took a train from there to Tacoma Washington, took 3 days he made friends with the porters as he spoke only a few words of English. They allowed him into the washroom at night to shave and clean up, also getting a pillow, blanket and something to eat so he didn’t have to talk with other travelers, he didn’t want them to know he was a German. He was amazed at how orderly cemeteries were laid out but told later that it was speaker stands from drive- in movies. He was also given a $50 dollar bill to spend but couldn’t because nobody had that much change, remember a coke was .5 cents, burger .10 cents.
My Grandpa was a railroad man, a car inspector who worked for the Santa Fe, at their (then) hub of Las Vegas, New Mexico. I recall going to the downtown San Diego station with my parents and brothers to pick them up when they came out to visit.
Probably the same roomettes that Amtrak uses today.
In 1900 most long distance trains ran a average speed of 100 Mph across the USA, They were called Express or crack trains by the RRs, Amtrak can't seem to top that speed and in most cases can't match it. The NYC to Chicago Amtrak takes 20 Hrs sometimes, The 20 Century took 16 in 1940, and had allot more stops in between, You would think 100yrs later we could be doing better than steam locos did
I have company letters from the Illinois Central and they talked frequently talked about their steam engine trains going 100 miles/hr.
Old is always gold
Those were the days!
When I was in elementary school in the late 1940s, once a year students would be bused to a small station about 20 miles from our town. We would board the train for a ride back to town. The cost was 10 cents. Steam engine of course and open windows before the days of air conditioning. Plenty of smoke and gravel came in the open windows.
In the late 1950s, I rode the last passenger steam train from Fort Smith, Arkansas to Paris, Texas.The conductor came through the cars and told us.
My physics teacher in Paris, Texas built miniature steam engines. They were about 1/8 scale.They were about 8 to 10 feet long. Several parks and zoos in Texas had them to pull open passenger cars for rides. The one in Fort Worth crossed the Trinity on a small scale bridge. Everything was like a full scale railroad. I had ridden the train in Fort Worth as a small child. Then to have the builder in Paris as my physics teacher was an awesome experience. He had a miniature turntable on his farm and track laid there.
Imagine a small steam train for public rides in the Nanny State the nation has become. I can just imagine the handwringing and OMGs crowd now.
Jean Meslier. Yes.
The word "California" used to have a magic ring to it, now it's infamous.
With all due respect, California just surpassed Great Britain and now has the 5th largest economy in the world. California has a magic ring, but now for people from around the world.
Yeah, it's a magic place. That is why it wants to split up into several different states. The place is on its way to bankruptcy.
The size of the "economy" has nothing to do with whether or not a place is a pile of sh*t
To each his own.
Kyle B Hey, they're UNIQUE. I mean how many states can proudly have an annual tradition of burning everything to the ground?
very beautiful old Video!
The look of those Santa Fe’s was iconic. How about washing the cars before each trip. Windows nice and clean. First class.
All they railroads were first class back then with their passenger trains. They only did things right.