They didn't give him anything to eat from the dining car. He must have packed a sandwich to eat while he drove the train. He probably had to pee in a bottle. The passengers get to sleep but Schroeder had to stay awake all night staring at the tracks.
Sounds interesting and I’m glad you enjoyed it. However, most people don’t want to take that much time to get there. That’s why flying is the preferred way.
This was most likely B&O Railroad's Train #5, the Columbian/Capitol Limited, which left Washington Union Station just after 4pm, went through Harper's Ferry, past Smithburg (Antietam battlefield) and Hancock along the Potomac River, and arrived in Pittsburgh just after 11pm en route to its final destination in Chicago at 715a the next morning. In September, 1966, I took that train in the other direction, leaving Pittsburgh in the middle of the night, to arrive in DC at 930 in the morning on my way to my first day of college.
I have a brick from the Chicago B&O station's facade that was demolished decades ago. Condos have replaced most of the station on Harrison St, but they named the high-rise after the station.
@@Game_Hero If there was truly a widespread demand for long distance passenger rail service, the freight haulers would be tripping over themselves to offer it. AMTRAK as a whole losses money.
@@crabbymilton390 Almost no more. It's frankly a miracle it's still there given how car-centric design desincentivized non-car travel and made it less accessible. Manufactured lower demand means losing customers, losing customers mean losing money, with losing money the trains lose trains to make losses, making them less conveniant and pleasant, making them lose customers, making them lose demand, it's a vicious circle to the loss of all. Meanwhile in Europe, train travel put airlines out of business in Italy and Spain, freeing people of the expensive car monopoly. It's not a question of demand, it's a question of profits for the rail companies.
@@Game_Hero Well most companies view profits as a good thing as do I. I think some AMTRAK lines could be turned over to private companies and they may turn a profit. Nostalgia and sentimentality are fine but should never go beyond that. You can always check out those wonderful regional railroads that provide excursions. Or rail museums. In none winter months, check out the Milwaukee County Zoo’s train. Very popular and beautiful 1.25 mile ride thru wooded areas.
An interesting period piece from the early diesel era. The dialogue is comically simplistic, geared for young children. The AI translation for closed captions produces a number of notable bloopers. Lots of humorous comments and observations below. Good entertainment all around!
I criss-crossed the USA by train during the 50s & 60s. Amtrack continued passenger service afterwards, but train travel had lost its glamor. Interstate highways, comfortable autos and air travel took passengers too.
@@placentahelper1 Nálunk Európàban lassan kényelmesebb vonattal utazni mint repülővel. nem kell kimenni legalább 3órával elötte , , nincs csomag vizsgálat, nem törik össze, lopják meg a csomagodat, a repüllőtérre kijutás is költség, az üllések is szélesebbek tágasabbak. Nem vársz a csomagodra, nem tünik el. Étkezési lehetõségekről nem is szólva. Budapest, Bécs bő két óra. Autóval sem lehet gyorsabban oda jutni. Nálunk van autópálya dij. Kettöt vignyetát kell venni. Osztrákot, Magyart. Az sem kevés.
Yes, we used to travel with other people; now we are isolated in our cars, staring ahead at endless highways, racing to see who can get "there" first. As for air travel, it use to be an adventure; now it's a burden and an exercise in frustration ("Take off your shoes!").
This station is union station in DC. I live near DC, I love Union Station. Always busy, that hasn’t changed. But in the inside it has. Glad they didn’t tear down the building, the gates, doors, etc are the same.
I traveled on Amtrak from Washington union station to Connelsville , pa via the ex Baltimore & Ohio line passing through Harper’s ferry & etc. unfortunately it was dark.
In the 70's we only had like 7 channels on tv . In those days a Magnifying glass and a dead leaf was all I needed. These days kids just go into a VIDEO COMA.
He'll have a packed meal in his kitbag, usually sandwiches or something else that's easy to eat on the go. Most engines also have an electric hotplate that will get a lot of use brewing coffee. "Needs breaks" as we call them have to wait until the train stops at a town for passenger or mail loading and unloading. Many modern engines are fitted with chemical toilets in a very cramped compartment right next to the diesel, they aren't enjoyable places. Sleep will happen at the end of the run. Hope this helps
They keep saying how Engineer Schroeder keeps a watchful eye to make sure the tracks were clear. In reality there is nothing he could do to stop the train in time. He would just hit the brakes, blow the horn, and hope for the best.
You are right. A passenger train could stop in a shorter distance than a big coal train, but still not quickly enough if a vehicle or person appeared suddenly in front of the train.
It is a pity that we allowed the Automobile Industry to dismantle not just interstate Train Travel in the USA, but also 98% of all Local, Intrastate Train Services, and especially the Local, Intra-City Rail-Services, such as the Red-Cars in Los Angeles, or the Dallas Streetcars in Dallas Texas (which used to run from Oak Cliff in the Southwest of Dallas, to South Dallas, then a rather “tony” neighborhood” in Dallas, through East Dallas, and all the way up to “The Park Cities” in what was the “Suburbs” of North Dallas: Highland Park, and University Park. The East Dallas destination of Lakewood, which had a rail line along Swiss Avenue, where the “Upper Class” of Dallas lived (along with those in “Cedar Springs”). These Electric Rail and Streetcar lines also ran to Waco, Corsicana, Terrell, Tyler, Plano, Denton, Dennison/Sherman, Arlington, Fort Worth, and even to Huntsville and San Jacinto (just to the North and Northeast of Houston - Houston at the time was a small suburb of Galveston, although by the 1920s, Houston had begun to slowly emerge as the preferred Port over Galveston, due to the devastation of the 1900 Hurricane that killed between 6,000 and 12,000 people; roughly 1/10th to 1/5th of its population at the time. Galveston was one of the Largest Port-Cities in the world prior to the 1900 Hurricane, and while it began to recover as a tourist destination during Prohibition due to the ease of smuggling liquor from Mexico into the USA through Galveston or Houston, it never recovered its status as the Primary Southern Port of the USA, a status that transferred to both Mobile and Houston, who have vied for that title ever since). But, back to Trains... Even with the growing competition of Air Travel, Passenger Trains, and Rail Transportation as a whole would have survived, competing against the automobile quite successfully to this day had not the larger US Automobile Companies colluded to buy-out all of the passenger rail services in the USA, and to begin shutting them down to force the population to spend more money on cars. Would that not have happened, it would now be possible to travel from Alaska all the way to the southernmost portions of Argentina, or Terra del Fuego in Chile, by very affordable and comfortable rail services (that the USA barely has anything remotely similar existing today). And... We would likely see a much more integrated country, where Urban Centers were not so vital (nor so large) to our current economy and Social Structures. That is beside the fact that Global Warming would be a vastly less dire problem that we are currently facing due to the dominance of the Automobile and displacement of rail transportation.
@@crabbymilton390 Which is a completely different subject than depriving THE EVEN GREATER NUMBER without cars the ability to HAVE ANY FREEDOM OF movement at all. Most people in the USA have never owned a car, and never will.
@@crabbymilton390 Never mind that it isn’t a mutually exclusive thing. People CAN both “Own a car” AND want to travel cross country by a means MORE ECONOMICAL than Air traffic OR driving themselves. Dismantling the infrastructure to sell a marginally few more cars to people who would eventually buy one anyway IS STILL depriving those exact same people of an option that permits of just as much, if not a greater freedom, due to being able to use either local transportation systems (as in NYC, Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, and other cities to a lesser degree PRIOR to the exact same people finally getting around to sabotage these transportation systems (or in EVERY CITY, EVER in the REST of the developed world, where people have BOTH options - Spain is a really good example. No place in the country is more than about 90 minutes from your front door, even in the most rural parts of Spain.. i.e.: most of it), AND the ability to rent a car at any destination in the USA. The choice at the time WAS NOT “We have to choose one or the other,” but rather was THREE COMPANIES deciding no one but them should have the means of making that choice at all. There is a very famous movie from the 1980s about this very subject that nearly everyone in the audience missed. It was SORT OF about an animated rabbit framed for a murder. But most people missed WHY he was framed, for which there were two reasons, both applying to OUR reality, even if one was metaphoric. The larger reason was LITERAL: 1) Showing how some people justify genocide (look at the year in which the movie is set). 2) That the “Big Three” (which would become four before shrinking again to three) of the Auto Makers in the US systematically took over and dismantled the VAST Inter-State AND Intra-State/Local Transportation systems to BOTH a) Confine those they wanted included in that”Genocide” they couldn’t make happen in the USA to specific locations, denying them BOTH the freedom of movement AND a means to build Generational Wealth, and 2) Prevent as MANY in the remaining Middle-Class reaping ENORMOUS DIVIDENDS with the GI Bill from KEEPING that wealth as Generational Assets that could then lift even more into the Middle Class of the USA. I got to learn all of this by being in the class of people who wanted to do all of the above (the “Upper” and “Capitalist” classes, called in Europe “The Ruling Classes”). We COULD have BOTH Had not people of my Grandfather’s and Great-Grandfather’s generations been so attached to their bigotries and prejudices.
@@crabbymilton390 All things that accompanied the dismantling of “Main Street” businesses and Family Farms, the latter no longer viable for any purely “Family Business” due to the nature of Agricultural Technologies, and their expense (both in acquisition and operation/maintenance). Norman Borlaug was a Family Friend and who my mother studied under for her work in Agricultural Horticulture. This was something he TRIED to prevent, but failed to do. Which could very well have consequences FAR BEYOND something as trivial as National and Regional/Local Transportation systems in comparison.
Airlines are significantly faster, but much more expensive. Automobiles are about the same speed, but can be customized to go exactly where you like, and cost nothing for additional passengers. I still think a modern approach to passenger rail could work (like how Uber changed taxi services), but navigating around the limited freight rail capacity would be very tough.
Waiters who served ppl in a dining car that they themselves were not allowed to eat in; nor were any black passengers. Train travel has its nice qualities but that was not one of them and I’m glad that particular practice is gone.
the very first diesels is why they must be promoting it. wasn't many years before this ge tested their steam turbine electric. and over the next decade steam pretty much disappeared.
Oh my God... so cool! The train when it emerges from the tunnel at Harpers Ferry, West Virginia shows the overhead view of the trestle to the right. It was here my wife and I walked over to check out the train tunnel and the multitude of combination and padlocks around the support beams of the trestle. A freight train did come through the tunnel that day and I captured that footage. th-cam.com/video/sZSnUWDxNa4/w-d-xo.htmlsi=hyAkU7ZqbyuBG52I&t=498 Additional footage of the tracks and side trestle can be seen at: 4:34 and 7:02
@@OldsVistaCruiser You are correct. I see that Plymouth alone built about 24,000 cars in January of 1942, most of which were then requisitioned for military use. I expect the other manufacturers did not immediately shut down either.
More like it was the fact that the railroads were taxed to support construction of roads and airports, which were government funded by taxes and railroads weren't, combined with obtuse and restrictive fare rulings by the ICC, and finally by loss of the mail contracts, which by that point had been all that was keeping passenger trains alive. If course the fact that you could get a long distance in hours in an airplane rather than many days in a train ate into long distance passenger numbers, and highways and cars did the same for shorter distances.
@@lwilton The post office terminating mail contracts with railroads in 1967 was the final nail that killed passenger rail service in the U.S. Most people don't realize how much passenger rail service was subsidized by railroad mail contracts, even during the heyday of rail travel.
The boy at the RR Xing is alive. 97 years young Buck Nekkid is living in a adult entertainment actors retirement community 100 miles northwest of Fargo, ND. Asked about his most memorable role he excitedly exclaimed "Either my role as 'excited young boy in The Passenger Train' or the Marilyn Monroe basement tapes" said Mr. Nekkid with a twinkle in his eye.
Before anyone gets too nostalgic, notice how the menial jobs were performed by people that the railroads didn’t think were worthy of the more highly skilled and highly paid jobs. No one should be nostalgic for those days.
@@keithdukes5990 I guess if you were a black man who couldn't get a higher paying job and were relegated to menial jobs that were hard and boring you might not be very nostalgic.
Sky caps, so called menial labor , were skilled and employed, my grandfather took great pride in his job, he picked cotton before a he was a waiter, a cook, saving his money raised 7 kids, was was married to the same woman for 76 years, owned his own business, and filled a park with kids grandchildren and great grand children many family reunions were people of color, my family, Irish, native American, African american, Spanish, we were Americans, I don't know what we are now.
How disappointing. Even when this documentary was made producer(s), director(s) and writer(s) were already idiots ignorant of the subject matter. The signal scene at 3:30 shouldn't have been written as though trains start and stop the way auto traffic does.
Script was written for most likely third graders, demonstrated by the description of dining car menus at 7:15. The finer points of block working and interlocking theory could wait. From the way the signal went straight from Stop to Clear Normal without cycling through Normal Warning suggests that it was regulating a junction and not mainline follow on moves
I know. I know you're already going to say the servants were black and I can't help that some say it was the best job and the worst job. I'm not black. I can't say I just wish it didn't happen 😪
The narrator finishes his sentences kind of weirrrrd. Like thissss. He seems to add extra inflection at the end of what ever he saysssss. Do you notice it tooooo ? Why does he do thaaaaaat ? So annoyingggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg.
Whenever Mr Schroder is in the cab operating the train all by himself with nobody to talk to, he casually sparks up a doobie 💥😮💨😙💨🥴 and enjoys himself as the miles and miles go by. Keep on trackin', Mr Schroder! RxR 🛤
Nice to see Engineer Schroeder isn't texting while at the controls.
love it !
Very nice observation! We need more "Engineer Schroeder's".
Or drunk😜
We didn’t see his hip flask…
They didn't give him anything to eat from the dining car. He must have packed a sandwich to eat while he drove the train. He probably had to pee in a bottle. The passengers get to sleep but Schroeder had to stay awake all night staring at the tracks.
Trains the most civilized way to travel.
Yes from downtowns that even today 05/31/20 large businesses are located and not somewhere in the boonies like airports are
@@kevinloving3141 Look Ma! No having to dance the TSA Shuffle!
Three years ago I traveled from southern California to Florence, Italy using only trains and an ocean liner. It was a great experience.
Wow never knew that was possible
Sounds interesting and I’m glad you enjoyed it. However, most people don’t want to take that much time to get there. That’s why flying is the preferred way.
This was most likely B&O Railroad's Train #5, the Columbian/Capitol Limited, which left Washington Union Station just after 4pm, went through Harper's Ferry, past Smithburg (Antietam battlefield) and Hancock along the Potomac River, and arrived in Pittsburgh just after 11pm en route to its final destination in Chicago at 715a the next morning.
In September, 1966, I took that train in the other direction, leaving Pittsburgh in the middle of the night, to arrive in DC at 930 in the morning on my way to my first day of college.
I have a brick from the Chicago B&O station's facade that was demolished decades ago. Condos have replaced most of the station on Harrison St, but they named the high-rise after the station.
Love It. It was a great thrill riding the trains in the 40s and 50s.
Wonder why it couldn't still be the case in the 2020s like in Europe.
@@Game_Hero If there was truly a widespread demand for long distance passenger rail service, the freight haulers would be tripping over themselves to offer it. AMTRAK as a whole losses money.
@@crabbymilton390 Almost no more. It's frankly a miracle it's still there given how car-centric design desincentivized non-car travel and made it less accessible. Manufactured lower demand means losing customers, losing customers mean losing money, with losing money the trains lose trains to make losses, making them less conveniant and pleasant, making them lose customers, making them lose demand, it's a vicious circle to the loss of all. Meanwhile in Europe, train travel put airlines out of business in Italy and Spain, freeing people of the expensive car monopoly. It's not a question of demand, it's a question of profits for the rail companies.
@@Game_Hero Well most companies view profits as a good thing as do I. I think some AMTRAK lines could be turned over to private companies and they may turn a profit. Nostalgia and sentimentality are fine but should never go beyond that. You can always check out those wonderful regional railroads that provide excursions. Or rail museums. In none winter months, check out the Milwaukee County Zoo’s train. Very popular and beautiful 1.25 mile ride thru wooded areas.
Boy, that Mr Schroeder sure gets around. He's the engineer of all of these diesel passenger trains!😯👍
Interesting that the narrator had to explain what a menu was and what a chef did. It makes you wonder what the target audience was.
second graders - we used to have explanatory films like this about the big world in the fifties.
children I think
Yea, I caught that too. Apparently some think children never went to a restaurant.
5:40 passengers in the “observation” car with “plenty of windows” with their noses buried in newspapers and books!🤣
Nowadays, they take up valuable space in the Amtrak Sightseer Lounges texting and surfing the web with their tablets.
An interesting period piece from the early diesel era. The dialogue is comically simplistic, geared for young children. The AI translation for closed captions produces a number of notable bloopers. Lots of humorous comments and observations below. Good entertainment all around!
Attendant is now deaf from lubing valve rockers.
I was thinking the same thing. No hearing protection back in those days.
What?
Mr. Schroder never eats or sleeps.
In those days a shift was 12 hours on duty. You got beans when you went off shift at your destination. In steam days, a shift was 16 hours.
LOL, that's what I just said above. What the heck.
I criss-crossed the USA by train during the 50s & 60s. Amtrack continued passenger service afterwards, but train travel had lost its glamor. Interstate highways, comfortable autos and air travel took passengers too.
@Percy Harry Hotspur I love to travel by train
@@placentahelper1 Nálunk Európàban lassan kényelmesebb vonattal utazni mint repülővel. nem kell kimenni legalább 3órával elötte , , nincs csomag vizsgálat, nem törik össze, lopják meg a csomagodat, a repüllőtérre kijutás is költség, az üllések is szélesebbek tágasabbak. Nem vársz a csomagodra, nem tünik el. Étkezési lehetõségekről nem is szólva. Budapest, Bécs bő két óra. Autóval sem lehet gyorsabban oda jutni. Nálunk van autópálya dij. Kettöt vignyetát kell venni. Osztrákot, Magyart. Az sem kevés.
Yes, we used to travel with other people; now we are isolated in our cars, staring ahead at endless highways, racing to see who can get "there" first. As for air travel, it use to be an adventure; now it's a burden and an exercise in frustration ("Take off your shoes!").
This station is union station in DC. I live near DC, I love Union Station. Always busy, that hasn’t changed. But in the inside it has. Glad they didn’t tear down the building, the gates, doors, etc are the same.
It's nice to see the engineer isn't trying to watch TH-cam while driving that massive beast.
Next ... a stop at Willoughby
@Gman 2060 Yes, please...Trump goes in 2020.
Satan Official Great Twilight Zone reference!
You're running late, Schroeder. Push push push!
No Trump at Willoughby
A place that looks like something right out of a courier and ives painting.
7:25, The Trialon and Parasphere on the cover of the restaurant car menu. from the '39 World's Fair. Big Hopes for a Future
You can take the exact same route today on Amtrak's Capitol Limited, at least east of Pittsburgh.
I NEVER knew the cars and busses had to stop in order for the passengers to get out
That part had me confused. Also the following bit about having to exchange money for a ticket to get on the train. SO COMPLICATED!
At 2:58 on the front wheel you can see the traction sand pouring out .
I traveled on Amtrak from Washington union station to Connelsville , pa via the ex Baltimore & Ohio line passing through Harper’s ferry & etc. unfortunately it was dark.
The dining car and kitchen showed how "rough" some of the tracks and cars were.
I can just imagine small school children watching this with undivided attention while the teacher grades their papers.
In the 70's we only had like 7 channels on tv . In those days a Magnifying glass and a dead leaf was all I needed. These days kids just go into a VIDEO COMA.
Some of us were those little children back in the ‘50s and 60s. Remember yes, imagination was reality😀
Watching this while the teacher grade their paper, definitely. I'm less sure about the "undivided attention" :D
I had to stop and replay to make sure, the postal worker in the mail car was packing a gun
RPO clerks were required to be armed.
I met a railway post office worker once, he indeed carried a gun. It was required.
People so well dressed
It looks like a very pleasant way to travel. And look, no looters or rioters in sight. 👍
7:15 and gives them menus . . . large cards with lists of of food.
Golly, doesn't the engineer get to eat or sleep? Or take a break?
He'll have a packed meal in his kitbag, usually sandwiches or something else that's easy to eat on the go. Most engines also have an electric hotplate that will get a lot of use brewing coffee. "Needs breaks" as we call them have to wait until the train stops at a town for passenger or mail loading and unloading. Many modern engines are fitted with chemical toilets in a very cramped compartment right next to the diesel, they aren't enjoyable places. Sleep will happen at the end of the run.
Hope this helps
I wonder if those passenger trains had feather pillows? 😊❤
They keep saying how Engineer Schroeder keeps a watchful eye to make sure the tracks were clear. In reality there is nothing he could do to stop the train in time. He would just hit the brakes, blow the horn, and hope for the best.
You are right. A passenger train could stop in a shorter distance than a big coal train, but still not quickly enough if a vehicle or person appeared suddenly in front of the train.
Really, was there a guy maintaining the engine all the time while the train is running? I thought that was done in workshops.
It is a pity that we allowed the Automobile Industry to dismantle not just interstate Train Travel in the USA, but also 98% of all Local, Intrastate Train Services, and especially the Local, Intra-City Rail-Services, such as the Red-Cars in Los Angeles, or the Dallas Streetcars in Dallas Texas (which used to run from Oak Cliff in the Southwest of Dallas, to South Dallas, then a rather “tony” neighborhood” in Dallas, through East Dallas, and all the way up to “The Park Cities” in what was the “Suburbs” of North Dallas: Highland Park, and University Park. The East Dallas destination of Lakewood, which had a rail line along Swiss Avenue, where the “Upper Class” of Dallas lived (along with those in “Cedar Springs”).
These Electric Rail and Streetcar lines also ran to Waco, Corsicana, Terrell, Tyler, Plano, Denton, Dennison/Sherman, Arlington, Fort Worth, and even to Huntsville and San Jacinto (just to the North and Northeast of Houston - Houston at the time was a small suburb of Galveston, although by the 1920s, Houston had begun to slowly emerge as the preferred Port over Galveston, due to the devastation of the 1900 Hurricane that killed between 6,000 and 12,000 people; roughly 1/10th to 1/5th of its population at the time. Galveston was one of the Largest Port-Cities in the world prior to the 1900 Hurricane, and while it began to recover as a tourist destination during Prohibition due to the ease of smuggling liquor from Mexico into the USA through Galveston or Houston, it never recovered its status as the Primary Southern Port of the USA, a status that transferred to both Mobile and Houston, who have vied for that title ever since).
But, back to Trains... Even with the growing competition of Air Travel, Passenger Trains, and Rail Transportation as a whole would have survived, competing against the automobile quite successfully to this day had not the larger US Automobile Companies colluded to buy-out all of the passenger rail services in the USA, and to begin shutting them down to force the population to spend more money on cars.
Would that not have happened, it would now be possible to travel from Alaska all the way to the southernmost portions of Argentina, or Terra del Fuego in Chile, by very affordable and comfortable rail services (that the USA barely has anything remotely similar existing today).
And... We would likely see a much more integrated country, where Urban Centers were not so vital (nor so large) to our current economy and Social Structures. That is beside the fact that Global Warming would be a vastly less dire problem that we are currently facing due to the dominance of the Automobile and displacement of rail transportation.
It wasn't the automobile that killed train travel. 18 wheelers took the freight business and Greyhound and the airlines took the passengers.
Most people appreciate the freedom of their own cars which isn’t a bad thing.
@@crabbymilton390
Which is a completely different subject than depriving THE EVEN GREATER NUMBER without cars the ability to HAVE ANY FREEDOM OF movement at all.
Most people in the USA have never owned a car, and never will.
@@crabbymilton390
Never mind that it isn’t a mutually exclusive thing.
People CAN both “Own a car” AND want to travel cross country by a means MORE ECONOMICAL than Air traffic OR driving themselves.
Dismantling the infrastructure to sell a marginally few more cars to people who would eventually buy one anyway IS STILL depriving those exact same people of an option that permits of just as much, if not a greater freedom, due to being able to use either local transportation systems (as in NYC, Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, and other cities to a lesser degree PRIOR to the exact same people finally getting around to sabotage these transportation systems (or in EVERY CITY, EVER in the REST of the developed world, where people have BOTH options - Spain is a really good example. No place in the country is more than about 90 minutes from your front door, even in the most rural parts of Spain.. i.e.: most of it), AND the ability to rent a car at any destination in the USA.
The choice at the time WAS NOT “We have to choose one or the other,” but rather was THREE COMPANIES deciding no one but them should have the means of making that choice at all.
There is a very famous movie from the 1980s about this very subject that nearly everyone in the audience missed. It was SORT OF about an animated rabbit framed for a murder.
But most people missed WHY he was framed, for which there were two reasons, both applying to OUR reality, even if one was metaphoric. The larger reason was LITERAL:
1) Showing how some people justify genocide (look at the year in which the movie is set).
2) That the “Big Three” (which would become four before shrinking again to three) of the Auto Makers in the US systematically took over and dismantled the VAST Inter-State AND Intra-State/Local Transportation systems to BOTH a) Confine those they wanted included in that”Genocide” they couldn’t make happen in the USA to specific locations, denying them BOTH the freedom of movement AND a means to build Generational Wealth, and 2) Prevent as MANY in the remaining Middle-Class reaping ENORMOUS DIVIDENDS with the GI Bill from KEEPING that wealth as Generational Assets that could then lift even more into the Middle Class of the USA.
I got to learn all of this by being in the class of people who wanted to do all of the above (the “Upper” and “Capitalist” classes, called in Europe “The Ruling Classes”).
We COULD have BOTH Had not people of my Grandfather’s and Great-Grandfather’s generations been so attached to their bigotries and prejudices.
@@crabbymilton390
All things that accompanied the dismantling of “Main Street” businesses and Family Farms, the latter no longer viable for any purely “Family Business” due to the nature of Agricultural Technologies, and their expense (both in acquisition and operation/maintenance).
Norman Borlaug was a Family Friend and who my mother studied under for her work in Agricultural Horticulture. This was something he TRIED to prevent, but failed to do.
Which could very well have consequences FAR BEYOND something as trivial as National and Regional/Local Transportation systems in comparison.
It is cheaper for me to fly the Atlantic than take a train from my local station in northern England to say, Madrid (Spain)
What a time!!!
Somewhere on the east coastal area maybe Vermont?
At 3:36, the motion of the piston is releasing the brakes, not applying them.
So the engineer doesn't get to eat, sleep, or go to the bathroom all day and all night? Well, that ain't right.
Engineer never eats, he never sleeps, he never pees nor poos
Have you ever been inside of an engine? They have a little potty in there.
Canadian locomotive even have a microwave oven in there 😊
Today we prefer being less comfortable sitting in traffic paying far more.
Airlines are significantly faster, but much more expensive.
Automobiles are about the same speed, but can be customized to go exactly where you like, and cost nothing for additional passengers.
I still think a modern approach to passenger rail could work (like how Uber changed taxi services), but navigating around the limited freight rail capacity would be very tough.
Looks like DC Union Station
Those good OH F units
Waiters who served ppl in a dining car that they themselves were not allowed to eat in; nor were any black passengers. Train travel has its nice qualities but that was not one of them and I’m glad that particular practice is gone.
Tren tipi guzel
the very first diesels is why they must be promoting it.
wasn't many years before this ge tested their steam turbine electric.
and over the next decade steam pretty much disappeared.
Any idea which town was shown at time point 8:29?
Oh my God... so cool! The train when it emerges from the tunnel at Harpers Ferry, West Virginia shows the overhead view of the trestle to the right. It was here my wife and I walked over to check out the train tunnel and the multitude of combination and padlocks around the support beams of the trestle. A freight train did come through the tunnel that day and I captured that footage.
th-cam.com/video/sZSnUWDxNa4/w-d-xo.htmlsi=hyAkU7ZqbyuBG52I&t=498
Additional footage of the tracks and side trestle can be seen at: 4:34 and 7:02
Bit of a concern that same engineer is driving the train day and night with no replacement. Was Fatigue a city in Ohio then?
If the engineer fell asleep, you might get a free trip to Denver rather than stopping in Chicago.
What station at start?
I'm guessing Baltimore.
Washington Union Station. Built in 1907. Restored to its original glory in the 1980's.
in 1941 more than three million cars where made in the USA only 139 more where made during the entire war
wow !
There were far more than 139 examples of 1942 models built between December 7, 1941 and the end of civilian manufacture on February 1, 1942.
@@OldsVistaCruiser You are correct. I see that Plymouth alone built about 24,000 cars in January of 1942, most of which were then requisitioned for military use. I expect the other manufacturers did not immediately shut down either.
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I refuse to ride a train with no crime, just joking, imagine what was and what is, then and now, past and present, sad...
Wait so this film is from 1940 but diesels weren't around until the 1950's or 60's.
No not true. There were diesels in WWII and before ...
@@PeriscopeFilm oh really I guess I got my history wrong.
Diesels came out in the 1930s. Railroads would have dieselized by 1945-1950 if it wasn't for World War II.
And ALL the railroads were completely dieselized before 1960.
The Yankee Clipper was a streamlined diesel with a stainless steel body. It was in regular service in 1937.
When the USA had the fastest trains ... not anymore
Trains are faster now than they were before. Trust me, I have to work around live tracks.
It was a concerted effort by auto and airline manufacturers and their lobbyists that killed widespread American passenger train transportation.
More like it was the fact that the railroads were taxed to support construction of roads and airports, which were government funded by taxes and railroads weren't, combined with obtuse and restrictive fare rulings by the ICC, and finally by loss of the mail contracts, which by that point had been all that was keeping passenger trains alive. If course the fact that you could get a long distance in hours in an airplane rather than many days in a train ate into long distance passenger numbers, and highways and cars did the same for shorter distances.
@@lwilton The post office terminating mail contracts with railroads in 1967 was the final nail that killed passenger rail service in the U.S. Most people don't realize how much passenger rail service was subsidized by railroad mail contracts, even during the heyday of rail travel.
They are all dead
Wages if sin
The boy at the RR Xing is alive. 97 years young Buck Nekkid is living in a adult entertainment actors retirement community 100 miles northwest of Fargo, ND. Asked about his most memorable role he excitedly exclaimed "Either my role as 'excited young boy in The Passenger Train' or the Marilyn Monroe basement tapes" said Mr. Nekkid with a twinkle in his eye.
Before anyone gets too nostalgic, notice how the menial jobs were performed by people that the railroads didn’t think were worthy of the more highly skilled and highly paid jobs. No one should be nostalgic for those days.
Why ever not???🤔🤨🙄
@@keithdukes5990 I guess if you were a black man who couldn't get a higher paying job and were relegated to menial jobs that were hard and boring you might not be very nostalgic.
There's a race baiter in EVERY crowd. sheesh... can't you just enjoy a video for a video's sake?!?!
@@Nunofurdambiznez The truth will set you free...
Sky caps, so called menial labor , were skilled and employed, my grandfather took great pride in his job, he picked cotton before a he was a waiter, a cook, saving his money raised 7 kids, was was married to the same woman for 76 years, owned his own business, and filled a park with kids grandchildren and great grand children many family reunions were people of color, my family, Irish, native American, African american, Spanish, we were Americans, I don't know what we are now.
A shame the way the USA treated its railroads, but hey, we all got 4 cars in the driveway.
RIP B&O , enjoy your scamtrak Americans
How disappointing. Even when this documentary was made producer(s), director(s) and writer(s) were already idiots ignorant of the subject matter. The signal scene at 3:30 shouldn't have been written as though trains start and stop the way auto traffic does.
Script was written for most likely third graders, demonstrated by the description of dining car menus at 7:15. The finer points of block working and interlocking theory could wait. From the way the signal went straight from Stop to Clear Normal without cycling through Normal Warning suggests that it was regulating a junction and not mainline follow on moves
I know. I know you're already going to say the servants were black and I can't help that some say it was the best job and the worst job. I'm not black. I can't say I just wish it didn't happen 😪
I notice: the waiters are "clever", and not "skilled". An innocent sentence like this shows the disregard for the black table help.
There's nothing wrong with being "clever".. race baiter....
Did they always speak llike thiiiiiiiiiiis, in days gone byyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyye? I'm not so suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuure. It's just fakeeeeeeeeeeeery.
The narrator finishes his sentences kind of weirrrrd. Like thissss. He seems to add extra inflection at the end of what ever he saysssss. Do you notice it tooooo ? Why does he do thaaaaaat ? So annoyingggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg.
That Narrator!!! I can't listen him....
You can't put a sentence together either!!!🤨🧐🙄🤪
Sounds like Ed Sullivan
This sounds like it was made for kids.
Whenever Mr Schroder is in the cab operating the train all by himself with nobody to talk to, he casually sparks up a doobie
💥😮💨😙💨🥴 and enjoys himself as the miles and miles go by.
Keep on trackin', Mr Schroder! RxR 🛤