The New York Central in "New York Calling" (1950)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ต.ค. 2024
- "New York Calling" is a 20-minute promotional film that the New York Central made to boost New York City tourism. There are two versions of this film: the original 1942 version, with streamlined Hudson locomotives at the head of the Empire State Express; and this version, made in 1950, with diesel power in place of steam. Almost all the rest of the 1942 film was carried over unchanged into the 1950 version.
This is a railfan's version of "New York Calling:" it's been cut to four minutes in order to focus on the railroad scenes. The original soundtrack was just narration and music, with no location sound, so I've replaced it with some period-appropriate pop music.
Some further railfan notes:
--At 0:19 and 1:03 you can see telltale signs of smoke and steam from the J3a's.
--At 1:41 the train crosses the NYC's 1897 swing bridge across the Harlem, which was replaced in the 1950's by the present lift bridge.
You can see the entire 1950 version of the film here: www.filmpreser... - ยานยนต์และพาหนะ
![Wonderful New York early 1950s in Color [60fps, Remastered] w/sound design added](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/UhzEmq9RQ_w/mqdefault.jpg)
I think the world has lost a lot of its soul in the time since this film was made.
This makes me tear up!!!
Nostalgia. The Painful memory of. Yes a lot of joy and delight had evaporated.
The footage of entering grand central was magical. What a way to enter NYC. The golden age of rail is long gone. Now it’s just commuter train out of grand central. It isn’t as grand as it used to be
I am german and I love railroad history, especially the american one. I feel really sorry for american railfans that trains are not common there anymore.
As a child my dad would take us to the Tremont Avenue station to watch the trains. The awesome size and power blew us away as kids and my favorite was after a deep snowfall, the trains were almost silent and the blowing snow was thrown all over us kids.
that is literally the station I got off at tonight from the metro north.
The original "New York Calling" was likely made to promote the new streamlined Empire State Express service, which debuted on December 7, 1941. Pearl Harbor put a dent in that.
LOL, the 2nd most notable event of that day.
@Speed Graphic Film and Video Back in the day, the train's debut would have merited the front pages of various newspapers published in cities along the Water Level Route between New York City and Buffalo. As you noted, the story became one-eighth of a column back on Page 14.
Those were the days... memories that won't and can't return ...
Thanks for sharing this video. Beautiful visit to the Glory Days of passenger rail.
The Hudson Line today is a far cry from what it once was. Metro north has taken over and the sole purpose of the line is just getting place to place. No more traveling in style
I have one of the original 1950 New York Central Railroad Spike
I remember standing with my Dad at the tracks between Marble Hill and Riverdale and watching the 20th Century Limited go by northbound. I never knew how blessed I was.
Thanks...my favorite railroad of all time!
Mine too!
A very interesting video and thanks for all your editing work. I did watch the original film and, when the credits were shown Emil Velazco was credited for Music Direction. Emil was one of 3 organists employed for the 1927 grand opening of the NY Roxy Theatre. Emil was a talented musician and acquired a long list of credits during his career. I would love to go back to the New York City shown in the video and travel there on the NYC. Thanks again.
This video always puts me in a good mood, thank you for posting!
Why do I end up bawling my eyes out from viewing this?
We all do, It was truly good times
Growing up in the Hudson valley , it's always cool to see the sites from back then that havn't changed a bit, I did notice perkins drive monument was not seen on top of BEAR mountain. maybe not built yet. Best was Break neck double tunnels, i camped on top when i was younger watching trains go in and out all day long, THANK YOU!!
I recall watching some of these trains as I grew up in northeastern Ohio. I was a bit surprised at how many of them bypassed Cleveland. Excellent video!
Born in 1944 in Detroit; moved to Buffalo in '49. When in West Seneca NY, my family lived near the RR transfer yards. My mother could not put clothes on the line to dry when the wind was in the wrong direction as the smoke and soot from the steamers would make a mess. I used to walk over and watch all the train activity and look for old spikes. Seeing your vids gets me reminiscing of those days. Still have my fathers (now mine) 1950 Lionel NYC F3 A-B-A loco and train set he bought for the family. Been building NYC HO model RR for years 'cause of that. Really like your channel and subbed. Fav 1.Niagara 2.Berkshire 3.Hudson.
Naturally I like your entire NYC playlist...superb!
We lived in Riverdale 1965-68. My father worked in the Mobil Building just down E.42nd Street from GCT, directly across from the Chrysler Building.
One day he took me into the office on a Saturday to make a father-son outing of clearing out some left-over paperwork (I was 7). We rode a classic off-peak 3-car MU train downtown. When it stopped at 125th Sreet I looked across and saw the four-floor walk-up tenements @ 1:47 which lined Park Avenue all the way to the tunnel.
It was my first acquaintance with poverty and squalor. Every floor had at least one broken window. Paint chipped everywhere.
"Poor people live there," my father said.
"Why don't they move away?" I asked.
"They're too poor to move away."
Music is absolutely matching and perfect for these wonderful bygone scenes…
I really enjoyed this film clip. My grandfather was a conductor on the New York Central railroad from the late 30's into the early 60's.
The perfect music for this! Congrats!
Great vid and music!
I clicked on the link to view the original 1942 "New York Calling" video but I don't think it was made in that year because at 3:17 in that video there is a shot of the new United Nations building which did not get completed until the year 1951, and right before it a 1949 DeSoto can be seen passing by. So the video was probably made in about the year 1950. If there is an original video of "New York Calling" I have yet to see it posted anywhere.🙁
filmpreservation.org has marked the film as being made in 1942, but it's the 1950 version that they have a copy of. I don't recall ever seeing the 1942 version.
@@SpeedGraphicFilmVideo I doubt that it exists. Before WW2 all promotional travelogues like "New York Calling" were shot in B/W only afterwards did they start making them in color. Definitely a very made well film for its time.
L O V E I T !!! If I could give this video 100 thumbs up, I would do it in a heartbeat!!
I really miss those times more and more every day.
I was 8 years old then and loved taking the trains . Played cribbage with my grandfather on the train ride. Got a lot of Shirley Temples with a red cherry. Dressed in a suit with white shirt and short pants.
Everything is so elegant and stylish I just love these old movie clips
Thank you.
I'm in love with music it fits almost too well
Thanks be to God they at least saved GC terminal!
Travel in style! Wow. 1950.
JUMP FOR JOE !!! Big Kenton and New York Central fan, you did it right !!!
Cool music
Sweet video, great music!
Thanks, that was just what the doctor ordered!
Great video!
so cool!
Very cool
This is how you do it!
Those were the days folks.
Kenton fits right in.
The final decades of the Golden Era of Rail Travel must've been something to experience. Little did travelers of the era know that the mode of long-distance transport they had so long taken advantage of would be swept into the dust bin of history just twenty-years after the (re)making of this promotional film, a woeful victim of the highway system and jet age. And what a sorry loss it was! As a society we sacrificed elegance and class for the convenient economy of the auto and jet airplane, and I am afraid this trade-off applies to other aspects of modern life as well.
I’m curious. On the first two train boards (20th Century Limited and the Commodore Vanderbilt), it had Los Angeles and even San Francisco under Chicago. Did those trains have thru cars that would be connected to trains heading west or is it something else?
@ImmaRefugee Yes, through cars from western lines did operate into New York City on the Central: I can recall a 1938 photograph of a Union Pacific sleeper heading into Grand Central Terminal. I am unsure, however, whether such occured on the "20th Century Limited" given that this was the road's premier train--railroad management may not have wanted to "mar" the "Century's" appearance with a foreign road's paint scheme. The rollsign's advertisement may indicate that close connections were available in Chicago for passengers headed further west (i.e.: Los Angeles via the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway.)
Man, Dig the music....LoL
Did all those intercity trains leave from Track 34?
I especially enjoyed the music- can you tell me who this band is?
See credits at the end.
"Jump for Joe" by Stan Kenton.
What's the music track? Sounds generic, but I hear a familiar trombonist (just kidding) - but what's the track, seriously?
See credits at the end. Stan Kenton, as I recall.
Flim about trains yet only four minutes have trains
How can I copy this to my Facebook page??!!!!
Paste a link to the video in a Facebook post, and it should embed itself.
How I long for the old days when there were only 25 million people living in NYC
Does anyone know where this location is 0:07
highbrige home sweet home
Do you realize if we lost 99.99 percentage of the population of NYC there would still be 8000 people living in NYC
This must have been before the invention of spray can paint.
I'm not the only one saying it: this country is crap now. You look at how clean, nice, useful, affordable it used to be
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