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2 railroad locomotives collide
head-on. (1913) 1:21 (B & W) California State
Fair (Clip) - Progressive Film Producing Company of America
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At This Moment - Handy (Jam)
Organization 26:25 (Color) Importance of railroads to
1950s America. Directed by Haford Kerbawy.
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The Big Train - MPO Productions
26:02 (Color)
Operations of the New York Central Railroad. Producer and director:
Victor Solow. Introduced by NYCRR president Alfred E. Perlman.
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Big Trains Rolling - Dudley
Pictures Corporation 23:53 (Color) Railroads and how
they keep the U.S. economy rolling
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True Experience of Officer Harold
Sewell, The - Unknown 1:20 (B & W) Dramatized
screen ad showing how a flashlight powered by Eveready batteries
prevents a train wreck.
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A Great Railroad at Work - Handy
(Jam) Organization 39:04 (B & W) Everything
there is to know about the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad.
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Mainline U.S.A. - Dudley Pictures
Corporation 19:03 (Color) Importance of railroads in the
U.S. economy, with many great running views of freight and passenger
trains.
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The Passenger Train (Second
Edition) (1955) 10:41 (B & W) A young boy
travels from Chicago, Illinois to Lamy, New Mexico via passenger train.
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Chevrolet Safe Roads Ad - Handy
(Jam) Organization (1935) 7:38 (B & W) Driving
is compared with running a railroad train. With excellent images of
steam-era passenger trains.
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This Is My Railroad - Unknown
28:55 (Color)
Operations of the Southern Pacific Railroad, with many images of the
territory that it serves. With excellent footage of snow management and
removal operations in the Sierra Nevada mountains.
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Troop Train - U.S. Office of War
Information 10:50 (B & W)
Evocative World War II-era film following a troop train: the
coordination of effort; its staging and assembly of cars, cargo and
passengers; its heavily guarded journey through the American
countryside; and the food, sleep, exercise, training, drilling and
recreation of its soldier-passengers.
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Wheels of Progress - Zenith
Cinema Services, Inc. 19:02 (Color) Operations
of the Rock Island Lines. Includes shots of high-speed "Rocket" freight
trains; the operation of classification yards; and scenes of
agricultural and industrial areas served by the railroad. Writer and
Director: John A. McGee.
