"Snow on the Run" Southern Pacific documentary
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- Опубліковано 7 сер 2014
- A documentary produced by Southern Pacific chronicling their snow-fighting efforts on the Overland Route during the winter of 1951 and '52. This was the year the "City of San Francisco" was stranded due to heavy snow.
There is no audio from 5:14 to 5:40, and from 5:48 to 6:50. This is because music on the audio track was flagged by UA-cam as matching third-party content and had to be removed.
If you ever read articles on the stranding of train No 101, the westbound City of San Francisco, you'll see the name Bob Miller or R A Miller all over the place. At 8:17 video time is a picture of him. At the time he was the Assistant Superintendent of the Sacramento Division. He passed away in 1997.
He was also my father. I am R A Junior and like my brothers went to work for the SP too, as did my grandfathers on both sides and two uncles with sons that went into engine service as I did. All in all when we were all retired we had a collective 325 years of service - brakemen, conductors, clerks, dispatchers, firemen, engineers, car knockers and company officers. The lion's share was on the SP but for a hoghead for the Santa Fe and a car man that worked on the Texas Pacific and MKT, the "Katy Lady" and a brother and me started our careers working for the Sacramento Northern.
I'm the only one left and hard core SP. Open my veins and I would surely bleed Daylight livery. As long as I live the SP will live.
That's pretty cool.
Thanks for the video. It brought back some fond memories.
@ Robert Miller - as a farmboy from Ohio, I spent a lot of time around trains. When I was little more than a toddler my dad took me & brother Jim to a yard in East Akron to sit, in our 66 Chevy station wagon, as the switchers made up consists. He'd essentially sit & read the newspaper while "we" listened to the hapless Cleveland Browns, or the Indians - my brother & I (bored) out-of-our minds...
A few years later, we lived on 80 acres of farm south of Akron, and the B&O or Chessie line ran along the end of the fields. I'd spend hours & hours back there, watching freighters come & go.
I've had a love affair w/the RR's ever since, as if my Creator tried to convey His way w/me through the rails, and, in particular steam units.
As a boy I remember living beside an (old) RR engineer, Mr Battle, and being in awe how he wielded the tall Iron for a living..
I think one of the gravest mistakes this country has ever made was to have so marginalized rail travel. Imagine if the RR barons and the powers that be over infrastructure & big gov had been able to come together all those years ago...
Thank the Lord for you & your families long long tenure on the RR. Men like you have shaped the hearts of many MANY a boy that have gone on to take pride in what we've aspired to as (working men). Thank you, sir. God bless.
Damn you youtube for flagging the music! It makes the movie less dramatic!!!!
This video is invaluable to me, I remember watching this so much when I was a kid. Thank you for helping to make sure it is preserved forever.
I love these old documentaries so much.
Love these "old" films.
I have this on VHS from the 1990's or early 2000's. It was on a tape with two other videos from a set of that had 7 VHS tapes altogether. American Railroads, "The Steam Train Legacy." Wonderful set of old black and white videos made by the railroads in the 1940's, 50's, and early 60's. Very neat.
I too have the VHS tape. I've played it so many times it is wearing out. Guess I'll have to find it on DVD, before DVD becomes extinct.
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Thank you for this video I enjoyed watching also very educational. I'm sorry I was not around during the age of steam I would have loved the cab forward steam engine. I admire a great deal the employees who shoveled and clear the lines for communication. I hope someday to visit Donner Pass and take a train ride over the pass. Thank you again for this video. Was the announcer Jack Webb please take the best of care
AWSOME VIDEO......
What’s the sound track for this? Because it keeps getting stuck in my head
Great historic winter train video!
Some of the coolest videos have few views and comments. People don't know what they are missing.
I have this on one of my railroad DVDs, but I have a Christmas movie in the Blu-ray player, so I came here to watch the diesels and steam locos shoving rotaries, Jordan spreaders, and flangers in action. Woof, that was an awful lot of snow that winter!! Thanks for posting.
Yo I showed my great grandpa who worked in the days of the cab forward and big boys he saw both but he said that whenever he went up driving those locos it was either a pain in the ass or a hell whenever it snowed
10:36 - Southern Pacific decided to raise a bulldozer army to free their passenger train, and one of those big Bucyrus-Erie cranes!
I love the old steam-driven rotary plows, they outlasted the steam locomotives for a number of years because they are only needed seasonally, and it must be nice and warm in the cab!
this is the only time UP has failed. If Donner Pass is not plowed the trains stop and they don't want that.
Aaron Peavler/Geomodelrailroader Railroad Photography, its SP, not UP - although running a single track on the hill is an extraordinary fail on UP's part.
RockyRailroad Animation, those same rotaries are out at Roseville. They were converted from steam after this, and UP is upgrading them again. A class 1 railroad pushing equipment that's almost a century old - that's something else.
The rotary plows in this video are probably still in service today.
Some of them are in fact, and are being rebuilt for the second [or possibly third] time to improve their performance and extend their service lives.
Steam still in action. Great.
Cool film, but I di find it humorous that SP tries to say they went to Chicago. The UP and the Rock Island might have taken exception. 🙂
UP and SP were strong partners until 1981 so most of the freight traffic is directly heading to Chicago. Funny though that SP actually reached Chicago by 1991, though it wouldn't save them.
Thanks for uploading this! I used to own it on vhs a long time ago, i had seen it here in another upload but that one was incomplete.
kassie2k4 You're quite welcome.
+Carl's Trains & Stuff I heard part of the audio got removed because you probably didn't hit the "Matched Third Party Content" button on the Copyright Notice bar. I'm glad I didn't get any of my audio removed because I also stated "Credit Goes To Respected Owners" and clicked and agreed to the Third Party Content and Standards to keep one of my videos online.
When you have 16 feet of snow on Donner Pass there is only one machine in UP's arsenal that gets the job done. When you have snow on Donner Pass the rotaries come out and it is their job to get rid of it each winter down at Roseville the rotaries are prepared for war sometimes they don't get the call but other times when the call goes out the war wagons come out of Roseville yard and head up the pass it is their job to make sure that the Transcontinental Railroad stays open because if the Transcontinental Railroad is shutdown no one gets into California and UP is not making money as Jack Webb said in the film UP's job is the keep the line clear and keep the trains moving because if one Dash 9 is stopped America stops and Union Pacific does not make money and the stinking trucks steal the freight. That is way the Rotaries are important to the Transcontinental Railroad because they have to keep it open no matter what so UP can live up to their motto Building America.
Aaron Peavler/Geomodelrailroader Railroad Photography, the Snowfighters only work the Overland and Shasta Routes - UP still comes into here through their line in southern Nevada and the ex-SP Sunset and Shasta routes, and traffic can be routed north from Roseville and east over the Keddie Wye to reach Nevada via Portola, bypassing the hill. Through 20 years of mergers, UP has created a network that can adapt to problems, thanks to a series of wyes.
I like this film but there are audio dropouts.
Yes, the dropouts are explained in the description.
I have a DVD that has this documentary!
Harrison La time traveler same here!
Good ole Sierra Concrete.
sounds like Johnny Carson narrating
Great video, Carl. I have a collection of films like this. I love all things having to do with freight trains and streamline trains. Keep up the great work in all that you do. Sincerely, Tony Jams, Mr. Rock & Roll @ www.youtube/anthonyjamroz.
Would you be able to tell me the name of the collection--I completely forgot what it was called
Mr. Miller your da probable knew my grandda his name was leroy a cowan he was southern pacifics claim ajuster.
No it's not the only train to be snowbound it happened again in 53 city of San Francisco for I believe 5 days it was not recovered like shown in this clip the whole train was pulled out by oddly enough a cab forward
The consist shown being retrieved in this video was in fact the Streamliner City of San Francisco. I have the definitive book on the stranding, and it confirms what is shown in the video. SP tried pulling the whole consist, but it was stuck so fast that it wouldn't budge. Rather than risk pulling a drawbar, the decision was wisely made to remove the cars a few at a time as shown. By that point the passengers had been evacuated.
@@evanstauffer4470 We have the surviving car from that train in fact it was in the first group to be recovered, RPO 5901 it is now at the Golden gate railroad Museum