" ON THE TRACK " 1948 SALUTE TO AMERICAN RAILROADS TRANSITION TO DIESEL LOCOMOTIVES 70902
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One of filmmaker Carl Dudley’s fine films "On the Track" is a portrait of America's railroads in this 1948 film. Shot during the transitional period when diesel locomotives supplanted steam power, film is basically a salute to America, its railroads, and the multitude of trains that criss-cross the nation. Much like Dudley's "Life Line of the Nation", adoration for American railroads abounds with scene after scene of various trains rolling down the tracks. The railroads are depicted as the “symbol of American progress and prosperity for a great and powerful nation.” The railroads “bind the country into one strong, rich and unshatterable unit.” Railroads “move anything, anywhere, and anytime at low cost.” They are “Uncle Sam’s arteries” and “there is nothing in existence or in sight that can replace the railroad.” Features rare color views of Penn Station, railroad yards and terminals, and passenger trains including the famed California Zephyr. The film was made for the Association of American Railroads.
The film opens with a speeding train racing down the tracks -- the famed California Zephyr, a Santa Fe Railroad passenger train. It then offers glimpses of iconic American locales (0:08) including the Statue of Liberty (:51), Mt. Rushmore (1:03), Capitol Building, Niagara Falls, New York City (1:26) and tenements, bustling factories and farms. Followed by views of a contemporary mass production or assembly line (2:07) and a train shown at the Chicago Railroad Fair that was simply referred to as "the locomotive" (2:17). The scenes then showcase the natural beauty of the American landscape, including the Plains (2:40) and Yosemite Falls (2:45). It then shows men traveling by horseback and wagon trains (3:00). Amber grains of wheat are shown as well as red hot metal in a foundry. At (3:30) an iconic American Plains Indian surveys the arrival of settlers.
The film then focuses on the William Crooks train at the Chicago Railroad Fair. William Crooks is a 4-4-0 steam locomotive that was the first locomotive to operate in the State of Minnesota, beginning in 1861. The narrator elaborates on the train's transformative impact on the American landscape (3:57). The film continues with footage of the swift-moving C&NW 400 train (4:06), New York City (4:17), shots from the undercarriage of a moving train showing the trucks, and a fleet of diesel locomotives emerging from a roundhouse. At (5:22) a woman poses in a fur coat. At (5:39) iconic shots of an American family eating dinner together. New York’s Grand Central Terminal (6:45), followed by glimpses of an Southern Railroad passenger train (7:08) with luxurious interiors. At (7:28) a woman reads "Californian" magazine as she sits in comfort. At (7:48) passengers in a dome car watch the scenery as it goes by. At (8:21), tourists at a guest ranch ride horses. At (8:26) shots of what appears to be Atlantic City beach. At (9:05) a steam locomotive belches smoke as it moves across screen. At (10:10) passengers eat in a dining car. New York Skyline as seen from New Jersey. Starting at (10:39) the focus is on railroads and national defense. Pershing tank (10:48); flamethrower demonstration (11:23). Soldiers are observed filing into a troop train (11:38), and there's a scene featuring a track operator with a switchboard (13:43). Further sequences include a Great Northern locomotive and a CB&Q SD9 430 train (13:49) and a turntable, along with a variety of train models such as Santa Fe 38 (EMD F7) from Electro-Motive Division of General Motors, an IC E7 train from Illinois Central, and a Pennsylvania railroad EMD F3A (15:45-15:53). The film captures the swift movement of a Baltimore and Ohio EMD train along its route (16:09) and concludes with scenes depicting passengers inside a New York Central train pulled by an EMD locomotive before wrapping up (16:48).
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That mail pickup at 80 MPH was pretty impressive!
The golden age for American railroads.
I was fortunate to have an English professor in college during the late 1970s who was a WWII veteran and used his GI Bill benefits to attend college just have the war. In our classes, he would lament what America had become since the late 1940s. It was his opinion that America was "on top of the world," back then. We had just achieved victory over the Axis forces, liberated millions, and we were getting our war-time economy converted back to peace-time production. This is the period depicted in this short feature.
Then, in Professor Bloch's words, "The Russians got the bomb, and things quickly changed."
I love the colorful liveries of Americas railroads during the postwar period. Also, I love the patriotic spirit of the narrator!
Reminds me of a Tex Avery cartoon
These film are unforgettable taking me back to when I was a little boy watching the train go past my house . .
MY dad said this is what America used to be when he was a kid and loved trains. We're in Milwaukee Wisconsin and dad has lived in many places in his life. Always loved watching steam and the big new streamliners of the day.
His uncle was employed by Chicago northwestern . He worked in a switch house , switching track and reporting and inspecting.
He visited his uncle many times at the switch house and so it began for him. He's 75 years old now and still loves these vintage videos.
We thank you for posting this video.
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Sadly, much of this American greatness has disappeared.
ya and now all the factories are either automated OR SITTING EMPTY! WHAT A SHAME! I GO BACK TO THE 'OLD WAYS'....
MAGA!!
@@renegadetenor .... failed to deliver.
...Love these older films!
I love these old films from the 40's and 50's and the look back in American history.
What a country America once was, The quality, The life style, All gone now, It’s been completely turned on its head by the usual suspects ... just my opinion, I’m sure my opinion is not wanted by Some..
Yes Barry Hill. The trickle down theory. When the American Dream was murdered in cold blood. By the usual suspects.
Thank you for putting on this great content of our history!!!
I fear, that with the current state of affairs in this great contry, films like these will soon be deemed " not in the best intrest of the country". Semper Fortis, America!!!!!!
COMMIE PROPAGANDA!!!!
@@jackanthony976 Aaaaaaahahahahaha! good one.
These Footage Films Are Awesome
These wonderful times are gone forever, sad!
My grandparents and great÷grandparents worked so hard and loved America.
Yes those days are indeed gone, The Bastion of the free world has been nobbled Not from ‘without’ but from ‘Within’ ...
@@barryhill1044 ...by *LIBERALISM*
Back when the highest tax rate was 90% and America was paying its bills. People today pine for the "Good Ole Days" but then shreek in horror when its suggested we go back to the tax structure that paid for those Good Ole Days.
@@AuH2O wasn't liberalism it was the freedom of the personal automobile that killed passenger rail.
My Mom took me and one sister from Michigan City to Detroit in 1968 on New York Central. What service! Conductor had to have the train stopped to throw off 2 drunks. Back then they radioed the local sheriff to take care of the issue. Train ride was great. I worked for Amtrak for 2 years in Chicago locomotive machinist cool job. Train travel should come back. It would help alot of over crowding road problems to.
11/30/23 at 6:05pm... Thanks for the history. As it should be told!
Art Gimore was probably the top narrator in Hollywood. The only one of these "liners" I saw as a kid growing up in Bound Brook, NY in the '50s would be the B & O passenger train, which usually didn't stop in Bound Brook. I have always liked the blue and gray paint scheme.
He did live quite long to see the decline of American Railroad industry. and even to witness the 911 Incident.
It would be nice to see the railroads bring back passenger service like they once had. Amtrak tries to fill the need but it just isn't the same. I remember traveling the train in the 50s as a kid going to Kansas City from LA on the Santa Fe with my mom. I loved that trip and remember it well. With airplanes falling apart and being dangerous thanks to corporate greed, the traveling across the country and looking out the window is part of the vacation itself. They do have all of the comforts of home in Roomettes and even in the lounge cars, travel can be comfortable. Those were the good old days of the railroad but even today, the railroad is vital to the US economy and defense.
@@EARCOMMAND well, at 70 now, I would say I lived during some interesting and tumultuous times. Growing up in the 50s and being a young adult in the late 60s was grand. Our music was tops and did we ever see changes from the mid 60s on. I still think about that train trip and wish I could take it again.
Life and railroads looked a lot better back then even though I was born in the 21st century
I'm not sure if American Passenger Train service will be revived by the foundings of JR America :P
The railroads would never bring passenger service back. There is no money in it. The government can because it gets all our money. If you consider the tax, insurance and cost of maintenance on a passenger train to keep it safe and rolling it would have a major financial bite in the budget lol. I do agree though it would be nice to see passenger trains rolling through with the name of an actual railroad on its side rather than the name of the most famous way to die. (Amtrac)
Right have you seen the price of an Amtrak ticket it's on my bucket list so it's safe to say I will never see the U.S.A from the rail
A past that will never be again. Automation is making manufacturing a thing of the past, and the future of work and labor is in a different area.
We could be seeing rail-service for passengers return, as newer high-speed rail becomes feasible.
Highly unlikely in the USA given that such private endeavours as Brightline in Florida are not carrying enough passengers to prove successful.
Don't hold your breath. The highway lobby is still running the show.
correct the green cult want to get rid of cars, but only massive amounts likely in the trillions of your tax dollars to prop up their agenda for unnecessary high speed rail.
@@clubhouseme The green cult doesn't want to get rid of cars, they want electric cars that get their electricity from solar & wind turbines. Instead of high speed rail I'd rather see expanded regular Amtrak passenger service at reasonable prices.
Originally released in 1946.
The Times Square scene at 1:32 has one theater offering "Caesar and Cleopatra", a 1945 British film released in the U.S. in September 1946.
Thank you that helps a lot!!
You're VERY welcome. :)
Originally, yes. Of course in this version, there is some equipment shown that is post 1949, but curiously nothing more modern for passenger power than E7s, so probably not later than 1950. Steam power is also depicted on Norfolk and Western and Duluth Missabe and Iron Range RRs. But they ran steam until 1960, so I guess that doesn't help.
Railroads still move more coal domestically than any other method. Grew up near one of the oldest and largest rail yards in the country. Those squealing rails.
One must always stay on the right side of the tracks
where the police are funded and hoodlums driven out
The Streamliner is the most beautiful train 🚆 ever built
That’s a good movie
I drive past the railroad in Woodinville, Washington. Signs warn not to stop on the tracks. Who are they kidding? There are Douglas fir trees growing BETWEEN the rails. Signals and gates still exist, but would they actually work if someone ran a train down from the once and former Snohomish Junction? Spurs going across the road to service warehouses and businesses have been dug up and replaced with smooth asphalt. The tops of many rails do not shine anymore. Only the long haul routes operate with their mile long freight trains.
thank you
Dear PeriscopeFilm (who posted this film): I enjoy the movies you post, but I wish you would state the year of production each time you post one.
Awesome Sh1t! They have some great shots of the rarest of locomotives and F3 GM diesel electrics that today only exist in the memories of the people who lived during these times? For us in later generations we have a good idea of what they had back then for railroads and their engines and cars by such model producers like Lionel 027 and 0 gauge toy trains. So lifelike and with almost all the features of the real things! Which come in steam, diesel, diesel-electric and electric only!
11:03 The Milwaukee Road box cabs, an electric railroad ahead of it's time. If they only knew what they had and what the furture would become, it would be still around today. They would have forced all other freight railroad to convert to electric in the age of clean energy and global warming.
I believe that the Chicago Railroad Fair at 2:17 puts this no earlier than 1948
You are right, ‘100 years of railroad progress’.
I was there when I was 6 years old.
Correct.
This was back when America was truly great and had the confidence we could do anything and achieve anything. This attitude lasted till the late 60's to early 70's. After that our society started heading into the toilet. I personally blame both the liberals and the conservatives. That is the Dems and Repubs. I also blame most of the so called minority groups and other special interest groups.
I think that’s the old Chrysler plant in Belevidere
Yes, I do as well. But thing they always leave out. While pointing out all the taxes they pay, the unfair, self sufficient financing they face ad opposed to highways etc, they neglect to mention the millions of acres of free land given them by the government to be built in the first place.
Its infrastructure for their economy of course the government is going to give them the land to build it and tax you for it dingus.
But then came trucks. Big trucks.
The Exciting of Trains!
2:13 Interesting enough. Donald J. Trump did somehow revive Industrial America it once was.
А у нас в России железнодорожная колея шире - 1520 мм!
On the Track - 1948
thats a lot if toothpicks😮
Drink every time he’s say “cArs”
Which one of these railroads are the ones that made up of America, I remember that Santa Fe and Union Pacific are the beginners.
And I know Southern Pacific is another of the best of all American railroads, but which one of the other railroads in America is the best that made up America, since the Union Pacific, Santa Fe and Southern Pacific.
Yes I could tell that Burlington Northern is one of them as well, but guys can you help me here. Tell me which one of the other American railroads became the leaders of America, and that made up everything in America as well.
Guys please send me a reply on this comment, because I already know that Union Pacific, Southern Pacific, Santa Fe and Burlington Northern are one of the best and leading railroads of America. But please send me a reply of other best and leader American railroads as well. And please tell me that CSX is one of them, but also please tell me the other best and lead American railroads with some replies please ?
Google it: B & O was 1st; 1830's
Great Northern was another one. Pennsylvania Railroad-the standard railroad of the world-New York Central, home of the Twentieth Century Limited.
@@johntapp1411 Some other railroads shown in the film are the Denver and Rio Grande, Chicago and Northwestern, Illinois Central, New Haven, Milwaukee Road, and I believe Missouri Pacific
It was nice to watch the trains without all of the hippie movement graffiti
It was Right wingers and liberal politicians who destroyed your Trains not hippies.
F football. Never have. Never will. Since before it was cool.
Such negativity. And ignorance. Passenger trains still run. I see freight trains in New Jersey all the time. Heck, a subway is a train. Some cities still have trolleys. Buy yourself a train set!
Ok. We get it. RAILROADS.
Cornball announcer's crap ; but not much about trains ! A corny patriotic review.
Corn.
There is no doubt that the railroads purchased all those things.but taxes to help the actual people i doubt very much they paid anything at all ...just take, take, take..
You think the railroads paid no taxes? That's just plain wrong. Do some research.
How much tax do the airlines and highways pay?
@@Colonel_Blimp I'm pretty sure the highways are owned by the government.
@@jackalenterprisesofohio And the trucks that use them. How much do they pay??
@@paulwarner5395 it depends if you use a free way or a toll way....