" DANGEROUS PLAYGROUND " SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD SAFETY FILM AIMED AT CHILDREN & TEENS 97474
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This 1950s film produced from the Southern Pacific railroad highlights the dangers for children of playing on rails and in railyards. The film goes over basic things to keep in mind like not trespassing on railroad property, not committing acts of vandalism like throwing rocks at passing trains, not walking on rails or switches, not playing between sitting cars, and waiting patiently until the lights and bells go off before entering a crossing. A friendly train engineer explains this to a group of children who he caught breaking into a railyard. This film was shot by Ed Carroll and Norm Butler, directed by Pete Oakeshott and edited by Ed Carroll. It is believed that most of the film was shot in Southern Pacific's Oakland Terminal in Oakland, California. It contains footage of both steam locomotive and diesels, as the 1950s were a time of transition. Steam locos lasted well into the late 1950s on major American railroads, and in isolated cases into the middle 1960s on small common carrier roads.
0:08 a train ride in an amusement park in the color scheme of the Pacific Daylight passenger train, Goebel Beer advert sign in background, indicating this is likely the Detroit Zoo 0:29 The Southern Pacific Company presents “Dangerous Playground”, 0:53 “A Safety Department Production”, 0:56 the Southern Pacific Daylight, pulled by an Alco PA locomotive, thunders past. Freight trains driving in different environments including an EMD E8A F-unit diesel, 1:01, and a heavy steam locomotive 1:06. Interior locomotive cab POV. 1:30 Alco PA #6016 pulls a train through a grade crossing, 1:46 children playing on playgrounds, 2:03 children playing on a rail yard as an Alco S4 type diesel switch engine moves past, 2:18 group of children look over a fence and they enter the railyard, 2:44 the children begin playing on the tracks, 2:54 two kids throw rocks at a passing train, 3:03 two children passing under cars, 3:07 a child balancing on rails, 3:17 children start climbing up a car 3:37 a police officer spots them and begins running after them, 4:11 a train driver climbing out of a locomotive, 4:27 he begins showing the kids how unsafe the railyard is through examples of moving cars. A Tom Corbett Space Cadet lunchbox sits by the tracks. 5:00 train driver sits with the children and speaks to them, 5:36 a child walks onto railroad bridge, 5:56 a train, Southern Pacific #2525, a Consolidation Class C-9 2-8-0 steam locomotive approaches the bridge, 6:25 train stops just in time to save the child, 6:48 a railroad switch tower, 7:05 a boy walking along and slipping into a closed switch, while Southern Pacific #1217, a S-10 class switcher steam locomotive approaches. 7:28 boy on crutches at the Allendale Recreation Center, after surviving a near collision with a train, 7:49 a child throwing rocks at a train, 8:12 a girl on the Pacific Daylight passenger train with her mother, is thrilled to watch the scenery go by 8:40 boy throws rocks at a passing passenger train in an act of vandalism, and glass hits the girl, 8:58 a car racing a train to a crossing, 9:23 the car cross and narrowly misses the train, 9:43 children waiting at a railroad crossing, 10:08 children cross the crossing, 10:18 the children speaking to the train driver, 10:58 engineer gets back in his locomotive, the Alco PA #6016, City of San Francisco 11:20 “The End”
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And now most of that playground equipment is considered too dangerous to play on. Man, I loved those spinning merry-go-rounds!
Today the safety freaks have gone too far, taking the fun out of everything we do! Kids today don't even know what danger is!
@@agems56 Society as a whole sucks thanks to these safety freaks.
I saw this film in early elementary school around 1962. It scared me to death, especially the little girl getting hit with the rock and broken glass. I used to sneak onto the tracks near our house and climb under and on parked railcars. This film cured me of that.
I grew up next to the big Southern Pacific Switching Yard in Roseville, California from 1955 until I moved away in 1973, the same year as the big Roseville Railyard Explosions in April of that year when ordinance bound for Fort Ord blew up when overheated brakes caught the wooden floors of a car on fire.
Back to the future nice touch smooth operator I like the style
Dang, that must’ve been bad
The channel Fascinating Horror just covered that event. I was a little kid living in Carmichael at the time.
So interesting to see how life was back in the 1950's
A LOT LOT more FREEDOM, and FAR FAR less crime!!
That toy train resembles the S.P. "daylight".
As a kid, I used to watch the SP switch in Gonzales, Tx., in the late 60's. The conductor, or brakeman, always told to pick a spot away from the tracks, and don't move from that spot till they were done; I sat in that spot numerous times, and the crew was always appreciative of me doing what I was told to do, and following instructions. Great memories!
Man the organ music is just... beautiful.
I worked with a guy back about 1980/81, and he didn't come into work one morning. We soon heard that he had missed his train, and tried to run after it and climb on the steps. His weight shifted, his legs went under the wheels and were cut off... he died very quickly.
When I was younger I often thought how cool it would be to jump a train and go where it took me... luckily I chickened out, mostly because I was afraid of the rail yard workers, and what they would do if they caught me. But I learned later that the actual act of jumping a train was not so easy, and very dangerous.
“Now you children stay off the railroad tracks….go play cowboys and Indians and drink out of the garden hose.”
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What?? NOOOOOO!!! You just sent them kids to an early death!!
Back in the bad old days when kids still went outside and ran and played on balance beams and the steel climbing cage.....😮
I consider it imperative that one remains on the "right side" of the tracks.
I remember seeing these films in schools
Great documentary for people young and old
5:04 OMG 😅 If a grown ass man had a bunch of neighborhood kids on his lap at a train yard, heads would roll!
And THAT IS what your mind first went too?? Talking about the degradation of culture and society!!
@@SMichaelDeHart almost heaven
@@West_Coast_Mainline indeed...wild and wonderful, too.
Nah, it was just the girls.
Nice footage of some beautiful Alco PA diesels in the Daylight paint scheme.
The PA was a beautiful locomotive but the diesel prime movers were rushed through development and just did not hold up.
Some PAs were repowered but most were scrapped.
Doyle McCormick is restoring one of the last surviving PAs
That loco on the trestle, the one Dan almost greased the rails for, has some magnificent brakes. aaaaayup, it even sucked the smoke and steam right back in! That's impressive, yes?
hilarious
The company that started the now defunct Sprint phone company.
Glen likes to cause trouble.
The kids playing around in that railroad yard seemed pretty typical for that era.
They showed this at my school in Tracy, CA in 1956. I was in first grade. Tracy then was a railroad town and the school was only a few blocks from the railroad yard. As a 6 year old this movie scared the hell out of me when the kid got his foot caught in the track. Of course, that was the idea.
8:40 that southern pacific locomotive is huge
9:50 Look above the smokebox door in front of the smokestack. This is one of the few SP Pacifics fitted with an air horn, all of which were a part of the P-6 class I believe. This one looks to be 2456 or 2458.
Edit: It’s gotta be 2458 because apparently 2456 got rebuilt into a streamlined P-14 for the Texas and New Orleans.
I don't recall adults of that era being gentle with explaining to kids about the wrongdoings. It was typical of adults back then to be hostile, with the adults harshly scolding the kids for the misbehavior.
Not everyone is the same. This fellow was obviously a nice guy. Heck, he was old enough to be a grandpa so he had learned patience plus he said that he knew these kids from his neighborhood. The only thing that I was wondering was that his trainmaster/yardmaster didn't mind his sitting around with the kids when he was on the clock with work to be done.
On single tracks, I often saw people looking both ways right after a train had passed! So funny!
“And that young boy’s name was Buster Keaton. Sure it was funny when he got his foot stuck and the train almost hit him, but he became an alcoholic and was institutionalized for a while. Then he married his nurse, but lost his fortune in the divorce. So kids, if you don’t want to wear a straight jacket and lose all your money, stay away from those train yards!”
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Rofl
They sure kept the joint -rail track in nice shape then.
Man, if i had a nickel for every penny I flattened while playing around the railroad tracks.
Sir Topham Hatt: [crossly] I am, however, very disappointed in you, Oliver. You should know not to go so fast in the storm. And using the express line? Very dangerous. Once you'll repaired, you'll be shunting in the yard for the next week. I'm sure one of the shunters will love a change of scenery.
I kept expecting a woman tied to the rails to be saved by a character named Dudley Do-right.
Were stunt children used in this film?
Dangerous Playground? They were an awesome band, I saw them open for Jesus Lizard back in 1995.
Very Eraserhead quality to the theme music.
8:47 lesson don’t throw things a trains especially passenger trains
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That’s from the footage from Marshall Publishing
6:25 BAD editing there.
Smoke is going into the locomotive!
😂😂
8:47 Never really heard accounts of kids throwing rocks at passenger trains. Freight trains yes.
Gotta love the ALCO PAs though.
9:30 More bad editing. Guy teleports into the Twilight Zone! 😁
Holy moly video editing in 1950 wasn’t the greatest? almost like they were cutting physical film!
G O L D
Pipe organ music would have been more dramatic!
Was the rail officer too far away to catch them, or too fat to run and catch them?
The circus music is terrible to have for this.
What the hell are RAYroad tracks???😂😂😂
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That cutaway piece showing the on-coming train in that segment, the background looked like the mountains around South San Francisco. The area you astutely pointed out is flatland near the San Francisco Bay.