INCREDIBLE PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD SAFETY FILM "ESCAPE FROM LIMBO" 72082
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One of the craziest railroad films of all time, "Escape from Limbo" is part Twilight Zone episode, part safety film that is just as entertaining as any half-hour TV show from the 1950's. The film tells the bizarre tale of Pennsylvania Railroad fireman Henry who apparently gets killed in a hunting accident. He ends up in Limbo where a Devil explains that he is now required to cause accidents on the railroad line -- in an attempt to gather other souls for his patron. This unique premise allows the filmmakers to show nearly all types of accidents, from switch weights dropped on feet to maiming and - death.
The film was directed by C.E. Gallagher from a screenplay by R.F. Maury, who incidentally also wrote an episode of the TV show "Sky King."
N.B.: this print is missing the main title.
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This went from a safety film to a scary purgatory movie FAST!
I think this was Ed Wood's 1st training film :P
This is honestly the best safety video ever recorded. If this was the norm nowadays no one would be injured, maimed or killed.
It worked so well, no one has died on the Pennsy in years!!!
I love these light-hearted skits.
This isn't just a safety film, this is a full blown movie!
At 4:30 love the swipe at car accidents.
This is pretty neat for an old safety film!
OMG the tall guy with the goofy mustache starting at 5:44 is Fred Gwynne from the Munsters and Car 54 Where Are You.
+abnjmk I just caught that also. Beat me to the post.
Hooray!! Fred Gwynne! What a great surprise.
I looked it up. This was his first role
also, Pet Semetary / inspiration for the farmer character in South Park
I didn't recognize Fred Gwynne until he turned full face to the camera. I don't think this appearance is in his filmography
👍this could've easily been a Twilight Zone episode.
this was a very good film. i enjoyed it greatly.
Thanks for not stretching the image to fit the wide-screen format and distorting everything. I can't stand it when TV documentaries do that.
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From a safety film to a prisoner of the purgatory. This needs to be made known to all tradesmen..
Better than the safety videos i watch.
This would be a good one for RiffTrax!
"I haven't heard such language since I was in Maternity!"
24:05
Mikey300 haha
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Damn Funny!!
Nurse: "He's been delirious for 1/2 and hour and trying to wrestle with me!" Doctor: "I don't blame him!" -Who wrote this script, Groucho Marx?
At 5:18 I believe there is a poster describing President Lincoln’s assassins and their bounties that is framed on the wall in the background.
Long live the Pennsy!!!
The Standard Railroad Of The World!!... All Others Are Deluxe!! ROFLMFAO!!!
Run away from the evil Santa Fe boxcar!
The best safety film! Thank God for OSHA.
This was good. It was kinda creepy, but it was good.
"They don't clown around on the railroad! It's safety first!" says someone who's never worked on a railroad.
Nice to see Case Tower. This was an interesting film
Wow! It's like the Devil and Daniel Webster.... But with trains! 🤓👍💕
7:29 - ELLEN'S GONE ALL EMO ON YOU, HENRY!!!
Wonder if they used stuntmen for this or just veteran railroaders? Actually not a bad little safety film. I've seen alot worse!
16:40 - "For a man who has a woman on his mind when he should have his mind on his job"
Wife: "Oh Darling?" "Oh Darling?" "Oh Darling, you've forgotten something."
Looking at her I can clearly see what was on his mind. It was on my mind too.
I remember a film from high school where a wiley, evil man, taunted people to drive recklessly. After each encounter, there were scenes of horrific, graphic automobile accidents, with injured and dead people visible. The accident scenes were very realistic, if not recorded from actual events.
At 6:00, they show the 1223, which survives in 2024 indoors at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania. She also played the 1600 (which was actually an E6) in the film "Broadway Limited."
17:00 my favorite part of the movie.
Don't ya just LOVE Torpedo tits from the Fifty's?? Pretty!!
Right now, I'm all for "treat your neighbor as you want to be treated" and such, but if the devil wants to hire me when I die, just show me the contract.
Very artsy and imaginative! A bit disturbing, however.
So surreal and strange! Have to wonder who got into the recreational substances...
5:28 Fred Gwynn? (Car 54, Munsters)
Yep, one of his 1st roles
I've worked with railroads for 8 years, including a lot of work on steam locomotives running into the modern years. I watched this video last year and the shit stuck with me. The movie is so stupid but whenever I think about doing something lazily at work I heard that stupid voice talking to me.
That probably means it's working!
Astonishing !
I thought the Westinghouse Air Brake was the end of brake clubs and guys riding cars?
I guess they were still using older cars?
Seems odd to see brake clubs on color film with diesels.
You don't have air brakes on individual cars. You need a locomotive to supply the air.
You still need leverage to move those hand brake wheels when the car(s) are moving under gravity and/or momentum.
Amazingly intelligent. Today's safety films are directed to infants.
How about Forklift Operator Schmidt?
Anyone have any guesses where the sequence after the 19 minute mark was filmed?
this would be a good story line for Tales from the Darkside or The Twilight Zone!!
It's nice to see 1223 running in this video, it's a shame the museum of Pennsylvania locked her up
IN 1988, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Seaford, DE Nylon Plant, 1223 pulled some special excursions. (by the way, her last assignment was out of the Seaford, DE on the Cambridge, MD Branch)
While pulling her back to Strasburg, Conrail ran her too fast and burned up all her axles. Would cost a lot of money to put her back in order.
Did anyone notice the tall guy in the bar? He was an actor on TV many years after this film. He played a cop, then a monster!
didnt see him but sounds like fred gwynn in car 54 and the munsters
It was Fred Gwynn
“There’s a scout troop short a yoot.”
Did he just say limbo was dank at 4:20?
Y E S
Very close
This would make a good full movie..
This is so Scary
19:54 Amazing that someone nicknamed "T-Bone" would be allowed on the main line...
4:16 unlike my old crusty memes
Gr8 clip
At frame 11:50
Look how old that
Passenger Train is!!!!!! Dammit
Good vedio
Using wife's phone today not her opinions I have to say seeing all the long gone locomotives especially the GG-1s was nice and the coaling infrastructure and yard operations when is the last time anyone has seen a brakeman riding a boxcar on a hump or even a brakeman well railyards are disappearing also but it is a nice look back at railroading
Oscars nomination!
good ol 1223.... time to visit Strasburg.
Looks like Ed Gwen (Herman Munster) at the bar ..
Did his bullet /buckshot ricochet back into him ?
Am i in heaven? HELL no Henry. Hahah
Join NARVRE and protect the Railroad Retirement Act!!
Absolutely bizarre
I think it's funny when people treat trains like cars. My uncle told that that the B&M local on the Goffstown branch in Goffstown NH used to stop for dinner at this place called Magoo's that was right off track
That wasn’t a hunting accident they knew what they were doing
There were real actors in this one. The head of Limbo sounds like King Moonracer from Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer and the white haired guy was the doctor on The Trouble With Harry.
21:00 no block signaling. ?
9:02 THEY SENT MY BOY OUT IN A STROLLER
Did periscope film make other railroad safety films, specifically for school children?
I'm looking for a film that was shown to us as kids because our school had two sets of train tracks that ran on either side of the school.
The film was about not playing on the tracks, or the trains and to not play around cabooses.
I forget the majority of the film, but it involved kids that kept getting maimed and killed as they disobeyed railway safety.
One scene that I do remember involves some boys that find a caboose. They break in. One of the kids finds a safety flare, lights it and burns his hands and arms with it.
I'd love to track this film down just for laughs.
I think they do have some for children
+Bobbie Bees I remember seeing the film "Dangerous Playground" by the Southern Pacific, back in the Fifties. The expression "smashed to smitherines" has stuck with me to this day. Regarding your film, I find it ironic that the child didn't get hurt by a train, but by a "safety" flare."
Bobbie Bees i
Or "the right track" from the new York central.
Maybe "beware the friendly dragon" is the film. Was it animated?
bizarre. like the pennsy!
@ 5:44, Fred Gwynne of Car 54 Where are You, Munsters and My Cousin Vinnie fame. "Excuse me counselor, but what's a ute?"
That engineer was in the what in blazes video
This was so bad it was captivating.
Never shoot a bunny!
especially with a shotgun?
@@BlueStarCadet08 - Yeah, you'll spit pits for weeks!!
I suppose this question has been asked before, but why the damn _counter_ on the bottom of the screen? I'm a fan of European racing, particularly F1, and there are several vintage films with this same counter gizmo blocking part of the screen, so distracting that I couldn't watch them.
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Did charley really got run over?
+Samuel Satnes No, he bit my finger tho.
+danwat1234 Haha Lol
Of course he did, it's the only way to make the film authentic!!!
Fred Gwynne as Thompson...
So the rabbit shot him back? Wow.
Other worldly
That Older Railroad Man who wants that Younger Railroad Man to do harm to his former colleagues.
I would tell that Older Railroad Man that what he is doing, Trying to get someone to Kill for him, Is a Terrible Sin, and can land him in HELL.
It's so Terrifying
21:38. I hear something.
Bell tower at 12:20
Never play with railroad equipment
This isn't limbo, **this** is the bad place.
Not your typical Safety Film. I think the writer was on mescaline or LSD.✌
I confused what da heck
It's a demon 😈
2:27 the gulag
Cursed Pennsylvania Railroad
SMH...........
A very wet done film.
Spoiler alert: safety wins.
🚂🤸♂️🙈
Maybe it started as good idea. But it sort of lost the plot.
To far into fantasy .
funny
Damn. Maybe they should use this for Gun safety in America!
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What is so "INCREDIBLE" about this post war propaganda film?
How is it propaganda? It’s a railroad safety film.
Are you high? This is a film about railroad safety for the Pennsylvania railroad
Incidents & accidents occur when men get careless, the simple use of common sense & applied learning from proper training, reduces the chances of any incidents, ten fold. I worked the railroad, sometime ago, yes, it is a dangerous occupation, where many have paid the ultimate price. We learn from their unfortunate injuries & fatalities, so as not to make further statistics and keep the job safe for future generations.
Down here! That's railroad hell? 🫡🫡🫡🫡🫡