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Passenger railroad travel in the U.S. Shows operations inside railroad trains, and with Signal tower and train dispatch operators.
View of Pennsylvania Railroad locomotive number 5850 at a railroad train station. It slowly pulls away from station. Sign "Pennsylvania" on side of train cars. Passenger railroad train underway on a journey in the United States. View of various aspects of train travel operations: Passengers buying their tickets at a busy railroad train station. Man at the ticket counter confirms passengers reservation. Personnel work at the reservation bureau. Well dressed men, women, and children passengers on a busy train station platform as they board the train. African American porter assists travelers boarding train. View of passengers choosing seats in train car. Different kinds of train cars are shown including seat coach, parlor car, and roomette. African American porter arranges pillow on bed in sleeping car. Man gives an indication and driver starts the train. Conductor yells "All aboard". View of engineer in locomotive and operations of controls of locomotive. Operators at the signal tower check the track switches. Operations board displays tracks switch and signal lines. Movement of train is indicated by the changing line on the board. Exterior view as train approaches camera. Interior view inside train cars as passengers relax, read, smoke cigarettes, and watch the landscape during their journey. Boy and girl children look excited as they view landscape through windows of the moving train. Views of towns, farms, and foothills going by as seen through moving train car windows. Porters and attendants at work. Most are African American. Attendants serve meals to the passengers in the dining car. Chefs cook food in the kitchen. Views inside moving passenger train cars. Views of moving train as seen from another moving train beside it on a parallel track. View of engineer in locomotive. Maintenance men keep a check on the railroads. Track walker makes an inspection round of tracks. Workers at the train dispatcher office keep a record of the trains movements in all directions. Women workers operate teletype machines. Women telephone switchboard operators are seen at work in a large room. Woman managers observe the operators. View returns to the locomotive engine driver as he disembarks train at end of journey. He arrives at a railroad employee dormitory building to take a rest. View of him opening the building doors, view of washrooms inside, railroad men playing cards, and view of bedroom in the railroad dormitory building.
Passengers relax on the reclining chairs and use public telephone service during their railroad journey in the United States.
Luxurious facilities provided to railroad train passengers during journey in the United States. Train moves over the Rockville Bridge across the Susquehanna River above Harrisburg and Enola, Pennsylvania. Mountains in the background. Passengers relax on the reclining chairs during the journey. African American attendant or porter helps a woman to place her luggage. Child opens a push door. Women go to the washroom and apply makeup. Man uses the public telephone service. Woman and girl sleep in a master bedroom. Men work on the electrification speed operations at the power directed room.
Juniata Locomotive Shop workers build locomotives and trains, and send a ready locomotive to test plant in Altoona Pennsylvania
Building of the railroads in the United States. Scenes from the Juniata Locomotive Shops in Altoona, Pennsylvania, serving the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR). Crane in factory moves a casting and places it in position. Driving wheels are balanced,checked and tested. Workers manufacture freight and passengers cars. Workers do welding work. They melt iron for casting. They prepare molds and undergo heating and cooling work. Grinders and automatic lathes at work. A worker operates automatic machinery which compresses molten metal for railroad parts, including a large compressor forming the driving rod for a locomotive. Finally the locomotive is painted. A completed T1 locomotive, designed by Raymond Loewy, is sent to the locomotive test plant where it undergoes a test run on the dyno. Experts watch movement of the train. Instruments record the vital data for the engineers.
For maintenance locomotives are washed by shower and scrubber and given a regular check up in the United States.
Maintenance of the railroad in the United States. Workers wash,clean and inspect the engines. Shower and scrubber washes the locomotive. Workers undergo a regular check up of the electric engines. Diesel and steam locomotive parked on track. Locomotive moves on tracks.
Engineers study the internal structure of the metal casting and find defects at the X-ray laboratory in the United States.
Railroad research and railroad network in the United States. Worker works on springs for smoother rides. He studies and tests metals and parts. Rubber gloves are immersed and water and checked. Worker undergo a goggle test. Engineer checks metals for defects using electric current. Engineers study the internal structure of the metal casting and find defects at the X-ray laboratory. Locomotive moves on track. Animated map depicts: the network of railroads spread over various countries in America.
Early fictional motion picture with a plot involving two girls, a dog, parents looking for them, and danger from a railroad train.
(A one-legged man with crutch on dirt road suddenly shows he has both legs, and runs away.) Two little girls carry food to a dog sitting on a railroad track. The move the dog off the track and sit beside the track to feed it. The parents, looking for the girls, see them and call out to them. The go to fetch the girls. The girls walk along the tracks with the dog. A steam locomotive pulling a train at high speed on the railroad. Passengers, seated on the rear platform of the train, converse. Views of the engineer in the locomotive cab. He sees the girls and blows his horn. The girls see the train. Smoke emitted from the engine. The girls look at the approaching train. They pull against each other trying to move with the dog, off the track. The train engineer applies the brakes and the train stops. He runs forward to the front of the train. Passengers climb down from the train to see what is wrong and run to the front of the train. They crowd around the girls and dog who are unhurt.
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