Development of the railroad transportation in the United States. Animated map depicts the network of railroads in America. Freight trains parked on railroads at a yard. Buildings in the background. Many different Pennsylvania line locomotives pass by, merging into montage of the logos of various railroad companies including Missouri Pacific Lines, Canadian Pacific, Illinois Central and New York Central. Freight cars reach the Hump operation in railroad classification yard at Enola, Pennsylvania. Railroad cars undergo an inspection during their course. Railroad cars are are uncoupled and they move on tracks with gravity. Man operates at control tower. Tower operator works on the teletype list of number of railroad cars. Close up of track switching and track braking. View of refrigerator cars, flat cars, coal cars, steel cars, tanker, container and merchandised cars. A flat car with farm tractors on board.
Curbside street vendors busy selling fruit in New York City, United States on 27th October, 1903. Men buy fruits from a street vendor. Pedestrians walk on sidewalk. A man rides a horse drawn cart. Many carts and horse-drawn vehicles move about. Several peddlers push their carts by hand. Elevated railroad train structure crosses above the street. Area is overly congested by vendors so policeman orders them to all leave, brandishing his nightstick as he walks past.
Paveletskiy Rail Terminal in Moscow, Russia. Mourners carry the coffin of Vladimir Lenin after it arrived by the funeral train, seen in background. Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin is seen at front of the coffin and Joseph Stalin, at the right rear.A contingent of soldiers surrounds and follows the pall bearers.Crowd of mourners stand in snow on hillside, and follow the cortege.
The graduation day of Company E, 1st Training Regiment at Fort Dix in New Jersey, United States. Soldiers lined up on a field on their graduation day. Soldiers to receive awards march and report to the Battalion Commander. The Commander presents honorable degrees to two soldiers. He awards a soldier as the outstanding trainee and pins a marksmanship badge. The Battalion Commander and other officials at the graduation day parade. The Ultimate Weapon statue on the parade grounds.
Demobilization at the end of World War Two. Servicemen being mustered out at a separation center and returning home to resume normal civilian lives following discharge. Servicemen going home on a train. Some servicemen decide to remain in the armed services. They interact with fellow soldiers. Peacetime soldiers playing baseball, during leisure time, while others watch them and drink cokes. U.S. National Guard men march on a field. Some soldiers join Army Reserve units where they keep up their ratings and skills. A reserve gun crew loads shells and fires artillery. Officer looks through binoculars.
Components of the U.S. Army. A poster in the United States reads 'All for One,One for all U.S. Army'. The three army components are : the Army Reserve, the Regular Army and the Army National Guard. A poster reads ' Serve in the Army Reserve'. Men of the Army Reserve join the Active Army during a summer training in field exercises. A large group of U.S. Army soldiers marching on a field. Soldier works on a typewriter. Other soldiers learn to load and fire artillery.
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