Railroad transportation for military divisions in the United States. Troops of the 201st Armored Division march. A band plays as a bandmaster directs. A train in the background. The train pulls away. Troops board a train. The train departs. Army vehicles on the train. A soldier comes in a compartment and makes an announcement. He goes out. Soldiers look out of a window. The train moves across a bridge. Cooks prepare food. The soldiers play cards. The soldiers cook and eat food. A soldiers makes an announcement about the next stop. The train stops. (World War II period).
View of Midnight Sun from bow of the U.S. Army Air Corps Alaska Flight support ship, El Aquario, underway in Alaskan waters. Mountains are seen as she proceeds through Resurrection Bay, towards Seward, Alaska. Views of the harbor at Seward, where several ships are seen. The El Aquario, seen at the dock in seward. The camera pans the pier, which contains rails for cargo handling. Another ship is docked behind the El Aquario. Slopes in background are covered in evergreen trees. Railroad station and warehouses are seen. View from atop a railroad train, shows rail lines, bridge, buildings, a ship in the harbor, and mountain in background. Captain George Goddard, supply officer for the expedition, stands with another officer and points to chalk writing on an Alaska Railroad caboose car reading: "Capt. Goddard return back on." He and the other officer are then seen on rear platform of that car on a railroad train. Goddard lights a cigarette. View from that caboose platform as the train pulls out of the Seward train station. View from atop the caboose showing the last six cars, containing expedition supplies, preceded by other cars making up a long train. Views of snowy landscapes beside the tracks as the train proceeds. Picture of the Fairbanks railroad station as the train arrives.
Steam locomotive, number 79, of the Detroit, Toledo, and Ironton Railway on a slightly elevated track, next to a coal car.in a train yard. Worker is examining and possibly oiling parts of engine drive. Scene shifts to interior of locomotive maintenance shop where men work on a train car parked next to a locomotive. Scene shifts, again, to view from rear of moving train as it traverses route along the valley floor, from vicinity of Spargursville (AKA Spargurs) to Bainbridge, including bridges over Sulphur Creek , Alexander Hollow Rd, and both bridges over Paint Creek between the two towns. The train passes a tender connected to some sort steam driven machine (probably a pile driver as they are working on trestles). Also shown are box cars converted into bunk houses used by the work crew, which appear to be parked at Storms, only 6.9 miles from Summit, where the work is likely being undertaken. . The film ends at the Bainbridge train station. (Note: regarding the reference to work going on at Summit. Although not seen in this sequence, the track there was so steep that trains had to be broken down and moved up a few cars, at a time, to the top, where the train was then reassembled before proceeding.)
Railroad station in the United States. A view from a moving railroad train of railroad tracks and bridge as a train crosses over the railroad bridge. The train passing a freight train going in the other direction. A small railroad station at Good Hope. The train passes a road and trucks. Intersection of railroad tracks. Train passes various stations. A small depot. The train passes Jeffersonville Station (possibly Jeffersonville Indiana ?), South Salem Station, South Charleston Station.
German soldiers arrive by train in Paris, France during the German occupation of Paris (World War II). View of Gare du Nord, one of the main railway termini in Paris. German troops stand on one of the train platforms at Gare du Nord. Train with Nazi flags on it arrives at a Paris train station. German troops salute in the foreground. Swastika sign adorns the front of train. Soldiers stand with mounted guns on a train wagon. German army Generals and other officers meet at Paris railway station. Group of German soldiers stand nearby. Interior of station shows German troops on guard. Sign reads “Sortie interdite aux militaires No exit for soldiers”. German troops disembark from the Nazi train. German generals salute as they exit the station. A Nazi banner hangs above the exit gate.
Displaced Jewish orphans in Weimar, Germany soon after World War II. Jewish orphans who had been imprisoned at Buchenwald Concentration Camp by the Nazis, board a railroad train. Some of them saying goodbye. Allied soldiers stand around. The train pulls out as boy and girl orphan children wave from windows. Jewish flag hanging from a train window. Flowers adorn the train windows. One boy waves an American flag. Polish, Hungarian, Czechoslovakian and French, Jewish orphan prisoners liberated from the Buchenwald concentration camp board a train with their belongings. Signs on a side of the train: 'Recommencons une vie nouvelle et libre'. (Our beginning of a new life in liberty). The train pulls out from the station.
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