Railway car with lighting powered by Edison batteries (also known as nickel-iron battery or NiFe battery) in the United States. A man opens the compartment under a train that contains Edison batteries, also known as storage batteries. He pulls out one of the storage batteries inside the compartment. Lights inside the train car. Train signal moving. A switch tower in a train junction. Engineers operate control in tower to change switch direction. Railroad switch moving. Locomotive and train moving down track.
A moving locomotive in Iran as seen from the train’s roof. Smoke rises from the train chimney. The train moves along the rugged desert terrain of the Iranian Plateau. A camel caravan moving in the desert as seen from moving train. Train moves along field with some trees.
United States Marine Corps helicopters fly over a desert in Nevada during a training exercise, during the Vietnam War period. Helicopter landing on the desert. Marines unloading equipment from a truck. Marines crowd at the back of another truck seen in the background. Marines sit at the back of a moving truck (USMC 212760). Marines walking and gather in the desert during their training. Naval infantry training how to move while carrying equipment. Marines carrying machine guns and rocket launchers. A Marine carries a bulky backpack with an antenna on top. Marines position machine guns and digging dirt. Marines in training setting up tents. Officers observe soldiers during their training. Two Marine smoke cigarettes while setting up equipment. A group of soldiers set up a large tent together.
View of housing in the Bronx from a train. View through the train of a 2 or 5 train window heading northeast along Westchester Avenue. The Prospect Ave station is passed. A man in the train. Buildings in the area. A family seated on the fire escape of a building. A little girl on a balcony. Cars and trucks on the street. People in the window of a room. Men playing baseball in the street.
Varied American landscape views, some from a moving railroad train. The view of East and West Coast of United States from a train. Waves breaking against coast, river, hills. A train going through prairie wastes. Green grass, snow covered mountain, tunnel, orchards, hay stacks, Cypress trees, mud pots and hot springs in Yellowstone National Park. The train crossing a bridge and passing by snowy wastes and sand dunes. It passes through the Scott's Bluff National Park. View of mountains from railway observation cars, the Grand Canyon and wheat fields.
The role and contribution of the U.S. Army Signal Corps in combat and war. U.S. Army Signal Corps officers train at the Signal Corps Officer Candidate School (OCS) Fort Monmouth, New Jersey. Officers train at telegraph machines under the supervision of an instructor. Officers seated at desks in a classroom. Instructors take classes with the help of charts, diagrams and black boards. Officers seated atop electric poles for training. Two officers train in hand-to-hand combat at the OCS. Officers learn to use Radio Relay. Students listen to an instructor as he demonstrates the process. A U.S. soldier lays field wire across a hilly terrain to establish wire communications in the European Theater during World War II. Soldiers on the hill. Soldiers set up a sending station at the point where the wire can't go forward. A receiver is set up at the point from where the wire can go forward again. A soldier receives a photograph of a map through facsimile. Items of signal communication including radio relays, receivers, walkie-talkies, radio boxes and fuses to be produced and distributed by the USA Signal Corps to all other ground forces, navy and the Allies. New, modern, improved efficient signal communication equipment. A soldier displays two old type fuses and their counterparts.
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