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Development of railroad operating navigation and wide use of railroad transportation by the industries in the United States.

Development of the railroad transportation in the United States. Development of the railroad operating navigation from Highball signal to Semaphore signal to the automatic precession light signal. Iron railroads replaced by the steel railroads. Train moves under tunnel. Large crowd of passengers gathered at the Pennsylvania Station (Penn Station New York City). Exterior and interior views of Penn Station in Manhattan. Train moves across arch rail bridge known as the Hell Gate Bridge in New York. Raw materials and finished products are loaded in railroad trains at steel plants, foundries, oil towers, and mills. Farmers load their agriculture products in wagons.

Date: 1948
Duration: 1 min 20 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675073408
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.

Date: 1948
Duration: 4 min 26 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675073411
Film titled 'Fights of Nations' depicts a man drenching another man as he dropped clothes on him while hanging them in the U.S.

'Sons of the Ould Sod' , part 5 of the film titled 'Fights of Nations' . Actors portray brawling Irish folks in a slapstick comedy sketch. A woman hangs clothes on line to dry. Neighbor sits below the line to read newpaper. Woman accidentally drops wet tablecloth on his head and he loses his temper. Womans husband pours bucket of water on him. He responds by squirting hose into man above. The woman stops him by breaking rain barrel over the neighbors head. The two men commence to brawl in the yard. Woman finally stops it by giving them each a beer.

Date: 1907
Duration: 1 min 40 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675073466
U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Press Secretary James Hagerty arrive in Washington on President's aircraft, the Columbine

The Presidential Lockheed Constellation aircraft, "Columbine", taxis to the ramp at Washington National Airport, with number one engine shut down. It taxis with props on numbers 2,3, and 4 engines turning. President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Press Secretary, James Hagerty, step down from the aircraft and depart in a waiting car. A portal sign identifying Gate 19 of the Military Air Transport Command's Special Missions Squadron facility.

Date: 1957
Duration: 1 min 9 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675073519
U.S. Army soldiers from Camp Desert Rock find time to enjoy sights in Las Vegas as they await start of exercise "Desert Rock 6."

American soldiers silhouetted against light sky at sunset in Camp Desert Rock, Nevada, as they await start of the Army's atomic exercise, "Desert Rock VI." Scene shifts to the "Strip" in Las Vegas, illuminated by neon signs, including those for the Golden Nugget and the Last Frontier. Women in white costumes dance in a weekly free performance sponsored by the Las Vegas Variety Club. Soldiers in uniform sit at tables watching the show.

Date: 1955
Duration: 55 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675073528
A Company E, 1st Training Regiment trainee presents his problem before the Company Commander at Fort Dix in New Jersey, U.S.

Trainees of Company E 1st Training Regiment at Fort Dix in New Jersey, United States. A trainee, who seeks leave, obtains permission to see the Company Commander, from a 1st Sergeant seated at a desk in his office. He enters Company Commander's office and presents his problem.. The Lieutenant, Company Commander, gives advice.

Date: 1955
Duration: 3 min 36 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675073547