Factual and Educational Railroad-Related Videos

[SteamN]

zardoz

 

 

SteamN

Hello, Just joined and this is my first post/reply.

 

 

Welcome aboard!

 

 

Thank, zardoz!

[SteamN]

Nice effort, but can China top this Scottish project?

[BaltACD]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dtm7SQfNppM

 

[BaltACD]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4n3W1GN1pA

[zardoz]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgjy2jcFvqw

[BaltACD]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwXRylQ3BVo

[BaltACD]

Before PSR

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoBSlKa4BQM

[BaltACD]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3o_rZBF8sE

[Overmod]

Meanwhile, let's not forget what we were fighting against:

Note how very carefully the railroad avoided the swastika ... until the scene at the end, probably added 'under fire' or via censorship, showing what was coming....

(Class 45 was a three-cylinder engine; the film shows the special provision in the suspension to change the axle load between 18 and 20tons, amazingly light by American standards for a locomotive this capable)

Then, later, from the "Rader mussen rollen" era:

"Know your foe before you go"

And there are plenty of propaganda films showing the development of Soviet railways, as here for the period from 1925 to 1930 when the engineer-wrecker trials were being geared up:

There are others that show a Stakhanovite speed in conducting typical railway operations; it is odd to see people running around at top speed forging springs and fitting bearings as fast as they possibly can.  I can't find the links, but I suspect there are people reading this thread who can.

 

 

[Miningman]

Stunning. Had me frozen there for a moment. They built over 6,000 Kriegsloks some of which survived right up to the year 2000 in service!

The last scene in the first film where they are running what looks like 50 or more of them all at once is quite the thing. Perhaps trick photography. If the Pennsy had done something like that we would never hear the end of it and still be ranting and raving.

Wonder how many of those in the films actually survived the war. 

[zardoz]

Firing a steam locomotive

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QwfBCDZqxY

[zardoz]

Heavy rail machinery

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjWojWQ8kTM

[zardoz]

World's largest track layer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwiNaHmOscU

[zardoz]

Tehachapi from a drone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zj5vQ5oOGL0

[zardoz]

Need a locomotive? Take your choice. (kinda funny with the UP corporate song in the background)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQ5UN1DmA8Q

[BaltACD]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzaI84GCFYk

[BaltACD]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEKPabC_5NU

[Overmod]

Thanks to Victrola1, this German film from the '50s, with some very good scenes of locomotive fabrication and functionality I haven't seen elsewhere:

Leads me to wonder ... would we have allowed boys into Lima or Baldwin like this, with the sharp edges of boilerplate and sparks all around?  Think of what we could learn from watching cast beds set up and poured, or our version of lightweight roller-bearing rods being made...

 

And there is this counterpart to the PRR film on locomotive fires:

 

[BaltACD]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgjy2jcFvqw&t=163s

[BaltACD]

MILW - 1946

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4D_pXV9tJtY

[zardoz]

Thought I'd revive this thread with a new posting; this one is about crossing 'incidents'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiuFw4tbqK4

[charlie hebdo]

49 years old and pretty dated. 

[BaltACD]

charlie hebdo

49 years old and pretty dated. 

Dated or not - the issues are still the same.

[tree68]

charlie hebdo

49 years old and pretty dated. 

The images and data are dated.

The rest of the script is pretty much still spot on...

Reshoot it with current equipment and data and no one would realize the script was written almost fifty years ago...

[zardoz]

charlie hebdo

49 years old and pretty dated. 

 

Thanks for the compliment!

 

edit: In retrospect, I bet you were referring to the video I posted.

But at least there are a few nice shots of vintage equipment; plus the in-cab video is interesting.

[zardoz]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTtcPxSag50