Speed Graphic Film and Video | The New Haven in "A Great Railroad at Work" (1942) @SpeedGraphicFilmVideo | Uploaded February 2019 | Updated October 2024, 14 hours ago.
This is a really good film of the New Haven Railroad at its best. It shows both passenger and freight operations, with scenes in Boston, New Haven and New York City. It includes both trackside and on-board scenes, as well as a number of extended shots of the locomotive shops and carfloat operations.
Locomotives seen include the streamlined I-5 4-6-4 Hudsons, R-1 and R-3 4-8-2's, EP-4 electrics, several early diesels, and, at the very beginning a G-3 4-6-0 Ten-Wheeler.
Jam Handy Productions, who made the film on behalf of the New Haven, did an excellent job on it. It appears to use authentic location sound, and continuity has been maintained throughout. Plus they hired Lowell Thomas to narrate!
I have edited a few minutes from the film, including a message from the president of the railroad and two sub-plots involving a bicycle shipment and a child's first train trip alone.
This is a really good film of the New Haven Railroad at its best. It shows both passenger and freight operations, with scenes in Boston, New Haven and New York City. It includes both trackside and on-board scenes, as well as a number of extended shots of the locomotive shops and carfloat operations.
Locomotives seen include the streamlined I-5 4-6-4 Hudsons, R-1 and R-3 4-8-2's, EP-4 electrics, several early diesels, and, at the very beginning a G-3 4-6-0 Ten-Wheeler.
Jam Handy Productions, who made the film on behalf of the New Haven, did an excellent job on it. It appears to use authentic location sound, and continuity has been maintained throughout. Plus they hired Lowell Thomas to narrate!
I have edited a few minutes from the film, including a message from the president of the railroad and two sub-plots involving a bicycle shipment and a child's first train trip alone.
![Old Home Movies, Vol. IV: California to Royal Gorge in the 1930s [Silent]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/bbMtofB0UtY/hqdefault.jpg "Old Home Movies, Vol. IV: California to Royal Gorge in the 1930s [Silent]
These are excerpts from movies of an affluent couples rail trip to the American west some time in the 1930s. Their identities and when it was filmed are unknown.
0:00 Taken from an open observation car, presumably on the way Los Angeles
0:00 This appears to be the arrival in the Los Angeles area. The couple is met by a group of other well-dressed people.
0:31 Leaving Pasadena for San Francisco on the Southern Pacific. SP F-5 2-10-2 No. 3748 in the lead.
1:00 A few views of and from the San Francisco cable cars.
1:18 On board the Denver & Rio Grande Western, on the way up to Tennessee Pass. Since its silent film, railfans will just have to imagine the sound of a doubleheader echoing off the rock walls of the river valley.
2:16 Stop at the top of the pass.
2:33 Headed downstream now for Royal Gorge. Note the recent rockfall.
3:07 Stopping at the bottom of Royal Gorge. The then-new Royal Gorge Bridge gets a lot of the photographers attention.")
