Classic Railroad Film Collection

This collection contains 7 movies and is 2 hours of video.

Title Description
Duration
Great Railroad at Work 1942

All you could want to know about the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, and then some.

29:18
Passenger Train 1955

A film documenting one young boys travel, on a passenger train, to Lamy, NM from Chicago, IL.

10:09
This Is My Railroad 1940s Snow removal in the Sierra Nevada mountains is just one facet of the operations of the Southern Pacific Railroad, shown in this film. Including some fantastic imagry from the territory served by Southern Pacific.
28:58
Troop Train 1943

Follow a United States troop train from planning to delivery of its Soldier passengers, in this WW II era film. Scenes of coordination of effort in staging, assembling the cars, loading cargo and passengers. On the well guarded trip, watch the soldier passengers, eat, sleep, exercise, train, drill, and relax.

13:15
True Experience of Officer Harold Sewell 1938

Eveready batteries star in this dramatized, prevention of a train wreck, advertisment.

1:19
California State Fair Highlights 1913

Various highlights from the fair, with the finale being a planned head-on collision of two "diamond stacker" locomotives.

6:21
Completion of Northwestern Pacific Rail Road 1914

Completion of the Northwestern Pacific Rail Road, October 23-25, 1914. Including the Golden Spike ceremonies and celebration. Filmed in Arcata, Cain Rock, Eureka, and Willits, CA

29:58