The big GG1 takes over in Harrisburg where the line is electrified.

This movie was made in 1940-41, not 1936. Also, the 3 bridges that are shown starting at 8:48 are over Sherman's Creek just south of Duncannon, PA, (though it appears the train is heading north away from Harrisburg), the Rockville Bridge heading east over the Susquehanna towards Harrisburg, and finally the train is shown stopping under the State Street Bridge in Harrisburg. The railroad bridges are still in use today, owned and used by Norfolk Southern and shared with Amtrak. Though the State Street bridge is at least a quarter mile north of the of the Harrisburg train station, it's possible that filming was moved a short distance so as not interfere with passenger service at the Harrisburg station, which surely would have been extremely busy during December 1940 and January 1941 when this movie was filmed. The GG-1 shown pulling out of Harrisburg and passing the nearby steel mills in Steelton, PA, was no. 4904. It was brand new, being built in 1940. Eventual disposition: scrapped.

It's not Amtrak, it's whomever the host railroad company is. The huge spiderweb railroad track and route network that we had in the 1940s is less than 1/2 that size, with a good portion of most mainlines single tracked. A shame that President Eisehnower didn't realize he was helping to destroy the rail network when he signed the highway bill.

Around the three minute point the fireman is pulling a bell cord even though the bell is obviously automatic

Beautiful. What a heritage to be proud of

I was lucky enough to fire and run steam. Age caught up to me and I had to stop. The most exciting days of my life were sitting in that engineers seat and running. It was a tourist railroad.

i love this movie, thanks for posting. i even have those red star gloves that mike monahan is wearing.

Holy crap they actually got 1223 in this!

Shame on y’all ! Just when it starts getting good, it ends ! And what a way to pull at a true railroaders heart ! Making that K-4 start off without a problem and then having a little “Atlantic 4-4-2” finish the job ! And at 70 miles an hour, mind you ! 🌊🐺

Cool to see the PRR Torpedo in action.

9:04 GG1!!

ah love the deco body on the first one. a k4 maybe, I am not big on k4s really, I like the other later ones, s1, t1, q2, and so on sure had some really famed power from the crestline to fort wayne division on the race track from van wert to fort wayne, I am from the area around fort wayne but not much left of the old prr, but it is well documented where stuff was and how big the yard was at pique the altoon a of the prr west heh.

Love the commercial, that starts before the movie clip .

I knew I wouldn't have to wait long to hear one of the characters go "saaaaayy!" . Very happy! My work here, is done.

this is pure heaven I want to work for the prr all steam in the afterlife forever

I saw that - I thouyght he was trying to use the whistle! haha.

Quite the 4-4-0

Blimey, that streamlined K4 Pacific sure is handsome. I sure hope the 4-4-0 wasn't too taxed with such a heavy trainload though.

i loved the commercial i would have loved to have that model train with missle attachments

@sfo1164 That's good to know. Still, it just goes to show that some of the old timers aren't as worn out as they look.

I noticed an error. The bell sound on the engine is a crossing bell, not a locomotive bell. Automatic locomotive ringers didn't ring this fast.

I got to live the dream in 1976 on the Murtalbahn in Steiermark, Austria, driving an 0440 1913 Krauss Maffei through a snowstorm into Mariapfarr. Volldampf forever!

You know, the Broadway Limited express seems a bit lucky in comparison with British streamliners in my opinion, in that it plays a major role in a film. None of ours ever did - not the Coronation Scot (LMS), not the West Riding Limited, not the Coronation (LNER), not even the Silver Jubilee. The only reference to those trains seems to be the A4 Pacific "Silver Link" in "Oh, Mr Porter!"

I wasn't expecting to find out this film was like 10 minutes long

Gotta love them k-4's

I've noticed something about that old 4-4-0, actually; it's a D16, same class as some of my favourite engines, the Great Eastern Railway's Claud Hamilton 4-4-0s, were classified under the LNER.

Yes, it is.

Great Torpedo footage!

Cool! Even the PRR Torpedo is a movie star, 😔😞😭😒 it’s such a shame it and it’s sister locomotives are dead instead of museums

@sfo1164 Good point. I mean, I know that's fictitious, but at least it's got a well known class of British locomotive at its head. The only thing wrong with the Hogwarts Express, I thought, was that the engine, Hogwarts Castle, was a Hall Class mixed traffic rather than a Castle Class express engine. Even the number 5972 wasn't really in keeping with the Castle Class.

The streamlined locomotive you see is a rebuilt older locomotive to look modern. Diesels using steam boiler and less water made few stops and was easier to repair and cheaper.By 1960 the big Railroads retire their steam locos.

The PRR T1 Was the best of them all. Change my mind

@howardkevinm I agree it sucks Amtrak can't handle the schedules steam ran 70 years ago, but the PRR didn't operate 100+mph locomotives for hours, either. In 1954, the dieselized Broadway ran the 907 miles between Chicago and NYC in 15 1/2 hrs (about 58.5 mph). BTW, Ft Wayne, where Victor McLaglen takes the 4-4-0 throttle, was located in the middle of Pennsy's blistering fast flat stretch between Englewood, IL and Crestline, OH known as "The Ft Wayne Race Track."

Included in Prime Video

Eisehnower knew what he was going to do,he hated railroads.

"Green on top" @ 4:25. That sounds like a NYC signal call. Why would - or how could - a PRR engineer call it?

@sfo1164 It sure does. Thanks for the info!

Edited down to just the good bits! :D

"Remember Boy", haha!

Great movie, but it was too short!

Didn't Hal Roach make the Our Gang Comedies and The Little Rascals?

@sfo1164 Well, I wouldn't be surprised if the old 4-4-0 managed to lift the train out of the yard without all that Hollywood stuff. There have been instances of small engines being much more powerful than they appear, like the London Brighton and South Cost A1X "Terrier" tank engines for example. They were so small that the uninitiated would barely expect them to hurt a fly - but they could still handle 100-ton trains on a regular basis.

I have one question thats bothering me. Is that 4-4-0 the 1223 that is on display at the railroad museum of pennsylvania that use to operate on the Strasburg Railroad. Cause to me it looks like.

You know, the thing I don't understand about the Lionel Trains ad at the beginning is that they're calling all that info "top secret" and yet they're giving it away as if they want a security leak - but then I don't fully understand advertising.

@sfo1164 Something else I want to ask, actually; being a British railfan, I'm a bit curious as to why the crew were communicating to each other "Green on top" and "Yard limit".

@sfo1164 Okay, thanks for the info.

didn't the broadway limited go all the way to New York City from chicago and the trailblazer went from New York City to Chicago?

Is the PRR K4 faster than the DRG Class 01/03,S3/6 and Wurttemberg C?

Did we all came here for PRR 1223

What station is the train at at 5:22?? Why did they have to change engines?

@sfo1164 Anytime.

The national speed limit for all passenger trains in the U.S is 79mph. It's been that way since 1946 after a disastrous rear end collision of two Burlington Route passenger trains in Berwin, IL. The train that rear ended the stopped train was doing 85-86 mph.

theres something called a sand box

no way did a d16 pull all those cars

A GG-1 to the rescue!

does any one still have the toy

only in a moive

Hey, question; who exactly is/was Garbo?

Are those Chinese balloons they're shooting down? 😂😂

How did a 4-4-0 manage to haul the Broadway?

@sfo1164 yea im not trying to be rude about it. no hard feelings?

@sfo1164 actually it's i said my girl and she's from hollywood. it ain't garbo is it, no it ain't garbo. i don't go for bluff

I really dig Cold War toys. Made Boomers like me so screwed up. Russia, Russia, RUSSIA. (And China too!) 🤠

It's just incredible that people spent money to write produce a movie that's as stupid and wooden as this.

@sfo1164 actually it's i said my girl and she's from hollywood. it ain't garbo is it, no it ain't garbo. i don't go for bluff