The New Haven in "A Great Railroad at Work" (1942)

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5 жыл бұрын

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.

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@rogerlollar4325 2 жыл бұрын

The I-5 is one of the most beautiful locomotives ever built

@Steven_Rowe 4 жыл бұрын

I love these old films, so optimistic.

@abdussamad5850 4 жыл бұрын

@oscarwildeghost 4 жыл бұрын

Almost my entire family worked the New Haven road from it's beginning to it's demise out of New Haven. Trackmen, yard men, engineers and station masters.

@KINGFISHOL Жыл бұрын

It's a shame to see such an amazing railroad network be brought down

@randomclass4653 11 ай бұрын

@@KINGFISHOL its a shame so many class 1 railroads were shut down for much worser , less efficient and less climate friendly cars.

@0759trainz 2 жыл бұрын

The I-5 departing Boston South Station with the Yankee Clipper tow and speeding down the line is single handedly the best part in this film.

@boltobsessedmaniac Жыл бұрын

it is the music makes it even more epic

@hartmutlorentzen9659 2 жыл бұрын

I admire the heroic voice of the narrator

@bruceboatwright7488 4 жыл бұрын

What a marvelous window into the past, hard working men doing hard work. I very much appreciate you folks sharing this.

@MrShobar Жыл бұрын

"...hard working men doing hard work..." And living to the ripe old age of 55.

@beachbum1523 Жыл бұрын

Back when blue collar workers were paid living wages and could afford to own their own homes and support their families on one income. We've lost our way.

@jschmid 4 жыл бұрын

That slip track was pretty cool. I could watch that all day.

@kenjstl 4 жыл бұрын

That was the first time I had ever heard of or seen a "slip track" to test locos.

@georgemurphy2579 4 жыл бұрын

They worked hard and didn't live in big fancy houses. Went to church on Sundays...did it right! One wonders who the brains were behind all of this. Closer to God ... that's for sure.

@josephshulman6666 Жыл бұрын

I'm 57 and truly believe I would have been much happier living in this Era !!!

@nostalgiakarlk.f.7386 5 жыл бұрын

The I-5s were beautiful. I wish they survived the scrapyards.

@anasiacameronelijahedcpndc4324 4 жыл бұрын

@Carl Ferrigno #3025?

@anasiacameronelijahedcpndc4324 4 жыл бұрын

They could've preserved 2. One at the Danbury Railroad Museum and the other one at the Railroad Museum of New England. Or? But the next member #1410 from scratch! It will have a new top speed of 125MPH when it's a full throttle. And will travel from Washington D.C. to Boston. MA.

@blackbirdgaming8147 3 жыл бұрын

Same here. Would’ve been nice to see one preserved and put into excursion service. It would have given the I5 the chance to *really* show what it was made of. NH never gave them that chance as track speed didn’t usually exceed 60. Damn shame.

@That_Thicc_Cat 3 жыл бұрын

They are really good looking locomotives

@johnhagan7742 Жыл бұрын

Yeah, me too.

@rudolffabrie3233 4 жыл бұрын

The amount of staff in those days is unbelievable.

@tommytruth7595 4 жыл бұрын

And most of those jobs have been abolished due to technology and our Govt's stupid policy of taxing the railroads to subsidize its competitors. That is called "progress."

@peterlv68 Жыл бұрын

God I would kill to go back in time and see New England at its peak manufacturing. Non-urban renewed cities, no highways cutting through downtowns, beautiful stations still maintained that are no longer with us, steam locomotives, and passenger trains.

@kathieharine5982 9 ай бұрын

And only about 130 million people.

@fordlandau 3 жыл бұрын

This loco. Shape was replicated in Australia. The New South Wales Government Railways designed and built the C 38 class Pacifics from 1943. The first were streamliners with a very similar look to these NYNHH locos. I love the look of them.

@tommytruth7595 4 жыл бұрын

All the railroads back then were great.

@MrShobar Жыл бұрын

Before most of them went bankrupt.

@georgemurphy2579 4 жыл бұрын

This is nothing short of miraculous! So much went into this industry. Nothing like that today. Water. coal, oil, sand, wood and steel. So many jobs, right down to the chefs and servants in the diner cars; the tower men, yard men, mechanics and of course the train and engine servicemen!

@texman8150 4 жыл бұрын

I remember as a kid in the late 1940's my father bringing me down to the railroad station to watch the unloading of the mail car. Canvas sacks of mail were unloaded from the mail car onto a wood flatbed cart with iron wheels, that was then wheeled to the parking lot to a waiting Post Office truck. We lived about a block from the New Haven tracks in Mount Vernon, New York.

@gavinoctavien1400 3 жыл бұрын

Love to hear old stories

@TruckerC1 2 жыл бұрын

Train yard logistics alone are extremely amazing! Great footage. Maintenance, baby, maintenance!

@zombiekiller_challenger_rt7057 4 жыл бұрын

Amazing to think that this was filmed mere months after the attack on Hawaii by the Japanese. I love seeing these old films and equating to them what significant events happened around the same time. Thank You for the upload. Cheers

@rogerhuber3133 3 жыл бұрын

This is one of the better railroad films of the era. Sure like seeing those streamlined I-5 4-6-4's!

@budelaska2202 4 жыл бұрын

This film, though fascinating to watch, is also an amazing resource for all the model railroad fans who try to create layouts that duplicate, with minute accuracy, the way railroad operations really looked and how they were really run.

@brt987train Жыл бұрын

Doing just that! Lots of fun for this old guy over 60 years

@johnkulpowich5260 2 жыл бұрын

Really enjoyed this thanks

@oscarwildeghost 5 жыл бұрын

Most of my family worked ofr the New Haven out of the New Haven Yards and station. My grandfather was a stationmaster there in the 40's.

@gavinoctavien1400 3 жыл бұрын

Great film enjoyed very much

@zombiekiller_challenger_rt7057 4 жыл бұрын

I was born in Connecticut in 68 and have lots of family there although I no longer Am. Additionally, my father worked for Pratt and Whitney in West Hartford and I worked for Chandler Evans (div of Colt Industries).

@barbarycoast3972 2 жыл бұрын

Maybe the Best railroad documentary. From A to Z American railroading at its peak, (the Glory Days) as told by the great Lowell Thomas. Beautiful huge steam engines. The New Haven was historic in railroad electrification, had the most beautiful electric engine (although not in this movie)

@castercamber 2 жыл бұрын

And there at the end of the movie is the end of a train with an old man waving bye. I like that better than a FRED.

@bryanthunderfootporter4436 Жыл бұрын

Did anyone else notice that the woman’s Pullman sleeper ticket was dated December 6th? Since the copyright date is 1942, that would make it the previous December. She would have gone to sleep from GCT/NY and woken up to Pearl Harbor the next morning (the 7th). Also explains the narratot’s comment, “… what with rubber tires rationed.”

@ctfirebattchief 7 ай бұрын

I've watched this clip quite a few times over the years and never knew until recently that the opening scene of the movie was filmed in Hamden CT at the Mt carmel canal line station. And yes I also happened to notice the date of the ticket that the woman purchased for that pullman, it put a lump in my throat. Life changed during her journey.

@joanoverton7641 4 жыл бұрын

It. Doesn’t’ get. Better. Than this ! The movies. From. The. 40’s. Are. Real. Classics !

@nhyardlimit 4 жыл бұрын

what a great vid!!! My! how life has changed (and not for the better). Everyone was dressed nicely, no pajama bottoms or sweat pants!

@nathanwatson01 4 жыл бұрын

At least you wont get polio now-a-days.

@Stratovair 4 жыл бұрын

Some things are better for sure, but you have to admit that well-dressed people are rare today! Women tie their hair in a scraggly ball, put on the track pants and go out in public-sad...

@tommytruth7595 4 жыл бұрын

@@Stratovair Don't forget their sleazy tattoos. Back then, a tattooed lady would only be found in a carnival freak show. And that is where they still belong.

@ruffian2952 3 жыл бұрын

@@Stratovair Growing up we had to wear suits to go to the Forum to watch the Habs play. It was nearly a religious experience.

@travelingman484 3 жыл бұрын

NH YardLimit so true my friend, so true.

@kevp9601 Жыл бұрын

Best KZfaq Video Ever

@donaldbartram6315 4 жыл бұрын

It was a mighty RR for a long time.

@dustbowlhammer7119 7 ай бұрын

Always gives me a chuckle whenever they say, "Exceedingly modern!" in these films xDD.

@machomusclevegas 4 жыл бұрын

How quaint, a long long time ago in a galaxy far away, when you took for granted that things in America actually worked.

@s.sestric9929 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks to the New Deal.

@tommytruth7595 4 жыл бұрын

@@romanlyubchak7986 Mid to late 60's, Roman. it all went to hell then.

@WesternOhioInterurbanHistory 3 жыл бұрын

still does in many places

@snoebay88 5 жыл бұрын

Rode the New Haven from Boston to NYC 3 or 4 times a year with my Mom. This brings back a few memories!

@patlatz956 4 жыл бұрын

@DerpyPossum 2 жыл бұрын

3:17 ok, that’s cool

@conniemaros 4 жыл бұрын

Amazing!

@dinocracchiolo1006 Жыл бұрын

It’s hard to believe there was actually a time like that in America,l.

@wordsmith52 2 жыл бұрын

Not one PC screen or piece of graffiti to be seen... Clean well dressed people with a decency in their appearance and attitude. Pride in work, trade, one's company and country. All this, despite the difficult times being gone through. Very different times. Seems like a dream...

@wchaun Жыл бұрын

Ofc everything looks nice and perfect, it's a promotional film aka corporate propaganda

@jeremyfiliberto3333 11 ай бұрын

@@wchaunis it that hard to believe people used to have pride and decency

@railtrolley 8 ай бұрын

And the aerosol spray can was not in regular use at that time.

@charlesharper7292 3 жыл бұрын

I loved the part where these great iron juggernauts were overhauled!

@kittymuffins6484 4 жыл бұрын

Beautiful history brought to life, very sentimental.

@johnpaulkane5480 4 жыл бұрын

Look how Snappy everybody dressed back then not like the slobs today

@michlo3393 3 жыл бұрын

They were just nice-looking slobs.

@gideonstupke2257 5 жыл бұрын

I grew up with this Documentary. My father had it on VHS. It was done by Pentrex.

@ErichRaeder 7 ай бұрын

Those pullman heavyweight cars are simply beautiful

@AndreiTupolev Жыл бұрын

Fantastic quality, one of the best quality films of this vintage I've seen. What a stirring shot at4:45. And matching sound too!

@richp5060 4 жыл бұрын

A lot of this footage was at the Cedar Hill Classification yard. There are sections of it to this day still in the woods abandoned. At 15: 56 you can see Sleeping Giant state park in the distance.

@JessicaKasumi1990 5 жыл бұрын

This is positively beautiful footage, you have here. New York New Haven and Hartford is a misunderstood carrier. Had potential to do great things, but was often financially plagued. Even Penn Central didn't do much to solve the woes. Thankfully, the remaining active parts of the NH are doing better thanks to changes like the Staggers Rail Act.

@LIMowersAndMore 5 жыл бұрын

Jessica Kasumi their are only three surviving new haven steamers I think....but hell those days are gone.....

@HHopebringer 4 жыл бұрын

Penn Central was a disaster, almost by design. (sighs) But they're far from the only railroad company that was, though.

@425beechwood 2 жыл бұрын

New Haven was a pioneer in piggyback freight, but unfortunately their system turned out to be the Betamax of transportation.

@benc.5863 Жыл бұрын

@@LIMowersAndMore Unfortunately not a single NH steam locomotive made it to preservation. The closest we have is #3025 at the Valley Railroad which is a Chinese SY made to look like an NH J1 mikado

@Kevmike68 8 ай бұрын

One of my great-grandfathers (my father's father's father) was a train engineer on the line from Albany to Boston 🥰🚂🚂🚄🚅🥰

@garryferrington811 Жыл бұрын

I worked in a film lab across from the maker of this film, Jam Handy (seen in the opening credit), then closed. Some of our old guys had been with Handy and had lots of stories. Jam Handy received a commission, wrote the film, shot the film, processed the film, cut the film, did the mix, and even sent guys out to project it in the theaters!

@andypettit5869 4 жыл бұрын

Nothing like the steam locomotive....

@Rog5446 4 жыл бұрын

I liked the fleeting excerpts we had of Dvorak's eighth symphony.

@425beechwood 2 жыл бұрын

Classic New Haven pagoda-style tower at 7:46

@WesternOhioInterurbanHistory 3 жыл бұрын

4:43 7:45 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙞𝙨 𝙚𝙥𝙞𝙘

@charlesharper7292 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks! For a feel good video. Merry Christmas 🎄.

@Isochest 4 жыл бұрын

I like the diesel switcher. The Earliest ones in the UK were from 1932 and the earliest main line diesels were introduced in 1947. Diesel and electric traction were implemented from 1955 in the UK

@EFCasual 4 жыл бұрын

That's is an ALCO model. Made in upstate NY.

@silviu-radugrigore5258 Жыл бұрын

Stunning transition from steam engine to electric. In my country took much longer. A real video training thank you.

@rjl110919581 5 жыл бұрын

THANK YOU FOR GREAT HISTORY VIDEO

@samshearman5251 4 жыл бұрын

This is really good!

@dlw664productions4 4 жыл бұрын

1942: Stationmaster: (NY,NH,&H) You were one single minute late! What is the meaning of this!! 2019: Stationmaster: (Amtrak) Only 3 hours late! Perfectly on time! Great job! I think we can learn something: after Penn Central, speed wasn't the same (70 Mph-20 Mph)!

@lanerailvideo5928 4 жыл бұрын

😄

@ruffian2952 3 жыл бұрын

I began my passenger service after freight service with the NY,NH&H. The last thing I wanted was having to provide the answer for was lost time. With Amtrak they had a scheme that interline trains leaving late were on time if they hadn't lost any more time into the final terminal. With certain enginemen I knew that "making up time" was a cinch if my crew could get "them" off and on. Never had to answer for making up time.

@bluesharp59 4 жыл бұрын

This is so cool and a Thumbs Up for you also.

@joannecarpenter8725 Жыл бұрын

Many thanks for this amazing film that shows so many hard working Americans!! And of course the magnificent history of trains in action and progressively moving forward every day 24/7… Many thanks for sharing 😊

@dstuart2918 4 жыл бұрын

The chowder would cost 1.50 now and the fish 7.10. LOVE the train!. The kitchen looked like set--train kitchens are teensy.

@mjarail 4 жыл бұрын

This was probably shot at the New Haven's instruction kitchen.

@ruffian2952 3 жыл бұрын

@@mjarail There were kitchens at Dover Street Yard in Boston as well as at New Haven and GCT. Steward left an order at New London for New Haven pickup if necessary for replenishment. Liquor was stamped railroad at bonding for control.

@WesternOhioInterurbanHistory 2 жыл бұрын

3:44-5:04 Best part of the entire flim.

@kevp9601 Жыл бұрын

I Love That Train

@slycat1939 4 жыл бұрын

AWESOME

@samshearman5251 4 жыл бұрын

Ah Lowell Thomas!

@kevp9601 Жыл бұрын

Nice ! 😀👍

@EastEndProductionsArchiv-lm3lq 9 ай бұрын

Excellent!

@damer4life528 2 жыл бұрын

15:04 my favorite scene

@Torentino_Ian_no_channel_2006 2 жыл бұрын

Billie jean is not my lover

@SuperFoxyRailwayProduction6702 2 жыл бұрын

When a train does the Moonwalk

@gregmilliken9659 Жыл бұрын

America had such a great transportation system, years ago! What happened? Even up here in Maine there was an extensive trolley / light rail system as well as the passenger trains.

@donfarlan214 5 жыл бұрын

Man that sure looks proud

@Gocrybozo 6 ай бұрын

I have these on vhs tape i remember watching it as a child

@Bob.W. 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks. Great film.

@gregmilliken9659 Жыл бұрын

America had such a great transportation system, and it was all destroyed by truck and bus makers. Electric trains, powered by efficient power plants were , or should have been the future. Instead, highways and thousands of cars & trucks each emitting toxic fumes are what we ended up with!

@davidgardner8707 4 жыл бұрын

Very cool 👍

@Quebecoisegal Жыл бұрын

The very first steam loco was a very attractive engine. Also good to see coal fired locos more than the oil fired ones.

@williamsimmons152 4 жыл бұрын

Lowell Thomas was a wordsmith. Strange he used the word “ponderous”. Twice even.

@WildBillCox13 4 жыл бұрын

Even Lowell had to read from scripts written by others on occasion.

@mariahhaarstick591 2 жыл бұрын

It a shame there is barely no new haven steam locomotives preseved

@yonayonamytube Жыл бұрын

I had taken a traim from New York to Boston, in 1997. Header had been changed from electric engine to diesel engine at New haven. 'NortheastDirect '

@pmichael73 Жыл бұрын

The NYNH&H was an amazing network, but it was a patchwork of purchases, leases, owned track and rights of way. Some purchases and leases were conditional on retaining stops and lines that led to a "death by 1000 cuts." The same applied to labor practices, career structures, etc. In spite of this, on the day of the 1929 stock market crash NYNY&H shares were trading at $250. Many great memories of traveling aboard.

@GEORGE-jf2vz 2 жыл бұрын

The narrator would make picking my nose sound monumental.

@trplpwr1038 4 жыл бұрын

Look at all the people making a paycheck and getting it done with no computers

@myeyeisnotblue 3 жыл бұрын

@@zaxk_isreal.08 And how was that boomerish? He was saying how heavily we rely on computers to do things today, an example how time has changed

@michaela.chmieloski3196 3 жыл бұрын

And if those computers are ever taken out by an EMP this country will come to a grinding halt. Disconnect anyone 30-and-under from the Matrix and watch them instantaneously lock up--numbly staring downward while waiting for their cellphone screens to come back on.

@MicrobyteAlan 5 жыл бұрын

Lowell Thomas, wow

@Ad_Valorem 5 жыл бұрын

I fondly remember his travelogues from the '50s, mostly on TV.

@menacerc2366 2 жыл бұрын

New haven is my favorite only cause i live nearby

@Nine-Signs 4 жыл бұрын

And despite most coal trains being gone we actually use 4 times the amount of coal per year globally than we did when this was filmed. Gorgeous loco though.

@emersonmcnerney7695 4 жыл бұрын

Really? Thats interesting.

@ruffian2952 3 жыл бұрын

New Haven held coal reserves on the ground to last seven years according to NH projections. One such reserve was in the Randolph, Avon, Holbrook area south of Boston. The NH feared coal miner strikes. I think there was some near the Cos Cob generating plant too.

@ogtme 4 жыл бұрын

Those New England accents are so great! I was born in New Haven

@anasiacameronelijahedcpndc4324 4 жыл бұрын

I was born in Stamford, Connecticut! And I went to new haven sometimes!

@mitchdakelman4470 3 жыл бұрын

The actual running time of this classic film is 45 minutes, just acquired a 1942 16mm print.

@carmine313 Жыл бұрын

To think I worked in that underground tower. It was Tower A one of 3 towers on the upper level of GCT. It was stacked on top of Tower B wihich controlled the lower level of GCT. There was Tower A (upper level plats), Tower C which controlled East Yard (1-10) the Back yard (50s) and Tower U now known as CP 1 at E59st and Tower B for the lower level.

@johnhagan7742 Жыл бұрын

I remember these good days. Back when steam railroading was king.

@samiam619 4 жыл бұрын

I was half expecting to see”Buy War Bonds” at the end!

@hoganrichard9627 4 жыл бұрын

😉🇺🇸

@WildBillCox13 4 жыл бұрын

"Any bonds, todayyyy!"

@ruffian2952 3 жыл бұрын

I was looking for different railroad slogans on the boxcars.

@Tom-xe9iq Жыл бұрын

The first scene is so special and yours has been edited. The train arrives and stops, the young lad and the engineer exchange a glance and then the train takes off. Cut to the engineer on the modern engine... it's implied that is the young boy grown up and in charge of the Yankee Clipper!

@SpeedGraphicFilmVideo Жыл бұрын

It has been edited. You can see the complete film here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bZZ7fdabrseohok.html

@carryfreak5059 13 сағат бұрын

Americans working hard and proud to be Americans

@lanerailvideo5928 4 жыл бұрын

Riding to a joint, wow what a different world...

@mitchelldakelman7006 Жыл бұрын

I note this version is 30 minutes but I acquired several years ago the longer 45 minute version, print is 82 years old. Eventually will post it.

@SpeedGraphicFilmVideo Жыл бұрын

Yup, as explained in the description, this is a "railfan's version" of the film. This version focuses mainly on scenes of railroad operations.

@blackbirdgaming8147 3 жыл бұрын

Is the audio for the 4-8-2 at 17:52 timed for 3 or 4 chuffs per revolution? It should be 3 as the R3s/R3as were three cylinder locos.

@jamesleopard8518 5 жыл бұрын

I remember steam Locomotives alot

@mikecarone7320 4 жыл бұрын

Pretty Crazy seeing no young men all fighting in WW2 when this was filmed

@s.sestric9929 4 жыл бұрын

People had to run things back home. Railroads were critical for defense.

@WildBillCox13 4 жыл бұрын

My dad was already in the PTO when this was released.

@WesternOhioInterurbanHistory 2 жыл бұрын

@@s.sestric9929 90% of military equipment was moved by rail, and 97% of troops were moved by train too.

@user-vn7qg8jy7e 3 жыл бұрын

What´s the name of the song that played with the I-5 By the signal box??

@kylestrasbourg4885 Жыл бұрын

15:04 Michael Jackson after brought back to life as a steam locomotive

@techguy9023 Жыл бұрын

I wish they had shown some more of Back Bay Station

@Doorsdiego28 2 жыл бұрын

What locomotive is the passenger one