Southern California Live Steamers Presents Really Cool Railroad Videos
Below are some really neat videos that we have found while surfing the Web. Some are related to our live steam hobby while others are related to full sized trains and their operation. Check back often for new additions. If you have any videos that you think are really cool, please feel free to let us know so that we may add them. Don't forget to vote for the video so that we can sort them by most popular.
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Video Title: Building of the Jupiter & 119 Locomotives Date Added: 6/25/2012 4:00:16 PM
BYU production of the building of the Jupiter & 119 replica locomotives at Promontory, Utah
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Video Title: Our Gang - The Sun Down Limited (1924) Date Added: 1/23/2012 3:56:54 PM
A silent Our Gang short from 1924
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Video Title: The Norfolk Southern Lawmen sing Rollin' Out Again Date Added: 11/29/2011 9:39:56 PM
September 2011 will mark the return of steam to Norfolk Southern rails as Norfolk Southern Corporation and Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum launch a limited schedule of steam locomotive passenger excursions Labor Day weekend.
The excursion program, "21st Century Steam," will operate two trains each day Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 3 and 4, powered by recently restored Southern Railway Locomotive 630. Launch of the excursion program coincides with TVRM's Railfest commemorating the museum's 50th anniversary.
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Video Title: Railroadin' ~ 1940's - History and Operation of Railroads in the United States of America Date Added: 11/11/2011 5:42:51 PM
1940's educational film produced in conjunction with the US Departments of War and Interior and the Association of American Railroads. The film gives an overview of the history and operation of Railroads in the United States. You'll see steam and diesel locomotives, freight and passenger operations, as well as behind the scenes action the general public was not normally able to view.
For trivia buffs: you'll notice there is an umlaut in "coöperation" when shown in the opening credits - this was quite common until the 1940's.
The Association of American Railroads (AAR) is an industry trade group representing primarily the major freight railroads of North America (Canada, Mexico and the United States). Where appropriate, the AAR represents its members' interests to the public at large and to Congress and government regulators in particular. The AAR works to improve the efficiency, safety and service of the railroad industry
AAR was created October 12, 1934 by the merger of five industry-related groups: the American Railway Association, the Association of Railway Executives, the Bureau of Railroad Economics, the Railway Accounting Officers Association, and the Railway Treasury Officers Association.
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Video Title: Warther Museum Dover, OH Date Added: 10/24/2011 6:40:36 PM
Today, second, third and fourth generation family members have expanded their Swiss chalet-style museum into an amazing state-of-the-art facility. It showcases the 64 ebony, ivory and walnut train carvings created by Ernest “Mooney” Warther, a one-of-a-kind collection that has been appraised by the Smithsonian Institution as a “priceless work of art.” The original workshop, built in 1912 is still used by family members. Mooney’s son, David and grandson, Mark may be seen at times carving in the workshop or creating wooden pliers for visitors. This old shop is adorned with over 5,000 arrowheads. In the summer months, stroll through the Swiss-style flower garden’s to Frieda Warther’s Button house that holds a collection of over 73,000 buttons arranged in beautiful designs on the walls and ceiling. There is even a button from Mrs. Lincoln’s inaugural dress and a collection of original Goodyear rubber buttons. Today, the Warther family also continues to make Kitchen cutlery; Early in Mooney’s carving career he discovered the importance of knives that would hold their edge against hard surfaces such as ebony and ivory. Unable to find carving knives of such quality, he decided to make his own. His mother complained about never having a sharp paring knife. So he developed his own techniques for tempering and sharpening a steel blade that would keep its sharp edge. Thus, out of necessity, came the world’s finest kitchen cutlery. Today, the Warthers are in their fourth generation of knife makers, who still produce outstanding kitchen cutlery with the same expertise and fine craftsmanship.
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Video Title: NYC Steam Locomotive Hudson Date Added: 7/25/2011 4:29:16 PM
New York Central Steam Locomotive, Take a look at what it takes to get a steam locomotive ready for the road on the NYC. Very interesting look at a old vintage film from the NYC Railroad
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Video Title: Veiled in Vapour Date Added: 6/16/2011 1:24:29 PM
by Gilbert Loreaux and Mukul Mangalik.
The film captures the last run of a steam hauled service on the Ahmedabad - Udaipur section. A must watch for any steam lover.
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Video Title: Transcontinental Railroad (5of5) Date Added: 4/22/2011 10:18:03 AM
On a somber day in Gettysburg, Abraham Lincoln ended his famous address with a promise that the war-torn nation would someday be reborn. At the time of Lincoln's speech, the greatest symbol of that rebirth had already begun. Hailed as an engineering feat to rival the Egyptian pyramids, the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad was an engineering marvel as well as a technological nightmare. In the 1860s, the Union Pacific began laying tracks westward from Omaha, and the Central Pacific did the same heading eastward from Sacramento, hoping they would one day meet. Creeping along inch by grueling inch, work on the railroad represented the nation's struggle to forge an iron link between East and West, making cross- country travel faster and easier than ever.
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Video Title: Transcontinental Railroad (4of5) Date Added: 4/22/2011 10:08:11 AM
By the middle of the 19th century, the benefits brought by the host of advances of the industrial age were gradually beginning to reach America, which soon developed a spectacular achievement of its own - the Transcontinental Railway, reaching right across the continent. They battled against hostile terrain, hostile inhabitants, civil war and the Wild West. With two teams, one building from the east and the other from California in the west, they battled against hostile terrain, hostile inhabitants, civil war and the Wild West. Yet in 1869, the two teams' tracks were joined, shrinking the whole American continent, as the journey from New York to San Francisco was reduced from months to days.
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Video Title: Transcontinental Railroad (3of5) Date Added: 4/22/2011 9:57:55 AM
On a somber day in Gettysburg, Abraham Lincoln ended his famous address with a promise that the war-torn nation would someday be reborn. At the time of Lincoln's speech, the greatest symbol of that rebirth had already begun. Hailed as an engineering feat to rival the Egyptian pyramids, the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad was an engineering marvel as well as a technological nightmare. In the 1860s, the Union Pacific began laying tracks westward from Omaha, and the Central Pacific did the same heading eastward from Sacramento, hoping they would one day meet. Creeping along inch by grueling inch, work on the railroad represented the nation's struggle to forge an iron link between East and West, making cross- country travel faster and easier than ever.
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