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: LATE 18 CENTURY TRAINS Date Added: 2/11/2010 11:07:08 PM
PUBLIC DOMAIN FILMS ABOUT TRAINS INCLUDING, SP, CNJ, LV, PENN AND THE MT. TAMALPAIS RAILROAD JUST NORTH OF SAN FRANCISCO. OLD AND SHAKY, BUT A ARCHIVAL FILM GOLDMINE FOR RAIL FANS.
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Video Title: Cowlairs Locomotive works ,Glasgow Date Added: 2/11/2010 10:39:54 PM
The largest Loco. works in Europe.
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Video Title: Railroad History Special - Dick Cavett Date Added: 2/6/2010 1:27:03 AM
Railroad History Special - Dick Cavett
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Video Title: NIN WestingHouse Date Added: 2/6/2010 1:04:42 AM
This footage is from Westinghouse, at the beginning of the 1900's. I find the footage to be an amazing insight to the working class' life at the given time. From the footage you can see why we have all the labor laws that we have now. For some this footage will still ring true even. Plus Nine Inch Nails never hurts
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Video Title: Westinghouse 1904 -- Night Dance Date Added: 2/6/2010 12:57:28 AM
Return to the days of the Industrial Revolution, where the aim of a company was monopoly and a single factory complex could be its own city.
Westinghouse, 1904, contracted out little to nothing. They forged, welded, wound, assembled everything on site.
Work days were long and hard, safety was something you had to depend on luck and good sense for, and tools were primitive.
This film is a compilation of a series of fascinating strips taken from the Library of Congress's American Memory Collection. American Mutoscope and Biograph did the filming, and after all those Edison reels, you might wonder why not them?
Westinghouse and Edison were not friends at all. You can see why as the girls wind coils for the Alternating Current Westinghouse adopted from Tesla instead of Edison's pet Direct Current.
As accompaniment, 'Night Dance', neo classical or steam punk? A driving rhythm undertone pushes an elaborate and occasionally fractured melody, weaving together what is constant and what is emphermal.
This was a time when the humans were the machines. Yet they're still human. Notice the pretty shawls on the work tables of a few of the girls, the surprised looks up at the camera and cameraman on the overhead trolley -- and for the point when the camera knocks down boards and sparks down on the workers below.
Welcome to Route 66.
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Video Title: How to Dial a Rotary Telephone Date Added: 2/6/2010 12:08:44 AM
As dial telephones were introduced - replacing operator service - instructions were shown in movie theaters as to how to use the new instruments.
Absolutely nothing to do with trains or steam, but it is really cool. The stuff we take for granted.
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Video Title: Streetcars Inspire Good Posture in L.A. Schools: Early 1950s Date Added: 2/6/2010 12:04:32 AM
Although in decline, the Los Angeles streetcar system was still sufficiently extensive in the early 1950s so that "every schoolchild" would recognize the trolleys. Perhaps for that reason, the L.A. school system made this 78 rpm record drawing inspiration for good posture from streetcars. "Posture Paul" may be the school system's chief contribution to annoying music. The disappearance of the streetcars in the early 1960s sent Posture Paul into oblivion. It is doubtful that the later revival of light rail in L.A. will see his return.
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Video Title: Westinghouse Streetcar Factory Date Added: 2/5/2010 11:24:15 PM
This video was shot in a Westinghouse streetcar factory in 1904. It is currently part of the collection of the United States Library of Congress. I put the video here for my friends who can't figure out how to get the videos from the LOC or from iTunes U. If you like the video and think you'd like to see more of the hundreds available to you for free, visit www.apple.com
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Video Title: LEGO 10194 EMERALD NIGHT Date Added: 2/5/2010 11:13:23 PM
Building the LEGO 10194 EMERALD NIGHT
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Video Title: R&N 425 Tunkhannock Excursion (HD) Date Added: 1/22/2010 6:54:46 PM
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