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: Transcontinental Railroad (2of5) Date Added: 4/22/2011 9:46:18 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 (1of5) Date Added: 4/22/2011 9:39:16 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: 1950's Railroads in the USA - "When Steam Was King" - Steam Trains in the 1950's Date Added: 3/29/2011 10:52:03 PM
(silent movie) Scenes of steam train operations on NYNH&H, NYC, C&O, PRR, NKP, Erie, L&N, GN, UP, T&P and ATSF railroads during the 1950's.
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Video Title: Narrow Gauge military train lines in France - World War One French Trains - chemin de fer Date Added: 3/29/2011 10:31:14 PM
During WW1 the allies needed to construct railways throughout France to help move men and supplies. The quickest method available was to construct a network of narrow gauge (60cm = 2 foot) train lines.
The film opens with scenes of Army personel laying the sleepers and track, ballasting work, loading and laying of pre-built trackwork. Next we take a ride on the train and see scenes of the railway in action as the little trains trundle along country lanes and through the town streets. The film ends with scenes of the train taking soldiers towards the front lines.
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Video Title: D&RGW - "Last Narrow Gauge RR" - Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad 1960 Date Added: 3/29/2011 10:27:38 PM
Pathe films newsreel from 1960 about the narrow gauge trains of the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad.
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Video Title: TRAINS GONE WILD - STEAM LOCOMOTIVE CHASE - HAZARDS OF HELEN -1915 B&W SILENT Date Added: 3/29/2011 10:10:02 AM
A STEAM LOCOMOTIVE IS RUNNING WILD WITHOUT AN ENGINEER TO STOP IT (TRAINS GONE WILD) AND THREATENS TO CRASH INTO AN EXPRESS TRAIN. ONLY HELEN HOLMES CAN SAVE THE DAY. A 1915 B&W SILENT SHORT WHICH SURPRISINGLY ENOUGH FOR THAT PERIOD ILLUSTRATES THAT A WOMAN GIVEN THE OPPORTUNITY CAN AND WILL DO THE JOB. EPISODE #26.
Great Steam Train action in the Los Angeles - Long Beach- Glendale area. SPL & SL 4-6-0's. A shot of a pre-WWI US Navy destroyer moving underneath an open railway bridge. Unfortunately a beautiful Indian motorcycle gets drowned.
The Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad (reporting mark SLR)[1] was a rail company that completed and operated a railway line between its namesake cities, via Las Vegas, Nevada. Incorporated in Utah in 1901 as the San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad, the line was largely the brainchild of William Andrews Clark, a Montana mining baron and United States Senator. Clark enlisted the help of Utah's U.S. Senator Thomas Kearns, mining magnate and newspaper man, to ensure the success of the line through Utah.[2] Construction of the railroad's main line was completed in 1905. Company shareholders adopted the LA&SL name in 1916. The railway was also known by its official nickname, "The Salt Lake Route," and was sometimes informally referred to as "The Clark Road." The tracks are still in use by the modern Union Pacific Railroad.
There is also an Admiral cigarette commercial from Thomas Edison studios which looks like a bunch of hippies smoking joints at the Haight theater in San Francisco's Haight Asbury district. LOL
THIS IS A PUBLIC DOMAIN FILM.
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Video Title: How it's made, train wheels Date Added: 3/3/2011 1:32:10 PM
How it's made, train wheels. Turn the volume up, it was recorded very low.
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Video Title: 2010 Steamfest Great Train Race - the view from 3265. Date Added: 3/3/2011 11:45:26 AM
Scenes of the 2010 Hunter Valley Steamfest Great Train Race recorded from the cab of steam loco 3265 racing 3526 & 3642 from Hanbury (near Newcastle) to Maitland. These scenes will form part of a special fundraising DVD to be released celebrating the return to service of 3265.
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Video Title: The Ghost Train - Full Version Date Added: 1/13/2011 9:16:55 PM
Mismatched travellers are stranded overnight at a lonely rural railway station. They soon learn of local superstition about a phantom train which is said to travel these parts at dead of night, carrying ghosts from a long-ago train wreck in the area. The travelers eventually get to the bottom of the things that go bump in the night. In between the scary bits, comedian Arthur Askey plays the gags with his Vaudeville style humor.
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