A New Face for Casey - A Railroad Trip From Past To Present Pt. 1 of 2
Intro by Westbrook Van Voorhis
Passengers off diesel streamliner Explorer. Van Voorhis on platform to camera, boards train & talks re Ohio railways. Ohio State House. Animated map re growth of rail, drawings & painting of early trains. Drawings dirigible, spaceship, conveyor belts.
15:30:14 Freight train past camera. Top shot Explorer train thru yards; basket car forklift loaded. Coil car for shipping steel. Road freight service w/ truck trailers loaded; rail van, experimental container transport. Continuous rail tracks, automated track roadbed repair. New inventions, automated track cleaner, robotic switches activated as train passes.
15:32:49 Diesel trains w/ various engines - freight cars. Big dog w/ boy putting tag on it on platform. Use of computers - IBM punch card show details of freight cars. IBM Punch cards into machine generating tape which feeds teletype. Freight train runby. Automatic switching yard, control room in tower. First RR to use UNIVAC computer.
15:37:00 Steam trains: coal train working, one as an exhibit. Ohio Railroads help the community - station as Sunday School - Ohio railways pay taxes in advance so teachers can be paid. Rail workers at adult education - Rail service conference, putting new ideas into action. New York Central passenger train from highway, passing. RR surveyor talks of helping to develop plant location near railway lines.
15:40:13 Ashtabula - Electro Metallurgical Company Titanium Plant. Construction stopped due to cold conditions. Railroad uses old steam train to pump steam to heat the plant & enabled plant construction. People hear steam whistle of railroad. 911 pulled into town. MCU Engineer eating sandwich. Continued...
Americana; Industrial Film; Promotional Film; 1950s Americana;
VERY good Colour.
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A New Face for Casey - A Railroad Trip From Past To Present Pt. 1 of 2 Intro by Westbrook Van Voorhis Passengers off diesel streamliner Explorer. Van Voorhis on platform to camera, boards train & talks re Ohio railways. Ohio State House. Animated map re growth of rail, drawings & painting of early trains. Drawings dirigible, spaceship, conveyor belts. 15:30:14 Freight train past camera. Top shot Explorer train thru yards; basket car forklift loaded. Coil car for shipping steel. Road freight service w/ truck trailers loaded; rail van, experimental container transport. Continuous rail tracks, automated track roadbed repair. New inventions, automated track cleaner, robotic switches activated as train passes. 15:32:49 Diesel trains w/ various engines - freight cars. Big dog w/ boy putting tag on it on platform. Use of computers - IBM punch card show details of freight cars. IBM Punch cards into machine generating tape which feeds teletype. Freight train runby. Automatic switching yard, control room in tower. First RR to use UNIVAC computer. 15:37:00 Steam trains: coal train working, one as an exhibit. Ohio Railroads help the community - station as Sunday School - Ohio railways pay taxes in advance so teachers can be paid. Rail workers at adult education - Rail service conference, putting new ideas into action. New York Central passenger train from highway, passing. RR surveyor talks of helping to develop plant location near railway lines. 15:40:13 Ashtabula - Electro Metallurgical Company Titanium Plant. Construction stopped due to cold conditions. Railroad uses old steam train to pump steam to heat the plant & enabled plant construction. People hear steam whistle of railroad. 911 pulled into town. MCU Engineer eating sandwich. Continued... Americana; Industrial Film; Promotional Film; 1950s Americana; VERY good Colour.