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Meeting The Challenge Pt. 1 of 2

Reel Number: 221581-03

Color: Colour

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1946

Country: France,USA

Location: Baltimore,Lorraine,Maryland,Mount Clare,New York,Ohio,Rochester

TC Begins: 08:30:33

TC Ends: 08:45:32

Duration: 00:14:59

Meeting The Challenge (1946) Pt. 1 of 2 Baltimore & Ohio RR presents Horse drawn covered wagon & Conestoga wagon of pioneers thru fields. 08:31:11 Tom Thumb steam engine crosses bridge; into station w/ smoke & steam. Barrels loaded on board. Ext. Mount Clare station. Map of area covered by Baltimore & Ohio RR, animated map showing route growth. 08:32:56 Industry - smoking chimneys, factories, mines, hoeing crop. City street scenes, shopping, women. 08:33:28 Baltimore & Ohio freight train past CU in railroad yards. Coal cars & mine. 08:34:02 Small strip mine, coal loaded into trucks & RR cars. Electric mine train. Loading hopper cars & steam train; electric train out of mine. Loading coal cars & long train w/ dark smoking engines pulling, pushing 08:35:23 Docks - coal transferred to ships by conveyor belt. Ore carrier leaving dock in Great Lakes at Toledo & Lorraine, Ohio. 08:36:54 Iron ore from ore carrier to train. Limestone & scrap. Chimneys of steel mill - exterior furnaces. 08:38:27 Industrial output on train cars: steel pipes, petroleum & oil, lumber - paper mill, sand. Liquid latex, blocks of crude rubber to Akron. 08:39:50 Two men in B&O RR Industrial Development Department - pages of report turned. Ext. industrial plants. 08:40:29 Agriculture & farming, tractors spraying; soil tested. Horse drawn plow. Milk cattle; bulls exercised on wheel; cow & calf in field. 08:41:55 Milk Industry w/ cans on truck taken to railway station; livestock, sheep & cattle loaded. Refrigerated freight cars. Freight cars in yard, “humped “ or sorted to make up trains. 08:43:55 Pan over grain elevator; to docks for import & exports. Dock scenes in Baltimore, Maryland. 08:44:52 Rochester, New York ferries move freight cars across Lake Ontario to Canada. Radio telephone communication between tug boats & shore CU captain at wheel. Unloading freight cars to trucks at trucking warehouse. Continued... 1940s; Railroad promotion film; Advertising; Transportation Development; Freight Trains; Runbys; Industry; Manufacturing; NOTE: Good color. NOTE: Any continuous one minute sold at per reel rate.

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