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New Big Trains Rolling, The R2 of 2

Reel Number: 220382-04

Color: Colour

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1955

Country: USA

Location: New York,Washington

TC Begins: 11:24:14

TC Ends: 11:38:10

Duration: 00:13:56

The New Big Trains Rolling R2 of 2 Conductor signals, engineer in cab & Santa Fe train pulls out in MCU; running thru western countryside.Children visit domeliner observation car & watch scenery past. Conductor collects tickets. Railway postal clerks sorting mail in mail car into pigeon holes & bags. 11:26:01 Dining car w/ black waiters serving people. Children shown table & order food from menus. Kitchen & chefs preparing meals. Kids eating. Passenger runby; interior of lounge & dome car. Sleeping roomettes, bedrooms, compartments & drawing rooms. 11:28:03 Children go to bed, helped by porter. Girl into upper berth. CU train wheel on tracks. 11:28:50 Passenger runby at speed. Freight train past. Montage of family eating, clothes, coal. Grain harvesting, storage silo / grain elevator, flour bags moved, bread on shelf. Cattle rounded up., then from pens into cattle cars. Meat in supermarket; roast beef being carved. 11:30:33 Fruit pickers, harvested. Ice loaded onto refrigerator cars. Open freight cars carrying ore; steel mill. Steel wheels, tracks & bridges used by railroad. Coal in freight cars; on conveyor. Lovely shot twilight as steam train crosses railway bridge. Pulpwood on freightcars; timber in mill & framing of house. 11:32:19 Mechanical cotton harvesting, textile mill & large loom. Oil tank car & fueling trains. Docks & loading and unloading ships. Railyard. Night shot train runby. 11:33:40 School - children playi volleyball - campus shots - American football in stadium. 11:34:00 Children arrive & met by Aunt & Uncle. Passenger train past them as they walk along platform. Runby. Short shots POV, pan of Chicago; horseback ride. Tourist destinations, scenics of beach, fishing, Yellowstone Falls, skiing, sailing. 11:35:54 Various different RR trains & Int. of dining car service. Montage of Capitol, Suburbs; Churches; children out of school; university; Mount Rushmore; Statue of Liberty; American youth - students. Train over bridge. Nickel Plate Railroad end. Propaganda; Patriotism; Promotional Films; Educational Films; Travelogue; Scenery;

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