1940s - Color, Railroad Film: Operation Fast Freight - concluded on 221466-01

Operation Fast Freight incomplete - concluded on 221466 Norfolk and Western Railway Presents Presented by Willard Pictures, Inc. 09:49:42 Warehouseman driving forklift truck, crates on pallets marked fragile loaded onto freight car. Door closed & locked; cars past as engine pulls car & backs onto siding. Pan over Columbus yard at night & cars coupled. Crew compare watches, board train. Signal given. 09:52:03 Good night shots leaving, telegraph operator, railway tracks. Map showing route of freight train. 09:53:00 Crates, bricks & other goods loaded & along dock. Vegetables & ice into refrigerator car. Tobacco packed & barrels rolled. Cattle driven onto train. Lumber loaded; coal loaded. Large steel beams moved on special cars. 09:54:35 Station & agent w/ freight on wagon, opens box full of chicks. Freight train into station, loading goods. US map showing agents offices; int. w/ man on phone. Norfolk Virginia docks, w/ ship unloading Dole pineapples or bananas to railway. Office workers. Loading coal. Trains on the move, runbys & POV. Dispatcher, trains along countryside; Centralized Traffic Control CPC signal board. POV. CU switches & signals, tracks move train into siding. 09:59:08 VS trains moving, yards, CU cars & engines (GOOD). Inspection & servicing, train leaving,, brakeman in caboose. Int. conductor making out report w/ car records office, filing, clerks. Overlap w/ 221466 begins here 10:01:52 Train thru mountain coal field region. RR tracks. RR surveyors, men repairing tracks. Machine used to tamp ballast around lines. High steel men & construction of bridge. Elkhorn Mountain tunnel being built. 10:04:31 Freight train pulls into Bluefield, West Virginia. Observers watch train coming in. Train inspected - time and motion reports. CUs. Men w/ pads. Freight train out of station. ends at 10:05:39 on 221462. Concluded on 221466 Transportation; 1940s; Promotional Film; WWII Homefront;