1940s - Color, Railroad Film: Operation Fast Freight - concluded from 221462-19

1940s - Color, Railroad Film, concluded from 221462-19 Signal light put on corner of caboose. Signal given & train moving, yards, brakeman in caboose. 10:00:55 Interior conductor making out report w/ car records office, filing, clerks. 10:01:36 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. 10:04:17 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. Train out & various traveling shots & CU engineer, firemen, LS along river. Looking into firebox. GOOD. 10:07:12 Design team, men talking, blueprints. Tool machine shops. Engine construction. Engine dropped onto wheels. Train pulling into Roanoke. Freight yards. CU Ice moved along dock & loaded. Freight cars automatically sorted, switched & attached to locomotives for different destinations. Various freight trains runby, montage of goods unloaded, trains running fast. GOOD. 10:12:40 Tower controls, operator looking at board. Night shots, signals change. Train into station at Norfolk, goods unloaded by forklift driver. Transportation; 1940s; Promotional Film; WW2 / WWII Homefront; NOTE: One continuous minute sold at per reel rate.