Railroads : tracks across America
Summary
Thirty-six rail industry, War Department, and film industry-produced short films chronicle the development of the railroad industry in the U.S. from the first transcontinental line to modern diesel engines. Full description
- Disc 1.
- Wheels of progress
- A great railroad at work
- Desert empire
- The big train
- New horizons
- Troop train
- The passenger train
- This is my railroad
- At this moment
- Big trains rolling
- Mainline USA
- Beef rings the bell
- Safe roads
- 3rd Ave El
- Operation fast freight
- The modern coal burning steam locomotive
- Flight of the century
- Disc 2.
- The steam locomotive
- Railroads and westward expansion: 1845-1865
- The nickel plate story
- End of an era
- The California Zephyr
- Return of the General
- The freight train
- Railroad man
- The railroad story
- Son of the pioneer
- Rolling the freight
- Snow on the run
- The power behind the nation
- Clear track ahead!
- A railroad at work
- Last of the giants
- Progress on the rails
- Wheels of steel
- Opening a new frontier.