PASSENGER TRAINS 1940 BALTIMORE & OHIO RAILROAD

Wow.. for all our advancements in travel, fuel efficiencies, Low Cost Carriers etc, we really paid a high price.

Opening scene is of Union Station, DC, as the Columbus Statue is in view.

Better world than today.
That is until it caught fire in 41.

This actually is what was wrong with Anerica (no offence). Robot people, stoic white men, black underclass (but had good jobs) but the ceiling is a vice, crushing people into submission.

Or not

The glory of rail travel in its heyday. I'm sure I'm not the only one who longs for those days.

An outstanding era and generation! porters, conductors but give Mr. Schroder a break!

Thanks for the ride.I didn't want it to end.

Is this an instructional video for retards?

they had 100 mile rule where they changed engineers employees had to fight for that law to be passed

What is a "menu?" It is a "large card with lists of food." Oh.

Neat and interesting!

I am 72 and remember the trains back in the day where men wore suits and the trains were on time.

It was produced by ERPI Films in 1938. ERPI eventually became Encylopedia Britanica Films, which had a large catalog of educational films. Eventually the film was remade in 1955, in Kodachrome, using the Sante Fe Super Chief as "The Passenger Train," using footage from a 1948 produced ATSF promotional film.

Who are the target audience? 10 yr olds? The commentator sounds like he is addressing children.

Mr. Schroder was a a member of, what was then, one of the strongest unions in the nation. He, Mr. Owens, and the conductor, ran the train until their shift was up. Then, they stopped the train (wherever it was, inluding the Middle of Nowhere), got off and went wherever they were staying till they could deadhead home. If you were a passenger, you hoped that they reached the place where the next crew was ready to take over - or you waited till the crew got there. The fellers were pretty well taken care of . . .My grandfather was a conductor and my uncle, an engineer, on the B&O in WV and MD in the 30s and 40s.

I enjoyed that. Is there another part to this film?

At the first part of the vid that was Washington, D.C. Union station I think

Passenger rail is not economical in the USA. The government subsidized cars with roads and freeways and still does. They did the same by using tax dollars to build airports and fund air traffic controllers. Before Amtrak, the RR companies paid for all of that (track, communications, logistics, etc) all from their own pockets and then had to pay taxes on top of that. These taxes were the ones funding freeways and airports by the way. The RR companies thus were forced to fund their own competition. There's a great 1950s video put out by one of the RRs talking about this very thing. That's why they got out of the passenger business. Too many employees; too much withholding taxes. Thus Amtrak took over because some area still needed train service, and as anyone who reads on the subject knows, Amtrak has been running in the red and screwing up since then. I just read a comparrison between a train ride from Chicago to LA in 1950 and today. Guess which one was faster? Guess which one was cheaper per ticket (taking inflation into account too).? Guess which one offered more comfort (of course with a highter ticker price per option)? Guess which one had a faster overall speed? If ya guessed today, nope. Thanks for playing.

My great grandfather was a chef on the B&O and was killed in a train crash. I dont even want to imagine being in a crash in a train gally. I wish I knew more about him, or the crash. I wasn’t told much more than that so if anyone knows about it I’ll like to hear it. It would have been around 1900-1910 (maybe) and his name was (George?) Vance.

Why is there a GE/Alco powerplant in an EMD E unit?

Great video!!

Как же я люблю английский (нет)

So much weirdness - I mean, people who want to ride the train have to buy tickets. And to think, the train will be pulled by a locomotive - so odd.

Where is the place where tracks emerge from a tunnel, then cross a river with a second bridge nearby? I can't read the tunnel name.

Great looking E series slant nose AB loco set

Dinner chimes on the old trains was something

The Federal Express was the Baltimore & Ohio's daily passenger train that ran between Boston and Washington. Unlike the FedEx of today, it did not take a week to travel 600 miles nor stop in one place for five days.

Mr. Owens, was overworked.

No sweatpants, shorts or flip flops. Travelers used to dress respectfully.

This was when America was a great country. To turn the clock back just for a few days and relive that time.

Even in black and white you can tell the train exterior is clean, unlike today's trains.

That E unit EMD locamotive in this film is now restored and at the B&O railroad museum amd although it no longer has its prime mover itis fully restored to original look just like this movie.

I wish somebody had not stretched this film to make it “widescreen”. It wasn’t shot the way and the stretching distorts the picture.

The water trough was cool. I suppose the fireman had to drop and retract a scoop with some care!

I just love videos like this. I wish America could be nice like that again.

Mr. Schroeder looks just like my dad

y'all aboard ladies and gentlemen, on our time travel train.

It's very interesting seeing what must be a very early diesel locomotive paired with old-fashioned heavyweight cars. A combination of the old and hyper-new.

Noice how well dressed everyone is?

The engineers don't wave from the trains anymore, not like they did back in 1954,when I was a boy, I'd hang around the tracks, watching those trains going to Louisville and back.

What a beautiful and elegant looking dining car

A gateman, a motorman?
When I was a engineer I was the motorman too.

Fix the aspect ratio please.
S t r e t c h e d isn't the way we see the world.

America should have made continuous significant investments in passenger rail transportation between major cities. We should have been a world leader, enhancing and innovating the experience. Sad.

Engineer Schroeder is violating the "100 Mile Rule"! His union won't like that!

Such an ornate old diner! (A maintenance nightmare!)

I think the guy in the engine room is my father who was a riding tech on passenger trains

It's ALWAYS ALWAYS Mr. Schroder!!
He NEVER needs sleep. He doesn't think about food? It appears as if Mr. Schroeder is the only railroad engineer contracted to be in all of the passenger railroad videos of days gone by! What would they do without Mr. Schroeder??