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Big Trains Rolling R2/2 220382-06X | Footage Farm

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Channel: footagefarm · 2013 · Film & Animation

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1940s.
Train pulling into station, steps put down, luggage loaded into baggage car; mail bags loaded & passengers board.  Children seated by Black porter.  Conductor signals, train pulls out past parked cars & people on platform; thru countryside, POVs from alongside, children look out window  & tracking shots  of farms & landscapes.  Conductor inspects tickets.  Mail sorted in postal car.  
11:50:53  Dining car, children seated & order meal from children's menu.  Kitchen & chefs prepare food, cut meat.  Runby; lounge car & people talking; man into sleeping roomette.  Other compartments shown.  Kids climb into upper & lower berths.  CU  wheels on tracks. 
11:53:53  Freight trains travel thru countryside w/ tank cars & freight cars.  Montage of goods shown.  Grain harvest & storage silo / grain elevator.   Flour sacks off freight cars, bread on shelf.  Cattle rounded up, into pen & loaded onto trains - meat on shelves & roast onto table.  Fruit harvested & loaded; ice loaded into refrigerator or reefer cars.  Rail car w/ short lengths of logs for papermill; iron ore & blast furnaces.  Scrap iron loaded w/ electromagnet.  Trains.
11:56:28  Coal on freight train across river bridge; delivered by truck to building.  Country school house. Coal trains, logging trains, construction & housing.  
11:57:21  Cotton picking, textile mills & looms.  Oil tank cars.  Docks - loading & unloading ships.  Train runbys.   
11:58:43  School grounds & kids playing baseball; American football played in stadium. 
11:59:13  Train w/ children arrive at destination met by Aunt & Uncle on platform.  Passenger train out of station (out of focus).  Steam train shots.
12:00:08  NYC Wall Street area & pedestrians (GOOD).
12;00:15  Montage:  ranch corral, beach, fishing, Old Faithful geyser, tobogganing, sailing.  Various different RR steam trains.
12:01:30  Students & schoolchildren, suburbia, university, churches.  Mount Rushmore.  Raising American flag, Statue of Liberty, woman in supermarket, family at dinner; college campus - American youth.  Flag flying in CU.
Transportation; Traveling; Tourism; Vacations; 1940s Americana; Patriotism; Patriotic; Propaganda;

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