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Wheels of Steel 220379-04X | Footage Farm

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Channel: footagefarm · 2013 · Film & Animation

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1955. Written & Photographed by Jackson B. Pokress
07:33:32  Electric engines pull passenger train past L-R at station platform; behind is freight train.  Young boy in engineer uniform & engineer talk on platform  (MOS).  Boy playing w/ model & looking at picture book.
07:34:12  POV from train across river alongside highway & over residential street.  City traffic; POV alongside freight train to side; from engine into yard.  GG1 locomotive into yard.  Loading w/ traction sand.  CU of sand onto rail.  Engines in NYC in yard w/ large warehouse buildings behind.  
07:35:54  Over inspection pit, man underneath checking.  Couplers checked, another engine coupled; pulling to diesel pump.  Woman servicing.  Washing platform & scrubbed w/ brushes.  Pusher or pig moves engine thru washing brushes; spray of fresh water to rinse. 
07:38:35  Woman scrubbing dining car interior; passenger train past to station.  Pantograph to wires; 
07:39:13  Man polishing insignia of Presidential car w/ seal, CU.  Blacks loading food for dining car as steward checks it off.  Int. of diner w/ people being served water while reading menus.  Switch CU turned.  Laundry washers, tumblers, irons.
07:41:06  Train out.  East River & skyline w/ United Nations building.  Station & taxis leaving.
07:41:45  Int. Pennsylvania Station from above; floor shot of people waiting.  Conductor & Engineer check pocket watch; red cap & pullman porter.  Conductor & helper.  Signalling.  POV out of tunnel & thru morning fog.  Engineer & POVs thru New Jersey; runby of eighteen passenger cars.
07:43:28  Ballast tamper & other workers on RR; other men working on top of repair car working on electric cables.  POV of engineer from behind head.  CU gandy dancers working on tracks, replacing ties.  Foreman signals.  Passing train; across bridge over Susquahanna River.
07:45:08  Washington DC w/ Capitol in background.  CU of Capitol.  Pulling into station; men & women along platform.  Washington's Jefferson Memorial, Washington Monument; Lincoln Monument & White House.
07:46:11  Runby of electric passenger train.  The End.
Transportation; Trains; 1950s; Promotional Films; Advertising;

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