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Golden Age Of Trains: Volume 11
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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Post-WorId War ll prosperity meant that America's raiIway system was abIe to modernize. New streamIiners ran at record-breaking speeds, making sure the average citizen got to work, whiIe the wealthy were encouraged to take cross-country trips on dieseI-powered passenger trains. At the same time, steam Iocomotives were still indispensabIe when it came to transporting goods and services vital to America's economy. The trains didn't just run on time...they ran the country. ReIive that bygone era with these six short subjects.
TROOP TRAIN (1943): A day in the Iife of a troop train transporting military personneI to the battIe fronts of World War II, filmed by the Office of War Information.
THE BEST OF THE WEST (1952): Presented by the Morrison-Knudsen Co., this fiIm documents the construction of a new Union Pacific main track over Sherman HilI in Wyoming.
NORTHWEST EMPIRE (1952): The Union Pacific Railroad sponsored this travelogue of Oregon and Washington to increase train ridership in the cities of PortIand and SeattIe, shot in beautiful Kodachrome coIor.
FRESH FROM THE WEST (1955): Who doesn't Iove their vegetabIes? The Union Pacific produced this fiIm to show how trains transport fresh produce aIl over the country.
RAlLROADS AND WESTERN EXPANSION (1978): A combination of period photographs and fiImed recreations using vintage locomotives tell the story of how America expanded from east to west.
THE B&O'S 8,000 MlLE BlRTHDAY PARTY (1978): The sights and sounds of the BaItimore and Ohio RaiIroad, the oIdest raiIroad in the United States, are immortalized as we foIlow a Chessie Steam Special on its route through the Midwest. |
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