Burlington Northern: Portrait of a Railroad (1973) Part 2

[skinnyshit8888]

god damn the music score is awesome.

[EFC429]

5:33 - 6:43

Perfect Harmony, Timing...Everything!!!

I'll bet the song will go with a pair of modern BN SD70MAC's leading a unit coal train in the 1990's.

[pele6922]

4:45=Bieber! LOL

[graf0rlov]

anyone interested in Michael Small's soundtrack, please write me.

[rog197236]

@graf0rlov I would love to get a copy of this wonderful soundtrack the music goes with the documentry very well please let me know as soon as you can thank you!

[LordoftheKaty]

I still say the BN should never had merged with the Santa Fe.

[kewanw16]

@LordoftheKaty I kind of hated it that Burlington Northern and Sante Fe became a joint venture I sent email to BNSF .com and asked them why they became BNSF and all that right after UP took over the other railroads !

[BurlingtonNorthernRy]

Thanks for uploading this... Some day I'd like to be a Conductor.

[wackymac28]

@BurlingtonNorthernRy so would i

[veronicafan2000]

Wow! Wher'd you find this?

[DX721]

was this a corporate training video or did this actually air? Great video by the way!

[Zebrails]

8:20 and on...

OSHA would probably not use this as any form of Safety Demonstration

[bnsfMAN93]

The guy at 4:54 has the best english ever for a foreigner.

[AndrewNeilFalconer]

That must be Mr. Wantanabe.

[DaftStrings]

Who says he's a foreigner!? He could easily be born and/or raised in the US.

[AndrewNeilFalconer]

How fast can railroad employees load and unload intermodal versus boxcars?

Can a railroad be too successful and ever strain the capacity of man and machine?

[bnsfMAN93]

It's not about unloading speed, but more about convienience. Industries don't need to be right by a railroad to reap the benefits of shipping by rail.

[fyadcorp]

that's a laugh

[isssssssce]

LOGISTICS AMERICA

[skinnyshit8888]

The video of the chicago rail yard still has old CB&Q engines in gray

[skinnyshit8888]

All his shit is sooooooo 1970s lol

[cagy701]

Waiting for Claude Akins to show up? LMAO! Man that was great! I thought he would at the lumber segement for sure torwards the end.

All jokes aside its interesting to see just how they did it and got it done on the railroad back in the day. Heaven forbid you step off a piece of moving equipment to throw a switch now. Thanks for uploading this mwmnp! :)

[98148AH]

No i was waiting for Jerry Reed! LOL . Like the soundtrack, sounds like they got it from movies like the Andromeda Strain or Soilent green.

[MILWAUKEELOCOTROL24]

8:00 you will never see that again

[MILWAUKEELOCOTROL24]

excellent shot at 0:15!!! miss the F45`s!

[talamore4life]

the woman in the 3:40 mark is pretty good looking

[AndrewNeilFalconer]

and she sounds very smart.

[bnsfMAN93]

very.

[AndrewNeilFalconer]

Since it was shot 36 years ago, I hope she now has a daughter as smart and attractive as she was in 1973.

[bnsfMAN93]

One can only hope.

[airplanebuilderman]

@AndrewNeilFalconer I'd tap it in a heart beat

[BlackWolfessUSCM]

I like this video work from the 70s. My Garden Railroad is a  tribute to Burlington Northern, 1970-1995. Gives me a chance to see how they operated pre 90s (when I really remember the Big Green BN). Great quality on this too.

[bluehachiroku]

I gotta say, this is just sooooo '70's.. 8-)

I'm still waiting for Claude Atkins to truck on up to the depot.

Great to see those high nose Geeps on the point.

Thanks a bunch for putting this up mate!!! Great stuff.

[railfanalways]

I live About 50 yards from a class 2 railroad and they have 5 or 6 trains a day go by and I love it! The horn doesn't bother me, It is the law to honk at the crossings. A train may take anywhere from 3 minutes to 9 minutes to go by and so sit back and enjoy the view it will be gone before you know it and life will go on.

[307OLDS]

SHIP BY RAIL NOT SEMI!!!!! I'm sick of those assholes cutting me off all the time on the freeway, and I'm sick of them slowing traffic, and I'M SICK OF THE ROADS BEING DESTROYED WITH ALL THOSE DAMN POTHOLES FROM THEM ASSHOLES POUNDING THE ROAD ALL DAY LONG.

[9760bn]

im inho scale trains and all i run is bn

[mrsooline]

jegler: I live 100 feet from the BNSF headed west out of Minneapolis. They haven't destroyed my life and I do love trains. If BNSF weren't so efficient, you probably wouldn't be able to afford the electricity to run your computer and make annoying and ignorant posts the way you do. If you don't like trains, go take your crab-ass attitude out on something else.

[jegler]

None of that makes much sense. Are you somehow implying that BNSF is responsible for my, or the entire county's economic standard of living? And then to suggest that if I don't like trains (which i don't), that I should complain about something other than trains?! At least I think before I write. BNSF is a hugely successful company. Good for them. But their engineers blast their damn horns about a thousand times more often than the Federal RA requires. All day and all night. So f them and f you

[307OLDS]

they blow their horns because of moron people like yourself trying to blow through the crossings and get nailed. if you were an engineer then you would understand, watching stupid people risk their lives to save a few minutes. if people had brains then the railroad wouldn't have to blow the horn at every crossing, so don't be mad at the railroad so fuckin idiot.

[307OLDS]

and without the railroad, life as we know it would come to a fast halt. those stupid semis can only dream of what the railroad can haul. I never seen semis haul 200 trailers of coal at once to a powerplant. those powerplants need the coal now not a week from now, THINK BEFORE YOU WRITE.

[SPDaylight]

Jegler

I live by the tracks. I would rather have two or three trains by my house in place of all the goddamn trucks and their jake brakes.

[jegler]

I'm so glad BNSF is so efficient now. It means they can make twice as much money while doubly destroying the quality of life for the hundreds of thousands of people who have the misfortune of having rails run through their town. Anybody who "loves" trains doesn't live by them.

[adam1234a]

i do. but i know what u mean.

[hallsflat]

GN Unit too, SD45's

[Zebrails]

8:08... that's a Northern Pacific SD-45 mid-unit!

[deathstarmygnr]

Hey! Do you know whre I can find actuall Video Cassetes of these? I am trying to collect Burlington Northern Memorabilia and lots of it so any info please on where I can find videos actually made by the BN?

[mwmnp25]

I know "Portrait of a Railroad" is available from Pentrex Video (pentrex. com). Check the "American Railroad Collection Vol. 1" in their vintage diesel video category. I don't know of anyone else selling the BN videos, but you may be able to find them on Ebay. They were part of a collection called "Railroad Classics" sold by BN in the 1980s.

[alcomania]

en tiempos que la Burlington Northern funcionaba las EMD SD9 y las GE C30-7

[seankolker]

Awesome BN video.

[adam1234a]

As a Railfan i hate bn because im a Santa fe guy But this is good stuff!

[mafarnz]

Wow, the double stack/container revolution was just begining then. If only those RR guys from back then could see what has happened today.

[chessie93]

Nice Great Northern & Northern Pacific Units.

[mafarnz]

That's the cool thing about BN, they inhearted such a varyity of power that almost every type of loco had BN green on it.

[nels1jac]

woops nevermind, i found 1 and 2

[mwmnp25]

Good deal. I'll add links to the other parts later. I've got 4 more of these old videos to upload.

[nels1jac]

Sweet, thanks. Being only 20, its great to see when the railroad was the almighty link across this country before the Interstate system took over...Hopefully the railroads will once again rein supreme :)