Santa Fe Streamliners 1

This is the first in a series of 1960's & 1970's silent movies I took of Santa fe trains . This movie was taken in La Plata and Marceline Missouri. You will notice that engineers and conductors were required to grab train orders on the fly. Orders were attached to a string and hung on a pole trackside. As the train went by, employees used their arm to collect their orders. Now, this is all done by the dispatcher via radio/ computer communications.
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[Petemonster62]

Great footage of a classic railroad!

[ATSF1927]

I see a lot of memories here, the orders were usually a train schedule, since orders and signals was all we had to know where other trains were at radios weren't used yet.

[howardkevinm]

any fottage of Super C high speed freight train?

[compresoresmaf]

Muy bueno, lastima que sea sin sonido!!

[jmehl77]

THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH FOR BEING THERE TO CAPTURE SUCH GREAT FOOTAGE AND I APPRECIATE THE WEB SITE

[LAPnumber4]

This is awesome. I live in LaPlata now and have been looking for some vintage footage in this area. Is this footage on a video thats for sale?

[MrMegaFredzeppelin]

THERE IS NOTHING MORE CLASSIC THAN THE SANTA FE ENGINE OF THAT TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!

[railfan101]

Awesome footage! All of the locomotives in this video are WAY more awesome than dash-9's if you ask me!

[panzercam]

look at that U30 smokin it up...super cool video

[wncigonzo]

There's a Penn Central unit at :30