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The Golden Age of Steam Trains Part: 05

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Uploaded by on Dec 14, 2008

This video clip deals more with the streamliners. In this video are the Hiawatha, a British A3 Pacific, some Coronation type streamliners, the J3a Streamlined Hudson, the George H. Emerson, and the S1.
There is a short clip from an Alfred Hitchcock movie on the A3 Pacific. The end of this video starts to go into mountain railroading.
There also some clips from the 1939 Worlds Fair.

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  • why would the Milwaukee road scrap all their streamliners??

  • @Strasburg1991 operating costs, when passenger trains were in their decline it was costing their host railroads too much to operate them and not enough passenger revenue to back up the expenditures, but I still don't get why many railroads scrapped all their streamliners, they were a milestone. I guess too many executives were too busy focused on the pocketbook, than on the historical value.

  • what's the title of the music on 2:03- 2:35?

  • @TheNw1218 if you could find out too, I would like to know as well.

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  • I must say that even though I'm American I've got a helluva soft spot for UK Steamers.

  • And as a Brit I'm happy to admit that US steam was unsurpassed!

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  • 07:50 HA HA! I was just about to say "where's the S1?"

  • same goes with the nyc and prr =(

  • I like the Illinois Central railroad yard and start up sequence (the deep resonant chuffs of steam and the wheelslips sound great). More of an MKT and MoPac man myself, by the IC was a good road, too.

  • mordern trains are dso dull

  • The music is "Coronation Scot" by Vivan Ellis. Google "Coronation Scot:" and you will see the beautiful train and information about the music

  • @SteffanLlwyd THANK YOU!! I <3 YOU!!! (NO HOMO!!!)

  • @STOPTHEEU - Don't forget Australia and New Zealand.

  • @KH990j I suspect it was composed specifically for the movie.

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