Milwaukee Road Electric Fans take a look. General Electric 1915 film of The GE Box Cabs being built and running.

Thanks Don, I hadn't seen that Film......

Have never seen the catenary run like that. Hreat.

Dick

I note at the beginning of the film they show the Indian method of transporting goods: "Squaw carries everything".

Are the old ways necessarily bad ways?

Not so bad an idea, perhaps?

That was great.  Thanks for posting.

Thanks Don; just like going for a ride on your layout!  

I liked the "Observe the pantagraph" scene, (spelling?) but wondered who filmed it. In 1915 wouldn't the movie camera be hand-cranked? It makes you wonder what position the camera-man was in - on the back porch looking over the end of the box-cab roof maybe? A little hazardous maybe.

The competition of technologies was really being pushed, wasn't it? Steam was king, diesel locomotives were still being experimented with, the first diesel-powered ship was only built a few years before, and GE was going to master the rails with electricity. Interesting theatrics too, with the not-so-smart forestry labourers demonstrating "progress." 

Thanks for a unique look at rail history. 

Firewood, GE thought their electric trains were going to take railroading by storm but the price was just too hight for substations, wire and poles and in some cases power. Milwaukee Road ended up being the only long distance electric road in the country. Sad seeing how many trains in Europe are run under wire. Don

Thanks for posting the video, Don.    You sure were right about the first half or so of it.

Larry