WAR TRAIN

Didn't see John Wayne anywhere

"5/1/2010 Simulation of a war time air attack against a military train."

Looks like a propaganda film shot here in the USA. Cool taking a look back though.

The movie shown was actually showing how OUR guys trained on and with railroads. These were trains and training done in Louisiana I believe, at a camp with a track 50 miles long. They would regularly break and fix the track.

Found a copy of "War trains" by Galloping Pictures on Amazon 2 weeks ago. Three hours of interesting stuff.

This was posted some time ago. It is a training film (as it were). The title and credits were omitted on this post. I book-marked it and will try to find the first post.

Best,  Mark

Here it is. Mark

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e9a_1241081839

Being a retired Lineman I liked the guy climbing the pole.
It must have been shot early in the war because the P51's were early models with the long turtle deck and no bubble canopy's .

David

Great video!  Thanks for sharing!

Somewhere online there is a sort of a Archive Library with the old videos preserved from the war years. They ranged from Moving troops on the Main trains down through to using Deaf, Blind and other people in the factories during the war effort and so on. I cannot remember the name of the website, but it is a very large and organized outfit that preserves and maintains a set of VERY useful pictures and video.

I remember a Santa Fe Passenger engines being refueled off a tanker car at a Station out west while the People were doing what they can during the stop.

Thanks. Notice how the farmer didn't even take notice of the passing train? I hope I never get that cold and callous!

Back in those days, trains were so prevalent a presence in many parts of the country that nobody really paid all that much attention to them.  You really had to be around in that era to understand how different things are today.

That Farmer had probably observed that particular exercise several times. Besides, his primary enemy was in front of him.[former mule operator farm boy].

Not to mention that the farmer's wife probably hated those trains!  They made it very difficult for her to hang the laundry out to dry (for those too young to remember, that's how laundry was dried back in that era).