Farms: Santa Fe RailRoad "Pay Day" - 1950's American Trains - WDTVLIVE42
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A serious while often humorous look at what happens if railroad employees don't do their job correctly. Follow the adventures of a new TV as it suffers all sorts of bad treatment on its journey from manufacturer to the new owner via the Santa Fe Railroad. There's all sorts of staged mishaps to see - from derailments, heavy shunting, hotboxes and various other problems to ensure the new Motorola Television doesn't arrive in one piece! From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atchison,_Topeka_and_Santa_Fe_Railway The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway (reporting mark ATSF), often abbreviated as Santa Fe, was one of the larger railroads in the United States. The company was first chartered in February 1859. Although the railway was named in part for the capital of New Mexico, its main line never reached there as the terrain made it too difficult to lay the necessary tracks (Santa Fe was ultimately served by a branch line from Lamy, New Mexico). The Santa Fe's first tracks reached the Kansas/Colorado state line in 1873, and connected to Pueblo, Colorado in 1876. In order to help fuel the railroad's profitability, the Santa Fe set up real estate offices and sold farm land from the land grants that the railroad was awarded by Congress; these new farms would create a demand for transportation (both freight and passenger service) that was offered by the Santa Fe. Ever the innovator, Santa Fe was one of the pioneers in intermodal freight service, an enterprise that (at one time or another) included a tugboat fleet and an airline: the short-lived Santa Fe Skyway. A bus line allowed the company to extend passenger transportation service to areas not accessible by rail, and ferry boats on the San Francisco Bay allowed travelers to complete their westward journeys all the way to the Pacific Ocean. The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway officially ceased operations on December 31, 1996, when it merged with the Burlington Northern Railroad to form the Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway. . . WDTVLIVE42 - Transport, technology, and general interest movies from the past - newsreels, documentaries & publicity films from my archives. #Trains #Railways #Railroads #RailTransport #Transport
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There used to be railroad salvage stores, where you could buy dented can goods, dented or scratched appliances, etc. I was told that stuff supposedly came from train wrecks, but now I imagine a lot of it came from screw ups in the railyards.
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It was a Zenith. "The quality goes in before the name goes on!"
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Anyone here want to see history repeat itself??> Go to Walmart and buy a TV today, you'll get the same damaged box. same damaged TV and the same guy saying "Well, uh.. that's the way it came off the truck".
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There was no packing in the boxes it was just the cardboard and TV exposure explains why it was messed up so easily
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Maybe if they spent less time pulling boners...
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What a beautiful world it was. No graffiti on anything. The world is so "clean."
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Haha...even in the 59s the rr had bs propaganda about blaming the employees for something
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"Folks in Chicago who made the TV set?" When was the last time a TV (or any other electronic stuff) was made in Chicago or any city in the US? Because of labor unions, healthcare and the availability of cheap labor in other countries (Mexico, Japan and Bangladesh) major appliances are made overseas.
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Yikes ! Entertaining, though. The narrator sounds like the voice of Tom D'Andrea from the Life of Riley 1950 TV Series.
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Thanks :-)
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As a few here said, this film was made for internal training purposes.
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What year was this film released?
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I don't remember seeing TVs that big during the 1950s, this was the early 1960s, my first 20 inch TV was in 1963.
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What year was this film released?
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Well, gee, the dad should've just taken the dang set back to Best Buy and got another one...meanwhile, mom could've texted all her invited guests to wait an hour before they came over...oh, wait...that was during such a simpler time..ha ha.
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I wish there was not so much truth to what you say. If we fought harder for peoples rights and wages in other countries, filthy rich corporations would just manufacture where they live.
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So you saw this film originally...as an employee.? I wish people, times, things were still this way. Know what I mean.....a bit on the "corny" side, simpler and maybe a bit more honest than they are today. Look at all the JOBS back then. best
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And weighed a ton too. Those old TVs were beasts.
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Funny they called a TV a "television set" back then, LOL.
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USPS is ten times worse... I have shipped fragile electronics through USPS only to have them smashed up when the customer gets the package......