Railroad - One Nation...Indivisible
Railroad - One Nation...Indivisible
The Railroad Series combines still pictures and drawings with live action gathered from historic operating railroads throughout the U.S. and Canada. By the 1850s railroads were drastically changing the American way of life -- faster transportation...bigger loads...and year-round operation. Tracks ran east and west tying the big river systems together. Railroads decided the future of towns and cities, and during the Civil War gave the North, which had more tracks and trains, a distinct military advantage. Originally shot on film. Many excellent historical re-enactments (recreations, reenactment).
Railroad - One Nation...Indivisible
Details of citation issued by New York City to Erie Railroad in 1851. MS Iron Horse cowcatcher, tilt up.
Railroad - One Nation...Indivisible
DO NOT SELL: Credits.
Railroad - One Nation...Indivisible
Great MS of old American flag with 34 stars in shape of one large star in blue field flying from flagpole, blue sky BG. Traveling side shot of old steam train running at full speed. Nice LS steam train chugging through snowy field.
Railroad - One Nation...Indivisible
DO NOT SELL: Color map of eastern United States, Mississippi, Tennessee & Ohio Rivers highlighted.
Railroad - One Nation...Indivisible
More shots of steam train traveling through scenic winter landscape. LS old horse-drawn stagecoach in rural area, spring. LS train partially hidden by green trees, cascading river in FG. Panning WLS vast endless prairie. MCU old John Deere plough in field, zoom in to steel blade. MS antique mechanical reaper. Great tilting MS of spinning windmill. TLS "settler" steering two horses pulling cart into barn, windmill in BG. MS Caucasian man sanding wood beam. TLS/LSs old log cabins & settler houses, one shot with several bull cattle in old wood fence pen.
Railroad - One Nation...Indivisible
DO NOT SELL: Color illustration of destitute Irish man looking at poster for the "fast sailing" Shamrock during Potato Famine.
Railroad - One Nation...Indivisible
MS legs & hooves of horses pulling wagon, bright red wagon wheel passing. Historical recreation of settler farming corn the old-fashioned way with hand and horse. H/a MS ground & railroad trains whizzing by (shot between railcars of speeding train). Excellent MS stalks of fresh corn, pan left to TLS steam train coming down track. TLS/LSs old steam trains rushing through country scenics. Great subjective POV of railroad tracks passing. TLSs buildings of old rail town, including the Lady Adams.
Railroad - One Nation...Indivisible
DO NOT SELL: Archival stills of trains stations in Atlanta, Chattanooga & Sturgis, Michigan.
Railroad - One Nation...Indivisible
TLS log cabins of old rail town, calcified cow skull hanging outside one in FG. MS scroll down advertisement for land. Panning LS old steam train traveling along Illinois Central rail line. LS wafts of steam rising from train traveling behind thrush of trees in BG, cornfield in mid-ground. MS Iron Horse locomotive, engineer in station. TLS stylish old steam engine train parked in yard. Sideview MS engineer in booth; MCU bell ringing.
Railroad - One Nation...Indivisible
DO NOT SELL: Archival color illustrations of old steam trains with fanciful detailing.
Railroad - One Nation...Indivisible
Panning CU blooming yellow wildflowers, old steam train passing in BG. Nice l/a MS Iron Horse passing camera. MS goofy-looking "settler" boy waving to engineer, shielding his eyes from sun even though he's wearing a big floppy hat; MS engineer waving from booth; MS conductor checking watch. WLS steam train traveling through winter scenic. LS train traveling across prairie.
Railroad - One Nation...Indivisible
DO NOT SELL: Color map of United States showing path of Westward Migration (Manifest Destiny).
Railroad - One Nation...Indivisible
LS old log cabin in field. Recreation MS surveyor unfurling map atop hill. TLS old steam train spewing smoke while traveling through field.
Railroad - One Nation...Indivisible
DO NOT SELL: Archival illustrations of scenes in Boston & Chicago, mid 1800s.
Railroad - One Nation...Indivisible
TLS two trains crossing paths on parallel tracks. CUs Civil War era cannons, camera mimicking them firing.
Railroad - One Nation...Indivisible
DO NOT SELL: Archival stills of locomotives involved in American Civil War: supplies; tracks being constructed; sabotaged tracks; cannonball hole in chimney of train; Army supply wagons.
Railroad - One Nation...Indivisible
LS red colored train moving across the landscape.
Railroad - One Nation...Indivisible
DO NOT SELL: Color map of Eastern United States depicting railway system during Civil War.
Railroad - One Nation...Indivisible
Sideview traveling shot of old locomotive on tracks. CU insignia for Western Atlantic RR Co. 3 of Atlanta; MSs Big Shanty train station in Atlanta; MS/CUs of locomotives "General" and "Texas", two steam trains involved in historic rail chase in which Union raiders stole the Confederate "General" & the "Texas" gave pursuit.
Railroad - One Nation...Indivisible
DO NOT SELL: Archival stills of destroyed buildings, railway being constructed & used during General Sherman's March to the Sea.
Railroad - One Nation...Indivisible
CU iron rail buckling under weight of passing train.
Railroad - One Nation...Indivisible
DO NOT SELL: Archival stills of funeral train of President Abraham Lincoln; details of time table of funeral cortege; archival stills of Abraham Lincoln.
Railroad - One Nation...Indivisible
WLS old steam train traveling through prairie.
Railroad - One Nation...Indivisible
DO NOT SELL: End Credits.