Why risk your life? A 1940s safety film. Courtesy of the Great Northern Railway.

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JCitron

Trainzing since 12-2003
http://youtu.be/BqpayZ2JqlU

Here's an old 1940s B&W safety training film. The demonstrations are quite amusing and it shows some of the practices that have become obsolete today such as men walking on the cars. The equipment is awesome though. There's lots of steam and a few early diesels. The accident video at the end is amusing because a model railroad was used to demonstrate the running of a stop signal.

John
 
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Wow, what a fantastic video! Thanks much for sharing that one. I especially like the part when they uncoupled on the fly to make the switching move. It's too bad we can't do that in Trainz.
 
JCitron said:
I saw that one too. That guy really went through a lot to show what can happen! Ouch!

@GN1996 - I wish we could kick cars like that in Trainz. We used to but that doesn't work anymore, or at least not as easily.

John
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I can kick cars easily just as long as I have the right content from the right website. I found out that USLW and JR/RRMODS/Lilb content doesn't mix well. All JR content is kinda spotty, and all Lilb content kicks cars just fine.
 
Yeah, it's easy to kick cars when pushing, but pull-shunting is a whole different story. If you can do it, I would like to see a video of you performing such a switch move.
 
GN1996 said:
Yeah, it's easy to kick cars when pushing, but pull-shunting is a whole different story. If you can do it, I would like to see a video of you performing such a switch move.
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I have never done that before, but I can give it a try... :)
 
All the AI drivers should be required to watch from 29:00 and on. They have issues with speeding on curves and running red signals.

Only in Trainz, does a train pass a permissable red signal and speed up to maximum speed instead of running at restricted speed on a yellow signal as it should.

Oh, it was funny how the film is trying to impress employees not to walk and stand between the gauge, yet the scene of the official correcting the "monkey" engineer from climbing out the window clearly shows the official standing and walking between the rails.

Great video. This Santa Fe film is my all-time favorite.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFftm3bXNOs
 
Oh and the cars on the road could use a little lesson or two from this film too. About you know, weaving in and out of traffic and running into each other? Yeah, that would be awesome too.
 
Very nice, I love this kind of old instruction film footage because, apart from old practises, it gives a nice insight in how things where handled and looked in those days.
Thanks for sharing. :cool:

Greetings from sunny Amsterdam,

Jan
 
rgcx said:
All the AI drivers should be required to watch from 29:00 and on. They have issues with speeding on curves and running red signals.

Only in Trainz, does a train pass a permissable red signal and speed up to maximum speed instead of running at restricted speed on a yellow signal as it should.

Oh, it was funny how the film is trying to impress employees not to walk and stand between the gauge, yet the scene of the official correcting the "monkey" engineer from climbing out the window clearly shows the official standing and walking between the rails.

Great video. This Santa Fe film is my all-time favorite.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFftm3bXNOs
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I saw this one ages ago too. It's great.

I agree how the official is just a guilty as the employees here.

John
 
It's nice to share a bit of History, the although, the 1940s was when WWII was just getting started(Yes I know it started 1939)

One day, We'll be unable to preserve any more Steam Engines, and then Diesels will be scrapped and Maglev will take over.. so sad to think about that..
 
GN1996 said:
Wow, what a fantastic video! Thanks much for sharing that one. I especially like the part when they uncoupled on the fly to make the switching move. It's too bad we can't do that in Trainz.
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On the Achensee Bahn in Austria they run around their passenger trains like that! When I visited last year, I was quite surprised to see, just as we arrived at the terminus, the fireman lean out of the back of the cab with a fire-iron and lift the couplings off before the guard brought the coaches to a halt in the loop with the loco carrying on into the headshunt.
 
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