HISTORIC FOOTAGE ABOUT AMERICA'S RAILROADS
This is a collection of 19 separate films about American railroads. These date from 1897 to the late 1970s, but most are from the mid-1930s to the mid 1950s. The original producers are not always identified; but it appears that most of these films were created as public relations pieces, either by the Association of American Railroads, or by individual railroads. Two were evidently compiled specifically for this 2-disc publication. The others were reproduced from archival footage. The producers explain that they employed modern technology in an effort to achieve the highest quality reproductions; but "some imperfections in image and sound quality are unavoidable." These imperfections are worse in some cases than others, but, in general, the images are comparable to what one might have seen on pre-HD television sets; and the sound is occasionally poor. Each film is preceded by an introduction provided by one of several railroad historians (Walter Gray, Dale Reed, and Don...
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