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National Geographic Love Those Trains
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Sometimes is has seemed |
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The Durango-Silverton railroad |
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is one of the most spectacular rides |
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In 1960, it was nearly shut down. |
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In 1883, the Orient Express ran |
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created the ultimate in luxury travel. |
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It was abandoned in 1977. |
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In 1887, rotary snow plows first fought |
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Looking like relics |
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from the past. |
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Once this streamlined locomotive |
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at 100 miles an hour. |
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But for 20 years, |
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its machinery rusting. |
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Yet today |
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Now they evoke a more remote past |
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when trains first |
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Ferried recruits to war |
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provided celebrities with an opportunity |
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gave a mobile campaign platform |
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and offered a refuge for hoboes. |
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Train tracks disfigure |
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Trains assault the senses with |
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How then account for the multitude |
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When you're actually running a train, |
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I don't know. |
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But that's about it. |
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I bought a caboose back in the '50s |
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because I was busy riding trains |
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And suddenly I read in the paper one day |
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All passenger trains |
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And I knew unless I got a piece of ride |
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So that's when I bought my caboose |
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There are grown men who ride toy |
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There are train buffs |
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through South America's Andes |
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There's town in Iowa |
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and there are thousands |
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for the chance to engineer a train. |
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There are people who harken |
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and the clickety-clack |
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Theirs is a worldwide fraternity |
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beyond sharing in the love of trains. |
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You've got a sheet like this |
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who's sitting in every seat, |
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There are many people so enamored |
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not to go anywhere, |
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Each year the North Alabama |
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an all-day excursion on a |
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Seats are always sold out |
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for a chance to work on the engine. |
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Bill Hayslip is a deputy sheriff, |
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and he loves trains so much that |
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for the dirtiest job |
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I've studied steam engines just |
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I guess I was born about |
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There's something about a steam |
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locomotive and railroad |
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A steam engine kind of has |
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It's like a lady. |
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You have to treat it just right. |
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Steam engines evoke |
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Though inanimate objects |
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they seem to breathe |
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This day the train will run to |
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evoking cherished memories |
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I've often wondered |
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that had trains |
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Some people have alcohol, |
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I have spent the whole day |
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just to see the two trains |
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My wife thins that's crazy, |
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Part way through the trip, |
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the train comes to a stop |
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Now begins the prized ritual |
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The train backs up, |
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and then a sweet symphony |
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The train station in Chattanooga |
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into an entertainment center. |
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When the train returns to Huntsville, |
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Dr. and Mrs. Lonie Lindsey |
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in a refurbished diner. |
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They remember |
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We got on the train in Tuscumbia, |
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Went up to the courthouse |
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That was 55 years ago, |
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and we've had a |
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And here 55 years later, |
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The most popular rooms at the Choo-Choo |
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Nostalgic setting |
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For those who love |
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each trip is a journey into the past. |
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In the beginning, steam engines were at |
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which could not even begin until |
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how to transform heat energy |
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In the first century A.D., |
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invented steam-jet propulsion. |
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Hero's ingenious device remained |
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when Thomas Newcomen developed the |
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Newcomen's engine was used to |
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One hundred years passed before |
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the first British-built steam |
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Soon the public everywhere crossed |
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as horses were replaced by the |
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Today, these early engines can |
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where they seem |
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The John Bull is the oldest |
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To mark the 150th anniversary of |
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the Smithsonian Institution |
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for a run along |
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People who love trains dressed up |
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for the occasion and gathered |
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Many had never heard the hoot of a |
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or the screech of brakes. |
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Nostalgia for those seemingly |
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is very much alive today. |
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For some, no doubt, |
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For others, perhaps, |
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Or could it be that so many share |
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to be an engineer? |
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These trains are called live steamers. |
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Seymour Johnson loves trains so much |
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for a miniature railroad at his home |
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I think in my case and in the case of |
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you kind of grew up with them as toys |
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I started building |
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and I completed it in 1951. |
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And that's why I have the numbers on |
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Johnson and the local members |
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spent 17 years building their line. |
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Today they test their engines |
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There is something nostalgic |
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of course, but the thing is, |
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The engine talks to you |
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You can feel what it's doing. |
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It tells you I'm working too hard |
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You can hear it in the stack, |
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you can hear it in the sound of the |
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They've got steam engines that |
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that continue to run. |
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Once a year, Johnson and the club |
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that attracts model owners |
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Each engine is custom-built, |
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representing thousands of hours |
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And as in real life, |
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that steam engines can be cantankerous |
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Well, this is a 21/2-inch scale, |
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narrow gauge locomotive built |
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We're trying to duplicate exactly |
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that the Colorado & Southern used |
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of 1890 through 1936. |
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Hey, John, you want to push |
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The most popular daily event is |
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for families and friends. |
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Three engines are coupled. |
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Together they are pulling six tons |
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We now have 14 cars. |
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Mostly they're freight-car type |
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This train is one-eighth full size, |
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So if you put them in a passenger car, |
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you can't put a roof on. |
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But if you put them in a freight car, |
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the sky is the limit. |
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Many of those who build and enjoy |
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can still |
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when steam engines ruled the rails. |
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The halcyon days of steam and |
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The Big Boy of the 1940s was driven |
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by four pistons |
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It was the largest steam engine |
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and could pull a train five miles long |
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And during World War II, steam engines |
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weapons, and troops to the seacoasts, |
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made possible the fast buildup |
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In the 1950s, steam gave way to |
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competing for passengers |
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as the chic way to travel. |
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But late in the decade, |
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passengers shifted to automobiles |
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and trucks took over much |
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The low point came in the 1970s. |
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congress rescued six bankrupt |
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Railroad lines were abandoned, |
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and hundreds of |
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Although Americans seemed to lose |
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some countries maintained their |
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The narrow-gauge Guayaquil and |
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plays a vital part in national life, |
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and people here use the railroad |
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It even serves as a food market |
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Train buff and writer Carla Hunt |
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throughout South America on trains. |
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The Guayaquil-to-Quito run draws |
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most exciting in South America. |
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A train buff's dream |
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a relic from 1900-begins a two-day |
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to over 11,000 feet in the Andes. |
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Passengers have a choice |
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Second class costs a dollar sixty. |
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First-class cars sport padded seats |
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and local vendors offer lunch |
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The affluent, who ride deluxe, |
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But some prefer the roof where |
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American engineers |
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It took ten years to cut the line |
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of the lowlands up over the Andes. |
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When the train going up fails to meet |
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at the appointed siding, |
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there's an unscheduled stop |
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what happened to the other train. |
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These trains, not only do they |
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but they carry the mail. |
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Every once in a while you see them |
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a telex that might have come |
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but can't make it up |
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There is a telex facility at Tiobamba. |
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But between here and Riobamba |
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The train that's coming from Riobama |
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One of the wheels of the machine |
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And now we are going with this |
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So, back to Huigra. |
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Ah, fantastico. |
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Derailments are common, |
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but the speeds are slow |
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As a bonus, amateur supervisors |
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with a minimum of equipment, |
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a derailed car can be coaxed back |
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After a change of engines, the train |
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In the early days of the American west |
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railroad builders often resorted |
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to zigzagging switchbacks |
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On this line, a famous switchback |
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The train has proceeded |
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Now it switches to another track, |
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and backs up the side of Devil's Nose, |
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giving passengers on the rear |
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The train backs around the mountain, |
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Going forward again, |
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300 vertical feet up the side |
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At the end of the first day, |
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For Carla Hunt, a visit to the |
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feature of the trip. |
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People come from miles around |
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You see things in this market |
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you won't see anywhere else |
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But more than anything else, |
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I like to wander around and look |
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From Riobamba to Quito, |
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There are seats inside, |
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but for hardy train buffs |
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there is a much more |
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The place I like to ride is up |
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That's the best sightseeing seat |
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To go through the mountains and to |
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to go through the beautiful |
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with all the wild changes of |
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there's nothing in the world like it. |
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Clouds shroud the peaks of the Andes |
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in the mountains and then descends |
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the Spanish colonial city of Quito, |
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to bring to an end one of the world's |
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In the United States, |
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inspired one train buff |
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The line from Durango to |
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was threatened |
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Charles Bradshaw Jr., |
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Florida citrus grower, |
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Like many a town in the old West, |
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The Denver & Rio Grande chose the |
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and sold lots around the depot. |
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Young people, who share Bradshaw's |
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I love it. I really love it. |
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I go home and tell my husband, |
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I learned all kinds |
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I would like to be |
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You have to go through |
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which is pretty physical for a girl |
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which shovel six ton of coal a day. |
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I wouldn't want to get out of my |
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My father and my grandfather |
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were all railroaders before me. |
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They worked for the Rio Grand. |
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I'm the first one in the family to |
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None of them were conductors. |
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They were all in different parts |
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so I'm the first conductor |
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They have to be pretty |
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They can't be irresponsible at all. |
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Aren't you pretty young |
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I hear that about 30 times a day. |
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If I couldn't handle the job, |
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Silverton is only 45 miles |
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but to get there, the train must climb |
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In the 1870s, |
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huge discoveries of ore were made |
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but there was no economical way |
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The railroad made the mines profitable |
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The ore is now removed by truck. |
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The traffic has changed, |
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but the town still prospers-mining |
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All aboard. |
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As soon as the route was completed, |
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the drama of the train's traverse |
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was recognized as one of the great |
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In the early 1880s, |
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lowered himself into the canyon |
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published in Harper's Weekly magazine. |
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Today's passengers can still enjoy |
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The ride is potentially just as |
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A derailment could topple |
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An extraordinary train run has been |
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of one man and the delight that |
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take in supporting the line. |
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Boston has its marathon; |
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New Orleans its Mardi Gras. |
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Britt, Iowa honors hoboes. |
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Once a year, this small town invites |
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hoboes from all over the country |
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The get-together largely attracts those |
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actively riding the rails |
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and can now look back on their former |
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Hoboes were not always so honored. |
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Hoboing began during hard times |
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And in the Great Depression, |
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the desperate once again took |
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Sometimes railroad police |
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Others jumped rather than face |
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when caught crossing state lines. |
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If we are to protect the public |
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from the indigent transient class. |
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They are coming here at this time, |
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but for the purpose of living |
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stealing, or begging. |
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Where is your home? |
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Chicago. |
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You ride a freight all the way |
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Yes, sir. |
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Well, you can ride, 'em back too, |
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We're going to see you |
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Don't come back to California |
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Hobo camps are called jungles, |
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But in Britt, Iowa |
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the jungle is a place to |
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...in '78 |
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Yeah, I remember you. |
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Now wait a minute! |
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you have a special privilege. |
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Every year you will get a little |
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Yes. I am there already. |
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Hoboes are known most often |
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"Steamtrain" was first elected |
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Now we got a young goat here, |
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and it's going to be |
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when we get him all browned up here. |
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Yes, sir. |
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We'll have some of the |
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you'll ever sit down to. |
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Time has reversed these hoboes' roles |
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Now Britt youngsters look up to them as |
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who seem to have lived |
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That's my name, see. |
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That's your name? Well, this is mine. |
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Mountain Dew. I was talking |
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Would you like to be a hobo? |
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And I go, How do you be a hobo? |
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and she said-well, she pulled out |
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whatever it is-and she goes, |
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And she put some on my forehead. |
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So I'm a hobo prince. |
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And my name is "Beer-Belly Bob." |
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I started out when I was about 16, |
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and had 12 years on and off, |
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Working irrigation ditches up |
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or cutting pulp wood in New York, |
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dong lifeguard work down |
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working in a gypsum plant in Yuma, |
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washing dishes in California |
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Working in the coal mines, |
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When I went in, it was dark |
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and I worked there two weeks. |
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I told them |
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I'd come back to work. |
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How long did you hobo? |
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About, let's see, 1931 to '38. |
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Something like that. |
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What's the satisfaction? |
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Being free. |
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In other words, not having to |
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As the sun sets, |
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and balladeers recall the hard days |
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...my wandering. |
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Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, |
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If the railroad doesn't get you, |
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And it looks like I'm never going |
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When most railroad buffs |
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they think of passenger trains. |
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But many of those most devoted |
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with the railroads. |
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Whether they maintain the racks |
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the big business for them is freight, |
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And although much of the public thinks |
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in fact they are thriving. |
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Deregulation has permitted them |
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and new techniques, like piggyback |
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and containers, attract new customers. |
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The mass-market shipping of fresh |
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enables farmers in California |
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to sell lettuce to buyers |
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Lettuce harvesting has become |
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cutter, packer, sprayer, box-closer. |
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Today's lettuce that |
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we've had in about a week and a half. |
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It's 54 to 55 pounds absolutely clean. |
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Derek Derdivanis is Sales Manager of |
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He sells lettuce by the carload |
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Just call us back with that order, |
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You know. |
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A refrigerator car |
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This one is bound east |
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The morning after the lettuce |
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has been joined to a 50-car train |
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Five Southern Pacific engines |
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over a 7,000-foot-high pass |
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The route climbs toward Donner Pass. |
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On average, |
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and avalanches have obstructed travelers |
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In November 1846, blizzards trapped |
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Thirty-five died |
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Some survivors resorted to cannibalism. |
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In the spring of 1982, |
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ten feet of snow fell in 12 days |
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Southern Pacific stopped all trains |
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Diverting traffic cost $100,000 a day. |
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Snow fighters tried to keep |
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with spreaders-snow plows that push |
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But when the snow drifts too deep, |
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spreaders stall |
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The nerve center of the railroad's |
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and offices connected by tunnels |
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so buried in snow that |
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Here a hundred men and women |
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Norden operator. |
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Everything's in the clear |
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How about the rotary? |
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Rotary's in the clear |
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Management calls for its ultimate |
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that can dig through almost |
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...that engine's being held right now. |
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The rotary is going on down |
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Throwing five tons of snow a minute, |
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the rotary can literally dig |
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As one rotary chews toward the top of |
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another struggles up from the east. |
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The first train comes through. |
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Beyond the Sierras, |
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the "Salad Bowl Express" |
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and a new crew takes over. |
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On the long, straight runs, |
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there's time for shared stories and |
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which is part of the attraction |
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I don't think it's dawned on me |
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I'm still in shock from it. |
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Went in Sunday night. |
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Last couple of days |
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I was lucky. |
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Generally the railroad doesn't |
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They keep you away |
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So I was pretty lucky to be home |
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In 1950, |
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I was on a |
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and a passenger train come out |
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We hit him head |
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The engineer on the other train |
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I'm very lucky to be here. |
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Now that scared me. |
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By evening, |
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The next morning, |
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now with a Union Pacific |
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the "Salad Bowl Express" climbs toward |
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Around a curve, Castle Rock, |
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a well-known American landmark, |
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The famous photographer A.J. Russell |
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when the transcontinental railroad |
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In 1867, it took three months to cross |
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on the Missouri River |
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The new rail line cut that time |
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Irish immigrants living |
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Chinese coolies built east. |
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It was the most dramatic engineering |
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Gorges were spanned, mountains cut |
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An army of workers fought summer heart |
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at a cost of uncounted lives. |
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There were no movie cameras to record |
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but once movies were invented, |
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filmmakers recreated the drama |
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John Ford's the Iron Horse |
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Crossing the mountains, |
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Fighting the heat, |
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Summer to autumn, winter to spring, |
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Bring 'em up, lay 'em down, |
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make the hammers ring, |
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Building a new road under the wheel, |
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Bind up the earth in iron and steel, |
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Working east, working west, |
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we're building our way, |
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On bad food, hard liquor, |
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It was a day of national celebration |
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when the two lines met |
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A.J. Russell recorded the scene |
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the most famous photograph |
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And in 1924, |
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when John Ford recreated the scene |
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he based the action |
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The joining of America's East and West |
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The "Salad Bowl Express" is only one |
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moving across the nation |
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Now, near the end of its second day, |
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the "Salad Bowl Express" comes under |
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of dispatchers |
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Here three men per shift control |
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on the 245 miles of track diagrammed |
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They decide which trains get priority |
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The "Salad Bowl Express" |
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Midnight. The "Salad Bowl Express" |
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Some cars will be sent south |
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Other cars will be added. |
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The freight cars are pushed up a hump |
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Gravity powers them down the slope. |
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The tracks divide again and again. |
| 00:37:45 |
Automatic sensors weigh the cars |
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There are 221 miles of track |
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And as many as 5,000 freight cars |
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By 4 a.m., |
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a new crew comes aboard, |
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In the afternoon, |
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Operated now by Chicago |
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it traverses the rich farmlands |
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The next morning, |
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Marshaling yards like this one |
| 00:38:35 |
You have to watch for cars |
| 00:38:39 |
There could be debris sticking |
| 00:38:41 |
Try not go get caught in a situation |
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where you have trains moving |
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at high speed in both directions |
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If you do have a tendency |
| 00:39:00 |
You could reel under the car. |
| 00:39:02 |
Despite railroad emphasis on safety, |
| 00:39:04 |
there is an average of 15 deaths |
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to American rail-yard workers |
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Danger for railroaders comes not only |
| 00:39:19 |
In the early days, |
| 00:39:22 |
Butch Cassidy, |
| 00:39:25 |
in the lonely plains and mountains |
| 00:39:30 |
Today, trains are most often attacked |
| 00:39:40 |
We had one conductor-they got him with |
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It's just a few things that we go |
| 00:39:48 |
Everybody thinks |
| 00:39:50 |
We have our ups and downs, too. |
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This is our most dangerous spot |
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They put different articles |
| 00:40:00 |
They put old truck tires |
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They'll throw beer bottles, |
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We've been shot at. |
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They shot at me five times |
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I've got pictures of the holes. |
| 00:40:16 |
It was either a.38 or a.45 |
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Sometimes they do it to rob the train. |
| 00:40:23 |
They break us in two to rob us, |
| 00:40:27 |
On the cabooses they have... |
| 00:40:31 |
He's going to throw. |
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Oh, we go through this every day. |
| 00:40:40 |
The many dedicated man and women |
| 00:40:44 |
also live with the danger that goes |
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The "Salad Bowl Express" rolls through |
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the heartland |
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On the fifth morning, |
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Now under Conrail control, |
| 00:41:05 |
it follows the same route taken |
| 00:41:15 |
Early on the sixth morning, |
| 00:41:17 |
the "Salad Bowl Express" arrives at |
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Ten carloads of produce are unloaded |
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The carload of lettuce from Salinas |
| 00:41:45 |
wholesalers who in turn |
| 00:41:49 |
Beautiful box of lettuce. |
| 00:41:51 |
As my father would say, |
| 00:41:53 |
As soon as you open up the box... |
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It has been seven days |
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It took four railroads |
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and women |
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Half a million people work for |
| 00:42:09 |
In one sense, theirs is just a job, |
| 00:42:14 |
moving the grain, steel, |
| 00:42:17 |
perishables-even the lettuce for |
| 00:42:26 |
Traditionally, little boys |
| 00:42:30 |
and, captured by a dream, many grew up |
| 00:42:35 |
The reality today is not far different. |
| 00:42:38 |
For a new class of 23 engineers, |
| 00:42:41 |
the Long Island Railroad |
| 00:42:46 |
Now to get the train moving, |
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You're in forward. |
| 00:42:51 |
This position. |
| 00:42:52 |
This is your throttle. |
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Alright, blow the whistle. |
| 00:43:00 |
Dave Decker, senior instructor, |
| 00:43:05 |
Decker loves engineering and teaching, |
| 00:43:08 |
but the memory of train accidents |
| 00:43:10 |
in his past brings a special urgency |
| 00:43:13 |
Engineering used to be a man's job, |
| 00:43:16 |
but Federal affirmative action |
| 00:43:20 |
a former secretary, and extraordinary |
| 00:43:24 |
an elite group of railroad employees. |
| 00:43:29 |
I can teach an engineer how to make |
| 00:43:33 |
and accelerate, decelerate. |
| 00:43:36 |
That's the easy part. |
| 00:43:38 |
My most difficult responsibility is to |
| 00:43:43 |
that they have |
| 00:43:46 |
The is no margin for error. |
| 00:43:49 |
Not when you are dealing |
| 00:43:52 |
Hopefully, I can bring this across |
| 00:43:55 |
Are you relaxed? |
| 00:43:58 |
A little damp. |
| 00:44:00 |
Alright. That's good. |
| 00:44:04 |
If you're not nervous in here, |
| 00:44:14 |
How do you feel? |
| 00:44:18 |
As she brings the train into a station |
| 00:44:21 |
Vita must learn the right timing |
| 00:44:25 |
so as not to stop too soon |
| 00:44:29 |
Okay. |
| 00:44:31 |
Now what you want to do is bear |
| 00:44:34 |
No, no, not this. |
| 00:44:35 |
Right, bear if off. |
| 00:44:41 |
Super. |
| 00:44:43 |
You want that feel of this thing |
| 00:44:46 |
and making your initial application |
| 00:44:50 |
You ever run a train before? |
| 00:44:52 |
Huh? Never? |
| 00:44:54 |
You did a heck of a job. |
| 00:44:56 |
What do you think? What do you feel? |
| 00:44:58 |
You feel that this... |
| 00:45:00 |
...is this going to be |
| 00:45:02 |
Yes, it is. |
| 00:45:03 |
I'm sure it's going to take a while. |
| 00:45:05 |
But I will get the feeling |
| 00:45:10 |
There are going to be times |
| 00:45:12 |
when you are going to run across |
| 00:45:16 |
You're traveling along at 65, |
| 00:45:18 |
and a car comes around a gate |
| 00:45:21 |
There's not a thing you can do. |
| 00:45:23 |
You hope you give pre-warning, |
| 00:45:25 |
that a warning whistle or warning bell |
| 00:45:28 |
before you get to |
| 00:45:30 |
You'll search your soul to know |
| 00:45:35 |
It's not just the glory of |
| 00:45:38 |
I always wanted to be an engineer. |
| 00:45:41 |
It's that you have to take |
| 00:45:44 |
If her engineering career |
| 00:45:46 |
Vital will face 500,000 road |
| 00:45:51 |
If she is never involved |
| 00:45:54 |
passengers who ride her trains will |
| 00:46:06 |
There are many great train rides |
| 00:46:08 |
but not one can match |
| 00:46:11 |
mystery, and romance surrounding |
| 00:46:17 |
It ran for almost a century until its |
| 00:46:21 |
Now two men have revived |
| 00:46:26 |
Albert Glatt bought |
| 00:46:30 |
and lovingly refurbished them. |
| 00:46:32 |
Sometimes, you know, |
| 00:46:35 |
T.C. Swartz chartered the cars for |
| 00:46:39 |
the glory of rail travel in its heyday. |
| 00:46:41 |
...and then how to surpass it. |
| 00:46:43 |
People's idea of luxury |
| 00:46:46 |
than maybe what is actually was. |
| 00:46:48 |
So we're trying to do now |
| 00:46:51 |
than they had in the past. |
| 00:46:53 |
I can't believe it, |
| 00:46:56 |
Oh, it's marvelous. |
| 00:46:58 |
There will be 98 passengers |
| 00:47:00 |
each paying a modest $5,000 one way. |
| 00:47:06 |
I think the dogs are great. |
| 00:47:08 |
...great, but they are... |
| 00:47:10 |
Yeah, but I can't see them sitting |
| 00:47:14 |
Some passengers, like actor Hal Linden |
| 00:47:17 |
stage an arrival |
| 00:47:20 |
harking back to the aura |
| 00:47:28 |
Original inlaid wood decorations |
| 00:47:32 |
still decorate the cars. |
| 00:47:37 |
Names of the countries the |
| 00:47:40 |
Austria, Hungary, Romania, |
| 00:47:45 |
Memories of mysteries like Murder on |
| 00:47:49 |
the passengers with an atmosphere |
| 00:47:55 |
Well, my name is Otto. |
| 00:47:57 |
And I'm supposed to play the |
| 00:48:16 |
It seems like everything that's |
| 00:48:18 |
the world is going away, |
| 00:48:28 |
Kim Vosper and Kyle Collins advanced |
| 00:48:32 |
so they could make this their first |
| 00:48:41 |
For bourgeois travelers, |
| 00:48:46 |
the ultimate temptation for |
| 00:49:01 |
I remember as a child we used to put |
| 00:49:05 |
And I was never sad because |
| 00:49:07 |
I was always sad because |
| 00:49:10 |
but I wasn't standing on the back |
| 00:49:14 |
I think I was six or seven when |
| 00:49:18 |
From that time on, I think I fell |
| 00:49:21 |
And then I heard that you could spend |
| 00:49:25 |
that sold me on this trip. |
| 00:49:30 |
The train cruises Europe like |
| 00:49:32 |
Gypsies play as they did on the |
| 00:49:41 |
In the evenings, there are gala |
| 00:49:45 |
And occasionally the train waits |
| 00:49:49 |
to the entertainment. |
| 00:49:50 |
A champagne tasting at the |
| 00:49:54 |
Mumm's winery in France. |
| 00:49:57 |
And just as on its maiden voyage, |
| 00:50:00 |
there is a festive reception |
| 00:50:10 |
On the first trip, no passengers on |
| 00:50:14 |
dined at the hunting lodge |
| 00:50:31 |
It is an express journey to the sun, |
| 00:50:34 |
but the high point for |
| 00:50:36 |
where the Vienna Boys' Choir is only |
| 00:51:10 |
Protocol prevented the Austrian |
| 00:51:13 |
receiving plebian passengers |
| 00:51:18 |
Now the Pallavicini Palace |
| 00:51:41 |
And finally, the end of the |
| 00:51:45 |
where passengers get the |
| 00:51:56 |
For the 98 passengers of the |
| 00:51:58 |
the trip will remain an extraordinary |
| 00:52:03 |
But the Orient Express has |
| 00:52:09 |
There are grand adventures for |
| 00:52:12 |
of travel by train. |
| 00:52:17 |
Amtrak's Crescent, |
| 00:52:19 |
races like a speeding ship across |
| 00:52:24 |
The Great Plains offer the same |
| 00:52:29 |
the pioneers so long age. |
| 00:52:32 |
There are majestic views of the Rockies |
| 00:52:35 |
on the Canadian transcontinental route |
| 00:52:45 |
The San Diegan is a beachcomber |
| 00:52:51 |
In the future, new trains traveling |
| 00:52:56 |
for the run between |
| 00:52:58 |
and that is only the beginning. |
| 00:53:01 |
Extraordinary experimental trains |
| 00:53:06 |
For those who love trains, |
| 00:53:09 |
hobo, or passenger, |
| 00:53:11 |
there's an appreciation due |
| 00:53:14 |
It's got to be the going and |
