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New York, New Haven & Hartford RailRoad. 1942 - "A Great Railroad at Work"


Michael Delamar

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A very fine link indeed, thanks! I have always thought the New Haven I5 4-6-4 to be among the most successful of the streamlined designs for steam, and it is really nice to see and hear them in action for a change!

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The Yankee Clipper in the film was clearly a classy operation. Beebe & Clegg's "The Trains We Rode" Vol 1 includes a 1939 pic of the train - eastbound - with a baggage car behind the loco. Evidently the conductor, one Elmer Bacon, was horrified that such a vehicle was being added to his train, probably not least because it contained a prize Hereford bull. "A hell of a way to run a railroad," was apparently his comment. Evidently money talks in all forms of transportation, and the authors assumed that a very fat fee indeed must have been involved to get livestock on the Clipper.

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