{"language": "en", "segments": [{"text": " [...]", "start": 0.0, "stop": 24.66, "id": 0}, {"text": " P P P P P P P P P [...] P P A great railroad at work is a title full of meaning.", "start": 52.7, "stop": 109.62, "id": 1}, {"text": " The mightiest machines produced by human ingenuity are indeed", "start": 109.84, "stop": 116.36, "id": 2}, {"text": " useless unless guided and serviced by the intelligence", "start": 116.36, "stop": 121.5, "id": 3}, {"text": " and skill of man.", "start": 121.5, "stop": 123.42, "id": 4}, {"text": " We are, of course, very proud of our mechanical equipment, but we are prouder", "start": 124.02, "stop": 129.58, "id": 5}, {"text": " still of the men who keep it running.", "start": 129.58, "stop": 131.98, "id": 6}, {"text": " The New Haven Railroad is more than just ties, rails, and rolling", "start": 131.98, "stop": 138.26, "id": 7}, {"text": " stock. It is primarily people.", "start": 138.26, "stop": 140.68, "id": 8}, {"text": " People whose skill, devotion, courage, and strict adherence to the finest", "start": 141.42, "stop": 148.42, "id": 9}, {"text": " railroad practices have made possible its record of safety,", "start": 148.42, "stop": 154.38, "id": 10}, {"text": " efficiency, and progress.", "start": 155.26, "stop": 157.86, "id": 11}, {"text": " Right, Mr. Palmer. Now let's have motion pictures. Take us behind the scenes of a", "start": 158.82, "stop": 165.0, "id": 12}, {"text": " great railroad at work. We'll see two general phases, railroad operation", "start": 165.0, "stop": 171.1, "id": 13}, {"text": " and railroad maintenance.", "start": 171.1, "stop": 172.88, "id": 14}, {"text": " Trains are of two kinds, passenger and freight. Let's begin with the passenger,", "start": 174.36, "stop": 179.84, "id": 15}, {"text": " the locomotive backing into the yards to pick up the cars of the Yankee Clipper.", "start": 180.76, "stop": 184.58, "id": 16}, {"text": " The cars, meanwhile, have been made ready for the passengers, and having them", "start": 189.84, "stop": 193.96, "id": 17}, {"text": " clean and sanitary is rule A in the art of railroading.", "start": 193.96, "stop": 197.12, "id": 18}, {"text": " Repair shops. Here passenger coaches' dining cars and grill cars are brought to", "start": 205.3, "stop": 211.04, "id": 19}, {"text": " be repaired or rebuilt.", "start": 211.04, "stop": 212.68, "id": 20}, {"text": " They're put through the latest processes of cleaning and sanitation. There's an", "start": 218.0, "stop": 222.38, "id": 21}, {"text": " imposing background of work behind the picture of a smart", "start": 222.38, "stop": 225.22, "id": 22}, {"text": " modern car and a passenger train.", "start": 225.22, "stop": 227.02, "id": 23}, {"text": " The ceiling of car windows. And here we find a device of technical science to", "start": 261.92, "stop": 267.2, "id": 24}, {"text": " enable you to see better as you gaze at the scenery.", "start": 267.2, "stop": 269.94, "id": 25}, {"text": " Each streamlined window consists of two panes of glass held apart by rubber", "start": 270.58, "stop": 275.68, "id": 26}, {"text": " spacers. These rubber spacers seal the inner surfaces of the", "start": 275.68, "stop": 279.84, "id": 27}, {"text": " glass against the outside air.", "start": 279.84, "stop": 281.54, "id": 28}, {"text": " Between the panes, dry nitrogen is forced to keep them from being", "start": 305.72, "stop": 309.94, "id": 29}, {"text": " fogged by condensing moisture.", "start": 309.94, "stop": 311.8, "id": 30}, {"text": " Into the yards backs the locomotive to pick up the cars.", "start": 350.64, "stop": 353.74, "id": 31}, {"text": " Meanwhile, at the commissary, supplies of food and drink for the dining car are", "start": 363.4, "stop": 367.64, "id": 32}, {"text": " being allotted and checked.", "start": 367.64, "stop": 369.16, "id": 33}, {"text": " Have some chicken fritter here tonight. Yeah, that's very nice.", "start": 398.62, "stop": 402.28, "id": 34}, {"text": " The amount of groceries they can stow into the small pantry space that car", "start": 405.78, "stop": 410.24, "id": 35}, {"text": " dimensions permit would make a housewife think that it's all magic.", "start": 410.24, "stop": 414.72, "id": 36}, {"text": " But then, as the ponderous locomotive backs gently and is coupled to the cars, we", "start": 420.7, "stop": 426.78, "id": 37}, {"text": " may reflect that there is a lot of magic in a railroad.", "start": 426.78, "stop": 430.22, "id": 38}, {"text": " The clipper pulls out of the yards on its way to the station, everything timed to", "start": 431.18, "stop": 435.64, "id": 39}, {"text": " the second. On this railroad, hundreds of passenger trains are made up every day,", "start": 435.64, "stop": 440.98, "id": 40}, {"text": " in addition to hundreds of freight trains.", "start": 441.26, "stop": 443.04, "id": 41}, {"text": " They operate through southern New England day and night with the magic of timing.", "start": 444.82, "stop": 449.74, "id": 42}, {"text": " Strange geometries of tracks in the yards and the number of switches there calls", "start": 468.3, "stop": 473.74, "id": 43}, {"text": " for death and intricate manipulation.", "start": 473.74, "stop": 476.1, "id": 44}, {"text": " Into the station, the train can be controlled, air brake, by the rear trainman as", "start": 482.3, "stop": 488.52, "id": 45}, {"text": " well as by the engineer in front, a large factor of safety.", "start": 488.52, "stop": 492.3, "id": 46}, {"text": " South Station in Boston, the old familiar scene and never without a", "start": 501.18, "stop": 506.3, "id": 47}, {"text": " thrill. Passenger is going to a train.", "start": 506.3, "stop": 509.2, "id": 48}, {"text": " This is our little girl. She's going all the way", "start": 514.74, "stop": 517.28, "id": 49}, {"text": " to the yard. You take good care of her, don't you?", "start": 517.28, "stop": 518.82, "id": 50}, {"text": " You really will, ma'am. Step right in.", "start": 518.82, "stop": 521.14, "id": 51}, {"text": " [...]", "start": 522.54, "stop": 523.08, "id": 52}, {"text": " Hey, wait a", "start": 526.74, "stop": 531.96, "id": 53}, {"text": " minute.", "start": 531.96, "stop": 535.36, "id": 54}, {"text": " What? What?", "start": 548.82, "stop": 551.28, "id": 55}, {"text": " [...]", "start": 578.82, "stop": 579.38, "id": 56}, {"text": " A woman in Boston buying a bicycle for her nephew in New York, and he'll get it", "start": 614.02, "stop": 619.3, "id": 57}, {"text": " the next day. This takes us to the subject of freight trains.", "start": 619.3, "stop": 623.28, "id": 58}, {"text": " Shipments of freight are in two classes, carloads and less than carload lots.", "start": 624.48, "stop": 629.02, "id": 59}, {"text": " Delivered to the freight depot and recorded with a waybill, the boy's bicycle is", "start": 630.04, "stop": 633.98, "id": 60}, {"text": " stowed safely and securely for the trip.", "start": 633.98, "stop": 635.94, "id": 61}, {"text": " There's an art in stowing all sorts of freight securely in a car and also in", "start": 636.66, "stop": 641.66, "id": 62}, {"text": " switching the cars through the yard.", "start": 641.66, "stop": 643.2, "id": 63}, {"text": " The powerful diesel switcher is the last word in this type of modern mechanism,", "start": 644.66, "stop": 648.64, "id": 64}, {"text": " one of the busiest of workers in the realm of railroading, practically", "start": 649.14, "stop": 653.34, "id": 65}, {"text": " a 24-hour a day worker.", "start": 653.34, "stop": 655.06, "id": 66}, {"text": " A new coordination of rail and highway transportation is seen as they load a", "start": 659.68, "stop": 664.1, "id": 67}, {"text": " trailer onto a flat car. The trailer has picked up packages from all over Boston", "start": 664.1, "stop": 668.42, "id": 68}, {"text": " to be distributed in New York.", "start": 668.42, "stop": 670.26, "id": 69}, {"text": " Ordinarily, the tractor pulling the trailer would have made the trip to New York", "start": 671.16, "stop": 674.54, "id": 70}, {"text": " by highway, but now the trailer is securely fastened on the flat car", "start": 674.54, "stop": 678.9, "id": 71}, {"text": " and then carried to the metropolis.", "start": 678.9, "stop": 680.98, "id": 72}, {"text": " This avoids a truck trip to New York, a large saving of gasoline and of rubber", "start": 681.68, "stop": 686.34, "id": 73}, {"text": " tires. Mighty important in these days of wartime shortages with rubber", "start": 686.34, "stop": 691.14, "id": 74}, {"text": " tires rationed.", "start": 691.14, "stop": 692.84, "id": 75}, {"text": " The steam locomotive is coupled to the cars and the theme is industrial products", "start": 722.72, "stop": 728.12, "id": 76}, {"text": " of New England on their way.", "start": 728.12, "stop": 729.98, "id": 77}, {"text": " They represent the work and skill of New England factories. Transporting them is", "start": 730.78, "stop": 734.9, "id": 78}, {"text": " an equal task of work and skill.", "start": 734.9, "stop": 737.04, "id": 79}, {"text": " The mighty system of operations embodied in the speeding freight train and the", "start": 737.04, "stop": 742.3, "id": 80}, {"text": " rhythm of the rails seems to save New England at work, New England on the move.", "start": 742.3, "stop": 747.14, "id": 81}, {"text": " A signal tower which trains to and from New York will pass, one of many sentinels", "start": 769.8, "stop": 776.22, "id": 82}, {"text": " of safety, vigilant alertness 24 hours a day. When a train passes, the signal man", "start": 776.22, "stop": 782.62, "id": 83}, {"text": " flashes the report to division headquarters.", "start": 782.62, "stop": 784.64, "id": 84}, {"text": " Gotten less 177 by a 215, engine 1404", "start": 784.64, "stop": 790.88, "id": 85}, {"text": " with 13 cars.", "start": 790.88, "stop": 792.86, "id": 86}, {"text": " Line up on track one for the purpose.", "start": 793.94, "stop": 795.58, "id": 87}, {"text": " The freight angle intervenes. For railroads, two categories, passenger and", "start": 824.44, "stop": 829.52, "id": 88}, {"text": " freight, are another form of life's two divisions, people and things.", "start": 829.52, "stop": 834.32, "id": 89}, {"text": " South America is the destination of this large and intricate machine. Carefully", "start": 835.16, "stop": 840.54, "id": 90}, {"text": " created, it will go by ship, but first it must be taken by rail", "start": 840.54, "stop": 843.94, "id": 91}, {"text": " down New England to the harbor.", "start": 843.94, "stop": 845.74, "id": 92}, {"text": " An export angle of freight service. Industrial New England is of historic", "start": 846.8, "stop": 851.12, "id": 93}, {"text": " importance in the foreign trade of this nation.", "start": 851.12, "stop": 853.4, "id": 94}, {"text": " Passenger service takes plenty of account of passengers' appetites. The grill car", "start": 857.64, "stop": 862.0, "id": 95}, {"text": " is for the less formal meal than the diner provides.", "start": 862.0, "stop": 864.5, "id": 96}, {"text": " Thank you.", "start": 869.88, "stop": 883.38, "id": 97}, {"text": " Do you suppose I can have that roast beef rare?", "start": 885.0, "stop": 887.32, "id": 98}, {"text": " Very much.", "start": 887.64, "stop": 888.04, "id": 99}, {"text": " All right, and I'd like rare roast beef with mashed potatoes and peas.", "start": 888.58, "stop": 891.96, "id": 100}, {"text": " Like something to drink?", "start": 892.62, "stop": 893.28, "id": 101}, {"text": " Yes, tea with lemon.", "start": 893.54, "stop": 894.66, "id": 102}, {"text": " Tea with lemon, thank you.", "start": 895.44, "stop": 896.6, "id": 103}, {"text": " The dining car is a place of leisurely luxury, regaining yourself while the", "start": 905.1, "stop": 910.16, "id": 104}, {"text": " passing scenery provides entertainment.", "start": 910.16, "stop": 912.02, "id": 105}, {"text": " One borer, Boston Scribe. And the scribe is very nice today.", "start": 915.72, "stop": 921.8, "id": 106}, {"text": " One French fired potato, one lettuce and a metre salad, one", "start": 922.94, "stop": 927.84, "id": 107}, {"text": " coffee, one hour for five.", "start": 927.84, "stop": 929.68, "id": 108}, {"text": " How's your Boston Scribe, French fried potatoes?", "start": 931.36, "stop": 934.14, "id": 109}, {"text": " Coming up.", "start": 934.8, "stop": 935.16, "id": 110}, {"text": " Get up on the Boston Scribe.", "start": 939.32, "stop": 941.46, "id": 111}, {"text": " You can walk on the Scribe.", "start": 946.94, "stop": 948.38, "id": 112}, {"text": " Thank you, sir.", "start": 948.64, "stop": 950.44, "id": 113}, {"text": " Grab a soup, please.", "start": 953.16, "stop": 954.82, "id": 114}, {"text": " This classification yard shows us an ingenious angle of freight transportation.", "start": 961.22, "stop": 964.9, "id": 115}, {"text": " It has a sort of hill, which they call the hump.", "start": 965.52, "stop": 968.2, "id": 116}, {"text": " This hill is a key factor in what we'll see, the classification of freight cars.", "start": 969.08, "stop": 973.4, "id": 117}, {"text": " They are oiled while on the move, on their way up the hump.", "start": 974.16, "stop": 977.06, "id": 118}, {"text": " They go on to the top of the slope. The purpose of all this is to classify", "start": 978.2, "stop": 982.12, "id": 119}, {"text": " incoming trains so they can be reassembled as other trains, each", "start": 982.12, "stop": 986.58, "id": 120}, {"text": " to go to a different destination.", "start": 986.58, "stop": 988.14, "id": 121}, {"text": " A yard master directs the switching. The car is to be switched to various tracks.", "start": 1000.3, "stop": 1004.48, "id": 122}, {"text": " On your second seat, 22 to 24,", "start": 1004.98, "stop": 1009.14, "id": 123}, {"text": " 43 to 33, 48 to 13.", "start": 1010.18, "stop": 1015.58, "id": 124}, {"text": " At the top of the hump, cars are uncoupled and they roll down by gravity. Some", "start": 1018.0, "stop": 1023.12, "id": 125}, {"text": " cars would get up to much speed if it weren't for the", "start": 1023.12, "stop": 1025.64, "id": 126}, {"text": " retarder, a device for checking their seat.", "start": 1025.64, "stop": 1027.9, "id": 127}, {"text": " One of the 26 cars...", "start": 1039.2, "stop": 1042.6, "id": 128}, {"text": " In the retarding tower, the speed is governed, electrically controlled. Switches", "start": 1042.6, "stop": 1047.02, "id": 129}, {"text": " direct the cars to the right tracks, where they join other cars to make new", "start": 1047.02, "stop": 1050.98, "id": 130}, {"text": " trains for other destinations.", "start": 1050.98, "stop": 1052.5, "id": 131}, {"text": " We see the crate of machinery for South America going over the hump. The train in", "start": 1059.08, "stop": 1064.42, "id": 132}, {"text": " which this car arrived consists of cars bound for different destinations.", "start": 1064.42, "stop": 1068.64, "id": 133}, {"text": " In the classification yard, it will join a train going to the harbor.", "start": 1069.76, "stop": 1073.56, "id": 134}, {"text": " Less than carload lots are reclassified as this LCL transfer. Just as whole", "start": 1079.46, "stop": 1085.78, "id": 135}, {"text": " trains must be rearranged with reference to the destinations of the cars, so must", "start": 1085.78, "stop": 1090.0, "id": 136}, {"text": " individual consignments of merchandise in a car be", "start": 1090.0, "stop": 1092.62, "id": 137}, {"text": " rearranged with reference to their destinations.", "start": 1092.62, "stop": 1094.7, "id": 138}, {"text": " And this is done here. The car is unloaded and the merchandise is reassembled in", "start": 1095.08, "stop": 1100.6, "id": 139}, {"text": " other cars. These cars are then attached to trains bound for many, many places.", "start": 1100.6, "stop": 1105.66, "id": 140}, {"text": " The engine house, where running repairs are made. We see another phase of", "start": 1107.92, "stop": 1112.5, "id": 141}, {"text": " railroading, maintenance of equipment. There are light repairs", "start": 1112.5, "stop": 1116.24, "id": 142}, {"text": " made at many points on the railroad.", "start": 1116.24, "stop": 1117.86, "id": 143}, {"text": " And there are heavy repairs, which are made in a great locomotive shop.", "start": 1121.16, "stop": 1125.46, "id": 144}, {"text": " Here's a ponderous fantasy of fire and steel, the mighty forge of a modern", "start": 1129.0, "stop": 1135.92, "id": 145}, {"text": " Vulcan. All locomotives are overhauled periodically. Each one after going from", "start": 1135.92, "stop": 1141.7, "id": 146}, {"text": " 120,000 to 400,000 miles is sent to the shop for a complete overhauling.", "start": 1141.7, "stop": 1146.38, "id": 147}, {"text": " The slip track is an oil track where overhauled locomotives get final tests. They", "start": 1298.04, "stop": 1304.36, "id": 148}, {"text": " can be driven many miles at all speeds forward and backward on a track that", "start": 1304.36, "stop": 1308.12, "id": 149}, {"text": " simulates conditions of speed.", "start": 1308.12, "stop": 1309.64, "id": 150}, {"text": " A monster locomotive thoroughly overhauled is a symbol of that factor so vital in", "start": 1310.48, "stop": 1315.28, "id": 151}, {"text": " all mechanics, all industry, maintenance. A mechanized army, for example, is as", "start": 1315.28, "stop": 1321.88, "id": 152}, {"text": " good as its maintenance, and so is a railroad.", "start": 1321.88, "stop": 1324.74, "id": 153}, {"text": " A locomotive must be serviced, and that occurs at many places along the line. It", "start": 1327.68, "stop": 1333.06, "id": 154}, {"text": " requires, for example, sand, to give the big drive wheels traction", "start": 1333.06, "stop": 1337.52, "id": 155}, {"text": " when the rails are wet and slippery.", "start": 1337.52, "stop": 1339.18, "id": 156}, {"text": " And coal, to be blown automatically into the firebox. The", "start": 1341.34, "stop": 1346.66, "id": 157}, {"text": " fireman just operates a lever.", "start": 1346.66, "stop": 1348.28, "id": 158}, {"text": " The coal pile is a mountain. Countless tons of the black fuel stored against any", "start": 1349.54, "stop": 1354.9, "id": 159}, {"text": " emergency, anything that might cause a shortage.", "start": 1354.9, "stop": 1357.48, "id": 160}, {"text": " The coal pile tells us that a railroad is not only a mover of things, it is", "start": 1358.2, "stop": 1363.06, "id": 161}, {"text": " also a buyer of things.", "start": 1363.06, "stop": 1364.68, "id": 162}, {"text": " This we see vividly at one of the warehouses, docked with shovels, brooms,", "start": 1376.32, "stop": 1380.6, "id": 163}, {"text": " locomotive and car replacement parts, tools for track, shop and building", "start": 1380.8, "stop": 1384.92, "id": 164}, {"text": " maintenance, signal equipment, and countless other miscellaneous", "start": 1384.92, "stop": 1388.52, "id": 165}, {"text": " items a railroad needs.", "start": 1388.52, "stop": 1390.28, "id": 166}, {"text": " Ties go with rails as ham with eggs. As in the case of coal, the stocks of", "start": 1391.36, "stop": 1397.04, "id": 167}, {"text": " railroad ties are immense, a matter of acres. It takes more than 3,000 ties to", "start": 1397.04, "stop": 1403.4, "id": 168}, {"text": " make just one mile of standard railroad track. Lumber to hold up steel.", "start": 1403.4, "stop": 1408.22, "id": 169}, {"text": " And oil for fuel for every sort of lubrication and for paint.", "start": 1409.7, "stop": 1413.7, "id": 170}, {"text": " Salvage is a large activity. Everything possible is saved and put away for future", "start": 1417.6, "stop": 1422.24, "id": 171}, {"text": " use. Railroad economy.", "start": 1422.24, "stop": 1424.48, "id": 172}, {"text": " Laboratory tests for all vital materials purchased by the railroad. Metals, for", "start": 1431.38, "stop": 1436.58, "id": 173}, {"text": " example, are subjected to exacting tests.", "start": 1436.58, "stop": 1438.86, "id": 174}, {"text": " In the chemical laboratories, the magic of modern alchemy is applied to the", "start": 1441.34, "stop": 1445.92, "id": 175}, {"text": " checking of the materials in the interest of safety, efficiency, and economy.", "start": 1445.92, "stop": 1450.24, "id": 176}, {"text": " And there's research here to find new things, new combinations, new ways of", "start": 1451.26, "stop": 1455.26, "id": 177}, {"text": " applying chemical science to railroading.", "start": 1455.26, "stop": 1457.18, "id": 178}, {"text": " The micro-metallograph camera analyzes many materials for railroading", "start": 1460.4, "stop": 1465.94, "id": 179}, {"text": " with ultra-modern science.", "start": 1465.94, "stop": 1467.52, "id": 180}, {"text": " The vast amount of technology research, experimentation is embodied, for example,", "start": 1471.72, "stop": 1476.16, "id": 181}, {"text": " in these exceedingly modern diesel road locomotives, which are capable of being", "start": 1476.8, "stop": 1480.72, "id": 182}, {"text": " used with equal effectiveness in either pass or pass.", "start": 1480.72, "stop": 1483.26, "id": 183}]}