Railroad Rhythms

Piano and instrumental rhythms accompany scenes of trains in the round house and traveling on the rails. Music by Ruth White playing stride piano & celeste. Southern Pacific yards in Southern California, steam locomotive 4470, 4-8-4, is featured.  Built in 1930, this engine worked out its remaining life, then was cut up at Bayshore Yards in South San Francisco. http://www.yesteryeardepot.com/sp06.htm Film shows a General Electric electromotive EMD F-unit going through a power washer., Records the activities and sounds in a freight yard upon the arrival of a freight train. Portrays a turntable in operation, a steam locomotive in a roundhouse for servicing, a diesel engine moving through an automatic washer, and the reassembling of cars into a new train. A recording of the film-sound and music accompanies the film., Piano and instrumental rhythms accompany scenes of trains in the round house and traveling on the rails. NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.