Synopsis
Describes a journey from a large city to the country on a streamline train. Shows duties of many of the people who work in the station and on the train.
Uploader's description on archive.org
Details
- Running time
- 11 minutes
- Collection
- Prelinger Archives
- Internet Archive item
- passenger_train
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★★ · This is a tunnel! · Spuzz · 2004-01-29
'Passenger Train' is the type of film that just drives me nuts as it's an oversimplified film that school children will enjoy (The Menu is a board where food items are listed!) and I couldnt help but enjoy as well. Unlike other train movies on here, the film totally glamourizes the experience of train travel and just gets down to kiddie basics. What's somewhat disconcerting, is the fact the engineer is said to just remain on the job, without a break or food apparently, for the duration of the trip! If you pay attention, you will notice an edit towards the end of the film which is another EB…
★★★★★ · Great shots of union station and train interiors · Cartoonbear · 2025-02-24
The train in the film is travelling along the first ever rail line in the US between Baltimore and points west (tho presumably this train begins in DC since there are great shots of union station in the beginning, showing the shopping mall when it was used for trains!) This line traveled across the rear portion of my husbands childhood farm in Frederick, but by then I believe it was only freight. Wish I could travel in time just to go on a train like this.
★★★★★ · A Bygone Day · JSBejma · 2025-08-19
Utterly darling view of yesteryear. You could even have a "Montclair moment" on the train if you wanted - like you once could on a plane during the jet set days! The scenery is so beautiful. The little boy went to that far west ranch via train, on his own. Yup. I guess I was born a bit too late; and you too.