Have Fun With History: America's Trains & Railroads

The holiday season is upon us and Have Fun With History gives you the opportunity to go back and view some ghosts of Christmas Past in this collection of videos and a game.

Made when the Railroad was the king of transportation, it showcases operations of the Southern Pacific Railroad, with many images of the territory that it serves. With excellent footage of snow management and removal operations in the...

A documentary about the New York Central Railroad. You can learn a lot of the behind the scenes technology of a railroad as it was run in the 1950s. [27:00]

Mount Tamalpais Gravity Railroad transporting tourists to top of Marin County's highest peak. [2:00]

Historic railroad footage of the Black Diamond Express. [0:26]

U.S. military personnel take a tour of Jamestown, Williamsburg, and Yorktown, VA in the 1960's, viewing the major attractions and learning the history of these colonial cities and their involvement during the Revolutionary War.

Driving is compared with running a railroad train. With excellent images of steam-era passenger trains.

American colonial life existed just shy of 180 years before the United States of America emerged as a nation independent of British rule. These formative years are reflected in the FREE videos below.

Importance of railroads in the U.S. economy, with many great running views of freight and passenger trains. [19:00]

Newsreel coverage of the crippling railroad strike of 1946 prompting President Truman to takeover the railroads.