Overview
Experienced railroad workers explained their job duties, and the work was illustrated by showing A.C. Gilbert's American Flyer model train layouts created for the series. The series was touted as "honoring heroes of the railroading business" and presenting dramatic stories. One episode told of a locomotive fireman during a 1904 Baltimore Fire;[ another episode told of a brain surgeon riding on a special train over a flood-weakened roadbed in order to get to a young boy in need of life-saving surgery.Episode status
Seven 1949 kinescoped episodes of the series exist at the Library of Congress in the J. Fred and Leslie W. MacDonald Collection. The episodes contain complete commercials for American Flyer electric trains, Erector sets, Microscopes, and Chemistry sets. The episodes include: # "Episode at Red Gulch Siding" (aired October 24, 1949) # "Runaway Trains" (aired October 31, 1949) # "The Johnstown Flood" (aired November 7, 1949) # "Operation Explosion" (aired November 14, 1949) # "Death Valley Scotty" (aired November 21, 1949) # "Baltimore Fire" (aired November 28, 1949) # "Acme Plant Fire" (aired December 12, 1949)See also
*''Tales of the Red Caboose'' *1948-49 United States network television scheduleReferences
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* 1948 American television series debuts [ ategory:1949 American television series endings 1940s American children's television series Black-and-white American television shows CBS original programming English-language television shows Television series about rail transport Toy trains {{US-child-tv-prog-stub