in the theater to nature before the footlights come the click of the wheels on a real estate here blind people tend to take the railroad pretty much for granted we in the railroad business probably haven't told the story of the changing conditions in our industry the railroads have been so much a part of our american history and landscape that most of us don't realize how much they have kept changing for the railroads have changed with the times and now they have  ered what is perhaps the most dynamic period of our developed that is what this picture is a box i hope you'll enjoy have a job waiting for  we're coming east keep your city's fat your industries alive and growing the mode of carry carrying the country on its back from the nineteenth into the twentieth century from the furrow on the rails front in our modern industrial world the idea registers the health of the economy freight train packages factory loads tonnage is iron mines cattle range more than one hundred thousand freight cars loaded and put on the move in the united states every day and tomorrow the load will be ha to increase a fashion see the railroad called on modern science and research science and research keywords in industrial the center uses two thousand diesel locomotive each engine has three thousand moving parts break down means time and money lost cat we spot trouble before it starts less time in the shop means more time on the road science and research are ing up the repair key instrument is the direct reading spectrometer in the research lab of the new york central railroad in cleveland first burn a sample of the oil which minutes before it was circulating in an engine burn it down to an a revealing wear and tear on these engine p saving millions of dollars a year per month cut the cost of the gallon by just one cent and you save more than two million dollars a year for the technicians how do you transform an inferior product into a superior one more speed more in the center of the tomic laboratory for authorized personnel only an atomic switch lamp is being tested our current continually for twelve years the in the traditional rail shape modified to support heavier load at greater experiment a dry lubricant for locomotive years which could simplify engine maintenance from road bend to signal the american railroad is being refashion electronic freight yards to the front to your yard at the new york central at buffalo one yard that took the place of eight and more like it's being with letters arriving in a central post office are rerouted for new destinations so arriving trains must be reassembled into new trains in freight yards frontier yard can handle three thousand cars a day and set them moving on their way three times as fast as it used to  as it moves down an incline called the hump the freight car is taken over by automatic controls its weight and speed are instantaneously calculated on a computer regulating a system of retires with slow down the cars they move on their assigned tracks to assembling trains at the exact speed necessary for new railroad in the making early bird nickname for a fleet of new york samples greg freight trains that speed each day from the midwest to the  watching the loading of n y for one of the early birds on the chicago new york run masses of things for masses of people every day things plywood damn good housewares drums paid newsprint auto parts living standard the early bird gets underway destination new york