AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: STREAMLINERS - AMERICA'S LOST - AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: STREAMLINERS - AMERICA'S LOST
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| Product Description- Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
- Audience Rating: Unrated
- Format: NTSC
- Language (Original Language): English
- Region Code: 1
- Release Date: 2006-06-13
- Running Time: 60 minutes
- Theatrical Release Date: 2001
Customer ReviewsReviewed on 2008-06-03  
Streaking to oblivion
If you want a brief history of the development of the Burlington's Zephyr and Union Pacific's M-10,000 (the first two streamliners) and how the railroads tried to make money with shroud-covered steamers, flash diesels and after the Second World War, Vista-Dome cars this DVD would interest you. I found it disappointing because I was expecting to see a program actually devoted to streamliners rather than the extensive economic and social history of the times.
There were about a hundred streamliners over the years and there must be plenty of corporate and amateur movie stock to produce an hour program of these trains (though it is only fifty-four minutes long). There are some interesting train clips on the DVD but they really only add up to a few minutes. The first twenty-five are devoted to the Zephyr and M-10,000, the war gets seven minutes then the remainder is the Vista-Dome story and the causes of the decline of railroad passenger traffic until the last streamliner in the sixties.
As an overview of the streamliner in American life an interesting program but as a visual showcase for these wonderful trains you'll have to look elsewhere.
|  | Reviewed on 2008-03-31
great vido
I watched the DVD, and learned a great deal about the streamlinders that I dd not know.
| | Reviewed on 2007-07-31
Streamliners
This installment reveals how transportation devices, not just wars and elections shape American history. Opponents of "big government" may hate it because the work implies that federal regulation is what hampered the railroad industry. It may be hard for younger people to relate to this, as we use the railroad's competition: cars and airplanes. However, this is about the rise and fall of a product. In the same way that cassette tapes, snail mail, BETA, etc. have risen and fallen, this transportation did the same. This documentary has diverse interviewees, including women and African Americans. | |
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