Nostalgia & History > TOFC Movie

I have this vague memory of seeing a movie about the beginning of the TOFC concept, some time in the 1950s or 1960s. Anybody know what this was?
Bill Pyper
Salem, OR

There's also this one out on the other coast from the SP. It includes a few quick views of the Clejan system that SP tried.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fNOuSj3ZAs



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/20/17 16:09 by ironmtn.

4thDistrict Wrote:
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> Might this be it? I searched "Beginning of TOFC"
> and this was the 6th listing. It was a
> Pennsylvania Railroad promotional film from 1955.
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> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vP3w9gAYwls

WOW!!!!!!!

When I was a kid (in what would now be called middle school), my Dad was employed as a freight service salesman for Spector/Mid-States truck line. I've always vividly remembered him coming home one day at dinnertime, FURIOUS, that the Pennsylvania Railroad had run an ad for their TOFC service, and that "Every one of the trucks featured on THEIR railroads Ad was Spector/Mid-States!" This HAS to be that AD - found 67 years later.

Thanks for posting this link. I'll share it with my brother this weekend.

-John

LarryDoyle wrote:

> This HAS to be that AD - found 67 years later.

A promotional film is an "ad?"