RAILROAD RADIO

Originally broadcast on WNIB
Saturday, May 6, 2000

SUSPENSE (4-13-53) “The Great Train Rob­bery” starring Fred MacMurray as a man with money problems plans to rob a train. AutoLite, CBS. (30 min)

PIONEER ZEPHYR (5-10-34) Announcer Charles Lyon, on the platform at Chicago’s Union Station, sets the scene for the arrival of the Burlington Pioneer Zephyr from Phila­delphia and a northeast tour. Announcer Bob Brown, who travelled on the Zephyr from Fort Wayne, Indiana, describes his ride and intro­duces various dignitaries on hand for the oc­casion. KYW, Chicago. (15 min)

READER’S DIGEST (9-13-42) Excerpt. A folk song with a story about legendary Casey Jones. Campbell’s Soup, NBC. (8 min)

AUTHOR’S PLAYHOUSE (4-21-43) “Dan Pe­ters and Casey Jones.” Continuing the rail­roading legend, this is the story, set in 1882, of a mislaid train! Sustaining, NBC. (29 min)

FIBBER MC GEE AND MOLLY (10-16-45) Jim and Marian Jordan as Fibber and Molly. Fib­ber has promised to get Mrs. Carstairs a Pull­man car reservation on the train to Florida. Bea Benaderet as Mrs. Carstairs; Arthur Q. Brian as Doc Gamble; Shirley Mitchell as Alice Darling; Gale Gordon as Mayor LaTrivia; Har­low Wilcox, King’s Men; Billy Mills and the orchestra. Johnson’s Wax, NBC. (30 min)

YOURS TRULY, JOHNNY DOLLAR (7-6-50) “The Bello-Horizonte Railroad Matter” stars Edmund O’Brien as the man with the action-packed expense account. Dollar travels to Rio de Janeiro to investigate extensive insurance losses on a policy issued to a small railroad company in Brazil. Cast includes Francis X. Bushman, Martha Wentworth, Jack Kruschen, Ted DeCorsia. Wrigley’s Gum, CBS. (28 min)

OUR SPECIAL GUEST will be CURTIS L. KATZ, railroad historian, who will talk about railroad­ing and Casey Jones.