I saw part of a great video on Henry Ford last night. I had a lot of footage of a place called the river rouge Ford plant. The video showed a lot of the things you see in MRR magazine actually in action. The plant used all kinds of rail cars, cranes and machinery. Absolutely fantastic.
RMax
River Rouge is our Disneyland. Lots of pics if you google it. I’ve seen a few books on it also. The glass factory is outstanding.
You may want to contact the cable company or the tv station you were watching and ask their programming department and they are usually very helpful in these areas and also look for that station on the web and look for that specific date and they may have the information there also. Good luck.
Max, that was the place that really solidified my interest in trains. When it was still owned by FMC, they would give guided tours thru the facilty on their own fleet of buses. I went on one of those tours at age 9, and from then on, my dream was to someday build an HO scale model of the place. When I eventually faced the reality that only a space the size of a school gymnasium could do it justice, I settled for a highly-compressed model of a steel mill in my two-car garage.
I too toured the plant when as a kid. Probably around that same age. On that tour i remember being told that the River Rouge Plant was the only factory that could take the raw materials and make a car from them.
Back in the 30’s and 40’s, the only part of a FORD that did not enter the Rouge River plant as raw materials were the tires - which came from Henery’s buddy Harvey Firestone.
Ford also owned the Detroit, Toledo and Ironton RR primarily to bring iron ore and other materials to the plant.
The video is available, I saw an add for it during this most recent airing of the show.
Sheldon
I suspect what you saw was a PBS program "American Experience " about Henry Ford. It was on here just last week.