"Evans Auto-Railer" Convertible Bus for Roads & Railroad Tracks 1935 Chevrolet Leader News Newsreel Vol. 1, No. 2 (Patreon)

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'Combination bus and railroad car connect small towns with railroad... Bus effortlessly converting from driving on street to railroad tracks...

Title Card: "Jackson, Michigan" superimposed over bus driving on city street.

Bus turning (from street) onto railroad tracks. ECU hand operating control levers. CU guide wheels lowering to railroad tracks (from bus chassis -- beside tire); wheels rolling. Bus crossing railroad trestle (tracking shot); railroad tracks (view to horizon). Bus driver's and passenger's backs (road visible through windshield). ECU rolling wheels. Train rolling along railroad track (tracking shot); 2 cars rapidly approach railroad crossing; train stops, allowing cars to cross tracks. Train rolling along tracks toward station (tracking shot). ECU hand operating control levers. CU (front of) bus turning off of railroad tracks (Chevrolet logo visible); retracting guide wheels. Man loading steel milk container into cargo compartment of bus ("Evans Auto-Railer"; Chevrolet logo visible); closing door; picking up small travel bag; walking o.s. Bus driver boarding bus.'

Originally a public domain film from the National Archives or Library of Congress Prelinger Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and one-pass brightness-contrast-color correction & mild video noise reduction applied.

The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original).

https://www.macsmotorcitygarage.com/for-both-road-and-rail-the-evans-auto-railer/

...the Evans Products Company was a diverse enterprise that manufactured everything from railroad cars to tricycles...

One development aggressively promoted by the company in the mid-1930s was a passenger bus called the Auto-Railer, which was designed to travel on the highway or on standard-gauge railroad track. The product was a natural progression for Evans, which also produced a utility truck along the same lines, as well as the drop-down auxiliary chassis setups to convert road vehicles to railroad travel (often known as hi-rail equipment)...

Underneath the futuristic, streamlined body, the Auto-Railer passenger bus was essentially a standard Chevrolet truck chassis with a six-cylinder engine in the front and tandem-axle suspension in the rear. The reasoning behind the hybrid road/rail vehicle is self-evident. In areas that could not support both railway and highway passenger service, the Auto-Railer could serve both functions. While the Auto-Railer was not produced in large numbers, evidently, the company did enjoy some success with the product, with several transport lines on the East Coast putting them to use...