Newark, New Jersey 1940s in color shots from a train [60fps, Remastered] w/sound design added

I colorized, restored and created a sound design for this video of Newark, New Jersey 1940s Railroad Process Plates we can clearly see what is happening in broad daylight, lots of Spectacular building and beautiful old car,

Video Restoration Process:
✔ FPS boosted to 60 frames per second
✔ Image resolution boosted up to HD
✔ Improved video sharpness and brightness
✔ Colorized only for the ambiance (not historically accurate)
✔added sound only for the ambiance
✔restoration:(stabilisation,denoise,cleand,deblur)

Please, be aware that colorization colors are not real and fake, colorization was made only for the ambiance and do not represent real historical data.

Thanks to A/V Geeks for share the amazing B&W Video Source

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[deanberolzheimer]

Very cool. I drive up and down rt 21 thru Newark everyday. For those of you who aren't so familar with the area....if you are driving south on 21 towards the airport from downtown Newark, you would be taking the same route as this train. While driving today you could look to your left and see blocks and blocks of hand painted murals on the side of the RR viaduct. Many of the buildings in this "video" survive today. Super interesting, Thanks NASS!

[READYTEDDYBEAR]

4 minutes and 38 seconds of history captured on film for ever.

I'm looking at the cars, trucks, people and the roadside advertisements.

Absolutely fascinating! 👍 👍 👍

[artemiscool]

Great video. Some folks may not know but this side of Newark was a small mix of residential with heavy industrial/warehouse areas wrapped around it, which continued into the Ironbound on the other side of the tracks. A lot of industrial cities looked like this in the 40's. The shopping districts downtown, near where you see the two towers in this video, are more city district looking and much less industrial. The less dense more residential neighborhoods are north west and southwest of here. Keep up the good work!

[lorettabrecht]

This has got to be the best video with billboards from the olden days, it’s so interesting to see how the cities looked back then.

[mikeyh]

I remember when woodies were cars and not what that word has come to mean. Watching these videos helps my digestion.

[juanalvarez]

This is amazing footage. I wish someone would do a before and after overlay, because the tracks haven't changed only the background has

[EagleFang]

God I’ve driven up and down McCarter Highway so many times heading to and from Penn Station or to Mulberry Street to pick up produce for my parent’s grocery store. It’s instantly recognizable. At the end I was hoping it would continue past Hillside where I grew up. Great footage!

[Mostlyonoff]

Mom Dad and Grandparents were within a mile of that train at that moment. I wonder what they were doing that day

[WANDTVDoug]

Grew up in New Jersey late 50s to mid 70s in Westfield. This is a phenomenal piece of film. Wow.

[jayvailey]

I went on google earth and found this set of tracks and followed the road alongside it to look at the same view today. Amazing!

[tobystamps]

I love the old wood sided station wagon seen in this vid! Now that was a cool car!

[IndyCrewInNYC]

Looking at the dark and crazy world we live in now, I want to go back to a time like this. More than ever. Thanks for incredible job as always, NASS.🏆

[njhotroder]

Looks like rt 21 mccarthy highway in newark nj with the train running adjacent to that road. Pretty cool.

[southbend]

In a strange way, these shots kind of look like movie sets from that period!! Awesome.
Thanks for sharing.

[doug]

This is gorgeous. I hope you’ll do a 1min short of this set to “Woke Up this Morning”

[MrHorse-bymp]

Very cool, wonderfully restored video. Industrial cities in America were always pretty rough and tumble, even during the boom years. Some really interesting, decayed clapboard houses here.

[joemonteirosportsshorts]

My home city! Ironbound District baby Ferry Street 🇧🇷 🇮🇹

[jimmydee]

Fantastic. I used to park my car behind the Newark Warehouse (1:49) when I worked Downtown 1990-1992. After sitting dormant for years it has been re-habbed as office/retail space. Everything else on that block (gas station, etc.) is gone. Parking space for the Prudential Center arena, which is to the (west) left of the warehouse.

[GOMATOS]

I lived in Newark for quite sometime, forest hill seems to have that history from long ago. After the riots, closing of industry jobs, the city has never been the same. So happy to see this video, looking forward to see more.

[WAL_DC-B]

Notice the billboard on a building at 1:52 apparently advertising a '46 Nash automobile.