The Railroad Hour
ABC / NBC
ABC / NBC · 1948–1954
Broadcasts
247
Cadence
Weekly
Rated
PG
Since
1948
The run
- Network
- ABC / NBC
- Years active
- 1948–1954
- Surviving broadcasts
- 247
- Genre
- music
Gordon MacRae hosting a full Broadway score in half an hour, orchestra and all, sponsored by the American railroads. Public-domain transfers from the Internet Archive, harvested from the Old Time Radio Researchers collections and indexed episode by episode.
Source collection
Old Time Radio Researchers Group
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
58 dated broadcasts across 79 years on the air, with 73 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 2024, in original transmission order.
- 1. Dead Air · 19 Nov 2024
- 2. The Long Silence · 26 Nov 2024
- 3. A Room Above the Street · 3 Dec 2024
- 01
The Long Silence
4 Aug 2026 · 19 min
- 02
Dead Air
28 Jul 2026 · 34 min
- 03
Sign Off
21 Jul 2026 · 49 min
- 04
The Case of the Missing Hour
14 Jul 2026 · 1h 4m
- 05
Night Broadcast
7 Jul 2026 · 27 min
- 06
The Last Train Out
30 Jun 2026 · 42 min
- 07
Signal at Midnight
23 Jun 2026 · 57 min
- 08
A Room Above the Street
16 Jun 2026 · 20 min
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