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Historic Passenger Train FilmsA rare chance to ride some of the first trains in America. This completion is complete with every historical passenger train film available. Total running time is 1 hour 48 minutes. Enjoy the ride!!!
Topics Include:
Early American Passenger Trains
Early Locomotives & Railway Cars
History of US Railroads
Passenger Trains Table Of Contents:
(1) Completion of Northwestern Pacific Rail Road (1914) - Great footage from a train ride on the newly completed rail road shoot from the perspective of looking out from the back of the train. Full of great history and footage of railroad workers working and amazing tunnel shots.
Length: 00:15:00 (2) Desert Empire (1948) - An amazing vintage travelogue train journey through Utah. Pro-Utah propaganda piece about the national parks, landscape, and natural resources of Utah.
Length: 00:29:30 (3) Hoosier Line (19??) - Interesting film that takes us on a train voyage through Indiana on the Hoosier (also know as the Old Monon) Line. Film is a little shaky with the sound sync and picture, but well worth it because it includes great train footage as well as stops at the Indy 500 and the Kentucky Derby.
Length: 00:10:00 (4) Mount Tamalpais Gravity Railroad (1917) - Fly down the mountain in the Tamaplpais California gravity train. Quite a ride for 1917.
Length: 00:02:00 (5) The Passenger Train (Version One) (1940) - Great vintage passenger train footage. Follows a young boy who travels by train from Chicago to New Mexico to visit his uncle (6) The Passenger Train (Version Two) (1955) - Remake of version one. Follows a young boy who travels by train from Chicago to New Mexico to visit his uncle.
Length: 00:10:44 (7) Troop Train (1943) - Ride with soldiers in this exceptional WWII era train military logistics film.
Length: 00:10:15 Total run time is approximately 1 hours 48 minutes
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