Wheels A-Rolling: 100 Years of Railroad Progress (Colour Version) Pt. 1 of 2

Wheels A-Rolling: 100 Years of Railroad Progress (Colour Version) Pt. 1 of 2 Presented by Chicago Railroad Fair (1948-1949) Pageant / Play with music - slightly surreal as transportation history pageant is on outdoor stage in front of large concrete block backdrop. 01:02:13 American Indian in head-dress singing, smoke signals; Indians walk w/ horses, carrying canoes. Re-enactment of French missionaries reaching Lake Michigan smoke peacepipe & trade beads. Trappers walk; indians ride. Settlers w/ carts; carriage; stagecoach w/ waving passengers; miitary troops march. 01:05:39 Topped hatted men meet, greet first steam engine - George Stephenson’s Rocket steam engine; The John Bull. First railway train - the Best Friend of Charleston built in 1829 - passengers in period clothes. 01:07:00 Dewitt Clinton engine - carriages are stage coaches on rails. Lafayette “long-boilered” locomotive. Horse drawn carriage. Horse-drawn car. 01:08:13 Tom Thumb engine (1821) designed by Peter Cooper. Race between Tom Thumb & horse drawn coach. Horse wins. The Atlantic Engine (1832) - last of the upright steam engines. Gag as guard helps woman into coach showing bloomers. 01:10:09 Growth of Chicago “early 1840s” - firemen & citizens using water pump as they fear Chicago about to be engulfed by fire; turns out to be smoke from Baldwin built locomotive The Pioneer. Train passes slowly, waving people. 01:12:37 “1849“ & Gold Rush - covered wagons & horses recreate trek West - includes death on the trail. 01:14:28 “1859” - Wells Fargo coach & horses - Pony Express - recreation of coach being held up. 01:15:28 “1861” - “ Abraham Lincoln ” speaking on leaving Chicago insert scene - back to stage, “Lincoln” gets into horse-drawn carriage. US History; Tableaux Vivants; Oddities; Entertainment; Tacky / Kitsch; NOTE: client must clear music if used.