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Go to HomepageReel Number: 220375-02
Color: Colour
Sound: SD
Year / Date: 1948
Country: USA
Location: CHICAGO, Illinois
TC Begins: 01:18:14
TC Ends: 01:36:52
Duration: 00:18:38
Wheels A-Rolling: 100 Years of Railroad Progress (Colour Version) Pt. 2 of 2 01:18:14 American Civil War tableau - injured soldiers limping along. Train bringing body of Lincoln moves very slowly. 01:20:55 “1856” representation of RR going west - Cowboy & Indian fights. 01:22:51 “1869” - Last rail link across America opened. Golden spike hammered in as Union Pacific line is completed - “Auld Lang Syne”. “Rancho Grande” 01:26:20 Steam engine & train of the Santa Fe Railway - refreshment provisions include the “Harvey Girls” dressed as waitresses sing Beautiful Dreamer. Frontier town cowboys - Can Can girls. 01:29:13 Farmers & wives on hay wagon - Burlington Line train brings farmers & immigrants to Mid- West. Dancing - Hoe down - folk dancing. Minnetonka Steam engine and train. 01:31:51 “Chicago in the ‘Gay Nineties’” - “1890s”. Horse cars & trams - cable car. Horse-drawn fire engines speeds past. Early bicycles & tandems. Dancing fashion show. 01:33:44 Famous 999 steam engine - series of shots showing early forms of transport - cars - automobiles - gag policeman with drunk. Racing car - fire engine - more gags with policeman and drunk. 01:35:43 “1934” - Diesel engine passenger service. Cast of pageant make map of American showing advancement of transportation. Diesel train along track. US History; Tableaux Vivants; Oddities; Entertainment; Transportation; Tacky / Kitsch; NOTE: client must clear music if used.