Farewell to Steam - - Santa Fe 1884 - 1955
Railway Club of Southern California
Title card: On Feb 6th 1955 the Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railway ran the last train on the Los Angeles Division to be pulled by a steam locomotive. Engine 3759 which was a veteran...assigned the task of ending... Three photo stops...two in Cajon Pass...last one...at sunset on return trip...
12:53:02 Sign: Santa Fe & Pasadena station, train toward camera w/ full white steam. Passengers on board. San Bernardino station sign. Men on platforms. Yard w/ people getting onto train, cars. AT & SF Shops beyond. Engine 3759 past camera, hooking up cars. Pulling out & black smoke up canyon w/ white steam. Stopped & moving past people along way. View of mountains.
12:54:45 Seen up hill from hillside w/ much black smoke. People reboard train. Track level runby pulling oil tank cars. Backing down grade.
12:55:35 Heavy black smoke seen from distance w/ steam & CU of wheels. Backing up w/ people on rear of observation car. POV from rear train. The End.
Amateur Films; Home Movies; Hobbyists; Train Spotters; Technology Endings; 1950s;
NOTE: one consecutive minute sold at per reel rate.
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Farewell to Steam - - Santa Fe 1884 - 1955 Railway Club of Southern California Title card: On Feb 6th 1955 the Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railway ran the last train on the Los Angeles Division to be pulled by a steam locomotive. Engine 3759 which was a veteran...assigned the task of ending... Three photo stops...two in Cajon Pass...last one...at sunset on return trip... 12:53:02 Sign: Santa Fe & Pasadena station, train toward camera w/ full white steam. Passengers on board. San Bernardino station sign. Men on platforms. Yard w/ people getting onto train, cars. AT & SF Shops beyond. Engine 3759 past camera, hooking up cars. Pulling out & black smoke up canyon w/ white steam. Stopped & moving past people along way. View of mountains. 12:54:45 Seen up hill from hillside w/ much black smoke. People reboard train. Track level runby pulling oil tank cars. Backing down grade. 12:55:35 Heavy black smoke seen from distance w/ steam & CU of wheels. Backing up w/ people on rear of observation car. POV from rear train. The End. Amateur Films; Home Movies; Hobbyists; Train Spotters; Technology Endings; 1950s; NOTE: one consecutive minute sold at per reel rate.