Age of Steam, The

The Age of Steam Stills w/ voice over 13:32:30 Title. 13:32:38 Title: 1830. Drawings of first Baltimore, Tom Thumb racing horse pulled wagon; other early steam engines. 13:35:54 Still of steam engine in woods, trains. Large engines. Repair yards. 13:38:42 Film of man boarding locomotive cab of diesel. Interviewed about economical benefit of diesel over steam engines. Young interviewer as to why he liked steam better. Stills. “Missing sound...” CUs of controls & details of diesel & steam engine. Talks about how he got interested in steam engine. 13:49:28 MCU of steam whistle & engine w/ engineer at control as it pulls out. Reader Railroad in SW Arkansas pulling tank car. Steam engine pulliing tank cars past; POV from train thru swamp forest. GOOD black smoke. Train into asphalt storage tanks. Engineer from inside cab. CU train past. LS train leaving slowly. Men working on pipe that puts sand on track. Oil 1942 train engine. View from train. 13:57:00 POV thru woods. Sign: Reader on station. Train out w/ single tank car. 13:58:46 Credits: Written Produced & Directed by William A. McGinley Produced in Assoc. w/ Indiana University Dept of Radio & Television. Transportation;