This silent home movie begins with a segment photographed in the St. Paul / Minneapolis, Mn. Twin cities area in the 1930s. It shows activity at Minneapolis Junction and the area down the Mississippi River, showing trains from Soo, Milwaukee Road, Chicago & Northwestern and Great Northern.The second portion of the film dates up to fifteen years later and starts at around 13 minutes. It focuses on 1st generation streamliner trains. This is a silent film.
Shots include:
00:06 Train passing over movie camera
00:14 Milwaukee Road streamlined Hiawatha steam train, most likely scenes filmed in twin cities, St Paul and Minneapolis, Mn.
00:37.23 CB&Q Steam train, no location
00:48 0-8-0 USRA designed No 60 Steam switcher
01:00.11 Milwaukee Steam locomotive 4-6-4 6421 (built 1931)
01:05 Shot of railroad from last car passing small depot
01:10 Passing scenery
01:37 Hastings, Mn. Mississippi River bridge
01:54 Milwaukee Road steam train
02:12 Milwaukee Road 4-6-4 6405 St Paul Roundhouse
02:45 Scenes around shop area
03:19 Hiawatha streamlined locomotive
03:24 2-8-0 Consolidation 7612
04:02 Steam engine 8515 switching
04:09 watering steam engine
04:17 Rock Island train
04:30 Great Northern steam engine 2515
04:17 Rock Island train
04:50 Pacing steam train
05:18 Great Northern steam loco
05:33 St. Paul rail yard scenes
05:50 Mississippi River scene
05:55 St. Paul Minneapolis Junction Yard scenes including Gas Electric car, Chicago & North Western
07:11 Twin Cities CB&Q Budd built Zephyr
07:20 Yard scenes
08:48 In switching Tower – Minneapolis Junction, St. Paul
09:37 View of track switches
09:45 Overhead view of tracks
09:59 Leaving St. Paul, viewed from Twin Cities Zephyr
10:48 Along Mississippi River
11:36 Twin Cities Zephyr entering station
11:42 Steam engine
13:03 COLOR section begins
Milwaukee Road Hiawatha
13:35 Diesel train
13:45 Milwaukee Road Hiawatha – steam loco
14:37 Along Salt Lake, Utah
15:06 Union Pacific/Chicago & North Western early streamliner
15:12 Milwaukee Road through Pipestone Pass – Western Rockies
15:45 Train wreck
16:20 Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range Railroad “Yellowstone” locomotive 202
16:42 Florida East Coast EMD E6 passenger diesel
17:33 Seaboard Coast Line passenger diesel no 3000
17:50 Atlantic Coast Line diesel
18:15 Rock Island Lines locomotive
18:30 Old Steam Engine 132
19:00 People in costumes – early Midwestern settlers reenactment
19:19 Shooting artillery guns in river
19:30 Boat races
19:40 Engine 136
19:50 Train Wreck
20:32 Chicago & North Western
20:42 Great Northern Railroad
20:52 Steam train
21:50 Southern Railway
22:11 Rock Island diesel
22:38 Milwaukee Road Hiawatha
22:45 Santa Maria steam train
23:22 Rock Island diesel
23:23 Milwaukee Road Hiawatha – Minneapolis, Mn.
24:14 Dead Wood Central
25:40 Edaville 2 ft railroad Massachusetts
26:43 CB&Q Cab ride
28:30 C&NW Route of the 400s
28:48 Milwaukee Road
28:57 Triple headed steam train
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