Speed Graphic Film and Video | Hollywood Outtakes: Arriving in Los Angeles on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe @SpeedGraphicFilmVideo | Uploaded July 2022 | Updated October 2024, 9 hours ago.
This is the second in a series of videos drawn from a pool of 1940's-era Hollywood feature-film outtakes and stock shots. There is no information in the archive about these films, so if you know something more about them, please leave a comment.
0:00 One of the Santa Fe's giant 4-8-4's, No. 3785 (Baldwin, 1941), brings its train into Los Angeles Union Station. In the consist is baggage-dorm-lounge car No. 1382 San Fernando, dorm-lounge No. 1374 Santa Clara (both Budd, 1937), diner No. 1498 and a seemingly endless number of Pullmans.
1:25 Another 4-8-4, No. 3779 (Baldwin, 1941), comes into the station, bell ringing.
2:32 E6 A-B unit No. 15 (EMD, 1941) comes gliding into Union Station under the eye of two Navy policemen. The consist includes baggage-dorm-lounge San Acacia (Budd, 1937) and sleeper Yampai (Pullman, 1938).
2:59 Boarding an unknown train. In the consist is dorm-club-lounge Agathla, which had a barber shop.
3:14 El Capitan, train No. 21, pulls into Union Station. All-reserved, all-chair-car accommodations, it made its twice-weekly run from Chicago to Los Angeles in a little under 40 hours.
4:19 An unknown train pulls into Union Station behind a classic A-B-B-A set of EMD F-units.
5:00 A few hours after El Capitan, the Santa Fe's flagship, the Super Chief, pulls into Los Angeles. An all-sleeper extra-fare train, it was the choice of celebrities and movie stars when travelling to Hollywood.
06:14 An unknown train arrives behind four-unit EMD FT No. 158. Originally intended for freight service, the FT's were repainted and given steam generators for passenger service.
06:53 A troop train filled with Navy men pulls into Union Station, with 4-8-2 Mountain No. 3731 (Baldwin, 1921) at its head. Two navy policemen speak to an officer from the train.
8:03 Another Mountain, No. 3729 (Baldwin, 1921) brings a string of heavyweight cars into the station.
8:32 This video closes with an odd clip: a side-on of a string of old empty passenger cars rolling slowly by. Included in the consist is Pullman car Walworth (Pullman, 1911), and Santa Fe parlor-observation car No. 3217. The latter was sold and re-sold many times, but the web suggests that it survived into the twenty-first century.
The original film is silent, so I have added some music by Erich Wolfgang Korngold, one of the great Hollywood composers of the 1940's, to the soundtrack.
This is the second in a series of videos drawn from a pool of 1940's-era Hollywood feature-film outtakes and stock shots. There is no information in the archive about these films, so if you know something more about them, please leave a comment.
0:00 One of the Santa Fe's giant 4-8-4's, No. 3785 (Baldwin, 1941), brings its train into Los Angeles Union Station. In the consist is baggage-dorm-lounge car No. 1382 San Fernando, dorm-lounge No. 1374 Santa Clara (both Budd, 1937), diner No. 1498 and a seemingly endless number of Pullmans.
1:25 Another 4-8-4, No. 3779 (Baldwin, 1941), comes into the station, bell ringing.
2:32 E6 A-B unit No. 15 (EMD, 1941) comes gliding into Union Station under the eye of two Navy policemen. The consist includes baggage-dorm-lounge San Acacia (Budd, 1937) and sleeper Yampai (Pullman, 1938).
2:59 Boarding an unknown train. In the consist is dorm-club-lounge Agathla, which had a barber shop.
3:14 El Capitan, train No. 21, pulls into Union Station. All-reserved, all-chair-car accommodations, it made its twice-weekly run from Chicago to Los Angeles in a little under 40 hours.
4:19 An unknown train pulls into Union Station behind a classic A-B-B-A set of EMD F-units.
5:00 A few hours after El Capitan, the Santa Fe's flagship, the Super Chief, pulls into Los Angeles. An all-sleeper extra-fare train, it was the choice of celebrities and movie stars when travelling to Hollywood.
06:14 An unknown train arrives behind four-unit EMD FT No. 158. Originally intended for freight service, the FT's were repainted and given steam generators for passenger service.
06:53 A troop train filled with Navy men pulls into Union Station, with 4-8-2 Mountain No. 3731 (Baldwin, 1921) at its head. Two navy policemen speak to an officer from the train.
8:03 Another Mountain, No. 3729 (Baldwin, 1921) brings a string of heavyweight cars into the station.
8:32 This video closes with an odd clip: a side-on of a string of old empty passenger cars rolling slowly by. Included in the consist is Pullman car Walworth (Pullman, 1911), and Santa Fe parlor-observation car No. 3217. The latter was sold and re-sold many times, but the web suggests that it survived into the twenty-first century.
The original film is silent, so I have added some music by Erich Wolfgang Korngold, one of the great Hollywood composers of the 1940's, to the soundtrack.
