Speed Graphic Film and Video | Old Home Movies, Vol. I: Southern Pacific Steam Power [Silent] @SpeedGraphicFilmVideo | Uploaded May 2019 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
This short video brings together three pieces of film from the Prelinger Collection, all taken by non-professional, non-railfan filmmakers.
0:06 : On a beautiful California day, a Southern Pacific Coast Daylight consist arrives at a station. Location and date unknown, though not before 1941, when the GS-4 and the two-unit articulated chair cars seen here debuted. Taken by E. B. Foltz.
0:28 : This anonymous photographer's primary job was to take a time-lapse film of a building being constructed. But from time to time, he would turn the camera on the passing trains. Location unknown. The Internet Archive says this was taken in 1947.
0:57 : The Coast Daylight arriving in San Francisco (?) in 1941. Another great shot of a GS-4 and its beautiful consist. Taken by John H. Summers.
This short video brings together three pieces of film from the Prelinger Collection, all taken by non-professional, non-railfan filmmakers.
0:06 : On a beautiful California day, a Southern Pacific Coast Daylight consist arrives at a station. Location and date unknown, though not before 1941, when the GS-4 and the two-unit articulated chair cars seen here debuted. Taken by E. B. Foltz.
0:28 : This anonymous photographer's primary job was to take a time-lapse film of a building being constructed. But from time to time, he would turn the camera on the passing trains. Location unknown. The Internet Archive says this was taken in 1947.
0:57 : The Coast Daylight arriving in San Francisco (?) in 1941. Another great shot of a GS-4 and its beautiful consist. Taken by John H. Summers.