Speed Graphic Film and Video | Stanley Steamer Centennial, Newton MA, June 1997 @SpeedGraphicFilmVideo | Uploaded November 2016 | Updated October 2024, 10 hours ago.
The Stanley brothers and their company, the Stanley Motor Carriage Company, built steam-powered automobiles from 1902 to 1924. For the centennial of their first steam car, Stanley automobiles gathered on the Newton-Watertown line where the Stanley factory stood.
The Stanley brothers and their company, the Stanley Motor Carriage Company, built steam-powered automobiles from 1902 to 1924. For the centennial of their first steam car, Stanley automobiles gathered on the Newton-Watertown line where the Stanley factory stood.
![Old Home Movies, Vol. I: Southern Pacific Steam Power [Silent]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/CULbB-p_sJU/hqdefault.jpg "Old Home Movies, Vol. I: Southern Pacific Steam Power [Silent]
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 photographers 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.")
