While watching an award-winning Canadian documentary on cannabis/hemp, I nearly jumped out of my seat when I saw they included a short clip of pacing a speeding Rock Island Rocket. I wonder where they got the clip because I’d love to have more! Any ideas where this might have been taken? Looks like maybe Illinois, but it’s hard to tell as the angle doesn’t show the second main.
The rare clip begins at 41:05 and lasts about five seconds. Enjoy!
Your loss. [:)] I do wish fast-forwarding were possible. Once it loads to that point, however, you can fast forward. (You don’t have to actually watch the whole thing.) I realize not everyone will be able to do this, but I felt I should share it for anyone who is interested enough. As far as I’m concerned, it’s the best 5-6 seconds of Rock Island footage I’ve ever seen. I only wish there was more of it. Looks like it was shot in the '40’s.
I sat on it for awhile, searching for a way to extract out that clip before posting here, but couldn’t find a way to do it. I also looked for a downloadable version, hoping it would be easier, but I can’t find one yet, except in torrent form, but I’m dumb when it comes to torrents. I was hoping, perhaps someone here knew where the footage originally came from, because more footage would certainly be better, and what was used was obviously taken from something larger. I’ve just never seen anything like it before, and as a Rock Island fan, it was a real treat to run across. I just wish it wasn’t embedded so deep in something else. Nevertheless, I felt I would be doing a disservice to the good people here if I didn’t make everyone aware such footage actually exists, even though in its current form it’s kind of inconvenient.
I may have to write to the creators of that documentary and ask them where it came from. Perhaps there’s some public domain archive they used. The clip right after shows a rare Rio Grande clip through the mountains that might have come from the same source. If such an archive exists, I think folks here could get an immense amount of enjoyment from it. I know I would.