Break out the popcorn boys and girls and settle back for this exciting adventure!
Thanks for the link Jacon12! It was a fun way to start the weekend.
Joe
What a great film and rousing adventure! Beyond that, what a priceless glimpse of history - note the period dress, the beautiful shots of locomotive technology, motorcyle tech, the bascule bridge. Was that a torpedo boat destroyer? So much to observe and absorb. Good stuff indeed. Thanks for the link!
Jim
I bookmarked the link. There’s a lot of films in there I saw way back in my youth.
Jarrell,
Thanks for the heads up as to what was going on.
While watching the video it occured to me that sound is to our trains as sound is to movies. Neither would be right without it.
No flame wars please.
Happy railroading
Bob
Anybody notice that the lettering on the engines was SPLA&SL (San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake)? The line remained independent until UP took it over completely in 1921.
Cool 4-6-0 for the 'wild engine". One of the other engines appears to be one of SPLA&SL’s smallish 4-4-2’s.
Andre
No sound whatsoever. Assume your own dialouge: “Helen! You are just a woman!”. “Ted! It’s all your fault!” What will happen next? Will the wild engine smash into the excursion train? Will the people in the last excursion car ever stop waving their handkerchiefs out the window? Why did Helen ride the motorcycle off the bridge?
Stay tuned to find out. This was a fun 13 minutes of silent film. In fact, 26 min for me, as I called in my wife and daughter to watch it with me a 2nd time. They loved the heroine, of course…