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Southern Pacific steam is highlighted
In late 1897 and early 1898, a team of Edison photographers traveled the railroads west to Los Angeles, California shooting scenes on and off the railroad as they went. By January of 1898, they were in northern California where there was plenty of snow on the ground. They took this movie showing a large smoke-belching steam locomotive pulling a nineteen-car-plus-caboose freight train. It emerges from a tunnel and passes the camera position. As the freight cars pass the camera it is possible to read the advertisements on the car sides (in this day and age advertising on the side of freight cars was great for companies that could afford to own or rent the cars.) A pusher locomotive brings up the rear of the train. This film and others taken on the same railroad would become part of Edison's "Southern Pacific Company Series" listed in their catalog.
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- jhaugh
- Feb 23, 2003
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