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Steam train comes around a bend in the tracks,...

Steam train comes around a bend in the tracks,...
Clip: 311787_1_1
Year Shot: 1950 (Estimated Year)
Audio: No
Video: Color
Tape Master: 2
Original Film:
HD: N/A
Location: United States
Timecode: 01:17:48 - 01:20:23

Master 2 - Tape 2 Steam train comes around a bend in the tracks, heading toward camera- blue sky b/g. . White steam blows out the side. Incredible, heavy, black smoke comes out of the top of the train. Power. Locomotion. Long freight train. As it approaches camera, black smoke changes to white. Engine comes right up to and past the camera - beautiful steam engine passes right along/in front of camera. MS train as it rolls away from camera, nice rear shot as it round bend towards mountain/cliff. smoke still pours from it. Caboose marked '7'. CU of wheel s and steam on track at. WS dozens of boxcars rapidly passing camera, scenic mountains in b/g (looks like a postcard). Thick black smoke comes up from the engine at the back of the train (it's pushing the boxcars). Five cabooses on the end. Silhouetted wide shot of train passing cam in sunset light, tree in f/g. Very picturesque. Canted angle shot of train (diesel engine?) entering frame - white steam. CU wheels passing over track. CU stem engine wheels pass along track. WS bend in train track, Steam engine with light on front of engine, rapidly approaches, dark ("Southern Pacific" logo on side). Boxcars round bend - very nice. Camera swish pans with last car as it passes.