Steam Memories

Vintage film footage from 8mm and Super 8 silent color movie film, featuring great steam locomotive action. Steam locomotives like CB&Q 4960 with shots along the main line to Mendota, the Streator Branch, and along the Mississippi out of St. Louis to Hannibal.

Grand Trunk Western 5629 is seen at Griffith Tower while we see GTW 4070 fron inside the cab and then on the train.

A visit to to the north nets us Canadian National 6218, this one, in the cab, on the train and with a run-by. It’s the GTW again, but foriegn power as Reading 2102 gives us a thril with film from on the train and a nice run-by. We also get a bit of GM diesels on the GTW on trips to South Bend.

Then there’s UP 8444 on a trip out of Denver to Yoder, Wyoming and the first American Freedom Train near Gilman on the Illinois Central and on the TP&W, C&lM, and again on the lC out of Springfield towards Kankakee. We get a lot of pacing in this sequence. And we catch Southern Pacific 4449 on the Freedom Train from Rockford to Aurora, Illinois.