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1957 · Short film · 15 min

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This silent, black and white film, shot in the 1950’s -- probably 1956-57 -- contains various segments, including shots of steam trains and what appears to be the 1957 Presidential Inaugural Parade. The film opens with shots of a heavy Norfolk and Western coal train with two large locomotives coming around a mountainside, engines billowing smoke. The engines appear to be 1200 class "A" fast freight locomotives, similar to Norfolk and Western No. 1218 (which the railroad retired in 1959). The…

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