[1940s HOME MOVIE B&O RAILROAD STREAMLINERS CINCINNATIAN LOCOMOTIVE SPRINT CARS]

Genre: home movie

Year Published: 1946

Description: This black-and-white silent home movie showcases sporadic scenes of a family, but primarily features extensive footage of B&O railroad streamline locomotives shot in the mid to late 1940s, and open-wheel sprint cars racing on a short oval track shot in the 1940s or 50s. The film also offers extensive views of Dayton Union Station in Ohio, highlighting various Baltimore & Ohio Railroad (B&O) streamliner locomotives arriving and departing, and a train trip to Indianapolis. A young girl and an older man are sitting on the step of a front door (00:08). Footage of open-wheel race cars racing on a short oval track (00:10). Post-race footage of a driver surrounded by a crowd (00:35). Dayton Union Station, a railroad station serving Dayton, Ohio (00:40). A B&O passenger train moving (00:48). Two girls and a woman (00:58). A B&O passenger train moving (01:13). The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad (B&O) No. 5307, a type 4-6-2 "Pacific" steam locomotive, arrives at Dayton Union Station (01:22). Views of the locomotive fireman and engineer posing with a woman in stewardess outfit on the station platform (01:35). A B&O President Class steam locomotive arrives at the station (02:01). Freight is unloaded and letters from a U.S. Post Office mail car (02:18). Views of the train engineer and other train staff members filmed on the station platform (02:23). Another type 4-6-2 "Pacific" steam locomotive the Cincinnatian #5301 arrives at Dayton Union Station (02:44). Views of the train engineer and fireman (02:53). Stewardess posing with a conductor (03:28) as the Cincinnatian leaves the station. Two men pose for the camera at a racetrack (03:51), probably shot in the 1950s. Scenes from a sprint car race (03:57). Dayton Union Station (04:46). Repeated footage of various locomotives arriving at Dayton Union Station, featuring footage of the train crew (04:48). At (5:08) locomotive 5304 is shown, which was rebuilt to Class P-7d in 1946. At (5:41) the 5301 is shown. At (6:17) the stewardess poses with another train crew, and then the Cincinnatian is shown departing. After a derailment, a building with a collapsed wall near train tracks and freight cars (06:58). Rare footage from inside the cab of a diesel locomotive of an engineer operating a train (07:40). Extensive footage from the train's point of view during its journey from Dayton Station (07:48). Scenes from a sprint car race (10:40). Young children in a garden (10:56).

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