[1940s HOME MOVIE NORTHERN PACIFIC "CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO" PASSENGER TRAIN TRIP]

Genre: home movie

Year Published: 1940s

Description: Dating to the 1940s, this brief home movie shows a gentleman packing his suitcase for a trip. At :36, a Black Pullman porter welcomes him aboard a Union Pacific passenger train. Based on the train's markings, this is the "City of San Francisco". A passenger car is shown marked "Embarcadero". At (1:00) a title card reads "Across the Plains" and shows windswept prairies from out the car window. At (2:10) the train stops in Ogden Utah and the Northern Pacific diesel electric EMD E2 locomotive is visible as well as a steam engine #1522 (see notes below on this locomotive). At (2:43) passengers admire the "City of San Francisco" diesel locomotive. At (3:00) passengers re-board the train in a light snow, assisted by the Pullman porter. At 3:00 the train leaves Ogden and passes steam locomotive #2661, this is likely Northern Pacific Railway #2661. At (4:00) a switch engine is visible moving cars in the snow. At (4:10), color footage shows South Norwalk, Chicago vicinity, followed by shots of a small dam and possibly power house (4:28). As the film comes to an end, ice skaters are shown on a frozen lake.