HOME MOVIE 1200 CLASS STEAM LOCOMOTIVES 1957 PRESIDENT EISENHOWER INAUGURAL PARADE 51484

Love our channel? Help us save and post more orphaned films! Support us on Patreon: Even a really tiny contribution can make a difference. 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 train rolls down the track and out of sight. There are two cabooses on the end of the train :38. Another 1200 class locomotive pulls a freight train toward the camera billowing heavy smoke 1:00. The train passes under a walkway 1:10. The train rounds the tracks and a second engine, located in the back of the train is visible 2:05. Images of the