1937 INDIANAPOLIS 8MM HOME MOVIE RAILROAD FAN TRIP PACIFIC CLASS K-2 STEAM LOCOMOTIVE XD14340

Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit Visit our website This extraordinary, 1937 silent 8mm home movie depicts a rail fan trip. This took place in and around Indianapolis, Indiana aboard a the New York Central Railroad train. The steam locomotive featured is #4860, an Alco Schenectady, 1907, class K-2c 4-6-2 locomotive. This was a “Pacific“ type, one of 418 built for the railroad by American Locomotive Co. The Class K-2s had 79“ diameter drivers, 22“ x 28“ cylinders, a 200 psi boiler pressure and exerted 29,100 pounds of tractive effort. The film includes a lot of interesting sights including passing train yards, railroad personnel, and a roundhouse turntable (TRT: 8:15). It’s not clear what line is shown, possibly the tracks are part of the Chicago, Indianapolis, and Cincinnati circuit. A trainyard with a railroad switch, splitting divergent tracks. A steam locomotive engine billowing smoke drives toward frame left, ca