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Radiophone Keeps 'Em Rolling!

Clip #: MF-21K
Length: 2:10
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
Erie Railroad freight train workers utilize radiophones to communicate efficiently in transit.

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Pig Iron To Steel

Clip #: TFA-78I
Length: 16:15
Year: 1927
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1920s
Description:
An Eastman Classroom film about converting pig iron into steel in the mid 1920s.

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Black Diamond Express

Clip #: TFA-128D-2
Length: :57
Year: 1902
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1900s
Description:
Early Edison film of a men working on a railroad track with hammers and picks. A train comes along and forces them to move. They wave.

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Panoramic View of the White Pass Railroad

Clip #: TFA-211G-7
Length: 1:04
Year: 1901
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1900s
Description:
Edison Manufacturing Company film from 1901 of the White Pass Railroad traveling on the recently completed track in a rugged, mountainous part of Alaska.

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Empire State Express

Clip #: TFA-128D-9
Length: :58
Year: 1905
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1900s
Description:
Train comes towards camera through train yard and picks up water on the fly

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The Ghost Train

Clip #: TFA-128D-8
Length: :41
Year: 1903
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1900s
Description:
Trick film of negative image of Empire State Express train double printed with positive of moon and clouds

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Empires State Express

Clip #: TFA-128D-7
Length: :43
Year: 1902
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1900s
Description:
Men working on track and train goes by. New York Central & Hudson River

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Freight Car of the Future

Clip #: MF-21P
Length: 2:11
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
The Unicel freight car, a combination freight and refrigerator car, which is made from plywood and is much better insulated and cheaper to build than the traditional steel freight car.

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Marines Are Made

Clip #: MF-17A-4
Length: 1:01
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
United States Marine Corps recruiting promotional commercial from the 1950s.

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Working Rotary Snow Plows

Clip #: TFA-128D-5
Length: 1:53
Year: 1902
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1900s
Description:
Locomotive with rotary snowplow comes towards camera through heavy snow drift

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