1900 movie of Boston subway

Sloan · **Posted:** Tue Feb 22, 2005 5:03 pm

Boston Public Library offers a one minute twenty second video stream of an Edison movie (1900) titled: Boston Subway from an Electric Car.

Others on this board may have successâ€“I didn'tâ€”in downloading.

www.bpl.org/central/bostonmovies.htm

Sloan

Al Stangenberger · **Joined:** Mon Aug 23, 2004 12:59 pm **Posts:** 644

There are also several early films related to railroads available for download from the Library of Congress as part of their American Memory Collection:

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/

For their collection of early Edison films in particular,
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/edisonquery.html

jd johnson · **Joined:** Mon Aug 23, 2004 10:50 am **Posts:** 399

Isn't there some film that Edison took of the original Georgetown Loop?

JD Johnson, Morhead and North Fork Railroad Historian

Tolbert V. Prowell · **Joined:** Sun Aug 22, 2004 12:30 pm **Posts:** 8

I had no trouble downloading and viewing the film strip. Quite interesting!

T. V. Prowell

Al Stangenberger · **Joined:** Mon Aug 23, 2004 12:59 pm **Posts:** 644

Quote:

Isn't there some film that Edison took of the original Georgetown Loop?

I couldn't find it on-line, but maybe I wasn't searching quite correctly ...

survivingworldsteam · **Posted:** Wed Feb 23, 2005 12:49 am

Check out the film footage "Panorama of Riker's Island, N.Y." Near the very end, there is a spoil train pulled by a steam locomotive. I am almost certain it is one of the former NYE Forneys that were sold off to industrial customers; the date of the film is 1903.

If it is an NYE forney, then it is not a "narrow guage train" as is stated in the Summary.

-James Hefner
Hebrews 10:20a

Surviving World Steam Project

kalbrandt · **Joined:** Sun Aug 22, 2004 2:40 am **Posts:** 88

jd johnson wrote:

Isn't there some film that Edison took of the original Georgetown Loop?

About forty seconds of Georgetown Loop footage shot by Edison in 1900 is part of an approximately seven and one-half minute episode entitled "Railroading in the East 1897-1906: Thomas Edison's Early Steam Train Motion Pictures."

In "America's Railroads: The Steam Train Legacy" DVD. Marathon Music & Video #62343. Copyright 2001 Dastar Corp./Marathon Music & Video. Produced and distributed by Entertainment Distribting, P.O. Box 22738, Eugene, Oregon 97402.

The DVD includes five additional episodes with a total running time of approximately two hours. It's part of a three DVD set available here:
http://www.timelessmusic.com/dvds/ameri ... 3dvd_4.htm

I have no affiliation with the producer or distributor but certainly enjoyed their product.

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