https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/4e78c211-7b9d-4c60-81fa-789192481dfc Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCddem5RlB3bQe99wyY49g0g/join Help us preserve, scan and post more rare and endangered films! Join us on Patreon. Visit https://www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Visit our website www.PeriscopeFilm.com 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. The City of San Francisco was a streamlined passenger train service operated in collaboration by the Union Pacific Railroad (UP), the Southern Pacific Railroad (SP), and the Chicago & North Western Transportation Company (C&NW) from June 14, 1936 until the train was discontinued on May 1, 1971 when Amtrak took over all long-distance intercity passenger services. The Chicago, IL to Omaha, NE portion of the route was operated by the C&NW, the Omaha, NE to Ogden, UT portion of the route was operated by the UP, and the last portion of the route from Ogden, UT to San Francisco, CA was operated by the SP. Operations of the train started on June 14, 1936 and was also one of the first passenger trains to be operated by the then-new EMD E2 type diesel locomotives. St. Louis–San Francisco Railway 1522 is a two-cylinder, simple class T-54 4-8-2 "Mountain" type steam locomotive built in 1926 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works for the St. Louis–San Francisco Railway (SLSF), also known as the "Frisco". It was retired by the Frisco in 1951. Motion picture films don't last forever; many have already been lost or destroyed. For almost two decades, we've worked to collect, scan and preserve the world as it was captured on 35mm, 16mm and 8mm movies -- including home movies, industrial films, and other non-fiction. If you have endangered films you'd like to have scanned, or wish to donate celluloid to Periscope Film so that we can share them with the world, we'd love to hear from you. Contact us via the weblink below. This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit http://www.PeriscopeFilm.com Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UydX0dsfAag Mirrored from Periscope Film (https://www.youtube.com/@PeriscopeFilm) Sat, 13 Jun 2026 13:22:30 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://peertube.dngr.us https://peertube.dngr.us/lazy-static/avatars/41a6fee9-7f57-42d0-a5fc-5db4f1af2e31.png https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/4e78c211-7b9d-4c60-81fa-789192481dfc All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://peertube.dngr.us/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.