Posted over on another forum, 10 minutes of 30’s era big steamers in B&W -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7j1BWGK525A
-Brian
great find
Very cool clips. I saw the whole movie when it was on TCM a couple years ago, wish I could have taped it.
The scene where the engineer climbs out the side of the cab to fix a hot box while traveling at high speed was amazing. I doubt anything like that would be permitted these days.