Just ran across this and thought it interesting.
The caption explains what is happening in the first half but says nothing about what is going on in the second half.
So I had to look up the movie and it’s got some pretty cool facts and a rabbit hole I’m not prepared to go down. I just wanted to know what was happening in the 2nd half as Rick mentioned. Perhaps it was the “white flag” special that took Thorn to Chicago for emergency surgery and not a work train at all.
QUOTE:
The local doctor says Thorn will die unless he can be taken to Chicago for brain surgery within five hours, which would require breaking the speed record for the trip. Doyle volunteers to drive a special train and is able to accomplish the feat. Thorn is saved.
Danger Lights features rare footage of a tug of war between two steam locomotives, actual documentary footage of the activities in the Miles City yard, and what is believed to be the only motion picture footage of a dynamometer car from the steam railroad era in the USA. Similar footage may have existed in MGM’s Thunder (1929), with Lon Chaney, but that film now exists only in fragments, making it partly a lost film.[4]
THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT RICK!
Yeah Rick! What he said…