TRAINS GONE WILD - STEAM LOCOMOTIVE CHASE - HAZARDS OF HELEN -1915 B&W SILENT
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- Опубликовано: 9 июл 2010
- A STEAM LOCOMOTIVE IS RUNNING WILD WITHOUT AN ENGINEER TO STOP IT (TRAINS GONE WILD) AND THREATENS TO CRASH INTO AN EXPRESS TRAIN. ONLY HELEN HOLMES CAN SAVE THE DAY. A 1915 B&W SILENT SHORT WHICH SURPRISINGLY ENOUGH FOR THAT PERIOD ILLUSTRATES THAT A WOMAN GIVEN THE OPPORTUNITY CAN AND WILL DO THE JOB. EPISODE #26.
Great Steam Train action in the Los Angeles - Long Beach- Glendale area. SPL & SL 4-6-0's. A shot of a pre-WWI US Navy destroyer moving underneath an open railway bridge. Unfortunately a beautiful Indian motorcycle gets drowned.
The Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad (reporting mark SLR)[1] was a rail company that completed and operated a railway line between its namesake cities, via Las Vegas, Nevada. Incorporated in Utah in 1901 as the San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad, the line was largely the brainchild of William Andrews Clark, a Montana mining baron and United States Senator. Clark enlisted the help of Utah's U.S. Senator Thomas Kearns, mining magnate and newspaper man, to ensure the success of the line through Utah.[2] Construction of the railroad's main line was completed in 1905. Company shareholders adopted the LA&SL name in 1916. The railway was also known by its official nickname, "The Salt Lake Route," and was sometimes informally referred to as "The Clark Road." The tracks are still in use by the modern Union Pacific Railroad.
There is also an Admiral cigarette commercial from Thomas Edison studios which looks like a bunch of hippies smoking joints at the Haight theater in San Francisco's Haight Asbury district. LOL
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When you look at that film today and see old mechanical machines levers and pullies and actors who back then performed their own stunts without any safety gear you just have to tip your hat to those folks.........Loved it thanks for uploading a real gem.
That old-flicker from 1915 has so many details, who heck needs sound. Thank you for showing this fine film from 98 years ago!
Very interesting for me. My Grandfather started working for the Michigan Central RR in 1916. He was 20 y/o. He retired 50 yrs later. Thanks for posting.
Old school stunts with railway engines have always been my favorite!
San Pedro, Los Angelos & Salt Lake Railway. Nice looking engines and moments from a bygone era.
My grandmother played the piano in theaters during the silent movie era. She grew up in West Virginia, near the Ohio and western Pennsylvania borders. Grandma was born in 1895 and lived to be 99. She loved going to the movies. Wonder if she saw this picture show?
Amazing footage and great people who run the magnificent machines.....my sincere Thanks to you for posting this nostalgic movie clips.god bless
Loved it! In my recommended Feb. 2021.
Thanks for sharing. Just think, these movies represent the dawn of the industry. New techniques, improved cameras, and sound were on the way.
bloody brilliant nice to see engines working hard and fast i think this movie was aimed at womans liberation thoroughly enjoyed it many thanks
Nice movie, but the music is awful. In silent movies the music was necessary for the dramatic art of the movie. It assited the feelings and the action, but this music does nothing of it.
Absolutely.
Great movie, wrong music (maybe there's a copyright issue?).
Watched it again without that music. MUCH better.🙂
@@imdeplorable2241 i present time it must possible to get sound on it ...
Then couldn’t you just mute the video
Mute this. Whoever put this synth shit on this should be severely reprimanded. With a machete.
Lots of times the heroine was that legendary actress Mary Pickford, who was so young looking that she was still playing the parts of 14 and 16 year old girls when she was over 50!
Helen was quite proficient at the Morse code Telegraph, ---...---! Helen to the rescue on the motorcycle but no leather helmet for her only a checkered cap!! Helen in charge!!! She told the engineer of the excursion train to uncouple from the coaches and give chase after the runaway 3201 4-6-0 Ten Wheeler. Helen the Brave!!!! Riding the foot boards on the front of the cow catcher. WOW!!! WHAT A GAL!!!!! hi in Sept, 2021 a.d. GOD BLESS!!!!!
The Poor old Indian Roadster, that would be worth a fair bit today :( Great little flick by the way.
I enjoy seeing those ol' steam locomotives. Great movie. Thanks for posting the video! The motorcycle was cool too.
Telegram at 2:03 says injectors open and oil burning which means engine was getting supplied fuel and water when running. Odd that film producers knew to explain details like that back then.
That is very observant. I myself missed that, now that I see it I don't find it odd, that they explained such small details, it's seems people back then were aware of their surroundings and understood things that weren't in their occupation, or what ever they did for a living.
@sfo1164 Yeah, they were the commonest mixed traffic engine here in Britain, what with the LMS Black Fives, the GWR Halls, the LNER B1s and various Great Central engines among others.
Great movie; thanks for posting. Excursion train in trouble similar to first problem in Unstoppable. No stunt performers, everyone did their own stunts.
Excelente cortometraje !!! . Que gran actriz !!!. Quien será ? . Una Súper Mujer !!! .
4:50 That poor motorcycle.
Very cool.
Cannot say enough for this selection . Nice "get" ! Highly enjoyable.
Tom Loughlin Jr, utica NY
That's a great little film !
WoW!, really enjoyed.
Poor girl. She saved the day, the lives aboard the othe train, and the train.
@likitty20 Also in the note she wrote oil on. Notice the tenders don't have coal. Coal was not as readily available in La. but there was plenty of oil. In the 1910's the technology for refining oil was not as good as today. There was in fact waste in the oil industry. The RR purchased the Waste oil for almost nothing. That's why there is plenty of smoke. and the safety valves were popping. Also injectors on depending on how much can overflow the boiler and lock up the cylinders breaking them
That was pretty exciting. Had me on the edge of my seat. Bravo for the brave young lady. In the grand old tradition of Hollywood, the heroin saved the day.
Man this is a really fun film. LJL
Amazing film! )
By using some of the preserved steam locomotives from museums, and excursion train, we can recreate this movie in color in 2021. And also use miniature live steam locomotive model for special effects. And some of the exact locations even after over 100 years. Now, WHO is the Modern Helen????? Hi in September, 2021.
Excellent!
Trains gone wild! Woo! Yeah flash those flywheels girl. Oooh you're a naughty steam engine, yeaaah spread that firebox for me
Lol... you're sick... I like it!
Superb. 💙 T.E.N.
Beautiful!
The San Pedro Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad.
Wouldn't it be interesting to see what is now where their right of way was back then?
Amazing Video
Great video, and great music...thanks for sharing...=)
Hell yeah, nice job Helen. Not sure why your so hazardous.
@sfo1164 Basically, the Railway Series is what Thomas and Friends was before it suffered from sugar-coating and inauthenticity in the hands of television. Old Iron was where the character Edward proves himself in a sort of rodeo-esque rescue of another engine.
i am loving the movie and the music as seperate entities. but together it is almost impossible to get through.
love the movies
Three cheers for the Buckeye coupling -the Americans knew what they were doing when they invented that!.
Man, this is over 100 years old!
Like a short version of Unstoppable with Denzel Washington.
Hello the engine caught up with the runaway they both have buckeye couplings run into the back of the lead engine they snap shut locking them together the rear engine puts on the brakes and brings it to a halt regards Richard
Thank you for sharing this video. I too am not very fond of the modern music but it's just a fine video.
It was oil fueled.
Helen --- "Can I vote now " Boss--- " No! "
Spot on :)
Great fun video, but it got a bit confusing because I think they managed to switch engines at some point in the shooting 3201 sees to have been the train engine and then became the run away (or am I confused)
Very nice video!!! :o)
Watch that guy run the Armstrong levers on the interlocking plant in several spots on the video. There's no doubt he's a straight-out railroad employee rather than an actor! Those are the moves you'd make to operate 'em. One move is "the gentle jerk". It's a hard, controlled snap that you'd arrest a couple inches of movement later into a more controlled pull; that's how you get all that weight (of the draft tubing) moving. You wouldn't accomplish it by just pulling with all your might!
Nice!
I set the playback speed to 75% and it seemed normal. Very entertaining, in spite of the Debbie Downers that kept talking about not feeding coal, etc. Accept it for what it was back then - an action movie.
Haven't seen any comments like that. The loco was oil-fired anyway, as explained in the telegraph message.
Fun! Thank you for sharing and the information.
(Needs *theater organ* music. Hope you can find some and replace what is heard.)
YES!!! (45 years playing theatre organ).
Strangest movie I've ever seen, but I liked it. That Indian motorcycle though: I saw it happening and I was like "NNOOOOO!!"
all way love tis movies
Remove the bloody music, please!!!
Bloody good film, though. If only such things were still possible - how interesting and exciting life would be again!
Thanks.
Great film. It partly reminds me of the Railway Series story "Old Iron" in that another engine was sent out to stop the fleeing light-engine.
James number 4 the red engine 2-6-0 became a runaway when some boys were fiddling with the controls. Then it was Old Iron Edward number 3 4-4-0 was sent to chase after James on the parallel double track. Then the fireman of Edward was able to lasso a hoop of wire rope, with a shunters pole, around James buffer, and Edward was braked to a stop, then Edwards fireman scrambled into James cab to shut off the throttle. James said THANK YOU to Edward. And James said that Edward wasn't a piece of old iron after all. As a reward. SIR Topsham Hatt sent Edward to the repair works...Edward said Oh thank you Sir!! It will be lively not to Clank anymore! Paraphrased due to space. NARRATED BY RINGO STARR of the Beattles. Based on Thomas and Friends. As seen in the 1990S P.B.S. TV. Show, "SHINING TIME STATION". Starring Miss Dee Dee Con as Station Master Miss Stacey Jones. And a delightful cast of fellow actors, like Schemer.lol lol.
@@stevensolway1054 Actually, James and Edward's numbers were 5 and 2 respectively. Also, just for the record, the only reason I didn't state their names was because I appreciated not everyone was going to understand what I meant.
The injectors are placed just. below the firebox and are fed steam from there because it's highest there, the water comes from the tender and is forced into a pipe from this steam. This pipe goes to the front of the loco to the feed water heater, then into the loco at that point because the pressure is lower at the front. Steam locomotives are an excellent point of study, only REAL MEN know about them! If it you ever get a chance to look at the back of a steam engine, check out it's gonads, they are the size of beach balls!
Muito show impressionante a determinação dessa mulher e a bravura do maquinista de ir atras da maquina desgovernada.SAUDADES DOS TEMPOS DA ERA A VAPOR.
Contrary to some views, I think the music was perfect for it! What is the song?
This is a great film for it's depiction of railroad operations and right-of-way signaling, etc. How many people today have seen someone run "armstrong" levers? Hang a mail bag?
The giant gas-holder tank in the background says "L A Gas". maybe it's near Los Angeles? Does anyone remember these tanks, when they made water gas at the coke plants, before natural gas was pipe-lined to the Midwest for heating?
Golliee gee that's the gal fo' me. :)
@sfo1164 Thanks, I found that rather flattering.
perhaps terrible is too strong a word, by all means the music is ok , but it just seems a bit "too modern" for this film,
Lots of really good images of steam locomotives, and of course, our heroine saves the day! I like the music ... it's a bit modern sounding orchestrated as it is, but the tunes would be familiar to someone back then, I believe. Sad about the motorcycle. I hoped the fished it out!
Cheers!
It's not clear to me why the excursion train was shunted into a siding the first time....
Dang that was resky o let me just stop with another engine speeding at me
LOVE the music.
And She saved the day!
When exthropy embarrassed entropy!
San Pedro, Los Angeles, & Salt Lake Railroad. The biggest problem with the story line is that there would've been a fireman on the locomotive along with the conductor. Not bad for 1915 though.
Ah the good 'ol LA&SL.
ffjsb Not necessarily as when moving about in the yard the fireman would often hop off to operate the hand worked points when needed
Possibly, but it wouldn't have been going as fast as it was in the movie...
If it was moving in the yard, it would not have had a conductor. If it were being moved to the ready track from the roundhouse or shop, only a hostler would be needed. Besides, in that era, the conductor did not ride in the locomotive. On the main line, the three man engine crew was the engineer, fireman, and head brakeman. The conductor and rear brakeman rode in the train, or in the caboose on a freight.
Sorry, the music just don't get it in the least.
How come she was dry after she got out of the river? Was it a dry river? Something about this story seems fishy.
Look at the smoke of engines it was windy that's y she dried up early.
Proof water isn't wet! Lol.
"Women cannot use their heads in an emergency!..."
It was great seeing both the wild locomotives and my neighborhood a hundred years ago. I missed something, though. Exactly how did they stop the runaway engine? It seems to stop by itself just as the other engine catches up to it. Did it just run out of fuel? Or did my aging eyes miss an obvious bit of action?
Hollywood magic. Only way you could stop it would be to climb over the tender and into the cab to close the throttle. That's why they were riding the pilot of the chase engine.
That said, the way the engineer got nailed by the electric cord, at best he'd be doing yard speed which is usually 5 mph.... so really it shouldn't have been hard to run down. But, it's a movie...
Probably would have run the fire down and steam was running low. I used to fire over a half ton just to run 5 miles at light throttle.
I had same question.
OH. I missed where it said oil burning.
I assumed we were supposed to think they coupled the chase engine to the runaway and used the brakes. Didn't see anyone climbing over the engine though. I think the saying "it's just a movie." applies here.😂 The plot doesn't really hold water, even if you know nothing about railways but, as a bit of "action-packed" fun, it did the job. 👍
Did I just watch a 97 year old film with the exact same plot as 'Unstoppable'?
Uhmm? Rather interesting!
Wasnt this the storyline of unstoppable
You could say that this is a prequel of sorts.
This is cool...there is another great SALT LAKE ROUTE youtube at -salt lake route rr -- on youtube
My Goodness Me!
this reminds me of a old time version of unstoppable.
@sfo1164 Thanxx for a fast reply! Any chance at all you can get me the name of the song?? I'd just love it!
can it watch it all time
The poor engineers was knocked off the locomotive, but the fireman kept shoveling coal.
It was oil fueled.
I want an admiral cigarette now
What a gal........That's when women were women, and men were men,,,,,We do not do that anymore in the United States........
fleetfoot27
Yep, fleetfoot, so sad that the world has changed so much it literally is not what it used to be between men and women. Shame.
So did the average viewer in 1915 understand the meaning of the various railroad semaphores, the operation of the switchgear etc? Theyre used in the storytelling process, but I'd have no idea of their significance to the plot.
What a woman!
Reminds me of The Perils Of Penelope Pitstop.
Does anyone know-does that railroad drawbridge still exist, and where? BTW, I like that music, especially at 4:37.
It was torn down. The rail line was shifted so that the opening from the naval base could be widened to allow transport ships the get to the base.
There is a drawbridge still in use by the Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad in Ashtabula, Ohio at their main receiving site where they now load coal into the cargo ships that then go to main power plants along the Southern Coast of Lake Eire. It is a Hugh rail yard with, as of 6 years ago, had even old auto-dumpers that would lift the coal cars to dump them right into the transport ships.
If you are ever in the area it is worth the stop to see it as it is a main rail head for three railroads to unload or pickup the coal that the B&LE hauls in.
Bear DarkDawnActual
Thank You. BTW, which naval base was that?
towringer Oh boy, you just had to ask me that one. lol After a train left there it entered the old Cheshire System in South Carolina. It has been all most 45 years since seeing it so the memory needs dusting off, lol. It will come to me and I shall let you know as soon as it does.
Caseygblake SPLA&SL San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake. The UP route via Las Vegas.
The bridge appears to be a Scherzer Rolling Lift bridge.
Fast and Furious.Railway edition.
@junkdeal Musicshake? WTF! looked it up...unreal ! God only knows what's coming up neeeeeext!! No wonder I couldn't find the song on Limewire. Some Joe 6-Pak wrote this?? I'm not really computer-savvy, but I can dial into new stuff better than most for an old guy, and I think I'm gonna give this thing a try!
Great film. I've subscribed. But most movies in those days were silent. If you MUST have music, it should be subdued & more in keeping with the times.
This is the basicly what old iron was ispaierd by
This is real life so there must be another driver in there after he fell out how would the train be going?
Whew!
The must have been filmed in the LA area. All that country side is houses now. Too bad.
Correct!
So homie just lost his bike.
@sfo1164 Oh, that's nothing - I know an awful lot about Thomas. By the way, are all those engines 4-6-0s? Just out of interest.
Such a smoke belcher!
eh, not as much as some of those Alco diesels.