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Birth of a Canadian Pacific 4-8-4 1920's Silent Movie - Tom - 12-08-2009
Just a neat old clip of the birth of CP 3100 & 3101 courtesy of the canadian Pacific Archives. Even being a flatlander Californian on the WP, I really enjoyed this and figured my friends here both north and south of the border would enjoy it too.
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Re: Birth of a Canadian Pacific 4-8-4 1920's Silent Movie - doctorwayne - 12-08-2009
Thanks for posting that, Tom.
Very informative and an interesting glimpse back to the time when we actually made stuff.Wayne
Re: Birth of a Canadian Pacific 4-8-4 1920's Silent Movie - sgtcarl1 - 12-08-2009
What a great movie!!! Thanks for posting the link!! Boy, wouldn't OSHA, etc. have a massive heart attack watching that one!!
Re: Birth of a Canadian Pacific 4-8-4 1920's Silent Movie - Selector - 12-09-2009
Thanks for posting this! Very nice looking engines.
-Crandell
Re: Birth of a Canadian Pacific 4-8-4 1920's Silent Movie - Steamtrains - 12-09-2009
Great link...!! It should be titled "Those Magnificent Men and Their Steaming Machines"....
Reminded me of a phrase in a Kurt Vonnegut book that goes something like this...
"How God must have laughed when He saw how men had contrived to mix fire, iron and water to make a steam engine...".
Re: Birth of a Canadian Pacific 4-8-4 1920's Silent Movie - Wayne R - 12-09-2009
Thanks for posting the video link.That was a great video.
I enjoy watching anything that shows how steam locomotives were built. It was actually so enjoyable I am off to my work shop to get some work done on my CNR U-1-f Mountain locomotive. It is also a good day to be in the work shop as we are getting a snow storm here. :x Wayne Reid
Re: Birth of a Canadian Pacific 4-8-4 1920's Silent Movie - eightyeightfan1 - 12-09-2009
That was cool!
Scared me a little though, people walking under the loco when it was up in the air like that. Definatly something you wouldn't see today.
Are the Angus Shops still in operation?
Re: Birth of a Canadian Pacific 4-8-4 1920's Silent Movie - tetters - 12-10-2009
That was great.
I like the comments about OHAS. That was filmed when Men were Real MEN!
...and sheep were scared!
hock: :o 
Re: Birth of a Canadian Pacific 4-8-4 1920's Silent Movie - Russ Bellinis - 12-11-2009
Thanks for the post. I saw it on the board a few days ago, but did not have the time to look at it then. I finally found time to view the film. Awesome, I would imagine that film was quite a production back in 1928. How long did it take to build that locomotive from the original wooden patterns to finished product, with a film crew or at least cameraman there for a good part of the build to get all of that filmed. It must have been months at least! The music made a nice back ground to the film as well.
Re: Birth of a Canadian Pacific 4-8-4 1920's Silent Movie - 2-8-2 - 12-12-2009
Neat video! Thanks for posting it.
Re: Birth of a Canadian Pacific 4-8-4 1920's Silent Movie - e-paw - 12-12-2009
that's some cool stuff.