CANADIAN NATIONAL & GRAND TRUNK RAILROAD STEAM LOCOMOTIVES IN ACTION 1958 TRAIN FILM MD53174

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 Shot by Fred McLeod between Montreal and Toronto, this film of the Canadian National Railroad in action dates to 1958. McLeod was something of a visionary, who recognized that the arrival of diesel locomotives meant that the days of steam were doomed. This film shows steam locomotives in operation pulling both freight and passenger trains in a variety of settings, and all in full color. Some of this material was later released by Blackhawk Films in b&w. Mcleod was dogged in his pursuit, and was so obsessed with the feature known as Horseshoe Curve in Altoona that he filmed there on and off for three full years -- until the last of the steam engines retired. Although its difficult to see any of the numbers of th