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Black Diamond Express, No. 1-2
Hierarchical level:Item (Accession level)Date:1897Item number (ISN):15892Type of material:Moving imagesFound in:Archives / Film, Video and Sound -
Record information – Details Fonds/collection:FLAHERTY BROTHERSAccession:1982-0026Media:FilmPart:1 of 1Production date:1897Production company:Edison Manufacturing CompanyDescription:This scene presents the famous Lehigh Valley flyer, the Black Diamond Express, emerging from a wood in the distance and approaching the camera under a full head of steam. A section gang in the foreground, engaged in repairing track, wave their hats to the engineer who is leaning out of the cab window. The snowy linen which the porters wave from the platform of the dining car ads to the effect produced. After it flies past, railway officials come into view waving and cheering at the camera. The Black Diamond is undoubtedly the handsomest, and one of the fastest, trains in America, and the subject is the only one in existence showing an express train making seventy miles an hour. <20s>Subjects:BLACK DIAMOND EXPRESS~RAILROAD EXPRESS TRAINSLanguage:SilentNotes:Detailed holdings information: -
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