Freight Train Trailer (1898)
Another entry in Edison's "Southern Pacific Company Series", which pretty much had cameramen hanging around the train line just shooting anything they could.
Watch the official Freight Train 1898 trailer in HD below.
International Releases Dates
United States 20 March 1898
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UP ES44ACe #7500 leads Eastbound smoking freight train units @ Laramie WY 6/1/2014 MVI 1898
ES44ACe #7500 C44/60AC #7037 AC4400CWCTE # 5654 head East thru Laramie with a mixed freight. Trailing units belching a bit of black smoke.
Popular movie trailers from 1898
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1898:
Un pont à Kyoto Trailer (1898)
18 September 1898
Pedestrian and rickshaws traffic on Shijo Kobashi bridge, in Kyoto.
Néron essayant des poisons sur des esclaves Trailer (1898)
02 January 1898
Nero, seated on a throne, has slaves summoned. Each drinks poison and dies, the second even though he can see the corpse of his predecessor.
A Switchback Railway Trailer (1898)
01 January 1898
The Switchback Railway was the forerunner of the roller coaster. Passengers sit in a small car which trundles up a swooping railway track then performs a 180 degree turn at its summit before swooping back down on a parallel track.
From War to Peace: First Departure of S.S. 'St. Louis' from Southampton Trailer (1898)
05 November 1898
The SS 'St. Louis' departs from Southampton Docks
Faust and Mephistopheles Trailer (1898)
01 January 1898
Satan conjures a vision of a girl, for whom an old man signs a pact and is made young. This is a losh
Scheveningen, Dutch Fishing Boats Trailer (1898)
01 January 1898
Sailors disembarking on the beach in Scheveningen, Netherlands. Shot on 68 mm Mutoscope-Biograph.
The Ball Game Trailer (1898)
19 May 1898
The Reading's [Pennsylvania] pitcher has just let a Newark [New Jersey] batsman walk to first. Our camera is stationed about twenty feet from the bag, and the satisfied grin of the runner is great as he touches first and gets up on his toes for second.
A Street Arab Trailer (1898)
20 May 1898
A preadolescent boy, dressed like a street urchin, performs acrobatic stunts for the camera.
Disappearing Act Trailer (1898)
01 January 1898
An illusionist makes a woman disappear in thin air. There is no credited director for this film, although three different persons get attributed, Gaston Breteau, Alice Guy or Georges Hatot.
Mount Taw R.R., No. 3 Trailer (1898)
20 May 1898
This picture was taken on the line of the Mt. Tamalpais Scene R.R., and whereas the previous views were taken ascending, this is a descending view, the camera being placed on the front end of the train which follows another train consisting of two passengers coaches and an engine.
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