Film made of footage filmed in 1930s and edited with title cards in 1950s. Footage of the Colorado and Southern railroad, oil fired 3 feet engine, shunting, coupling to wagons, oiling wheels, goods train departing, journey of train through Colorado landscape, snow, 2 feet gauge Bridgton and Harrison railroad, freight, shunting locomotive, passenger train, passengers boarding, manual operation of turntable, 2 feet gauge Sandy River and Rangeley lakes railroad, freight and passenger train, ball signals, motorcar (railcar), locomotive with snow plough, turntable, snow clearing, Denver and Rio Grande Western railroad narrow gauge division, goods steam train on mountain railway, locomotive No. 479, passenger carriages, passenger train, Silverton Branch Los Anima River Canyon, footage of journey filmed from top of carriages, shots of canyon, mail transport by railcar 'galloping goose' Rio Grande Southern railroad, railcar passing over viaduct, freight pulled by steamn locomotive, end shot of a street in Chicago. This is a print (copy), black and white, silent. Duration: 13 minutes 30 seconds

This film is part of the Railway Roundabout collection donated by the makers of the programme, John Adams and Patrick Whitehouse. They produced films on contemporary British and foreign railways for the BBC Children's programme 'Railway Roundabout, broadcast monthly between 1958 and 1962 on BBC Television. The commentary was created and broadcast live, so the original films in the collection are silent. The Railway Roundabout collection includes the original masters, prints, some offcuts and working material for Railway Roundabout programmes as well as other films (non-Railway Roundabout) made by the John Adams and Patrick Whitehouse and a small number of films made by others. The collection also includes the original un-edited audio recordings made between 1960 and 1965 by John Adams and Patrick Whitehouse for the BBC radio programme Railway Roundup. Additionally, John Adams and Patrick Whitehouse were both photographers, their respective photographic collections are held by the National Railway Museum. This is not a Railway Roundabout film but this film reel was donated by the makers alongside the Railway Roundabout collection.