A railroad excursion in Quebec, Canada. Nearly 1200 railroad enthusiast passengers aboard railroad trains pulled by Northern 4-8-4 and Pacific 4-6-2 steam locomotives. View of steam locomotive CN 6153 (from the Canadian National Railway, or CNR) pulling train cars, and view of the passengers inside as they enjoy a 200 mile long excursion trip. People look out from the train window. Many railroad hobbyists are wearing conductor's caps. They click pictures of the steam locomotives pulling the trains. A man laying on the railroad track as he clicks a picture of a distant approaching train. View of steam locomotive passing by a train station platform at high speed.
New B-10 bombers taxi and take off. Under command of Lieutenant Colonel Henry (Hap) Arnold, a contingent of B-10s undertakes a long range mission from Washington, DC, to Fairbanks, Alaska. Aircraft and crews seen in heavy snow and cold in Alaska. Upon return to Washington, Arnold receives the MacKay trophy.
Launching of the "Myrina, " the largest tanker ship ever launched in the United Kingdom. The ship measures 1050 feet long and weighs 191thousand tons. She is seen going down the ways at Harland & Wolff shipyard, Belfast, Northern Ireland. During her launching, a gust of wind catches her, before tug boats can assist, and she goes aground. But she is quickly pulled free and proceeds on her way.
View of the National Portrait Gallery (St. Martin's Pl, London WC2H 0HE, United Kingdom) and Church of St. Martin-in-the-Fields (St Martin-in-the-Fields Trafalgar Square, London WC2N 4JJ, United Kingdom), near Trafalgar Square, London, England. Among pedestrians seen are two young hippie men with long hair and dressed in hippie fashion. The camera focuses on them and their attire.
Home-made deep sea scuba diving suits in Venice Beach, California. Men don hot water boiler diving helmets and get into water. Women stand on beach and pump bicycle syle air pumps to provide air through long black tubes extending to the divers. Divers come out of the ocean water carrying a "treasure" box from bottom of the ocean floor. Woman comes out of the treasure box as they open it.
A rug factory on fire in Los Angeles. Fire men battle to get fire under control. View of wrecked building and topping walls after the fire. Wounded fireman brought out of the building. Fire rages through the block long factory building.
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