An express train in Formosa, Taiwan. Formosan girls sit around a table during a tea ceremony. The girls walk over a bridge and through a garden. A Formosan girl stands holding a flower. She puts the flower in a running stream. A close up of the Formosan girl. The girls on the bridge look at a boat in the stream. An express train moves on tracks. People seated inside the train. A parlor car of the train. Passengers look at countryside. The train moves past a railroad station and Formosan countryside. Animated map of train route from Taihoku to Taichou.
Locomotive train wheels begin to move. Train driver pulls train horn string. Franklin Roosevelt in great meeting with crowd outside Topeka Kansas State Capitol building (201 SW 8th Ave, Topeka, KS 66603, United States). Franklin Roosevelt smiles at crowd. Large group of mules pulling combine in wheat field in Kansas. A huge crowd of farmers and Democrat supporters at rally with Franklin Roosevelt. Speeding locomotive pours out smoke as train carrying Franklin Roosevelt travels to Seattle, Washington. Crowds gathered in Seattle train station to see Franklin Roosevelt. A Native American Indian chief in the crowd waves at Franklin Roosevelt. Franklin Roosevelt waves at supporters in train station. Motorcade welcoming Franklin Roosevelt in Seattle.
A transport ship carrying released German prisoners of war arrives at a Baltic Sea port during World War II. Crowds cheer the returning prisoners of war and throw flowers at them. Sailors perform the Nazi salute. Women and children waving bouquets of flowers. Prisoners of war crowd the deck of a ship with a Nazi flag. Nazi officials among the crowd welcoming the soldiers home from North Africa. Former prisoners of war disembark from ship one by one. They are holding bouquets given to them. Sign reads “Die heimat grüßt euch” (“Greetings from the homeland”). An Afrika Korps veteran soldier holding a bunch of flowers besides a smiling woman. Girls offering flowers to an Afrika Korps veteran smoking a pipe. Elderly women admire a young veteran. An Afrika Korps veteran cradling a kitten. A woman writes on a notebook at a table with paperwork processing the incoming soldiers. Stamps and wads of cash on the desk. A nurse and a German soldier together. The soldiers board a waiting railroad train. A woman gives a cup of beer to a soldier, through the train window. The soldier drinks it and smile. A soldier with a cast talking to his friend. Soldiers returning to Germany for rest. Railroad train cars filled with smiling, German soldiers who crowd at the windows and wave to family, friends, women and children crowding the train station platform to see them off. Crowds waving at the soldiers as the train leaves the train station.
A railroad marshalling yard in France during World War 1. Several American soldiers stand near tracks as a French locomotive pulls a train past them. With all tracks now clear except for one long train of box cars, American soldiers walk beside the train carrying their full field packs and 1903 Springfield rifles as they board the box cars. Closeup of some soldiers boarding. They wear Garrison caps and carry their steel helmets with their packs. Officers monitor the boarding activity. Next, a steam locomotive is seen pulling the long train of loaded box cars. Soldiers sit with their feet dangling from open box car doors. Closeups of locomotives pulling a train of closed freight cars and of another pulling various cargoes, including wooden poles and building materials.
Destroyed railroad train cars of Budapest to Vienna express railway train seen on slope following derailment in Biatorbágy, Hungary. Rescue workers help. Three other railroad train car coaches hang over the snapped structure of the bridge and three remain on the tracks. Wrecked coaches of the train. Notes found on the device collected by men. The train derailed crossing the Biatorbágy Bridge. The derailment was caused by dynamite bombing of the bridge, rigged by Szilveszter Matusk.
United States Presidential elections of 1948. A railway station in United States. Thomas Dewey, the Republican candidate for U.S. Presidential elections arrives in a train. He meets people at the station terminal. He stands at the train door and addresses the crowd from train itself. On the train is written 'Dewey Victory Special'. A crowd gathers to hear his speech. Dewey along with his wife, Frances Hutt Dewey, waves at the crowd and moves inside the train.
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