A steam locomotive pulling a passenger train of the Detroit, Toledo and Ironton Railroad (acquired by Ford Motor Company in 1920) arrives at a station and passengers alight. Train leaves the station. Buildings at the station. A group of men on the station platform. Large water tank for servicing steam locomotives with logo of DT&I railroad on it. A porter wheeling a dolly passes on way to some buildings. Passengers standing on platform of train station. Railroad man switches several gondola rail cars to siding. A steam locomotive backing up pulls several Ford Motor Company gondola rail cars from a loading facility and then returns again. A local worker and his family are seen as he pushes two children in a swing. The family poses in front of a modest dwelling, and then go inside. One small house is a log cabin with chinking. The other is a simple wooden house or shack.
Industrial railroad yard of Detroit, Toledo and Ironton Railroad. Logo appears on a station building and on a water tank in the yard. Various railroad cars are seen, including gondolas and passenger cars. Steam rises from several buildings in the complex. Several cars are parked in a field near railroad tracks. A steam locomotive pulling passenger cars passes. Cars are seen parked by a building with a sign reading:"Detroit, Toledo and Ironton" atop its roof. Scene shifts to railroad yard, where several trains are seen on multiple tracks. Views of industrial buildings surrounding the yard. View of a smelting plant.
Steam locomotive of Detroit, Toledo and Ironton Railroad billows steam as it pulls a long freight train along track beside a river. Four railroad men gather around a small utility rail car. They load tools into it and one climbs into it as the other three push it along the track. Downtown street scene in Wellston, Ohio. Several persons walk on sidewalk in front of the Wellston Post Office. Soldiers Monument seen on Broadway Street,in background. A traffic circle with Civil War cannon and cannon balls on display in the center. A family posing on the porch of a home. One of the men wears overalls over his shirt and tie. Painter in overalls stenciling the DT&I logo on a freight car.
People enter a zoo constructed under Works Progress Administration project in Chicago, Illinois, during the Great Depression. People look at the ducks in a pond and chimpanzees eating ice cream. Men and women painters work to paint a large mural on a theatre stage or band shell. It depicts a Native American Indian Chief in a long white robe.
Scenes of car accidents and car crashes in the 1930s. A 1930s sedan plunging off of un unfinished roadway; several scenes of cars crashing into each other. A car plunging off of a cliff and smashing into a cliff wall as it falls. A train crashing into a car parked on railroad train tracks. Views of smashed cars in wrecks. Service stations set up under Works Progress Administration project in Chicago, Illinois during the Great Depression to check cars for mechanical defects and safety problems, in order to reduce incidents of accidents. WPA workers in a work coat labeled "CPD" check cars at an annual safety inspection station. A worker applies a sticker to the inside right windshield of a car certifying that it passed the inspection. Views of Chicago landmark buildings in the background.
A grain elevator burns in a fire near Chicago during the Great Depression. The complex of buildings in flames. A huge tower at the site, in flames, and falling into a river. Men demolish old derelict buildings that are fire hazards, under Works Progress Administration project in Chicago, Illinois. Children play at a playground after demolition of old buildings. A group of boys playing baseball or softball at a newly cleared lot.
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