DANGER LIGHTS HIGHLIGHTS 1930 Film

Danger Lights is a 1930 movie starring Louis Wolheim, Robert Armstrong, and Jean Arthur.
The plot concerns railroading on the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad, and the movie was largely filmed along that railroad's lines in Montana. The railway yard in Miles City, Montana was a primary setting, while rural scenes were shot along the railway line through Sixteen Mile Canyon, Montana. Additional footage was shot in Chicago, Illinois. The film has been edited to show the train highlights including a steam loco tug of war, a 100 mph run to Chicago and some of the best train action ever filmed by Hollywood!

[@scooby19784]

great video

[@Zebrails]

it just doesn't get any better than this.

[@spartonboat1]

This clip has fabulous outtakes. My father has this film. If you are a fan of steam trains or esp. period pieces with the attendant big city backgrounds and the train yard from that time, this is a 'must have' movie. Also, there are some excellent actors in this file. Wolheim also made a fine WWI movie. It also shows the attitudes between workers and management back at that time in some shots, during the depression!

[@goldcreekfilmsGCF]

Great archival film of the railroad

[@kingjameswww]

Great backdrop and views ...

[@TheClaudHamilton]

@sfo1164 Yeah, I thought so.

[@billbright1755]

5:21 Lombard Montana

[@TheClaudHamilton]

You know, I actually saw something similar to that shunt of war in an old British film that I assume was made by Pathe. It had two London and South Western 0-4-2 tender engines pitted against one of that railway's new N15 "King Arthur" 4-6-0s, and naturally the bigger engine won fair and square. I think those smaller ones were being a bit exuberant though, because their wheels kept spinning wildly.

[@Pikman01]

rofl That Battery Commercial reminds me of the Duracell ones xD

[@manga12]

7.18 now that is what I call a highball run, all out at 100 mph, however you would not be able to hold on to a train like that going that speed not to mention the jostling that a steam engine does they would pound the tracks dont think you would be able to hold on with that kind of momentum from each piston drive.

[@spartonboat1]

No doubt the tug of war was by two engines with 'warn out tires' due for replacement and on a stretch of track not on the main. It was a fire-able offense on the RR's to spin the wheels on a mainline or 'road' hauler, because of the damage to the tires. Probably the greatest train movie of all time, when steam was at its peak and when the mainlines ran at 105mph between NY and Chicago!!

[@TheClaudHamilton]

Noticed something about the engine heading off to clear the line; it shares numbers with a London Midland and Scottish 8F Class 2-8-0, which at present is painted in that company's maroon livery. By the way, was that continuous whistling during the yard scene for effect, or was an alarm being sounded?

[@48alfaone]

The Film Crew must of had a gas filming this, haha!

[@THOMAS81Z]

And thsnk god for eveready batteries lol

[@spartonboat1]

@sfo1164 I believe that is the movie in which he received good reviews. Also, he was an excellent college football athlete. Jean Arthur and Robert Armstrong were also well known at that time!

[@TheClaudHamilton]

Wait - "tug" of war? Considering that those two engines were pushing against each other rather than pulling, I would have called it a "SHUNT" of war. All the same, I quite liked that montage of clips. By the way, did American loco crews really have to hang from the cab like that to cool off a hot axlebox? Surely that's a bit dangerous. Mind you, I'm British, so I'm no real expert on American railroad practises.

[@derail14]

The scene with fixing the hotbox is a hollywood stunt, on a real rr you always stop the train to take care of those types of problems.