Elevated railroad, New York / - movie film screenshot

Taken from the front end of a locomotive following an express train at high speed around the high curves of the Ninth Avenue Elevated, from the 104th to 116th Street station. This section, with its reverse curve, is known as "The Big Loop", and is the highest (at over 100 feet) and most dangerous section on the New York Elevated. During the trip, Grant's Tomb, Columbia College buildings, the new Cathedral of St. John The Divine, and Morningside Park, as well as a portion of the north end of Central Park are visible.
H28548 U.S. Copyright Office
Copyright: American Mutoscope & Biograph Co.; 24Feb1903; H28548.
Duration: 1:07 at 15 fps.
Photographed in 1899 in New York City.
Part of summary taken from the Biograph bulletins 1896-1908 and from the Biograph catalog.
Biograph production no. 885.
Paper print shelf number (LC 1589) was changed when the paper prints were re-housed.
Additional holdings for this title may be available. Contact reference librarian.
Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as digital files.
Sources used: Niver, K. Early motion pictures, p. 88; Biograph production logs; Biograph bulletins, 1908-1912, p. 250; Biograph photo catalog, v. 2, No. 500-1001, viewed online December 11, 2015 via New Jersey Digital Highway; Biograph picture catalog, 1902, p. 123, viewed online December 11, 2015 via New Jersey Digital Highway; AFI catalog, film beginnings, 1893-1910, p. 38; Brennan J. Beach Pneumatic, viewed online via Columbia University WWW site, December 11, 2015; Wikipedia WWW site (IRT Ninth Avene Line), viewed December 11, 2015.
Early motion pictures : the Paper Print Collection in the Library of Congress / by Kemp R. Niver. Library of Congress. 1985.
35 mm dupe neg pic renumbered: FPE 5559 to FZA 2338.