Philadelphia Express, Jersey Central Railway /

"The scene of the overhead crossing of the Pennsylvania and Jersey Central railroads at Elizabeth, N.J. While a Pennsylvania train is passing over the arch, the Philadelphia Express on the Central Railroad comes dashing underneath at full speed, head on to the audience"--Maguire & Baucus catalogue.
43412 U.S. Copyright Office
Copyright: Thomas A. Edison; 31July1897; 43412.
Camera, William Heise?
Duration: 0:20 at 30 fps.
Paper print shelf number (LC 0881) was changed when the paper prints were re-housed.
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Filmed in June or July 1897, in Elizabeth, New Jersey.
Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as digital files.
Sources used: Copyright catalog, motion pictures, 1894-1912; Musser, C. Edison motion pictures 1890-1900, p. 314-315; Niver, K. Early motion pictures, p. 248; Maguire & Baucus. Fall catalogue, 1897, p. 9 [MI].
Early motion pictures : the Paper Print Collection in the Library of Congress / by Kemp R. Niver. Library of Congress. 1985.