Lost Locos (1936)

Item title reads - Lost Locos!



Swindon, Wiltshire.



L/S of old steam engines in Breaker's Yard. M/S of men using torches with very hot flames to cut through the steel. Various shots as the engines are dismantled and carried away, the wheels are broken up. M/S of a weight being lifted up then dropped onto another part. L/S as they cut through the steel with the torch, part of the tender falls away. A hydraulic chisel breaks up boiler tubes, the cab roof is lifted off. L/S of a man sifting through a big pile of what is left.
FILM ID:1126.23

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