Everett White in the West

Everett White
in the West

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Everett White in the West- Image of the front cover of the DVD case.

Everett White was a prolific documentarian of the rails. In about 1940, he began traveling America and the world, capturing in still and moving pictures all manner of railroads, with an especially keen eye for electric lines.

Transit Gloria Mundi is proud to present the first collection of White's traction movies released on DVD. This premiere installment, Everett White in the West, covers the US from Chicago to the West Coast. The earliest footage, from 1940, includes cable cars in Seattle, and several San Francisco cable car lines no longer in operation. The most recent footage comes from the mid-1960s and includes the quirky Leonard's M&O subway in Ft. Worth. All the systems on this DVD are listed below. Several were even filmed in two different time periods.

Mr. White's movies come to us courtesy of Don Harold.

Approximately one hour, mostly color

Typeface indicates extent of coverage:
Better coverage · Average coverage · Light coverage

Cedar Rapids & Iowa City
Charles City Western
Chicago, Aurora & Elgin
Chicago, North Shore & Milwaukee
Chicago Rapid Transit
Chicago Transit Authority
Chicago, South Shore & South Bend
Dallas Railway & Terminal
Denver Tramways
Des Moines & Central Iowa
Des Moines Railway
El Paso City Lines
Fort Dodge, Des Moines & Southern
Gary Railways
Illinois Terminal Railroad Co.
Kansas City Public Service Co.
Leonard's M&O Subway (Ft. Worth)
Los Angeles Railway Co.
Milwaukee Electric Railway
New Orleans Public Service
Oklahoma Railway Co.
Pacific Electric
Phoenix Street Railway
Salt Lake, Garfield & Western
Sacramento Northern
San Diego Electric Railway
San Francisco: Cal Cable
Market Street Railway
Municipal Railway
Sand Springs Railway
Seattle Municipal Street Railway
St. Louis Public Service
Texas Electric
Union Traction Co.
Utah Power and Light (Salt Lake City)
Waterloo, Cedar Falls & Northern

We try to give you a flavor of the DVD on this web site with a slew of images.
They are all frame-grabs from the DVD, so every shot you see here is on the DVD.

Images from the DVD with captions excerpted from the narration (about 4MB).
The whole narration script.

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