Steel and Ice
The Trolley Days of Winter

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Steel and Ice: The Trolley Days of Winter - Image of the front cover of the cassette case. It's magic! Against snowy scenes of the city in winter, streetcars festooned with icicles emerge from the driving flakes. The sweep- ers come, whisking the snow in billowy clouds of crystal white. The cars seem to float past on tracks that are all but invisible in the glistening snow, gliding down nearly empty suburban streets, or through the white-on-white of private right-of-way.

In Steel And Ice: The Trolley Days of Winter, Transit Gloria Mundi has gathered some of the most stunning motion pictures ever collected of traction operations in the snow, and combined them with a haunting musical score to create an evocative picture of traction operations in the deep of winter.

Systems shown include: Pittsburgh, Washington DC, Ottawa, Quebec-Ste. Anne, North Shore, New York City, Newark, Boston, Philadelphia City and Suburban, and Baltimore Light Rail.

Features footage of: Russell E. Jackson; and Carvey Davis, Charles Dengler (coll.George Gula), Arthur Ellis, Henry Elsner, Jr., Ken Helsel (coll. Larry Glick), Roger Jenkins, Richard Kehm, Michael Lavelle (coll. Richard Keegan), M.F. McGrew, Ara Mesrobian, George Roush, and Robert Wasche.

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. If you just want a quick impression, try the thumbnails page (about 500KB) with about 75 images from the DVD. Each image can be clicked for a larger version (about 20-35KB each). If you want to know a little bit about each shot, try the thumbnails with captions page (about 500KB), which will also let you enlarge individual images. If you know you'll want to look at all the images enlarged, then go directly to this page, with larger captioned images (about 2.3MB). Finally, if you would like to read the script for the narration, click here.

This DVD contains an alternate (music only) audio mix.

Approximately 50 minutes, all color

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Images from the DVD (thumbnail page, about 500KB)
Thumbnails with captions page (about 500KB).
Larger images from the DVD (with captions, about 2.3MB)
The narration script.

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