York Nebraska-1958: Train Passing Through York, Nebraska

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Year1958
Decade1950s
LocationYork, Nebraska, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1958 Nebraska

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Train Passing Through York, Nebraska — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a steel train speeding through York, Nebraska. The footage shows a locomotive and passenger cars in motion, with a distinct orange and cream livery, passing by a station platform. The grainy, slightly blurred quality reflects the era's amateur film stock, offering a nostalgic glimpse of mid-century American rail travel. The scene is set during the day, with the train moving from left to right, its wheels and undercarriage visible against the tracks. This archival clip evokes a sense of motion and historical Americana.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127271712

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Commercial Direct license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

No recognizable people, logos, or music are flagged. Lower-risk for commercial use, subject to your own review.

People visible: No
Logos / trademarks: No
Audible music: No

Flags come from automated catalog metadata, not a legal opinion. The source is an original 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie reel. For high-stakes commercial use, request a full rights review.

Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel 1256 · 8mm · 7″ reel
Original reel label: #8
Reel-level year note: 1957-1958
Reel-level location note: new york
Date: 1958 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level note shows the same year, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Location: York, Nebraska, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level location note is linked, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

Confidence labels are defined on Archive Integrity. Fields without a recorded value are shown as not recorded rather than assumed.

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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1950s transportation, railroad, and small-city America edits needing real 8mm home-movie footage of a train passing through York, Nebraska.
Period detail: The orange-and-cream passenger train, metal car sides, visible undercarriage, and station-side track view may show mid-century rail travel details consistent with the 1958 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the value of a bystander or traveler filming a passing train from trackside, capturing motion and scale without staging or narration.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include passenger train cars, blurred wheels, track ballast, dark frame edges, station-side ground, windows, doors, and metal car panels.
Film character: The 8mm image has warm color, soft focus, motion blur, gate edges, grain, and exposure variation that read as original amateur film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a railroad insert, travel transition, regional establishing cutaway, or brief memory beat for mid-century movement through Nebraska.
Historical context: The scene places rail passenger equipment in a daylight small-town trackside setting, offering visual context for everyday American train travel in the late 1950s.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or readable marks are visible in these frames, but users should still review copyright, railway identification, and any property implications.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1958 8mm train footage, York Nebraska railroad, mid-century passenger train passing, vintage home movie rail travel, and orange cream train cars.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel travel shots, then York or Nebraska 1958 material, then broader 1950s railroad, passenger train, and American transportation footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 York, Nebraska 8mm frame of an orange-and-cream passenger train car moving past the camera with wheels and track visible. — A passenger train car passes close to the camera, its lower wheels blurred by motion.

Light-colored train car side passes through York, Nebraska, with a door outline, small window, and undercarriage visible in soft 8mm motion blur. — A light rail car section moves past, showing a door panel and dark undercarriage.

Pale passenger car body in the 1958 York, Nebraska train sequence, with roofline, wheel area, and trackside ground softened by motion. — The train continues past the camera, filling the frame with pale metal siding and blurred wheels.

Final frame of the York, Nebraska train passing sequence, showing a long pale car side, small window area, undercarriage, and tracks. — A long section of rail car siding passes by, with the undercarriage visible above the track bed.

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