Taiwan-1982: Orange Electric Locomotive Hauling Blue Coaches Across a River Bridge

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Year1982
Decade1980s
LocationTaiwan
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1982 · Taiwan
StatusStockfilm Exclusive

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What is in this clip

rail transport
electrification
industrial landscape
Taiwan in the 1980s
travel
rail enthusiasm
infrastructure

Shot type: wide
Camera: pan · handheld · eye level from across the water
Setting: outdoor · Riverside rail bridge on an electrified main line, with industrial chimneys, low buildings and hills beyond
Time and weather: day · hazy, overcast
Lighting: flat diffuse daylight with haze
People: 0 · No clearly identifiable people; only tiny indistinct figures may appear far off near the bridge.
Vehicles: orange-and-white electric locomotive · dark blue passenger coaches
Objects: electric locomotive · passenger coaches · pantograph · catenary gantries · overhead wires · girder bridge · concrete piers · factory chimneys · electricity pylon
Colors: orange · white · dark blue · grey-blue
Master dimensions: 3840 × 2160
Audio: Silent
Date confidence: Low
Location confidence: High

Moments in the footage

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The orange electric locomotive is on the bridge, with factory chimneys and a pylon behind it.
The pan continues past catenary gantries, with a hill in the background and the piers reflected below.
The locomotive leaves the frame on the left as the dark blue coaches follow.
The blue coaches blur across the bridge as the shot ends.

Orange Electric Locomotive Hauling Blue Coaches Across a... — Clip Details

Taiwan, circa 1982, home movie footage of a railway scene on the electrified Western Trunk Line. An orange-and-white electric locomotive with a raised pantograph crosses a steel girder bridge on concrete piers, pulling dark blue passenger coaches with a white stripe. Factory chimneys, a pylon, low buildings and a hazy hill stand behind, and the piers reflect in the still water. A long telephoto lens pans left with the train until the coaches blur past.

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: 800002000

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

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Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel record not linked for this clip
Date: 1982 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no reel-level note is linked.
Location: Taiwan Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no reel-level note is linked.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: This clip answers requests for early 1980s Taiwan railway footage, especially the electric main line, for documentary, history and travel productions.
Period detail: The orange-and-white electric locomotive, overhead catenary and factory chimneys point to Taiwan's electrified Western Trunk Line in the years after 1979.
Home-movie behavior: A visiting rail enthusiast took this unstaged shot from the riverbank, panning to keep a passing train in frame the way a hobbyist would.
What appears in frame: The frame shows an orange electric locomotive with a raised pantograph, dark blue coaches, a girder bridge on concrete piers, catenary gantries, factory chimneys and a pylon, and a hazy hill above calm water.
Film character: The Super 8 picture has soft grain and cool, slightly faded colour, with telephoto haze and motion blur on the coaches that give it a period look.
Edit role: Editors can use it as a transport cutaway, an establishing shot of Taiwan's railway, or a transition, since the train moves through the frame.
Historical context: The locomotive belongs to the electric fleet that ran on the Western Trunk Line after electrification was completed in 1979.
Research note: No identifiable people or readable logos appear; the film copyright is separate from any railway livery or property concerns, so check the licence terms for your use.
Research search match: Search terms include Taiwan electric train 1980s, train crossing river bridge in Asia, Super 8 railway home movie, and orange locomotive with blue coaches.
Archive pairing path: Pair it first with this reel's orange electric locomotive hauling blue coaches, the locomotive under a flyover, and the yellow-and-orange EMU, then with other Taiwan scenes from about 1982, then with railway bridge crossings.

Still Frames From This Clip

Orange electric locomotive crossing a river bridge in Taiwan, circa 1982, with industrial chimneys and power lines behind — An electric locomotive moves onto the river bridge, with factory chimneys and a pylon in the distance. Taiwan, circa 1982.
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Taiwan Railway electric locomotive with dark blue coaches on a river bridge below a hill, circa 1982, filmed on Super 8 — The locomotive pulls dark blue coaches past catenary gantries, and the bridge piers are reflected below.
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Panning shot of an orange electric locomotive and blue coaches over a river in western Taiwan, circa 1982 — As the camera pans, the locomotive reaches the left edge of the frame and the blue coaches follow it across the bridge.
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Dark blue passenger coaches blurring across a river bridge in Taiwan, circa 1982, with hazy hills behind — The coaches blur past at the end of the shot, above the still river.
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