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This is a 1926 Chicago Surface Lines silent safety film. There are lots of busy street scenes with typical CSL 1920s streetcar operations showing rear platform loading, front exit streetcars, a conductor walking across a railway crossing before flagging the streetcar across the tracks, and unmarked street loading zones.  There are numerous staged accidents with other cars or streetcars--usually where the driver drives right into another vehicle, cars running right through passengers boarding and trying to pass a streetcar on the left.

 

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Originally Posted by TrainsRMe:

Thank you for posting that.  I found the scenes very interesting historically, and somewhat amusing.  Harebrained drivers have always existed, eh?

I think those were the days before dedicated traffic units to keep drivers in line. Add in Prohibition and Chicago must have been a really wild place.  

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