Way Library’s classic film series, Reel Talk, continues Thursday, December 9 at 2 p.m., with a screening of “The Great Locomotive Chase.”

The 1956 Walt Disney film is based on the real event also known as the Andrews Raid or Mitchel Raid. It was a military raid that occurred April 12, 1862, in northern Georgia during the Civil War.

Members of the Union Army, led by civilian James J. Andrews, commandeered a Confederate train and took it northward toward Chattanooga, Tennessee, doing as much damage as possible to the vital Western and Atlantic Railroad line from Atlanta to Chattanooga as they went. The Great Locomotive Chase has ties to Perrysburg as two Union Army members who commandeered the train were from Perrysburg.

Richard Baranowski, local history librarian, will lead a discussion of the film afterward and answer questions from the audience.

Admission is free and reservations are required. For more information, visit waylibrary.info or call 419-874-3135 extension 119.

Masks are required for all indoor Way Library programs, regardless of vaccination status.