The Biograph catalog summarized this film as follows: "Showing the arrival of a Chinese passenger train at the station."
       The U.S. Library of Congress catalog, using the title Arrival of Train, Tien-Tsin, gives the following description: "The camera was located above the platform in a railway station, looking down on the track. Approaching the camera position is a locomotive pulling several freight cars, passenger cars, etc. Many people are on the platform awaiting the arrival of the train."
       See also other Tientsin films, including The French Bridge; French Bridge, Tien-Tsin; On the Pei-Ho; An Oriental Highway; Street Scene, Tientsin (China); The Taku Road; Tien-Tsin; and The War in China--Ruin of Tien-Tsin (all 1901).
       The American Mutoscope Company was co-founded in Dec 1895 by former Edison Manufacturing Company inventor William K. L. Dickson (who left Edison in Apr of that year), fellow inventors Herman Casler and Harry Marvin, and businessman Elias Koopman. Their Mutoscope, which originally made flip-card peep show movies, soon rivaled Thomas Edison's Kinetoscope (see Edison Kinetoscopic Records for 1893). In the summer of 1896, when Edison introduced the Vitascope 35mm projector, American Mutoscope immediately came out with its own 68mm projector that offered a superior image. In 1899, the company changed its name to the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, then shortened it nine years later to the Biograph Company. ...