 Returning to "The General" with Annabelle, he tries to kiss his girl but has to return the salutes of troops walking past.Johnnie finally uses his left hand to embrace Annabelle while using his right to blindly salute the passing soldiers while the screen fades.In early 1926, Keaton's collaborator Clyde Bruckman told him about William Pittenger's 1863 memoir "The Great Locomotive Chase", about the 1862 Great Locomotive Chase.