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Description
The film begins after a ten second delay, as it shows multiple shots of people by a lake before cutting to a sign for Vancouver and other neon signs around the city at night. The scene then transitions to an unidentified countryside filmed from a moving train. At the four minute, fifty second mark, the video cuts out before showing a large group of people getting off of a contemporary train before getting on an older steam engine that then goes through an old logging camp. A train scrap yard is briefly shown before the video again cuts to a crowd of people watching a demonstration of farm equipment. The video then cuts out for another ten seconds. The video comes back to show maps for the ghost town of Calico before changing to a group of people boarding a diesel train that goes through Riverside. The video shows a dimly lit interior of the train cars and then cuts to a church exterior with the word “Yermo” painted across the front. The group is then shown walking around the Calico ghost town and boarding the Calico & Odessa R.R. train before the video cuts out. Written on container/reel: WSF 200/50
Type
moving image
Format
Reversal Original Silent Color 8mm film
Form/Genre
Travelogues (Motion pictures)
Extent
1 Reel of 1
Identifier
ID 265 cscrm_000451
Language
English
Subject
Excursions Trains
Provenance
California State Railroad Museum Library and Archives California Revealed is supported by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian.
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