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Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. According to the negative sleeve, this set of photographs is captured in color. The scans of these images are in black and white. Photograph of a train traveling through the Sacramento River canyon. A train car, viewed close-up, occupies the right third of the image. Beyond it, additional train cars stretch back on an angle towards center as the train travels through a canyon. To the left of the train, a small shed stands in partial view as it rises from the bottom edge. It faces towards the right. A tree-covered hillside, to the left of the train, rises up towards the left. Up the hillside, at center, a freight train travels along tracks that jut out towards the camera. Four punched holes line the bottom edge at right. Text from negative sleeve: 2287. Color. Banff trip June 1947. Dunsmuir en route June 23. Coming down Sacramento River canyon Above is the tracks and trestle and a freight train following us down. Mertie West on platform at Dunsmuir California. 2 films of Mt Shasta from Mt Shasta station. Taken from train when stopt [sic]. Looking back from Mt Shasta station at Black Butte. Old Sisson - now Mt Shasta - looking west from train at station. 6 films
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