Railroads are Fun
odd: label: General
content: Local Numbers: HSFA 1991.20.28
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Soule, Thayer
setName: label: See more items in
content: Thayer Soule Travel Lecture Films collection
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2 Film reels (69 minutes, color silent; 2,484 feet, 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1961
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Film reels
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Edited film documents several aspects of travel by railroads. Locales shown include Big Sur, California; Grand Central Station, New York; Strasburg Railroad Station; Chicago, Illinois; The Grand Canyon; Disneyland, Anaheim, California; cable cars in San Francisco, California; the Rio Grande and Durango, Colorado. Also documented are scenes of building and maintaining a railroad, a train "carwash", digging out a train covered in snow, the Ringling Brothers Circus train, and the trolly under the Library of Congress.

Supplementary materials: publicity materials, still photographs, sound recording of lecture

Legacy keywords: Transportation railroad train America ; Transportation trolly America ; Transportation trains care of America ; Travel by train America ; Circus ; Railroad construction