Steve Klare
Film Guy
Posts: 7016
From: Long Island, NY, USA
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted July 18, 2018 06:53 PM
Gordon,
I appreciated The Railrodder a little more once I saw Buster Keaton Rides Again. I thought it was a nice touch they filmed it in black and white, too!
Maurice,
This is the kind of track I'm thinking of: (It's a long way down!)
It's sad how little operating narrow gauge there was left in North America by this time: it couldn't readily compete with trucks after the Depression and a lot of it went when the price of scrap iron was driven up by WWII. Today there probably isn't 1,000 miles total, and almost none of it transports freight.
-------------------- All I ask is a wide screen and a projector to light her by...
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