Rails Across the Midwest 1973, Kramer

Axtell Kramer 16mm film with narration. Locations include New Orleans, Joliet, Ill, Kirkwood, Mo. (various places around the St. Louis area).

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This footage is STUNNING! Please post more!

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Will do!

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So much variety we miss now!

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Many railroad company mergers took place after this was shot. Sadly, lots of consolidations of trackage too.

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The footage is absolutely fantastic. The soundtrack is torturously bad. It almost spoils the video.