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News Wire: 'Trains,' Luckin to partner on Transcontinental Railroad video

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Posted by Brian Schmidt on Thursday, January 18, 2018 3:34 PM

WAUKESHA, Wis. — Trains Magazine of Waukesha, and Luckin Productions of Golden, Colo., have reached an agreement to produce a documentary for retail as well as public television called “Journey to Promontory, the story of the Transcontine...

http://trn.trains.com/news/news-wire/2018/01/18-transcontinental-video

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Posted by edblysard on Friday, January 19, 2018 12:03 PM

Hope it is treated a little more in depth than it has been...

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Posted by Paul_D_North_Jr on Friday, January 19, 2018 8:09 PM

Too many repetitive books on the subject, but few videos, I think.  Perhaps because there's nothing left of the original venture that moves, beyond the National Park Service replica trains at the Promontory Summit.  So any video will likely be of mostly static subjects, and hence could be pretty dull.  How to bring this to life? "There is more true poetry in the rush of a single railroad train across the continent than in all that gory story of burning Troy." - Joaqiun Miller, 1909.

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Posted by Atlantic and Hibernia on Wednesday, January 24, 2018 11:26 AM

Yawn...another documentary about the transcontinental.

Kevin

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