[Chute Homestead—home movies] Reel 10

Datecirca 1941

Viewing NotesFootage of people in late 19th to early 20th Century period costumes, with many of the men dressed as train conductors or railroad workers, the majority of women wearing red handkerchiefs on their heads and a woman pushing a carriage carrying a boy dressed as a baby. The footage includes people posing and playing by a train station and a sign that reads “International Border United States Sandy Creek”, two men unloading suitcases and inspecting the items they find in them, such as a bottle of liquor and a gun, people getting on a train and departing, two scenes with a man dressed as a hobo eating on the tracks and disrupting the train, people picking and eating off of bushes along the tracks, people dressed as bandits robbing the train, a scene with a car blocking the tracks and people singing and dancing to music by a fiddle and a banjo player. Footage of workers laying tracks and a train pulling into a station then turning on a turntable.

Can DescriptionsNotes on can: “Chute Homestead; Narrow Gauge Train Trip”