There were several (seven or eight) negatives not just one. Each will be given its own file.
This photo shows the number 3 locomotive all gussied up for a movie role. It's portraying a number 3 on the Ohio & Mississippi Railroad in Indiana. Notice the wood stacked on the engine tender. Number 3 is normally an oil burner. On 9/17/1861 a bridge was sabotage and 100 Union troops were killed. On 10/6/1866 the Reno gang made history by staging the first railroad robbery. The gang was quite notorious staging two more railroad robberies, giving the first three ever done. They went on for a couple more years until; ten of the gang members were hung by vigilantees. Which caused an international incident with Canada and Great Britain. In 1955 the movie Rage At Dawn was filmed at Jamestown and was purported to be about the Reno gang. The stars were Randolph Scott, Forest Tucker, Mala Powers, J Carrol Naish A side note, the covered bridge at O'Byrnes Ferry road was used in the movie also. (Shortly before it was demolished for its replacement.)
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Type: still camera
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TCHS - Tuolumne County Historical Society
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railroading, transportation, Railtown 1897, Sierra Railroad, Jamestown, Durham, Ernest, Ohio & Mississippi, Reno Gang, Rage At Dawn, Randolph Scott, Forest Tucker, Mala Powers, J Carrol Naish, Number 3 as an Ohio & Mississippi engine
