https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/891a523b-4a70-4dde-a060-1f417f095938 Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCddem5RlB3bQe99wyY49g0g/join Want to learn more about Periscope Film and get access to exclusive swag? Join us on Patreon. Visit https://www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Visit our website www.PeriscopeFilm.com This 1970s educational film "Word Groups" is by BFA Educational Media. It uses the Sierra Railway and in particular locomotive 28, to teach words and sentence structure to children. Locomotive 28 is a 2-8-0 steam locomotive owned and operated by the California State Railroad Museum in Jamestown, California. 00:09 The Sierra Railroad locomotive number 28 puffs and steams along a track pulling passenger cars. Text on screen reads “Back,” “Track,” “Black,” and “Gray.” The train stops and the engineer dismounts to check over the engine. The narrator explains they are looking for words about the train trip that fit into word families. One crew member re-attached cable to the bell, another checks all around the wheels and undercarriage of the engine. Steam pours out from various release points on the engine. 01:04 The crew boards the engine cab and prepares to start the train moving again. The fire in the firebox rages and the train starts up again. The engineer rings the bell. Steam whistle blows. The break is released. A conductor indicates all clear. The train starts rolling forward. 01:44 A crew member fills the boiler with water from a water tank. The train slowly rolls along the track, pulling passenger cars including an open air flatbed fitted for stand-up passengers, while the narrator explains the next word family ending with “ain.” 02:16 A child helps open a package for a younger child. Families enjoy the ride as the train moves at good speed along the track through wooded terrain.02:41 The locomotive pulls into a yard and couples with passenger cars. Children and families board. Kids sit on bench seats eating snacks as the narrator assembles a new set a family words including “Fright,” “Flight,” “Right,” and “Tight.” 03:20 Footage of children walking through one of the cars reverses, showing kids and family appear to dismount the train. 03:36 The footage resumes forward motion and again families and children board the train. 03:40 A group of kids crowd onto bench seats, enjoying the ride. 03:43 A uniformed conductor fraternizes with passengers as the train proceeds through woodland, past rolling hills, barns, farmland, country roads. It crosses a timber Trestle Bridge as the narrator explains word family groupings. 04:48 Repeat footage of the conductor taking tickets as passengers board the train, and children sharing a bench seat. 05:24 Steam pours from the engine chimney and the train passes along a stream as the “eam” family of words (team, steam, stream) are superimposed. 05:36 cattle run along dry river beds. 05:58 A brakeman operates a railroad switch to allow the locomotive to switch tracks while the narrator explains the next word family of “Cow,” “Snow,” “Now,” “Know,” “How.” 06:41 Passengers in the open flat car enjoy the train ride and view of passing farms, barns, and animal pens. 06:57 The train rounds a bend. Smoke pours from the smokestack. 07:11 The train passes a mill as the train’s steam whistle blasts. The train passes by roads, cars, towns, horses and farms. 07:31 The train travels along track and freezes frame. 08:05 The freeze frame releases and the train moves forward past the camera. 08:19 END. Sierra Railroad No. 28 is a 2-8-0 "Consolidation" type steam locomotive built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1922 for the Sierra Railway. The locomotive was designed to haul heavy gravel and freight trains for raising the Don Pedro Melones and O'Shaughnessy dams. After the dams' completion in the mid-1920's No. 28 hauled the most freight traffic on the railroad's lower division. After completion of the project, #28 returned to hauling freight until dieselisation in 1955, when it went into storage at the Jamestown roundhouse, occasionally steamed up for filming and excursions.Today the engine is still at Railtown 1897. Motion picture films don't last forever; many have already been lost or destroyed. 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