The Inner Life Of A Model Railroad: THE LIVELONG DAY (2008)

Описание: For over 30 years, the La Mesa Model Railroad Club has painstakingly created a lifelike, HO scale model that replicates the Southern Pacific/Santa Fe railroad from Bakersfield to Mojave, California, set in the 1950's.

We see three generations of train enthusiasts gather to pilot one of the largest, most obsessively realistic model railroads in the world. Many members are real life railroad engineers and employees. They are nostalgics and romantics, mourning the vanishing of railroad culture and craftsmanship while striving to maintain it at 1:87 scale.

THE LIVELONG DAY screened at the Los Angeles Film Festival, Rooftop Films (New York, NY), and PDX Film Festival (Portland, OR).

The La Mesa Model Railroad Club is located inside the San Diego Model Railroad Museum, in the Casa De Balboa building in Balboa Park, San Diego, California. The current layout covers the area from the Southern Pacific Bakersfield Yard through the famous Tehachapi Loop to Mojave Yard.

Director, Editor, Co-Producer, Co-Cinematographer: DAVID FENSTER
Co-Producer: JR HUGHTO
Co-Cinematographers: JR HUGHTO, APOLONIA PANAGOPOULOS, JAY KEITEL, JASON HARRIS
Location Sound: JR HUGHTO

Interviews:
ED K. HOLMAN
JOHN CATHCART
PAUL VOSS
PAUL LUBLINER
JASON HILL
EVAN GERDES

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