Colorado USA-1967: Yellow Cargo Train Traveling Through Countryside

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Year1967
Decade1960s
LocationColorado, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1967 Colorado

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Yellow Cargo Train Traveling Through Countryside — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1967, this vintage home movie captures a yellow cargo train traveling through the Colorado countryside. The steam locomotive pulls a line of boxcars along a rural track, passing a roadside crossing with a white X-sign and a paved road. Lush green hills, scattered trees, and distant mountains form the backdrop under a bright blue sky. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film grain, slight color fading, and natural camera movement, offering authentic archival footage of mid-century American rail travel.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 124066775

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Commercial Direct license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

People visible: Yes
Minors visible: No
Logos / trademarks: No
Audible music: No

Flags come from automated catalog metadata, not a legal opinion. The source is an original 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie reel. For high-stakes commercial use, request a full rights review.

Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel 1105 · 8mm · 7″ reel
Original reel label: cb&Q RR kolor karavan tour southwestern colorado
Reel-level year note: 1967
Reel-level location note: colorado
Date: 1967 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level note shows the same year, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Location: Colorado, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level location note is linked, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

Confidence labels are defined on Archive Integrity. Fields without a recorded value are shown as not recorded rather than assumed.

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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Supports 1960s documentary requests for American rail travel, rural transportation, and Colorado countryside insert footage from real 8mm home movies.
Period detail: The yellow rail cars, roadside utility poles, open rural road, and mountain setting may show mid-1960s regional rail movement in Colorado.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries an unstaged roadside viewpoint, as if filmed by a traveler pausing to watch a passing train in the countryside.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include yellow rail cars, a rural road, utility poles, hillside vegetation, scattered trees, fencing, and distant mountains.
Film character: The footage has 8mm grain, soft focus, handheld framing, slight gate edges, and faded color that read as authentic physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief transportation cutaway, rural transition, travel-memory beat, or establishing insert for western American landscapes.
Historical context: The scene documents rail movement through an open mountain valley without supporting claims about the railroad company, route, or cargo type.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, so likeness review may be needed, while no readable logos or music cues are evident from the supplied metadata.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1967 Colorado 8mm train footage, yellow freight train rural mountains, and vintage home movie railroad countryside.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with nearby shots from the same reel, then other Colorado 1967 travel footage, then broader 1960s rail and rural-road material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1967 Colorado 8mm frame showing yellow rail cars in a mountain valley beside a rural road and utility pole. — Yellow rail cars move through a rural Colorado mountain valley beside a roadside crossing area.

1967 Colorado home-movie frame of yellow rail cars crossing a green rural hillside below distant mountains. — The train continues along the hillside, framed by utility poles, open ground, and mountains.

1967 Colorado 8mm still with a yellow train, foreground utility pole, rural slope, trees, and blue mountain backdrop. — A utility pole and open slope frame the passing yellow train in the mountain landscape.

1967 Colorado home-movie frame showing yellow rail cars moving through open countryside under a clear mountain sky. — The train passes through open countryside with utility poles, trees, fencing, and distant mountains.

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