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CALIFORNIA-1936: A vintage 8mm film clip captures a large railway crane, marked with number 13, operating on a rural track. The crane's boom extends over the rails, lifting and moving earth in a dusty, open landscape. A sign reading "STATION ONE MILE" stands nearby, with rolling hills and utility poles in the background. The footage, shot from a moving vehicle, shows the crane in action, its bucket scooping and relocating dirt. The grainy black-and-white image, with visible film edges, evokes a sense of early 20th-century industrial work in the American West.
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