On the 6th February 1955 the Railway Club of Southern California persuaded the Santa Fe, then recently fully dieselised, to resurrect one of its Northern 4-8-4s to pull a special from Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal over Cajon Pass to Barstow and return, in one 'Last Hurrah' for steam on the railroad. Photographer J. Allen Hawkins arranged for a team to photograph the special from every possible angle - Hawkins and another rode the locomotive's tender and, at times, Hawkins was on its cab roof (what price that today?) and a genuinely spectacular film is the result. Even better the colours have lasted well, and the cine film has made a good transposition to DVD. If you like American steam, you really will like this film! (It was available as a video during the 1980s)