, located south of Rome. Sloman also provided Kodak with some family names. Kodak happened to have an employee passing through that area of Italy and shot movies for Sloman, in some cases finding actual relatives of the homesick Ontario workers. In the movies these relatives back home in Italy looked in the camera and raised glasses of wine to toast their family members in Canada. The immigrant workers wept as Sloman projected the footage on the inside of his rail car.
With moments like that, it’s easy to understand how a nine-foot-wide train parked in the icy north could feel like a place of enlightenment.
A five-year-old student put out a fire in a model of a county store built by Sloman to illustrate how a water tank operates, 1954.A six-year-old student played with building blocks, building a pigpen, in the school railroad car, 1954.Teacher Fred Sloman with students in a railcar that served as a mobile school, 1954.A student snowshoed three quarters of a mile along the railroad tracks to go home to lunch after morning classes on the school train, 1954.
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