Here’s a short, silent newsreel from 1927, which shows the “booming” new town of Gilbert, NV
and some of the mining operations. There are no trains but it’s still pretty interesting look at a
period which many of us model. These scenes are especially interesting to me because I’ve been to the
site of this former town a couple times on my trips, most recently in 2010.
http://archive.org/details/Gould_can_5483_8_Kinograms_Newsreel
Here are my pics of the present-day Gilbert townsite and mine ruins: