![]() ![]() If I had a way to lift them, I'd post them. I transfered quite a number of 8mm home movies onto video tape a few years back, and there are a number of scenes my dad shot of me on and around the train and engine around 1949/52. I spent many hours playing train on that engine, as did John Bromley. Yes, that is the same train that sat in front of Frontier Village on the north side of the Silver Slipper Casino on the north grounds of the original Last Frontier Hotel. Hard to ever believe that your two pictures show the area that is now the center of the Las Vegas strip. Compare that picture you have with a picture of the Frontier Hotel today. The name of the new property after getting rid of the artifacts was called the New Frontier, still in business on S. The train could have easily ended up in Boulder from that move. Out went the trains, and historic buildings, and in with new construction. In the mid to late 50's the Last Frontier had new owners and they wanted to update and modernize. In 1946 Buggsy Seagal was looking at this property to buy, but ended up further south in another casino. ![]() There was even an operating 0-4-0T and cars inside the village. The location of your picture was then near the corner of the Los Angeles Highway and San Francisco Street. ![]() The Last Frontier was a western theme casino and hotel, intermingled with authentic early Nevada historical artifacts. I suspect that the engine and two of the cars are the same as those that later were at Boulder. ![]()
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