The Steam || Yosemite Mountain Sugar Pine Railroad Documentary

Documentary short telling the stories of Joseph Bispo and Diego Morales -- the oldest and youngest crew members at the Yosemite Mountain Sugar Pine Railroad in Fish Camp, CA. In over fifty years of operation, the YMSPRR has preserved a slice of California's historic logging railroads on two miles of track in the Sierra National Forest. Day in, day out, these are the people who keep it running. This film is an extended cut of a project originally produced for the Central Valley Community Foundation's 2020 "The Big Tell" grant program. A film by Matt Mealer (http://www.mattmealer.com) Associate Producer | Emily Mealer Assistant Camera | Jeff Phillips Sound Mix | Henry Grimmius Consulting Producer | Sascha Brown Rice Sponsored by the James B. McClatchy Foundation & the Central Valley Community Foundation (http://www.centralvalleycf.org) Archival imagery & footage courtesy of (in order of appearance): Herron Rail Video (http://www.herronrail.com) Jim Holmes via History San Jose Joseph Bispo YMSPRR Archives Tom Taylor (https://www.flickr.com/photos/1570151...) Mike Massee (http://www.mikemassee.com/)