Eureka on Nevada PBS

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Attached is a segment that aired yesterday on our PBS stations here in Nevada. The series is called "Outdoor Nevada." They do all sorts of subjects, from history, nature, art, science etc. etc.
In this episode you will see Eureka at my home, the Nevada State Railroad Museum Boulder City, and on the Cumbres & Toltec. I have worked with PBS back in 1994 when Ken Burns and Steven Ives filmed "The West". I really enjoy working with PBS because they like things as they were historically. I have worked with some movie productions over the years and they are nuts. They never want the artifact as it is supposed to be, but rather want it as something it never was. One time Disney wanted to do a movie about building the railroads in the 19th century. They wanted to paint Eureka black and crummy looking. I argued with the set director two days that I would not allow that to happen because even though they wanted the locomotive to be the "metaphor of the working man" I insisted that was totally wrong. Anyway, you can see Eureka outside the Church of the Iron Horse, as my wife Ditty calls the shop.

Dan Markoff