Re: 8mm resources

If you are going to transfer it to a camcorder first, I have some excellent tips for you. I've transfered quiet a few feet myself, a trip on the North Coast Limited in the mid 60's, and various tourist rr footage from back then as well.
After cleaning up your film and taking care of splice problems, get a projector with a speed control on it. If you project at 18 fps, it will go light/dark and very flickery.
Set your camcorder up on a tripod, and project the film onto a clean, white, piece of posterboard, so the image is about 2' wide.
Set the camera up next to the projector, to minimize the angle between them. Hook the camera up to a tv or monitor, so you can see the captured image as you go. Now, with the film running, adjust the speed of the projection. If I remember right, speeding it up about 10% will eliminate the flickering almost completely, without speeding the motion up much.
You'll have to experiment a bit, but film is very contrasty, and often, you can get a better capture if a little light leaks into the room (even light level across the screen), which will cut the contrast and open up the shadows. Use the zoom to fill the frame on the monitor. You may also have to play with a bit of manual exposure and white balance.