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California's Gold with Huell Howser
San Luis Obispo Train
Season 5
Episode 507
Join Huell in the centennial celebration of the arrival of the first steam train to this isolated mid-coastal town of San Luis Obispo. As part of the celebrations, the town’s citizens have recreated the events exactly as they happened a century before. Huell passes through the historic tunnels and tressels in a period steam engine as he descends into this festive town.
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