To Mount Lowe with Love

To Mount Lowe with Love presents a history of the Mt Lowe Railroad It was produced by Philip Callahans Galway Productions Callahan was an amateur historian who presented slide shows about Mt Lowe They proved to be so impressive that Southern California Edison funded a film version as a public service As the documentary shows at the turn of the 20th Century a railroad to the stars ran from Pasadena to Mt Wilson by way of Pacific Electric Red Car incline cable car funicular and electric trolley Today this engineering wonder is gone although traces still exist in the San Gabriels The film consists primarily of black and white motion pictures and color tinted stills Narrated by Lynn Adkins