In the summer of 1950, Dudley E. Wells, Elizabeth C. Wells, and their son Randall A. Wells (b. 1942) drove Out West and returned by train.
Dudley took the last 35 mm. film of the trip through the window of “The City of Portland,” a Union Pacific streamliner. About one minute long, this clip records images of the train itself, bridges over the Mississippi River, then the passage through downtown Glen Ellyn, Illinois, then of the arrival in Chicago. The curved white building along the Chicago River is the Montgomery Ward & Co. mail-order house (built by Wells Brothers Construction Co.), where “Dud” worked over forty years.