Fried Green Tomatoes

[Anonymous]

Was watching the movie last night and began wondering what locomotive was used for the filming and where was the actual locale of the train scenes filming? Sure this question has been asked before but couldn't find it in search?

[joseph2]

I remember two locomotives were in the movie,The first was a steamer,and toward the end of the movie a Norfolk Southern diesel was used to do the accident.

[Poppa_Zit]

The locomotive is a question mark.

The overhead bridge used in the movie's train scene is still in place, although it is too old to handle the weight of today's modern autos. It is located in Senoia, Georgia, and I believe it crosses the ROW at Bridge Street. The house exterior used in the movie is on the corner near the bridge, still there, no changes. The tracks were still there two years ago when I visited, but that part of the line (east from Senoia) is abandoned -- former Southern Railway, later Central of Georgia.

BTW, the rail joint (turnout?) where the young man got his foot caught doesn't exist in "real life" -- at least not at this locale. The tracks run through a deep cut, with no room for a second set of rails, if I remember correctly.

[Anonymous]

I believe the steamer was the A&WP 4-6-2 #290.

Roger

[West Coast S]

Correct, A&WP 290 it was, she is one of two built by Lima to head the Crescent limited that used a A&WP routing for a Southern conection, sister engine 291 did not survive. Once, she was considered a steam excursion sucessor for the long enshrined PS4
4-6-2 #1401. Southern attempted to lease the locomotive for such a conversion but the 290 owners rejected any restoration offer that involved altering the orginal design..She is currently stored, out of service with extensive running gear and firebox repairs needed before she can operate, even if made operable, the 290 does not have a steam friendly connection on which to operate.

Dave

[leighant]

One place to search movie locations is the Internet Movie Data Base, www.imdb.com

No need to be a member or anything for a general search. To find out info about a movie, pull down search to "title" and enter the movie title. If it is a movie with a common or recurring title, yuou may get a LIST of movies with same or different title in different years, such as Ben-Hur- 1960-somethjing and Ben-Hur-1920 something (the silent version)

Click on the movie you are interested and get a main page with the cast, etc. and you can click on sidebar for trivia, bloopers. filming locations.
Since it is NOT made specifically for rail enthusiasts, the site does NOT have a specific place to identity particular locomotives and rail equipment used in a film, but it often gives enough info to identify the rail location.

For each location given, you can click on find all the other movies made in that same location...

I am a frequent participant in Model Railroader forum. This is my first post in Classic Trains. Hope you don't mind my linking to another site, for the special purpose of researching train MOVIES.

I liked the movie, and have attempted the tomatoes...