locomotive(s) in movie "Wild Boys of the Road" (1933)?

[steamfieman]

" Other Men's Women" was partly filmed on the SD&AE in San Diego County.  The opening scene is in Jacumba, which pretty much still looks the same.  #103, which is featured quite a bit is long gone, but there is a quick shot of sister #104 which we have at PSRM in Campo, CA.  Pretty sad looking, since it sat right near the beach for 30 years.  Although, she is 105 yers old, who doesn't look a bit ragged at that age?  We'll be trying to do some cosmetic work on her later this year.

[wjstix]

Great Western

 I can't say that I know the movie in the thread title.  But, since I started modeling American railroads nearly three years ago I have been surprised, quite pleasantly, how many movies from the 1930's to the present date do feature railroads and trains.

You can bet that many "Westerns" will have a 4-4-0 or ten wheeler plus the Jackson & Sharpe type cars.  WW2 and the fifties often give good shots of larger locos and heavyweight cars and the sixties onwards guarantee a diesel or two.

You could argue that for a period before WW2 there was a separate genre of movie that you could call "Railroad Stories", just like there are/were genres like "Westerns" or "Comedies". It's actually pretty amazing how many movies in the 1930's didn't just have trains in them, but were primarily about railroads and/or railroaders.

As noted earlier in this post, Turner Classic Movies played Wm. Wellman's "Wild Boys of the Road" and "Other Men's Women" back to back, both are railroad related (particularly the second one). "Danger Lights" is another one that turns up from time to time, and was I believe the first sound movie filmed entirely on location (along the Milwaukee Road in Montana). One of John Wayne's earliest pics was "Phantom Express" (I think that was the title) where he played a young airline pilot whose railroader father is killed by sabotage, and Wayne helps track down the bad guys.

The genre pretty much died out after WW2, with the notable exception of "Emperor of the North" in the 1970's.

Of course for Westerns, many times Sierra No.3 was used, a 4-6-0 built I believe in 1890. It's career has spanned the silent era (I think it was in the original "The Virginian" in 1927) through High Noon (it pulled the noon train with the bad guy on it) to TV's "Petticoat Junction" all the way thru to more recent pics like "Tombstone" and "Back to the Future 3".

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[Great Western]

 I can't say that I know the movie in the thread title.  But, since I started modeling American railroads nearly three years ago I have been surprised, quite pleasantly, how many movies from the 1930's to the present date do feature railroads and trains.

You can bet that many "Westerns" will have a 4-4-0 or ten wheeler plus the Jackson & Sharpe type cars.  WW2 and the fifties often give good shots of larger locos and heavyweight cars and the sixties onwards guarantee a diesel or two.

[dredmann]

Thanks to both of you. I had been told--incorrectly?--that the loco in the movie was SP 745, a 2-8-2 that is operational, not SP 3745, a 2-10-2.

 

[wanswheel]

SP 3745 doesn't seem to have survived.

http://webpages.charter.net/altalair/sp_hollywood.html#moviesW

[wjstix]

I caught part of it last night - actually I was more keen to see the following movie, "Some Men's Women" which was also a railroad-oriented movie with even more railroading scenes. I do have the DVD so I can check it out if I get a chance, but as I recall the railroad scenes were filmed on the Southern Pacific.

[dredmann]

Can somebody tell me what locomotive(s) were used in the 1933 movie Wild Boys of the Road? It was supposed to be on Turner Classic Movies last night (3-23-09), but I didn't get to see it. This is of great interest to me because supposedly one of them is not only still around, but operational. Thanks!