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Trivia Question; Name the RR station in "Double Indemnity"

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Trivia Question; Name the RR station in "Double Indemnity"
Posted by pbjwilson on Thursday, June 15, 2006 11:08 PM
"Double Indemnity" was on TV the other day. Great old movie with Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson. In the movie they stage the death of Barbara Stanwycks husband. He supposedly falls off the observation platform of the observation car on a train.

Question - What was the name on the train station where Fred MacMurray, posing as Stanwycks husband, boards the train?

Hint: Could it be early product placement by a toy train maker?
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Posted by macdannyk1 on Thursday, June 15, 2006 11:43 PM
My guess (not having seen the movie) would be Middletown.
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Posted by macdannyk1 on Thursday, June 15, 2006 11:46 PM
...because Lionelville would be too obvious...:)
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Posted by pbjwilson on Thursday, June 15, 2006 11:55 PM
No Sir, guess again.
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Posted by Poppa_Zit on Friday, June 16, 2006 12:01 AM
Glendale.
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Posted by pbjwilson on Friday, June 16, 2006 6:10 AM
Yep, Fred MacMurray boards a the train at Glendale station. So do you think Louis Marx gave a little something to the movie makers to get Glendale staion in the movie? The world may never know.

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