Lionel Lines Train attacked by Giant Black Scorpion!

[guilfordrr]

Funny thread! I was watching a special program on Animal Planet recently and spotted another train in a monster movie. During The Giant Gila Monster -another black and white potboiler, like Scorpion- the tititular critter knocks over a trestle, derailing this train.

Although the quality of my pictures isn't great, the train appears to be a mixed consist of Lionel boxcars, hoppers, and 2400-series passenger cars, pulled by a GM switcher and an Alco diesel.

Later in the program, the scene is mockingly reenacted with a current-production Lionel Pennsylvania Flyer set:

 

[1688torpedo]

They should have used "Raid" on that bad Scorpian to do him in. Take Care all.

[chuck]

The trains were probably being pushed/pulled by some other means, usually a pully/weight system.  This is not uncommon in motion picture production.  I think there are other shots of the train sequence where the trains are "running" on 2 rail track.  Movie's terrible.

[Santa Fe Kent]

How could anyone get the tender backwards without noticing the different couplings??!!!

[Anonymous]

Jim,

          The engine looks like an early 2026, the model that was more detailed the the later stripped down 2026.  I am not sure about the cars though.

 

                                                                                   Jim

[Brutus]

A screencap from the movie The Black Scorpion - it's a little blurry, sorry:

The passenger cars are Southern Pacific and the locomotive number appears to be 1000.  Anybody know what set this was?