Wild Wild West

[SpaceMouse]

Soemtthing got me thinking--maybe another post--about the cool train the Secret Service Guys had in the series. I can't picture it at all. What was it? Does someone have a paicture of it?

And what was Dr. Loveless's train in the movie?

[tstage]

Chip,

I remember it being a 4-4-0 for sure. I can still remember that in some of the night shots of the train going off in the distance, you could tell that it was an electric model because there were sparks eminating from underneath the tender. Have they even brought out any of the old series on DVD yet? James West always had the coolest gadgets...

Tom

[Tracklayer]

Loco was an American 4-4-0 pulling two overland passenger cars. One car was living quarters and the other was a combination lab, machine shop, weapons storage, etc - I think. I use to love that show when I was a kid...

Tracklayer

[rrinker]

Another great show. Forget the Will Smith movie, the original show was by far the best!


The loco was a 4-4-0, indeed. Which specific one I'm not sure, but probably one of the ones used in many old west movies. One of those was the former V&T loco Inyo.

Wow, just looked it up - the Inyo was indeed used for TWWW. http://www.nsrm-friends.org/inyo22.html And the Reno was used in the Will Smith movie. AHM/Pocher had models of both, plus a third one, the Genoa, which I have (I also have the Reno, and the Bowker, a 2-4-0)

I used to set up my Genoa, an AHM old-time combine, and a coach and make like it was Jim and Artemus off on another adventure.

--Randy

[howmus]

The "William Mason" a 4-4-0 which is supposed to be the oldest locomotive still "in service" was in the movie also. I believe she is owned and operated by the B & O Museum. A link to a photo of her still in colors used in the movie: http://www.trainweb.org/oldmainline/oml1.htm

An older photo of the loco is here:http://thejoekorner.quuxuum.org/b-orr/3140004.gif

[oleirish]

OK S.M. for pres.and do away with morden Locos and go back to steam,how about that for an platform??(COAL)
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JIM

[ericsp]

The train on the series was from Railtown 1897 (Jamestown, CA) and was filmed on the Sierra Railroad. If you click on the "click here" (next to the photograph of filming), you will see The Wild Wild West listed.

[Anonymous]

As far as I'm concerned, you couldda just stopped at forget Wil Smith.

QUOTE: Originally posted by rrinker

Another great show. Forget the Will Smith movie, the original show was by far the best!


The loco was a 4-4-0, indeed. Which specific one I'm not sure, but probably one of the ones used in many old west movies. One of those was the former V&T loco Inyo.

Wow, just looked it up - the Inyo was indeed used for TWWW. http://www.nsrm-friends.org/inyo22.html And the Reno was used in the Will Smith movie. AHM/Pocher had models of both, plus a third one, the Genoa, which I have (I also have the Reno, and the Bowker, a 2-4-0)

I used to set up my Genoa, an AHM old-time combine, and a coach and make like it was Jim and Artemus off on another adventure.

--Randy

[Anonymous]

I never saw the original show, but I can say the train out-acted the other characters in the film version by a comfortable margin...

Now, for a real challenge, Dr Loveless' steam tank that converts into the motive power for his railcar. Looked like Stephenson's Rocket redesigned by Mad Max!

[dave9999]

Chip,
Here's a little something for you. http://www.wildwildwest.org/wanderer.html
Dave

[rrinker]

Gee Dave, thanks for wasting my day by posting that link - I'll be reading that all day now! I've almost forgotten how much I loved that show. For a long time, a locla station here ran the re-runs every night. I would drive my mom crazy (back in those days we only had 1 TV, can you imagine?) and naturally showing it 5 days a week, re-reruns came around fairly frequently. She'd say "Didn't you already see this one?" and I'd be like "Yeah, but it's GOOD!"

Now I have to see if all 4 seasons are available on DVD... The only things I remember seeing first-run were the two reunon TV movies - I don't recall seeing the original series first-run, but I was certainly too young to stay up that late anyway.

There is only one thing that has shocked me to find such heavy interest in to this day - and that was when I discovered a Yahoo group devoted to my first computer - I had no idea so many people still held interest in an antique like that - and now TWWW.

--Randy

[tstage]

Randy,

I haven't noticed or heard that it was even out on DVD. I haven't seen it yet. I hope I'm wrong though....

Tom

[Texas Zepher]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Railroading_Brit
I never saw the original show

Well worth the time to look up. It is one of the few TV shows that are actually worth getting your own copies of. It amazes me that one can buy DVDs of all the silly things they show today, but not of good stuff like The Wild Wild West, or Alias Smith & Jones.