I read that the Shady Rest Hotel was based on a real hotel that was owned by the show's creator, Paul Henning's wife's grandmother. That hotel was in Eldon Missouri along the Rock Island RR. Which I think is in southwest Missouri. I heard that at one time they even toyed with the idea of calling it "Little Hotel In The Ozarks" but changed their mind and went with Pettycoat Junction.
If you remember the Beverly Hillbillies and Green Acres were all connected and when Granny talked about going home it was to the hills of Tennessee so take your pick.
Ralph
rrinker oldline1 How can someone with 302,278 posts be "new" to the forum???? oldline1 People that have left get lumped under the "anonymous" name as well, so that's the total posts by everyone who has left, or something like that. At least, those that bothered to remove their accounts. That's why this Mr. Anonymous has more posts than anyone else.
oldline1 How can someone with 302,278 posts be "new" to the forum???? oldline1
How can someone with 302,278 posts be "new" to the forum????
oldline1
People that have left get lumped under the "anonymous" name as well, so that's the total posts by everyone who has left, or something like that. At least, those that bothered to remove their accounts. That's why this Mr. Anonymous has more posts than anyone else.
Alton Junction
PJO In the very first episode of "Petticoat Junction," it showed a model streamlined unit painted up in C&FW livery with the rairoad's reporting marks stenciled on it on the corporate board room table. Unable to determine what the road's colors were because the episode was filmed in black and white. I watched it again today, on the front of the locomotive, there was a warbonnet scheme similar to Santa Fe's. Also, it showed C&FW President Norman Curtis using his pointer on a system map of the railroad, which is when he discovered that there was a forgotten branch line running thru Hooterville up to Pixley and he sent Homer Bedloe up to check it out. I stopped the video at this scene but other than Hooterville or Pixley, there were no cities or staes listed on this map so it's indistiguishable as to where the exact territory of this railroad might be.
In the very first episode of "Petticoat Junction," it showed a model streamlined unit painted up in C&FW livery with the rairoad's reporting marks stenciled on it on the corporate board room table. Unable to determine what the road's colors were because the episode was filmed in black and white. I watched it again today, on the front of the locomotive, there was a warbonnet scheme similar to Santa Fe's. Also, it showed C&FW President Norman Curtis using his pointer on a system map of the railroad, which is when he discovered that there was a forgotten branch line running thru Hooterville up to Pixley and he sent Homer Bedloe up to check it out. I stopped the video at this scene but other than Hooterville or Pixley, there were no cities or staes listed on this map so it's indistiguishable as to where the exact territory of this railroad might be.
I believe I heard it in a interview. The rail line is loosely based in Missouri.
In a episode of Green Acres or Petticoat Junction they mentioned a zip code, in which the location is Tennessee.
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I believe it was listed as the Tyco Rogers 1890 4-6-0.
http://tycotrain.tripod.com/mantua-locos/id55.html
I bought one (just the loco) at a sale for $10 for my daughter. I bought some old time passenger cars to run with it. The motor would get very hot, so I replaced it. I even converted it to DCC.
Gary
rrinker oldline1 How can someone with 302,278 posts be "new" to the forum???? oldline1 People that have left get lumped under the "anonymous" name as well, so that's the total posts by everyone who has left, or something like that. At least, those that bothered to remove their accounts. That's why this Mr. Anonymous has more posts than anyone else. By more than a factor of 10. I forget how high a post count Jeffry (Runnign Bear) had - he was the highest, and so far ahead of second palce that even after this many years I don't think he was surpassed. I think I was #2 at the time. --Randy
People that have left get lumped under the "anonymous" name as well, so that's the total posts by everyone who has left, or something like that. At least, those that bothered to remove their accounts. That's why this Mr. Anonymous has more posts than anyone else. By more than a factor of 10. I forget how high a post count Jeffry (Runnign Bear) had - he was the highest, and so far ahead of second palce that even after this many years I don't think he was surpassed. I think I was #2 at the time.
--Randy
OH! I wasn't aware of how that worked. It just seemed strange to have that high a count and be "new"!
I seem to remember the fictitious railroad as being the CENTRAL & Far Western! I saw that show as a kid as well... the engine was Sierra #3 and that engine was in a lot of movies as well as the Casey Jones TV series - I was jealous of Casey Jr!
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Trevor
andrechapelon QUOTE: Originally posted by cade_cvd not being into trains much, what does oversize? bigger size or not to scale? somebody in the other forum got back to me and said if i had the box it would be worth in the $250.00 to $300.00 range. is this true? or is your "not worth much" mean $20.00 or so? thx for all the replies, everything helps! Cade It's not to scale, at least not HO (1:87) scale. IIRC, it's closer to OO (1:76) scale. As to "not worth much", I am admittedly biased. I wouldn't pay squat for it regardless of condition or whether or not it was in the original box. I would pay the same for a mint in box sample as I would for a sample that had been buried in the backyard for 20 years. That is to say: absolutely nothing. There are, however, apparently people who actually collect TYCO items. Clean your pieces up and put them up for sale on eBay. You might be surprised. I know I have been absolutely dumbfounded at what some items have sold for. Andre
QUOTE: Originally posted by cade_cvd not being into trains much, what does oversize? bigger size or not to scale? somebody in the other forum got back to me and said if i had the box it would be worth in the $250.00 to $300.00 range. is this true? or is your "not worth much" mean $20.00 or so? thx for all the replies, everything helps! Cade
It's not to scale, at least not HO (1:87) scale. IIRC, it's closer to OO (1:76) scale. As to "not worth much", I am admittedly biased. I wouldn't pay squat for it regardless of condition or whether or not it was in the original box. I would pay the same for a mint in box sample as I would for a sample that had been buried in the backyard for 20 years. That is to say: absolutely nothing. There are, however, apparently people who actually collect TYCO items. Clean your pieces up and put them up for sale on eBay. You might be surprised. I know I have been absolutely dumbfounded at what some items have sold for. Andre
Yes, that's one of the locos Harold Minky used for his experiments in non-typical scales. It looks almost perfect with 1:76 miniatures. When I was a kid, I had one they did as a bicentennial version - I guess they considered the loco a centennial edition, it was painted red white and blue with stars and numbered 1876. It was honestly so bad that the only way it would run reliable was to run the screw for the front truck all the way in so the wheels didn't even touch the track. And horribly noisy, like a coffee grinder. Not liek the growl that the power truck diesels had. That and the Alco bicentennial diesel were probably the last Tyco locos we ever bought.
Modeling the Reading Railroad in the 1950's
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QUOTE: Originally posted by cade_cvd new to this forum and was wondering if any of you would know price or rarity of this H.O. loco "c&fw railroad hooterville cannonball loco" with cars and track (no box i think). thx in advance Cade[:D]
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