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[quote]QUOTE: <i>Originally posted by kenneo</i> <br /><br /> <br />For just grenade throwing reasons, here is something else where left is right and right is left. French locomotives have always been run with the controls on the left. I can't remember the movie's name, but it was made about 1950 or so about the saving of the French museum paintings. They used old - and I mean OLD in 1950, 10-wheelers, beautiful machines, for the movie and wrecked all but one in rear-enders or one head-on. The cab scenes were done by mounting a camera to the outside of a real locomotive and then having the actors operate the locomotive. <br />[/quote] <br /> <br />The movie you're thinking of is "The Train" with Burt Lancaster, which was made in 1964. Lancaster actually learned how to operate a steam locomotive for the film. This is an excellent film and probably one of the best train movies ever made. <br /> <br />As for the engineer operating the locomotive from the left side in Silver Streak, I think I have an explanation. I seem to recall reading somewhere that CP (Amtrak refused to let them film on their trains, so they went to Canada) wouldn't let them use the right side for safety reasons. A real engineer was actually operating the locomotive on the right side while an actor sat on the left side.
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