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<P mce_keep="true">MILW #261 puts in an appearance in the new Johnny Depp movie, <EM>Public Enemies</EM>. It's shown rolling to a stop at Chicago Union Station where two experienced G-men from Dallas walk-off to be met there by Melvin Purvis for the pursuit of John Dillinger. </P> <P mce_keep="true">Why they'd be on a MILW train coming from Dallas is an interesting detail. They could've perhaps taken the Frisco to KC and switched to the MILW there, but I'd think the Rock Island or ATSF would've been quicker (if J. Edgar Hoozits tells you to get to Chicago - you get there the fastest way you can).</P> <P mce_keep="true">Later there's a distant shot of UP's <EM>Challenger</EM> waiting to depart from supposedly somewhere in Chicago, being viewed by Dillinger and his associates while discussing a fast mail train robbery. A UP <EM>Challenger </EM>in Chicago in ~1934?</P> <P mce_keep="true">Overall it was a pretty darn good movie, but I know a fair amount about Dillinger's exploits and while they stuck closer to actual events in this picture, they still bent the facts significantly. Baby Face Nelson didn't die at Little Bohemia (he died much later from his wounds after an ambush outside Lake Geneva), Christian Bale looks about as much like Melvin Purvis as I do (Purvis looked more like Alfred P. Newman), Purvis didn't kill Pretty Boy Floyd, etc., etc., but it was quite an entertaining movie. The soundtrack was fantastic - I'll have to buy it.</P>
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