Background on the specia railroad effects in the making of the Lone Ranger movie.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/mdXTXWpIYgQ
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While there are some digital special effects involved in the movie, it appears they did most of it the old fashioned way, with the "real thing..."
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All that track to class 2 standards. Even a surfacing machine working the ballast. The one thing that only us rails know is not period is the stone ballast and fairly heavy rail.. All in all quite a production.
I guess we're not supposed to notice the janney couplers and the air brake hoses.
Well that was pretty interesting! Probably better than the movie itself.
Oh, as to Janney couplers and air brake hoses, I find that when looking at movies involving 19th Century trains there's some things you might as well ignore. The only movie I recall seeing where link-and-pin couplers were shown was C.B. DeMille's "Union Pacific", and then only on railcar close-ups.
I do have to give the film-makers credit for building all that railroad equipment from scratch. It shows they at least tried to get it right.
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Remember the thread about Disney replacing live steam at their parks with replicas? This proves they can do a good job of simulating the sight and sound of the real thing, though I never doubted that they could.
What Janney coupler? If I remember in the movie the coupler was a strange contraption: one car had a round knob, and the other had a sort of clamshell device that gripped the knob. It was uncoupled by pulling a pin out of the clamshell device. I remember wondering what you would do when making up a train if one of the cars was turned the other way.
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Definitely NOT a "Janney coupler". you can see at 4:00, 4:31 and it sort of looks to be the size of a Janney, but at 6:13 it is a ball and clamshell type... which I have never seen before! About the size of a Janney, but unidirectional in coupling.
Still... what do you expect when they call the "cow-catcher" (or "Pilot") of the locomotive a "GRILL at the front of the ... train." at 2:00 and have FLAMES coming from the side of the boiler (or possibly a "sand pipe") at 2:10 when it is sliding sideways.
But I gotta love the music at the end!
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