TV train snafu

[Medina1128]

vsmith

 

IRONROOSTER:

 

I think my favorite is in Gods and Generals where the train in Virginia is the Virginia and Truckee Railroad.

Enjoy

Paul

 

 

Thats not in Virginia??? LOL

No, that's in WEST Virginia...

[twhite]

Medina1128

vsmith:

 

IRONROOSTER:

 

I think my favorite is in Gods and Generals where the train in Virginia is the Virginia and Truckee Railroad.

Enjoy

Paul

 

 

Thats not in Virginia??? LOL

 

No, that's in WEST Virginia...

Marlon:

Yah, WAY West Virginia, LOL!  Like NEVADA!   Actually, those beautifully preserved V&T locomotives have been all over the map on screen, at least.  The first time one of them appeared on screen was in 1937's HIGH, WIDE AND HANDSOME, and then 1939's UNION PACIFIC.  After that, those beautiful V&T steamers were bonafide Hollywood 'stars' for several decades.   We can actually thank Paramount and MGM for 'preserving' them for movies, when they might have otherwise gone to the scrapper's torch. 

Tom

[Medina1128]

I know it's in Nevada. That's why I typed west in all caps. As a fan of western U.S. railroads, I'm quite familiar with the V&TRR. Since most directors use equipment that's in the area where the movies/shows are filmed, it's not unusual to see NYC or Penn RR in movies that are supposed to be set out west.

[gabeusmc]

vsmith

IRONROOSTER:

I think my favorite is in Gods and Generals where the train in Virginia is the Virginia and Truckee Railroad.

Enjoy

Paul

 

Thats not in Virginia??? LOL

Iain Rice made the same mistake. Read his book about shelf layouts (Blue Hills and Yondor Chapter) and he admits so.

[twhite]

Medina1128

I know it's in Nevada. That's why I typed west in all caps. As a fan of western U.S. railroads, I'm quite familiar with the V&TRR. Since most directors use equipment that's in the area where the movies/shows are filmed, it's not unusual to see NYC or Penn RR in movies that are supposed to be set out west.

Marlon:

Didn't mean to come off sounding 'picky'--actually I was enjoying the heck out of your joke.     Actually, I remember the V&T's "Inyo" in what might have been her film debut--1937's HIGH, WIDE AND HANDSOME, and she was lettered for a railroad in Pennsylvania, where the film purportedly took place.    Now she's back home in Carson City and looking just as beautiful as ever.   She's going to be steamed up for their 4th of July celebration at the Nevada State Railroad Museum this year.  I'm planning on going up to watch that (and ride the restored V&T to Virginia City).

One V&T loco, the "J.W. Bowker" is among some of the V&T rolling stock displayed at the California Railroad Museum here in Sacramento, and had a screen career portraying locomotives from the Union Pacific, Santa Fe and several other railroads during her time in front of Hollywood cameras.  Quite the railroad, the old V&T.  Glad they've at least partially re-built it. 

Tom  

[xdford]

I remember watching a Hogans Heroes episode where a "German Engine" looked remarkably like CB&Q's 5632.

Also the move "The Dam Busters showed an aftermath with a flooded New York Central Boxcar as I recall. I have not seen these shows for a long time as I don't watch much television and I am an Aussie so we don't see the reruns you guys may see!

Regards

Trevor

 

 

 

[Eriediamond]

Hmmm   What train did they ride from Mayberry, SC to Mayberry, NC  LOL

 

[twhite]

Eriediamond

Hmmm   What train did they ride from Mayberry, SC to Mayberry, NC  LOL

 

IIRC, that would be the Sierra Railroad, which runs from Oakdale to Sonora in the foothills of Northern California, LOL!  A veritable Mecca for TV and Hollywood film producers back in the day.

Tom

 

 

[rrinker]

 Between the Sierra and the V&T you have nearly any TV and movie Western with a train in it from the 40's to the 60's covered. And plenty of newer shows and movies have used equipment from those railroads as well.

 One of my favorites gorwing up was WIld Wild West - the original show with Robert Conrad, not the horrid Will Smith movie that changed EVERYTHING. I have 3 of the 4 V&T locos made by AHM (missing the Inyo), and I used to runa  train around the layotu that was West's train - mostly accurate excpet that as their special car I used the Lincoln Funeral Car. I did have a horse car and an odl time box car to compelte the train. Usually pulled it with Genoa, since the loco most often seen on the show was NOT an oil burner with a straight stack like the Reno (whichw as a later modification, as can be seen in Beebe & Clegg's book on the V&T, the original Reno looked nearly identical to the Genoa and was later modified to be an oil burner.). I'd DCC the locos and run it again but the pizza cutter flanges on the loco and tender don;t workon code 83 track, and I do not have the facicilties to turn them down. The cars are an easy fix, with some Reboxx metal wheels. Also, I no longer have the Lincoln car, I sold that at the height of some sort of mass demand for them - for $79 for a plastic car that still had the sale sticker on from when we bought it at Two Guys department store for a whopping $1.99 (marked down from $2.99!).

                      --Randy

 

[chutton01]

AntonioFP45

In Spiderman -2, the elevated train is not a New York City MTA train, it's actually a Chicago RTA train as is the line the train is running on.  The double-windowed, twin door, square ended cars are easy to identify as Chicago's equipment.

Not only that, but actually there are no modern era elevated subway lines like that in Manhattan anywhere south of Harlem (e.g. #1, the Valley around 125th St & North of Dyckman). IIRC, that elevated line just sort of stopped (as Spiderman shot out his webs to adjacent buildings in an effort to brake the runaway train) - I can't imagine even CTA lines just ending in (rather high) mid-air like that - I don't recall, were there bumpers or (as would be found on NY Els) billboards at the end of the el structure?

I wonder how many of the goofs mentioned so far in this thread have been listed in the relevant imdb.com "Goofs" page for each Movie/Show?