I modeled the "New Amsterdam Limited" in HO Scale. It's from the movie Garfield.
Not a hard train to model really.
I have Bachmann's Hogwarts Express. In fact, it was the first HO train that I owned. My wife bought it for me for Christmas. I had been playing with an old Marx O scale set and I told my wife that I wasn't particularly thrilled with either the appearance or operating qualities. I said that I would like to try HO but I had no real intentions of buying anything.
That didn't last long! I would hate to find out how much I have spent on HO stuff since then!
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
SeeYou190 Most movie anachronisms do not bother me. In fact, the most historically acccurate movies are usually terrible movies to watch. However, I just cannot get over the knuckle couplers in Back To The Future Part III.
Most movie anachronisms do not bother me. In fact, the most historically acccurate movies are usually terrible movies to watch.
However, I just cannot get over the knuckle couplers in Back To The Future Part III.
NittanyLionThat ticket was to New York, not Vermont.
SeeYou190Honestly, the movie that did the best to recreate a time-gone-by for me is A Christmas Story.
Mike
Track fiddler SeeYou190 Most movie anachronisms do not bother me. In fact, the most historically acccurate movies are usually terrible movies to watch. However, I just cannot get over the knuckle couplers in Back To The Future Part III. Interesting Kevin. I have never noticed that before but I have the trilogy. I searched and found it! You're not supposed to notice things like that. But then again I don't suppose the producers were anticipating a railroad buff to watch the movie Image from Back To The Future III So much for having knuckle couplers back in the old west days TF
In reality the Central Pacific #131 was a American Type not a Ten Wheeler.
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Water Level Route NittanyLion That ticket was to New York, not Vermont. Ah, you are right. I forgot about that detail. Was it earlier in that movie they also showed a Santa Fe passenger train, or was that a different movie?
NittanyLion That ticket was to New York, not Vermont.
Ah, you are right. I forgot about that detail. Was it earlier in that movie they also showed a Santa Fe passenger train, or was that a different movie?
Both, I believe. I think they show a Santa Fe train as a transition shot before the "Snow" song scene and a Southern Pacific mail train(!) as the transition from "Snow" to arriving at Pine Tree.
Track fiddler SeeYou190 Most movie anachronisms do not bother me. In fact, the most historically acccurate movies are usually terrible movies to watch. However, I just cannot get over the knuckle couplers in Back To The Future Part III. Image from Back To The Future III
Intreresting screen shot. It is kind of obscurred, but it looks like the "balloon" stack is still intact. In a previous scene the balloon stack exploded when the red log was added to the firebox.
And with that... Enough nitpicking Back To The Future III.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
I'm with rrinker. While not a movie, I made a semblance of Wild Wild West "Wanderer" train with and AHM Geno on the point and some reworked "old time" passenger cars.
Likewise with the Petticoat Junction "Hooterville Canon Ball". Tyco ten wheeler and a Roundhouse Overland (back when they had metal bodies) combine.
And of course I have a full Polar Express in O-gauge. It includes a few fantasy cars like the hot chocolate car, a baggage, RPO, and combine. It is pulled by a Pere Marquette 1223. I could not stand the horrifically ugly and out of place "cow catcher" type from a prior century that they put on the "official" polar express loco.
Working on an HO scale one. Bachmann Berkshire on the point of it.
SeeYou190Most movie anachronisms do not bother me. In fact, the most historically acccurate movies are usually terrible movies to watch. However, I just cannot get over the knuckle couplers in Back To The Future Part III.
Not that quickly.
I have an old MDC boxcar full of hoboes, with three striped-suited chained convicts climbing in the open door. Not quite how it happened in "O Brother, Where Art Thou," but as close as I could feasibly get.
A movie filming scene would make a great Trackside Photos scene. Also, the old NWSL brass model of Sierra 18 includes the prototypical rail across the cab windows- I think it was used to mount cameras for action scenes.
John Ott's website has some photos from a layout he built years ago, inspired by the Colorado scenes from "Citizen Kane."
http://mprailway.blogspot.com
"The first transition era - wood to steel!"
I don't do movie railroad trains. I was always wanted to do Petticoat Junction Cannonball train but never managed to get the locomotive. So I basically stop chasing it. It would been fun placing Betty Jo in the driver seat while Charlie plays the harmonica.
I can't find a picture of ConAm or AmCon from Planes, Trains and Automobiles. It's interesting because it combines the two railroads I love in one railroad in a unique way.
Texas Zephyr Back to the Future III set in 1885. Knuckle couplers 1873.
Janney couplers did not become "standard" until the 1890s and it was not until after the turn of the century they were fully implemented.
I am no expert... from what I have read the conversion to knuckle couplers in interchange cars took place fairly quickly, which makes sense to me. Can you imagine the confusion during a period when both Janney couplers and link and pin couplers were used at the same time?
That Western train in 1885 would have had link and pin couplers.
SeeYou190Can you imagine the confusion during a period when both Janney couplers and link and pin couplers were used at the same time?
During the transition some coupler knuckles had a gap where a link and pin could be "rigged" to work.
Syracuse-malleable_1899 by Edmund, on Flickr
Cheers, Ed
hon30critter I have Bachmann's Hogwarts Express. In fact, it was the first HO train that I owned. My wife bought it for me for Christmas. I had been playing with an old Marx O scale set and I told my wife that I wasn't particularly thrilled with either the appearance or operating qualities. I said that I would like to try HO but I had no real intentions of buying anything. That didn't last long! I would hate to find out how much I have spent on HO stuff since then! Dave
Forgot I have that as well. While far from the first HO train I ever had, it IS the one that got me back into the hobby. I kept seeing it in WalMart, marked down, and finally one week, since there were only a couple left, I said the heck with it and bought it.
--Randy
Modeling the Reading Railroad in the 1950's
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At one time in the 1970s, I thought a model of the Orient Express would be neat. Now I wouldn't consider it -- I really like a modern railroad more than a 1930s European train. However, I could see some modelers who would like it.
York1 John
Preiser makes a figure set with movie cameras and lights. I have one and it will be put to use on a layout or dioramas in time.
Alvie
SeeYou190
All you have to do is copy the URL when watching the YouTube video and then paste in your message here.
Thanks Randy. I will have to try that but I'm not going to make any promises. I'll try it right now and see what happens.
No luck
Maybe phones are different then computers. I don't see any URL on the video.
TF
Try this TF:
Just like Randy said.
I didn't even catch the loco, GP40?
Mike.
My You Tube
Thanks Mike.
At least I finally know how to do links now but I do not know how to bring the video right up on the screen like you did?
Sure would be fun to model Sierra number 3.
Had some difficulties here, it's posted on the current post.
After you copy the video url, click on the movie/video icon, paste in the video url.
I don't even use the movie icon. I just copy and paste
(259) RCT&HS T-1 Caboose hop - YouTube
Sure, no preview, but that just means it takes you to YouTube to watch.
(and then with movie icon)
I'd sure like to model the train scene from Joe Kidd.
Rack Time
Sierra number 3 as she was used in many films.
Thanks for the pointers Randy and Mike. Finally got it figured out. The Prairie Dog Central is three posts back.
You think a movie train would have lots of different models after her. It surprises me that Sierra#3 isn't represented more in model train manufacturing.
This locomotive had different paint, different body styles, same number and same wheel configuration.
These models could sell more or little less compare to the famous F units.
Joe Kidd, great flick. That's the V&T Reno crashing through the bar. Can definitely do that one with available models. Just need some breakway walls in some structures.
The Tyco 10-wheeler is more or less Sierra #3, it's just oversized for HO. If you remember Harold Minky, he used it as one of his examples of adjusting the scale to better fit the model.
Priarie Dog Central #3 is going to be a tough one, rather different since it was built in Glasgow Scotland for CP. Interesting bit - seems a few years ago they did a complete frame up rebuild including a new boiler - so if the steam loco has a new boiler, is it still the same loco? Like the farmer's old axe that has had 5 handles and 3 heads.
Would have been as bad as trying to build an HO scale train where there were both horn-hook and Kadee equipped cars in the yard and only a few "conversion" cars. Would have made blocking the trains for locals a nightmare too. I would guess it was almost double the work for all the trainmen of the time.
The box cars being set out for the grain elevator includes one of the coupler conversion cars! Oh no....