tomikawaTT wrote: If you know what you're looking at, and what you're looking for, you'll spot Sierra Railroad locos gussied up to represent everything from UP to Pennsy in old movies. With a little care, parts of the Sierra right of way could look like the Northeast, prairie or just about anywhere.IIRC, the train scenes for Petticoat Junction were all filmed on the Sierra.Chuck (modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)
If you know what you're looking at, and what you're looking for, you'll spot Sierra Railroad locos gussied up to represent everything from UP to Pennsy in old movies. With a little care, parts of the Sierra right of way could look like the Northeast, prairie or just about anywhere.
IIRC, the train scenes for Petticoat Junction were all filmed on the Sierra.
Chuck (modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)
Train scenes for the original Wild, Wild West TV show were also filmed there were they not ?.
Tracklayer
I was watching an old episode of the Andy Griffith show the other night where Andy went down to the railroad yard and caught a hobo climbing down out of a box car. As they walked along talking, I noticed they were standing along side of a silver and orange Western Pacific caboose #754. The only problem with that is Western Pacific never ran as far east as North Carolina... A W.P. box car I can understand but not a caboose. I'm sure the reason for this was because they shot that scene at some local railroad museum there near Hollywood.