Television shows and the Railroads

[Georgia Railroader]

SALfan

BaltACD:

'In the Heat of the Night', if my memory is still any good, had its 'location' scenes filmed in and around Decatur, GA which is on CSX's Georgia Road between Augusta and Atlanta during the early 1990's when there was much equipment still running in their 'fallen flag' colors..

choochoobuff:

I have recently been watching old reruns of In the Heat of the Night on WGN. I never really watched it while it on the air during it's run. What I have noticed is the amount of railroad related items featured in the show. Of course, the first is the appearance of the Amtrak rolling past during the opening credits. I have also noticed a old diesel, possibly a road switcher, still wearing it's C&O paint scheme. Also, a scene in which a CSX and a SCL head up a consist. Evidently these are all pieces of the companies "adopted" by CSX. Does anyone else remember any shows in which actual railroads could be seen frequently?

 

 

I thought it was filmed in Social Circle, GA, but I could be wrong.  Pretty name for a town, anyway.

There were some scenes filmed in Social Circle. Many scenes were filmed in Covington. You can see the Great Walton RR in the background with the WM 6400 with full Chessie paint. They also had a GP 9 with full C&O paint that I think appeared as well. I can remember seeing the film crews filming all around the town I grew up in as well as Covington and Social Circle.

[Georgia Railroader]

Also if you remember the Dukes of Hazzard in the early seasons where the General Lee jumps the tracks in the opening credits, that was also filmed in Covington on what was at the time the Southern Rwy.

[CSSHEGEWISCH]

I've seen a scene on "CSI: Miami" involving a car smashed at a grade crossing and the locomotive was obviously from Pacific Harbor Line.  Also a closing sequence from "Criminal Minds" in which the serial killer and his girlfriend took their lives jumping in front of a Metrolink train in LAUPT.

[Convicted One]

How could you guys forget this little gem,  part of which was in the opening credits on EVERY episode?

[vsmith]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7_-N_zTJnk

"forget about your cares its time to relax at the junction...'

[wanswheel]

At the front of Grand Central are 3 arch windows, 2 rectangle windows and 2 oval windows. The top 5 rows of panes in the arch windows, the top 2 rows of panes in the rectangle windows and the oval windows are to the room occupied by CBS studios, labeled 'H' in this diagram:

Center window in 1937, right above the statue of Commodore Vanderbilt.

 

[Firelock76]

Interesting, that cross-section makes me think of a medieval cathedral, or the Sistine Chapel at least.

[wanswheel]

Live from Grand Central Terminal, it's Election Night 1954! starring Walter Cronkite, Douglas Edwards and Charles Collingwood.

[wanswheel]

http://www.craneco.com/Category/28/History.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Clooney

[tree68]

wanswheel

Live from Grand Central Terminal, it's Election Night 1954! starring Walter Cronkite, Douglas Edwards and Charles Collingwood.

 

Our smart phones today have more computing power than that Univac...  

[Semper Vaporo]

Our smart(aleck)phones may have more computting power than that univac, but they just don't have as much wow factor in switches and lights!!!

[wanswheel]

     

Univac looking a little different two years later, Douglas Edwards about the same

CBS founder William S. Paley

 

Walter Cronkite of course

Eric Sevareid and Mr. Paley’s bow tie

Ike is winning again.

Bill Downs

Blair Clark

Manually-operated tally board

Rust Belt’s substantial electoral clout

[switch7frg]

Fairy Tales were the best the  TV had to offer at that time. But Iam still too old to believe in Fairy Tales................