I’m looking for an abandoned rail yard in the Los Angeles area to use a location for a movie shoot, preferably in the middle of nowhere with 360 views of desolation. Can anyone help me?
Lester; First of All ! [#welcome]
Several Posters around here are very familiar with the LA area, and hopefully will see this post and respond.
Good Luck with your search!
Thanks, Sam!
Not knowing your project, you might take a look at former Camp Roberts near Paso Robles. This former Army base is pending part demolition of the many barracks and infrastructure used during WW2 and the Korean War. Part of the base is active for the California National Guard.
Due to budget constraints I’m hoping for someplace nearer LA but I’ll keep that in mind! It is for a hallucinatory sequence in a 20s style silent film- I’ve already shot a sequence at Travel Town in Griffith Park. I want the character to look up from having picked up his hat near a train and suddenly find himself in the middle of nowhere, preferably with train tracks nearby.
He may want to talk to the Southwest Portland Cement people out on the private piece of railroad north and east of Victorville. (Not as remote as it used to be, but they might be more accomodating than the railroads)
(As a former LA Basin roadmaster, I can vouch that the railroads do not tolerate the film and arts freakshow that barges in, safety-be-damned and thinking they are exempt from asking permission to do their peculiar weirdness…Never did understand the models hugging a freshly treated creo-treated wood comm pole thing…and then complaining to the railroad about splinters [true story -happened behind the Amtrak ex-ATSF roundhouse at Redondo Jct.])[:-^]
Are there any abandoned rail yards in the Los Angeles area? Don’t think so!
IF you are successful, be prepared to enter into a contract with the owning railroad where you will agree to indemnify and defend them for any and all liabilities that might arise from your filming adventure. Also expect to provide insurance with the owners listed as a named insured. Amount of $5 or $10-million are common amounts. Be prepared to pay a daily use fee, $5,000 to $10,000 is not uncommon, more if a train, special equipment, railroad police, flagman are required.
This is a no-budget guerilla production- one small camera and an actor! Guess we’ll just go out into the desert …
Good Luck! Lester![tup][tup]
Be sure and take lots of bananas and water to feed those guerillas out in the desert. [:'(][*-)]
Just one question who wrangles the gorilla? [C):-)]
No one- she’s the director!
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Lester: Interesting, but I noticed that it took some Stones to make that. Maybe if he had had some of that ‘Night Train’ wine, he’d have really got on board that musician could then really rocked ? [:'(]