c&fw railroad hooterville loco

[garya]

I believe it was listed as the Tyco Rogers 1890 4-6-0.

http://tycotrain.tripod.com/mantua-locos/id55.html

I bought one (just the loco) at a sale for $10 for my daughter. I bought some old time passenger cars to run with it. The motor would get very hot, so I replaced it. I even converted it to DCC.

[angelob6660]

In the very first episode of “Petticoat Junction,” it showed a model streamlined unit painted up in C&FW livery with the rairoad’s reporting marks stenciled on it on the corporate board room table. Unable to determine what the road’s colors were because the episode was filmed in black and white. I watched it again today, on the front of the locomotive, there was a warbonnet scheme similar to Santa Fe’s. Also, it showed C&FW President Norman Curtis using his pointer on a system map of the railroad, which is when he discovered that there was a forgotten branch line running thru Hooterville up to Pixley and he sent Homer Bedloe up to check it out. I stopped the video at this scene but other than Hooterville or Pixley, there were no cities or staes listed on this map so it’s indistiguishable as to where the exact territory of this railroad might be.

I believe I heard it in a interview. The rail line is loosely based in Missouri.

In a episode of Green Acres or Petticoat Junction they mentioned a zip code, in which the location is Tennessee.

[richhotrain]

oldline1

How can someone with 302,278 posts be “new” to the forum???

oldline1

People that have left get lumped under the “anonymous” name as well, so that’s the total posts by everyone who has left, or something like that. At least, those that bothered to remove their accounts. That’s why this Mr. Anonymous has more posts than anyone else.

Nothing like reviving a 14 year old thread.

[MARTIN_STATION]

I read that the Shady Rest Hotel was based on a real hotel that was owned by the show’s creator, Paul Henning’s wife’s grandmother. That hotel was in Eldon Missouri along the Rock Island RR. Which I think is in southwest Missouri.
I heard that at one time they even toyed with the idea of calling it “Little Hotel In The Ozarks” but changed their mind and went with Pettycoat Junction.

If you remember the Beverly Hillbillies and Green Acres were all connected and when Granny talked about going home it was to the hills of Tennessee so take your pick.

Ralph