What is the name of that Railroad in the Movie: “Stand by me”? And is this line currently still active? Where does this line run and end. The Movie is about 4 teen 12 year olds hunting for a missing teenagers body. It’s realy a very good show. Allan.
A lot of the railroad scenes were filmed in Oregon.
http://www.cinema-astoria.com/cinematography/filminglocation/standbyme
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092005/locations
Thank you so much for the infomation. I am very saddend that this line has turned into a worthless trail now. Allan.
Ha! Just watched that movie for the first time yesterday when it was on TV.
Doesn’t seem like a worthless trail to me???
Adrianspeeder
Some of it was also filmed on the McCloud River RR, like the scene where they are caught on the trestle.
Ever find it a bit odd that the train was making no attempt to stop when the boys were on the trestle? Full throttle, cylinder cocks open for effect.
That flapping sound you heard is plausibility flying out the window…
Clinchfield Mike
Just some amplifying information about the movie, it was based on a Stephen King novelette ‘The Body’, in the Four Seasons book. The story takes place in Maine, like just about all of Stephen King’s stories do. I believe that in the story, it was a diesel engine, though I don’t remember for sure. Though, we all know that steam locomotives make for better cinematography than diesels.
James
In the novelette the story takes place in Maine, however in the movie they changed the location to Oregon.
That was a very good movie. The acting, especially by the four youth, was great. This movie ranks up there in the top 10 for me.
I’m not sure where they got the “Gooseline Railroad” from…actually, I know…but the “real” name of that railroad was the Oregon, Pacific & Eastern. It ran from Cottage Grove, OR, eastward to Culp Creek, OR, roughly 16 miles by rail. The builders of the OP&E intended it to go to the Bohemian mining district high up in the Cascade mountains, but the mines played out before the railroad got there. It survived on hauling lumber and forest products. Around 1971 the OP&E became the second railroad to join the Kyle Railways shortline empire…Kyle actually only owned a 50% share in the company, with the other half held by the Bohemia Lumber Company, operator of the sawmills at Culp Creek that provided the railroad with almost all of its freight business. Kyle had his Yreka Western Railroad lease their 1915-built Baldwin 2-8-2 #19 to the OP&E, and from 1971 or 1972 until 1988 they ran a successful passenger excursion business that went the length of the line. The passenger excursions were successful, but in 1987 or 1988 Kyle Railways elected to sell their half of the OP&E to Bohemia. Bohemia was not interested in remaining in the passenger business, and so the #19 went back to Yreka and the passenger equipment was liquidated.
The “Gooseline Railroad” came from Kyle’s logo, which was a flying goose set inside an oval. The Goose originated from Goose Nest Mountain, which is visible from almost the entire length of Kyle’s Yreka Western Railroad. The YW adopted the flying goose logo shortly after Kyle bought it, and Kyle went on to use it for almost all railroads under his ownership or control. The excursions that operated on the OP&E ran under the “Blue Goose” name.
The websites referred to in this thread state that the OP&E vanished in 1988; this is incorrect. Bohemia kept the OP&E running at least through late 1992/early 1993, when they closed the Culp Creek sawmills down. The railroad used the now-dormant mainline to store new and surplus railcars for a while, but by October 1994
You’ve piqued my curiosity - which McCloud River locomotive was used to film the scene?
“Worthless trail”? How do you judge the value of a trail? Are there some that are good and others worthless? Please explain.
James-
The McCloud potrion of the movie used their #25, a 1925 Alco-built 2-6-2.
http://www.trainweb.org/mccloudrails/LocoImages/Loco-0025.html
As it happened, the steam locomotive used during the Oregon Pacific & Eastern part of the filming is also a McCloud locomotive, ex-McCloud River #19.
http://www.trainweb.org/mccloudrails/LocoImages/Loco-0019.html
Jeff Moore
Elko, NV
I loved the movie, the train scenes were great. I think it is a pretty nice trail, but a train running over it is better.