Has anyone seen the new Global Warming Public Service Announcement? It shows what looks to be an old Baldwin hood diesel running very fast down a stretch of track that appears to be jointed rail and has not been maintained well. An older man standing in the middle of the track says something to the effect that global warming doesn’t concern him because he will be dead before it becomes a problem. He steps out of the way and the audiance sees a girl about nine or ten years old standing in the track about to get hit by the on coming locomotive. The implied messege being that global warming will affect the kids living today and something should be done about it. The producer of this ad neglected to mention that trains are the most environmentally sound form of transportation there is. But, anyway, that part aside, does anybody know where this ad was filmed? It looks like a short line was used for it.I thought I saw an old fashioned " cow catcher " on the front of this diesel.It was also painted green, ironically.
Trains are the most environmentally friendly way to move freight…but alot of that freight is thermal coal going to power plants that are a huge contributor to global warming. I guess we’re all in this together to find a solution.
Not necessarily. The combined cycle coal gasification power plants can sequester the harmful gases before they get into the atmosphere. I have been away from the generation side of the power business for many years. I have been in distribution most of my professional life so I am not an expert on this. Maybe someone who is an expert can contirbute here.
[banghead]Great, not another Global Warming thread. [banghead]
Can we keep this out of our railroad forum, please? It has no place here. Global Warming is Al Gore’s political agenda, and has no place here in a railroad forum. [soapbox]
John Coleman, one of the founders of The Weather Channel, came out today against the whole Global Warming thing. [wow][tup][swg]
I like how the GE unit is plowing down at high speed, then you look at the rails and realize there is no way that it could move that quick down this branch line run with out rocking off of the track…
If you read the thread it is a trains discussion. You are the only person who chose to give a political opinion. You are the one person doing the exact thing that you are railing against.
I really did not mean to get off on anything except my central question i.e. What kind of locomotive is it? Most of you think it is a GE product. What railroad is this? and Where is this railroad? What got me curious was that I could not identify the locomotive shown in the ad. I did not see a road name on the engine .
Incidentally, I wish TV and movie producers would give us a better look at trains that they use. Everytime I see a train on TV, I always try to identify road name on it. I can tell you how many times I have tried to figure out a TV train and not been able to because they won’t show it well enough.
Poppa - Straight out, I have no political agenda and don’t think politics belong on these boards. I’m not going to respond to most of your post, except to say that it is also political. Yes it is a fact that this
Very few of them care about such details. In the movie flop “Bobby Jones, Stroke of Genius” in scenes supposedly in 1920s Atlanta, Ga., where Jones returned from his Grand Slam win in 1930 they used Euro-style passenger cars and steam locomotive from the Bo’ness and Kinneil Railway in Scotland. Here is the locomotive they used to depict 1930 Atlanta:
That’s sad… but to echo Poppa_Zit, I can’t tell you how many movies I’ve seen where they get on the train and it’s Amfleet… they show the train again and it’s an Amtrak F7 thirty-five years ago pulling SP cars, then they cut back to the train again and it’s a GG1 on the northeast corridor. Because they don’t care about the train, they utilize whatever they can and it may not be (and usually isn’t) right.
That’s what Tim said in closing, let’s get back to trains, yet you were the one to escalate it by making an accusation and reprimanding him. Chances are had you ignored it, it would have ended there.
If you have a right to respond to Tim, why cannot someone respond to you?
I talked to one of the production people from that movie and he said it was a financial decision to do those scenes in Scotland while the crew and cast were at St. Andrews. They didn’t want to pay what a U.S. rail museum line would charge. My guess is they got it done for nitz.
I agree. I think my point wasn’t clearly made. I wasn’t attacking his politics. I was responding to the fact that he was accusing us of being political when we were actually discussing trains. That being said, I’m with you 100%.
Let me just say: I am all for discussing the trains, that’s it. Now, back to the subject at hand. Whenever I see a movie, or TV show where a train is involved, I have noted that most of the time, whatever footage the producers could get their hands on is used for “exterior” scenes, I guess. Also, if it’s not footage, then the locomotive’s road name is sufficiently obscured by either scene objects, or camera angles that figuring out who it belongs to is difficult. I often wondered why it is done that way…
