In this scene http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTNw7NO-yGY at 2:44, the Red Handle the Hero Boy was about to pull, Is that the lever, that would of Detached the Tender from the Engine or is it something else?
In an animated movie, who knows? Did you notice that the engineer finally released the brake to slide the drivers?
(Probably the reverser)
The reverser would be in front of the engineer, where the girl is seated, and would either be a lever on a sector plate or a solid indexed wheel with detents on it, as it is on the CPR Hudson 2816. Not sure what the prototype on which this cartoon engine is based, the Berkshire, would have.
I think the red lever is a ‘foobie’. I am aware of no device to detach the tender. I believe it takes some doing, and is never done on the fly.
-Crandell
I knew that, Crandell–probably the former on PM 1225. That’s why I made the reference to the animation–it’s something that the manufacturer installed just to spice up the story line.
Maybe it’s a “Selector”.
Also, I noticed there is one defect in that scene I posted before. In real life when you want the Steam Engine to move Forwards and Backwards, don’t you pull back on the Throttle, instead of pushing it forward, like in the Movie.
Okay, got me. [:D] Except I think it might be a PSX-AR “power reverser”…from Tony’s Train Exchange. They’re automatic, but the cartoonists didn’t know better.
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I just looked at a couple of cab shots of 1225, the model for the movie, and didn’t see a lever that squares with the one the boy was considering pulling.
On the other hand, the kid released the brakes, rather than applying them.
Considering the trouble the producers went to assuring accuracy in representing 1225 (as documented in Trains a couple of years ago - they even had someone videotape the replacement of the headlight so it would be correct, if fanciful), I am slightly surprised they got stuff that wrong.
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" . . . having spent too much time the night before picking up loads and setting off empties in the bar . . . " - a neat turn of phrase ! [tup]
That photo of the Baldwin switcher with the NP monad threw me for a moment - “North Coast Lines” ? And what did that have to do with the story - which was funny, too ?
Well, the history of #51 at the following seems to explain it:
http://www.trainweb.org/snch&ts/pages/roster_loco.html
Thanks again for sharing all of that.
- Paul North.
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I would go see it. But how would it sell to the non-railroad familiar public?
Johnny