I came across the scene in the pic below watching a movie recently. It took three times of rewinding before I figured it out. Let’s see if you can do better than I did!
Hints: Time is 1990, the locomotive is the currently non-operational A&WP #290, the milepost sign is on a former ex. Southern mainline, and the scene was used in both Fried Green Tomatoes and The Librarian pt. 2.
Is this in north Georgia?
It’s in Alabama - Irondale?
Since it is on a main line, I calculate that it is below Moundville, Alabama (mp 213.3 on the AGS).
Close, but no winner. Our location is at Juliette, GA on NS’s Atlanta South District. The MP 217 sign is located just south of the “Whistle Stop Cafe.” The faint lights in the far left corner are from the abandoned grist mill that was lit up for the nighttime movie scene. A majority of the train scenes in Fried Green Tomatoes were filmed at this location using A&WP #290 and some older New Georgia RR passenger equipment.
This scene has drastically since it was filmed in 1990. There are two main tracks here now instead of one, the MP sign has been replaced with a cheap, standard NS sign, and the A&WP #290 is currently sitting on static display in Duluth, GA awaiting restoration.
Joe, over Labor Day weekend the family took a trip down to Callaway Gardens (Pine Mountain, GA). Someone there told me that the scene from Fried Green Tomatoes where the train strikes Buddy was actually filmed at Durand, GA on the CSX Fitzgerald Sub where the NS crosses over. Any idea whether this is fact or fiction? I meant to look it up when we got home but forgot about it until your post just reminded me. Jamie
Hmmm…I heard that scene was filmed somewhere in AL, but after mentioning Durand, that spot does look just like the scene in the movie! (now I’ve got to go watch that movie again! LOL) They definitely “spread the wealth” for the RR scenes in that movie…and the #290 got a heck of a workout in the process. (and the New Georgia RR got some nice pocket change for their troubles)
Q: Where is it?
A: In the dark!
The engineer of the 290 for the movie was the band director of a middle school in northeast Georgia so I doubt that it was shot in Alabama or anywhere else beside Georgia. A newspaper printed where I used to get our Forsyth Forum printed, The Walton Press in Monroe, GA, did a story on the guy. Lucky!