Looks nifty, I have also seen scenes of Bamburgh Castle on Fire as well via youtube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3n4nEH_OSg
more…
This had better be some sort of Man-in-the-high-castle-SS-GB alternate history in which the Nazis conquered the British empire after Riddles did the 9Fs. Even then – the deflectors would have been swapped for Wittes, right?
I am glad in a way Juniatha doesn’t have to see this.
I suppose to the unwashed North American masses this would certainly look like a continental engine.
Isn’t there another prop/dummy locomotive, to be destroyed in a crash scene?
Never mind, I was thinking of the new Mission: Impossible, which is also currently being filmed in England and features a fake engine.
https://www.staffordshire-live.co.uk/news/local-news/tom-cruises-mission-impossible-train-5481088
If you’re watching Indiana Jones for historical accuracy…
Next you’re going to tell me you can’t survive a nuclear detonation in a fridge.
You mean I can’t use the contents of a 3,000 year old box to melt the faces off my enemies?
I’m curious as to how Indy’s going to manage dealing with Nazis and a Rollator at the same time.
In case some of you are wondering what I’m talking about:
Wayne, I think it might go something like this:
Yeah, my thoughts exactly Bob!
They really should stick a fork in this franchise, it’s done!
I read this is going to be the last one. I don’t mind having this one made - Inidana Jones deserves a better send off than Crystal Skull.
Even if they could get someone to take over for Ford (LeBeouf?), would it be Indiana Jones without Indiana Jones? Kind of like that Bourne movie without Jason Bourne. Not that the last one with Jason Bourne was anything too great.
More like the James Bond movies without Sean Connery.
Doctor Who figured out how to get around actors aging out or leaving the role decades ago…
Doctors come and go, some are better than others.
Geezers like Lady Firestorm and myself still think Jon Pertwee was the best!
(Even though the first one we saw was Tom Baker.)
What I mean is that there are plenty of Continental engines, and rolling stock, and opportunities to run them for film shooting. Come to think of it, German engines, and rolling stock, and opportunities.
Not going to keep me from enjoying the resulting scene, though.
I confess it would have been interesting to see how the Bond franchise would have developed if it had used Ian Fleming’s original idea of how Bond looked and acted – not at all like Connery.
Likewise whether Indiana Jones’ son would have matured into ‘taking over the franchise’ – seems to me that the whole idea of academic tomb-raiding pulps ended with Ford’s character’s generation, and the reason to continue the tropes would… change with generations. (This implicitly already happened once within this franchise, involving some interesting implications…)
It will be interesting to see where they decide to go with this one, though.
I believe that it got close when Daniel Craig took the part. Maybe not on the appearance but definitely on the personality.
I think one of the reasons for filming a “German” train in the U.K. is that while there are a lot of vintage locomotives and rolling stock in Germany, there aren’t a lot of intact former main line heritage railways that duplicate a main line like in the U.K, which is obviously what the film makers wanted. Lines like the NYMR, the Nene Valley and the Great Central would all be suitable for this look. In Germany there are a lot of main line excursions using steam, but just about all the main lines are electric.
In all the books I have about German railways, I’ve never once seen a picture of a locomotive with a big swastika on the tender or smoke deflector but that doesn’t mean it never happened. I have seen pictures of locos with chalked-on slogans like “Der rader muss rollen fur den Sieg” in wartime. Also the Deutsh Reichsbahn emblem looks nothing like what is on that train.
Sequels! Stars Wars, Indiana Jones and Mad Max should have ended at three movies. I bought their fourth installments, couldn’t watch all the way through, and tossed them.
Until today I thought the Ipcress File was great and had no sequels. So I googled it only to find out there were five more Harry Palmers. Should I risk getting burned again? I don’t think so.
Rick
Clint Eastwood knew when to back away from Dirty Harry and the GB&U series and all remain entertaining.
Guns of Navarone, Rocky and Rambo needed no sequels but got them anyway.
I saw From Russia and Goldfinger, but never got into the Bond thing.
Rick
From what I’ve read, Ian Fleming wasn’t happy at all with the casting of Sean Connery as Bond. Fleming’s Bond was supposed to be a proper English gentleman, not someone with a “Blue-collar Scot” look like Connery had.
Until he saw the rushes with Connery, then he agreed the film-makers made the right choice. So even Ian Fleming agreed in the end Sean Connery WAS James Bond.
There was one, and one only that I know of. It was a German streamliner that had a swastika applied (like the one in the clips) but that was only for the 1936 Olympics which were held in Germany at Garmisch-Partenkirchen (Winter) and Berlin (Summer.) After the Olympics the swastikas were removed.
I can’t find a decent picture of that German locomotive, but here’s a model of it:
https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/liliput-105-01-german-drg-6-br-05-1696210961
In my search I found other locomotives had big fat swastikas on them for the Olympic year. Those didn’t last either, they were pretty blatant markings for Reichsbahn locomotives. The typical marking was the Nazi party eagle with “D-R” for Deutsche Reichsbahn.
Here’s an interesting bit of trivia. The East German railways were still called the Reichsbahn, even under Communist governance. Surprised me when I read that.
In West Germany it was the Bundesbahn.
Wayne- I have that same locomotive in N scale, with the Olympic rings but no swastika. On the various East German narrow gauge railways that I have visited you can still see the old DR logo on a lot of the equipment.
Rixflix- If you liked The Ipcress File, see Funeral in Berlin- the only other decent Harry Palmer movie. The others aren’t worh seeing. A movie along the same lines is “The Quiller Memorandum” with George Segal and like the Harry Palmer movies, shows that the world of a spy is not as glamourous as James Bond’s.