Hey Ya’ll
Does anybody know the Locomotive that was used in the movie Fried Green Tomatoes.
I suspect its the 4-6-2 Pacific from the Atlanta and West Ponit Railroad. I saw a photo of it on RailPictures.net.
It looks like the locomotive. The Locomotive and Tender ar the exct same size.
I do think its a steam locomotive from Georgia as it was filmed in Juliette, Georgia and it was a low budget film (as they said on the DVD), so logic states that it is beacuse a low budget filmisn’t going to spend the time and money to get a locomotive from say California, let alone the states around it.
And, if you pay attention, the train the locomotive is pulling is the same time every time its filmed, except when they had some passenger cars in front of the depot in a night shot (When Frank Bennet tried to steal his wife Rith’s baby, who ran away from him after he beat her).
So, if anybody knows for sure, let me know.
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P:S: Here are two links to photos of the locomotive that I think is the one
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=123087
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=59718
It was Atlanta and West Point 290, a Lima heavy Pacific. It had an identical sister, Western of Alabama 190, scrapped in the 1950s. They were bought in the mid-1920s to handle the Crescent between Atlanta and Montgomery, Al. on its way to New Orleans.
The 290 was donated to the city of Atlanta and displayed at Lakewood Park for some years.
Last I heard, 290 was in the Museum at Duluth, Ga. It had worked on the New Georgia handling excursions around Atlanta.
Old Timer
Yes,
You are right. I found the photos of it on RailPictures.net. There were some pictures of it pullinf excursions there.
I really do think this is the locomotive, but I just wanted to ask in case I was wrong.
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The overhead bridge used in the movie’s train scene is still in place, although it is too old to handle the weight of today’s modern autos. It is located in Senoia, Georgia, and I believe it crosses the ROW at Bridge Street. The house used in the movie is on the corner near the bridge. The tracks were still there two years ago when I visited, but that part of the line (east from Senoia) is abandoned – former Southern Railway, later Central of Georgia.
Oh,
Thats a shame. To bad no ones plans to preserve it (The Line, Not the Bridge)
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