I was at best buy and came across this for $15 on DVD, havent seen it since I was a kid so i figured what the heck i can probly keep my sisters kid busy watching it right [:P] I lost count how many times I watched this movie when I was a kid, and then when I was like 10 or somthing we visited the General and the Texas [bow]
Anyway yeah if you havent seen this flick its a good movie, lots of hawt 4-4-0 action [bow]
looks nice on DVD too [:D]
$15 at Best Buy? [sigh] I had to pay $25 last August at the museum where the General is on display! Oh well. At least it was for a good cause.
Glad you brought it up. My daughter and son-in-law are on their way over. While the women are hovering around the sewing machine, we men can watch it.[swg]
Parts of it was filmed on the TFRR, a shortline that used to run though my back yard. We still own a part of the roadbed.
Forgive my ignorance, but which road is the TFRR?
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I do like that movie. The best acting in that film is by the locomotives.
It is actually a pretty accurate telling of the story, with embellishments of course, and the stand-in locomotives are pretty accurate as well.
The first Congressional Medals of Honor were awarded to members of Andrews Raiders. This website has a good map of the route.
http://ngeorgia.com/history/raiders.html
Dave Nelson
http://www.abandonedrailroads.com/ga_tf.html
This tells all about the Tallulah Falls
there’s an old silent film called “The General” w/ Buster Keaton from like 1927, parts of it are up on youtube just search “The General” should get a few on the first page
heres a big chunk of it [dinner]
Great website, I don’t believe I have seen this one before.
There is an excellent book out there about the Andrews raid at Big Shanty, Georgia, “Stealing the General” by Russel S. Bonds. It was published this year by Westholme. Not including the author’s notes, it is 374 pages in length and very well detailed. While reading it I learned some things about this event in the History of the Civil War that I never knew before. It seems to me that I ordered this book through some mail order outfit, but I can’t remember exactly who I got it from nor what I paid for it.
The General was on display in 1939 at the New York World’s Fair. In 1962 the Louisville & Nashville restored the General to operating condition. O. Winston Link, who is best known for his black & white images of Norfolk & Western steam power during the 1950’s, also produced a number of sound recordings of steam locomotives, one of which is a recording that Link made of the General while the Louisville & Nashville had her running. I have a copy of that recording in the form of a 45 rpm record which I had purchased several years ago from the Colorado Railroad Museum.
When I was in the 6th grade in about 1967, I had a teacher whom I thought was a witch, but God bless her, she read to us in her class an account of the the Andrews Raid from a book that I think was written by a gentleman who’s name was John Epstein, and this is where my interest in the Andrews Raid and the General herself originally got started.
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My dad saw her running a couple times long before I was born (1981) and since I was born a train nut and he already had the Disney movie Its like the first movie I ever remember watching. I read a book about it too in grade school before we drove down and visited them (General & Texas) on our way to Flordia to go to Disney World during the summer [:D]
Wish I could have seen her run [V] Ill have to check with the local book store see if I can order that new book thx for the info, also found this on Youtube a video of her in action [bow]
Thanks for the YouTube links, I had not seen those. The General sure looks fast, doesn’t it? The coach/combine is also of interest by the way … it is a “Jim Crow” car, where the central baggage section separated the two coach seating sections, which by law in certain states in the south were obligated to be racially segregated.
Dave Nelson
Dave the car is L&N #665 which is located at the Kentucky Railway Museum awaiting restoration.
Dale
I have that movie on DVD, found it at a dollar store for, you guessed it, $1.00!