http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mz4fmT8kKN
This one is in French, but it is also in color, which is interesting to see since the movie is in black and white.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2pEvr32C7g
Kevin
Fascinating! thanks for posting!
Curiosity leads me to ask, anyone:
( Where is Juniattha when you have a question in her direction?) [swg]!
At about a minute 45 seconds, there is a scene where they are photographing along side the reversing steam locomotive.
As it backs from left to right [ it appears to have a separate set of piston or valve gear], and then a piston casting in the conventional location at the front of the drivers. I know there were a number of European Steam locomotives that had Cylinder(s), and piston(s) inside the frame, driving by a crank on a driving axle.
Anyone have any idea what that arrangement is; or what it is called, or even what its function was in that configuration?
Thanks!
Noticed the same thing - have no answer!
If you mean the section between about 1:56 to 2:00 – that’s a de Glehn-du Bousquet compound. The HP cylinders are outside; the LP cylinders are up forward (essentially between the frames) and drive on the leading coupled axle.
What you’re looking at which appears to be ‘another set of cylinders’ is probably an air tank. It might be outside valve cylinders for the inside cylinders … at least one class of Italian locomotive was made that way… but I do not remember any significant French locomotive class that did that.
I almost remember the class of French Pacific that was used – I think it was a Chapelon-modified 231 G, but I might be confusing that with a French movie like Bete Humaine…
My favorite railroad movie. Frankenheimer used French assistant directors and he has said that they hated each other, but what turned out is a realistic drama rather than the over-the-top American style films of the time. Much of the film had to be re-written on the fly, for example, toward the end of filming Lancaster went golfing on a day off, stepped in a hole and blew out his knee, which needed an operation when shooting was finished to fix it, so they wrote in a scene where he was shot in the knee so that he could limp through the end of the movie.
Overmod,said in part:
[snip] "…What you’re looking at which appears to be ‘another set of cylinders’ is probably an air tank. It might be outside valve cylinders for the inside cylinders … at least one class of Italian locomotive was made that way…" [snip]
Thanks, Overmod! My guess was that the ‘front cylinder’ was that because of what appeared to be an extension of a piston rod thru the back housing and to the front ‘cylinder’ . Apparently, what I mistook for a extended piston rod was an air line( ?) between the appliances; and after watching the movie a couple of more time, it did not appear to move.
Thanks, for your information! [bow]
I’ll go along with the air reservoir idea. You can see it around 4:00 or so in the color clip.
Turner Classic Movies (here at the Fortress Firelock we call it "Uncle Ted’s Movie Morgue) had an interesting show about a year or so ago about the making of “The Train.”
Or it might have been “The History Channel”, I’m not sure. Anyway…
One thing stuck in my mind: At the end of the film there was to be kind of an “Old West showdown and shoot-em-up” between Burt Lancaster and Paul Scofield who played the German art-thief colonel. Both Lancaster and Frankenheimer agreed it wasn’t going to work, then Burt suggested “Say, why don’t we have Paul talk himself to death?”
Sure enough, the colonel commits “suicide-by-Burt” by taunting Lancaster to the point where ol’ Burt empties an MP-40 submachine gun into him!
I do like the way the film ends. The derailed train, the dead civilian hostages all around the art crates, and the unspoken question, “was the art worth all this?”
Not a happy ending, not a neat wrap-up, but one that makes you think.