Trains you miss in movies

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[quote user=“tomikawaTT”]

In the realm of anachronisms, the ancient Spanish teakettles and four wheel cars in all those Clint Eastwood spaghetti westerns are classic! Nothing even vaguely similar was ever used in the American West.

Chuck (Modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)

Plus the fact that I don’t think there were any railroads Out West that were laid to 5’ guage, LOL!

Tom

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I’m going off memory but in Eastwoods "Flags of our Fathers "Nice the trains carrying the protagonist is pulled by F-3 covered wagons which for 1944-45 would be accurate. In the trains club car though,there is a prominent photo of an PA-1, which wasnt even designed until after the war. Its a little thing but it stood out to me.

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Thanks for the clarification. I figured it was one of the two. And I’m only guessing at the wheel arrangement, but it did seem to be a shifter.

Sheldon is a very annoying character. Hoping he will become an ambassador for our hobby is like expecting Niles Crane to be an ambassador for psychiatry. [swg]

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Nelson:

I’ll have to take a gander at THEM! again–one of my all time favorite 'fifties ‘big bug’ movies. I remember an ATSF diesel switcher in the torn up boxcar scene, but not the SP switcher later on. Hey, it’s an excuse to watch the movie again tonight, by golly!

Actually, when I was mentioning BIG BANG THEORY, I wasn’t thinking of Sheldon the TV character as much as I was thinking of Jim Parsons, the actor that portrays him, who seems–at least on the interviews I’ve seen of him–to be an extremely personable guy, totally unlike the character he plays.

And besides, don’t we ALL sometimes act like 12-year olds when we get enthusiastic about model trains? I’m almost 72 and I know that I sure do, LOL! It’s been said that girls give up their Barbie dolls at about age 11, and boys give up their toys–reluctantly–on our death beds.

Best,

Tom

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You mean like this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEPQKysE6QA

No. [(-D]

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Nelson:

Well, except for the type of locomotive, that’s me coming home from the Roseville train show last weekend (mine was a used brass Rio Grande M-64 4-8-4).

OH MY GOSH!![:P]

Tom [:D]

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Sheldon is a very annoying character. Hoping he will become an ambassador for our hobby is like expecting Niles Crane to be an ambassador for psychiatry. Smile, Wink & Grin

So who’s hoping for Sheldon to become a hobby ambassador? For that matter, why would anyone expect a fitctional character who exists only in the mind of a writer to be an ambassador for anything?

Lemme see.

  1. Medea - In the running for mother of the year.

  2. Oedipus - The son any mother can love.

  3. Fanny Hill - The apotheosis of the working woman.

  4. Elmer Gantry - The perfect man of the cloth.

  5. Sheldon Cooper - The only reason he’s brought up on this thread is that Jim Parsons wanted his real life interest in trains reflected in his character (who, unfortunately has developed absolutely no social skills whatsoever in his fictional life).

BTW, Sheldon’s not nearly as annoying as Alan Harper of 2.5 Men. I’ll take an arrogant geek over a self-serving tightwad leech any time.

2.5 Men. Interesting nobody’s come down on the character of Herb, who also likes trains.

Andre

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Andre… note the smiley.