The locomotive from Petticoat Junction is a surviving steam locomotive. It's now at the California State Railroad Museum. (last I heard, anyway) Thought it might be of interest. Maybe not.
Later, Trent
Harry Wade wrote:
Petticoat Junction set the public's image of locomotive aesthetics back 100 years.(?)
actually, it's at railtown 1897 state historical park in jamestown, calif. jamestown is a branch of the calif state railroad museum, because for years the state parks department ran it and had no idea how to interpret it.
the sierra railroad, which is part short line and part museum line, is called "the movie railroad." in addition to petticoat junction, "back to the future 3" and "little house on the prairie" were filmed there (apparently in a good year they get a half-dozen film crews onsite). clint eastwood likes to film his westerns there -- he's made both "pale rider" and "unforgiven" at jamestown (it's a four-hour drive from his carmel home -- 45 minutes by helicopter).
the diamond stack and all the other geegaws -- including cow catchers -- that the movie companies demand to dress up locomotives sit in an open-sided warehouse just east of the roundhouse. apparently set designers can wander through the warehouse and say, "i'll take one of those and one of those" and the set painters dress them up and the shop guys attach them. after filming they go back to the warehouse.
and the watertower where the girls bathed? dryrot got it last year and they've built a new one. historically accurate but looks nothing like the tv show. i think that was the museum giving the finger to hollywood.
\dmc
ps: before i got into trains, i was a movie buff. for that i wore a beret.
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