No, Curtis, I am (correction, more info) *PIC*

I thought you fellas might like to know who is the REAL "man of constant sorrow" - ME. I actually had a chance to shoot the train during the filming and blew it off.
Here's how it transpired:
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 09:38:07 -0700 (PDT)
From: David Hurt <emailaddress@serviceprovider.com >
Subject: Fwd: Hey man lok at this!!!!!
To: johnacraft@serviceprovider.com
Craft:
Just received this today. Is this steam?? Are you going to go if it is??
Later,
Hurtman
Note: forwarded message attached.
From: "derrick davis" <emailaddress@serviceprovider.com >
To: "D Hurt" <emailaddress@serviceprovider.com >
Subject: Hey man lok at this!!!!!
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 22:01:23 -0400
News from the internet.
Mike Murray
-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Robbins <emailaddress@serviceprovider.com >
I thought I'd let everyone know, the DR #4 will be loaded tomorrow on a truck. It's going to the Columbus and Greenville RR at Greenville, MS to shoot a movie for Disney. The engine should arive Thursday evening and will be unloaded on Friday. The tenative shooting schedule has us running to Leland, MS on June 29th, filming on June 30 and July 1, and returning to Greenville on July 3.
We will be using one of our ex-SSW cabooses and about 6 or 7 freight cars from Texas State. The entire train will be set up to represent a 1930's shortline.(aka Yazoo and Mississippi)
I am leaving tomorrow to set up, therefore I will not be able to get my email unitl I return.
If anyone has any questions, they can call the Dardanelle & Russellville Railroad at 501-968-6455
Thanks
Tim
Date Thu, 24 Jun 1999 171626 +0000
To David Hurt <dwhurt@yahoo.com>
From John Craft <johnacraft@mindspring.com>
Subject Re Fwd Hey man lok at this!!!!!
My reply to David:
At 0938 AM 6/24/99 -0700, you wrote
Craft
Just received this today. Is this steam?? Are you going to go if it
is??
Later,
Hurtman
Hmmm . . . #4 is a W. T. Carter 2-6-2 that used to be on the Reader. Train sounds nice - but is the engine gonna be gussied up? (Reader had 'em pretty tarted up.)
It would be great if someone nearby could give us a first-hand report. If it looks reasonably authentic, and if it's running in low light, I could probably be persuaded to dash over to Greenville on the 29th for the move to Leland, even if it is only 10 miles. A Noon ferry of a half-white engine with a fake stack isn't in the cards for me, nor is sitting around waiting for a filming move.
Know anyone in Greenville who can give us a report tomorrow?
JAC
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 08:52:23 -0700 (PDT)
From: David Hurt <dwhurt@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Fwd: Hey man lok at this!!!!!
To: John Craft <johnacraft@mindspring.com>
CRaft:
I was off line until today. Derrick Davis who works for the Lux Valley told me this is part of the movie that Disney is shooting in Mississippi with George Clooney & John Goodman. They are supposed to run it to Leland & wye it there or somewhere. I don't have any contacts who can tell me what is going on. Weather is probably going to suck out! I am off tomorrow & on Wed., so I can't go.
Sorry I don't know any more.
Hurt
Bad weather, a Disney production (which in my mind meant an orange locomotive, purple cars, fake stack, stars, etc.) - NO WAY was I going to drive across the Delta in June to shoot this . . .
Fast forward to mid-January. Danah and I went to see the movie, and when we got back an email from JJ Templin of the Reader was waiting for me. My reply:
Date Tue, 16 Jan 2001 000021 +0000
To "Jim Jake Templin" <emailaddress@serviceprovider.com >
From John Craft <johnacraft@serviceprovider.com >
Subject Re Steam Engine In Movie OBrother Where Art Thou
At 0357 PM 1/14/2001 EST, you wrote
>Check out the Coen Brother's new film O Brother Where Art Thou featuring
>Reader RR's Ex WT Carter 2-6-2 #4 in the opening scenes.
>Rev JJ
>PS Get a good look at the good looking rotund fellow in the fireman's seat,HA
>HA
What a coincidence - saw it probably while you wrote this.
Check the site.
JAC
(I had put up a little blurb at SteamCentral.com mentioning the movie, recounting the story above, and congratulating "Stan Garner," in the credits as "Train Conductor.")
The next morning I had two more messages:
At 0815 PM 1/15/2001 -0800, you wrote
Reply-To stangarner@serviceprovider.com
From "Stan Garner" <stangarner@serviceprovider.com>
To mail@steamcentral.com
Subject O Brother
Date Mon, 15 Jan 2001 201551 -0800
Thanks for the complements on the way the train looked. The art Dept wanted a typical southern freight train of the thirties and that's what we gave them. To see pix of filming look at my web site www.movie-trains.com or www.stangarner.com
--- Stan Garner
Nice work, Stan. And I didn't count on "Stan Garner" (I confess I thought it was someone at the C&G) seeing it the same day I put it up " />
JAC
At 1249 PM 1/18/2001 EST, you wrote
>FYI The look they wanted was based on Beebe & Cleggs photo in Mixed Train
>Daily, esp. the one of the DeKalb & Western where the engineer displayed a
>Shriners Emblem under the head light; since stan and I are both loyal
>lodgemen of the A.A.O.N.M.S., I came up with a old brass medallion , which,
>although hard to see in the movie, was there, just like the book.
>Jim Jake Templin, Chief Mechanical Offficer, Steam
>Reader Railroad, Arkansas Shortlines
The steam community is very close, indeed " />
Stan's site has some photos of the filming. (Dang, I wish I'd gone over there!)
Also, by coincidence, I received a photo of No. 4 from her new operator this morning.
Great movie. I took Kim Flowers to see it in Albuquerque during some Friends meetings - those westerners laughed at completely different parts of the movie than we Southerners did. And having grown up on Jimmie Rodgers and the Grand Ol' Opry, I really enjoyed seeing the soundtrack squash the Britney Spears-inspired pap coming out of Nashville these days . . .
Now, back to your Narrow Gauge focus.
JAC