Re: Royal Gorge War

weston1879 wrote: " Watching historic locomotives get destroyed in a wreck is a "nice diversion"? It seems that Hollywood is full of idiots that think that the only way to include a train in a movie plot is to rob it or wreck it.D&RG is just a cheap remake of Saratoga Trunk."

When that movie was filmed in 1951, both the 319 and the 345 were due to be scrapped, and thus were put to what was then thought to be good use. Philosophies and attitudes were much different then. Today, I doubt the actual wrecking of the locomotives would happen in a film as it would be much easier and cheaper to have modelmakers and special effects experts do it. There would also be enough of an uproar from the foamer community (if word got out that something like that was planned) that the scene would never be allowed to happen as it did in 1951. The movie is what it is, and frankly, there's not a damn thing you or anyone else can do about it. That said, I'd be very happy if those two engines had been save but it wasn't to be and life goes on. Quit whining.

Ed