Re: "backdating" locomotives and other things

weston1879 Wrote:
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> What about PEARL HARBOR or TORA,TORA.... that had
> 1970s Navy ships standing in for 1920-30s
> ships......
>
>
> Backdating "modern"locomotives to look "old time"
> reminds me of what John Allen did with the old
> Roundhouse MDC SP 0-6-0s by adding diamond stacks,
> pilot trucks and board extensions on the
> tenders.On a visit to the local library several
> years later I found some pictures of SP
> affiliated engines that operated on a line in
> Mexico that had been converted to burn wood.These
> were Harriman stiled engines with diamond stacks
> and even weirder looking tenders.


I worked as a technical consultant to a DYI automotive repair show for a couple years.

There's no telling what a "director" sees in his mind's eye as "appropriate", or "right", or "fitting", for his "creative view".

We're seriously lucky he doesn't want the thing painted pink candy-stripe.

The best part of that whole rat-killing is that we got catered lunch every day.

There will always be a cinematic disconnect between what experts and enthusiasts know to be correct, and what preposterisms the producers and directors think will catch the attention of the masses.

Remember what a tragedy your favorite books wound up as, on film.

It's best for the railroad to just take the money and run, and, in my personal opinion, bend over backwards to accommodate the film industry so they'll return as frequently as possible.

~

Doug Frederick, Chama, New Mexico.

"Think you used enough dynamite there, Butch?"

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