Re: C&TS and movie Missouri Breaks

I was involved in the filming of Missouri Breaks, but I don't remember much detail. 1975 was my first year working at the C&TS. I'm not sure how it came to pass that Bernie Watts and I were assigned as engine crew on 483, being shop types, but we were. On the first day of filming, the director, or more likely, the continuity person, noted that Bernie was visible on film from the first day's shooting, so they required that he should run the engine on all subsequent shooting of that sequence, which ran into the next day. I was thrilled to get out of the shop and on the locomotive. About all I remember of the shooting is that the scene we were involved in took place a little west of the Los Pinos tank. We would run the train forward for a few hundred yards, then stop and back up to do another take. We'd wait and wait and wait, and finally get the word to run forward again, this time with more smoke. Then it would be "too much smoke--dial it back a little." We must have done ten takes of that scene over a period of several hours. I never did see the movie, or, if I did, it was so bad I don't remember any of it.