Re: Eureka on Nevada PBS

Dan Markoff Wrote:
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They wanted to
> paint Eureka black and crummy looking. I argued
> with the set director two days that I would not
> allow that to happen because even though they
> wanted the locomotive to be the "metaphor of the
> working man" I insisted that was totally wrong.
> Anyway, you can see Eureka outside the Church of
> the Iron Horse, as my wife Ditty calls the shop.
>
> Dan Markoff

Hollywood history: When you aren't satisfied with real history, make something up and call it fact! Next time you have some filmmakers visit let 'em know Eureka is carbon neutral and runs strictly on renewable bio fuel. Maybe that'll get their attention, and strictly speaking it's true.

Eureka's top speed is in one sense the same as a Ferrari's--either one can go just fast enough to get to the scene of the crash. It'll go a lot faster than regular conditions allow. By 1870's standards it was regarded as over-boilered and later locomotives built to that pattern had larger cylinders, including two of the four survivors of that class.