Re: At the movies . . . in books and at Old Tucson

Wayne Hoskin Wrote:
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> There has been a book written on this subject
> but it is great to see and pick the trains in the
> movies.

Check out Larry Jensen's great series of books, "Hollywood's Railroads".  Volume Three – 'Narrow Gauge Country' – is of special interest to most of us here on the NGDF.   (See [ngdiscussion.net].)

> One recent extremely hot day here in Australia
> kept me indoors (like being snowed in in the US?),
> so I had a slack day and watched a couple of
> John Wayne westerns, McClintock and Rio Lobo.
> the trains were different and standard gauge and
> I couldn't pick them, but I did note they re-used
> movie sets with the bridge over the creek and
> warehouse being used in both movies . . .


G'Daye, Wayne -

That wooden bridge over the creek has been in more western movies than John Wayne, Hopalong Cassidy and Hoot Gibson combined.  I believe the location is the 'Old Tucson' movie set, just down the road from Nohitsnorunsno, Ariz — a few miles west of the city of Tucson.  IIRC 'Old Tucson' (and its local locomotive?) suffered serious damage in a fire several years ago.

- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 01/08/2020 11:38AM by Russo Loco.