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Movie Railroads, The by Larry Jensen 1981 with Dust jacket
Movie Railroads, The by Larry Jensen
The Movie Railroads
Larry Jensen
Hard Cover w/dust jacket
257 Pages
Copyright 1981
Contents
PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS1
AN INTRODUCTION TO RAILROADS IN MOTION PICTURES4
THE RENTAL RAILROADS13
Sierra Railroad 14
Rio Grande Narrow Gauge70
The B. & 0. Railroad Museum96
The Magma Arizona Railroad 106
Nacionales de Mexico No. 650 114
The G.W. 75 Railroad Company120
THE STUDIO TRAINS131
Virginia & Truckee 132
Hobart Estate Company No. 5 182
Nevada County Narrow Gauge No. 5 190
Dardanelle & Russellville No. 8 196
APPENDICES 211
A. Film Lists 212
B. Equipment Rosters 238
C. Maps 245
BIBLIOGRAPHY 248
INDEX 250
Inside Dust Jacket
"Places, everyone," the director shouts. "Camera-a-a-, ACTION!"
Mid showers of sparks, billowing smoke and the thunder of steam exhaust, the noble iron horse surges into view while Hollywood's eager cameras recapture for audiences 'round the world the excitement and drama of railroading's Golden Age.
Who can forget those stirring sagas of the shining rails "Union Pacific," "Dodge City," "Denver and Rio Grande," "High Noon," "How the West Was Won," "Butch Cassidy and the Sun-dance Kid," and countless others! The Movie Railroads takes you on location to the Sierra Railroad in California's Mother Lode, to the narrow-gauge lines in Colorado's Rockies and to the studio back-lots, where locomotives of Nevada's Virginia & Truckee Railroad continued rolling long after the fabled short line was abandoned. Here, in a single absorbing volume, is recounted the landmark films starring the iron horse. It reveals the special tricks
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