we have a cheezy tv station here that shows reruns of cheezy shows. Last night, they were airing an episode of Adam 12, and at the very end, there was a chase and shootout at Travel Town museum:
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I always like it when I am watching television, and there are scenes of trains in the background!
Wow Adam 12, I haven't seen that show in over 15 years and that was on nick at night.
"One Adam Twelve, See the man ......."
Speaking from the 70's, I caught Silver Streak on AMC last week, what a shame to the train and station :cry:
I wonder if anyone modeled AMRoad?
Yeah. Adam 12 was a bit of a creative show. It's almost like COPS, but with (bad) actors and much more PG. It really was cheezy, but the premise was definitely different to follow some cops around during the course of a day. So far, I have seen background trains in two episodes. Silver Streak is a classic train flick. I assume that is where TYCO got the name for their train set.
I forget what episode but,there was a nice shot of a SP SW1500 on "Emergency".
I still like watching Dragnet,Adam-12 and Emergency..I guess its a change from today's mindless shows like "Dancing with the Stars""American Idol" and other shows of that calibre..I speed more time on Discovery,The History Channel,TruTV and Nat Geo.
What about the old steamer Cannonball on Petticoat Junction? Not to mention those serious babes in the watertower!
I liked the train Jim West and Artemus Gordon lived in on Wild, Wild West....
In the movie, "Enemy Of The State", when they blew up the building, a Conrail train actually, and accidently got into the shot.
Imagine the crew's faces when that happened?
eightyeightfan1 Wrote:In the movie, "Enemy Of The State", when they blew up the building, a Conrail train actually, and accidently got into the shot.
Imagine the crew's faces when that happened?
That kind of thing is bound to happen when shooting "on location"
Has anyone ever been watching TV or a movie with a family member, friend, date, or wife and pointed out the "real" identity of a train used in the scene? The response (sometimes just the look on their face) is almost universally "what a dork you are!
" followed with a "shusssh!"
.
Yes, there was a recent Sherlock Holmes made-for-tv movie that was clearly filmed in Canada. What gave it away? The all-weather cab on the steamer, of course!
Travel Town is a great place to go take measurements and reference photos for steam detailing projects. A few details on my Shifter are based on the 4439 UP 0-6-0 there.
And so many other shows have Griffith Park as the background in general. My wife's grandfather and his brothers grew up in Hollywood (they have a star on the walk of fame, actually - the Watson family) and played in Griffith Park. That's how they got their start, as child star extras.
Galen
MasonJar Wrote:nachoman Wrote:Has anyone ever been watching TV or a movie with a family member, friend, date, or wife and pointed out the "real" identity of a train used in the scene? The response (sometimes just the look on their face) is almost universally "what a dork you are! " followed with a "shusssh!" .
Uhhh, guilty as charged.
Andrew
Ditto...
Remember those spegetti westerns where the trains had (gasp) buffers, & 4-whell cars?
And yeah...if I said anything, my oldest daughter had this phrase - "You're hittin' about a 10 on the geekometer there Dad!"
Oh & btw...while we're on the subject...the engineer on The Silver Streak sat on the LEFT side of the cab!
:ugeek:
But Kevin, that isn't music - it's either screaming at the top of your raw-sounding vocal chords trying to be heard over amplification destined to insure your deafness by the time you are 25 or 30 (my daughter used to wear a pair of ear plugs "borrowed" from my Corner Marshall equipment bucket to go to concerts when she was younger,) or cursing, demeaning women, glorifying the killing of policemen and the destuction of private property, while sounding like an uneducated miscreant from the some gang-banger band of killers from the middle of the slums -- who would
want to know anything about that bovine excrement!
Actually, since she got past age 25 she started to mellow a little bit and now that she's 26 and become a mother, she's mellowed even more. She has actually gone back to listening to the Eagles! Yeah! "Life in the Fast Lane" was her favorite tune when she was five or six - knew all the words - didn't know what they meant, but knew them all!
