The Great Locomotive Chase - The Texas

Scene from The Great Locomotive Chase

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Film & Animation

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• The
• Great
• Locomotive
• Chase
• Disney

[BRIANamtrak]

this is gay...not

If you copied this off a TV, how did it come out so fucking good?!

[Treyvs]

Idk, Luck? lol

[aeolus925]

Not a bit of it; the engines were wood-burners. Mesquite! (If it was a coal-burner I think I'd pass.)

[Engineer5344]

you know what goes good with bacon cooked on the texas, some pancakes and hash browns

[erikals2]

@TheMandolineer haven't heard of it till I googled 'iron horse chef'

[TheMandolineer]

@erikals2 you've never heard of "backhead barbecue"? People have tried it :]

[CA1CWilliams]

haha funny,their frying bacon on the firebox :3

[Chris9017]

@andywatson55 no they are not sisters. The look a lot a like today, but they were built by different companys. Dayton was built in 1873 by the SP Sacramento shops with a wrought iron boiler where as Inyo was built in 1875 by Baldwin with a steel boiler. Inyo was oil fired during the time of this movie with wood being thrown in for effects. Mason however was a true wood fired engine. Hopefully the 2 will show up in another movie together in the future.

[steampower2001]

I think that this movie was filmed on the Tallulah Falls Railroad in 1955.

[SR722]

The real "Texas" is still on display at the Cyclorama; however, the locomotive here isn't the real "Texas". Two other 4-4-0's, the Baltimore & Ohio's "WIlliam Mason" (the "General"), and the Virginia & Truckee's "Inyo" (the "Texas"), were used in lieu of the real "General" and "Texas"; the pair also cameoed as other locomotives during the film, such as the locomotive on the Kingston wye, and the "Catoosa".

[jpr1950]

This train was on display at the Cyclorama in Atlanta last time I visited.. not sure if it is there currently, but if you are a civil war buff and you've never been, that place is great

[SwampDaddy7]

Considered using the smokebox to barbecue some ribs once . . . I got a feeling at the end of the run, the ribs would be ready if it's about five hours.

[erikals2]

boy, american voices sound better on film than video or DVD (mary poppins is one example)

[erikals2]

at 0:11 you see strips of bacon hanging on the firebox door - has anyone tried to cook potatoes or toast bread with a woodburning steam engine?