We were watching The Twelve Dogs of Christmas last night that is supposed to be set in the depression era 20s. In the opening shot, they show a curio cabinet with a white LGB Stanz engine sitting on, it then move on to a tin-type toy engine.
I think the script person got it wrong.
Something wrong in a movie? Oh, like that would EVER happen.
I love to rip part movies with train scenes.
Or airplane scenes, or scenes with 2 way radios, or scenes with gunfire, or…
David Maynard said:
Or airplane scenes, or scenes with 2 way radios, or scenes with gunfire, or…
Yea, let’s rip 'em a new one, ha ha ha ha ha ha …
More likely it was the only thing that they could find. Period tinplate items are often not easy to get ahold of so its whatever looks good. Certainly not the only time its happened.
My favorite train nerd fail scene is in Flags Of Our Fathers which takes place in 1945 in a scene on a train lounge car photos behind the bar show weathered PA1 dismals which is hi-larious considering they didnt go into production for three years. Only an uber-nerd would have spotted that. Guilty as charged.
In the Lone Ranger (2013) a kid is playing with a HO scale model railroad with Bachmann 4-4-0’s when the film takes place in 1869. I always cringe or say something silly but I tend to remember that general audiences don’t notice. Anachronisms are fun aren’t they?
Oh yea, they had HO Tyco 10 wheelers on a few of the old Wild Wild West episodes too.
And yea, general audiences don’t notice or care.
Caleb Randolph said:
In the Lone Ranger (2013) a kid is playing with a HO scale model railroad with Bachmann 4-4-0’s when the film takes place in 1869. I always cringe or say something silly but I tend to remember that general audiences don’t notice. Anachronisms are fun aren’t they?
What made me howl with derisive laughter at that scene was not just the OBVIOUSLY slightly reworked bog standard bachman 4-4-0 loco train, but the steampunk clad powerpack and the obviously modern layout scenery. It was astoundingly silly. Why WHY didn’t they use a old tinplate turn of the century Marklin O or Gauge 1 set, it would have worked so much better, at least it would have fit the era better.
Heck, with the money that filmmakers spend on films, they could have got an MTH gauge one tinplate set.
Still, the show did have lots of redeeming value. Many scenes were shot along/on heavyweights pulled by steam power.
Sorry, double post.
“My favorite train nerd fail scene is in Flags Of Our Fathers which takes place in 1945 in a scene on a train lounge car photos behind the bar show weathered PA1 dismals which is hi-larious considering they didnt go into production for three years. Only an uber-nerd would have spotted that. Guilty as charged.”
Vic, that was shot in the “Overland Trail,” and I asked the car owner Bill about that factoid and Bill said the production company had those made for the movie!.
I did get a haircut on that car on December 6, departing San Diego.
Or on Disaster on the Coastliner, how seperated air hoses causes a run away situation for the lone locomotive.