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The TV show Hell on Wheels?

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#21

If your watching Season 2, Be sure to watch the Extras,

There is a vignette about building their second locomotive, which unlike the first locomotive (which was made on the quick almost entirely out of wood and was deteriorating rapidly), is now almost entirely made out of steel, and will last for several more seasons.

This new locomotive has a very cut down pick-up truck chassis integrated inside the tender body to move the trains along, the old loco needed a trackmobile to push the trains along.

#22

And here I thought I was looking at a real loco wondering from which tourist RR it was borrowed :slight_smile: Just goes to prove that we are easily fooled by movie magic.

#23

Well there goes the fantasy that it is a borrowed live steam engine. They had me fooled. Still pretty clever that they built one around a pickup so they could move it. Now if it ever gets destroyed in a scene I won’t be like “NO way they didn’t just wreck that sweet engine”? That is Unless that lousy murdering Swede was at the throttle.

#24

Putting the power in the tender, Has been done for many years in Hollywood. For the movie Around the world in 80 days. D&RG 315 was pushed around from a diesel in the Combine. The same thing for the new movie just out (filmed in NM) The Lone Ranger. They even put all the rails down, and then during filming, moved them around, and removed them after filming was over.

The “Emma Sweeney” that we’re currently restoring in Durango is a wooden mock-up from the movie “Ticket to Tomahawk” and later for the TV series Petty Coat Junction. They placed a Smoke Generator in the tender for the steam effect.

Movie Magic. Creating realistic fakes for props is still cheeper then the digital creations, if used in a lot of different shots.

#25

EVen the National Railway Museum at Greenbay has a 2-8-2 with a disesel in the tender…

#26

http://www.drhs315.org/blog/projects/emma-sweeney-2/restoration/

FYI here is the Emma Sweeney restoration project Dave is referring to

#27

What season is currently running? I’ve burned through all of season one and two on Netflix in about 2 weeks. Don’t know if I want to start watching it with commercials, especially if I’m going to leapfrog a season or three.

EDIT: Never mind. I just re-read the OP. Currently in Season 3 so I’m all caught up. Just need to find re-runs of the first few from this season.

#28

Jon my wife and I watch it On Demand that way we can fast forward through the commercials. I don’t mind commercials and sometimes aactually like to see them but when they jam in 8 of them in a row I start to forget what I’m actually watching. It is nice to be able to fast forward. Funny thing last night we try to time the fast forward to stop right at the show and I thought I did a great job until I realised I stopped on a viagra commercial… granted it was one of the western themed ones. LOL

Hell on Wheels is already up to episode 5 and this season I noticed that they are getting further away from the trains and getting more involved with the character development. Poor Eva what trial is in store for her next?

#29

We watched Episode 301/302 on the cable system’s on-demand last night. Lots of digital glitches, but better than getting the story out of order. Had to laugh when Bohanan was able to fire a frozen loco by himself. On our cable system’s on-demand there is only one 60 second commercial and two 30 second self promotion spots per break. That sure beats the 18 minutes on the broadcast.

Unfortunately my cable system (Charter) is not set up to stream AMC though the computer where I could watch in HD.