I just watched the movie "Days of Heaven" after having seen it once in 1978 when it was released. It's a great plot, and it won the Oscar for cinematography. The characters travel by train, and the reviews call it a "freight" train. The consist is a steam loco/tender, a wrecking crane, boom car, tank car, and several box cars that have been converted to tool cars, bunk cars and other obvious work train cars. The plot is based upon migrant workers traveling great distances from the East coast to the Texas panhandle, so a local work train would not be appropriate for the shots. Does anyone here know whose train it was, and why it was used instead of a train full of regular freight cars?
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