Making of The Great Locomotive Chase with some great engine info

That was wonderful.  That HAD to have cost Walt Disney a small fortune to make that film.  I would never have guessed the extra care and work they went through to accurately portray the events as they historically happened.  Thanks for posting the link, I thoroughly enjoyed watching it. 

Thanks. It was and still is one of my favorite Disney films. Luckily have it on DVD and we watch it several times each year. Its also the film that got me interested in trains and History.

I was amazed at the authenticity of the train sequences.  As a direct opposite, check out the phony locomotives and steel cars with Bettendorf trucks in "Hell on Wheels" (available on Netflix).  I did notice an authentic looking link & pin coupling.

Thanks for posting the video. Great way to start the work day.

I remember as a kid, they'd show this every few years on Disney on TV (try explaining to anyone younger than their 40s that you had to wait for something to air on TV after it'd been in the theaters, that'll blow their minds).

I always loved seeing it, even though I always considered the raid to be the act of scoundrels, back when I was a kid. I bought the DVD of the movie as soon as it came out.

It was filmed on the Tallulah Falls Railroad, which once ran from Franklin, NC to an interchange with the Southern Railway at Cornelia, GA. There are several paperback books written about the Tallulah Falls Railroad, and they have lots of photos, including many about the filming of the motion picture with the great Fess Parker. One particular book, published by the Foxfire Press, includes a chapter on the Bear Creek Scenic Railroad, whose 1891 replica of a Southern Railway depot at Scottsboro, AL is my North Carolina home, located near Robbinsville, NC in Graham County. NOTE: ONLY the original version of the Foxfire book has the chapter on the Bear Creek Operation.

It helped that WD himself liked trains.

Usually in the 1950's they did show a cartoon short before the main picture.  Did they show Donald Duck working on his back yard layout with this picture?

p51 posted:

I remember as a kid, they'd show this every few years on Disney on TV (try explaining to anyone younger than their 40s that you had to wait for something to air on TV after it'd been in the theaters, that'll blow their minds).

I always loved seeing it, even though I always considered the raid to be the act of scoundrels, back when I was a kid. I bought the DVD of the movie as soon as it came out.

Not only that, but it was shown in two parts a week apart on Sundays nights.

And wete not the membets of this raid the first to get the Congressional Metal of Honor?

"I was amazed at the authenticity of the train sequences.  As a direct opposite, check out the phony locomotives and steel cars with Bettendorf trucks in "Hell on Wheels" (available on Netflix).  I did notice an authentic looking link & pin coupling."

Ya I gave up on "Hell on Wheels" after the first season. A good example of the problems it has it's portrayal of Thomas Durant. Now I love Colm Meaney as an actor (though don't know why he couldn't have a beard like Durant did) but so much of the character is phoney. In the series, he is supposed to have grown up an impoverished street kid in New York, who's called "Doc" because he can "fix" things. In reality, Thomas Durant was born into a fairly well-to-do Massachusetts family, and had a pronounced "Bah-stan" accent his whole life. He was nicknamed "Doc" because he had an M.D. degree and was even a professor for a time.

I always say, "ALL Television is entertainment"!