It seems like there are more shows on TV featuring some type of theme baes on trains and model trains which I think is great for the hobby. There is a show called Cake Boss on the TLC channel, they actually built a entire layout of scenery with cake. It was great and actually featured real model trains running around the cake layout. Every building was made from cake. It featured what seemed to be a MTH Genisis Amtrack O scale train on the upper portion of the cake layout and a Bachmann G scale train on the lower portion of the layout. It was great, wish I had that cake. The History channel had a entire history line up of the locomotive, it was very interesting. I didn't know that it was the EMD FT that single handly ended the steam locomotive era, they stated that many railroads were scrapping steamers at only 5 years of age due to the economic impact of the diesels. Great show. Even the show called King of Queens did a show based on the guy going to a model train show that semed to catch on fire. Keep an eye out, there are probably more TV shows with some type of train theme that I haven't seen yet.
History Channel did a whole series on modern locomotives with a host who was employed by a Class 2 Railroad in Maine.
Anyone remember a mid 70's show called Silver Spoons with Ricky Shroeder??? I sorta remember that he had a mini train in that show that he rode on thru out the house. I wonder if that was a custom made train just for the show............
If you have a young niece, daughter or grand daughter, more than likely you are watching a show called ICarly. My 9 year girl is addicted to this show. Anyway, they also did a show with a model train, but many of us here on the board would not approve of how the script for the show was wrote out for this train episode. See for youself, here is a you tube link to the show "ICarly" train episode >>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d62-8lEzbCg
I like to watch alot of reality shows, so 3 come to mind which are "Ax Men" , "Extreme Loggers", and "swamp Loggers" I can't remember which, but on one of these three shows which I think was "Extreme Loggers" one of the crew stumbles upon a old abandoned small logging train in the woods they were logging in. It looked like a 3/4 scale train and it might have been a Brookville locomotive with a flat head Ford gas V-8 engine. They said finding abandoned logging operations equipment was not uncommon, but this was the first time they found a train that was looong forgotten. Who knows, you just find a old abandoned trains or tracks in your woods somewhere that was long forgotten.
On a off subject, where would you expect NOT to find a train wreck????????? How about 9 miles off the New Jersey coast under water, yep under water. 2 steam locomotives were discovered by divers under water right off the New Jersey coast. Here is the you tube link >>>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE4IbZj5JS4
Don't forget the grandaddy of TV shows with trains-Petticoat Junction. Some of the scenes were shot with 7/16" scale models. There was an article about this in an older NG&SLG magazine. And train movies? Emperor of the North-nitpicker proof train stuff! And...has anyone mentioned Thomas the Tank Engine TV show??? Woodie
One of those flip your house shows had a old house with a H.O. layout in the garage. The old timer who sold the house took forever to get his stuff moved out so this young kid who bought the house could begin to renovate it. Seems the guy wanted to move the layout last and the workers started using it as a workbench and trashed it. It was kind of humorous.
Axmen is in my old home territory. I know the area where Rygaard is generally seen working, from childhood vacationing. The Silliness called S&S is in the area where my mother and grandfather grew up. There were such things as track, mill remnants, donkeys, log and bunk cars known to exist in fact, around where I grew up. Boxcab E50
We're all old enough to remember SUPERTRAIN from the late 70's. Although if you blinked you may have missed the series: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvF7dIVVKGQ -Mike
I'm definately old enough, but this is the 1ST time I saw "Supertrain", it's definately one of those shows tht you thought were so cool then but would find it as a lame and cheezy 70's show today. Such shows as "Chips", "Love Boat", "Bionic Woman", "Million Dollar Man", etc. This show had to be on for a very short time. I remember the show called "Viper" made in the early 90's and most of you should be young enough to remember but may never heard of it. It only ran 2 episodes and was cancelled, they even made a 4 series comic book on the series, but only 3 were ever completed.
Whether or not you like beer, there is one favorite beer commercial that we have been admiring for a couple of years. Yep thats right, the Coors Lite beer train which seems to be all chrome is pretty neat. Lionel even made a limited run of this train, but it was very expensive. Some how the train is always moving in every commercial so we never get a good glimspe of the chrome steamer.
Young or Old, who could forget the Dukes of Hazzard and I'm not talking about the remake with Jessica Simpson. I mean the "Original" with Catherine Bach. Anyway, in one of the original episodes the General Lee makes a jump over a moving train and of course makes it. Here is a you tube link to the original scene. you tube link > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hb7qPbvZDCM
Some of you may remember the Addams Family movies that came out in the early 90's. But low and behold there was a actual series on TV every weekend that was in black and white. Here is a episode from 1964 that features a Lionel train set that Gomez blows up. you tube link> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMxJtMoTnx8 Here is the re-make Addams Family movie with Gomez wrecking 2 lionel trains you tube link> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P22uDcH5QEk&feature=related
Yes. I remember that show very well. Along with "The Munsters" the two were big hits. Very popular. And given a chocie I'd watch them again over anything attempting to copycat since those years. Boxcab E50
There was a movie called "Nothing but Trouble" that starred Demi Moore, Chey Chase, Dan Akroid and John Candy. There was a dinner scene where the Judge played by Dan Akroid pressed a button at the dinner table and then a Lionel train set would come up to the table by electric hydraulics I'm guessing. The Lionel train set carried condiments for the hot dogs they were eating such as mustard in a tank car, ketchup in a tank car, onions and relish carried by gondolla cars and there was even a flat bed car that shot out pickles when a button was pressed. There was music playing while the train was in motion. Here is a link to a brief moment from that movie, I could not find a good entire clip of the dinner scene, but I have the movie anyway. you tube link> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6maG9OMyPXM&feature=related
