I was researching some information for my next project when I ran a crossed this little article on the Petticoat junction. Boy how it brings back the memories. The image is hard to read but it’s a neat short story. http://petticoat.topcities.com/movierailroads.htm
petticoat girls Interesting article Sean ! I was able to read the whole thing. I never saw the show...too young... but I have seen parts of it. Here are the original girls_picture taken in 1963...aren't they gorgeous ! Candy
Candy, You know back then I was more interested in the trains. The girls seemed like my cozens. They where not of interest to me at that age. But boy did that change just a few short years later. Darn that cozens thing any way.
I think you mean cousins, Sean, ....Cozen : "to cheat or defraud" ....anyway you must have had some special cousins! DAV&P ? Was that a real railroad ?
Candy, Yes your spelling is much better then mine. J But I was trying for the “ Hill – Billy “ effect there… O-well….. he he he J You know my cousins drove me nuts. See they where all beauty queens and I was the ugly troll. It seems that I did have one quality that they liked. They loved to torture me via the ways of the tickle. Yes the DAV&P. or the Dunkirk Allegheny Valley and Pittsburgh Railroad was a real life short line. It started here in Dunkirk and ran to Titusville PA. Some 90 miles. I only model a short 30 mile segment of it, in G scale. Because I model a defunct prototype I scratch build nearly all of the structures on my layout. I get a lot of enjoyment out of going out to the different locations near my house and finding just where things where, like the roundhouse, yards and so on. While a 3 mile segment is still in use today by CSX, to server Filed brook ice cream Co. ( In Dunkirk ) and the Carriage house canning factory ( In Fredonia ). The tracks end at Carriage house, just short of where the Fredonia Passenger station once sat. The Fredonia freight house is still there however. Also many of the bridges are still in place. You can find out more at: http://www.eclipseauctions.us/davp
Hill-billy of course! Dumb Candy didn't pick up on that. I'll bet lots of boys would love to be tickled by beauty queens. 30 miles in G scale!!!!! That would run it into the next town! Are there many photos around of this railroad? Candy
Candy, Yes many a boys would like to be tickled by the girls, well maybe not, as I remembered how that went, they tickled until I went -----------. HHmmmm….. About the DAV&P, yes if you go into my site, go to “Exploring the railroad “ then Main Exploring map (by towns/stations) . As you explore the railroad you’ll see the models and then the photo of the proto type. I should add that the 30 miles I modeled is shrunk down quite a bit. I should have said that I cover a 30 mile segment of the line. I have 6 towns. But if you go to the exploring the railroad / then exploring map, you can go town by town and each town has a diagram of the track plan and buildings, then when you click on a building on the map / diagram, it shows you that building. Here is a photo I just found today on the prototype DAV&P in Falconer NY. the second one is the Dunkirk roundhouse, the 3rd. is my model of the Dunkirk Round House, the 4th. a train on the DAV&P and the last one is in side my model of the Dunkirk round house. Note in photo 3, you see a long bridge passing over the Round House. This was my way of keeping the second deck from covering up the round house. It also happened that the town above had a bridge in about that spot as well.
Blackwidow: That's 4-6-0 #3 of the Sierra Railroad here in the foothills of Central California, which has been the setting of numerous Hollywood westerns. Scenes of the train running on "Petticoat Junction" were filmed there, using that same locomotive. The 4-6-0 was built by Rogers in 1890-91 and first appeared on screen in 1929 in the Gary Cooper version of the movie "The Virginian". It' been in more or less regular movie and TV use since then. Right now it's in Jamestown, CA, at the California State Railroad Museum (Sonora) being re-fitted with new flues for further operation. Hopefully by next year. One interesting bit about "Petticoat Junction"--for the scenes filmed in Hollywood, a 'stand-in' for #3 was used--a plywood replica of another locomotive--ex Rio Grande Southern #20--that was built by 20th Century Fox for their 1952 western "A Ticket To Tomahawk", and used for several scenes when the actual RGS locomotive had to be 'dismantled' in the film for passage over a steep Colorado mountain pass. The 'fake' 4-6-0 has been used as a 'stand-in' for #3 a number of times in the past for TV movies. Of course what's really funnyabout it is that Hollywood is convinced that nobody knows the difference between a rather large standard-gauge 1890 4-6-0 and a much smaller narrow-gauge 1870 one, LOL! Tom
LOL One guy from LA telling the guy from NY how to spell like a hillbilly. Please don't stop, us hillbillies "down home" are really enjoying this. :tb-wink: :mbiggrin: I need to send my cuzin a link to this.
