ROFLMAO! Well, I hope this was added in the week or so that I was offline and not something I've been ignoring for months.
The 2-6-2 'prairie' class engine on the Petticoat Junction show was the Cannonball Express... the Shady Rest Hotel was in Hooterville. I guess they were famous for their Hooters... but that restaurant chain didn't exist in the 1960's. Hmmm... wonder what they meant by that???
I thought it was a Rodgers 2-6-0? I know Tina bought a G scale loco that looked just like it with the intention of me painting it up as such. Been a long time since I saw that show. I have an original script signed by the creator and his daughter who played Betty-Jo framed in my Trainroom. TV Land played that show when I was living in Champaign, I loved that show.
Well... It's neither a 2-6-2 nor a 2-6-0. But it is a Rogers... 4-6-0. This is an excerpt from a Petticoat Junction website: http://www.mortystv.com/feat1-2.shtml The Cannonball was definitely an important part of the show. In the real world, the Cannonball is engine number three of the Historic Sierra Railroad, located in the heart of California's Gold Country, Railtown 1897 of Jamestown, CA. The engine is referred to as a 4-6-0 because of is wheel configuration. It was built in 1891 by Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works in Paterson, New Jersey. Originally used in freight service on the Prescott and Arizona Central Railroad, the Sierra No. 3 eventually made its way to Jamestown when the Prescott and Arizona went out of business. Since 1929, the No. 3 has been cosmetically customized for many Hollywood productions with new paint schemes, changes to the smoke stack and headlight. Appearing in more than 100 Hollywood productions, the Sierra No. 3 is known as the "most photographed locomotive in Hollywood history." The No. 3's film and television credits include, "High Noon," "The Virginian," "Back to the Future, III" (as No.131), "Unforgiven," "Bad Girls," "The Wild, Wild West," and "Little House on the Prairie."
Hooterville!! Do believe he's referring to this topic: http://www.trainboard.com/grapevine/showthread.php?t=79143 :cat:
Sorry for being too obscure in my references. Some of the other Trainboard staffers will know what I'm writing about, but for anyone else, just keep an occasional eye on the (ever-changing) Trainboard header (top of page). I won't spoil the joke. And Hooterville here has nothing to do with Hooters AFAIK (or car knockers for that matter).
I was never crazy about either Petticoat Junction or Green Acres (where the Hooterville Cannonball also made an occasional appearance), but I did like the train. As others have stated, there is no North American ten-wheeler in N scale, be it 'modern' or nineteenth century. Someone on one of these boards did make a nineteenth century ten-wheeler from the B-mann eight-wheeler, but unless you do that, or build your own, you have to fudge it. I seem to remember that the Cannonball had only one car, a combine, that looked much like either the B-mann or MDC/Athearn wood combine, although I can not remember which one right now. I tried the link here, but the view of the car was not that good. If the power was on the SERR, I wonder if the car is the MDC/Athearn 'Overton' wood car, as I seem to recall that those cars are based on a SERR prototype. If such is the case, you might have the car and just have to fudge the power, either the B-mann eight-wheeler or the Atlas mogul, either of which looks allright with the Overton car. It would certainly work for a Petticoat Junction loop on an N-Trak module. Either the B-mann or the Atlas, as well as the car, will take a seven inch radius curve. You then build a Shady Rest Hotel and a water tower with three girls in it and the petticoats hanging over the edge of it, and the viewing public will recognise it. the Scale Rule Richards, will, of course point out that you have an eight wheeler or mogul when the show had a ten-wheeler, but most members of the viewing public will not know the difference, they will only see an old-time steam engine and an old timey wood car. EDITORIAL NOTES: I googled 'Hooterville Cannonball' and found some better photographs. As I was going to the Google and typing in my request, the thought occurred to me that a ten-wheeler would dwarf a small wood car. While the nineteenth century rolling stock often dwarfed eight-wheelers and even the first moguls, the ten-wheelers were larger. The photographs confirmed my suspicions, the locomotive is substantially larger than the car. The combine in the photograph appears to have four windows as opposed the the MDC/Athearn's three, and it has a stovepipe, but other than that, the car is close enough that it would convince all but the most eagle-eyed fan of the show(s) in question, and, of course, the Scale Rule Richards. (I wonder if we need to create a new category, 'window counter'?). Chopping down a MT caboose smokejack and adding it to the car would not be difficult and would make it more convincing, especially to a Scale Rule Richard, who would, of course, point out that the railroads used stoves to heat wood cars in the nineteenth century, and even into the twentieth.
