Really good looking steam engine

Started by Trainman203, November 04, 2018, 12:04:22 PM

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Trainman203

An old Western came on tv and a little surfing revealed this to be the featured engine.

http://locomotive.wikia.com/wiki/Nacionale_de_Mexico_No._650

Mr.  B, this would make a great model in two versions-  the modernized one shown here and an earlied-up version with diamond stack and cowcatcher to go with the early 4-4-0.

Trainman203

Full movie clip:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sFWGuxRc3l0

The engine appears in the first 5 minutes or so, a little later on in a ridiculous scene when a posse offloads from flatcars already on horseback with the horses jumping off without a ramp, and supposedly later on at the end.

Warning:  this is a REALLY TRITE Hollywood Western of the old school, probably one of the last. Every gimmick in the world.  Plus "Liberty, Texas " is a real town, but it is not in the desert of West Texas but just east of Houston on the Gulf Coast prairie.

Executive summary:  beautiful train, terrible movie.