Re: K1 in start of movie “Giant”

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 From a 1955 edition of the N&W Magazine - an N&W Road Foreman of Engines was assigned to supervise the run.  Calling an N&W engine crew to make the K-1 run would probably have resulted in a penalty time claim by C&O engine crews.   
    On Saturday, September 23, 2023 at 06:31:20 PM EDT, NW Mailing List via NW-Mailing-List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:  
 
 
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| Giant, by George Stevens (1956) - Opening sceneyoutu.be |

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The magic of YouTube. 

Tom Lewis

On Sep 23, 2023, at 4:41 PM, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:



Mark:

https://www.nwhs.org/archivesdb/detail.php?ID=71542

The C&O had nothing working or that looked much like a 1920s passenger locomotive in May 1955 when the movie was due to film, but N&W was all-steam (but diesels were already announced. So, the N&W was called on to borrow a steam locomotive for the filming, which took place on the C&O east of Charlottesville, Va, the 100 is shown pulling into the station at Keswick (lettered “Ardmore” for the movie.

I’ve been told that only one side of the tender was painted and lettered C&O as that was all that was to be filmed. But that is word of mouth, not anything written.

As an aside, the ponce patterns for the C&O lettering are in our archives, I believe.

Best
Ken Miller


On Sep 23, 2023, at 2:10 PM, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:





It had been re-lettered as C&O but front air tank and squarish sand dome gives it away. It also had doghouse on tender. 





Mark Lindsey


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