OTish: Litytle Rascals in Railroadin

Sorry 'bout the typo...

On 2/16/2008 3:56 PM Big Rich Soprano spake thus:

You mean "Litytle Rascals"? Isn't that the way it was spelled in Olde Englishe?

What fun!!

Even with the typo.

Part 1

Doth speaketh the truth nave...

snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com...

It's interesting that their cellphones recorded in black and white black then.

"video guy -

Locomotives are black, and the kids -with one exception- are white.

Where's the surprise?

Thou art cryptic, but your comment is apse.

Back before about the mid-60's, the world was black and white. Then color was invented.

It's interesting that their cellphones recorded in black and white black then.

I can only imagine how the liability lawyers today would have strokes over the stunts they let those kids do at that time.

You must be really, really young.

Or else you just don't watch old movies....

OK, I know that color was really invented in the 30s - ala Wizard of Oz, Adventures of Robin Hood, Gone With the Wind...

(and I'm not that young - I remember the three color celophane filter on the TV)

You must be really, really young.

Or else you just don't watch old movies....

"Rick Jones" wrote

I doubt they were actually letting little Buckwheat lie between the rails and let a Santa Fe Mikado pass over him multiple times, much less have him grab the pilot from directly ahead and climb aboard the moving loco. More likely those sequences were done with dummies and/or stuntkids. (And some of the shots were filmed at very low speeds and then the film was sped up. Santa Fe wasn't going to risk a high-speed cornfield meet just to make a movie!)

After all, Buckwheat and his pals were the producer's meal-tickets, and the producers had an interest in protecting them for that reason if naught else.

BTW: for Santa Fe fans.

Most of the film was shot in the Santa Fe Los Angeles yards, and you can see the L.A. River off to the left of the shot in some scenes, and the distinctive L.A. concrete highway bridges in others. (They were largely

The later high-speed parts of the film were shot out in the then completely undeveloped Cucamonga/Guasti areas east of L.A. and west of San Bernardino. Those twenty-foot-high eucalyptus trees the train is flashing past are now hundred footers!

-Pete

Damn, i must be getting old because I found the kids playing in the rail yard to be really disturbing.

" snipped-for-privacy@bigfoot.com" wrote

My friends and I did it all the time during the late '40s and early '50s. Nobody thought anything about it back then.

Or if they did, we never heard anything about it.

-Pete

On 2/18/2008 8:15 PM P. Roehling spake thus:

Same here, except it was in the 1960s. (C&NW in Chicago suburbs, to be precise.)

I used to take my daughter (3-4 years old) on photo trips to the CPR yards in South Edmonton. She played happily there, picking dandelions and such, to make a bouquet for Mom. Nobody ever interfered. Occasionally, we got a wave from the switch crew. I just scanned a slide of her sitting on the (clean!) gravel, with "pretty pebbles" in her hands. Sigh. ;-)

Ah yes. Me thinks my bicarbonate doth fail me anon...

Once you guys are done picking apart the elephant let me ask this, did ya like the episode?

Yeah, I used to regularly tresspass on the LIRR tracks with and without my dad during the 1970s when I was 7-11 years old. He taught me how to put my ear on the rail to hear when the train was coming and crush pennies with Alco C420s

Later in the 1980s I used to tresspass on the VTR yard in Rutland with my camera as a teen and an adult.

I kinda of miss the those good old days when you could get away with doing things like that.