[RITSlist] THE TRAIN and GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH

[Jpslhedgpeth at aol.com]

Classic railroad movie THE TRAIN is on Turner Classic Movies channel  tonight 
at 7:00...Burt Lancaster stars.  Excellent steam action with all  European 
left hand drive engines.
 
Spectacular wreck about 2/3 through the movie...former Train and engine  
service employees ie Karl and Leo will appreciate the series of "moves" setting  
up the arrangement for the wreck.   It's kind of a "three way  drop".   
 
My 12 year old grandson...who has a slight interest (read obsession) with  
trains comes over and our VHS copy is the first thing he grabs and goes  
immediately to the wreck scene..would you believe I usually watch it with  him.
 
Also GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH  (1952) was on last Friday night...I  have only 
seen that one 27 times...or something like that.  Saw it first  time summer 
1952 and 6 more times in the first year or so.
 
Only frustrating feature of GREATEST SHOW is you have to sit through 2 and  
1/4 hours of circus stuff to get to the spectacular wreck scene...If you 
haven't  seen this one it's worth the wait...It's totally authentic with fusee being 
 properly lit.....steam locomotive (ACL) engineer properly 
answering...flagman  getting off rear end after being properly "whistled out"...--------------  
o-o-o.   
 
Comments by the players regarding first and second sections of the train  
authenticated by appropriate green classification signals on the engine of the  
first section which stopped by the "villain" is rear ended by the second 
section  (no signals) account flagman being hit over the head by the villain's 
assistant  before he can get off with his flagging kit.
 
Pete..........living in the days when they all didn't look  alike.
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