Re: An old timers can you date this trip question?
Author: Tom Moungovan
Date: 05-10-2011 - 06:27
E S Wrote:
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> J H Long Wrote:
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> If the engine did appear in a movie on the
> Calistoga branch, would it be for the movie
> Pollyanna?
> The movie opens with a train pulling into St
> Helena depot with Pollyanna and just before,
> crossing a trestle with kids swimming under the
> trestle.
You nailed it, it was Pollyanna. There is a tendency among some that if they did not witness
something themselves, then it just couldn't have happened. But this event most certainly
did occur. Dan Ranger was the one who informed me about it and that was 40 years ago. He was
living nearby at the time and also worked for the SP.