SP5103 Wrote:
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> Maybe not.
>
> The Alabama Hills were and still are a common
> location for movies and commercials. Anybody
> familiar with the area can instantly recognize it,
> in part due to the eastern Sierras with Mt.
> Whitney usually visible. The is a film museum in
> Lone Pine, though I have never taken the time to
> stop.
>
> The Alabama Hills are at the foot of the Sierras
> on the west side of Owens Valley. The C&C/SP
> narrow gauge line ran up the east side of the
> valley and stayed east of the Owens River except
> for the line change around Tinemaha Reservoir, but
> still stayed east of US 395 (alongside it at one
> point).
>
> Unless they renumbered one of the ng locos, I
> doubt they would have brought a standard gauge
> train up to Lone Pine for filming, though that
> might have been near the end of passenger service
> up the Jawbone? I believe the larger 2300 class
> 4-6-0s were common power for the passenger.
>
> More than likely, the train scenes were filmed
> somewhere else, but it would be nice to find
> another train filmed up there.

I'm not familiar with the movie or the specific train scenes mentioned (and am not interested in coughing up 58 bucks to find out), but filming on the standard gauge line between Mojave and Lone Pine - particularly towards the Lone Pine end - was quite common back in those days. So if the scenes show the train in a desert-esque setting, it could have indeed been shot along that line. But if it's running along the ocean or through a forest, well . . .