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Re: Harold & Maude passenger car info
Author: Margaret (SP fan)
Date: 09-19-2013 - 18:02
I found the answer here:
(On the "Harold and Maude Trivia page)
There's one thing missing from this site.
Maude's home was a railroad car known to be
parked at Oyster Point. But where did the car
come from and where is it now? The car - Western
Pacific lounge 653 - was leased from the Western
Railway Museum at Rio Vista Junction in Solano
County (about 60 miles east of San Francisco) and
moved to its filming location. As a lounge car
built in 1931, the car had seen years of service.
When the studio painters arrived to install the
fake fireplace shown in the film, they had the
mean job of matching interior paint colors. "Jesus.",
said the head painter, "This is years of nicotene on
the paint. How am I going to match this crap!" When
filming was finished, the car returned to the Museum.
And, yes, the fake fireplace still survives but is no
longer mounted inside the car. Rick
I found more info HERE.
According to the photo of the car info sign, this car was
built by Pullman in 1913 as a 16-section sleeper. In 1931
it was rebuilt by Pullman for the WP as a buffet-lounge with
a solarium. After leasing the car for 5 years, the WP bought
the car (in 1936). It was used on the "Exposition Flyer", which
ran between Chicago and Oakland. (The "Exposition" was the Golden
Gate International Exposition on Treasure Island, which was built
from spoils from the building of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay
Brudge. The GGIE ran in 1939 and 1940.) That train was intended
to run only during the GGIE, but continued to run until it was
replaced by the "California Zephyr" in 1949.
WP did not have enough money to ever modernize the cAr, and it
is still keeps the same decor and furnishings it had back in 1931.
It was donated to the Western Railway Museum in 1966. In 1971 it
was used as Maude's home in "Harold and Maude".
As far as I know, it is still at the Western Railway Museum.
Hope this answers your questions. (I had thought I remembered
that the car belonged to the Bay Area Electric Railway Museum
in Rio Vista Junction, CA.)
Margaret
(On the "Harold and Maude Trivia page)
There's one thing missing from this site.
Maude's home was a railroad car known to be
parked at Oyster Point. But where did the car
come from and where is it now? The car - Western
Pacific lounge 653 - was leased from the Western
Railway Museum at Rio Vista Junction in Solano
County (about 60 miles east of San Francisco) and
moved to its filming location. As a lounge car
built in 1931, the car had seen years of service.
When the studio painters arrived to install the
fake fireplace shown in the film, they had the
mean job of matching interior paint colors. "Jesus.",
said the head painter, "This is years of nicotene on
the paint. How am I going to match this crap!" When
filming was finished, the car returned to the Museum.
And, yes, the fake fireplace still survives but is no
longer mounted inside the car. Rick
I found more info HERE.
According to the photo of the car info sign, this car was
built by Pullman in 1913 as a 16-section sleeper. In 1931
it was rebuilt by Pullman for the WP as a buffet-lounge with
a solarium. After leasing the car for 5 years, the WP bought
the car (in 1936). It was used on the "Exposition Flyer", which
ran between Chicago and Oakland. (The "Exposition" was the Golden
Gate International Exposition on Treasure Island, which was built
from spoils from the building of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay
Brudge. The GGIE ran in 1939 and 1940.) That train was intended
to run only during the GGIE, but continued to run until it was
replaced by the "California Zephyr" in 1949.
WP did not have enough money to ever modernize the cAr, and it
is still keeps the same decor and furnishings it had back in 1931.
It was donated to the Western Railway Museum in 1966. In 1971 it
was used as Maude's home in "Harold and Maude".
As far as I know, it is still at the Western Railway Museum.
Hope this answers your questions. (I had thought I remembered
that the car belonged to the Bay Area Electric Railway Museum
in Rio Vista Junction, CA.)
Margaret
