Nostalgia & History > Robert Ramsey: ATSF 1010 movie train, 1963

Santa Fe 2-6-2 #1010 is the only surviving locomotive that participated in "Death Valley" Scotty's record-breaking run across the Santa Fe system in 1905, and that earned it a cameo in an episode of the TV show "Death Valley Days" in 1955.  Eight years later, according to the processing date stamped on the otherwise blank mounts of the following Robert Ramsay slides, 1010 was hamming it up for the cameras yet again at Pasadena, CA.  According to this old thread, the film being made was "The Carpetbaggers," released in 1964:

http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?11,3661597

I've never seen the film - how much screen time did 1010 get anyway, and who are the actors posing on the pilot in photo 93210?  Photo 93207 confirms the presence of a Geep on the other end, probably boiler-equipped and pumping steam down the line to make 1010 look alive. 



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/03/16 02:44 by Evan_Werkema.

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The color version of the photo in that old thread:

 



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/03/16 02:45 by Evan_Werkema.

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The Carpetbaggers:     http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057917/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

Some very good actors - George Peppard, Alan Ladd, Carroll Baker, Martin Balsam, among others.

Plot summary:
George Peppard plays a hard-driven industrialist more than a little reminiscent of Howard Hughes. While he builds airplanes, directs movies and breaks hearts, his friends and lovers try to reach his human side, and find that it's an uphill battle. The film's title is a metaphor for self-promoting tycoons who perform quick financial takeovers, impose dictatorial controls for short-term profits, then move on to greener pastures.

(Kinda sounds like today's business world)

 

Will MacKenzie
Dundas, ON

Actors on the pilot:

Looks like Carol Baker and possibly Robert "Bob" Commings.

 

Where is 1010 today?

Gordon

The Santa Fe 1010 is currently in storage at the California State Railroad Museum at the old SP Shops.

Here are a few shots I took of ATSF 1010 in storage at the CSRM back shops in 2011. That year the NMRA was in Sacramento and tours of the back shops were available for about $25.00. I didn't realize how much stuff is stored back there. It was an interesting look at the old Sacramento Shops and included a ride on the transfer table between the first and second buildings.

Joe M.
San Rafael CA

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It sure looks like Dick Van Dyke!

mp51w Wrote:
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> It sure looks like Dick Van Dyke!

Not Van Dyke, not tall enough.  

If 1010 got screen time in the movie, I don't remember it.  It must have been minimal.  Too
bad the movie isn't in the TCM library, we'd see it once and a while and find out.  

I will agree with Carol Baker and yes, that does look like Bob Cummings, but I don't remember
him in the movie.  

Nick Tharalson,
Marion, IA

ntharalson Wrote:
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> I will agree with Carol Baker and yes, that does
> look like Bob Cummings, but I don't remember
> him in the movie.  

Check the imdb link above ... he is in the movie ...

 

Will MacKenzie
Dundas, ON

I was there that day taking photos but in B&W...and it was Bob Cummings.
Chris

The first photo is great, with the background scenery and trainorder semaphore signal completing it. Looks like an all-ATSF consist too. Where are all those Santa Fe passenger cars today?

The 1010 is a great survival story, but she was never steamed, along with the Cyrus K. Holiday in their later years, being pulled around by diesels to different events.

The passenger cars are scraped.  The one photo shows an 1100 series coach that was somewhat modernized using old 1200 series coaches.   With the silver roofs, assume all were of the 1100 series, as that was a feature of them.

At the grand opening of CSRM in 1981, the 1010 ran on and off the turntable a number of times under its own power, using compressed air.