Western Railroad Discussion > Ex-SP articulated cars on S.W.A.T. ?

Anyone see last Sundays episode of S.W.A.T. ?
While running around an old western town set chasing bad guys, they passed a few passenger cars.
Here is a screen grab of a set that looked like SP articulated coaches.
Anyone know where this might have been filmed and maybe an ID on the other cars.

Gary
 



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/04/22 07:08 by gcm.

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Those cars were bought from Amtrak circa 1977 - pretty early.  They are at one of the old Hollywood "movie ranches" in the hills near Saugus, CA.  Cars should be still there, but there is a chance some of them were damaged in one of the So CA fires a few years ago.  You used to be able to see them from a two lane road, but now I think with tree growth you really have to know where to look in order to see them

 

i saw that to thanks for the info!

Surprised that Amtrak owned those, I thought they preferred all-stainless steel legacy equipment? That said, you can see vestiges of a "pointless arrow" and striping.

Thanks Topfuel for the info.
Gary

Amtrak purchased many of these former SP pre-war as "Emergency" equipment.

Reported price was $700.00 a car

They lasted several years.

Could be found on the early San Joaquins,  set out cars at Sparks/Reno on the train # 5-6,  Reno Fun Trains

Why does Amtrak prefer stainless steel cars?

Sp1110 Wrote:
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> Why does Amtrak prefer stainless steel cars?

They're not as prone to rusting out as carbon steel cars.

Topfuel Wrote:
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> Those cars were bought from Amtrak circa 1977 -
> pretty early.  They are at one of the old
> Hollywood "movie ranches" in the hills near
> Saugus, CA.  Cars should be still there, but
> there is a chance some of them were damaged in one
> of the So CA fires a few years ago.  You used to
> be able to see them from a two lane road, but now
> I think with tree growth you really have to know
> where to look in order to see them
>
>  

Sable Ranch

OTG Wrote:
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> Sable Ranch

I'm not familiar with that name, but maybe that's it.  It's changed names over the years.  At one time I believe it was called "Rancho Maria" and was affiliated with Frank Varcek (sp?) of Frank's Camera in Highland Park, CA.

Those were nice to ride in back in the day...

Bill Deaver
Tehachapi, CA

Those cars are at Sable Ranch. I am currently working on a show on the ranch. We are using the Dawson set from Call of the Wild right next to them .



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/04/22 15:29 by Laurence.

Topfuel Wrote:
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> OTG Wrote:
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> > Sable Ranch
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> I'm not familiar with that name, but maybe that's
> it.  It's changed names over the years.  At one
> time I believe it was called "Rancho Maria" and
> was affiliated with Frank Varcek (sp?) of Frank's
> Camera in Highland Park, CA.

I thought Frank's ranch was a different location; I do not remember tracks in the vicinity, but I'll admit I did not wander every last acre of it.

Sable ranch (Saugus, CA) off sand canyon road, off the 14, just a mile from the 5 split.  5 passenger cars there.
 

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Are they really articulated? It seems far more likely that those two cars are sharing a set of trucks because one set is missing. 

no they are r-tics

Past thread on these
https://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?11,4163499,4163518#4163518
Had no idea these were still around. 

I took these 2 today while at work. They are indeed ex Amtrak cars , and the two are articulated and connected with one truck as the picture shows. These cars have been out here for at least 20 plus years. I work in film and tv in LA and have worked on a few projects over the years at Sable Ranch and they have always been there. They have probably been used numerous times over the years as static background.

 

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Laurence Wrote:
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> I took these 2 today while at work. They are
> indeed ex Amtrak cars , and the two are
> articulated and connected with one truck as the
> picture shows. These cars have been out here for
> at least 20 plus years. I work in film and tv in
> LA and have worked on a few projects over the
> years at Sable Ranch and they have always been
> there. They have probably been used numerous times
> over the years as static background.
>

Thanks for those up-to-the-minute pictures.  As I noted in my comments above, I believe these cars have been there since about 1978 - over 40 years.  There are currently 6 cars (counting the artics as 2 cars), but originally there were 9 as I recall.  The artics are former Amtrak 7521 and 7522 , ex-SP 2416 and 2417, P-S 1937.

dmaffei Wrote:
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> Past thread on these
> https://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?11
> ,4163499,4163518#4163518
> Had no idea these were still around. 

Super cool! Thank you for the insight.