Rusty Traque posted:By the way, there was another Hooterville Cannonball.
The wood and metal prop locomotive of narrow gauge 4-6-0 RGS #20 built for the movie A Ticket to Tomahawk became the studio prop for Petticoat Junction. It's missing its stack in this picture, from Larry Jensen's book "The Movie Railroads:"
The prop was built using the original erection drawings and measurements taken off the actual locomotive in 1949. It took 100 studio craftsmen 2 months to build for a mere $30,000.
Rusty
Yeah I knew that Rusty. I used to watch the show all the time when I was a kid and never realized it. It wasn't until a few years back that I watched the series again and realized there was a difference between the driving Wheels in the panning shots of the locomotive compared to the close-ups. That's how I found out about RGS #20. I didn't realize it was still in existence until about a year or so ago. It's stored in Durango now right? The prop locomotive?
