Anyone recognize this engine?---I think its a southern pacific engine but the boiler front look strange
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Sure looks like a Daylight...
The color version has Daylight E series diesels in what looks like ABB
Boiler front isn't right tho
It looks like a normal Southern Pacific GS2 4-8-4, to me. I believe the location is Chatsworth and the train is the Coast Daylight.
What was there about the boiler front (smokebox front) that didn't look right to you?
There's no light just a bump in the center -- doesn't look like a gs 2
That "bump" is the headlight.
Doesn't look like a headlight --- but I agree it's a gs2
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It's the lack of resolution in the old video that's deceiving.
Jim
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Great find Jim. I actually have the entire series on DVD. But, I just can't tell what this is.
It begs another question, less forum related. Oh,oh, here I go again. Why does Superman let people shoot him, but he ducks when they throw the gun at him? 
Bob,
Because Steve was not stupid, the gun was a real prop!
PCRR/Dave
Originally Posted by Pine Creek Railroad:
Bob,
Because Steve was not stupid, the gun was a real prop!
PCRR/Dave
Are you telling this stuff wasn't REAL? I am flabbergasted!!! 
Don't forget about the 1950 version of the Sunset Limited on the later episodes
Originally Posted by 20centuryhudson:
Anyone recognize this engine?---I think its a southern pacific engine but the boiler front look strange
it looks just fine to us...-jim
When I was young and Superman came on, I would dream of my Lionel trains up in the attic just waiting for Christmas, when they said more powerful than a locomotive.
Art
DayLight.
Originally Posted by Erik C Lindgren:
Don't forget about the 1950 version of the Sunset Limited on the later episodes
Yep. That was when they were shooting in color.
George, not Steve. Steve Reeves was a different actor.
Hoppy
A guy I know, even older than I am, has remarked that the locomotive that he used to
see in the Superman opening credits was a CNW E-4 streamlined Hudson (MTH has made one). Obviously we have been looking at a GS2 (3?). I remember only the SP loco.
Does anyone else have any recollection of a different, E-4-like loco being in the opening,
earlier or later than the SP GS? I do not, but, again, he is about 10 years older than I.
Just wondering.
Originally Posted by D500:
A guy I know, even older than I am, has remarked that the locomotive that he used to
see in the Superman opening credits was a CNW E-4 streamlined Hudson (MTH has made one). Obviously we have been looking at a GS2 (3?). I remember only the SP loco.
Does anyone else have any recollection of a different, E-4-like loco being in the opening,
earlier or later than the SP GS? I do not, but, again, he is about 10 years older than I.
Just wondering.
The Chicago based METV and METOO TV channels have been running the original Superman 30min TV series lately. Over the last two months I have personally seen the very fist episode of Superman (B&W), TWICE, and continued on well into the color series. I have NEVER seen any steam locomotive or diesel unit for the intro of the program that was NOT an SP (GS class 4-8-4) or an EMD "E type" unit.
The Hollywood TV & movie studios worked pretty closely with the Santa Fe and the SP, thus it would be illogical to think that they would drive all the way to the midwest just to photograph a CN&W H class.
They did a couple of years of Superman in Color. A Southern Pacific E-unit in Daylight colors were used for that open. Don
Originally Posted by scale rail:
They did a couple of years of Superman in Color. A Southern Pacific E-unit in Daylight colors were used for that open. Don
Correct, and note that the E7 units in that opening scene are clean and in A-B-B configuration.
Well, I didn't think that they would "drive all the way to the Midwest" for the footage -
that sort of stuff was always available as stock or PR footage, and the CNW may have had some done. Don't know.
Be that as it may, I did not see it, and it looks as if my friend simply mis-remembers the opening.
It was amazing that some of the early TV shows where shot in color even though no one much had color TV then. I know the DP of the Cisco Kid shot in color because a color negative made for a better gray scale in black and white prints. Don
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