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The Train is a 1964 war film directed by John Frankenheimer [1] and starring Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield and Jeanne Moreau.The picture's screenplay—written by Franklin Coen, Frank Davis, and Walter Bernstein—is loosely based on the non-fiction book Le front de l'art by Rose Valland, who documented the works of art placed in storage that had been looted by Nazi Germany from museums and ...
In what is probably her most famous movie appearance, the engine appears in the scenes set in 1885, six years prior to the engine's actual construction, portraying Central Pacific Railroad No. 131. While the Central Pacific did have 4-6-0's similar to No. 3 at the time the film was set, the real Central Pacific No. 131 was a 4-4-0 & carried the ...
The Ghost Train: 1941: The Girl on the Train: 2016: Go West (Marx Bros.) 1940: GoldenEye: 1995: The Great K & A Train Robbery: 1926: The Great Locomotive Chase: 1956 [2] Walt Disney Pictures: The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery: 1966: The Great Train Robbery: 1903: The Greatest Show on Earth: 1952: The Grey Fox: 1982: Grifters: 1990: The ...
These marine engines influenced the quarry locomotives that they made. Over 60 were produced over a 25-year period. [1] They also built stationary steam engines and the engine preserved at Parc Glynllifon near Caernarfon is the second oldest working stationary engine in Britain. De Winton's supplied the quarry industry and made whatever might ...
The Station Agent is a 2003 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Tom McCarthy in his directorial debut. It stars Peter Dinklage as a man who seeks solitude in an abandoned train station in the Newfoundland section of Jefferson Township, New Jersey. It also stars Patricia Clarkson, Michelle Williams, Bobby Cannavale and John Slattery.
Stationary engines, especially stationary steam engines were once widespread in the late Industrial Revolution. [1] This was an era when each factory or mill generated its own power, and power transmission was mechanical (via line shafts, belts, gear trains, and clutches).
Throughout the 1920s and 1930s there were tighter restrictions on road steam haulage, including speed, smoke and vapour limits [9] and a 'wetted tax', where the tax due was proportional to the size of the wetted area of the boiler; this made steam engines less competitive against domestically produced internal combustion engined units (although ...
Diagram of Priestman oil engine from The Steam engine and gas and oil engines (1900) by John Perry Petrol–electric Weitzer railmotor, first 1903, series 1906. The earliest recorded example of the use of an internal combustion engine in a railway locomotive is the prototype designed by William Dent Priestman, which was examined by William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin in 1888 who described it as ...