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Build a full-scale, operating, and realistic roundhouse and back shop to overhaul, repair, and maintain Jerry’s rolling stock. Operate the steam locomotives on freight trains. Display railroad heritage for future generations. [4] The project was paid for by Jacobson and his wife, Laura. They set up an endowment to support the museum.
After a year or two, he began moving from job to job. He was a retail clerk, a messenger boy, even a prize fighter (at his size!) and other things before Hoban went off to fight World War I, and the strip went on hiatus. When it returned, Jerry was working at a railroad station under the supervision of Mr. Givney, the station's manager.
The Brave Engineer is a 1950 Walt Disney-produced animated short film, [2] based on the exploits of legendary railroad engineer John Luther "Casey" Jones. [3] It is narrated by comic Jerry Colonna and is a comedically madcap fanciful re-telling [4] of the story [5] related in the Wallace Saunders ballad, later made famous by Eddie Newton and T. Lawrence Seibert.
The Grizzly Flats Railroad (GFRR) was a 3-foot (914 mm) narrow-gauge heritage railroad owned by Disney animator Ward Kimball at his home in San Gabriel, California. The railroad had 900 feet (274.3 m) of track, and was operated from 1942 to 2006. It was the first full-size backyard railroad in the United States.
Between 1929 and 1944, the Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad, a class II company connecting Conneaut, Erie, and Bessemer, [1] ordered a fleet of 47 H-1 class 2-10-4 "Texas" types, [2] which were nearly direct copies of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy's own fleet of 2-10-4 "Colorado" types, from the American Locomotive Company in Schenectady, New York, and the Baldwin Locomotive Works in ...
In their first film, Tom and Jerry are taxi drivers at the train station on a stormy day, waiting for a fare. A train comes up, and stops with an engine hauling a coach to let off two identical-looking men, who come out, similar to the pair from the Farmer Alfalfa cartoon Wooden Money. They both try to get them in the taxi.
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A clip of this movie, with Johnny Cash at the throttle of the locomotive, was used in the music video for Hurt, which was covered by Cash. [50] No. 4501 starred in the 1976 television film Eleanor and Franklin with the number "1409" to represent one of the Ps-4 locomotives pulling the funeral train of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt in ...