I don't know if Jeff Terry has seen this, but here is the trailer to 'Unstoppable,' in which he gets to see what Hollywood was doing with his locomotives. Morgan's 'Locomotive 4501.' The title could be appropriate too, considering how cantankerous steam engines can be-but that still wasn't the real 'Fools Parade!' Merriman's description of the movie sure doesn't resemble the flick I saw or the book I read! I wonder if author Davis Grubb would have given him a piece of his mind when the two met in the next world! What was Merriman trying to do, out-fib Fibber McGee?Īctually, the movie as Merriman suggested it would have made a great railfan flick-essentially it could be an adaptation of David P. Hrumph! That B&O man not wanting to believe the 4501 wasn't from the B&O is nothing compared to Paul Merriman's whopper for a reporter on the Florence Times in 1971 on the subject of 'Fools Parade:' P.S.: The Delta Queen makes a very brief cameo in 'Night of the Hunter.' Dove, Paul Merriman, and Southern's 4501, the latter in 'makeup' of black paint and Baltimore & Ohio lettering as a B&O Q-3 (USRA light 2-8-2). This was 'Fools Parade,' based on a novel by local writer Davis Grubb (who also wrote 'Night of the Hunter,' also adapted to film), and the cast included such notables as James Stewart, Anne Baxter, George Kennedy, Strothers Martin, Kirk Russell, and (drum roll, please) Walter C.

This tickled my brain cells, and recalled another film with rail equipment, this one shot in 1970 but set in 1935, in the nearby town of Moundsville, W.Va. (I'm interested in this because I'm originally from Wheeling.)

The upcoming release of the runaway train film 'Unstoppable,' which appears to be (loosely, as usual) based on an actual incident, was partially shot in the area of Wheeling, W.Va.-Benwood, W.Va., and Bellaire, Oh.

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