I had once obsessed over this double decker train heaps from the age of like 12 up until I was 21\22 years old. From the age of 13 up until 21 years old I did wind up becoming a train buff and maintained a special interest in Australian railway.
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That was an actual train from Buster Keaton's film, The General. It was the most expensive stunt in the silent film era. I believe that the train was salvaged and preserved in Georgia. Keaton played around with some real stuff. When you look at the actors of that era, Keaton, Lloyd, Chaplin, doing their own stunts, you recognize just how physically skilled they were.
I believe that the train was salvaged and preserved in Georgia.
I thought Australia ha an issues with gauges is this still true?
Nope. The locomotive The General has been preserved, but the one which was wrecked on the famous bridge scene remained in the river as a minor tourist attraction until it was taken out & melted down for munitions in a WWII scrap drive.
Yep. Here in the UK you'd think that derelict locomotives would've all suffered the same fate but no...
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Two of the three locomotives of the Edge Hill Light Railway. It was built to go after iron ore deposits only they were poor. The line only operated from 1919 until approx 1925 when everything was abandoned where it stood. Unbelievably the three locos weren't cut up until 1946!
Those are "Terriers"-- both those were built in 1872, some of that class stayed in service until the end of steam trains. Even in 1946 they could theoretically have been put back as usable (if obsolete) locomotives; it just was not a favorable location to go & retrieve very old & outdated stock.
They got their nickname from the strange barking sound of the exhaust when the engine was running.
I love that movie.