Virginia mayo on wagon train images11/8/2023 ![]() ![]() All Aboard! Conductor Wallace (played by Ian Wolfe…. McQueen even climbs up into the baggage car to look around until the baggage-men shoo him away. Note how the “3” was carefully painted out to renumber the 2-8-0 as “15”. McQueen even chats up the fireman before boarding. Also, that huge metal device hanging off the tender is a re-railer - handy if a minor derailment occurred out in the middle of nowhere. In the last frame, notice the locomotive is labeled “Denver & Rio Grande” whereas the rolling stock is “ Denver & Rio Grande Western“. McQueen is “casing the joint”…checking out the train he plans to rob later on. ![]() “I’ve got spurs that jingle, jangle, jingle….” 30 minutes into the picture, our first train scene shows the outlaw Wes McQueen (Joel McCrea) marching past the depot and alongside a beautifully turned out narrow gauge passenger train. On board are train robbers, a sheriff’s posse and the payroll. In an interesting bit of trivia, Director Raoul Walsh based this film on 1941’s High Sierra, another more famous movie he directed.ĭ&RG #15 and train prepares to depart “Aztec” Colorado. ![]() Filmed just before A Ticket To Tomahawk would make the Colorado narrow gauge famous, Colorado Territory has plenty of train action alongside the Southwest’s wide open spaces. Sporting a fake balloon smokestack, oversize headlight box and renumbered “15” for this performance, the little 3-feet-between-the-rails Consolidation has two extensive scenes in this movie including a spectacular train robbery. Of more interest to us is the heart and soul of our review, little Denver & Rio Grande #315, an 1895 Baldwin C-18 class 2-8-0 locomotive, originally built for the Florence and Cripple Creek Railroad. ![]() Also included is a small collection of cameras and photography equipment.Filmed along the Denver & Rio Grande Western narrow gauge in Southwestern Colorado, this film stars Joel McCrea, Virginia Mayo and a 23 year old Dorothy Malone. The series includes such items as a moonshine still, wagon wheels, ox yokes and hand-made brooms, as well as items associated with coal mining and railroading. The Artifacts series contains materials, collected by Palmer, which are associated with traditional Appalachian folk culture. The Oversize Photos series consists of items which were too large to be inter-filed in the Photographs series. Including such materials as photo descriptions, bits of correspondence and notes, postcards and printed material, this series is arranged by document type. The Written Materials, very few in number, range in date from 1946 to 1976. While there are multiple copies of some photos, others have only one duplicate, and many have none. The photographs are arranged by topic, with numerous cross-references directing the user to appropriate headings.ĭuplicate Photos are arranged by the same subject headings used in arranging the original photographs. Many of the photos are accompanied by descriptions written by Palmer. Palmer's photos document the landscape and traditional culture of Appalachia in the Virginia- Tennessee-North Carolina-Kentucky-West Virginia region and include depictions of artisans, moonshiners, coal miners and scenes from daily life in rural Appalachia. The Photographs series contains approximately 750 photos taken by Palmer from the 1940s through the 1970s. The collection is divided among the following series: photographs, duplicate photographs, written materials, oversize photographs, and artifacts. Materials date from the 1940s to the 1970s. This collection contains the photographs of Earl Palmer, an award-winning photographer from Cambria, Virginia, whose work depicted the landscape and traditional culture of rural Appalachia in Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia. ![]()
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