Our friend Steve Heister from the Northern Ohio Railway Museum forwarded me an interesting YouTube link about one of our recently-acquired Trolleyville cars. It seems that some years ago, CA&E 460 was used as the filming location for some bumper spots for a cable access movie show in Cleveland. (This appears to be something similar to Svengoolie.) There are numerous shots of the car operating on the old trailer park trackage in Olmsted Falls. Navigation between the various video segments is kind of do-it-yourself, but you can go from one to the next via the icons on the right side of the video. The first segment is here; be forewarned that they're all pretty quirky. Enjoy!
Thursday, June 2, 2011
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That is some funny stuff, IRM should try something like that.
If we got permission from Dave, we could replicate episode 10.... Not sure if I want to be on the hand cart or the 460. And that car was swaying.
quirky for sure....
If I were Svengoolie, I'd be offended!
How many rules were violated to do this or did Trolleyville even have safety rules?
That's a good question. Tim O'Donnell might be able to answer that.
The nice thing about a handcar is that you can always join the birds without much risk of serious injury. When I was younger, we'd sometimes drag the handcar over to Station 1 and pump it back and forth. The main safety rule is to not get your knees under the handle; when the handle comes down, it could break your leg. Other than that, you're pretty safe.
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