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FILM AND RADIO GUIDE
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FEBRUARY, 1946
The story of "The Harvey Girls" begins on the train which, with various make-ups, has played notable parts in MGM productions.
tion.
The third standing station is an exact duplicate of the one at Port Huron, Michigan, where Young Tom Edison, in the person of Mickey Rooney, earned his early living as a candy butcher and once rescued a little girl from being crushed beneath a train when she fell to the tracks.
To go from Carvel to Port Huron you travel about 200 feet. Young Robert Shannon of The Green Years recently got off at a slightly renovated “Port Huron” to find himself in Winton, Scotland.
Travel in the movies is not broadening; it’s downright confusing. Imagine taking the same time to go ten miles as it takes to go 2,207 miles! The people
who set up time schedules for a real railroad would go berserk trying to figure out a schedule for this one. A time-table would read :
Depart N. Y. C., Arrive Newark,
N. J., 10 miles, approximately 2 days.
Depart Los Angeles, Arrive Chicago, 2207 miles, the same running time.
It takes a picture crew and cast the same time to film the departure and arrival of a short trip as it does for a long journey.
All the cars in the train are veterans of service with real railroads. They were bought by the studio purchasing department and hauled over the regular tracks right to the studio, which has its own railroad sid
ing.
Like glamour girls, they undergo frequent changes of body contours, acquiring new chassis and fittings, mostly of plaster, wood, and paint, as they are needed to play pullmans, coaches, dining cars, club cars, and so on. By now, only one car has its original body. It’s a boxcar, once actually used by the Wells Fargo company, and now used in films as a baggage or mail car.
The train also has reserves to call upon. These include two subway cars, which played leading roles in The Clock, a couple of Toonerville trolleys, used for “The Trolley Song” in Meet Me in St. Louis, and two British coaches.