Where Is It?

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AARR wrote:South America?

No not South America. Some similarities though.
Pixl wrote:This location is not in Michigan, in fact not even the U.S.
First photo was taken in 1971 when the railroad was still active.
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Second photo was taken in 2004
The rails end just past the station
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Spain. The architecture is similar to a station in The Good the Bad and the Ugly. I'm guessing Spain on a railroad used in spaghetti westerns.
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Pixl wrote:
AARR wrote:South America?
No not South America. Some similarities though.
Mexico?
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Very impressive PatAzo
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PatAzo wrote:Spain. The architecture is similar to a station in The Good the Bad and the Ugly. I'm guessing Spain on a railroad used in spaghetti westerns.
Yes Spain, very good! South of Cenasuras, Granada, Spain and you are close on the movie. It was featured in a Sergio Leone classic "Duck you Sucker" also known as "A fist full of dynamite" my most fav spaghetti western, lots of train action. Check it out sometime.
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Here... https://www.google.com/maps/place/37%C2 ... -3.0026179
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Here is a google street view you can see from Pat and my posting that all the tracks are gone and the station is now in derelict condition, this shot is 2018, so quite recent. Kind of a shame that this is not old history, but disappeared during most of our life times. Well you can't save everything. Just that it was a cool building in it's time.
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Good one Pixl
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Another one from a movie. This one again not in the U.S.
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Somewhere in Switzerland?
Pixl wrote:Another one from a movie. This one again not in the U.S.
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Not sure of the location but the movie is "The Train" with Burt Lancaster. France? This is where the train slowly comes to halt after "Papa Boule" sabatoged one of the side rods by putting a coin in the grease fitting.
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Hogger1225 wrote:Not sure of the location but the movie is "The Train" with Burt Lancaster. France? This is where the train slowly comes to halt after "Papa Boule" sabotaged one of the side rods by putting a coin in the grease fitting.
Hogger, you are correct it being in France and the sabotaged scene. Much of the movie was filmed in Vaires-sur-Marne, France.Name changed to
the fictional town Rive-Reine as seen in the Photo. Very good. Probably the best train movie ever produced.
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Pixl wrote:Hogger, you are correct it being in France and the sabotaged scene. Much of the movie was filmed in Vaires-sur-Marne, France.Name changed to the fictional town Rive-Reine as seen in the Photo. Very good. Probably the best train movie ever produced.
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If you ever traveled to Boston you might have come this way.

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Any more hints Pat?

Where's Rodney been?


Sticking with the movie location theme I have a classic from 40 years ago
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Although it really looks nothing like this in the movie
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Somewhere on the GLC? Perhaps Bannister? Movie is Polar Express.
Michael wrote:Any more hints Pat?

Where's Rodney been?


Sticking with the movie location theme I have a classic from 40 years ago
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Although it really looks nothing like this in the movie
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AARR wrote:Somewhere on the GLC? Perhaps Bannister? Movie is Polar Express.
Michael wrote:Any more hints Pat?

Where's Rodney been?


Sticking with the movie location theme I have a classic from 40 years ago
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Although it really looks nothing like this in the movie
Doesn't appear to be in Michigan AARR. Looking closely at that Interstate sign, think it says I-10 so it's somewhere between Florida and California...
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Looks like my guess is very wrong :lol:
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AARR wrote:Somewhere on the GLC? Perhaps Bannister? Movie is Polar Express.
Although it really looks nothing like this in the movie
Doesn't appear to be in Michigan AARR. Looking closely at that Interstate sign, think it says I-10 so it's somewhere between Florida and California...[/quote]
PatC created a monster, 'cause nobody wants to see Don Simon no more they want AARR I'm chopped liver, well if you want AARR this is what I'll give ya, bad humor mixed with irrelevant info that'll make you roll your eyes quicker than a ~Z~ banhammer...
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It is in Alabama. Nowhere near where it is supposed to be in this classic sci-fi film from the '70's

AARR wrote:Looks like my guess is very wrong :lol:
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AARR wrote:Somewhere on the GLC? Perhaps Bannister? Movie is Polar Express.
Although it really looks nothing like this in the movie
Doesn't appear to be in Michigan AARR. Looking closely at that Interstate sign, think it says I-10 so it's somewhere between Florida and California...
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It's Irvington, Al looking north along Padgett Switch Road to the intersection with US-90 and Alabama State Highway 76. That track in Michael's above shot is the former L&N RR main line that run between New Orleans, LA and Jacksonville, FL via Mobile, AL and Pensacola, FL interchanged with the former SAL RR line at Chattahoochee, FL. Irvington is about 30 miles west of Mobile. There was a Amtrak train that ran between New Orleans an d Jacksonville until it was suspended in August, 2005 due to Hurricane Katrina that swept the Gulf coast. It was train nos. 1 and 2, the Sunset Limited. That interstate sign AARR mentioned about is "To I-10".
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