other out for a Chatsworth movie drive

[OriginalOwner]

horror of horrors:  it is raining in SoCal !!  So I decided to put a few miles on the '74tii for a photo run.

 

First stop:  Lone Ranger Rock in Chatsworth .......

 

 

 

 

Second stop:  the train tracks above Chatsworth Park.  In the opening scene of the 1949 James Cagney movie "White Heat" you see a locomotive exiting the tunnel just above Chatsworth Park.  At Time 0:28 the camera pans back to long distance (and looks south across the San Fernando Valley) and at the lower right you see the train tracks curving:    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVS7YP1w4G0

 

Here is that same camera vantage point, looking due south at that section of track in the rock cut.  At the "top" you see the tracks turning right toward the tunnel.  At the "bottom" you see the tracks turning left, which is the section of trackage seen in the Cagney movie ......

 

 

Cheers,

 

Carl

Edited January 31, 2016 by OriginalOwner

[jmr_1602]

I like how your excuse to drive the tii was because it was raining. [emoji38]

Also, that Lone Ranger rock is very deceiving. I was expecting something much larger.

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[percy]

I was expecting something much larger

 

 

Clayton Moore and Silver both had a screen presence that was larger-than-life.   Same with an '02.

 

Besides, if Roy Rogers was around he might tell you "it" is much larger in B&W - on the big screen  -  or when it is not raining. 

 

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/07/chatsworth-filming-location-chatsworth.html

 

 

 

  

Edited January 31, 2016 by percy

[OriginalOwner]

time travel update,  July 2017

 

I was watching a 1939 James Cagney cowboy movie this morning, "Oklahoma Kid"  ...... and realized he was at the Lone Ranger Rock 77 years before I took that picture of my '74tii at that same location .....

 

 

 

Cheers,

 

Carl

 

Edited May 30, 2023 by OriginalOwner