I have seen that movie? a number of times, I do not know how authentic it is
myself. My dad had work for Great Northern Railway and when he first when to
work for GN. He started out with Great Northern Railway Police or Security. He
was assign to the Jackson Street Shops, in St Paul Minnesota. One of the
responsibility was to chase the Hobos from the yard. There was a few reason,
they were tresspassing, safety reason and no free rides aloud.
My dad had respect for them, especially after the accident he had. The first
winter he went to work for GN. He was chasing a Hobo down top of box cars and
slip on some ice and fell to the ground. Now that Hobo could have keep going,
but didn't. When he realize happen he came back to see what he could do for my
dad. He went for help, for my dad. Knowing that he could have been arrested for
tresspassing. Because of what he did for my dad, in return they did not
have?that Hobo?arrested. They show him the gate and told him not to come back,
if he had then they would have had him arrested for tresspassing.
John Lamb
-----Original Message-----
From: Jpslhedgpeth@aol.com
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Fri, 9 Nov 2007 7:55 pm
Subject: Re: [CBQ] movie emperor of the north
Bill:? You can buy the CD of this movie which contains some guy who claims to
be a railroad history expert talk about the filming of the movie....Most of
what he says is BS, but it's interesting to hear.
This movie is one of my all time favorite RR movies..Filmed in the Pacific
Northwest.
The old engineer is Malcom Atterbury whose grandfather or great grandfather was
General Atterbury at one time president of the PRR.
It' fairly authentic, but has lots of "far fetched" action scenes.??
How about the old YM in the tower telling "Shack"..."I'll give you the CLIP on
that"....Any old railroaders know the term applied to what most today would
call "scratch paper".? We called it "Clip Paper" on the Rock Island.? It wasn't
until I saw this movie that the origin of the term "clip" came to me.?? That's
one of several authentic railroad bits.?
Enjoy the movie..Don't worry about total authenticity...IT AIN'T THERE.
Pete
-----Original Message-----
From: William Ewinger <b_ewinger@yahoo.com>
To: cbq@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Fri, 9 Nov 2007 7:07 pm
Subject: [CBQ] movie emperor of the north
hi everyone
got in on the last half hour this morning at breakfast of the movie emperor of
the north with ernst bogine as a conduct that goes to the extreme in my words
at keeping hobos off his train.in watching the whole movie his train seems to
be a local or a branch line train.the question i have here is this the way all
conductors were during the depression years as you have not sen much in print
about it.anybody know?
bill ewinger
burlington iowa
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