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Rupert;
I'm fairly certain you are referring to a rather memorable
scene depicting the homecoming of a deceased Hispanic-American
soldier from the 1956 movie "Giant". The
movie starred James Dean, Rock Hudson and Elizabeth Taylor among
others. As you mention, the flag-draped coffin is left on a
baggage cart trackside in what appears "in the middle of
nowhere". An honor guard wheels it away and accompanies it to a
small cemetery where a service is held. The movie was set in the
Texas plains and tells the story of a wealthy rancher and his
relationships over several years. It plays with some regularity on
TCM here in the U.S. and I just watched it again recently.
Unfortunately, it has no Burlington Route ties that I'm aware of,
though the scene with the train would no doubt interest all of us.
Kind regards,
Rob Adams
Wellman, IA
On 5/18/22 4:03 AM, Rupert Gamlen
wrote:
Nothing to do with the Burlington, as far as I
know, but a friend is trying to identify the title of a film
involving a train.
Part of the story is that an African-American soldier was
killed during WWII and his body was brought home to his
family. The train stopped in the middle of nowhere, the
coffin was handed over to his family with full military
honours, and then the train left. Ring any bells?
As compensation for your help, on the subject of films, from
the Railway Age Gazette in 1914 -
Thirty or more passengers in the
smoking car of a suburban train on the Chicago, Burlington
& Quincy in Chicago were injured on the night of
November 24, when the car was set on fire by an explosion of
a moving picture film which was being carried, wrapped in a
paper package, by one of the passengers, and which
presumably caught fire from a lighted match or cigar stub
thrown on the floor.
And from Railway Review
in 1922 -
Why hound dogs leave home is a subject
of deep concern at the present moment to some gasoline rail
car salesmen, if not to the entire industry, since the
latest and most serious complaint against this type of
equipment comes from a state where railroads are not
unmindful of the fact that the people have to be shown.
Farmers along a branch line of the Burlington Railroad are
objecting to the continued operation of a gasoline rail car
on this line because the sound of a high pitched horn with
which this car is equipped so nearly resembles the horns
used for raccoon hunting that the operation of this car is
causing all the hound dogs to leave home.
Thanks
Rupert Gamlen
Auckland NZ
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John Robert Adams
Wellman, Iowa
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