SPNG - Rolling Stock, Paintings, Desert

Southern Pacific Narrow Gauge Railroad
	Rolling Stock Paintings SPNG in the Movies

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The Carson & Colorado and the SP in Hollywood Films
A number of feature length Hollywood films have been made in the Owens valley, and several have included the narrow gauge. The line has appeared in "B" westerns with such stars as Gene Autry and Roy Rogers. Keeler has become "Crazy Horse, Nevada for a 1942 production. [RKO Studios] The narrow gauge played an important role in "Three Godfathers," starring John Wayne. The movie was made in the valley in 1949 and featured SP 9, flatcar 259 and combine 400. The film's train arrives at the fictional "Apache Wells, Arizona" tank. Film crews built the water tank and "weathered" the train to make it look even more dusty than usual. [Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer] The Slim Princess was also used in the 1950's television series "Annie Oakley," [The Cinder Trail] "Bad Day at Black Rock' used scenes filmed on the "Jawbone line," and at Laws, while the 1965 Steve McQueen Paramount film "Nevada Smith" used Laws and the narrow gauge display train..
Annie Oaklie - The Cinder Trail (Season 1/Episode 10) March, 1954 Gail Davis / Jimmy Hawkins / Paul Burns	3 Godfathers - 1948 John Wayne / Harry Carey Jr. / Ward Bond
Sinister Journey - 1948 (There is as LOT of Slim Princess and Keeler Depot action in this movie!) William Boyd / Andy Clyde / Rand Brooks
Bad Day at Blackrock - 1955 Spencer Tracy / Robert Ryan / Ann Francis / Dean Jagger / Walter Brennan Lee Marvin / Earnest Borgnine / Russell Collins	Nevada Smith - 1966 Still action at the Laws RR Museum Steve McQueen / Karl Malden / Suzanne Pleshette / Martin Landau
Saga of Death Valley - 1939 Roy Rogers / George "Gabby" Hayes / Ann Meredith	Flame of Barbary Coast - 1945 John Wayne / Ann Dvorak
Film, Television, and the Southern Pacific Railroad PDF File, Excel File Courtesy of David Coscia's Southern Pacific Railroad Website
The Blazing Sun - 1950 Gene Autry / Lynne Roberts / Anne Gwynne	Greed - 1925 Gibson Gowland / Zasu Pitts /Jean Hersholt
3 Godfathers - 1948 John Wayne / Harry Carey Jr. / Ward Bond	Somebody at Keeler Station filming a western.
Annie Oaklie - The Brass Collar (Season 1/Episode 1) January, 1954 Gail Davis / Jimmy Hawkins / Brad Johnson
The Gene Autry Show - Steel Ribbon (Season 3 / Episode 11) September 1953 Gene Autry / Gail Davis	A variety of "B" Westerns starring Gene Autry and Roy Rogers

Owens Valley vestige - Engine No. 9
Sunset Water Stop
Southern Pacific 1 derrick at Mina - circa 1936
Southern Pacific 1-A wheel car.
Combine 1-B - housed the wrecking crew.
Water tank car 350.
Baggage Car 12 being used as crew quarters in Keeler - circa 1946
Southern Pacific Flanger 108 at Laws - circa 1940

Number 7 combine.
Business Car 20 - 1936
Caboose 467 - circa 1940 in Keeler
Southern Pacific Baggage-Mail Caboose 12 - circa 1940 in Keeler	Flanger 108 in Owens Valley
Combine-caboose 401 - circa 1951
Combine-caboose 12 in Owens Valley
Southern Pacific freight cars at Owenyo - circa 1939
SP 1 freight car - 1948
SP 2 freight car - 1954

SPNG boxcar. (Text and Photo courtesy of eBay)
Flat car 253 transformed into a tourist car with two outhouses
Box car 2 at Keeler
Southern Pacific "A" frame hopper 232 used for transferring materials from the narrow gauge to the standard gauge at Owenyo - circa 1954
Stock car 177	Southern Pacific "A" frame hopper 232
Southern Pacific "A" frame hopper 339 used for transferring materials from the narrow gauge to the standard gauge at Owenyo.

Southern Pacific - Carson & Colorado railroad art courtesy of John Coker
Carson & Colorado Railroad
Crossing the Owens River	Laws, CA turntable
The Slim Princess at Owenyo
The Slim Princess at Kearsarge Station
The Slim Princess at the Owenyo transfer trestle.

Mural in Lone Pine, CA of the Carson & Colorado RR in Owens Valley going to Keeler [Photo courtesy of Ray DeLea]
Mural of the Slim Princess in Bishop [Photo courtesy of Ray DeLea]
Mural of the Slim Princess in Bishop, CA [Photo courtesy of Ray DeLea]	[Howard Fogg painting]
1985 Carson & Colorado painting (E-Bay auction item)	W. M. Farnsworth Carson & Colorado painting (E-Bay auction item)
Fred Bonn painting of the "Slim Princess" (E-Bay auction item)
"From Nowhere to Nowhere" by Mike Pearsall
SP narrow gauge #9 rolling towards Owenyo. A commission by the Southern Pacific Historical and Technical Society for a book cover. (Text and Photo courtesy of Dennis Burke)	"Heading for Laws" by Jan Rons
"Desert Run" by Mike Pearsall

Caboose coach built in 1880 and retired in 1939.
Tank car 71 at Keeler.
Southern Pacific water car at Owenyo - circa 1954
SP 1-D crew car at Mina in 1936
Southern Pacific narrow-gauge boxcar number 2 in Keeler. This ancient piece of equipment was photographed, I believe, around 1948 based on the service date on the air reservoir. Notice the somewhat unusual Southern Pacific Lines logo on the "B" end of the car. (Photo and text courtesy Mark Van Klaveren)
February 22, 1954 at Owenyo. (Photo courtesy of Mark Van Klaveren)	Photo of combination/caboose #SP401 before a crew member partially fell through the clerestory roof ine 1953 and the entire roof was rebuilt resembling a box car style roof (Photo & text courtesy of Dennis Burke)
Southern Pacific Narrow Gauge Caboose 467 at Keeler, CA - 1942
SP car #20 at Owenyo
08/21 SP car #467 at Owenyo (Photo courtesy of Dennis Burke)
08/21 SP car #467 with locomotive #22 at Laws. During the 1946/47 renumbering of SPNG equipment caboose #467 was renumbered 402 per our SP car registry but it was never stenciled for #402 (Photo courtesy of Dennis Burke)

Speeders on the SPNG (Speeder photos courtesy of Mark Van Klaveren) wenyo

09/21

SPNG boxcar #2

SPNG boxcar #7

SPNG car #12

SPNG boxcar #44

SPNG boxcar #52

SPNB boxcar #55

SPNG stockcar #161

SPNG tank car #354

SPNG car #401

SPNG flatbed car #259 - used for hauling telephone poles.

Paul Gomez writes:

A memorable photo. The house in the background with the partially white picket fence was my grandparent's home for many years. I spent many wonderful hours visiting them in their "boxcar" house. My grandfather retired from Southern Pacific RR Company after 30 years. His last place of employment with SP was Owenyo until the narrow guage line was abandoned in 1960.

August 2021