Speed Graphic Film and Video | Hollywood Outtakes: Southern Pacific Narrow Gauge 4-6-0 No. 9 @SpeedGraphicFilmVideo | Uploaded December 2022 | Updated October 2024, 5 hours ago.
In the 1950's, the Southern Pacific Railroad still operated one narrow-gauge line: the former Carson & Colorado Railway, which ran from just outside Carson City, Nevada to Keeler, California. Its location in the scenic Owens Valley, and its roster of vintage steam power, made it a choice location for movie westerns.
4-6-0 Ten-Wheeler No. 9 (Baldwin, 1909) got the call for this shoot, an unknown western. We see it stopped by a group of riders, then two men uncoupling it from its train and running away with it.
2:40 After the credits are some excerpts from season 1, episode 1 of the Annie Oakley television show. Broadcast in 1954, some of the scenes appear similar to these outtakes, but none match.
Southern Pacific abandoned the Keeler branch in 1960. The "Desert Princesses", No. 9 and sister engines No. 8 and No. 18, were all preserved. No. 9, known as the "Slim Princess", is now at the Laws Railroad Museum in Laws, California.