Good interior view of the depot where Natty tries to buy a ticket and actually ride the cushions (a passenger train). Nicely preserved depot - looks like a mineral-red, Canadian Pacific two-story job to me - where Natty hopes to catch another train ride. p Natty is in danger! Wolfie leaps to the rescue! You can’t have a great adventure movie without an explosion and resulting fireball, I always say (even though hotboxes don’t explode, they catch fire and melt - maybe they wuz hauling dynamite?). Uh-oh, a major hot box on one axle’s journal causes a derailment. Next thing you know, Natty is riding a load of concrete pipe With both cylinder cocks wide open, CP #3716 steams along. #3716 operates on the last remaining segment of the Kettle Valley Railway (near Summerland, BC). Also, both locomotives are still in operational condition and owned by the government of British Columbia. #1077.īoth engines in this movie also appeared in the 1982 film, “The Grey Fox”. Harry and Natty are forced to split up and go their separate ways.ĬP #3716 (renumbered as 716) switches as #1077 passes by Nice side view of M.B. Getting chased by the railroad police Natty (or at least her stunt double) racing across the tracks in front of M.B. # 1077 as CP # 3716 leads the train away from the camera. The next morning, Natty and Harry prepare to jump off as the train pulls into a yard Here we get our best view of M.B. Our first railroad scene finds Natty down at the freight yard looking to hop a train (along with other hobos).Īs a newbie, Natty has trouble boarding a moving box car until hoisted up by a harmonica-playing Harry. I swear I’ve seen this spot somewhere along the British Columbia Railway, ex- Pacific Great Eastern mainline, from North Vancouver to Squamish and on northward. Come along for the ride!ĬP #3716 rolls over a nice, little steel truss bridge in British Columbia. As a result, there is a fairly large proportion of train action in this movie. Much of Natty’s expedition is accomplished hobo-style, hopping freight trains and dodging the wrath of the railroad bulls. ![]() Natty Gann (played by a 15-year-old Meredith Salenger) faces many challenges and perils along the way and befriends both a fellow traveler, Harry, (played by a 19-year-old John Cusack) and, of all things, a semi-tame Wolf (played by Jed), as she treks west. Filmed in the wilds of British Columbia, we are treated to TWO Canadian-built steam locomotives, Canadian Pacific #3716 and MacMillan Bloedel #1077, rolling through incomparable western panoramas.įrom Depression-era Chicago (in the 1930’s), this flick is the story of a young girl’s journey to join her father in Washington State where he has found a hard-won logging job. ![]() I had always heard about this movie in passing, but had never actually watched it until just recently for this blog review.
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