| Posted by Dana M. on December 24, 2018 | |
Great photo Mike - and nice backstory about this locomotive! I have the movie "End of the Line" in my movie collection (in VHS format) and it's a really good movie, and rather funny! The bullet holes in the locomotive are actually from Wilford Brimley and Kevin Bacon - as in the run from Arkansas to Chicago, the locomotive runs out of fuel. So, the two hike by foot to a local town several miles distant and talk a gas station attendant into selling them several 50 Gallon barrels of Diesel fuel. They roll the barrels back to the locomotive and fill the tank, but while they were waiting, Kevin Bacon had bought some liquor at the station. After the hike, rolling the barrels back to the locomotive and being "plum tuckered out" - they open the bottle and start to drink. A few minutes later, they are drunk, and talking about their "mission" and the situation of the closing of the railroad - and they get mad. Brimley then climbs into the cab, and retrieves a shotgun he brought along "just in case" and in a fit of drunken rage - shoots the headlight of the locomotive. Kevin then takes his shot, and the both of them proceed to shoot the locomotive until they are out of ammunition. Obviously - they actually shot the locomotive with real shotgun slugs. I didn't think they would "ruin" a good locomotive for the movie by actually shooting it. Obviously, I see they actually did shoot it!
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Levon Helm playing Leo Pickett was who accompanied Brimley’s character Will Haney on the engine to Chicago and shot up the locomotive. Kevin Bacon’s character really had a fairly minor part in the movie being Will Haney’s antagonist son-in-law, I don’t think he ever even touched this unit in the film.
The movie also features a nice shot of Cotton Belt 819 at the beginning setting up the historical flashback type scene of the Southland, establishing the roots the community had in the railroad.
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