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Viewing Album: New Haven Movie Star - NH #3016
By:
Gary Everhart
Dates:
3/9/1958 - 3/9/1958
Album Info:
New York, New Haven & Hartford 2-8-2 #3016 was not just an average, normal steam locomotive, it was a movie star. This Mikado starred with Jack Lemmon, Ernie Kovacs and Doris Day in the 1958 movie "It Happened to Jane". As with any movie star, it wore make-up to appear like a Portland & Eastern locomotive instead of its normal self. There were 3 J-1 2-8-2s saved for snow melter steam supply use after steam power died on the New Haven in 1952. 3020 was the Providence (RI) engine, and was last used in March 1956. 3016 was assigned to New Haven, and 3006 to Boston terminal. All were retired (in New Haven parlance, "condemned", with a big "C" painted next to the road number) in mid-1956, but they somehow stuck around until early 1958, when Hollywood came calling. After the movie was finished in July 1958, 3016 shed her movie "Eastern & Portland 97" makeup and was relettered NH 3016. That summer. Bob McKernan, the NH PR Director, offered the 3016 to Essex and New Haven, CT for display, and also offered her to Joe Leahy, owner of the Danbury Fair (where 1863-built Boston & Providence 4-4-0 "Daniel Nason" was on display-- in 1982, it was sold to St. Louis MOT after the Fair was closed). The two Connecticut trolley museums were apparently not interested in a New Haven steam locomotive. The towns and Fair said "not interested", so the three engines were shipped dead-in-tow to Luria Brothers at South Modena, PA. Two weeks later, Leahy called McKernan (apparently, he had second thoughts about the engine), and after a mad scramble on long-distance telephone lines, it was ascertained that 3016 was already partly cut up. This info came from personal interviews in the 1980s with Bob McKernan and others involved. The movie is a humorous and sometimes sly look at "New England" as it was once perceived, and many of the railroad scenes were filmed on what is now the Valley Railroad, in Chester and Essex, CT. Other sequences were shot on NH lines at Hartford ("Marshalltown") a
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Title:
NH 2-8-2 #3016 - New York, New Haven & Hartford
Description:
This 1916 Alco-Schenectady built Mikado type locomotive was a J-1 class with 63" drivers, developing 200 psi boiler pressure, and had a tractive force of 50,595 lb. The note on the back from the unidentified photographer reads "This eng in Readville for years. Taken from storage and used in movie "It Happened to Jane" w/Jack Lemmon, Ernie Kovacx and Doris Day in 1958. This is before eng. was repainted "Portand & Eastern" for movie.
Photo Date:
3/9/1958
Upload Date:
10/30/2013 3:37:04 PM
Location:
New Haven, CT
Author:
Gary Everhart
Categories:
Roster,Steam,Action
Locomotives:
NH 3016(2-8-2)
Views:
1057
Comments:
1
Title:
NH 2-8-2 #3016 - New York, New Haven & Hartford
Description:
Having sat unused for years, it still looks good. Don't think the steam seen in the background is from the engine but rather from the building behind. Note the ripped up rail in the foreground.
Photo Date:
3/9/1958
Upload Date:
10/30/2013 3:37:09 PM
Location:
New Haven, CT
Author:
Gary Everhart
Categories:
Roster,Steam,Action
Locomotives:
NH 3016(2-8-2)
Views:
816
Comments:
0
Title:
NH 2-8-2 #3016 - New York, New Haven & Hartford
Description:
From the streaks on the tender, it was definitely sitting idle for a number of years before being tapped by Hollywood to star in the movie.
Photo Date:
3/9/1958
Upload Date:
10/30/2013 3:37:11 PM
Location:
New Haven, CT
Author:
Gary Everhart
Categories:
Roster,Steam,Action
Locomotives:
NH 3016(2-8-2)
Views:
766
Comments:
0
Title:
NH 2-8-2 #3016 - New York, New Haven & Hartford
Description:
The roundhouse in the back of the movie start NH #3016 looks like it could use a make-over as well!
Photo Date:
3/9/1958
Upload Date:
10/30/2013 3:37:14 PM
Location:
New Haven, CT
Author:
Gary Everhart
Categories:
Roster,Steam,Action
Locomotives:
NH 3016(2-8-2)
Views:
721
Comments:
0
Title:
NH 2-8-2 #3016 - New York, New Haven & Hartford
Description:
The surrounding area is devoid of locomotives, hence must not have been an active site anymore.
Photo Date:
3/9/1958
Upload Date:
10/30/2013 3:37:17 PM
Location:
New Haven, CT
Author:
Gary Everhart
Categories:
Roster,Steam,Action
Locomotives:
NH 3016(2-8-2)
Views:
549
Comments:
1
Title:
NH 2-8-2 #3016 - New York, New Haven & Hartford
Description:
Even though it became a Hollywood movie star, fame did not keep it from being scrapped after the movie ended. Shame it couldn't have been kept in a movie lot stable for future use in movies or television.
Photo Date:
3/9/1958
Upload Date:
10/30/2013 3:37:20 PM
Location:
New Haven, CT
Author:
Gary Everhart
Categories:
Roster,Steam,Action
Locomotives:
NH 3016(2-8-2)
Views:
1459
Comments:
3
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