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| Author: | J3a-614 [ Mon May 19, 2014 1:47 am ] |
| Post subject: | Martinsburg, W.Va. Roundhouse Filming Location |
This link leads to an article on Ed Ellis' Pullman Experience--but check out the ad for The History Channel's "The World Wars:" http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/18/trave ... .html?_r=0 In particular, check out the video for "Allies." It's a damned curse you can't control it for things like a freeze-frame stop, but take a look at the bits about Churchill and Roosevelt; at least the basic footage (I'm assuming it was also doctored for things like the airplane models in the Roosevelt sequence) in both those sequences was shot in the roundhouse at Martinsburg, W.Va. (sorry, it doesn't look like a direct link to the video is available). This is confirmed in the "Axis Power" clip about Hitler; the ex-B&O caboose in the roundhouse definitely shows up in the background. Other sequences, such as for Stalin, very much look to have been in the shop buildings. Blink and you miss it--but at 1:42 in the video clip in this article, is what looks like the back of the former woodworking shop. http://tvline.com/2014/04/28/history-th ... churchill/ The History Channel's own page on the three-day miniseries: http://www.history.com/shows/the-world- ... rld%20wars One criticism--a lack of a comparable look at what was going on in Japan. That's something I think we have neglected in our teachings over the years. |
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| Author: | superheater [ Mon May 19, 2014 10:52 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Martinsburg, W.Va. Roundhouse Filming Location |
"One criticism--a lack of a comparable look at what was going on in Japan. That's something I think we have neglected in our teachings over the years." http://www.johnbatchelorshow.com/podcas ... ourth-hour |
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| Author: | J3a-614 [ Mon May 19, 2014 2:43 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Martinsburg, W.Va. Roundhouse Filming Location |
Yes, that's the one. Those who are familiar with this location would know the building best from the other side. It's the western shop building with two levels. http://www.martinsburgroundhouse.com/ This was originally a shop for woodworking on the upper level, while metalworking, with its heavier tools, was on the lower level. Later, after Martinsburg had been abandoned as a division point (replaced by a much more spacious facility at Brunswick in 1897 or so), this shop was adapted for making bridge components. The other shop building, to the east of the two roundhouses (one of which is in ruins following a fire set by some kids), was originally a locomotive shop. Its later life was as a machine shop for making parts for switches. The surviving or west roundhouse, after its life as a locomotive facility, was used for a variety of purposes, including repair and calibration of track scales, as a sign shop, and some other things. The now in ruins east roundhouse was later used for reclamation work, such as straightening spikes. Now mostly gone was a recycling center, which was one of the noisiest places in town. Alternating between ear piercing SCREAMS from a rail saw that cut rail for switch components would come a most horrible crashing and clanging as scrap material was unloaded for sorting and possible recycling. This is what you heard from the station on the other side of the tracks and the buildings; can you imagine what it was like around the roundhouse itself? This facility never did get central heat; up until the time it closed, it was heated by something like 54 stoves, all burning coal, as did the forges in the blacksmith shop. With all those doors that were open much of the time, in what is surprisingly one of the windiest locations in town, I don't think they did much good. An aerial view; the location of the screenshot is on the ground, to the right of the cupola on the upper shop building. Also visible are the remains of a relatively modern (1950s) metal building that was originally for the maintenance of mechanized track equipment such as spikers, tampers, and so on. A very small bit of this is visible in the screen shot, at left, in the form of a vertical steel column. http://www.martinsburgroundhouse.com/co ... omplex.jpg For a number of years this facility was also the storage site of the B&O's historic equipment collection, which would later become the core of the collection that is now at the B&O Museum in Baltimore. |
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| Author: | J3a-614 [ Tue May 20, 2014 9:51 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Martinsburg, W.Va. Roundhouse Filming Location |
Got to talk to the chairperson of the Martinsburg-Berkeley County Convention & Visitors' Bureau, and found out that this whole miniseries was shot around Martinsburg. Besides the roundhouse footage discussed, a farm outside of town became battlefields in both conflicts, complete with trenches and armored vehicles, a movie theater provided a setting for other things, along with various other houses and structures in the town. |
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