Here's another link...

http://www.tvacres.com/trains_cannonball.htm

The name Hoyt is interesting because of street names in Portland, the connection with the 4449 roundhouse, and the library in Portland is named the Hoyt library.

Go back a few generations and you find there was a Hoyt family in Saginaw, Michigan and there's a Hoyt Park and Library there.

Also, the bar from the Hoyt Hotel was moved to the Spaghetti Warehouse near Union Station in Denver and it was a great place to go after a UP steam trip.

and an edit -- at the NRHS Winter BOD meeting, I learned there was a mock up of a steam locomotive on top of the Hoyt Hotel.... the action shots for the TV show were taken on the Sierra RR.

Bob H

Wasn't the brand of tractor used on "Green Acres" a Hoyt/Clagwell?

JD Johnson, Morehead and North Fork Railroad Historian

I think it was a fordson Tractor.

Len.

Well, Mr. Haney always called it a Hoyt/Clagwell-

Do you recall the many westerns that were filmed in Italy during the 60's?

As an homage to those shows, one of the local characters who was at the Mt Rainier Scenic at the time had some decals made up for our Alco S1 (or S2, whichever it was?) with the road name "Spaghetti Western" Sadly, relatively few people actually got the joke, much to his dismay.

They stayed on for a while, maybe a year or so, before somebody with less of a sense of humor ordered them replaced.