A cult classic among IRM members, recently found on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... 3-YtfUB0IE

The place has changed a bit over the last 33 years!

Jeff

My, how that place has changed! How much do you like having all the shop buildings you now have? But I bet you wish you had more. . .

As to the movie itself, well, if we wonder why the outsiders sometimes think we're wierd. . .

:-)

Hey if you can't have fun, what's the use? Click on the "Like" button.

That's freakin' great. Too bad some of the people listed in the credits are no longer with us.

Has a copy of Frank Jur's classic, The Union Report, ever made it onto youtube?

OMG!

I've always heard of "Honest Nick's 'L' Car City", but I did not know it was an actual film.

I suspect this debuted at one of the great Annual Meetings they used to have at the VFW in the old days.

I note that the sobriquet "Honest Nick" has never left the vocabulary of railway preservation! Everyone knows who Honest Nick is.

Steve

I only saw and rode the CTA 4000 class cars in revenue service once--when I visited Chicago in 1971. Someone had told me, "Be sure to ride the Evanston Express" and that's the last line on which these cars ran. They made "all the right noises" and did not have any kind of electronic speed control, so they could race along without any annoying "beeps" scolding the motorman. Then, at the ARM Convention in 1985, I got to run a pair of these cars, probably the set shown running in the movie. One set went to Ohio Ry. Museum, where I rode them in 1977; the amazing coincidence was that one of the cars was ex-CTA 4449, and this was when ex-Southern Pacific "Daylight" Northern 4449 was drawing attention as the motive power for the Freedom Train.

We in the St. Louis Steam Train Association had a subsidiary called "Bogus Video" and for the sake of humanity, none of these 3 videos will ever make it to youtube.
Even had a blooper tape.
Sometimes life was fun.

I had always heard of The Place as "Honest Nick's Dial-A-Diesel"......

Howard P.

Benny Hill meets the Dating Game is what comes to mind..

"Benny Hill meets the Dating Game is what comes to mind.."--Nova 55

But where are the pretty girls who have all that trouble with their clothes? Not that we should need or want that here, of course. . .besides, we would have to discipline such poor choices of work clothing, being unsafe, exposing you to burns and other problems, especially around steam power:

http://www.thewolsztynexperience.org/ga ... CF2328.htm

http://www.thewolsztynexperience.org/ga ... _F0482.htm

"Has a copy of Frank Jur's classic, The Union Report, ever made it onto youtube?"--Dennis Storzek

Dennis, I tried looking, not only on YouTube, but the internet in general, and I couldn't find a thing. Can you provide some other information, including a possible alternate title, and is that name, Frank Jur, right? I ran into references to a "Frank, Jr.," and other people named Jur, but they were lawyers or other current professionals, not anybody in film.

Yes, that was the man's last name, J, U, R. He was Supt. of Operations at IRM during the early seventies, but the film (8Mmm or Super 8) dated to several years earlier. I saw it at a model railroad club dinner in 1968 or '69, and it is what got both myself and buddy Phil interested in railway preservation.

The film was hokey (aren't they all) but with somewhat better production values than Nick's Used "L" Car Lot, it had sound, and now that I think back, may have been shot with 16mm equipment. In it Frank plays a Russian spy, filing a report on the strange doings outside the little town of Union, IL. Frank did most the narration dressed in a Russian hat, speaking into a WWII era radio microphone... he would occasionally beat his shoe on the table for emphasis (an image I'm sure would be lost on our younger members now.)

Anyway, I lost contact with Mr. Jur many years ago, but would sure like to see the film again.

Gee, when I was in Woltzyn, I never saw any of those models.

"Gee, when I was in Woltzyn, I never saw any of those models."

You must have been looking in the wrong roundhouse....

Some of that footwear certainly meets the safety shoe definition of "defined heel", eh?

Howard P.

IRM may have changed, but Honest Nick has only gotten older - hopefully, we still have many more years to do business with him. What a great guy!

Mike