Making of the Great Locomotive Chase

Walt Disney's " The Making of The Great Locomotive Chase" ....all rights reserved by Walt Disney Productions. This was and is one of my favorite movies.

[@imagreatbigman]

Disney should of added this to the DVD as a special feature. I always wondered where they filmed this movie and now I know. This movie has been a part of my childhood and it will always be one of my favorite movies.

[@kyletroknya2419]

Me too 🚂🚂🔥

[@MrTrainfan1000the2nd]

They should make a special bluray edition with this episode and the brave engineer cartoon as extras.

[@kyletroknya2419]

@@MrTrainfan1000the2nd indeed

[@Deepthought-42]

Should HAVE

[@detsportsfan18]

Such great actors during this era. Pure class & skill to say the least. 👍

[@MrRobster1234]

The Southern railroad system was in chaos for most of the war. One paper ran a headline "Railroad Accident !" Beneath that they wrote "Train arrived on time."

[@garyrusseth2022]

A terrific movie and making of the movie.

[@sirrliv]

Man, this is such a blast of nostalgia. I used to stay up late as a child just to catch these old specials when they used to run them late at night on the Disney Channel. Never saw this particular one though. A great documentary about one of my favorite Disney movies.

[@madmovyman]

This is a great background story to a Disney film that remains an exciting tale of the Civil War. Thanks for the upload.

[@wargame2play]

I’m John Robert Pittenger,the Great Great Nephew of William Pittenger. I’ve visited the Texas in Atlanta and the General at Big Shanty. I’ve met the Great Great grandson of Fuller and have several copies of this movie.

[@randquadrozzi1280]

Thank you for the upload.underrated movie.Always enjoyed watching parker in the few movies he did.

[@hawkeyenextgen7117]

This movie made me fall in love with trains. I'm impressed with how much historical and technical aspects went into the making of this film.

[@intuitive7274]

I live in Tallulah falls Georgia. Along the old Tallulah falls railroad. In the house of the man. Whom built the Tallulah falls Georgia railroad. This railroad was used in the movie the great locamotive chase filmed in The mountains of northeastern Georgia. Tallulah falls Georgia and Rabun county Georgia

[@alecwilliams7111]

There's just nothing like that Disney commitment to quality. How many of the films contemporary to the Disney product are so well remembered?

[@glendonstanley1140]

COME ON DISNEY CHANNEL BRING BACK THESE CLASSIC TV- MOVIES AND CARTOON THAT YOU HAVE

[@TommyPicklesFan]

RIP Fess Parker: 1924-2010

[@jayo1212]

He was Disney's answer to John Wayne!

[@drby0788]

jayo1212 def a better actor lol

[@Cwilliam1999]

what I like about this is the fact that Disney visited the east side of the country. pretty rare for Walt Disney himself to be in the east cost instead of LA.

[@jagerfaust2009]

What a historical gem, thanks for sharing :-)

[@joemackey1950]

Really enjoyed the background scenes. While the actors get the glory, they do the work.

[@intuitive7274]

The film footage was filmed in Tallulah falls Georgia. On the one little short line that only our Railroad could bring the past alive. The Tallulah falls Railroad. I'm former Mayor of Tallulah falls Georgia Dan A Hayes

[@highwayexplorer]

Are there very many places to visit that someone would recognize from the movie?

[@dovercastbrandon9637]

highway explorer Not many anymore, it takes the knowledge of knowing exactly where something was filmed to find it. One scene that somewhat still exists is the crossing of the trestle in the movie-the uncovered straight one that is-crossed the Panther Creek where the highway is now. If one stands between the bridges on the trail down the creek, and look down, it is visibly the same scene. Trestle support remains are still located in the creek.

[@GoDawgs18]

Dan Hayes are their places from the movie that I can visit? I’m from Dawsonville Georgia and I love watching this movie

[@GoDawgs18]

Dovercast Brandon thanks for the informative comment

[@sammyloccisano30]

@@GoDawgs18 Kennesaw Georgia aka in the movie “Big Shanty” that have a full on museum and the actual train from the chase. I forgot if it was either the general or the Texas. It’s pretty cool to check out

[@Jubilo1]

Out standing ! Thank you for posting this.

[@glendonstanley1140]

can`t see why the disney channel can`t bring back the old classic shows like davey crockett,.,this movie great locomotive chase,,,,,the disney zorro..,,walt disney movies flubber -son of flubber,,,,,movies like that,,,plus old yeller,..the old cartoons that walt disney did to,,,,they have so many classic..like the old mickey mouse club......how about it,,,,,?

[@g.m.forsythe9626]

The reason is that Disney is no longer a wholesome company promoting positive culture.

[@GoDawgs18]

Aren’t they going to make a transgender superhero? Walt Disney is rolling in his grave over today’s Disney

[@engineer6325]

This film is one big reason why I wish the Tallulah Falls Railroad was still with us. Having a tourist railroad or such on the same road this was filmed on would've been something special. Walt himself tried to buy the TF, but I believe it was denied by Southern Rwy at the time.

[@eliotreader8220]

its believed that during the chase the General and the Texas ran at about 60 miles per hour at some point. I understand that the only damage the Andrews raiders Brown and Night did to the General was a overheated bearing because they was unable to stop and oil it. I understand that one of the railroaders said after they recovered the General "those Yanks can drive a locomotive as good as we can" or something similar to that

[@simontrainbrainz6038]

Disney sure does know how to make good documentaries, fun too!

[@dillonkinder9296]

when Walt Disney said he always fascinated with locomotives that explains his creation of Casey Jr. from Dumbo

[@isaiahwilliams2642]

This film makes me proud to be living in the same town as the Inyo.

[@jdubbjazzbass]

i couldn't agree with you more,i do not live in carson city,but the INYO is my favorite locomotive,and the VIRGINIA AND TRUCKEE is my railroad!!

[@dovercastbrandon9637]

I'm just as proud of the railroad this was filmed on, I'm from Tallulah Falls.

[@jayo1212]

As it makes me proud to be living in the city that was the southern terminus of the W&A!

[@1987AnimeBoy]

If Disney could re-release the Great Locomotive Chase on DVD or Blu-Ray, they should include this episode as a special feature, just like how they did for Sleeping Beauty.

[@yellowroseproductions363]

1987AnimeBoy it is on DVD. I have it.

[@badreality2]

@@yellowroseproductions363 He is saying this should be in its Special Features, instead of only for those fortunate to find it.

[@danielboone3770]

I'm really enjoying this. I have got to see this movie! I love this making.

[@Engineer5344]

awesome video ron.

[@robertlucido3686]

About how Kurtz mentioned John Reed Porter, one thing the movie didn't show was that Porter and his companion Martin Jones Hawkins had actually overslept and missed the train but were still captured as depicted in the movie

[@dillonkinder9296]

I never seen this movie but I really like to see it looks really good

[@drby0788]

This was COOL

[@derail14]

the raiders made to 2 blunders in what they did, first off they should have spread the track gauge in the tunnel as the engine chasing them would have went on the ground, and 2nd they could have derailed the last car and shoved to out of gauge were a re railer would have not worked, both of these things would have stopped fuller dead in his tracks.

[@jayo1212]

@2:05 Interesting that they used a shot of the Buster Keaton film's Texas, since you couldn't really get a decent one of the Texas, where it was!

[@trainzville9237]

9:50 Inyo's a.k.a Texas' Whistle

[@elmerlarimer9026]

thank you it real good

[@KibuFox]

While the movie was great for what it was, there unfortunately was a key mistake that isn't well known to people. Specifically, the railroad this took place on was a 5 foot broad gauge railroad. At the time, most all railroads in the Southern USA, were broad gauge, not standard.

[@royreynolds108]

Not quite true. The W&A was 4' 9" gauge instead of 5' 0". The GENERAL and TEXAS wheels are still to that gauge; they can ride on standard gauge track because of the way the wheels ride on the track even though the flanges ride tighter against the rails than they should. But that is the real locos and the ones in the movie are to standard gauge. The GENERAL was on display at the Chattanooga railroad station until about 1958 or 59 when it was pulled out and refurbished by the L& N RR for the Centennial of the Great Locomotive Chase in 1962. The loco and a combine car made a lot of appearances around the L&N system for a couple of years. The GENERAL is now in a building just off the main line in Big Shanty north of Atlanta as a static display. The TEXAS was removed from the Cyclorama in Atlanta and is still stored, I just don't know where. Both locos have 60-inch drivers. It was figured in the old days that a loco could travel about 1 mph per inch of driver diameter.

[@williamou417]

Goof: Robert E. Lee did not take command of the army of Northern Virginia until 1 June 1862; 1 1/2 months *after* the locomotive chase. 3:54

[@jmweed1861]

I actually have this on VHS from the Walt Disney Channel airing it. The problem with the movie is the Real Factual History. It was Andrews ( spie and smuggler) the proposed the raid the " Old Stars", General Michael. The Movie also consists of trains. Conductor Fuller and Railroad Superintendent Anthony Murphy pursue the raiders first on foot, then my pole car, then the engine from The Cooper Iron Works ( the Yuma) them the William A Smith, before the got The Texas at Kingston... the movie, is full of engines "flying" I over broken rails, buring box cars...and farby Cavalry. which Never occurred. And in reality, the story of what happened to the raiders is actually more interesting than the actual raid. Eventually all captured and put in a hell hole of a jain in Chattanooga, Eventually Andrews was hanged ( actually strangled, as he was 6 foot tall and they "hanged" him from a 6 foot high tree tree limb. 7 others would eventually be hanged, 8 escaped and made it back to union lines, and eventually 6 were exchanged as Prisoners of War. The Movie is actually based off Raider William Pictenger's book, " The Darring and the Suffering " Though Pictender basicly Thursday States Evidence during 5heir trial. Also, Jacob Parett was the first to be awarded the Medal of Honor, not Pitchenger, in the movie...

[@tvrmengineer]

Locomotive at Cooper was the “YONA”. Locomotive at Kingston was “ WILLIAM R. SMITH”. Boxcar was set on fire but because of weather was too wet to burn.

[@jmweed1861]

The Raiders tried to set the one remaining boxcar on fire, but with No success. As they had little to start the fire inside it and it certainly did not come close to set the last covered bridge on fire. Their two biggest mistakes was postponing the raid by a day, and Not destroying the Yona

[@jmweed1861]

Mr Fuller, Someone is taking your train...

[@williamou417]

The passenger train is the William R. Smith 41:02

[@iliketrainsilikeplanes6047]

Anyone know what the music from 10:45 is?

[@billflanigan8249]

All aboard!!!!!!!!!!!

[@jeffkren136]

anyone know the name of the song, my pappy was a railroadin man????

[@Droodog127]

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[@shurle01]

They should a re-make of this movie, butg with the actual locomotives

[@larrybrennan1463]

Galaxy Railroad Gaming Neither the Texas nor the General are in operating condition. The railroad Disney used, the Tallulah Falls, was abandoned a few years after the film was made. Disney had wanted to buy the TF, but it had a heavy debt he could not pay off, since he was involved with Disneyland at the time. The TF was used because it was in such poor condition that it looked like the 1862 Western & Atlantic. The current W&A (still owned by the state of Georgia) is a heavily-built, heavily-trafficked CSX mainline.

[@shurle01]

Ik that, and it is pretty sad. Well if they were ever to do a good re-make of the great locomotve chase, i hope theres a good RR out there some where.

[@jayo1212]

The General most likely could operate with a little work, but I don't think the museum would want to subject it to any more wear. The Texas would require a lot more work, including a new boiler, most likely, and that boiler, though still not original, is much older than the General's, and the museum definitely doesn't want to discard it!

[@Sugarmountaincondo]

Man-o-man what a story. Can you imagine the 1st CMOH award ceremony? Thanx for posting this historical video and thanx to Mr. Walt Disney for what he gave us all. The current company sucks ass and I don't support them in way or visit Florida because of how they got "woke".

[@sudriansignalman9387]

what happened to these two after the movie

[@STho205]

The locomotives used in the movie are still in their respective museums, but with different paint jobs. The Wm Mason is a stunning dark green with the polished brass. I also think they used "The Lafayette" from the B&O as the small switcher Mr. Fuller boarded in the 1st part of the chase. An even more historic engine. The restored actual General is at a museum in Big Shanty, Kennesaw, north of Atlanta. The Texas was on display in Atlanta, but after the sesquacentennial they are moving that entire collection. I recall the actual General making the Marietta to Chattanooga passenger run in 62 on the centennial, then going on a national tour. Always wondered why Disney didn't use the actual General, since he film in Georgia, but it was probably busy. The Wm Mason was a heavier engine, fatter smokebox, than the General but visually close. The smokestacks were not fully correct for either engine. Those tended to be very unique at the time and the General had a flat top screen with a half crown of points to the rear. If they had altered that with a bit of sheet metal or fabricated different stacks, then they would have been really close.

[@jayo1212]

Most likely because of how much the General had changed over the years, compared to the Wm Mason, which had largely kept its form. Also, the Mason was likely in much better mechanical condition.

[@royreynolds108]

The Wm Mason went back to the B&O Museum and still does not have air brakes. The LAFAYETTE also went back to the museum even though the YONAH was from the 1830s. The INYO went back to California and movie work occasionally; she had brakes as can be seen in a couple of side close-ups. The INYO was from the Virginia & Truckee RR of Nevada between Reno, Carson City, and Virginia City(built in the 1870s).

[@derail14]

to many tech flaws in the vid, as for real and i work for a railroad, the thing you never do is try to put a engine-train in reverse esp a stem locomotive as doing that the valve gear would get ripped apart and that would also jack knife the rail cars,ie a wreck. but thats holly wood for you. there is a way to stop a locomotive if the air braked fail and only on a single locomotive you can plug the traction motors by putting it in reverse and only as a last resort, i was on a small switch engine 1 day and we had to do that, the force of doing it threw all us up against bulk head. but i know dam well if you do that on a steam locomotive be prepared to be picking up a lot of parts.

[@danlefou]

Before the 1870s, very few locomotives in the world had brakes other than a handbrake on the tender. There was no other means of slowing or stopping on a downhill grade than to put the gear a notch or two into reverse and apply gentle throttle, and relying on hand brakes applied by brakemen on the cars. A steam counter-pressure brake, the Le Chatelier, was invented in 1865, see www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-use-of-counter-pressure-steam-t/ , but it saw little use as the Westinghouse air and Eames vacuum brakes introduced in the 1870s were more effective and could be applied to every vehicle in a train. In 1830, at the opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, Stephenson's "Rocket" ran over William Huskisson, a prominent Member of Parliament who stepped into her path. Her driver, trying desperately to juggle the gab valve gear levers, was unable to stop in time, and Mr Huskisson died of his leg injuries that evening. "Rocket" had no brakes of any description, or even a whistle; no-one had thought such things would be needed! M. Le Chatelier did not have any problems with valve gear, the later Stephenson gear being perfectly capable of absorbing the forces involved; indeed, the reversing in motion is clearly shown in the film. There was no way to fake that, no CGI back then. It's shown in Buster Keaton's 1926 film "The General", too, although he anachronistically used the locos' air brakes in some shots. The Disney film didn't, sticking to 1860s driving techniques. Do you think the film makers would risk damaging priceless vintage locomotives? B&O No.25 and Inyo were and are national treasures.

[@tvrmengineer]

WRONG!!! These engines were built with no brakes other than hand cranks. They were stopped by using the Johnson bar in a neutral position and at times to full reverse to slow the trains down, and slowly as steam which had to be off at the throttle when the bar move was made. The cross heads and Stevenson valve gear would not be damaged. The main thing that would give violently were the cylinder head gaskets. If they are clear or water they should be fine. ….. steam will compress water will not.

[@littletrainguy]

the great locomotive chase was in 1878

[@KurtBenning]

No it did not it was in the civil war in 1862 Sir.

[@allabobyr9649]

Simply shamelessly stolen from the Great Buster Keaton.

[@isaiahwilliams2642]

Um, no this is a historical recreation of the great locomotive chase. This is in no way related to Buster Keaton's film.

[@allabobyr9649]

Isaiah Williams Yes, but Buster was the first who set the subject.

[@isaiahwilliams2642]

What are you talking about? Yes, Buster was the first to adapt the event, but his film is very LOOSELY based on the chase, he got barely any of the facts right. This film is based on the book about the real event. It in no way steals from Buster Keaton and is entirely different.

[@jdubbjazzbass]

HEY DUMB-ASS YOU NEED TO READ A BOOK,THIS WAS NOT STOLEN BUSTER KEATON!!!!!!

[@allabobyr9649]

Buster Keaton rocks!