# What model of locomotive was shown in Disney's "Something Wicked This Way Comes"?

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**Created:** [March 21, 2017, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-model-of-locomotive-was-shown-in-disneys-something-wicked-this-way-comes/782671 "2017-03-21T03:47:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2017, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-model-of-locomotive-was-shown-in-disneys-something-wicked-this-way-comes/782671/1 "2017-03-21T03:47:35Z")

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As [seen here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FU_Lcpn1LqY&t=1m03s).

Something I’ve been wondering about (it keeps me off the streets), but I’m not familiar enough with trains to identify a particular make and model—or even to tell if that might be a _literal_ model of a nonexistent locomotive, or something—I can’t find any references to that facet of the movie’s production online, and there is as of yet no Internet Movie Train Database. (“Firearm,” “Plane,” and “Car” databases yes. SOL on locomotives.)

But, I figure there’s _just_ enough of a chance that someone better in the know can identify the machine in the film from a few seconds of video—I have great faith in rivet counters—to make asking worthwhile.

So…anyone got any ideas?

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**Author:** ![Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uosdwis_R.Dewoh)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2017, 10:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-model-of-locomotive-was-shown-in-disneys-something-wicked-this-way-comes/782671/2 "2017-03-21T10:11:37Z")

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It doesn’t look like the famous [Sierra No. 3](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra_No._3) but I think it might be it’s brother [Sierra Railway 28](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra_Railway_28).  
[Picture.](https://railtown1897.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/1950s-ca-sry-28.jpg)[Source.](https://railtown1897.wordpress.com/2013/10/30/sierra-no-28-repair-project-a-history-of-the-no-28/)

It might also be a train in Vermont where parts of the movie was [filmed](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086336/locations).

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**Author:** ![Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uosdwis_R.Dewoh)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2017, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-model-of-locomotive-was-shown-in-disneys-something-wicked-this-way-comes/782671/3 "2017-03-21T11:07:28Z")

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After turning the brightness way high on that clip and comparing it to photos, I’m certain it’s the #28.

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**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2017, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-model-of-locomotive-was-shown-in-disneys-something-wicked-this-way-comes/782671/4 "2017-03-21T23:03:13Z")

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This is why I love you guys. 🙂 Thanks!