TOP: A Universal Studios film crew shoots footage of Savannah & Atlanta No. 750 at night at Chester, Ark., during filming of the movie Biloxi Blues. on June 26, 1987. ABOVE LEFT: Actor Jim Fields plays the train conductor in the HBO movie The Tuskegee Airmen in Fort Smith, Ark., on February 25, 1995, catching up on the latest issue of the trade publication Variety between takes. Fields is a high school drama teacher from Dallas, Texas, and travels the country doing bit parts in movies that his agent procures for him. ABOVE RIGHT: Three extras wait for the call to their places for the filming of The Tuskegee Airmen in Fort Smith.
cycle riders attending the popular “Bikes, Blues, and Barbeque” rally in Fayetteville. Railfan photography spe- cials were a staple of the A&M in its early years.
The Hollywood Star
The Arkansas & Missouri Railroad made a splash onto the national scene
30 MAY 2014 •
RAILFAN.COM
in 1987 when Universal Studios picked Fort Smith, Ark., and the railroad for filming of the Neil Simon movie, Biloxi Blues. Don Primi, a New York train co- ordinator, brought in Savannah & At- lanta No. 750 from Georgia along with a string of former Lackawanna 1920s commuter coaches to the fledgling short line to film this major motion picture.
For eight days, residents and rail- fans got a look at what life was like in the 1940s as the train steamed through the Ozark mountains, over the high trestles, and through a half-mile long tunnel along the most scenic section of the old Frisco line. The opening and closing of the movie featured No. 750 and the passenger train crossing the
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