Train History in Cinema 1 Buster Keaton.

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This is a real treasure from Buster Keaton taken from the movie "Our Hospitality". There is a scene in this excerpt where a man is throwing rocks at the loco and the engineer/stoker is throwing wood back. It reminds of a scene on an Irish narrow gauge railway where a woman would get her goat to stand between the rails. The loco crew would throw coal at the goat and when the woman thought enough coal had been thrown she would call the goat in. The train would proceed then on it's way and she would go and collect the coal. The railway went bankrupt eventually and I often wonder if her antics may have hastened the railways downfall.

Roy.