I recall a train that was supposed to be running in the Chicago area. This sort of thing happens all the time in film. So it looks like most of the action shots were taken on the SP, with a few file shots of Santa Fe and some other road thrown in for seasoning. Directors: Leo McCarey, James Parrott Stars: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Edgar Kennedy, John Aasen. They go to a golf course where they try to impress two young ladies and wind up in a mud-slinging fight with other golfers. Then there is a dramatic head-on nighttime shot of an unidentified express train with an air horn. When Laurel visits Hardy at home, hi-jinx occur and the Mrs. Later, McCrae gets a ride in T&NO double sheath boxcar 35504 as it is being switched by SP 2-8-0 2856. As they leave the train at Las Vegas and it pulls away, we see that it is composed mostly of SP boxcars and stock cars, with an SP caboose bringing up the rear. Then we see "their" train being hauled by a pair of Santa Fe 3800 class 2-10-2's as it pulls into Las Vegas, Nevada, which is on the LA&SL, rather than SP or Santa Fe. Views of their train enroute include a distant view of "their" train, led by a loco with a high headlight. Before they leave, an SP 0-6-0 switcher is seen. McCrea and Lake leave Los Angeles as hobos in a stock car behind SP 2-8-0 2853. The film opens with a view of the left side of an unidentified loco, flopped to appear to be the right side. I recently saw Sullivan's Travels (highly recommended), a 1941 Paramount release by Preston Sturges, starring Joel McCrea and Veronica Lake.
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