The Train Car. Destroyed.

[Jerry Horne]

Details:

http://twinpeaksarchive.blogspot.com/20 ... royed.html

[Brad D]

and brad d weeps....

[TheArm]

This makes me really sad. It's such a beautiful, spooky old prop and piece of TV history, I can't understand why you'd destroy it!!

[douglasb]

Back in the early 1990s, I had an American penpal who visited the TP shooting sites - I really can't remember when she went but it was not long after the show's demise (I still have the correspondence in storage). Anyhow, during her visit she got me photos of what was described to her at the time as the wreckage of the train car. Basically all you could see were some axles, some wood, etc. As well as the photographs, she send me a shard of wood about eight inches long or so. I still have this bagged up. Whether it came from the real car or not it would be impossible to say but it definitely had an odour of oil/gas at the time.

Like a lot of icons, the provenance may be hazy but for me it's the one item in my collection that has a real connection to the TP story, almost like some kind of religious artefact.

[DigitalGhost]

Back in the early 1990s, I had an American penpal who visited the TP shooting sites - I really can't remember when she went but it was not long after the show's demise (I still have the correspondence in storage). Anyhow, during her visit she got me photos of what was described to her at the time as the wreckage of the train car. Basically all you could see were some axles, some wood, etc. As well as the photographs, she send me a shard of wood about eight inches long or so. I still have this bagged up. Whether it came from the real car or not it would be impossible to say but it definitely had an odour of oil/gas at the time.

Like a lot of icons, the provenance may be hazy but for me it's the one item in my collection that has a real connection to the TP story, almost like some kind of religious artefact.

I know what you mean. I'm drinking tea out of the Holy Grail as I type. To some it may just be a Penguin The Murder At The Vicarage mug but to me it's a thing of almost religious splendour.

I was tempted to go to Tweeds and the Salish Lodge with a crowbar and take them for everything they had but Tweeds was under siege from Tweetie Pie soft toys and the Salish Lodge felt sterile and snobby. Fortunately it was worth spending 48 hours travelling to and from Seattle for Ronette's bridge, the garage where Leland and Laura pull over and Snoqualmie Falls. We chickened out of eating at the Fall City Grill.

IMHO the loss of the train car pales in comparison to the veritable Ghostwood they've built as you enter Snoqualmie, and now now they're in the process of building a casino. There's going to be no trees left in Snoqualmie at this rate.

[douglasb]

Update: I've found the photos. They were taken in the summer of 1993. I'll post the train car photos here but am still undecided as what to do with the rest.

[Jerry Horne]

Update: I've found the photos. They were taken in the summer of 1993. I'll post the train car photos here but am still undecided as what to do with the rest.

Looking forward to seeing them!

[douglasb]

Here are the photos with the contemporary descriptions (from 1993):

train_0001. "Someone said this was the green murder car. You can still see the green paint. How sad to see such a piece of our history destroyed."

train_0002. "The cars are being demolished. I was told that this is the car that was attached to the 'murder' car."

And I've thrown a surprise photo in as well. Cherry pie for the first person to correctly ID this remarkable character.

D.

[Jerry Horne]

Great photos! Is that the llama from the Lydecker clinic??

[DigitalGhost]

I've seen a documentary that shows the inside of the train car. Somebody lived in it for a while after it was used in Twin Peaks.

[Brad D]

I've seen a documentary that shows the inside of the train car. Somebody lived in it for a while after it was used in Twin Peaks.

a fan or a homeless person? i am an intense fan but damn..that's a little much...

[DigitalGhost]

He was an employee of the railway company who owned the carriage - a security guard or some such! The inside of the train car was full of furniture and piles of rubbish.