For those wondering about what happened to the locomotives in this film, after the war ended they were used for freight and passenger service until they were replaced by diesels and retired in 1956. All 45 of the Manila Railroad 800 class locomotives were scrapped 1956-1990s.
I recall seeing maybe one of those locomotives rusting in a Manila railyard in the 1970s. My father, when WW2 started, was a Merchant Marine sailor whose ship sailed out of Pearl Harbor during a voyage from Manila to Seattle two days before it was bombed. He said the crew painted out the windows and portholes and ran dark for what I am sure was a very long and frightful voyage. When the ship was finally tied up he joined the army cavalry first since he was a horse trainer since childhood. When the horse cavalry was disbanded early in the war he then became a paratrooper assigned to the 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment. He parachuted into Normandy on D-Day with the 82 Airborne and made the last combat jump of the war into Germany with the 17th Airborne Division. He is considered to be both a World War Two Merchant Marine and US Army veteran.
Thank God for men like your dad and mine, who all put their lives on the back burner to serve our country. My pop was on the Hannibal Victory for this very voyage. I found him in the film, talking with a sailor on the bow as they headed toward the Bay Bridge, leaving Alameda and the SF Bay.
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For those wondering about what happened to the locomotives in this film, after the war ended they were used for freight and passenger service until they were replaced by diesels and retired in 1956. All 45 of the Manila Railroad 800 class locomotives were scrapped 1956-1990s.
Maring Salamat. Many thanks from the Philippines.
I recall seeing maybe one of those locomotives rusting in a Manila railyard in the 1970s. My father, when WW2 started, was a Merchant Marine sailor whose ship sailed out of Pearl Harbor during a voyage from Manila to Seattle two days before it was bombed. He said the crew painted out the windows and portholes and ran dark for what I am sure was a very long and frightful voyage. When the ship was finally tied up he joined the army cavalry first since he was a horse trainer since childhood. When the horse cavalry was disbanded early in the war he then became a paratrooper assigned to the 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment. He parachuted into Normandy on D-Day with the 82 Airborne and made the last combat jump of the war into Germany with the 17th Airborne Division. He is considered to be both a World War Two Merchant Marine and US Army veteran.
Thank God for men like your dad and mine, who all put their lives on the back burner to serve our country. My pop was on the Hannibal Victory for this very voyage. I found him in the film, talking with a sailor on the bow as they headed toward the Bay Bridge, leaving Alameda and the SF Bay.
My Dad went in to Lingayen in January '45 - 25th Inf Div.
I love this movie, and have wondered who was the Chief Mate and his wife and what became of them?
I always wondered how Maxi the bosun made out after the war
Thanks!
Hell of a lot of work from some very fine people. Where did society take the wrong turn
I'd like to know what became of those engines (Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, Hannibella, and the other five).
all were scrapped sadly
Sailed on her to Viet Nam in '66-'67 as an AB.
59:18 Jones Bridge?