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V&T steam engine to star in movie

June 8, 2010 - 11:00 pm
 

RENO -- A historic locomotive is hitting the rails again this summer during production for a new movie.

The steam locomotive No. 18 is owned by the Nevada Commission for the Reconstruction of the V&T Railway.

The engine was transported to Southern California, where it will be filmed in an upcoming movie starring Reese Witherspoon.

The film, "Water for Elephants," is about a circus train that tours the country.

A spokesman for the movie project said the Baldwin, 1914, locomotive was trucked to the movie set location with one of the engineers who takes care of it.

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