Subject: Re: The Train Cars
From: larryy@Apple.COM (Larry Yaeger)
Date: 1991-09-09, 23:36
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

As of a couple of months ago, the train cars were definitely still there.
Jeff, you can stop doubting your sanity.  Your description jibes pretty
exactly with my recollection and my home video.  I've looked at both my
video and the shot from the show, and am pretty damned certain that those
are the cars.  And, like I mentioned in my fairly detailed posting on
Twin Peaks sites a couple of weeks ago, you can even spot the little
outhouse that was by those cars in the footage from the show.

Things are happening in that area, however, as there were no cars blocking
the view of the murder cars when I visited.

I don't know the area all that well or anything, but I'm sure you have to
enter from the Salish side of the fenced-in train cars (as opposed to the
town center side).  And walking toward that Salish side, if you just follow
the path alongside the fenced-in cars and the main road, you will come to
a small wooden footpath/bridge which must be crossed, and not long after
that the tracks turn into the woods.  That's the place.  It is a ways in
(I guesstimated 1/4 mile), past a number of other cars and engines.  I think
the murder cars are the first ones to show up on your right (and elevated,
as you observed, Jeff) as you are proceeding further into the woods.

I *think* this is path "a" on somebody's map (as opposed to "b") - the first
of the two on the Salish side of the fenced-in cars.  At least I don't recall
walking past any other tracks heading into the woods.  HMMMM... Wait a minute!
I was walking on the main-road side of the fenced-in cars.  There may have
been a set of tracks that turned into the woods about midway along the
fenced-in cars on the residential side of the fenced-in cars (I seem to
recall such a set of tracks from a short drive down that side of the fenced
area)... that would be the wrong set of tracks.  It's only the "first" set
of tracks *after* the fenced area and the wooden footpath/bridge.

Whew.  This is tough to do without a consistent set of maps.  But I hope that
helps.
-- -larryy@apple.com "You wouldn't recognize a *subtle plan* if it painted itself purple, and danced naked upon a harpsichord, singing, 'Subtle Plans are Here Again'." - Edmund Blackadder