Roseburg train a former film star? | The News-Review - NRtoday.com: "A silent train is charging along the tracks, full speed ahead. Just before it collides with the camera, the train halts and it's revealed that a thin, handsome man wearing suit, tie and hat is sitting on the front the engine. The view widens as the man, silent film star Buster Keaton, gets up and walks along the front platform of the locomotive and lights a cigarette before hopping off and walking away.
At this point in the black and white film, which debuted in 1921 and was called ‘The Goat,’ the number plate — 1229 — on the very front of the train engine is clearly visible.
Roseburg's Stewart Park train, a 1914 class S-11 switch engine, on which generations of kids have played since Southern Pacific donated it the city in 1958, has the same engine number.
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