This early Martin Scorcese film stars Barbara Hershey & David Carradine as a young couple who turn to a life of crime during the Great Depression. Scenes were filmed in rural Arkansas and utilized the Reader Railroad. Sadly, this tourist railroad shut down in the 1990s and the trackage is mostly overgrown. In recent years some of the equipment has been trucked to other states for continued use in motion pictures. 

After Bertha's first rail-riding experience, we see a steam train underway led by Reader Railroad #1702. The only engine from the film still operable, she now runs at the Great Smoky Mountains Railroad in NC. 

In a later scene where railroad men crack down on the hobos in a railyard, we see Bertha hiding in front of Reader RR #11. Today this engine is on display in Riney B Park in Nicholasville, KY. 

Reader RR #108 features heavily later as the newly-formed group of bandits push their car onto the tracks in order to hijack the oncoming train. After operating on the Conway Scenic RR in NH it has since been stored in Sulphur Springs, TX. 

They dump the train at the old Reader depot. 

In a bloody confrontation with the railroad villain played by John Carradine (David's real-life father), Bertha leaps from Reader RR #108 and makes a well-timed escape by dashing in front of passing Reader RR #1702.