Barbra Streisand stars in this big-budget film adaptation of the stage musical sensation. 

The film opens with Dolly in New York City, which was a massive set built on the 20th Century Fox lot in Century City. 

As the musical number transitions from the interior station set to platform, we are transported to the 1850 Poughkeepsie Railroad Station. Pennsylvania RR #1223 and passenger coaches were borrowed from the Strasburg Railroad in PA and repainted for filming. 

We are then treated to some spectacular traveling shots of the train as it passes along the actual former New York Central & Hudson River RR line. Today this locomotive is retired and on static display at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania in Altoona. 

As Dolly arrives in "Yonkers" we are actually at the old depot in Garrison, NY (which was embellished considerably by the film crew with the addition of the brick cupolas). Vandergelder's shop is located just to the west right on the Hudson (35 Garrison's Landing). 

The musical number terminates at the station platform, and we get a shot of the train arriving from the Upper Station Road bridge to the north. 

The unique side-loading 1896 open-air Coach Car #68 is still in use today at Strasburg and has been renamed "Hello Dolly." Also seen in the film: Coach #20 ("William M. Moedinger"), Coach #59 ("Grasshopper Level") and Combine #60 ("Donald E.L. Hallock"). These are all beautifully restored and still in use at Strasburg.

The helicopter shot of the train pulling away showcases Garrison's Landing with the train station set. 

Most of the remainder of the film takes place on sets in Los Angeles. If you look closely in the parade scene you can catch a glimpse of a former Hawaiian sugar plantation locomotive which was used to recreate the New York Elevated Railway. 

As the film comes to a conclusion back in "Yonkers," we are back at Garrison, NY. For the final scene, a fake chapel was constructed at Trophy Point on the West Point Military Academy campus on the opposite side of the Hudson River.