Imagine a contemporary âlight-rail electric systemâ such as Metro-Link in St. Louis, but 90 years ago, leaving the heart of downtown St. Joseph on an hourly schedule from 5:30 a.m. to 11:30 p. m. daily. The fare was $1.55 for the St. Joseph - Kansas City run, which took two hours, from downtown to downtown. The average speed for the entire line was 37 MPH, but that included the slow pace the electric cars ran when under the lower voltage of the city streetcar systems.
Courtesy of Food Network. Chopped: Grill Masters was filmed in Arizona, to give it more Western feel to it - it was also probably decided so that grills and smokers wouldn't smoke up the Chopped studios in New York, but that's neither here nor there.
Bill Owen (who played Compo) made the area his second home. He died in July 1999 and is buried nearby in the village of Upperthong. Many of the canal scenes in Last of the Summer Wine were filmed at Slaithwaite, which is frequently used as a location in ITV's 'Where the Heart Is'.Slaithwaite features in the canal section of this web site.Bamforths produced their saucy seaside postcards of nagging (buxom) wives and their (scrawny) hen pecked husbands at Holmfirth. Bamforths were also producers of 'Magic Lantern' slide shows and silent films.t's 'easy watching' TV, in the same mould as Heartbeat, Monarch Of The Glen, Where the Heart is and Ballykissangel. Downham's village pub, the Assheton Arms features in the programme as The Signalman's Arms. Damens railway station (Britain's smallest) is 20 miles from Downham and is seen as Ormston in the TV series.