He co-starred in a 19-episode NBC comedy/ drama It's a Man's World (1962–63 season) as 14-year-old Howie Macauley. He also guest-starred that first year (1960) in Wagon Train as the son of title character played by Leslie Nielsen in the episode "The Jeremy Dow Story". Career Actor īurns was discovered by Lee Wallace, the head of casting for 20th Century Fox, who arranged Burns' debut on the 1960 episode, "A Taste of Lobster" of The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis Burns played a shrewd 13-year-old businessman, Chrissie Tyler, who owned a babysitting agency. In 1977, he entered Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, from which he received his PhD in modern European history. He then obtained his Master of Arts in European history at the same institution. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude in 1976 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in history. He attended for a year at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, before he transferred to the University of California, Los Angeles, which he attended mostly after hours while still working as an actor during many days, and residing in Redondo Beach. In 1956, the family relocated to Beverly Hills, California, where he attended Beverly Hills High School. Michael Thornton Burns was born in Mineola, New York, on Long Island, a village in Nassau County to director and producer Frank Xavier Burns (best known for the early television series, Martin Kane, Private Eye) and Mary Lou DeWeese.
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Michael Thornton Burns (born December 30, 1947) is an American professor emeritus of history at Mount Holyoke College, and a published author and former television and film teen actor, most known for the television series Wagon Train.
There are virtually no remains of the railroads today other than abandoned railroad grades and a few spikes that are eroded out of the old grades from time to time.Barbara Stanwyck, Michael Burns, and Colleen Dewhurst in The Big Valley episode "A Day of Terror" (1966) The line was abandoned sometime afterward. The railroad was chartered by the State Corporation Commission of Virginia in 1891 as the Marion and Rye Valley Railroad, reorganized in 1900 as the "Marion and Rye Valley Railway Company", and disbanded in 1931 and sold to the Marion Brick Company. Motive power for the railroad was provided by Shay-type locomotives, an Alco consolidation, a Heisler, and an Edwards Motorcar. The railroad featured four switchbacks between Currin Valley, south of Marion, and Teas, just west of Sugar Grove, and another set of switchbacks between Sugar Grove and Troutdale at the top of Iron Mountain. The main line followed future Highway 16 S from Marion, Va for several miles until turning right onto Currin Valley road. Both were initially owned separately, but eventually fell under the same management and ownership. The two railroads combined formed a line operating some 27 or so miles. There was also a branch from the wye track at Sugar Grove that went eastward toward Camp, Virginia. The Marion and Rye Valley Railway was a standard gauge logging railroad that ran from an intersection with the Norfolk and Western Railway at Marion, Virginia, southward to Sugar Grove, Virginia.Īt Sugar Grove, it intersected with the Virginia Southern Railroad which ran from Sugar Grove, across Iron Mountain, through Troutdale and then westward to Fairwood. Please help improve this article by introducing citations to additional sources.įind sources: "Marion and Rye Valley Railway" – news Ĥ ft 8 + 1⁄ 2 in ( 1,435 mm) standard gauge Relevant discussion may be found on the talk page. This article relies largely or entirely on a single source.
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