CARTA will be one of the unlikely stars of the upcoming movie "42" that will be partially filmed in Chattanooga at Engel Stadium.
CARTA officials said they will provide bus service for several days to cart some 900 "extras" from the parking lot at Finley Stadium to Engel Stadium.
Filming on the movie starring Harrison Ford is set to start Monday. A host of tents, production vehicles and concessions trucks have rolled onto the old Engel Stadium parking lot on Oneal Street.
The public will not be allowed at the filming site.
The local extras will be part of crowd scenes at the venerable old stadium that is being altered by the production crew to appear to be the old Ebbetts Field in Brooklyn, where Jackie Robinson played. The movie is about the career of Robinson, who broke baseball's color barrier when he came up with the Dodgers.
CARTA officials said they have not been advised when Ford and other stars will be at the local stadium.
Tom Dugan, CARTA executive director, joked that one of his crew members had volunteered to be one of the "fans" after she "saw who was playing Jackie Robinson."
The production crew has erected tall fences all around the stadium.
Officials said the alterations to the stadium will be removed after the filming is over, and Engel Stadium will be returned to its historical look and dimensions.
A number of improvements to the stadium will be left behind, however, to hopefully give it new life far into the future.