Trains in movies

Lee Marvin and Ernest Borgnine spent 36 days filming a fight on top of this train https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jn-ZS7g8xs

There is a chainsaw fight and someone tries to run over someone's head with a train in this movie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Rf_vulEuSw

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Unstoppable (2010), loosely based on the CSX 8888 incident, stars fictional AWVR AC4400CW #777 and #767 coupled together as a runaway train. Both having two locomotives, it makes a train with a total of 4 locomotives. The chasing train, AWVR 1206, is initially also equipped in two locomotives, but only one is used in the chase.

Both locomotives from chasing train are EMD SD40-2 and owned by Wheeling and Lake Erie. While the chasing locomotive have been repainted to W&LE colors, the other one still bears fictional AWVR livery.

Chased train is equipped in four GE AC4400CW owned by Canadian Pacific and bearing numbers 9751, 9758, 9777, and 9782. They have been repainted back to CP livery, but all (with exception of 9777) still have AWVR safety strips on the snow plow.

Movies I can think of straight up

Murder on the Orient express
Under siege 2
Snow piercer
The great train robbery

>>1031234
Source code is on a train the whole time. It's a boring commuter train though

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The locomotive used as "AM ROAD"'s 4070, was actually CP Rail's (formerly Canadian Pacific) 4070. For the filming, the AM ROAD decal was placed over the CP markings and "Multimark" pac-man logo. At the end on the shoot, the decals actually damaged the engines real paint job. The production company had to pay for the repainting of the engine, which took place in the CP Rail Transcona shops in Winnipeg Manitoba. The locomotive is a FP7A built by GMD in 1952. In 1982, CP sold it to STCUM, where it was re-numbered to 1300 in 1983. As of 2002, she is now sitting in "non-operational" storage in Montreal.

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Runaway Train from 1987. Alaska Railroad

>>1031348
That movie is sofa king awesome. I love how everything is shitty and gross and everyones a sleazy piece of shit.

>>1031348
>>1031386
http://www.alaskarails.org/sf/film/runaway-train/

>It was on Oct. 26, 1962 Gerace, then a young machinist employed by the New York Central Railroad in East Syracuse, was doing some work on a new EMD GP-20 which was coupled to three other identical units at the fueling station, near the old DeWitt diesel house. The engines had just been fueled and were scheduled to go out on NC-1, a westbound fast freight.

>At the time, Gerace was on the second unit filling out a work car, and an engine hostler , Bob Cox was making a brake test when something went wrong. Cox either jumped or fell off the locomotive while the throttle was engaged in the eighth notch - wide open. This was about midnight.

>A peculiarity with these locomotives was if the throttle was engaged, the engine would rev up power and eventually start to move, even if the brakes were on. The usual way to stop this was to shove the throttle ahead and then reverse it to shut it down.

>The brakes were on, but they did not hold, and the locomotives started to move. Gerace said he thought the engineer was on the lead unit and the engines started to move. But he then lost sight of him and the locomotives started to move down through the yard.

>Peter Walters, a road foreman of engines at DeWitt, was just getting out of his car when he saw the locomotives go by at about 25 miles per hour, with the brakes on and fire flying all around the wheels.

>Walters called the engine house to find out if they were grinding the wheels on these units, as was sometimes done in this manner. He was told they were not, and suddenly someone reported that NC-1's engines were gone. Gerace said he expected the engines would derail at any moment due to the rough track in the yards. But he remained on board because he didn1t want to risk trying to get off if they derailed.

>>1031919
>As fate would have it, the switches were properly aligned so that the engines eventually got out on to the main tracks and headed down the old passenger main through Syracuse which had recently been taken out of service. An unsuccessful attempt was made to try and catch them with a yard engine, but by the time the reached the "throat," or west end, the engines were going 35 miles per hour on track 1.

>The train dispatcher on duty at that time was Sam Giglia, and when he was advised of the situation, began clearing track 1 of trains as fast as he could. Meanwhile, the interconnected locomotives were picking up speed and were soon going passenger train speed, or better.

>The locomotives of BF-3, a westbound fast freight, were cut off on a siding at Newark, and were prepared to give chase once the runaways went by. But by the time they got to Newark, they were traveling at 75 miles per hour.

>Meanwhile, an engine was posted on track 2 in Brighton, hoping to cross over behind them and catch them. A passenger train was tucked away at the station in Rochester. Its locomotives were also poised to give chase.

>Officials decided to deliberately ditch the engines off on the siding at Chili, west of Rochester, if necessary, as it was considered unsafe to try to let them go into Buffalo at the speed they were going. This in spite of the fact that officials were fairly certain there was a man aboard the second unit. The runaway flew by Clyde, Lyons, Newark, Palmyra and Wayneport. Meanwhile, Gerace was doing his best to stop it. Unlike the earlier so-called "covered wagon" designed locomotives, one had to go outside along a precarious walkway, protected only by handrails. "The wind
was really blowing," Gerace recalled, as he raced from one unit to another pulling cables and shutting off switches.

>>1031920
>Gerace first thought there was someone in the lead unit, and was only after they left DeWitt yards he realized he was the only one aboard. The engines continued to accelerate, and when he saw that they were going more than 100 miles per hour, he said he prayers, and crouched down in the nose of the engine.

>A short time later he decided since he was a goner anyway he decided to try do something, ad at least try to stop the engines. He opened the cab door and climbed along the running boards of to the rear of the unit he was on, reached down and disconnected the large jumper cable between the second and the two following locomotives. By that time the runaway is said to have been
traveling more than 100 miles per hour and the centralized traffic control center, then in the Rochester station, lit up like a Christmas tree.

>The jumper cable itself contained a series of 27 wires which were plugged into a socket and locked in place by a cap. After he disconnected the cable, "I could feel the engines slowing down," he said. The speed dropped back substantially. He then went back into the cab and saw that the speed had dropped back to 60 miles per hour. So he got his courage up, and went back out and climbed over to the lead unit, went inside, threw all the switches he could find, until finally one of them killed the motors on the lead unit.

The units coasted for a long distance, finally coming to a stop, rolling backwards a few feet. By this time the brakes were burned up and were useless, and Gerace recalled he put some ballast on the track to halt the engines from coasting..

>>1031921
Last one
>When it was fairly certain that the units had stopped, they were on track 1. A locomotive came east from Rochester and cautiously down track 2 when Gerace saw the lights of an approaching engine. He nervously got out three or four fusees, ripped the caps off, but threw them away before he realized he needed them to ignite the fusees. When the engine arrived on the scene, he was scrambling on the ground looking for the caps to the fusees.

>Speed tapes on the engines only record as high as 92 miles per hour, but as an indication of the actual speed they attained, they covered the 4.6 miles between Lyons and Newark in two minutes flat, which equals 121.8 miles per hour. Brake shoes were worn down paper thin, and were laced with fine cracks, and were red colored, indicating the intense heat they had undergone.

So this guy was enough of a moron to try to rip out MU cables instead of isolating the engines and then turning them off?

Also a big enough idiot that he didn't know you needed to strike the fusee it.

He really deserved to die.