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QUOTE: Originally posted by sparkingbolt ...Then there was the sound of a steam engine doing wee hours switching chores in the background on the original "Rocky" movie, 1977.... And I recall a station wagon rounding a distant hillside curve on Grizly Adams, not noticed by the crew at shooting. Not trains but, you know. And who else caught the fact that in "The Fugitive", the locomotive (with it's lights on)that wrecked and came to rest above Harrison Ford didn't have traction motors? Didja catch that? Still a great scene! Dan
QUOTE: Originally posted by brothaslide There is a scene in the movie Ray which is from the early 1950s. He and his band are driving in a truck under a train bridge while a train is rolling overhead. The only thing is that the train is a modern Double Stack intermodal. The movie was excellent!!! Sean
QUOTE: Originally posted by Sask_Tinplater I Another example simmilar to this is "Runaway Train." The movie takes place in Alaska and was filmed on the Alaska Railroad, but the ARR wouldn't let their name or logo appear anywhere in the film. If you look very closely at some parts of the set, you can see the name "Alaska and Eastern". As far as technical accuracy goes, though, there is very little in this film. The train (a GP40, an F7 and two high-hood GP7's) becomes a runaway because the engineer has a heart attack and tries to stop the train, but the power of the wheels burns the brake shoes off. In one scene, a freight train is pulling into a siding to get out of the way when the runaway comes along and smashes it's caboose just as it's about to make it onto the siding...and keeps on going! If the switch was set for the freight to go onto the siding and against the mainline, wouldn't the runaway train have derailed when it hit it? There are many other things, but I'll stop there. Despite these facts, I actually like this movie. Of course we can point out all the incorrect train scenes there are in movies, but have you ever thought about some of the completely implausible stuff there must be that we don't notice in movies?
QUOTE: Originally posted by drephpe And in that same vein, if you watch the early Spielberg cult movie "1941" (which was a big hit in Europe but never really made it in the States), take a close look during the scene where "Vinegar Joe" Stillwell and entourage pull up on the tarmac for the news conference among all the "new" old warbirds at Long Beach. This is just before Loomis gets the girl in the B-17 and drops the bomb on the apron. Sitting there, pretty as a picture in the background across the field, is a white lease Boeing 727 (top secret war project, probably!)[(-D]
QUOTE: Originally posted by railman QUOTE: Originally posted by Robert Langford kEver noticed the "con trails" from jets in the skys in some of the old western movies? If not, look next time you watch one of AMC. Bob I will be watching the next time I'm watching some of the westerns.
QUOTE: Originally posted by Robert Langford kEver noticed the "con trails" from jets in the skys in some of the old western movies? If not, look next time you watch one of AMC. Bob
QUOTE: Originally posted by twhite Caught "Under Siege 2" Amtrak equipment pulled by old what looked to be Alco diesels.
QUOTE: Originally posted by modelrailroader71 Hollywood does NOT acuratelly portray trains. For example, Train Robbers did NOT ride horse back and then stop the train like you see in some western movies.[:(!] Why doesn't Hollywood care?[V][B)]