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I can think of some other examples, too. I have seen westerns set in the Civil War with trains that have knuckle couplers. I can also remember the movie "Ollie Hopnoodle's Haven of Bliss", a rather dumb comedy about a family going on a vacation in the 1950's. There was a scene with the characters waiting at a very modern looking railroad crossing for a train that had a bright green Burlington Northern extended-vision caboose on the end! Sometimes, though, there are certain factors that are beyond the filmmakers' control. In the movie "Silver Streak", the train used is a CP Rail passenger train with decals for "Amroad" put over the logos. Some people might scoff at this, but the production company in charge of the movie approached Amtrak initially, but they refused to let them film on one of their trains. The movie is actually very good as far as technical accuracy goes, though. 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?
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