Randy said "Just liek the general public never saw the modern double stack pass over a 1950's scene in Ray. " Right on. I spotted it right off when I saw the movie. Haven't found anyone else who saw it though.
One of my favourite things is spotting the goofs in movies--something out of era, sudden wardrobe changes, a staffer in the frame, a microphone in the frame, etc. My wife thinks I'm weird to enjoy this (she knew I was weird when she married me 45 years ago--she had her chance then) but for me it adds to my enjoyment and I do get immersed in the fantasy of the movie too.
I used to know a fellow who was a ham radio operator and who used to be a radio operator in the merchant marine. He was extremely proficent in CW operation (Morse code). When he watched a war movie he would read the Morse code to see if they were transmitting a real message or just some random letters. He enjoyed doing this, but he enjoyed the movie too.
I'm looking forward to when Unstoppable comes out.
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danmerkel pike-62: IVRW: Tell me what you think? I think its going to be the most awesome movie ever! ...I will go to see it mostly because a lot of the rail scenes were filmed quite litteraly in my back yard. Many of the scenes in the trailer looked familiar... You must be from Bellaire. I grew up in Tiltonsville but now live in Findlay, Ohio. The original runaway almost went through my back yard... dlm
pike-62: IVRW: Tell me what you think? I think its going to be the most awesome movie ever! ...I will go to see it mostly because a lot of the rail scenes were filmed quite litteraly in my back yard. Many of the scenes in the trailer looked familiar...
IVRW: Tell me what you think? I think its going to be the most awesome movie ever!
Tell me what you think? I think its going to be the most awesome movie ever!
...I will go to see it mostly because a lot of the rail scenes were filmed quite litteraly in my back yard. Many of the scenes in the trailer looked familiar...
You must be from Bellaire. I grew up in Tiltonsville but now live in Findlay, Ohio. The original runaway almost went through my back yard...
dlm
Actually I live in Allegany about 1/2 mile from the yard where the trains were stored overnight durring the filming in this area. A lot of the filming was done in the Olean Area for a couple of days. As a note of interest, I rattled a golf ball off of one of the freight cars in the yard one night (I have a tendency to push my irons to the right). Anyway. One of the security guards assigned to watch the trains in the yard was searching high and low for the source of the noise. I just took the stroke and dropped another ball.
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Seamonster One of my favourite things is spotting the goofs in movies--something out of era, sudden wardrobe changes, a staffer in the frame, a microphone in the frame, etc. My wife thinks I'm weird to enjoy this (she knew I was weird when she married me 45 years ago--she had her chance then) but for me it adds to my enjoyment and I do get immersed in the fantasy of the movie too.
That was one of the reasons I used to love to watch movies and tv shows with my dad. He used to love how:
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I used to be a submarine officer. I can do the same thing with Hunt for Red October or Crimson Tide, but I still like both movies.
If the pacing, screenplay, and acting are good, you can overlook a lot of flaws in the realism and still suspend disbelief. If you're watching a lousy movie, blowing apart the technical accuracy is a lot of fun. Remember a little TV show called Mystery Science Theater 2000?
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rrinker The old thread linked a few messages back had a link to the actual story. CLiff Notes: Engineer goofed, thought he had the throttle in the correct position, dismounted the loco to throw the switch ahead, unfortunately he had the throttle in run 7 not dynamic and by the time he realized it the loco was moving too fast for him to climb back on. Sure this wouldn;t have happened with an additional crewmember, but neither woudl it have happened if the engineer hadn't dismounted a moving loco, which surely has to be against the rules no matter how often it was done anyway as a timesaver. Short cut the rules and it WILL bite you in the butt sometime. --Randy
The old thread linked a few messages back had a link to the actual story.
CLiff Notes: Engineer goofed, thought he had the throttle in the correct position, dismounted the loco to throw the switch ahead, unfortunately he had the throttle in run 7 not dynamic and by the time he realized it the loco was moving too fast for him to climb back on.
Sure this wouldn;t have happened with an additional crewmember, but neither woudl it have happened if the engineer hadn't dismounted a moving loco, which surely has to be against the rules no matter how often it was done anyway as a timesaver. Short cut the rules and it WILL bite you in the butt sometime.
--Randy
Ah, hence why GCOR 4 has a rule stating no person shall leave the engine unmanned without locking the cab and setting the handbrake."
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Flashwave Ah, hence why GCOR 4 has a rule stating no person shall leave the engine unmanned without locking the cab and setting the handbrake."
Hence my statement in an earlier post that the railfan sight, which showed a picture of the locomotive under the caption "The Culprit" was wrong. It should have had a picture of the engineer instead.
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