"Ray" the movie - 1950s Double Stack Intermodal?

[twhite]

Well, they've been doing it for years. Watched an old Errol Flynn movie recently, can't remember the title (it was THAT kind of film) he played a Canadian Mountie travelling into the Northwest Territory wilderness to track down a Nazi spy. Takes the train in one scene, during a blizzard. The train? Pulled by an SP AC-5 or 6 cab-forward. Hey, CN, where'd you get ahold of THAT one?
Tom

[johncolley]

And what was the old puffer and coaches in "Cider House Rules"?

[willy6]

how about the train in "The Battle Of the Bulge" a european loco doing "what looked like 90+ miles an hour" on mountain curved track.

[Anonymous]

[:(!]And what about those rio grande SD39's? I mean DRG&W only owned SD40T-2's and 45's and wouldnt it be funny if they used an SP tunnel motor with the SP lights and painted it as a rio grande and then ran the train with the lights on?that would be so funny[:D]!!!

[twhite]

And then the aforementioned "Atomic Train" that was running wild toward Denver, but was obviously on some trackage in British Columbia (Hey, fellas, the mountains are DIFFERENT!) and since it was heading downhill to Denver, I would assume it was on the Moffat Line, and since when did the Moffat Line develop a 'Summit' between Moffat Tunnel and Plainview? But then, there's always a nifty little western from the 1950's called "Denver and Rio Grande" about the fight between the Rio Grande and the Santa Fe (Canon City & San Juan) for control of the Royal Gorge. Funny thing, though, the Royal Gorge turned out to be the Animas Canyon on the Silverton branch. But hey, those little narrow-guage trains in the Rio Grande 'Bumblebee' paint schemes were cute as the devil. Too bad they had to head-on collide two actual trains instead of using models, though.
Tom

[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

[Bergie]

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

I saw it last Friday night and noticed the same thing. It's funny to see something like that happen when everything else is so "period perfect" (or so I think... maybe a soda machine fanatic noticed an out of place Coke machine).

Other than that, yes, it is an excellent movie.

Bergie

[Anonymous]

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

It was a gutted and modified N&W GP30 shell so thats why it had no traction motors![:D]

[mustanggt]

ever see that movie with leslie neilsen called "wrongfully acused"? In it there was a part with the classic bus getting hit by train scene from the fugitive. they used a U-boat with a mars light thing on the front. anyone ever see that movie? pretty funny if you ask me[:p]

and then theres fast and the furious where they have a race and they almost hit a southern pacific sd something. that was innacurate, because they went kaput in the 90's and the movie takes place in the 2000's

[OldArmy94]

Yeah, it's funny how seeing something like that will jolt you into reality. I'm not faulting the movie co. too much--heck, it's very difficult to be an expert on EVERYTHING that comes across in a movie scene.

[jockellis]

We should be glad Hollywood uses railroads period! But to add my two cents worth, in Biloxi Blues, the army recruits rode Lackawanna coaches all the way to mississippi. At least it was behind steam. If I ran a shortline railroad, the first thing I'd line up is a Hollywood agent who could get my railroad in the movies.
Jock Ellis

[Jetrock]

A made-for-HBO film about Pancho Villa (with Antonio Banderas) set during the 19-teens featured quite a few N de M steel-sided boxcars. Some of the locomotives looked pretty close to appropriate but the steel boxes just threw things off...

of course, in "Old Gringo", with Jimmy Smits and Jane Fonda, there's an amazing private lounge car that I think is wood-sided, at least appropriate to the era!

"Boxcar Bertha", a Depression-era adventure film from the late Sixties (with, I think, David Carradine and, um, Debra Winger?), featured a lot of trains of the "Reader Railroad" that seemed fairly correct, not a bad job considering the film's rather low-budget appearance (I think it was a Roger Corman film.) It also featured quite a bit of discussion about railroad work and operations and early labor-struggle discussion. Interesting stuff.

Hmmm...for you operators who use "situation cards" for oddball occurrences to mess with the schedule...what about a wild-card situation where a length of track is tied up because of a movie being shot, with an appropriately (or not-so-appropriately) anachronistic engine and consist running by, messing with your freight schedule?

[twhite]

Jetrock: I have a movie train. A little Roundhouse 2-8-0 with a Cogdon stack, all dressed up in Rio Grande 'Bumblebee', hauling a cattle, box, combine and caboose. As soon as the scenery's all in, I'll be staging some 'lights, camera ACTION!' stuff in the Yuba River canyon. Should be fun.
Tom