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actually, they aren't "real" SD40-2's.
Set crew did a real good job with the props.
Uh, No. I've seen Frame-by-frame footage
The bogies are totally fried and burned up. They screwed over two SD40s
hoborailcat
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Well, Truemac is right. I've seen footage of the locos being built. They are just well built steel shells. Since all of the actual railroad equipment was leased, they couldn't wreck any of it.
Gee I can't wait, more of Hollywood's B.S. interpretation of how a real railroad operates, I can't wait, lol.
cascaderailroad
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I loved Atomic Train, with the welded handrail on the side of the boxcar, where he clung to the side. And the roortop walkway pannels, so the actors wouldn't fall of the moving train. lol
I also love how the dippy female reporter about runaway 8888 said: "The police even tried to shoot out the "gas tank" to drain out the fuel.
One TV reporter of a fire in Conshohocken Pa said: "The fire and heavy black smoke is comming from an Exhaust Factory (company that makes automobile mufflers, hence exhaust pipes) but we have no idear of exactly what type of toxic exhaust is being emitted". (I thin she whent ta Kahllage fer her dagree)
I also love how the dippy female reporter about runaway 8888 said: "The police even tried to shoot out the "gas tank" to drain out the fuel.
One TV reporter of a fire in Conshohocken Pa said: "The fire and heavy black smoke is comming from an Exhaust Factory (company that makes automobile mufflers, hence exhaust pipes) but we have no idear of exactly what type of toxic exhaust is being emitted". (I thin she whent ta Kahllage fer her dagree)
you don't understand. Those SD40-2's were props built from the ground up for that shot. They look EXTREMELY realistic, but that's the point isn't it?
Hollywood = Reality :hehe: This only proves that anything you see in the movies is BS. This goes for the Main stream media as well.
This movie has an sinister side effect of stirring up trouble for Real Rail Roads as it will inflame the emotions of nitwits nimbies of Purificationist persuasion to block railroad improvements and new routes.
This movie has an sinister side effect of stirring up trouble for Real Rail Roads as it will inflame the emotions of nitwits nimbies of Purificationist persuasion to block railroad improvements and new routes.With a really large Mass Coronal Ejection (and good old Sol is capable of it) nothing other then very hard protected military electronics would work. This means no TV, radio, telephone, internet, all autos with fuel injection, power plants, etc. Anything computer controlled would be fried. Exactly the same as the electromagnetic pulse associated with nukes. Kiss modern civilization goodbye.
Worse = NO TRAINZ!!!:'(
Ben
Worse = NO TRAINZ!!!:'(
Ben
tommylee3010
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:udrool: :udrool: :udrool: My HART IS STILL POUNDING AFTER THAT, ME HAZ TO SEEZ! 
It is better then the other one, I actualy did that kind of Idea in Trainz, just as cool! 
Like that movie 4449 stared in and at the end they had her wreck. I was two when I saw that, and I honestly cried becouse the 4449 was my favorite engine and I thought they just completly killed it. That was one amazing wooden model of it.
The only movies that ever realy wrecked authentic stuff were the old ones. Now adays they can just CGI or, in the case of this, build perfect replicas.
gaugetamper
Sounds, Routes, Historian
No matter what details they messed up, and fake or real engines, At-least they Tried to film it better.... Then Again, No one's Seen it Yet, So they have No room to Criticize. Yet.
Interesting. Another Train movie with Denzel Washington.
This won't be as bad as Atomic train, no unhooked glad hands here. Its based of of the "Crazy Eights" incident in 2001. So unlike any other Hollywood railroad runaway movie, this one is based on a real event! Which already makes the movie sound pretty good, even if its just based on the circumstances leading up to the runaway
Interesting enough, crazy eights (CSX SD40-2 8888) has had several derailments as well. Sounds like a jinxed locomotive to me. If any locomotive deserves a place in a museum, its Crazy Eights. A rather infamous locomotive
and who cares if they wrecked an SD40 or two, there are plenty more where those came from, and several already in museums (D&RGW 5371 and 5401 for example)
This won't be as bad as Atomic train, no unhooked glad hands here. Its based of of the "Crazy Eights" incident in 2001. So unlike any other Hollywood railroad runaway movie, this one is based on a real event! Which already makes the movie sound pretty good, even if its just based on the circumstances leading up to the runaway
Interesting enough, crazy eights (CSX SD40-2 8888) has had several derailments as well. Sounds like a jinxed locomotive to me. If any locomotive deserves a place in a museum, its Crazy Eights. A rather infamous locomotive
and who cares if they wrecked an SD40 or two, there are plenty more where those came from, and several already in museums (D&RGW 5371 and 5401 for example)
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magickmaker
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It would be interesting to see 8888 in a museum. If only because of the hilarious backstory to it. One hopes that CSX sees it that way some day.
legolistic
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I know CP has the AC4400CWs but who owns the SD40-2s?
kittycraft
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gaugetamper
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I can see it Now... B&O Railroad Museum Roof caves In, Again, But ONLY On top of 8888...On second thought though, her bad luck may befall on the museum
magickmaker
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Klinger's museum gets her, only to have her derail every time they try to move the locomotive. She also suffers from strange gremlins which cause her to randomly roll off the plinth track they place her on temporarily for repairs. This is strange in that she rolls up hill to do so...
