I think the sound was metal bending from the train colliding with the cars, but also they might have used the sound effect to make the train seem more menacing.
I guess that's real train, but the last flatbed and caboose are made of materials lighter and weaker, like wood, or the locomotive set will derail, and the movie will over directly.
The lead loco is GP40 ARR 3010, still in service, second the F is ARR 1500, at the alaska transport museum, third GP7 ARR 1810, was sold to Oregon Pacific, and then SFGX in Kansas. It is now mated to a slug This loco also starred in the 1992 steven seagal movie under siege 2 . fourth GP7 ARR 1801 was renumbered 1800 & sold to Missouri central railroad, and later Respondek rail corp of Granite city, Illinois.
The units in this film are ARR GP40-2 3005, ARR F9A 1500 (Now in Arizona on a tourist Train), ARR 1801 (Sold to Missouri Central as 1800, Now Respondek 1800 switching an Ethanol Plant in Sauget, IL) and ARR 1810. These units were renumbered for the film as "300" "500" "810" and "801"
I find it hard to believe that there would not have been a derailment. It seems to me that the locomotives hitting the mass and wieght of the cabooses trucks would knock the engines off the rails.
" Run a way train " One of my all time favorite movies! I like the scene where at the end they run off the end of the line. NO matter what job your have push a mop or be a professional of any sort, take it with dignity. F-1
The runaway train drove through a switch which was open for the side rail without derailing. Try that with any train in real life (or try it with a toy train) and you end up with a derailment. Such acts which defy the laws of physics seem so common in movies with trains that it doesn't surprise me at all.
by the way I am Argentinian but I translate it to English and the first time I saw him I was a little boy of 3 years who could not write train, and now that I watch the video he gave me nostalgia
Hello, the train is hauled by ALCo MRS - 1, this is the military designation. ALCo called them RSX - 4. They built 83 of this units for the US Army. Later a few units were sold to short lines and a few went for service on the Alaska Railroad. They were built in 1953, had a 12 cylinder 244 engine rated at 1600 hp. 50 locos were equipped with steam generators for passenger car heating.
Alaska Railroad owned all the locomotives. Somewhere I heard the GP40-2 still operates up there, and the GP7's at least were active until recently. Dont know if they still are.
I LOVED THIS MOVIE!!! since i saw it on tv a few years ago, i've been wondering what the name was and all, thanks for uploading and providing the name.
This scene from the movie gives me goosebumps and seeing the wreck and damage on the front of the lead locomotive only added to the deathlike nature of the train itself.
I forgot to add, the MRS 1 is Alaska Railroad 1606, Formerly US Army B-2059. The railroad shows the unit being retired in 1984, two years before the film was released. Sadly, 1606 has been reported as SCRAPPED, 1810 is now working at a Grain Elevator
I noticed that this is a work train going onto the siding but just before they crash it switches to the model trains and its all tank cars except the caboose and a flatcar just in front of it any one else see that ??
And it looks like a couple tank cars have type K air brake equipment underneath, which, considering NOTHING (Outside of a museum) would use that system in 1984, also kind of gives it away. Couple of those tanks look a bit like they started with Lionel tank cars (Some had type K brake rigging under the frame) and added some details. There is a double dome tank (At 1:00-1:01) that looks very much like a common Lionel tank. Down to the type K cylinder underneath.
I remember when that was shot in Alaska....on the Alaska Railroad....I use to ride on the #1602 MRS-1 when I was young.....long live the old diesels...only living in memories
Dynamic brake blisters don't always distinguish the difference between GP-7 and GP-9s, unless you refer to Lionel Geeps. (They also seem to call a chop nose GP-7 a GP-20!). Only a few GP-7s had dynamics, though. Most GP-9s did have them. Two units on the runaway are GP-9s, unit on the freight is an ALCO of some sort.
I love how the "Runaway train" (extremely unlikely these days) is completely fine as it smashes through a good 4 or 5 train cars, but the ones that were hit completely f*cking disintegrated. Also unlikely was that the "crawling" train wasn't yanked back by the sheer force of the train smashing into it's tail, seeing that a train is rather like a piece of string. Hollywood magic at its best!
@phillyslasher An interesting note on the GP7's, According to an ARR employee during filming he walked around a building near the engine facility and wondered where the "old locomotives" came from and then realized that the two chopped nose geeps had been restored to the way EMD had intended with a "Hollywood" nose job. If you watch some of the scenes closely you can pick up a bit of wobble in the movie high hoods.
ФИЛЬМ АНДРЕЯ КОНЧАЛОВСКОГО "ПОЕЗД БЕГЛЕЦ" ("СБЕЖАВШИЙ ПОЕЗД"), 1985 ГОД, США. ФИЛЬМ О ПРОТИВОСТОЯНИЙ ХАРАКТЕРОВ СБЕЖАВШЕГО ПРЕСТУПНИКА - РЕЦЕДИВИСТА ПО ИМЕНИ МЕНИ, И НАЧАЛЬНИКА ТЮРЬМЫ ПЫТАЮЩЕГОСЯ ЕГО ВЕРНУТЬ ОБРАТНО. КЛЮЧЕВАЯ ФРАЗА (ЦИТАТА) ФИЛЬМА: "И ДАЖЕ У САМОГО ЛЮТОГО ЗВЕРЯ ЕСТЬ ЧУВСТВО СОСТРАДАНИЯ К СВОЕЙ ЖЕРТВЕ. У МЕНЯ ЖЕ НЕТ. А ЗНАЧИТ Я НЕ ЗВЕРЬ."
I seriously doubt that the run away locomotives would have stayed on the track, and that incompetent bastard is a highly trained locomotive engineer who is governed by certain rules that may not have let him go any faster than what he was going while entering the siding not to mention it looked like he had a fairly good sized train he was pulling with one engine, and I cant remember in the movie if they told him there was a run away headed for him or not, so he was just operating by the rules. All in all still a pretty good movie.
I seen this when I was in middle school i think maybe younger, but i have been trying to find this movie for years! Me and my son (especially my son) would love it!
This is my favorite part of the movie. One thing they did mess up on is at about 1:11 & half is that you see the caboose like already gone into the sideing. and at 1:13 during the impact the freight isn't even moveing. but like I said THIS IS MY FAVORITE PART, I don't mean anything bad about the movie.
Those are GP7's. (well two GP7's, a GP40, and a F7). One of the GP7's was also used in the movie "Under Siege, Dark Territory". From Wikipedia (It's also on other sites) Units used- Alaska Railroads EMD GP7s, 1801 and 1810. During their Alaska Railroad service the GP7s had had their short hoods chopped but for the film were fitted with mock-up high-noses.
Neither of the lead locomotives here is a GP-9, but the third and fourth ones in the "runaway train" are GP-7(s), which were produced shortly before and are very similar to a GP-9.
The train pulling into the passing siding is not headed by a GP-9 at all. Appears to be an ALCO unit, similar to some made for export decades ago (Though I believe some were in service when the movie was filmed). On the other hand, the four-unit lashup that is the runaway does have a pair of GP-9s in it. Lead unit is a newer (For the time) EMD 4-axle design, looks almost to be a GP-40. Second unit is an F-7, followed by two GP-9s.
Just for something to do, I managed to track (sorry) down each of the 4runaway locomotives used in this film. They all still exist, and I have modern pictures of them. not bad since the film was made in 1985, and they were old then!!
I think there should be a feature on trains so that if the breaks do fall off, it could blow the wheels off to stop the train to stop it in an extreme emergency like this.
@fairportfan2 - The closure rails in a turnout do not need to be flexible - if the tie bar is spring loaded, as in a "trailable facing point" turnout, it will allow a train to run through in the trailing direction.
1 part I didn't understand was when the runaway was on track 1 fastly approaching the switch that was switched onto track 2 for the other train traveling the opposite direction to let the runaway pass by, the runaway didn't derail while going over the switch that was still lined up to track 2.
True, I believe they used 7 1/2" for "Speed" when the subway crashed. While that wreck didn't look as life like and right as this and a few others, it was convincing for the movie. Also now that I look at it closer, the debris falling and hitting the locomotives is bouncing off them like plastic or foam. If it was real debris I don't think they would move away like they do in this scene.
1605 on Eastbound 12 is an Alco MRS, along with the second unit behind it. Ex-Army units I might add. Eastbound 12 here is based off of New York Central train BF-3. Read more about BF-3 and the real events that inspired this movie here. books.google.com/books?id=pkwEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA1&pg=PA79#v=onepage&q&f=false
OMG, I see what you Mean! The Caboose Rips around the S-curve real Fast, and then it moves back a Little Bit, and Gets Nailed by the Lead Geep... Right at 1:10!
no way, acting is great, awesome movie, saw it in 1986. you should've continued it on when dude says 'maybe the we forgot to switch or something' 'are you stupid! we just blew the caboose to hell!'
Good question, much depends on reliability, spares supply, and of course how well they were made in the first place!! Some locos like these, and the British class 37 and 47 locos can last for 50-60 years, while others seem to fade away quite quickly. By the way, I'm NO authority on any of this, I'm just a train nerd from England!
Quite a few things don't add up. Firstly the track plan at the signal box DOES NOT match up with the track plan on the screen. Secondly The Freight Train does seem to clear the points before the run away train reaches it. Thirdly the Run Away Train seems to hit a group of stationary wagons rather than just a locomotibe, Then again it is a film!
@NSX86R Not exactly. They messed up the continuity a little. A bit later in the movie, you see the cab and most of the front of the lead locomotive mangled, but still powering away. They're in the last locomotive, but can't just jump to the front becuase the second is a streamliner.
@dkbmaestrorules If you look closer you'll see that the caboose has yellow ends and blue(looks black on film)sides. Blue and yellow are the colors of the Alaska railroad and the majority of filming was done there( though some was done on the Butte,Annaconda & Pacific in Montana).
At 1:09 the caboose already has past to the other track. At 1:13 the other train is not even moving when the locomotive hits! Movies...you gotta love all those defects! Very rare a movie does crashes properly. :( The Under Siege 2 crash is amazing but it is also a blooper hence the passenger train's locomotive derailed just be for hitting the freight train causing the noses of the trains to hit sideways rather than head on. That caused the freight locomotive to ramp on top of the passenger loco.
That was a Real Caboose they gutted out the interior and cuy out parts of the Caboose to allow it to come apart with relative ease as well as to create genuine sound effects of steel being crumpled and thrown all about. You,ve seen other REAL footage of Tractor Trailer Rigs being torn apart. One Thousand Tons+ of (4)Locomotives traveling at that speed will certainly tear a weakend hollowed out old rotton caboose and send it to HELL IN A HANDBASKET !!!
if you stop it at 1:14 you will notice that the flatbed car is a different color than in the previous scene, and it appears that its front trunks are missing, probably to soften the blow. therefore I think the crash is real, but its obvious the 2 cars the train hit are parked and not connected to the train
@BoxcarFrank It wouldn't same think happened in the Chatsworth train collision. The runaway, simply forces the switch to the right direction, same think can be done on a model train board.
Yes but no special effects were used in any of the scenes if you research it. Everything was geniune except the underside shot (when he is being draged) and one locomotive interior. Something that can't be said for todays movies.
Notice that the Front of the GP30/38 is all Mangled later on After the Crash, in other Parts of the Movie... The Other Units were Fine cause they Didn't come in Contact with the 'Boose...
@smiffy1071 How long do locomotives last? That is, how long is their service life? An ocean liner lasts about 30 years, an airliner lasts about 25 years, cars & buses last 10-15 years, etc.
The lead engine is a GP40, not a GP9, the other 2 high hood geeps are GP7's. That enginer pulling into the siding looks like an Alco or FM engine of some kind
@jusomeguy I think that's supposed to be an old wooden caboose, guy, going by the window arrangement and the way it comes apart. I think a GP 35 or whatever that is under the snow would have a sporting chance. 8-)
EMD could have used that in their ad campaigns, "See, our locos can punch through several cars and stay on the rails, not even damaging the cabs!"
by several cars you mean a plow car (prob. reason the front loco became a snowplow)and a caboose
Except the cab was screwed up badly. Watch the film.
1985 -2 upgraded locos: introducing, the new, EMD -2 locomotives! So toughly built, the can rocket through other cars!
I love how it makes a monster sound when it's crashes through the other train. Lol
computer effect
LegitGaming117 is somebody raping the alien from alien?
I think the sound was metal bending from the train colliding with the cars, but also they might have used the sound effect to make the train seem more menacing.
Ikr And The Impact So cool because Of how the runaway destroys the caboose And how the runaway goes on like nothing had happened. Pretty sick 😎
@@criticalcolt7481 no
Looks like caboose just cleared in time, but then a few frames later locomotive hits the car just in front of caboose.
3 cabooses.
1 - real-life serviceable one that cleared the train
2 - the model one
3 - the real-life scrap one that got totaled by 3 pulling tractors
abloogywoogywoo Cabeese, actually. But meh.
The real caboose is yellow, the model is black
@@Senna-78 I never noticed that!
Yeah! Doesn't this look like the movie Atomic Train?
"Luckily No One Was Hurt"
It sounds like that you are a Thomas fan
James Leopard no u don’t get the joke he is a fan of Thunderbolt 1000 siren productions u idiot
What movie is this!!!!!!! (Crying)
Except Al R.I.P
@@bronyhoodchannel4032 Runaway train 1985.
looks like the crash was a combination of scale models and real trains
I guess that's real train, but the last flatbed and caboose are made of materials lighter and weaker, like wood, or the locomotive set will derail, and the movie will over directly.
The lead loco is GP40 ARR 3010, still in service, second the F is ARR 1500, at the alaska transport museum, third GP7 ARR 1810, was sold to Oregon Pacific, and then SFGX in Kansas. It is now mated to a slug This loco also starred in the 1992 steven seagal movie under siege 2 . fourth GP7 ARR 1801 was renumbered 1800 & sold to Missouri central railroad, and later Respondek rail corp of Granite city, Illinois.
0:15 something about the scenery and the train horn just gives me a wave of nostalgia that I can’t explain
I have the exact same feeling
That guy in the caboose was lucky. She (or he) was able to jump out before the train crashed :P
If I was the guy in the caboose I would of gotten off before the runaway showed up
It’s not luck, everyone could do it.
@@JoblyJohnny Well not everyone can do that
That was a great movie!
Fax bro 😎😎😎😎
that truck (wheels) that bounced off both of those 2 locomotives has got to be one of the most amazing things of physics caught on film.
The units in this film are ARR GP40-2 3005, ARR F9A 1500 (Now in Arizona on a tourist Train), ARR 1801 (Sold to Missouri Central as 1800, Now Respondek 1800 switching an Ethanol Plant in Sauget, IL) and ARR 1810. These units were renumbered for the film as "300" "500" "810" and "801"
15 years bro you still alive?
I find it hard to believe that there would not have been a derailment. It seems to me that the locomotives hitting the mass and wieght of the cabooses trucks would knock the engines off the rails.
Love this movie! :)
+Steve Me too!
Whats it called
@@MetxsightseerRailfan runaway Train 1985
@@HudsonFromNYC oh ok
Getting real sick of your shit Sir Topham Hatt
XD
" Run a way train "
One of my all time favorite movies!
I like the scene where at the end they run off the end of the line.
NO matter what job your have push a mop or be a professional of any sort, take it with dignity.
F-1
An avarice day on the island of sodor
The runaway train drove through a switch which was open for the side rail without derailing. Try that with any train in real life (or try it with a toy train) and you end up with a derailment.
Such acts which defy the laws of physics seem so common in movies with trains that it doesn't surprise me at all.
by the way I am Argentinian but I translate it to English and the first time I saw him I was a little boy of 3 years who could not write train, and now that I watch the video he gave me nostalgia
Best runaway train type movie ever! Ask any railfan
Hello,
the train is hauled by ALCo MRS - 1, this is the military designation. ALCo called them RSX - 4. They built 83 of this units for the US Army. Later a few units were sold to short lines and a few went for service on the Alaska Railroad.
They were built in 1953, had a 12 cylinder 244 engine rated at 1600 hp. 50 locos were equipped with steam generators for passenger car heating.
Alaska Railroad owned all the locomotives. Somewhere I heard the GP40-2 still operates up there, and the GP7's at least were active until recently. Dont know if they still are.
great film, 1985, Eric Roberts, John Voight. Get it on DVD and crank the surround!
I love it how you see the wheels from the caboose hit the engine at 1:31. I loved that as a kid!
I LOVED THIS MOVIE!!! since i saw it on tv a few years ago, i've been wondering what the name was and all, thanks for uploading and providing the name.
This scene from the movie gives me goosebumps and seeing the wreck and damage on the front of the lead locomotive only added to the deathlike nature of the train itself.
Orangish Yellow caboose
Then turns into a black one
MAGIC
Generic Username
Generic Username well the fronts of the caboose is yellow and the sides are black
ThatOneKid YT The caboose's side is grey at first. Then it turn into black.
Generic Username It’s actually Blue and Yellow, the flagship colors of the railroad the entire move was filmed on, the Alaska Railroad.
The reason for that is because they used a model train to do the crashing part so that's why the caboose is black and not yellow
I forgot to add, the MRS 1 is Alaska Railroad 1606, Formerly US Army B-2059. The railroad shows the unit being retired in 1984, two years before the film was released. Sadly, 1606 has been reported as SCRAPPED, 1810 is now working at a Grain Elevator
I noticed that this is a work train going onto the siding but just before they crash it switches to the model trains and its all tank cars except the caboose and a flatcar just in front of it any one else see that ??
You are correct!
And it looks like a couple tank cars have type K air brake equipment underneath, which, considering NOTHING (Outside of a museum) would use that system in 1984, also kind of gives it away. Couple of those tanks look a bit like they started with Lionel tank cars (Some had type K brake rigging under the frame) and added some details. There is a double dome tank (At 1:00-1:01) that looks very much like a common Lionel tank. Down to the type K cylinder underneath.
The movie crew was also using some of those maintenance camp cars during filming. Old Army sleepers and kitchen cars.
1:29 Caboose wheels bounce off the roof of the 3rd locomotive... that's what that banging sound is...
1:13 UAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
I remember when that was shot in Alaska....on the Alaska Railroad....I use to ride on the #1602 MRS-1 when I was young.....long live the old diesels...only living in memories
Dynamic brake blisters don't always distinguish the difference between GP-7 and GP-9s, unless you refer to Lionel Geeps. (They also seem to call a chop nose GP-7 a GP-20!). Only a few GP-7s had dynamics, though. Most GP-9s did have them. Two units on the runaway are GP-9s, unit on the freight is an ALCO of some sort.
I love how the "Runaway train" (extremely unlikely these days) is completely fine as it smashes through a good 4 or 5 train cars, but the ones that were hit completely f*cking disintegrated. Also unlikely was that the "crawling" train wasn't yanked back by the sheer force of the train smashing into it's tail, seeing that a train is rather like a piece of string. Hollywood magic at its best!
This gives me Unstoppable vibes
@phillyslasher
An interesting note on the GP7's, According to an ARR employee during filming he walked around a building near the engine facility and wondered where the "old locomotives" came from and then realized that the two chopped nose geeps had been restored to the way EMD had intended with a "Hollywood" nose job.
If you watch some of the scenes closely you can pick up a bit of wobble in the movie high hoods.
ФИЛЬМ АНДРЕЯ КОНЧАЛОВСКОГО "ПОЕЗД БЕГЛЕЦ" ("СБЕЖАВШИЙ ПОЕЗД"), 1985 ГОД, США.
ФИЛЬМ О ПРОТИВОСТОЯНИЙ ХАРАКТЕРОВ СБЕЖАВШЕГО ПРЕСТУПНИКА - РЕЦЕДИВИСТА ПО ИМЕНИ МЕНИ, И НАЧАЛЬНИКА ТЮРЬМЫ ПЫТАЮЩЕГОСЯ ЕГО ВЕРНУТЬ ОБРАТНО.
КЛЮЧЕВАЯ ФРАЗА (ЦИТАТА) ФИЛЬМА: "И ДАЖЕ У САМОГО ЛЮТОГО ЗВЕРЯ ЕСТЬ ЧУВСТВО СОСТРАДАНИЯ К СВОЕЙ ЖЕРТВЕ. У МЕНЯ ЖЕ НЕТ. А ЗНАЧИТ Я НЕ ЗВЕРЬ."
I seriously doubt that the run away locomotives would have stayed on the track, and that incompetent bastard is a highly trained locomotive engineer who is governed by certain rules that may not have let him go any faster than what he was going while entering the siding not to mention it looked like he had a fairly good sized train he was pulling with one engine, and I cant remember in the movie if they told him there was a run away headed for him or not, so he was just operating by the rules. All in all still a pretty good movie.
I seen this when I was in middle school i think maybe younger, but i have been trying to find this movie for years! Me and my son (especially my son) would love it!
Caboose: "Fuck this! Next time, one of you other cars is going last!"
The last two engines are GP7's with fake high hoods not GP9's. The lead is an GP40 and the second an F9. Great scene.
This is my favorite part of the movie. One thing they did mess up on is at about 1:11 & half is that you see the caboose like already gone into the sideing. and at 1:13 during the impact the freight isn't even moveing. but like I said THIS IS MY FAVORITE PART, I don't mean anything bad about the movie.
the train that got hit was led by an old n slow MRS-1 that is now scrap. and the runaway is consisted of a GP-40, F-7, and 2 GP7s! just being smart
Note that at 1:11-1:112 the Eastbound 12 actually clears!
Those are GP7's. (well two GP7's, a GP40, and a F7). One of the GP7's was also used in the movie "Under Siege, Dark Territory".
From Wikipedia (It's also on other sites)
Units used- Alaska Railroads EMD GP7s, 1801 and 1810. During their Alaska Railroad service the GP7s had had their short hoods chopped but for the film were fitted with mock-up high-noses.
this is such a cool scene!
Neither of the lead locomotives here is a GP-9, but the third and fourth ones in the "runaway train" are GP-7(s), which were produced shortly before and are very similar to a GP-9.
I love Unstoppable. Its truly based from the Crazy Eights. I seen it twice.
The train pulling into the passing siding is not headed by a GP-9 at all. Appears to be an ALCO unit, similar to some made for export decades ago (Though I believe some were in service when the movie was filmed). On the other hand, the four-unit lashup that is the runaway does have a pair of GP-9s in it. Lead unit is a newer (For the time) EMD 4-axle design, looks almost to be a GP-40. Second unit is an F-7, followed by two GP-9s.
Damn,there would've been no way that dude would've survived that crash
@pznerd Actually the "buzzer" is called an alerter & if not reset it puts the train into a penalty brake which is just full service, not emergency.
Awesome movie. “have you ever seen a riot in a maximum security prison? Your Brain is too small to comprehend it”!
Never fails to keep the adrenaline pumping!
Just for something to do, I managed to track (sorry) down each of the 4runaway locomotives used in this film. They all still exist, and I have modern pictures of them. not bad since the film was made in 1985, and they were old then!!
Ah yes, the original unstoppable.
I think there should be a feature on trains so that if the breaks do fall off, it could blow the wheels off to stop the train to stop it in an extreme emergency like this.
@fairportfan2 - The closure rails in a turnout do not need to be flexible - if the tie bar is spring loaded, as in a "trailable facing point" turnout, it will allow a train to run through in the trailing direction.
Maybe someday a runaway locamotive will slam into the last few cars of your train. That would be so cool!
1 part I didn't understand was when the runaway was on track 1 fastly approaching the switch that was switched onto track 2 for the other train traveling the opposite direction to let the runaway pass by, the runaway didn't derail while going over the switch that was still lined up to track 2.
damn i need this theme on my phone so I know when somebodys gonna come fuck my day up
True, I believe they used 7 1/2" for "Speed" when the subway crashed. While that wreck didn't look as life like and right as this and a few others, it was convincing for the movie. Also now that I look at it closer, the debris falling and hitting the locomotives is bouncing off them like plastic or foam. If it was real debris I don't think they would move away like they do in this scene.
Aha, the forerunner to Speed and Unstoppable. Runaway Train was still a good movie though :p
@bigbomb1986 unstoppable is an amazing film..i got to see it a lil early because i got sneak peek tickets...absolutely amazing film
1605 on Eastbound 12 is an Alco MRS, along with the second unit behind it. Ex-Army units I might add. Eastbound 12 here is based off of New York Central train BF-3. Read more about BF-3 and the real events that inspired this movie here. books.google.com/books?id=pkwEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA1&pg=PA79#v=onepage&q&f=false
Alaska railroad 1606* one of my fav train
@SPARTANIIIprojects It's from the 1985 film, "Runaway Train," starring Jon Voight, Eric Roberts and Rebecca De Mornay.
OMG, I see what you Mean! The Caboose Rips around the S-curve real Fast, and then it moves back a Little Bit, and Gets Nailed by the Lead Geep...
Right at 1:10!
no way, acting is great, awesome movie, saw it in 1986. you should've continued it on when dude says 'maybe the we forgot to switch or something' 'are you stupid! we just blew the caboose to hell!'
Unlucky! It probably would have prevented trouble further down the line if the collision had derailed what I'm presuming was the runaway train.
Good question, much depends on reliability, spares supply, and of course how well they were made in the first place!! Some locos like these, and the British class 37 and 47 locos can last for 50-60 years, while others seem to fade away quite quickly. By the way, I'm NO authority on any of this, I'm just a train nerd from England!
Quite a few things don't add up. Firstly the track plan at the signal box DOES NOT match up with the track plan on the screen. Secondly The Freight Train does seem to clear the points before the run away train reaches it. Thirdly the Run Away Train seems to hit a group of stationary wagons rather than just a locomotibe, Then again it is a film!
@NSX86R Not exactly. They messed up the continuity a little. A bit later in the movie, you see the cab and most of the front of the lead locomotive mangled, but still powering away. They're in the last locomotive, but can't just jump to the front becuase the second is a streamliner.
Epic movie, seen the full movie many times and loved it!
Manny and Buck seem very interested to Eastbound 12, like they had never seen a train before
Up until then, they really didn't have much to compare their speed to in the middle of nowhere.
In reality the lead unit would have derailed. Great movie nonetheless childhood favorite!!! I love trains!!!
@dkbmaestrorules
If you look closer you'll see that the caboose has yellow ends and blue(looks black on film)sides.
Blue and yellow are the colors of the Alaska railroad and the majority of filming was done there( though some was done on the Butte,Annaconda & Pacific in Montana).
At 1:09 the caboose already has past to the other track.
At 1:13 the other train is not even moving when the locomotive hits!
Movies...you gotta love all those defects! Very rare a movie does crashes properly. :(
The Under Siege 2 crash is amazing but it is also a blooper hence the passenger train's locomotive derailed just be for hitting the freight train causing the noses of the trains to hit sideways rather than head on. That caused the freight locomotive to ramp on top of the passenger loco.
That was a Real Caboose they gutted out the interior and cuy out parts of the Caboose to allow it to come apart with relative ease as well as to create genuine sound effects of steel being crumpled and thrown all about. You,ve seen other REAL footage of Tractor Trailer Rigs being torn apart. One Thousand Tons+ of (4)Locomotives traveling at that speed will certainly tear a weakend hollowed out old rotton caboose and send it to HELL IN A HANDBASKET !!!
The movie is Runaway Train with Eric Roberts, Jon Voight, and Rebecca DeMornay. I hope that I answered your question.
when the train hit the caboose it said NOOOOOOOOOOO
It's in the movie 1985 film "Runaway Train."
this is from the 1985 movie "Runaway train". great sequence, special effects must have been fun
if you stop it at 1:14 you will notice that the flatbed car is a different color than in the previous scene, and it appears that its front trunks are missing, probably to soften the blow. therefore I think the crash is real, but its obvious the 2 cars the train hit are parked and not connected to the train
I agree. Andrei Konchalovsky is a genius! like many Russian movie directors
82 People Hate Trains. 481 have a life! TRAINS ARE EPIC!
93 People Hate Trains. 542 People love to watch them crash! Trains Are Epic!
Great Movie indeed! Seen this back in 1988.
The most underrated film ever.
such a bad ass movie
@BoxcarFrank
It wouldn't same think happened in the Chatsworth train collision. The runaway, simply forces the switch to the right direction, same think can be done on a model train board.
It was an F7 actually and still exists at a loco railway museum.
Yes but no special effects were used in any of the scenes if you research it. Everything was geniune except the underside shot (when he is being draged) and one locomotive interior. Something that can't be said for todays movies.
Those are all emd engines in the train. The lead engine is an emd gp40-2. The other three are an f7 and the other two are high nose gp7s.
they had to use old models because the old guy who died went 'bonkers' when they talked about scrapping the old units...lol
Notice that the Front of the GP30/38 is all Mangled later on After the Crash, in other Parts of the Movie... The Other Units were Fine cause they Didn't come in Contact with the 'Boose...
105 people have had their train crashed. 601 People have crashed them. Trains are epic.
@smiffy1071 How long do locomotives last? That is, how long is their service life? An ocean liner lasts about 30 years, an airliner lasts about 25 years, cars & buses last 10-15 years, etc.
The lead engine is a GP40, not a GP9, the other 2 high hood geeps are GP7's. That enginer pulling into the siding looks like an Alco or FM engine of some kind
Yeah, I guess your Right, but Railways don't Typically Use F7s for Freight Service Anymore... :/
yes you are right I did notice that, and also they apear to be missing a couple of grap irons as well.
@jusomeguy I think that's supposed to be an old wooden caboose, guy, going by the window arrangement and the way it comes apart. I think a GP 35 or whatever that is under the snow would have a sporting chance. 8-)