A Man Called Otto - Cuyahoga Scenic and Potomac Eagle Scenic

Rail consulting firm FMW Solutions and several heritage railways combined to recreate a 1970s-era commuter train for the recent Tom Hanks film “A Man Called Otto,” which makes use of equipment and locations of the Potomac Eagle Scenic Railway, Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad, and Washington D.C. chapter of the National Railway Historical Society.

The film’s railroad sequences were shot on three days at three locations, with aerial exterior work at Romney, W.Va., with the Potomac Eagle’s diesel locomotive and passenger cars. Interior scenes were shot on the Cuyahoga Valley Scenic in Ohio’s Cuyahoga Valley National Park, with and moving-train shots on a modified former Budd Rail Diesel Car between Jaite and Rockside, Ohio. And the Potomac Eagle locomotive and two Cuyahoga Valley cars were used to shoot at Toledo’s Central Union Terminal.
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