Disaster On The Coastliner... The movie 1979

Loved this movie. Was their freight line service then in NH? was there an accident in NH? What other movies are like this? If there is a repeated thread can you post the link thanks

The great stunt of jumping into the water occurred at Niantic; The old bridge which was just replaced. The Derailment scene was a replication of Midway. The only other thing I remember about it was # 1 Cond. George Goss was the conductor on the train used in the sequences.

I just saw this campy yet awesome TV movie on streaming (Prime, I think). Shatner was being "Shatner", of course, and Lloyd Bridges was starring in a precursor to "Airplane" lol,

Yes, the outside railroad shots were in CT. They even mention "East Lyme". I was fascinated with the equipment being Amtrak while the railroad was nominally "Trans Allied Railroad Company". I wonder how Amtrak bought into this movie vis-a-vis cooperation.

The equipment was kind of cool; a bar car/lounge car, and apparently, a bulletproof F40PH with a vault door to prevent the conductor from getting to the engineer. The F40 was 218 as shown in the movie; I wonder if it was really derailed?

Jeff Smith wrote: ↑Mon Oct 07, 2024 11:17 am I just saw this campy yet awesome TV movie on streaming (Prime, I think). Shatner was being "Shatner", of course, and Lloyd Bridges was starring in a precursor to "Airplane" lol,

Yes, the outside railroad shots were in CT. They even mention "East Lyme". I was fascinated with the equipment being Amtrak while the railroad was nominally "Trans Allied Railroad Company". I wonder how Amtrak bought into this movie vis-a-vis cooperation.

The equipment was kind of cool; a bar car/lounge car, and apparently, a bulletproof F40PH with a vault door to prevent the conductor from getting to the engineer. The F40 was 218 as shown in the movie; I wonder if it was really derailed?

1979? Depending on production costs, they probably derailed a large-scale model or mocked-up a F40 and derailed that.