The CSX unit that ran away was a former Conrail SD40-2.
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RussNelson wrote:Could somebody who's going to watch it (again) please look at the switch that the train was going to run through at the beginning? It *sure* looked to me like the switch was aligned correctly. Maybe it was just an artifact of cutting from one scene to another, and I thought the train was on a different track.You're right on the money -- that was a good switch -- and just the start of tons of errors that the average guy in the street (and hopefully in the seats) will never notice. My wife and I saw it about two weeks after it was out and we had the theater to ourselves.
RDG467 wrote:1) When Denzel goes into the hole at the 'RIP' track (in the middle of nowhere...) and the last car of his overlong train gets hit by the runaway. I thought that boxcar exploded like it was made from plywood. Oh, maybe it was...... That would've been game over, obviously, and would have derailed most of the cars on both trains in real life.The other thing about this scene is, when the runaway smashes through the box car on the train going into the siding, that would have broken the brake pipe, and Denzel's train would have dumped for sure.
bunny wrote:Does anyone know where the corner they had to navigate is located? Looks like it originally went straight.Bellaire, OH, just down the Ohio River from Wheeling.