I just recently watched Atomic Train which was relesaed in 1998 I think, but anyways this question really goes out to anyone who can answer it. I was wondering what was the acually locomotives featured in the movie, because i cannot figure it out. Like inside the cab, there are features of a GE locomotive. My only other thought is that the locomotives were fictional…?
Also i have been trying to find the BC Rail website and i havent been able to find it yet. Does anyone know if it was taken down after CN took over…?
I just watched the same movie over the weekend and the movie was released in 1999 and it is one of the better railroad movies of all times. But anyway I was wondering if any one has any ideas where.I might bealbe to get a copy of that movie.
That movie was so stupid. Yeah, we saved the hostages . . . and killed the crew of the oil drag.
I have met Steven Segal in the past, coxcomb is the only word I can use to describe him.
Sorry if that offends anyone one, I just really hatted the movie. Then again, I hate most every movie that tends to think it is cool when trains blow up on a bridge with their crew still in them.
Well, maybe I shouldn’t go that far. The Bridge over the River Kwai (sp?) was pretty good.
But, then there is Two Mules for Sister Sarah. Not that I have anything wrong with an extremely sexually active nun on a donkey, but not one of Clints better movies.
I think there was also a Hogans Heroes episode to that effect, but I am barely old enough to remember it.
Bottom line, it is no more cool to blow up a bridge with a train with a crew on it than it is to blow up a bridge with cars and drivers on it.
Atomic Train? Good Movie?
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Sorry, but I just had to laugh when I read “one of the greatest train movies”. Here’s everything you ever wanted to know about “Atomic Train”, and probably more http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0144039/ I especially liked the “goofs” http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0144039/goofs , but I bet you guys can come up with a bunch more. It’s available on DVD from amazon.com and probably other places as well.
While we are on the subject of great train movies, can someone please tell me why a truly great train movie like “Emperor of the North” or “Emperor of the North Pole” (which was it’s original release title" haven’t been released on DVD yet?
The locomotives in those photos are BC Rail M420Ws, a 2000-HP roadswitcher developed in the 1970s by Montreal Locomotive Works (MLW) after Alco went belly-up. CN and BC Rail bought M420Ws new, while Providence and Worcester had M420Rs with trade-in GE trucks. This model was followed after Bombardier purchased MLW by the similar HR412, which CN purchased.
These locomotives have been retired by their original owners; some may be found on various shortlines.
Emporer of the North, is the correct title, I dont know where this last entry comes from, probably a stupid intern typing in the TV guide listing, thinking the movie was about Santa Claus’s attempt at world domination? I dunno.
Why isnt it on DVD? I can think of a 100 movies with the same question, answer? I dunno, too many movies, and the studios will only release so many a year to DVD so we wait while we get more recent crappola issued with great fanfair and advertising, straight into the bargian bin at Wallyworld.[V]
Please don’t take this the wrong way, but are you using drugs?
Every other train detail in that movie was wrong!
No brakes when the air hoses are apart…
No dynamic braking is attempted…
The brakes “burned out” when they finally did catch
Random piles of sand didn’t derail the thing…
and so many more details I kept the tape just to watch it for laughs.
ok…i have to chime in on this one agin… it always brings a smile to my face when i hear this movie talked about…not becouse it was a good movie…but becouse it was so Fing dumb that after watching it…i had to go back to engineers school and be reprogramed on how trains work agin!!! lol… i know hollywood likes to take some liberties when it comes to train movies…but ***… that movie took it to a whole new level of retrarded… under seige 2 was kinda dumb…but at least the story line was intersting…and they didnt totly toss out the all the realizum when it came to running trains…unlike atomic train…
if you want to see a good train movie…go rent emporor of the north…run away train…and even the silver streak… they where all not too too bad movies… but atomic train…AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAH… what a joke…
csx engineer
adrianspeeder…
the points you picked out are intersting…but actuly a few of them can actualy happen… the brakes burning off…that can and did happen… do you remember the big crash some years ago in california on caljon pass (sp)…when that pota***rain became a runaway and derailed…the brakes burned off of the train after the engineer places it in emergancey…that happend becouse of term known as friction welding… basicly the heat from the brakes on the wheels of the cars created so much friction that it heated the brakes up to the point where they melted and become taffy and the molten brake shoses didnt do anything to help slow it down… infact becouse they became molten they caused less resistance and the train speed went up…
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