The movie “End of the Line” came on The Movie Channel last night. I taped it. First of its a okay movie. However I see a lot of no nos and observations. First in the beginning they show alot of freight cars with MP screaming eagle hearld but with the movie railroad Southland over the MP repaorting mark. Then they show a man checking the hotbox grease under some boxcars. Now this movie was made in 1988 and I thought these cars would be scrapped by now. Then they still a locomotive. It is clear that it is a MP GP38-2 but once again the screaming eagle hearld is covered up. Also to my knowledge don’t you start an GP38-2 from under the hood?
yes it was a very chezzy inaccurate movie.like the concept of the company switching from rail freight to air freight.i believe a gp38-2 has the start button on the back wall of the cab above the electrial box.
However the movie character was pressing a button on the control stand, no the back wall.
I believe one of the best movies that is railroad related is The Polar Express, the creators of that movie really did their research on the 2-8-4 Pere Marquete 1225, which was the star locomotive of the movie. They also incorperated the use of what I like to call the “good ol’ days of railroading” rules, regulations, and operation. The usuage of railroad lingo in that movie is very accurate. As a matter of fact Trains featured an article on The Polor Express in their January 2005 issue on pages 42-49. It is a pretty good article.
I agree with you, CSX, having just seen POLAR EXPRESS on DVD. There was a lot of research there, and IMHO it helped to support the fantasy.
“End of the Line” is a pitiful movie, how’d they run that engine clear to corporate headquarters without proper clearance, orders, train dispatchers’ bulletins, signals, what ever it would take.
Start switch should be outside in the engineroom, left of the governor, near the water sightglass, about waist high.
I would love to see how they Southland was going to figure out how to haul Coal, oil and other commiditys by air! LOL
It was a LOW budget movie and I like it, even with its flaws.