Well it had to happen sooner or later, a movie based on the premise of a train/car crossing gate incident and its effects on the survivors. Its called Rails & Ties, heres the movie info w/ link to the trailer:
The incident in this case is a suicide by train, I was initially turn off by reading about the idea, but watching the trailer it looks more involving than I suspected, and I will likely go see it just to see how its premise is carried thru the film and how the RRs are depicted.
I wonder how many threads are gonna spin off of this fictional movie about how un-realistic it is in regards to how trains and railroads are depicted. It never fails.
Oh, I imagine there will be quite a few…but, then, we tend to forget that Hollywood ALWAYS takes dramatic license with just about anything. It’s about making movies, and entertaining people. So, it’s not 100 percent accurate in it’s depiction of what goes on in the cab. If it’s a good movie, people aren’t going to care. If it’s a bad movie, people aren’t going to care. It looks as though the basic theme of the movie is the relationship between the engineer, his wife, and eventually the orphaned boy from his mom’s suicide. The “car vs train” merely sets it up. You could use almost anything in it’s place, really. All the crash is, is a vehicle for the unfolding drama. You could use trucks, airplanes, SUV’s, a bus, it wouldn’t matter. So, that is probably the reason for any lack of accuracy that is there, they are just setting up the rest of the story.
One of my favorite movies, “Saving Private Ryan” has a scene in it that irritates me to no end… They are out on patrol, chatting it up like high school girls. When out on patrol, talking was at an absolute minimum… but, that scene was put in there for “dramatic purposes”. Accurate? no…but, the audience isn’t really going to care… The only people that do, are history geeks like me, but Hollywood doesn’t make movies to satisfy history geeks, they make movies to entertain and make money from as many people as possible.