Can someone tell me which engines I need to recreate the 4 used in this movie?
http://www.geocities.com/runaway_train1985/
Thanks Johnny
Johnny;
Can you send pictures? Many here will be able to identify them. I don’t have the movie.
Nigel
There are some pictures here…
http://www.geocities.com/runaway_train1985/pictures/
hard to tell I guess
Thanks Johnny
Not a great train movie but entertaining to watch once. They used a GP40 (probably CN or CP judging from the high winterization hatch, Alaska RR F7 #1500 and three ex-army GP7’s with the ARR type-b trucks.
I realize this is an old question but maybe you still are looking for the answer.
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The film’s locomotive lineup was a GP40, F7 #1500 and three ex-army GP7’s with the ARR type-b trucks. On the units you will notice two distinct ARR trademarks; the high winterization hatch (CP or CN were about the only other roads that had such a tall hatch), plus the ARR plow which is unlike any others. For filming, water based paint was used so it could be later removed. Furthermore, some major modifications were made to the units themselves. Says Josh Coran, ARR Chief Mechanic, “The hood units were GP7s…the props people converted them back to high short hoods. They had done so well that one day when I walked around the corner and ran into one it took me a long time (minutes) to figure out where this old high hood unit came from. Our Chief Engineer at the time, Obie Weeks, was an aspiring actor and since he was a member of Actors’ Equity he got a part in the movie. He is a train crew member with the horrible line in which he refers to his “caboose man.” instead of “conductor” (or “rear brakeman” or something a little more like a real railroad position). I did get the script changed a little. I objected to the scene in which Voight climbs out the cab window of the F unit and makes his way at great peril to the next unit. They made me feel better by having debris from the wrecked caboose jamb (the inward opening) nose door.”
Guys,While that movie is fairly good for entertainment it has a lot to be desired for reality…Why didn’t the bozos just use the emergency fuel cut off to stop the train after all Sara was a engine hoster and should have by all rights known that fact ? [;)] [}:)][:D]
Is the movie worth watching?
Funny, I’ve never heard of it.
Looks like there was a rotory snowplow, too…
At least it’s not as bad as “Atomic Train” - the movie where disconnected air lines allow the train to run away…(funny, I always thought that you had to build up air pressure in the system to release the brakes, specifically to stop this happening…)
“Runaway Train” is a decent enough film if you can overlook the problems/inaccuracies, of which there are fewer than in many other films (Mission: Impossible 1 would be a good example here - a French TGV running without overhead power wires, through the Channel Tunnel??). Just my opinion!
The movie does have a lot of train action, I enjoyed that much, however the vocabulary is terrible, as on “Last Train Home.” I own a copy and play it when “movie watchers” wi***o view “train video’s,” and a documentary is not their interest. It portrays issues about career criminals not usually seen (from the eternally corruption vs eternal Hope dept). Anyway, the dastardly warden got in the end! I liked Tim Robins in “The Coca-Cola Kid,” his redeeming work, but Julia reminds me of tim in drag!
this engine looks like an alaska unit http://www.geocities.com/runaway_train1985/pictures/nb003.JPG
