The haunted fugitive train is in Dillsboro, and is owned by the Great Smokey Mountain Railroad. I have been to it twice, and will be spending a night in it possibly.
Fugitive Train Wreck
Can you say ‘high-nose GP30’? I knew you could!
You could tell it was haunted in the movie. It was moving without having any traction motors!
great eyes
Not really…
They staged a scene under one of the GP30’s trucks and you could see the axle gear and the lack of motor. One of the great continuity failures of all time. It would have been easy to put a dummy motor in place, but nobody realised there was a problem.
Peter
I don’t follow
He is refering to this locomotive
Assuming that the locomotive hasn’t moved since the staged crash, and referring back to my previous post, someone has removed the trucks since the scene showing the missing motors was filmed…
I suppose they just jacked it up, pulled out the trucks and dropped it back.
The GE still has its trucks, so the Blombergs must be considered more useful.
Peter
I always thought that was a GP10 or a GP20 with a rebuilt high nose.
What state did the filming and movie take place?
North Carolina is where it’s at … idk who did the filming
Google Maps
Type in the fugitive train wreck and it will show you the following URL.
It’s interesting how much that North Carolina location looked like the UP river line in southern Illinois, where the scene was suppose to have occurred. The line parallels IL Route 3 along a Mississippi River bluff. This is the former MoPac/Cotton Belt line from East St. Louis to Texas.
When I first saw the movie, I wondered how UP would allow filming there, as this is still a heavily used route. It wasn’t until later that I learned it was filmed in North Carolina.