What are the original numbers and roads of the two diesels wrecked for the “Fugative”? I know there are still on the site of the wreck. I understand that the GP30 was one of two high nose models produced. This has probably been answered before.
Ed Burns
Filmed on the Great Smoky Mountains Railway in Dilllsboro, North Carolina, the train wreck used “Illinois Southern” 1901, a U18B built as SCL 301 (GE 38848, 3/1973), later CSX 1901, and Norfolk & Western 536, a high nose GP30 (EMD 27369, 6/1962) painted to match 1901. Engine and traction motors were removed from 562, at least. The engines remain in Dillsboro.
Pre-merger N&W had 44 GP30s, all high-nose. Another 10 low-nose GP30s were acquired in the merger with Nickel Plate. Southern Railway had 112 high-nose GP30s.
Yep. Still there:
Lead unit has “478” in large painted numbers on it’s flanks. Trailing unit shows 536 in lighted number boards.
Oh wow! I didn’t know they just left the train wrecks there after shooting the scene in the movie. I heard it costs them around $1.5 million to shoot that scene. That’s insane!