A movie has to be believable to be enjoyable? Inception? Any James Bond movie?
Trains and Denzel Washington - should be fun. I’m going!
Maybe they weren’t burned out or set to alternate, but rather there was an intermittent wiring problem, sometimes 1 worked, sometimes the other, sometimes neither, sometimes both.
Only problem I see is that it’s PG13.
Now c’mon… where are you going to find RRers that use language that would only rate PG13???
CP AC4400CW locomotives don’t have the ability to flash. What it appears to me is that on the first set of engines the right one was burnt out. When they switched over to the 2nd set of engines they never kept the continuity and eventually had opposite ones burnt out.
Little things like that the director should be paying attention to.
Maybe the train is posessed?
In today’s Wall Street Journal - Friday, Nov. 12, 2010, the ‘Personal Journal’ section on Pages D-1 and D-3 - the movie reviewer, Joe Morganstern - just about raves in favor of the movie. Here’s a link to the ‘on-line’ version of that review -
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703848204575608401291572326.html?
and/ or -
We’ll just have to overlook that he apparently ‘parroted’ the studio’s PR that the runaway freight train weighs a million tons . . . (see also the Comments below the article) [sigh] [(-D] [:-^]
- Paul North.
You gotta love the (almost) last scene in “Disaster on the Coasliner” when the Coastliner passenger tain is taking a curve at really high speed and they decide to let it derail and some track gang worker with a big pry bar steps out of the way of the train a split second before it would have hit him and the train derails into a MOW yard or something. If I were that track worker I would have been nowhere near the rail when a train comes barreling through doing 60+!
To be specific, wipe out the bad guys on the Union Pacific.
Bad guys got the radios out of action, have Barbra Stanwyck use a Winchester as a telegraph key. The cavalry to the rescue on a flat car rather on horse back.
Cecil B. did not part the Great Salt Lake, but the path to the promised land was built.
That was Disaster on the Coastliner and it was set in California.
Did Disaster on the Coastliner have Captain Kirk clinging to the outside of a speeding locomotive? After the Starship Enterprise crashed, William Shanter worked as a windshield clinging cop. Was he in this one?
Whatever happened to the deadman pedal…with no weight on it should it not automatically stop the train?
Seeing as the radio was disconnected, and the independant doubled as the train brake, I will surmise the dead mans pedal was connected either. Of course, if we really wanna get into it, throttles dont ever magically move from idle to 8, but then again…[}:)]
Don’t forget running to line a switch that was already lined…
The DeadMan’s Pedal was on Steam Locomotives and early Diesels. Modern equipment has what is called the “Alerter”. This device does not require constant pressure on it which was often defeated by plopping the lunchpail on the “pedal” or wedging a flare or broom handle on it. The Alerter is a timer that will periodically beep to tell the Engineer to either press a button or make some change to the locomotives controls (throttle or brake). If the Throttle or Brake is altered at any time or if the Alerter button is pressed, the timer is reset and the time-out starts over. If the Alerter times out and the Engineer does not perform some action to reset it, then after some other time period the circuitry shuts down the engine in some manner and brings the train to a stop. Same function as the DeadMan’s Pedal. Holding the Alerter button down does not disable it the way the DeadMan’s Pedal did.
In this case here, if you will read back through this thread, there is a feature of the Alerter explained that disables it if certain functions are in certain conditions in the cab… unfortunately, in this instance those functions were set to those conditions and the Alerter was disabled and thus did not shut down the engine.
The Alerter is disabled when the independent (locomotive only) brake is fully applied. In the CSX runaway case, it’s exactly what happened. The throttle was notched out and the independent was fully on. However, the locomotive traction motors can produce more force than the brakes, so away it went!
Yep thats the one, Shatner is a con man who ends up on the lead engine with the kidnapper after uncoupling the rest of the cars and they have to jump (well their stunt doubles did) from a bridge into one of the sloughs on the San Diegan route. It was on TV over the weekend, still a pretty good movie despite the campy acting.
The one scene I remember from ‘Disaster on the Coastliner’ was the track foreman doubting that the crossover would work & telling everyone to clear out. Then one gandy dancer stepped up, shoved his prybar under the rail, leaned into it, and said “She’ll hold! 100 bucks says she’ll hold!” Tentatively the whole gang, including the foreman, follows suit & the train ends up crossing over safely. Realistic? I seriously doubt it, but oh so memorable! __And while I’m here I thought the same of Unstoppable. Not a lot of realism but I was literally on the edge of my seat anyway. Accept its flaws & enjoy the ride!