Runaway Train (1985) - Crash Scene

It was a dumb boy who made the emergency fuel cut-off switch on those diesel locomotives. With the rest of diesel locomotives, all you have to do is hit the button once, and it will stop unless it's on a hill.

Interesting fact: The locomotive of the train pulling onto the siding had just been retired by the Alaska Railroad a few months before the movie was shot. The train itself shown was actually the Movie Production train lol, where the cast and crew were living while shooting in the frigid conditions. The locomotive had originally been built in the 1950s for the US Army in the early days of the Cold War under contract by ALCO with a unique design that allowed its bogies to be adjusted to fit multiple track gauges. At the time, it was thought important in the event of the Third World War in Europe that the U.S. be able to provide locomotives as that would have been how supplies would have been moved around the European theater and the adjustable bogies meant they could have been fit to the several European rail gauges in existence. However, by the late 1950s it was obvious any World War would be so catastrophic that of all the things anyone would be worrying about, there wouldn't be anything left to move by rail assuming the rail system itself even still existed, so they were sold as surplus to US Rail Lines where they served for many decades in traditional rail service.

George Kittle running through the saint's defense.

Someone should put thomas music over this

Runaways are indeed a scary thing, and thank god I’ve never been on one

Is that Kramer driving that Eastbound 12??

Saw unstoppable and this has that feel

Suicide. so you sit on the caboose?

Why did they stop the train only to tell them to move ahead onto the siding?

CC 201: nooooooo my brother

“Luckily, No one was hurt.”

I think we all know what this scene inspired.

Poor Thomas! 🤔🤣

Underrated film. Unstoppable borrowed a lot from this.

Nah this is crazy

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I actually remember watching Unstoppable for the first time back in 2019, and I really liked it (since I was a huge railfan at the time), but now knowing this movie exists, maybe I'll have to give it a watch, too.

One of the episodes of Thomas

My 2nd favorite movie of all time. A true classic!

Such an underrated 80s action film It’s so good

You can’t stop something that cannot be stopped.

It's a runaway power move

This is just the unstoppable 777 and 1012 crash in a nutshell

I hate the cold but thought the cinematography and locations were beautiful. When I saw this as a kid, I wanted to go there

The second engine was used was 1605 former army

Why to stop the goods train if an oncoming train was coming and they had a shoulder line. Well done. 👏🏻

Something about these old Movies Where Eveyrthings covered in snow and Product placement everywhere…

(Home alone,Planes trains and automobiles,You get the Gist)

Just now noticing after all of these decades that two entirely different train engines were used to portray Eastbound 12. 😆

Gotta ask. Was this scene done with real full size trains? If with models, what size/scale?

This movie still holds up pretty well. Danny Trejo got his start here. Very good movie.

How haunted & headstrong the train looks plowing through the snow & cargo train without anyone helming it.

does anyone notice that this is similar to the 777 and 1206 crash scene?

For there was Keanu Reeves in "Speed", there was "Runaway Train."

unstoppable vibes

The reason why I love the old school movies because they're more realistic & guns & ammunition are REAL, for example H E A T

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Are we not gonna mention that the freight train changes locomotives between shot?

Why are people not serious in job?

Why does the Caboose make a scary sound when it implodes?

All those cars can be re-built !

Always wondered why the Alaskan railroad train has a complete identity crisis when it first comes into view. Beautiful engine with all blue hoppers and then bam! It turns into an old Alco with a string of maintenance cars😆

What are those blue box cars with the windows calld

This gave the idea to the movie unstoppable for the 1206train collision

Ngl it would be a nightmare to be in a cabosse, casualy looking out and seeing a black EMD emerge from nowere at full speed