Friday night I couldn’t resist, scanning through the NETFLIX line-up I added this http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0477080/ to “My List” . Hmmmmm … absolutely amazing at what speed one can pull into a siding without derailing. 
So that’s where some people pick up their operating habits. 
HJ always remember “its just a movie” The starship Enterprise is only a model and Superman is hanging from a wire on his butt.
FUN movie BTW
Now where can I get the formula for the paint on the front of the lunatic loco ?
Not a scratch on it after it has demolished a shedload of various vehicles .
Mike
Vic Smith said:
HJ always remember “its just a movie” The starship Enterprise is only a model and Superman is hanging from a wire on his butt.
FUN movie BTW
Vic, I always remember that I just sit and marvel. The other (almost) train movie I watched recently was “Narrow Margin”, lots of hoopla on that “VIA train”.
Mike Morgan said:
Now where can I get the formula for the paint on the front of the lunatic loco ?
Not a scratch on it after it has demolished a shedload of various vehicles .
Mike
Mike its the same paint they used on the TV show the Dukes of Hazard. Not only did that car never have a scratch in the paint, the fenders would straighten themselves out between shots and the car would jump on command.
You just have to love Hollywood. Even though the movie Unstoppable is based on an actual event, Hollywood had to jazz it up so much, that the facts get lost in the fiction. But it is a good movie, if you can look beyond the impossible feats.
Oh , I’m sure the film will be enjoyable , as were the Dukes’ episodes .
I would watch it just for the train shots .
Mike
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David Maynard said:
It’s the same paint they used on the TV show the Dukes of Hazard. Not only did that car never have a scratch in the paint, the fenders would straighten themselves out between shots and the car would jump on command.
You just have to love Hollywood. Even though the movie Unstoppable is based on an actual event, Hollywood had to jazz it up so much, that the facts get lost in the fiction. But it is a good movie, if you can look beyond the impossible feats.
It’s referred to as “self-healing steel envelope” and was developed shortly after that bionic dude in Million Dollar Man. Besides, a lot of Hollywood productions stand with one foot in the parallel universe.
In any case, I just sit back, relax and marvel. If someone were to come along and offer me a whale of a deal on eBay, I’d probably go for that, too. 
The Million Dollar man. What would that be in toady’s dollars?
A customer started with that one day. He said, about his tired copier, “We can rebuild it, we have the technology”. To which I responded “I don’t know about that, but I am sure I can make it run in slow motion while making funny noises.” His co-worker just looked at us both funny. The co-worker being 20 something, didn’t grow up watching the same corny shows we grew up watching.
Speaking of movies involving railroading, I tuned in after the movie started, the other night. I believe the title was “Silver Streak”. No, not the one from the seventies with Gene Wilder and Richard Prior, but a movie that must have been made in the thirties. I cannot even say who the actors were. But the film featured plenty of action shots of the Burlington Zephyr. In a nut shell, an older railroad owner is reluctant to change with the technology and adopt diesel power. His son gets sick and needs an Iron Lung. He’s two thousand miles away and the only way to get the Iron Lung there in time to save the son is on the experimental train, called Silver Streak in the film. There’s more to the plot, but I’ll let you watch it.