Denzel Washington starring in “Unstoppable”.
Quote: “A rail company frantically works to prevent an unmanned, half-mile-long freight train carrying combustible liquids and poisonous gas from wiping out a city.”
Coming soon to a theater near you.
John Bouck said:Which, the movie or the unmanned, half-mile-long freight train carrying combustible liquids and poisonous gas ?
Coming soon to a theater near you.
Prolly the movie.
I saw the trailer this weekend.
Tons of action.
As usual, I’ll wait for the DVD.
This is a documentary, filmed as it actually happened. I have it on good authority from TOC.
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/ae/movies/s_634999.html
‘Unstoppable’ starring Denzel Washington to film in Pittsburgh
By Rob Amen and Jason Cato, TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Thursday, July 23, 2009
http://www.movieweb.com/news/NEFI6qv3mU3aII
Unstoppable Trailer Starring Denzel Washington and Chris Pine
August 6th, 2010
20th Century Fox has released the trailer for Tony Scott’s action drama thriller Unstoppable, which stars Denzel Washington, Chris Pine and Rosario Dawson, and comes to theaters November 12th, 2010.
“Good authority from TOC!”
Maybe there is a Jaguar in the movie – the fuel burning kind – that easily would draw his interest. As to trains, uh, gulp, hard to know considering his focus currently on THE hobby of avoiding the continual restoration and driving and avoiding the continual restoration and then driving of Jaguars. Dave is sharp and knows about English wiring in English cars and I think has resolved the perpetual problem.
Any of you car crazies in the audience may have seen my immaculate black '63 supercharged Avanti at the Peterson Museum in Los Angeles. The display, on the third floor, comes out on October 3rd. The display run has been swince February.
Wendell
There was a runaway train here this spring.
16 empty containerflats (luckily) rolled out from the terminal with no brakes and no loco and headed for the busiest station in the country, Oslo Central Station.
They tried setting all switches to diverging paths, but the empties just “flew” over them all, braking them in the process until they were finally diverged a few hundred yards form the station itself ending up at a container loading terminal instead while going (estimated) 60-70mph.
Smashed trough the terminal building wrecking it and then into the harbour.
The reason was a failure on the shunting brakes that lock the wagon to the rail while waiting for the loce/rest of the train.
It would have been worse if the shunting brakes on other tracks had failed as well or instead as the terminal is heavily used for aviation fuel tankers. 16 of those would not have been very welcome in a city centre.
Link http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2010-03-24-Norway_N.htm
Yawn.
Pretty quiet day on Norwegian State Railways, then. eh, Rune? 
tac
www.ovgrs.org
Supporter of the Cape Meares Lighthouse Restoration Fund
Hopefully, Rune, Hollywood or Bollywood, may make a film of this event. It will make a pleasant change to see beautiful Norwegian scenery rather than the usual Rockies so frequently shown in railroad films.
This doesn’t mean I don’t like the Rockies, which ever part is filmed, I most certainly do.
Alan Lott said:
Hopefully, Rune, Hollywood or Bollywood, may make a film of this event. It will make a pleasant change to see beautiful Norwegian scenery rather than the usual Rockies so frequently shown in railroad films.This doesn’t mean I don’t like the Rockies, which ever part is filmed, I most certainly do.
Now if that is interresting you could see this one?
http://railwayworld.ning.com/video/flaamsbana-1
The investigation into the accident delivered their report earlier today and analysis put’s the speed at about 90mph when the flats hit the terminal.