When the engines are in the yard, the lead unit is a GP38. Once it runs away, it becomes a 40. Also notice the GP9s are sometimes on their correct Blomberg B trucks and sometimes they are on ALCo trucks. Lol us train nerds! Either way killer movie. Sometimes when I leave for work in the morning, I put my car in neutral and just floor it in the driveway. I go tearing down the road burning off my brakes!
Is a little continuity too much to ask??? There's also a scene where they show freight car wheels instead of a locomotive wheel set. Not to mention that the consist of the freight going into the siding changes two times.
To all you folks talking about Al's use of notch 8 and having the reverser in neutral, let me make something perfectly clear to you. Al is a rebel, okay? He plays by his own rules. He does what he wants, when he wants. He doesn't have time for your silly speed limits and other nonsense. He's got freight to move and move it he will, at top speed. Even if it kills him.
I love the moment manny spots the locomotive he wants, a big, dark beast emerging from the mist. Then when they wait for it to depart, the music lets you know their is something sinister about this train, that it is destined for disaster.
@betatalk357 The railroad doesn't leave Alaska anyway. They just needed to get far away from where they escaped. The engines probably looked more comfortable than freight cars.
Great point!! Everything is so black and white from the engines to the snow that your focus is on the 3 characters in the train and their dialogue, as it should be. The train has a sinister demeanor from the moment it appears. The scenes where its flying down the tracks look so similar to the train in Goldeneye, 10yrs later.
I remember watchin this movie on tv in the early mid 90s. I know it was made in 85 but i was 3 then so I wouldn't have remembered it. Always love watchin it.
At 4:25 the gauge that showed the speed of the train is from a company named Barco, and in the 1970s this company was instrumental in providing gauges for Electro Motive which was then headquartered in LaGrange, IL. Barco was based in Barrington on North Hough Street (Route 59) just south of U.S. Route 14.
Nice that the locomotive operator had a mattress to land on. Kidding. I just LOVE the movie. Saw it back when it was new. It already had cult status back then. I bought it on bluray a little while ago. Oh yeah. It still holds its position. The milieu, the wheather, the stunts, the setting, the acting, the music, the shooting, the editing... Flawless.
@@vernwallen4246 Yes, that's a very good film. Never saw or heard of it till a couple years ago (2018?) on TCM. Raw, intense, Lancaster is great. I don't think they've shown it since
Snowlep 337 Damn you Hollywood. Another exampl of retarded Holly wood logic is in Emperor of the North, where there was nearly a head on between the fast mail and the local freight, and the local went straight into a siding, the fast mail somehow moved over the switch whilst it was set for the main antagonist characters train, the 19, or the freight, where the fast mail would have COMPLETELY derailed! Hollywood ticks me the hell off.
@@mikeytrains1 The fast mail went trailing through the switch. That would work similar to a spring switch except it would break some parts. Even so, I think Emperor of the North has been the best train movie so far. They should have called the movie “Unstoppable” , “Unbelievable” instead. A make believe world where truck sets stay together while lifting from the track on one side. A world where an SD40-2 has 5000 horsepower! A world where the knuckle to the last car has to be open to couple to it. And a world where you can only get to the lead units cab by going up the front steps. When those two movies are compared, it’s no contest. Runaway Train falls somewhere in between.
Funfact in sonic the hedgehog, we hear his favorite movie is the 1994 film speed, that was actually INSPIRED BY THIS VERY FILM MADE IN 1985, the original plot was what if a train wasnt aloud to stop cause if it slowed the bomb would go off, the idea was good but souned bad for a train, so they swapped it to a bus
@@RUNAWAYTRAIN3010 Interesting question but some answer might lie ahead. I was 13 living in Austria when I seen the cover for this movie inside a store, thought it was a video game not VHS tape.
Everyone knows that a train engineer cannot have a locomotive in run 8 in the yard. The speed limit in any freight yard according to federal guidelines is no more than 15 mph.
0:14 locomotive in the background appears to be a Rarus Railway (present day Butte Anaconda and Pacific, owned by Patriot Rail) geep. Most likely this scene was filmed in Montana
One of my favorite movies as a 10 year old, also seen a Japanese flick same time I was born at this...Ringing Bell 78'...not anime yet but can still make Bambi look like a nice hunting trip...
Really great camera scenes that ya just don't see anymore just even the look of the train foin through the mist followed by the class soundtrack amazing
jacob hinojosa if you’re wondering how that all came about, a lot of EMDs wound up on strange wheels as the result of various trade-ins like Alco, Baldwin, Fairbanks-Morse. They had the more used AAR-B trucks. EMDs are the only ones with the Blomberg Bs.
This movie is awesome. Why can't they make movies like this anymore? I never understood why he couldn't unscrew the fuel filters and that would've killed the engine or cut the fuel lines? But if he did any of that we wouldn't have this awesome movie
The modern day remake would have an SD70MAC, F40PH HEP car, and two GP40s. No air brake lines or MU cables connected between the MAC and the others because Al was just kicking the locos around on the ready tracks.
Las locomotoras GP-40 , F7A y GP7 en Runaway train 1985 se sale sin control por el maquinista que aplico el freno de emergencia y cayo de la GP40-2 muerto . Las GP7 son de nariz alta . Me gusta esa pelicula Runaway train 1985 .
You find lots of old rare cars on that slow manifest the GP40-2 slammed into... a side dump, several water cars (they don’t haul water, they have windows.) a caboose that was a total loss... old big dome tankers, so on. Crazy how the flatbed got shoved into and impaling the caboose pushing out its chassis and underframe. GP40-2 in movie was a loss because the cab was destroyed and repair would be more expensive than a new loco... plus it went on to go wreck alone anyway... quite sad if you are into trains... ouch.
American Railfan those cars with windows are former us army troop sleeper cars from ww2. Many were reused for passenger and in this case freight service in the years after the end of the war.
Bjr Adrian Its sort of meant to actually, as if it were an angel sent by God to punish/redeem Manny and Buck for their crimes. That's kind of the symbolism of the movie's plot.
Everywhere I read it says the lead locomotive is a GP40-2 but by looking at it it is clearly a GP38-2, and the locomotives all use "Blomberg B" type trucks but in some scenes we are shown "AAR B" trucks. Hmm...
"СБЕЖАВШИЙ ПОЕЗД" ИЛИ "ПОЕЗД БЕГЛЕЦ", ФИЛЬМ 1985 ГОДА ВЫПУСКА, РЕЖЕССЁР АНДРЕЙ КОНЧАЛОВСКИЙ, США. ФИЛЬМ О ПРОТИВОСТОЯНИИ ХАРАКТЕРОВ СБЕЖАВШЕГО ПРЕСТУПНИКА - РЕЦЕДЕВИСТА И НАЧАЛЬНИКА ТЮРЬМЫ. КЛЮЧЕВАЯ ФРАЗА ФИЛЬМА : " И ДАЖЕ У САМОГО ЛЮТОГО ЗВЕРЯ ЕСТЬ ЧУВСТВО СОСТРАДАНИЯ К СВОЕЙ ЖЕРТВЕ, У МЕНЯ ЖЕ НЕТ, А ЗНАЧИТ Я НЕ ЗВЕРЬ ". РИЧАРД III "ЛЬВИННОЕ СЕРДЦЕ".
That crash was a mix of real rolling stock and models. It also has different locomotives on the train if you saw the scene where the dispatcher speaks with the engineer.
There's a movie production goof. The lead engines reverser was set at neutral. And from what I understand of locomotives the reverser needs to be set to either forward or reverse to get it moving.
The drawback of jumping onto locomotives is that they will go a comparitively short distance and will be coupled to a number of cars and then the average speed can be twenty five miles an hour between climbing uphill at a slower speed and stopping on sidings to let other trains pass.
im not sure but the lead engine is now owned by alaska railroad as number 3010 the f7a is now is in display as number 1500 i have no idea about the gp7 locos ?
Mitchell DeVillers the 2 GP7s used in the movie are 1801 and 1810. 1801 was sold and now works at the repondek railroad corp in Illinois and 1810 works at ADM as a switcher. Also 1810 was used again in the 1995 movie under siege 2 dark territory as a trailing unit on a fictional passenger train, along with 1804 another Alaska GP7 which was the lead locomotive
Actually the yard scenes were filmed in Montana on the butte anaconda and pacific railroad they used a BA&P gp38 and two gp9s to portray there Alaskan counterparts as well as a northern pacific f9 rented from the mt Rainer scenic railroad in Elbe Washington
The Woman is Rebecca De mornay she is Sara and also in the Starship video song Sara.. She looks a lot different in this movie..Also she played the sycho woman in the Hand that rocks the Cradle..Also Risky Business Movies
Super film que runaway train mais complètement improbable Pas de mécanicien aux commandes de la loc et le train s’arrête automatiquement Et heureusement... Mais je le réécris : très très bon film !!!!
I like How in: 3:39 The GP40-2 Approaches the Train Switching off. Like it was about it hit it. But In: 3:44 The Flat-Car + Caboose made a Clearance for 3010 To Get Through. All though if the Switch Wouldn't of Gotten Thrown Different For 3010 To By-Pass. It would Of Derailed 3010 With the F7A + The Two GP7's! Either if the Switch Broke While 3010 Hit it. Or it was a Mistake in the Movie.. Makes Sense Doesn't, It?
And the Flat-Car & Caboose Was on the switch but in: 3:46 The Cars Didn't Hit the Switch! And as +Hitachi 4515 Said "The Caboose Was a Different Color".
Really bad luck that the poor driver puts his units in Notch 8 right before he drops dead of a heart attack. It's not uncommon practice IIRC with older engines, throw them to max throttle just to get them moving then throttle down to the proper notch setting. He manages to throw the loco brakes but against a prime mover running full throttle? They had no chance. I've always wondered why his units didn't have a deadman pedal, especially since they were older and looked to be mostly used for local switching. IIRC, it was said they were just too old and it either was absent or didn't work properly. And once that thing blew through yard limits, it was an unstoppable juggernaut.
What you're forgetting (or didn't know about) is that when you "dump the air" or place the train in emergency (like he did on the way out the door, that's the fireman's emergency brake valve), the drop in train line pressure trips the PCS (pressure control switch), which unloads all of the governors (throttle/engine control devices on each locomotive), dropping the engines back to idle, and unloading the main generators. Four units in emergency, at idle, would stop within a matter of feet.
@@75Bird455 I learned something new today! Thank you! I'm curious now what your take on the scene is - why might the units not have stopped (other than, of course, rule of drama?)
The F unit , AKRR 1500 is at the Museum of Transportation and Industry in Wasilla AK. The lead unit, AKRR 3010 is still in service . AKRR 1801 and 1810 were sold and most likely scrapped by now. The Locos used in the yard scenes came from various sources, I couldn’t tell your their fates. I remember watching this movie as a young boy, I came from a Railroad Family in Northern Mn , never thought I’d be working on the same locomotive from this movie 25+ years later !
@@yellowk20 ibwonder what happened to the lead loco when Manny uncoupled it and I believe it appears that he lead loco had derailed with Manny and the captain both of them died when the train was in the dead end track
What kind of engineer puts the throttle to notch 8 to get a train with 4 locomotives and no cars moving I mean at least with crazy eights the engineer actually had a heavy train to pull.
Wolfgang548 it was switched off of the mainline onto a siding which leads to a dead end. Basically the track they were ended a few miles after the switch.
Basically it flew off the rails at the end of the siding, but the director made it so it looked like it just disappeared into the snow, also why was the tunnel blocked, that's just odd
Kellyn Kamfolt she was actually a hostler helper who took a break aboard the F unit, but nodded off and found herself in the company of two escaped cons aboard a pilotless consist of four older general purpose locomotives.
