Check this out

[qrfan3]

Now that's some train action....but sadly most likely based of a real event that happened.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DC6QM8y0 ... r_embedded

[styckx]

No movie with trains in it can ever.. I mean EVER top this cinematic masterpiece.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukc9_CfMZu8

[Shortliner]

Unstoppable looks like a good action flick.... as long as you don't think about it too much. First thing that came to my mind is, where's the derail switch?

[arizonachris]

"Unstoppable" does look good. Wonder the real event happened?

And the second one was hilarious.

[charliechan]

Good Morning:

Heck sakes I thought they both looked real.

Chandler

[RobinP]

It is based off a true story.

Based on a real runaway train incident from May 2001 when a 47 car CSX train left a Toledo, Ohio rail yard without an engineer and wasn't stopped until it had ran 66 miles through three counties.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0477080/trivia?tr1219693

Here's a CNN story on the real runaway:
http://archives.cnn.com/2001/US/05/16/runaway.train/

This is also a good read
http://kohlin.com/CSX8888/z-final-report.htm

Robin

[qrfan3]

Very interesting reading, especially the Culprit report.
Thanks Robin....

[Shortliner]

It is based off a true story.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0477080/trivia?tr1219693

Here's a CNN story on the real runaway:
http://archives.cnn.com/2001/US/05/16/runaway.train/

This is also a good read
http://kohlin.com/CSX8888/z-final-report.htm

Robin

Isn't there a video of the guy hopping onto the train to stop it? I think I saw it one time on one of those shows called "The most dangerous etc. etc." on FOX back in the 90s.

[RobinP]

It's not very clear but at about 1 minute in you can see Jon Hosfeld jumping on board the train.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vN6jX4S8v8

[Shortliner]

Oh, if anyone is interested, this is one of the locomotives they used in the movie.

http://railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=329354&nseq=0