Besides the fact that the Amtrak Train getting sucked into the ground was so fake it could make you lagh, did they need Amtrak's permission to use there name and Paint sheme in the movie?
------------------ JONATHON D. ORTIZ
Posted by CoastStarlight99 (Member # 2734) on :
10.5 a new TV show??
------------------ --Anton L. pillsbury09@excite.com AIM: pillsburyMN
Posted by Gilbert B Norman (Member # 1541) on :
Amtrak wisely opted out of involvment with the absurdity known as "Silver Streak". How they got involved with this current tripe "10:5" is beyond me.
BTW, 10-5 was a Sleeping Car configuration, that was designed prior to WWII. More efficient positioning of "the facilities" in the Roomette allowed a "postwar" version of the car to become a 10-6. However, 10-5's were built for the Erie, Rock Island, and Canadian National during 1955; these cars had a somewhat enlarged Bedroom design.
Posted by CoastStarlight99 (Member # 2734) on :
Double Take has alot of Amtrak, and the Italian Job (2003) has a Parlour car shown at the very end.
------------------ --Anton L. pillsbury09@excite.com AIM: pillsburyMN
Posted by Yez Boz (Member # 2938) on :
Most used non-word on this forum: "alot" It is not a word. It's two words. "..a lot.."
Most over used crutch word on this forum: "..tripe.."
Posted by Rheboi (Member # 2994) on :
I thought the Silver Streak movie was funny!
Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder are a funny duo.....
Posted by Gilbert B Norman (Member # 1541) on :
First, let it be noted that I'm "not exactly" known in this world for my sense of humor.
However, Mr. Rheboi, I fail to see how you, in your capacity as a pretty "heads up guy" based upon the postings you submit to this Forum, can condone watching the litany of Rules violations depicted in that absurdity of a film.
Of further concern to me is how life has a way of imitating art. Somewhere, some place, some half wit has or will attempt to emulate a stunt on railroad property that was obxserved in that production. Only problem, the railroad on which is chosen to "host" the emulation could well be on tap down at the courthouse for some "heap big wampum".
Lastly, Mr. Boz, I would be happy to subsititute another word that can be posted at a public Forum to replace my admittedly continual use of "tripe'. I'm "all eyes' for your suggestions.
Posted by PullmanCo (Member # 1138) on :
Someone actually watched that movie?
It was full of geologic (amongst other sciences) excrement, and it stank!!!
I poked in for 5 minutes Sunday evening ... when I heard the part about nuclear weapons fusing the hypocenters.... and when I saw what they proposed would fall off into the ocean, I bailed.
------------------ --Anton L. pillsbury09@excite.com AIM: pillsburyMN
Posted by Southwest Chief (Member # 1227) on :
Silver Streak is my favorite movie. True the falsities of the rail related parts are there, but I enjoy the humor, and love Wilder and Prior together. The plot is so so, but some of the lines are hilarious. So as far as train movies go, it is one of the better ones. Believe me there are far worse out there.
And even though Amtrak did not endorse Silver Streak, if you watch closely Amtrak did get in the movie. When the Silver Streak is a runaway and the cops call the dispatcher in the Chicago yards, you can see in the background a switcher moving some Amtrak baggage cars (looks like phase I) clearly in the Chicago coach yards. Every other scene is on Canadian rails and you can see CP rail on several of the locos in the various yards the train traverses.
Posted by JONATHON (Member # 2899) on :
That seen where the Dash-8 and the 5 Superliners got "Swollowed" by the fault was the fakest seen on TV, they didnt even bother to cover up that fake plastic shine
------------------ JONATHON D. ORTIZ
Posted by Rheboi (Member # 2994) on :
I don't go to the movies for "informative or factual content"
I go to be entertained, have a laugh, escape the tedium that live sometimes presents.
I laughed when I saw the movie and if I happen to see it again I still think I'd have a laugh.
I enjoyed the comic talents of Richard and Gene in other movies as well, some of it stupid but still some good humour in there too.
Posted by Robert L (Member # 3144) on :
Could not help but add another movie to this beat-up-the-trains list. Tried to watch this past weekend, "Unbreakable?" I think that was the name. It starred Bruce Willis, (sometimes good, sometimes duh!) as the only survivor of a train accident-derailment-end of the world wreck. While all 177 others on the train died, he lived. I thought maybe at the end he would wake-up in bed from a bad dream. But, I could not stay with it. I had to balance my checkbook and fold the wash and this movie was really a yawner, so to be honest it may end a better movie. But, the main point is that everyone, EVERYONE, on the train, except Mr. Willis, was killed in the accident? There should have been a disclaimer at the end that no animals or trains were harmed in the making of this film. And that the total massacre of passenger is no reference to any reality, living or dead.
Posted by M190 (Member # 3009) on :
Gotta add to the list of bad train movies:
Tough Guys (Wrecked 4449) Runaway Train (Self-important) Best Friends (completely forgettable) Under Siege II, Dork Territory (one word, Steven Segal) Trading Places (Euro compartments on Amfleet cars)
...and last and certainly least...
Atomic Train!!!
Hey, has anyone ever seen a cheesy one from 70's called Disaster on the Coastliner? I saw it once as a kid and I think the Amtrak action was decent even if nothing else was. And for my buck, Silver Streak was funniern'ell even with the operational errors.
Posted by CG96 (Member # 1408) on :
Here are a couple to add to the list:
"Planes, Trains, and Automobiles," and "Throw Momma From The Train." I can't beleive that you went this long without mentioning those two. Granted, nether one deals much with RR operations, but they are actually funny movies (IMO) to watch.
Edited for punctuation.
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Posted by Rheboi (Member # 2994) on :
Trains, Planes and Automobiles!! Classic John Candy and Steve Martin!! Loved that movie...
It actually sounds like my trip in June!! Flying to LA, Train to NY, Bus to Montreal, truck* to Indy via NYC where I'm going on a Ferry etc
I think I'll refrain from putting my hands between "two pillows"!!!
*(was to be motorhome but things have changed to a 4x4 double cab truck)
Posted by TwinStarRocket (Member # 2142) on :
"Under Siege II, Dark Territory" took place in the vast unexplored lands west of Denver where there are no towns, no cell phones, and trains can run undetected for hundreds of miles until they run head-on into speeding freights.
Mr. Segall probably read his Amtrak safety instructions, explaining that "if you see an oncoming locomotive plowing through your coach at high speed, simply run away from it until you get to the rear of the train, where a ladder from an overhead helicopter will be available".
This must have been the same secret rail line John Travolta used to smuggle an atomic weapon into Denver in "Broken Arrow". It has got to be out there somewhere.....a secret transcontinental rail route.
Posted by chubbes (Member # 3250) on :
PPL should at least make the comsist believable
Posted by notelvis (Member # 3071) on :
quote:Originally posted by TwinStarRocket: "is must have been the same secret rail line John Travolta used t It has got to be out there somewhere.....a secret transcontinental rail route.
Maybe we just thought the Colorado Midland was abandoned!!!!!!
------------------ David Pressley
Posted by RRRICH (Member # 1418) on :
This is the first time I have seen this thread -- I must have missed it when it was first started. What is "10-5?" Is that a TV movie, a box-office movie, or what? Someone mentioned there is lots of bad geology in the movie -- I am a geologist, and would like to see this production and critique it myself.
Posted by GrandmaJudy (Member # 2467) on :
"10.5" was a dreadful 4-hour made-for-tv movie that was on NBC(?) for 2 nights at the beginnning of May. Geologically laughable, but I watched just to see the train be chased down the track by an opening fault. Who would think to look out the rear of the train to see if an earthwuake fault was following you? (and how could you see it if there were freight cars on the end? and what would you do about it besides laugh?)
Posted by George Harris (Member # 2077) on :
Did anybody mention "Mission Impossible" with the Eurostar train running right hand track in England to the channel tunnel with a helicopter following it into the tunnel, and a roof hatch that you could upen and climb out, then hold on to the top of the train at 100 mph plus speeds? I am sure I have miss quite a few things that were equally or more impossible. Oh yes, how about the 25,000 volt overhead that seemed to not be there?
Posted by Gilbert B Norman (Member # 1541) on :
While I "haven't been over in a while", it is my understanding that in the UK, Eurostar draws current from the "third rail".
As for right hand operation....well "that's Hollywood".
Posted by George Harris (Member # 2077) on :
True, it is third rail on the existing formerly BR Southern Region line down to the tunnel, but the tunnel itself is 25kv 50 cycle overhead, which is also the standard on the French side.
