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.
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.
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.
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.
@@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
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.
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.
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
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.
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...
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.
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.
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 .
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.
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
"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".
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...
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.
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.
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.
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 !!!!
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.
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
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
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
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
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?)
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.
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".
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
Nearly 38 years and still a Masterpiece.
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.
@@ffjsb Or when eastbound 12 changes from a GP of some kind with a flasher beacon, to one of ARR's MRS Alco diesels.
@@artfulldodger5597I thought I was losing my mind as a kid noticing that.
These scenes are so sinister and the music does it justice.
1:08 always liked the close shot of the cooling fan, as if it were the train's heartbeat.
I loved this movie as a kid and I still do.
The music and the scenery being black and white with little color gave this movie a sinister feel
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.
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.
Привет Я из Украины 🇺🇦🇺🇦
Aye he was a rebel and he was good friend he was the only friend I ever had
@@user-hs5xf1eg4c hi from the US. We admire the Ukrainian peole and their ferocity in kicking so much Russian ass.
2:45 Yeah, one guy can call the paramedics. And maybe another can hop on the train and stop it before it picks up too much speed?!
Lots of guys switching do that to get units moving , yes he didn't put the locomotive in forward also
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.
Fucking A... Thats how I feel too
You're just typecasting synth music.
@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.
Ah stop it man ya making me blush
@@RUNAWAYTRAIN3010 it's a cold windy night, Runaway Train. So, are you done for the night?
A masterpiece movie with realistic actors & above all the music. Still remember it after 20 years
Your right there buddy, what a movie 🎥 once it starts it doesn’t let up, magnificent!
You want to say after 35 Years.....
@@dankwartdenkhardt5714 yes
I managed to keep my LP record of the soundtrack after all this time, has “Verdi’s Requiem” on the last track, side B.
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.
Music in this movie from starting to end is damm good enough to make this movie a masterpiece..
I thought my film was a masterpiece
old movies always the best
After all these years it's still a great movie
Probably the best ever train based movie made.
Try'the train"w/Burt Lancaster.👍👍
@@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
Female Engineer: You’re an animal!
Manny: Worse, I’m human.
One of the most powerful exchanging cinema.
Well this is like watching the whole movie in less than 7 minutes.
Its not.
THE BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY IN THE HISTORY OF HOLLYWOOD; IN MY OPION.
My c favorite movie
The train had a possessed look of evil. So well done.
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.
I think there's a Whole Foods or a dog grooming place there now.
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.
I'm pretty sure they used a dummy
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
1:16
*Puts Notch to 8 with Reverser in Neutral*
*The Locos start moving*
*LOGIC*
And thats why Al had a heart attack :v
Nico5000 LoL
Nico5000 😙😙😙😙😙😙😙😙😙😙😙😙😙😙
He had a stroke contemplating what just happened
Al had a stroke causing the heart attack. *LOGIC* BOOM
@@quietday9991 wait, aren't the highhoods GP9's
This is an extremely well made video
The true star of the movie :
The train 🚂
An amazing Train 🚉, what a great classic movie, Eric Roberts is a natural comedian and John is just a great dude 👍🙏
4:50 chills. This is so realistic movie. Best of the best
as a locomotive engineer I am lost how the locomotive moved in 8th notch with the reverser center lol
“No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity.” “But I know none, and therefore am no beast.”
Richard III - William Shakespeare
I keep quoting it to this day
M Z really what for
@@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.
@@RUNAWAYTRAIN3010 30 years later my sister ended up in a movie with Eric Roberts, think about the odds, you probably heard of 6 degrees of separation
M Z Ah I see. Do you know who I am really? Hint I’m on the screen
I showed my niece and nephew this movie. They were gripping the living room couch
2:49 you can see the GP-40's brakes already burned up cause of the power and the others brakes haven't that's a nice detail
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
*puts loco into Run8 with the reverser in N, Loco goes forward* Because l o g i c
oh hey, i found ya snowlep XD
Learn english.
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.
Probably the most evil looking EMD I ever seen.
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...
Rather than edit...Ringing Bell...78', Rebecca DeMornay on this one, 84' if not mistaken.
i love this. the parts of the movie that you chose go together artfully. a brilliant job. sharp editing. thank you and kudos to a talented person. 🌪👻
In reeal life, the train probably WOULD have gone through that caboose. 4 locos, 70+ MPH, yeah that caboose is toast
You have GOT to be kidding me. Notch 8 in the damned yard!
In nuetral too
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.
@@floridianrailauto9032 lol
Thing would turn into a missile in notch 8 with light power wonder if all four were operational.
Scooby Carr I mean you can have it In notch 8 if you’re doing a engine load test that’s the only time tho.
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
Growling like a beast from 5:35 to 5:48
The GP7 # 1810 that appeared in Runaway Train also used in Under Siege 2 1995.
Raul Matias Casas Zavala
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Raul Matias Casas Zavala alongside GP7 1804, both survive today. The 1810 lives in Oregon, while the 1804 is a museum piece in Florida.
What about 1812
I don't know.
Amazing info, how 😎 cool 👍
I love how he takes the warden with him 😂
I love those four locomotives 🚂🚂🚂🚂 I have same movie since I watched it
All of them reliable pieces of machinery, all EMDs.
John Tapp they are?
jacob hinojosa yes-even the ones whose trucks had drop equalizers.
John Tapp oh
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.
Mi película favorita de siempre, es sencillamente espectacular!!!!!
It roars like a lion on its way to the end of the siding!
The music and that beast of a train is so cool 😎
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 .
THE "GREATEST SCENES" EVER SHOT IN HOLLYWOOD HISTORY! BAR NONE! ENOUGH SAID! PERIOD...!
I NEED SHOES MANNY, MANNY I NEED SHOES 🤣
MANNY I DON'T WANNA DIE
I swear, that train was possessed.
The two GP7 locomotives 812 1810 had plywood on the front to make them look like high hood locomotives. then it was taken of after filming the move
TRAINZ the GP9's are real highhoods and are still in service.
@@ReadingAreaRailfan they are GP7s not GP9s and they are mock-up high hoods
@@oregonrailfan7046 thats a one year old comment. Obviously i know that now
I LOVE Your videos
Luke the crazy hill billy thanks
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.
Isn't Unstoppable his spiritual succesor?
Isn't Unstoppable his spiritual succesor?
@@jesusalfredofernandezcruz1833 no
Kicking locomotives? Here's your walking papers.
One of my favorite
名作だよなぁ。
It is masterpiece
Am i the only one hearing a bell ringing at 0:26?
EFC429 yes
And?
EEC429 no i hear it.
Na I hear it to
Heard it too!
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
They couldn't get to the lead engine
Just move to the last unit. Uncouple it from the other three. Finito.
Mr T: I pity the fool if I am that foolish enough trying my best to cross the second to the first engine, I am a dead goner!
The lead engine in the yard is a GP38, as the movie progresses it becomes a GP40-2...
That’s because the yard scenes were all filmed in Montana , all the on track scenes were shot in Alaska in the Whittier/Portage area.
Thanks i just used google maps to find the bridge & tunnels, theyre the ones leading into Whittier
So cool
I love the line “Cause I want it”
"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".
There's hell's ride
great movie
I swear that locomotive looked alive.😨😨...
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.
@@justinratcliffe947 a good music score to go with it. Thanks Justin. 😱.
I WAS AND STILL AM ALIVE
RUNAWAY TRAIN yes, all but one-the F7 museum display, are still pulling active duty.
John Tapp That’s not what I meant I do have a conchents and I really alive. A locomotive that is truly alive
Onw of tge best films ever
Awesome video👍 thanks... I can recreate this in my G scale I have those engines..
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...
The Alaska RR Geeps had AAR B trucks under them so that is correct.
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.
The gp40-2, the gp9s are still in service, the f7a is in a museum
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.
i have an ho model sleeper car that looks like that and i'm guessing that's a reussed train car that was made in ho scale.
Zombie Slayer8999 those are gp7s not gp9s
@@ZombieSlayer-dj3wb does the f7 still run?
TWO GP7 OR GP9's F unit FIRST GP38 NOW GP40!
Yes... I totally want to run them all together on my G scale..
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.
3:43 - 3:52 the Caboose has change colour.
It did too wow
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.
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 !!!!
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.
I don't know why but the music reminds me of sinefeild
It’s that twangy base sound
@@Legitcar117 Lol this comment is 2 years old now, Its called slap bass
The train should of been the star of the movie...
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
2:40 RIP ⚰️
I know the guy that sold them the models to make the crash scene
I've made believe they escaped prison in Seward and went on the train near there and that the depot was in Anchorage
Roblox 1985 Runaway Train
The Train NEVER stop...The Train got wrecked and Crazy Man top on the train..If train will be CRASH soon The train will go to die.
IT IS THE SAME AS THE UNSTOPPABLE MOVIE
No it isn’t. It at least has some realism
Love this move... But thats a GP-38 on the front
Alcatraz it’s a GP40-2
GP38-2s aren't turbocharged
Sorry to break it to ya but that’s a GP40-2
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
GP40-2* GP38s aren't turbocharged@@oregonrailfan7046
What happened to the locomotives after the movie was finished?
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 ?
Makes Sense
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
Didn't know that the GP7's were used is Under Siege 2, thanks for the info
Mitchell DeVillers your welcome. 1810 in this movie is 4th unit on the runaway numbered 812 and the 2 GP7s has mock up high nose
What movie is this from?
This was, or should I say, a great movie. One question though. Does anyone know how the lead crashes in the end?
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
I read back in 1986 where the locomotive smashes head on into solid rock.
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?)
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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.
IN Alaska.
A train colour black snowy
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".
And How in Sam Hell Did the Locomotive Have a Plow Shaped like that?
THAT'S KARMA! xD
But the Mangled Plow made it Look, Epic.
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Thing is, at a speed like that, a switch which isn’t aligned properly won’t do that much to the train.
1:24 : Present day Robert DeNiro. 😆
I wonder what happened to these locomotives after the film
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
@@erikrobert4758 In real life the Lead Locomotive is currently still in Service on the Alaska Railroad
you don't just go from notch 1 to 8 while just starting moving lol
I want it
4:46
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Why can't I buy this movie on youtube?
What's the number of runaway locomotives?
A_ KANNY i dont think the units have numbers
well all i know is the second loco is #500 and the 4th loco is #812.
The First Unit is 3010.
I don't get why the Numbers where Faded out. Or the Paint Schemes where Grayed and Rusted out Like that. They look like They Just Got Sanded.
Thx. But what about 3rd unit?
4:14
Loved "Runaway Train" but I wish the filmmakers left out the prison scenes and went directly to the train yards
My girlfriend didn’t like the prison scenes. I thought the analogy of warden Rankin’s mother’s f***hole was cute.
I why
OMG
It’s a GP38-2, not a 40-2.
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+RF PRODUCTION 1862 ur not playing ?
+Mr Reddee nooo
How did he hurt his hand
It got caught in the couplers between the locomotives trying to get from the second locomotive to the first
It was caught between the couplers, which crushed his fingers as he tried crossing from locomotive to locomotive
Originally, his hand was shanked in the prison. Further injury was done between the couplers of the locomotives.