Totally agree! If I was a kid I would've had nightmares for weeks! I think it's the scene that the train is still running, but the IMPLICATION is that it's now full of horribly murdered people where there used to be passengers and train crew.
it’s just still under power, that’s all. Yes the crew is dead and the interior of the cab are on all fire but that doesn’t matter, as long as the underlying mechanisms and the engine/traction motors and Generators are fine , the locomotive will keep in operation.
Technically it is driving on it's own, I don't like using the word driving when it comes to trains those sizes, your basically operating the locomotive, So all you have to do is throw that throttle all the way to whatever notch to make the train drive on it's own and you got yourself a runaway
The speed its going kinda tells you that they sped up to try and get away from the tri-pods. Sadly considering the train has burns on both sides, its safe to assume this train went through a big city of tri-pods and was probably lit up several times over from all directions. And its just been going at this speed while blazing for hours now.
Creepy knowing that at some point during the movie, this train was spotted by a Tripod and ended up getting incinerated. The fact that it's still moving and that there's potentially a hundred burning corpses on board is even worse... O_o
Given the circumstances I'm certain there were way more than a hundred corpses on it. Was probably filled way over capacity to evacuate civilians when it was attacked
This is really one of the creepiest alien invasion films I have seen. Not because of the machines and what they do, but because of the little things. Ray covered in the ashes of his neighbors, the river of bodies, this train, and the scene where cloths are raining down from the sky. There's just this foreboding atmosphere throughout the movie and it really shows.
I've never come across a comment that addresses that point. That's one of the key things in this film. The overwhelming sense of stress. This is a one of the many traits in this film that is the same in the book.
Honestly, I think the Fight for the only working Van was the scariest part. Because it shows that our species is so hopeless in this situation, that they're even attempting to kill eachother over a Van that is probably going to run out of gas soon. Kinda depressing.
This is a brilliant piece of symbolism here. Things are already looking pretty bleak at this point in the movie. This scene shows that the destruction wrought by the tripods is quite literally EVERYWHERE, and no matter what they try, they are not going to be able to escape. A very well-done scene, and it's not even half a minute! Packing that powerful symbolism into such a short scene is very good.
It's almost a testamont to human engineering. Could you imagine, as a martian - that you blast a human metal snake thing - and instead of disintegrating it bursts into a hellish streak of fire and continues on it's way unabated.
@@That_One_Guy...so why train did not exploded? Fuel should probably catch fire and made train explode. Or maybe it vaporized to? That would explain why it didn’t explode. And also would mean that this train had to be attacked not so far from the town because there is no way it could go for so long without derailing or stopping which means the train was actually a warning for tripods incoming Man I love this movie
@@mindlessgonzo actually, Amtrak used to allow for you to smoke on trains(in certain cars only) but they completely banned that in 2013. And yeah, it's creepy seeing that Genesis Locomotive.
I have 2 questions, 1 its metro north, not amtrak, 2 amtrak does not force you to not smoke, but the govenment forces amtrak to force us to stop smoking in trains
Quick fact: This scene was filmed in Athens, NY and there are no railroad tracks in that part of town. The train tracks in this scene is actually a road in real life.
this is one of under-appreciated movies out there, particularly because it is considered as a typical hollywood blockbuster. but this movie does have more than that. It does know how to make certain atmospheres which make audience feel fear through small details, just like this scene. Instead of showing battlescene between humans and aliens, it just shows what remains after alien attacks, ashes of people, dead bodies floating on river, burning trains running on track, crashed airplane.. which leave people with disturbing feeling, fear and awe.
I think another reason why its atmosphere is like this is because we're also not seeing it through a normal sci-fi alien trying to destroy the world movie soldier character but we're seeing it through a regular bystander's eyes, a citizen's eyes.
This is such a disturbing scene. Like an animal with its stomach ripped open, running from an uncaring predator that destroys for no other reason than to destroy.
Nice I like the imagery. But humans are the only creatures that destroy for no reason, animals only purpose of instinct without regard for that choice and consequences.
Predators are built to kill. They literally need to kill to live Grass feeds off soil the same way herbivores feed of the grass, the same way predators feed off the herbivores, the same way scavengers feed off herbivores and carnivores
@@onslaughtmma5110 Actually,, there are several animal species that destroy without need and hunt for pleasure!! As well as if given the opportunity;: every species would become Invasive, as humanity has, but are kept in check by their biome.
The clip ended too soon. I think the creepiest part (and probably the most accurate to real human group reactions while under extreme stresses) is that the crowd basically does a "Well, THAT happened" and then continues on with what they were doing
Just imagine the train peacefully rolling on the rails and everyone spots a tripod walking in the distance then the people freaking out then the tripod spots the train so it shoots its heat rays at it disintegrating the passengers on it and no one to stop it it just kept moving
...and the whole train dont catch on fire at once, for some people its a panic slow death as the fire spreading ...no way out ....no one to stop it. The people push each other back to live longer. usch, the whole idea gives me the creeps :s
One of my favorite scenes in the movie. According to IMDB, there was a scene similar to this in the original book (which I unfortunately haven't read). In that case it was a steam locomotive, the heat from the fire fueling the boiler and making it go full tilt out of control. Not sure what would have conspired to let this ghost train continue it's screaming ride... until it derails on a curve several miles away.
I don’t ever recall such a scene in the book, but I know a scene like this existed in the video game adaptation of Jeff Wayne’s Musical Version of The War of the Worlds.
This is eerie because, even though the world for us is ending, our machines and almost everything else we built still go on as though nothing is wrong.
It's after the scene at the ferry that you realise this scene is potentially foreshadowing that the tripods aren't far away. I'd personally be more than a little worried.
For the people that is wondering why the Train didn't go derailed or blow up into pieces while we can see their heat rays is capable of destroying large structures such as the highway but couldn't completely destroy a Train? That's because the Tripod has 2 type of hest rays, which is the purple heat ray and the blue heat ray. The purple heat ray is used for destroying large structures while the blue heat ray is used for vaporizing humans but has minimal damage to structures or vehicles. As seen in the first Tripod scene where a woman was vaporized by the Tripod inside her car but her car didn't blow up. So I'm assuming the Tripod that encountered the Train uses the blue heat ray to eliminate the humans inside of that Train, but couldn't careless about the Train whatsoever so they didn't destroy it completely.
+George VI Alien 1223: "Holy Shit, these things are fast!" Alien 4056: "Get the fuck out of the train, Carl." Alien 1223: "Dude, you have got to try this out!" Alien 2056: "Welp, you just earned yourself a write-up, mister."
Here is the backstory to this. The train was going to station 5, a tripod was sitting their camping and harvesting red weed (their food) the train crew said politely, may we pass? The tripod said no. The train crew kept asking until they gave up. They got into the train, rammed their tripod, which made the Martians angry because they had just freshly painted their new tripod for the invasion, so the tripod set the train on fire and pushed it along the tracks. That tripod.... Must be really upset.
You can imagine the sheer pandemonium that befell that train before it was attacked by a Tripod. Probably packed with thousands of panicking fleeing survillians, and the Tripod probably just held it's ray in place as the train drove straight through it killing everyone onboard. It just goes to show, there was no escape for anybody, car boat plane or train, the Tripods take care of it all and are uncaring and unsympathetic. They see humans like we see ants on the sidewalk or termites in someones house, and our best efforts to stop them are like a bee stining a beekeeper in a bee suit, a totally futile defense mechanism and a mild inconvenience.
If anyone asked about the train's deadmans switch. Well, the switch may have been melted and fused together into a permanent "on" position during the attack on the train. Which probably was no more the 5 or so miles away.
I never loved alien movies.But that one was kinda cool movie.Not because of aliens.Because of little thinks like this train.İt makes realy scary atmosphere.
This scene is the scariest in my opinion, the message is clear : no place is safe. I've seen many disaster movies but this one has by far the best depiction of terror.
It’s cool and chilling how the railway crossing still functions for all trains, including the burning attacked ones. Humans have abandoned the traffic control centers but the systems function and go on while humanity is hunted down... What about for example all the power plants..?
One thing this film did well was convey that the protagonists only survive by luck and coincidence. At anytime they could have gotten on a train, or stayed in their car, or not make it onto the boat. Every decision is life or death. Being at the wrong place a minute too late can doom you.
At this point everyone is so desensitized from the days of chaos and destruction that when seeing a train on fire, they are like like.... "Yeah, what else is new"
This movie is the creepiest and most bone-chilling movie about aliens invading Earth, this film shows the destruction and the struggle of survival. War of The Worlds is in my top 10 favorite science fiction films!
A accident probably happened in that train, kinda seems impossible on how the tripods would've done it while the train was still moving, because it would've tipped over. Like others in the comments,it's pretty disturbing.
It's a movie about aliens in tripod robots vaporizing humans with lasers and using their blood to feed themselves and you are here doing speculations of what happened to that train? Are you serious?
Yes, an alien invasion occurred. Entire cities are being swept aside by Tripods, military turned to dust. And coincidentally somebody lit a train on fire with a cigarette and happen to drive past the main characters of this movies. Man, what are the odds... It's more likely the tripods have several configurations of laser weapon. We see scenes where people are vaporized with very little damage to the ground and surroundings. Then we see scenes where an entire highway is blasted away like leaves on the wind and buildings shattered effortlessly. I'm guessing this one was the "fire" setting.
The only logical thing I can think of as a Locomotive Engineer is that the engineer must have survived, there are lots of hiding places in the locomotive and the locomotive is separated from the passenger cars so considering that the engine is still in tact he or she could have took cover in the engine room, the headlights are on so that also means the engine works because the prime mover (engine) is powering the HEP motor (Head End Power) which is responsible for powering everything electrical on the train so the engineer was haul assing to wherever the dispatcher had the train lined for (hopefully across the country which is possible) also if the engineer was dead the train would have stopped itself after a minute of no controls being touched, if the engineer does not touch the throttle, air brakes, horn, bell etc after 1 minute has passed an alarm will sound prompting the engineer to reset it via button if he or she does not respond the train stops itself and this system is failsafe, if electrical is compromised the engine shuts itself off and causes the train to stop too. :D
And I know the cab is engulfed in flames but hey maybe it isn't inside of the cab! Also the engineer isn't blowing the horn because maybe he wants everybody to think he's dead and not secretly getting his ass out of there :p I'm sure they wanted everybody to assume the entire train was dead and just constantly running until it derails though
Due to the EM pulse there would have been no electrical systems running on that train other than the main generator and the motors. The shielding to contain an electrical fire combined with the overvoltage protection circuitry might have protected them from the effects of the EM pulse. All the external electrics would be fried so though the diesel engines of that type do not require any electrics to run, they would have had to bypass any electrical auto shutdown systems and run it on manual. So with the engineer dead no one was there to shut it down manually, so on it goes. So I can see the plausibility which I liked. Plausible scenes in action movies are getting fewer and farther between these days.🤷♂
I might be reading too much into it, but I reckon this was a clever bit of psychological warfare on the part of the invaders. If they're smart enough to think up the tech that they have, they'd be smart enough to figure that people would be streaming out of towns and cities to try and reach some sort of safe haven so they did things like this. One to limit their channels of escape and two to send the message that there is no hope for them, they can try and escape if they want, but they'll be caught up to.
It shows just how disturbingly callous and ruthless the aliens were towards humanity. A Tripod, perhaps several, saw this completely unarmed civilian train passing by and blasted it with heat rays until everyone was dead, and then didn't even bother to wreck it, just letting it carry on without a second thought. The people inside who died a horrible death were *nothing* to them.
wait a min.. did anyone notice that the lights were still on at the front of the engine? o.O and there wasnt any fire coming from the front of the engine either... SOMEONES STILL DRIVING THE TRAIN!!! O_O
I had a dream the past two weeks where a burning train busted through two stone walls and I narrowly escaped being run over by the train (in the dream). As I pondered the dream....I knew that I saw such a burning train before....and it was in this remake of the War of the Worlds movie. Strange thing is that I had a dream of the war of the worlds (from the original movie) back in the 1990's where the Martian death ray machines were more like just 7 feet tall and were obliterating people all over the world that deserved to die and go to hell in the Great Tribulation. This War of the Worlds theme seems to be in my conscientiousness for a reason. This is a pretty creepy scene for sure
While this was a cool scene, in retrospect I have to wonder the circumstances that created it. The Martian weapons vaporized people, and destroyed buildings, so what would they have done that would have left the train intact but on fire?
Well all of the train was on fire, so it must have been caught in the outer radius of the laser, either that or it was moving too fast to be completely destroyed by the laser
I always felt like it probably collided with another vehicle (like a tanker truck) or went through an area that set on fire from the tripods. To me it makes it creepier, just how it’s so mysterious and we don’t know where it came from, why it’s on fire, and where it’s going. But yeah I had the same thoughts because the tripods lasers seemed like they were almost solid with how they could knock over an entire bridge in just seconds. A laser usually just melts something, here it tears and rips and disintegrates.
@@George12729 Bingo! The Tripod has 2 heat rays which is the green and and the blue one. The green heat ray is the heat ray that the Martians use to destroy large structures (as seen in the highway scene). Whereas the blue heat ray is used for vaporizing humans and cause minimal damage to large/small structures or vehicles (as seen in the first Tripod scene where the Tripod fires its heat ray to a woman inside a car resulting her to vaporize while causing no complete destruction to the car.
@@YukiXKohaku ah, that makes sense, thankyou. I love the little details like that and very well spotted. I've watched this film countless times and I haven't cottoned on to that.
Trains have a dead man pedal that has to been constantly pushed. If you take your foot of it, the train will stop. In this case, there really was a dead man’s foot holding it down! That was all that was left of him.
Symbolic scene. This movie tries to remind you at EVERY moment (even when it seems calm) that Tripods are everywhere and everywhere it is not safe. You won't feel confident even once! The feeling of danger follows us all the time. I love it in this movie!
The engineers and conductors on the train had decided that it was best to probably try to outrun a band of Martian attackers... That's when a few of them just stood by the railroad tracks and opened fire on the train as it passed, killing everyone aboard... That left the engines stuck in full power... Either the fire will get to the control systems or the fuel tanks and stop it via damage or explosion... Otherwise, the burning runaway will continue at high speed intil it reaches a sharp turn or curve and derail...
I love how the death rays of the first tripod litterally blows away houses from their foundations, but this very derailable train is still on it's tracks...
The reason for that is because the Tripod used a different heat ray. The scene where the first Tripod annihilate houses and even made a highway fly like it's nothing uses *green* heat ray, which I assume for destroying large structures. On the other hand, when there's large group of people the Tripod uses *blue* heatray that does minimal damage to large structures but enough to vaporize humans. So in conclusion, a Tripod uses a blue heat ray to destroy the train, but their intention is probably to eliminate the humans inside that train so they didn't use the purple heat ray.
@@levthemapperxd Was it from the Hill battle scene? Because thar's the closest thing I could find to a purple. But anyway both might have the same function (since both was used to vaporise humans) but the difference is that it was used by a different type of Tripods. The Tripods in the first scene and the Hill scene was clearly different.
This scene has stayed with me more than any other in the film. Although, the idea that every train car is burning makes me question how it happened without disabling the train.
People who thought Steven Spielberg couldn’t achieve a horror film need to revisit this movie especially since it was released 4 years after 9/11. It was a metaphor for its time.
It's the silence right after that does it for me. Knowing that the train has been going and will keep going. Idk what the symbolism is but there's just something about this entire scene.
This is the creepiest thing from this whole movie, from how fast the train comes to how fast its going and the fact that its basically an out of control train thats on fucking fire
This film is the true meaning of human annihilation and terror.It starts with a nice day as normal and all of a sudden all of those days turn into terror.Triyng to find a place to hide but theres nowhere to go as everyone around you is being vaporized in seconds not knowing what to do because soon or later you will be next.
i wonder if this was purely practical effects, digital effects or a well done mix of both. This was definitely the most jarring scene from the whole movie beyond the tripod's introduction and the battle scene afterwards.
Am I the only one who wonders how the tripod/tripods could have raked the train with their beams to that extent without derailing it? We've seen that the beams can send cars flying and smash buildings apart. Surely the force of the beams slashing through the train cars would have been enough to derail the train?
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for me personally is one of the scariest scenes in movies, there is something disturbing in this burning train
Oh come on you're over thinking it. The caterers could have over cooked the dinner. Or frying pan fire doused with water.
A burning out of controle high speed train is very fucking scary ...
I agree, me too this scene scared me but as a child.
Totally agree! If I was a kid I would've had nightmares for weeks! I think it's the scene that the train is still running, but the IMPLICATION is that it's now full of horribly murdered people where there used to be passengers and train crew.
I find it really eerie.
What so disturbing is that the train is still running, but everyone is dead. It’s like it’s driving itself. A ghost in the night.
Neat
Reminds me of something out of the Bermuda Triangle like a ship appearing out of nowhere driving itself with no one aboard
it’s just still under power, that’s all. Yes the crew is dead and the interior of the cab are on all fire but that doesn’t matter, as long as the underlying mechanisms and the engine/traction motors and Generators are fine , the locomotive will keep in operation.
Technically it is driving on it's own, I don't like using the word driving when it comes to trains those sizes, your basically operating the locomotive, So all you have to do is throw that throttle all the way to whatever notch to make the train drive on it's own and you got yourself a runaway
The speed its going kinda tells you that they sped up to try and get away from the tri-pods. Sadly considering the train has burns on both sides, its safe to assume this train went through a big city of tri-pods and was probably lit up several times over from all directions. And its just been going at this speed while blazing for hours now.
Creepy knowing that at some point during the movie, this train was spotted by a Tripod and ended up getting incinerated. The fact that it's still moving and that there's potentially a hundred burning corpses on board is even worse... O_o
Given the circumstances I'm certain there were way more than a hundred corpses on it. Was probably filled way over capacity to evacuate civilians when it was attacked
There's no corpses. Just ash
@@lilahdog568 i think the fires killed more than the rays
@Wroger Wroger but imagine if it was
@Wroger Wroger well yes Kids aren't good actors Most of the time and often aren't written that good
This is really one of the creepiest alien invasion films I have seen. Not because of the machines and what they do, but because of the little things. Ray covered in the ashes of his neighbors, the river of bodies, this train, and the scene where cloths are raining down from the sky.
There's just this foreboding atmosphere throughout the movie and it really shows.
I've never come across a comment that addresses that point. That's one of the key things in this film. The overwhelming sense of stress. This is a one of the many traits in this film that is the same in the book.
Qasim Mir Exactly. You can actually feel the characters anguish as they try to survive in a place where there is no sanctuary.
Honestly, I think the Fight for the only working Van was the scariest part.
Because it shows that our species is so hopeless in this situation, that they're even attempting
to kill eachother over a Van that is probably going to run out of gas soon. Kinda depressing.
BassBus I agree with ya. When it comes to desperation we'll devolve into doing anything.
And it's a great homage to the book as well.
This is a brilliant piece of symbolism here. Things are already looking pretty bleak at this point in the movie. This scene shows that the destruction wrought by the tripods is quite literally EVERYWHERE, and no matter what they try, they are not going to be able to escape. A very well-done scene, and it's not even half a minute! Packing that powerful symbolism into such a short scene is very good.
Also the people don't seam to care that much as if it just anther horror in a dozen they've already seen, showing how bleak the situation is.
@@hithere589 - The situation that is really bleak is that an adult doesn't know the difference between seam and seem.
Each type of transportation was destroyed in this film if you noticed vehicles, then a plane then a train then a ship
@@bossroth8201 - No pogo sticks, though.
@@skinovtheperineum1208 ha
It's almost a testamont to human engineering. Could you imagine, as a martian - that you blast a human metal snake thing - and instead of disintegrating it bursts into a hellish streak of fire and continues on it's way unabated.
Yes the aliens who did this were traumatized needed therapy!
Still waiting for the sequel 'Amtrak Versus the Martians' 😟 I live in hope...
@@zxbzxbzxb1 amtrak F40PH proceeds to kill them all in one shot
The alien lasers doesn't damage inorganic things, it only vaporize organic things
@@That_One_Guy...so why train did not exploded? Fuel should probably catch fire and made train explode. Or maybe it vaporized to? That would explain why it didn’t explode. And also would mean that this train had to be attacked not so far from the town because there is no way it could go for so long without derailing or stopping which means the train was actually a warning for tripods incoming
Man I love this movie
i remember seeing this for the first time as a kid, absolutely terrifying and powerful scene
around 10 years ago when it first came out lol
jontrinh140wrestler Released in 2005.
sounds about right...so it was 9 years ago, sue me lol
jontrinh140wrestler you said 'around 10 years' so you are still right haha
Same!! I thought it was going to be a somewhat fun movie until I saw this scene... Made my blood run cold
Why Amtrak forces you to never smoke on a train.
Actually that’s Metro north
@ My mistake.
@@mindlessgonzo actually, Amtrak used to allow for you to smoke on trains(in certain cars only) but they completely banned that in 2013. And yeah, it's creepy seeing that Genesis Locomotive.
I have 2 questions, 1 its metro north, not amtrak, 2 amtrak does not force you to not smoke, but the govenment forces amtrak to force us to stop smoking in trains
And that’s wat happens if u smoke in Amtrak
When the train driver hands me the aux cord
Andrew Fairbanks This fuckin' guy lol!
When the train rider gives ME the wheel.
W1ND General trains don’t have steering wheels..🤔
@@prkrcnnn
You know what I mean.
*I should never drive a train*
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If anyone is wondering what this is, it's a Metro-North P32 in the old livery with a triangular stripe
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Quick fact: This scene was filmed in Athens, NY and there are no railroad tracks in that part of town. The train tracks in this scene is actually a road in real life.
CheezyWolf777 the Csx River line goes through Athens
@@jaylen1067 Greece.
@@angieroxy7550 not THAT Athens.
Well the tracks have abandoned for years prior to the movie.
@@jaylen1067 Tracks are on the other side of the river.
this is one of under-appreciated movies out there, particularly because it is considered as a typical hollywood blockbuster. but this movie does have more than that. It does know how to make certain atmospheres which make audience feel fear through small details, just like this scene. Instead of showing battlescene between humans and aliens, it just shows what remains after alien attacks, ashes of people, dead bodies floating on river, burning trains running on track, crashed airplane.. which leave people with disturbing feeling, fear and awe.
Ki L So true!
I think another reason why its atmosphere is like this is because we're also not seeing it through a normal sci-fi alien trying to destroy the world movie soldier character but we're seeing it through a regular bystander's eyes, a citizen's eyes.
The old school movie of this one is pretty good I watched it many times growing up ,then watching the new one in the movie theaters was quite good
I’ve read the original Novel.
The book is arguably better and this adaptation tries to have the best of both worlds, but comes off as incoherent.
Yup it definitely had a dark feel to it
This scene came out of nowhere and I actually started tearing up from the sheer terror of it.
I got PTSD from this shit 😂
A furry, no wonder.
Eww furry
@@SquidCena Big Squngus
@@MeMeMcsplosion Eww furry
When the hype train got too much hype.
I REPEAT, ABANDON HYPE TRAIN.
phillip walling No the train just Back to The Future.
It's a amtrak train
Haha when the hype becomes a full blown panic attack
People hyping Khamzat
Wow. Just to think, Everyone on that train was disintegrated earlier, and the motor wasn't damaged, so it just kept rolling, everyone dead inside...
Some scenes in this movie were really cruel, scary and sad
Z3roCool007 unless they jumped out
Royal Shawn of a moving train? I’d rather be desintegrated, at least it looks painless
Spielberg
That creepy
Most poignant scene in the movie. People, by that point, were too desperate, weary, and in-shock, to react.
I remember watching this in the theater, everyone was dead silent as the train went by, except one creep who howled with laughter.
Lol?
That was the railfan who was in the theater lol
He's probably a train spotter.
It's probably A railfan that sees an Amtrak train depicted accurately in A movie
Of course there's gotta be that one person that ruins the moment
This is such a disturbing scene.
Like an animal with its stomach ripped open, running from an uncaring predator that destroys for no other reason than to destroy.
Nice I like the imagery. But humans are the only creatures that destroy for no reason, animals only purpose of instinct without regard for that choice and consequences.
@@onslaughtmma5110 How do they destroy for no reason?...
Predators are built to kill. They literally need to kill to live
Grass feeds off soil the same way herbivores feed of the grass, the same way predators feed off the herbivores, the same way scavengers feed off herbivores and carnivores
@@SquidCena You live under a rock or something?
@@onslaughtmma5110 Actually,, there are several animal species that destroy without need and hunt for pleasure!! As well as if given the opportunity;: every species would become Invasive, as humanity has, but are kept in check by their biome.
I think this is honestly one of the most terrifying scenes in the film, it represents the utter decimation of order.
Just like the Russians are doing in Ukraine, attacking the railway
Perfectly said.
For me the scariest scene was that part where the crowd started attacking their car, while this train scene was chilling, the car scene was disturbing
Oh man, the car scene was so awful. When the guy shot the other guy to steal the car from him? It was all just so hopeless.
Looks like Ghost Rider hijacked a fucking train.
Lol
This is under rated
"All we had to do was follow the damn train, Kleebar."
- An alien in one of the Tripods, probably.
Underrated
@@EndlessVale how is this generic u inspired comment "underrated"? You have no standards.
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Not even the aliens could stop the damn train!
The Midnight Meat-Train.
The clip ended too soon. I think the creepiest part (and probably the most accurate to real human group reactions while under extreme stresses) is that the crowd basically does a "Well, THAT happened" and then continues on with what they were doing
Just imagine the train peacefully rolling on the rails and everyone spots a tripod walking in the distance then the people freaking out then the tripod spots the train so it shoots its heat rays at it disintegrating the passengers on it and no one to stop it it just kept moving
KrisiimovHD Now, we saw the result here.
...and the whole train dont catch on fire at once, for some people its a panic slow death as the fire spreading ...no way out ....no one to stop it.
The people push each other back to live longer.
usch, the whole idea gives me the creeps :s
That train was on fire and it still kept rolling on. A true champion.
Legends say the metro north genesis is still in nyc
Probably setting cars on fire
I kept playing the runaway theme from thomas when this scene played out
Fantastic imagery and cinematography. Very spooky.
I thought i was the only one who felt this scene was creepy as shit!
Definitely! It's the most shocking scene in the movie.
One of my favorite scenes in the movie.
According to IMDB, there was a scene similar to this in the original book (which I unfortunately haven't read). In that case it was a steam locomotive, the heat from the fire fueling the boiler and making it go full tilt out of control. Not sure what would have conspired to let this ghost train continue it's screaming ride... until it derails on a curve several miles away.
I don’t ever recall such a scene in the book, but I know a scene like this existed in the video game adaptation of Jeff Wayne’s Musical Version of The War of the Worlds.
The Diesel engine 'running away' would be my guess.
This is not in the book. Maybe in the sequel, Massacre of Mankind by Stephen Baxter?
The Fallout 4 hype train.
You got that right
Legend has it it's still burning to this day...
It’s a Metro-North P32AC-DM in the old livery
@@AMT1345 I was about to say that’s metro north
This is eerie because, even though the world for us is ending, our machines and almost everything else we built still go on as though nothing is wrong.
It's after the scene at the ferry that you realise this scene is potentially foreshadowing that the tripods aren't far away. I'd personally be more than a little worried.
Yes, that's part of why this scene is so good. It directly foreshadows the appearance of the tripods.
This scene was so scary
The Polar Express
Edit:More like the Inferno Express
0:10 ITS A SIGNAL!!! it means the tripod is getting closer to the evacuation area!
In América nobody gives a shit the signals....
Wow.
I got recently burned since it is still moving
This train was actually epic and creepy at the same time.
The fact the train is still coasting is a sinister indicator that a tripod is not far away.
So terrifying to think that everyone on that train is dead and you would imagine that a train passing by would have people on it
just imagine seeing a train on fire come roaring past a railroad crossing
MISS FRITTER is just miss fritter check detroit
For the people that is wondering why the Train didn't go derailed or blow up into pieces while we can see their heat rays is capable of destroying large structures such as the highway but couldn't completely destroy a Train?
That's because the Tripod has 2 type of hest rays, which is the purple heat ray and the blue heat ray.
The purple heat ray is used for destroying large structures while the blue heat ray is used for vaporizing humans but has minimal damage to structures or vehicles. As seen in the first Tripod scene where a woman was vaporized by the Tripod inside her car but her car didn't blow up.
So I'm assuming the Tripod that encountered the Train uses the blue heat ray to eliminate the humans inside of that Train, but couldn't careless about the Train whatsoever so they didn't destroy it completely.
I wonder if one of the aliens was driving it just for fun...
+George VI
Alien 1223: "Holy Shit, these things are fast!"
Alien 4056: "Get the fuck out of the train, Carl."
Alien 1223: "Dude, you have got to try this out!"
Alien 2056: "Welp, you just earned yourself a write-up, mister."
5 year old me playing with my thomas the tank engine sets
@@smilingearth5181 LOL UNDERRATED
Maybe, with the dead driver sitting next to it.
@@smilingearth5181 god yes.
Here is the backstory to this. The train was going to station 5, a tripod was sitting their camping and harvesting red weed (their food) the train crew said politely, may we pass? The tripod said no. The train crew kept asking until they gave up. They got into the train, rammed their tripod, which made the Martians angry because they had just freshly painted their new tripod for the invasion, so the tripod set the train on fire and pushed it along the tracks. That tripod.... Must be really upset.
that made my day
This made me laugh
they're not martians. and it's spelled there*. and the*
cool story bro
asdfbry 0/10 boring rating
You can imagine the sheer pandemonium that befell that train before it was attacked by a Tripod. Probably packed with thousands of panicking fleeing survillians, and the Tripod probably just held it's ray in place as the train drove straight through it killing everyone onboard. It just goes to show, there was no escape for anybody, car boat plane or train, the Tripods take care of it all and are uncaring and unsympathetic. They see humans like we see ants on the sidewalk or termites in someones house, and our best efforts to stop them are like a bee stining a beekeeper in a bee suit, a totally futile defense mechanism and a mild inconvenience.
Well you could always escape on a motorcycle like what Vincent did and he survived
If anyone asked about the train's deadmans switch.
Well, the switch may have been melted and fused together into a permanent "on" position during the attack on the train. Which probably was no more the 5 or so miles away.
I never loved alien movies.But that one was kinda cool movie.Not because of aliens.Because of little thinks like this train.İt makes realy scary atmosphere.
Exactly! I couldn't beleive this scene when I first saw it, Just imagine if you were actually there.
Personal Taco Trainer it would be realy scary.Your name is funny too LOL
Joshua Bonéy its gonna crash later duh..with no conductor the trains gonna derail or the tripods gonna pick it up and throw it
Joshua Bonéy what and how did this train caught on fire.😞
SAME. I never cared for the alien invasion genre. But this film was great.
So many good scenes and images in this movie, crushed under the endless boneheaded behavior of Cruise's kids.
Yup, Cruise and the two kids completely Fucked this movie...... I was rooting for the Aliens.......
you see, the train was heading to its destination when suddenly it encounters a tripod that puts it on fire
This scene is the scariest in my opinion, the message is clear : no place is safe.
I've seen many disaster movies but this one has by far the best depiction of terror.
It’s cool and chilling how the railway crossing still functions for all trains, including the burning attacked ones. Humans have abandoned the traffic control centers but the systems function and go on while humanity is hunted down... What about for example all the power plants..?
The spent fuel in the pools is the real threat
Railway crossings like that have motion detectors, so they go down for anything fast enough.
Maybe. In a lot of scenes you can see the power is still on while tripods are attacking (take for example the hudson ferry scene.).
Half of me wants to know the story behind that burning train, the other half tells me not knowing is better.
It was hit by a tripod
When i listen to my mixtape on the train
Lmao
I guess it was so lit that it was *fire*
heh
One thing this film did well was convey that the protagonists only survive by luck and coincidence. At anytime they could have gotten on a train, or stayed in their car, or not make it onto the boat. Every decision is life or death. Being at the wrong place a minute too late can doom you.
That train got kicked in the caboose.
kek
Nah it still rolling like a champ.
lol
This was such a creepy scene. No explanation or warning... just freaky!
As a fellow midwestern and train lover, this scared the hell out of me as a kid.
At this point everyone is so desensitized from the days of chaos and destruction that when seeing a train on fire, they are like like.... "Yeah, what else is new"
This movie is the creepiest and most bone-chilling movie about aliens invading Earth, this film shows the destruction and the struggle of survival. War of The Worlds is in my top 10 favorite science fiction films!
Total surprise and a hidden masterpiece. So much of this film is pure class.
A accident probably happened in that train, kinda seems impossible on how the tripods would've done it while the train was still moving, because it would've tipped over. Like others in the comments,it's pretty disturbing.
It's a movie about aliens in tripod robots vaporizing humans with lasers and using their blood to feed themselves and you are here doing speculations of what happened to that train? Are you serious?
Yes, an alien invasion occurred. Entire cities are being swept aside by Tripods, military turned to dust. And coincidentally somebody lit a train on fire with a cigarette and happen to drive past the main characters of this movies.
Man, what are the odds...
It's more likely the tripods have several configurations of laser weapon. We see scenes where people are vaporized with very little damage to the ground and surroundings. Then we see scenes where an entire highway is blasted away like leaves on the wind and buildings shattered effortlessly. I'm guessing this one was the "fire" setting.
Frank.mp4 the tripod has auto aim
@@sam23696 That is a very good theory.
Maybe the train was caught in the outer radius of a laser blast?
The only logical thing I can think of as a Locomotive Engineer is that the engineer must have survived, there are lots of hiding places in the locomotive and the locomotive is separated from the passenger cars so considering that the engine is still in tact he or she could have took cover in the engine room, the headlights are on so that also means the engine works because the prime mover (engine) is powering the HEP motor (Head End Power) which is responsible for powering everything electrical on the train so the engineer was haul assing to wherever the dispatcher had the train lined for (hopefully across the country which is possible) also if the engineer was dead the train would have stopped itself after a minute of no controls being touched, if the engineer does not touch the throttle, air brakes, horn, bell etc after 1 minute has passed an alarm will sound prompting the engineer to reset it via button if he or she does not respond the train stops itself and this system is failsafe, if electrical is compromised the engine shuts itself off and causes the train to stop too. :D
And I know the cab is engulfed in flames but hey maybe it isn't inside of the cab! Also the engineer isn't blowing the horn because maybe he wants everybody to think he's dead and not secretly getting his ass out of there :p I'm sure they wanted everybody to assume the entire train was dead and just constantly running until it derails though
Skains457 I think the engineer is dead. Everyone aboard that train is dead and the fire has fried the deadman equipment so the train is still going.
Due to the EM pulse there would have been no electrical systems running on that train other than the main generator and the motors. The shielding to contain an electrical fire combined with the overvoltage protection circuitry might have protected them from the effects of the EM pulse. All the external electrics would be fried so though the diesel engines of that type do not require any electrics to run, they would have had to bypass any electrical auto shutdown systems and run it on manual. So with the engineer dead no one was there to shut it down manually, so on it goes. So I can see the plausibility which I liked. Plausible scenes in action movies are getting fewer and farther between these days.🤷♂
@samanli-tw3id nice point! Still an awesome movie haha
@@MatthewBerginGarage totally agree with you!
Remember passengers, this is a no smoking vehicle. Thank you for your cooperation :)
The idea of this scene is so simple but yet so very terrifying
I might be reading too much into it, but I reckon this was a clever bit of psychological warfare on the part of the invaders. If they're smart enough to think up the tech that they have, they'd be smart enough to figure that people would be streaming out of towns and cities to try and reach some sort of safe haven so they did things like this. One to limit their channels of escape and two to send the message that there is no hope for them, they can try and escape if they want, but they'll be caught up to.
I love how after the train passes, it just leaves everyone stunned and they are forced to move on without processing what just happened
It shows just how disturbingly callous and ruthless the aliens were towards humanity. A Tripod, perhaps several, saw this completely unarmed civilian train passing by and blasted it with heat rays until everyone was dead, and then didn't even bother to wreck it, just letting it carry on without a second thought. The people inside who died a horrible death were *nothing* to them.
Someone's been listening to my mixtape....
wait a min.. did anyone notice that the lights were still on at the front of the engine? o.O and there wasnt any fire coming from the front of the engine either... SOMEONES STILL DRIVING THE TRAIN!!! O_O
"F*** this s***, I'm never stopping"
Lol
Nope, if you slow it down, the cab is seen to be undeniably in flames.
Hm your right. But the head lights are on. So... 2spooky4me
Clare The Xenomorph (X-Files theme plays)
This scene is so sad because the train was trying to help everyone get away but now its the just the train runing away as it dies slowly...
Let's getaway gone wrong. Everyone got in, train was floored to maximum and the tripod said "if I cant grab you I'll burn you instead".
I had a dream the past two weeks where a burning train busted through two stone walls and I narrowly escaped being run over by the train (in the dream). As I pondered the dream....I knew that I saw such a burning train before....and it was in this remake of the War of the Worlds movie. Strange thing is that I had a dream of the war of the worlds (from the original movie) back in the 1990's where the Martian death ray machines were more like just 7 feet tall and were obliterating people all over the world that deserved to die and go to hell in the Great Tribulation. This War of the Worlds theme seems to be in my conscientiousness for a reason. This is a pretty creepy scene for sure
While this was a cool scene, in retrospect I have to wonder the circumstances that created it. The Martian weapons vaporized people, and destroyed buildings, so what would they have done that would have left the train intact but on fire?
Well all of the train was on fire, so it must have been caught in the outer radius of the laser, either that or it was moving too fast to be completely destroyed by the laser
I always felt like it probably collided with another vehicle (like a tanker truck) or went through an area that set on fire from the tripods. To me it makes it creepier, just how it’s so mysterious and we don’t know where it came from, why it’s on fire, and where it’s going. But yeah I had the same thoughts because the tripods lasers seemed like they were almost solid with how they could knock over an entire bridge in just seconds. A laser usually just melts something, here it tears and rips and disintegrates.
@@NJSC_Railfan the heat rays can be at different powers I am pretty sure. Its that or different tripods have different heat rays.
@@George12729 Bingo! The Tripod has 2 heat rays which is the green and and the blue one.
The green heat ray is the heat ray that the Martians use to destroy large structures (as seen in the highway scene).
Whereas the blue heat ray is used for vaporizing humans and cause minimal damage to large/small structures or vehicles (as seen in the first Tripod scene where the Tripod fires its heat ray to a woman inside a car resulting her to vaporize while causing no complete destruction to the car.
@@YukiXKohaku ah, that makes sense, thankyou. I love the little details like that and very well spotted. I've watched this film countless times and I haven't cottoned on to that.
Agreed. That was one scene from the movie that really struck me and worked brilliantly. Thanks for this.
Trains have a dead man pedal that has to been constantly pushed. If you take your foot of it, the train will stop. In this case, there really was a dead man’s foot holding it down! That was all that was left of him.
Isn’t it to stop runaway trains
*When there's a baby that doesn't stop crying*
Me: 0:09
literally makes no sense
When there is a Bathroom on the Train and someone has explosive Diarrhea.
It's Taco Bell Night
burger King
Symbolic scene. This movie tries to remind you at EVERY moment (even when it seems calm) that Tripods are everywhere and everywhere it is not safe. You won't feel confident even once! The feeling of danger follows us all the time. I love it in this movie!
The engineers and conductors on the train had decided that it was best to probably try to outrun a band of Martian attackers... That's when a few of them just stood by the railroad tracks and opened fire on the train as it passed, killing everyone aboard... That left the engines stuck in full power... Either the fire will get to the control systems or the fuel tanks and stop it via damage or explosion... Otherwise, the burning runaway will continue at high speed intil it reaches a sharp turn or curve and derail...
That scene made my blood run cold, it's so disturbing but brilliant
I love how the death rays of the first tripod litterally blows away houses from their foundations, but this very derailable train is still on it's tracks...
The reason for that is because the Tripod used a different heat ray. The scene where the first Tripod annihilate houses and even made a highway fly like it's nothing uses *green* heat ray, which I assume for destroying large structures. On the other hand, when there's large group of people the Tripod uses *blue* heatray that does minimal damage to large structures but enough to vaporize humans.
So in conclusion, a Tripod uses a blue heat ray to destroy the train, but their intention is probably to eliminate the humans inside that train so they didn't use the purple heat ray.
@@YukiXKohaku the purple heat ray was for burning shit.
which was probably what they used since the train was burning
@@levthemapperxd Was it from the Hill battle scene? Because thar's the closest thing I could find to a purple. But anyway both might have the same function (since both was used to vaporise humans) but the difference is that it was used by a different type of Tripods. The Tripods in the first scene and the Hill scene was clearly different.
@@YukiXKohaku The purple one lit the ground on fire though.
This scene is still in my head since I was 6 when I watched this and the first movie I've ever watched lmao
that burning train is a ghost train I call it
-Lets go where that train was- Know what lets not go that way....
How is it still going without a driver? Don't American trains have a dead man's switch or something similar?
You can set a train to a certain speed and then it will stay that same speed until you change it, or something happens to it
The whole damn thing is on fire it’s probably fried
TurmutHoer , I don’t understand how it’s still going. The fire is probably hot enough to melt the steel and other things
@@Benni711 The EMP from the storm before ruined all computer equipment
Could a dead man’s switch survive a fire?
You WILL fear the sound of trains passing by after seeing this scene...
You know, train in Chinese is called “火車“ which literally translates to “Fire car”. So it’s ironic that the train shown in this scene here is on fire.
This scene has stayed with me more than any other in the film. Although, the idea that every train car is burning makes me question how it happened without disabling the train.
Agreed
Magic
Some kid thought it would have been funny if he grabbed flammable spray and a lighter..
Why's everyone so freaked out? Have you guys never seen an Amtrak before?
Yeah, this is just their normal, everyday service.
If it wasn’t on fire, then I’d be scared.
People who thought Steven Spielberg couldn’t achieve a horror film need to revisit this movie especially since it was released 4 years after 9/11. It was a metaphor for its time.
Poor GE Genesis P42DC :-(((((
Actually looked like it may have been an F59PHI in Surfliner paint.
GamesTSF ethel212oasa Looked like both but the front looks like a P42
ethel212oasa ikr
Geek observations. :-)
ethel212oasa It’s a Metro-North P32AC/DM
That train has seen some shit.
It's the silence right after that does it for me. Knowing that the train has been going and will keep going. Idk what the symbolism is but there's just something about this entire scene.
This is the creepiest thing from this whole movie, from how fast the train comes to how fast its going and the fact that its basically an out of control train thats on fucking fire
This film is the true meaning of human annihilation and terror.It starts with a nice day as normal and all of a sudden all of those days turn into terror.Triyng to find a place to hide but theres nowhere to go as everyone around you is being vaporized in seconds not knowing what to do because soon or later you will be next.
Me in the crowd: "...That would have made an awesome album cover."
Someone should make a cover for an OST of this movie with that scene.
Not only is there no train horn, they got an actual train locomotive sound effect to put us in the moment.
i wonder if this was purely practical effects, digital effects or a well done mix of both. This was definitely the most jarring scene from the whole movie beyond the tripod's introduction and the battle scene afterwards.
This and The Airplane Crash both scared the wits out of me
Am I the only one who wonders how the tripod/tripods could have raked the train with their beams to that extent without derailing it? We've seen that the beams can send cars flying and smash buildings apart. Surely the force of the beams slashing through the train cars would have been enough to derail the train?
Well chances are the train got too close to the laser which set it ablaze.
there is something so disturbing and haunting in this scene, everytime I watch the movie I get chills down my spine in this scene
This part freaked me out when I was a kid. One of the first few times where I was shocked into silence.