AWVR...Unstoppable...train wreck scene & explosion...shot in Emporium, PA on 10-05 & 07-09

[JRNipper]

The movie "Unstoppable" had too many technical errors and unrealistic scenarios. It was fine for entertainment purposes, just not believable if you know anything prototype railroading.

--JRNipper, former conductor Canadian Pacific Railway.

[CimarronWestfolk]

@JRNipper Oh don't even get me into all the problems that are in this movie. I try to watch it and miss it all.

[talxpal2]

@JRNipper Natural of the Canadians to mess with everyone's business.

[JRNipper]

@talxpal2 Is is natural for you to assume things? Apparently so. I am not Canadian nor do I live in Canada.

[EastCoastHost]

& that movie really sucked. Too many repeat scenes, took forever for nothing to happen.

[TheTVGuy45]

Woh, is this real?

[CimarronWestfolk]

@TheTVGuy45 Not real. It is from the filming of the movie Unstoppable.

[Videographer1234567]

God created the VIDEO camera for times like this.... why sent a boy to do a mans job?

[CimarronWestfolk]

@Videographer1234567 And when 20th Century Fox lets you have stills, not video..which no one else has..you do what you can.

[Videographer1234567]

@CimarronWestfolk r u trying to say it was a movie set?

[CimarronWestfolk]

@Videographer1234567 No, I am not trying to say it was. It was, no trying needed.

[ANDREWWALLFORD123]

CENISORED ON TV!!!

[imaghostbuster36]

r those real locos they used??

[CimarronWestfolk]

@imaghostbuster36 No they are NOT real. I have another video that shows the building of these proprs. They took awhile to build them just feet from where they flipped them over. All these two locomotives are are rolling tin cans.

[imaghostbuster36]

@CimarronWestfolk god they look so real bloody well made, i supose they had to b fake thers no way they wuld smashed and blown up real 1s thankgod they were fake wuld of been a waste otherwise

[imaghostbuster36]

@CimarronWestfolk hav u posted the vid of the mock up 1s??

[CimarronWestfolk]

@imaghostbuster36 I have four videos showing the these props. This video for one. Then search awvr prop locomotives for two others. Then search awvr emporium for the last.  In that video stop it at the 0:30 mark. Look at the engine numbers. To the leftt are the real ones, in the distance to the right are the props.

[Trainmasterryan]

what a waste of 2 good locos

[Langtry613]

UMMM, WHY THE SUDDEN FLAMES? FIREDEPARTMENT SET A BLAZE TO KEEP BUSY? 0_o

[LakeRatDan]

should have used GEVO's

[ElOthemany]

??!!

[carfreak0029]

why would they have a porsche caynne S as a camera car??

[hornbytrains98]

@carfreak0029 so they can keep up with the train on bumpy terrain

[BNSFandSP]

@cj900rr Looks like they pushed up the rails to simulate the "jump".

[robertgift]

Fake engines?

How did they gethem to derail?

[OpeiGrafikka]

@robertgift Not fake, they just switched it while it was travelling faster than the curve allowed, derailing it.

[robertgift]

@OpeiGrafikka Thank you. I see hydraulic devices which appear to push them over.

Sad thathey used real engines. Presumably they were ready for scrap but painted to look new.

Why did they not simply send them around the curve fast enough to derail naturally?

Unable to control the result well enough?

[lobix53]

GTA San Andreas!

[TrollPancakes]

@lobix53 Hipster alert

[mpwelk]

youslide

[Eggrollfaceass]

Man, work on locomotives for a living and you won't be able to enjoy that movie.

[ricofojas2011]

were the eginners ok?.

[simonspics1]

I thoroughly enjoyed that movie! It was so cool! Everytime they thought they could stop the train something else happened that wasnt supposed too!

[mightypotatocannons]

Should have got ADSL2+

[TheMrBlinx]

How much did it cost to crash that engine?

[mrkw77]

hey dad .......... you know your train???? w..e...lll me and billy took it for a spin and i dont know the throughtle stuck or there was a dog?? i dont know but its down at the curve..... lol

[Zontaar]

That guy in the copter is just ASKING for trouble, that close to a train wreck!!!!

In a real wreck near here, propane cars got blown about a 1/2 mile when the blew up like a big rocket! If a freight train wrecks near you, get the Heck out of Dodge ASAP!!!!

[Sunburn2007]

Where is there a helicopter right there?

[AidariQ84]

так вот как всё это происходило)

[Seaboard1321]

Those fuckers!!!!!!!1 They better have made them SD40;s run again...

[shadowknight227]

@Seaboard1321 I saw that in the movie and I was like "NO!!!!"

[wildchild77x]

i love how the train exploded....diesel fuel (thats what locomotives run on) does not explode violently like gasoline or aviation fuel.

[csx2295]

When i first saw it i didn't like the video in the first place so i took the video back and got my money back and never watched it again and not going to lol.

[OneHalfEmo]

In Loving Memory Of Judd Stewart.

[CaliforniaRailfan101]

Why does that have to happen to my favorite locomotive, the SD40-2? Are the railroads so anxious to get rid of their SD40s that they have to destroy them in a fiery explosion? Even the rescue unit in the movie was an SD40-2 and they had to screw up the brakes on that one.

[MrMattIntel]

@CaliforniaRailfan101 They were props filled with explosives. However, 1206 was real, but repaired after the movie.

[firecrackerpackman]

Rule G

[sysghost]

In hollywood, anything that flips over or touches something at speeds over "walking" speed HAS to explode. Else it's a bad movie.

[chopperdave309]

these were not real sd 40s they built from plate steel so they were light and could be flipped easy. yes a little to much hollywood here but atleast no good engines were hurt.

[fatcat1285]

@chopperdave309 There fake, I never knew that, I though they were real sd 40s

[arkie74]

@chopperdave309 yeah,diesel dosent ignite like that!

[NESTABROWN9]

Oh fuck me!

[nelandquinten]

its cool to see something that isnt cgi and is in fact real :) thnx for the pics

[MrMarty6464]

What a waste! Love those old engines!!!!! Movie makers are such ASSHOLES!!!!!!!!!!!! Waste some foreign shit instead!!!!

[Ham549]

@MrMarty6464 Uh those might of not even have been real locomotives and if they were they were from a scrap yard and stripped of most parts.

[Regendxz]

wait a minute... David Warshofsky is in that loco?

[cochranexyz]

Pretty cool when viewed with the final scene.

[GrizBearman]

what the FUCK is that helicopter doing?

[kaitokumaria]

股尾の仕業ですね、わかります

[TFN5459]

Thats total crap that they destroyed 2 perfectly good diesels. Can't tell but they look like EMD SD40-2s or GP40s

[Machil77]

@TFN5459

no, there not real locomotives.. I've seen the special edition of the movie, and there was an "making of" included. It was as I can remember an truck made look like an locomotieve.

[TFN5459]

@Machil77 Yea the real ones both Wheeling and Lake Erie SD40-3s are back in service. I believed they've been repainted to the WLE's take on the black and orange Speed scheme of the Denver and Rio Grande Western

[djlau1]

nice vid but 2 frames per sec wtf xd

[SuperGuitarMate]

Unstoppable

Budget - $85-$95 million

Box Office - $167,805,466

[littleevan99]

Well 2 perfectly good locos destroyed:(

[Gogluism]

LIVE VIDEO OR THUMBS DOWN

[oricalcross]

song name ?

[CimarronWestfolk]

@oricalcross Listed right under the views number for this video.

[estesoyojajaja]

@CimarronWestfolk Do not you have any actual video of this derailment ?

[CimarronWestfolk]

@estesoyojajaja I could not be there the day this scene was filmed.  I was given these set of shots to work with. I wish I did have video.

[estesoyojajaja]

@CimarronWestfolk buuuu , that is bad. And do you now anyone who might have an actual video about it ? What happened to the train driver, did he survive or not ?

[CimarronWestfolk]

@estesoyojajaja Only those related to the film production company would have such video. No one was inside these prop locomotives when they flipped them over.

[CimarronWestfolk]

@estesoyojajaja Only those working for or related to the film production company would have such video. No one was inside these prop locomotives when they flipped them over.

[CimarronWestfolk]

@estesoyojajaja My slideshow is the only one that exists outside of what the film production company and those that work for them would have. No one was inside these prop locomotives when they flipped them over.

[DJ4000VOLT]

Woulda been Kool if u hadda video taped but tha slide show is still very good

[DontTryItProductions]

theyy went a little over board with the explodsion

[Panek911]

This video makes me cry, they destroyed 2 perfectly good locomotives

[starsfan12345]

ahh shit i forgot to take the lens cap off...

[1raildog]

Ok, the movie was based on a real CSX train gettin away in toledo (you can find the real news report on here).

[MultiMonster69]

i think the reason it "blew up" was A. hollywood and B. im pretty sure where the train rolls over there just ahppens to be a fuel station

[Applachia0928]

(explosion) There goes Jedd Stewert.

[funnyfunnys]

VIDEO!!! WHY DIDNT U VIDEO!!! lol jk gr8 shots

[kalebsthebest67]

/i hope the guy did not die

[12freightrain]

They just had to wreck the SD40-2's. :[

[sawman3333]

Most of the trains in the movie that end up being destroyed or busted up in some way is a prop loco

[blonddude207]

Those type of trains would not explode from that happening.

[QUIX4U]

Ah - isn't it grand ... (when the film crew has it all figured out) -- down to the last few feet ... that they can "think" - that they're safely away from any trouble (trouble is .. sometimes things go wrong .. such as the loco's NOT flipping as they should have ... instead - rebalancing upright to THEN slip OVER "the wrong way" ... annyhilating the film crew ... situated way to close ... on the inside) ... but not in this case .. as it all went according to plan.

[skittlesrozanski]

I know that there wasnt an engine under the shell, but it was still a good looking locomotive. Loved the movie though!

[DRGW168]

WOW that's some diesel fuel! It's the only diesel that i know of that explodes. Come on thats almost as bad as the time in the movie when they said they shot shot gun rounds at the locomotive with an M-16.

[reesebwhitehead]

That wasn't a real train,right?

[Nathanrailfan]

Why didn't they call the movie legendary EMD killers? SInce every bad thing happens to EMD's in the film.

[ATITANIC1992]

What a waste of locomotives, but the movie was great. I hope those locomotives were old and going for scrap soon anways

[BlueOysterCult87]

Hollywood...... What else is new? Anytime something gets in a wreck, it somehow blows up. Not to mention the fact that they only ever blow up and wreck the nice stuff.

[aricars6263]

@BlueOysterCult87 you mean hollywood used real locomotivies? WOW! their known for fancy computer tricks.

[ffjsb]

@aricars6263 They used real locomotives and rail cars in "The Fugitive" as well. I was done on the Smokey Mountain Railroad in NC.

[Bus7777]

@BlueOysterCult87 They aren't real SD40's. Although over the seven months your comment has been up, you've probably been told that a million times by now.

[CookiesAndGuns95]

@BlueOysterCult87 When I worked for Hollywood, I spilled my cup of coffee on the table. It blew into flames somehow. -___- lol

[doedante99]

@CookiesAndGuns95 lol thats funny

[2010californa]

@CookiesAndGuns95 i tell you specile effects are getting realer and realer

[hasnachos]

@BlueOysterCult87 seriously. the nicest cars an nicest locomotives and nicest anything gets wrecked always for hollywood. it's like their focus is more on destroying property than making movies. i remember seeing a video on an art exhibit where they smashed to perfectly mint muscle cars together over the course of one week. the machine collided them together but it was impossible to see it moving because of how slow it is. they should've used some shitbox prius's. not vintage muscle cars.

[warhog258]

those where dummie engines with no engine 

[slow758]

looked really real in the movie :D

[Mperfection49]

Does anyone notice the hydralic rams at 0:08 that flips the units. judging by the diameter of the rods it looks like the whole unit weighs around 20 tons or so.

[usafisasome]

why would thrash a perfectly good loco

[tigermki]

someone explain how a train explodes after flipping over

[CimarronWestfolk]

@tigermki Hollywood. I know no other way of explaining it. If you look close here, or in the movie you might catch the filming error of this wreck. Where they flipped these two "tin cans on wheels" is in one place. They then lifted them up, and moved them about 150 feet back. Then they blew them up.

[tigermki]

@CimarronWestfolk yea i saw the movie a week ago and watched the making off the movie for no reason at all hollywood just loves to break the boundries and confuse us

[paddmaddproductions]

@tigermki It wasn't an F40PH.

[Tigersfan829]

@tigermki most likely for special effects, but theres hundreds of gallons of diesel fuel in train fuel tanks...so its possible if that spills

[tigermki]

@Tigersfan829 but if it spills whats seting it on fire then?

[tonimtions]

@tigermki The train has a full tank of highly combustable Diesel fuel used to power the locomotive. After derailing at say, a minimum of 45mph, a spark ignites the fuel in the dual locomotive causing the tanks to explode.

[railman2015]

@tigermki sparks+gasoline= BOOM

[hootergirlsrhot]

@railman2015 locomotives run on diesel, not gasoline, diesel cannot combust that easily, you need compression for diesel to combust. this is all hollywood

[mikey765l]

@railman2015 no that is not correct spark or even cigar in my grandpa case plus bucket of gasoline just means cigar goes out or at the most a flame thats it no boom= why does everyone think gasoline is so unstable= it has to be in a vapor form to explode i mean hell you get a cloud of saw dust that will explode aswell

[KSE828]

@tigermki Fuel tanks ripping open most likely.

[TrackMaster555]

@tigermki the impact on the diesel fuel tank blew it up

[pitt15220]

@tigermki First this is a movie, second trains do explode sometimes when they derail, just like when a plane crashes and all the fuel leaks out, any kind of spark will set it off. Depends on what cars of the train derail, and whats inside of them too. When the train derailed outside of Emporium, PA almost 10 yrs ago, that was just toxic chemicals. No fuel....no boom.

[ChrisisBass13]

@tigermki ruptured fuel tank? Im not sure.

[mikey765l]

@tigermki easy you put explosives inside of the locomotive and then when the time is right you set them off. there you go the train explodes same things goes with cars. gas does not explode unless its a vapor. trust me i got a good source my father is a fire fighter it just doesn't happen like in hollywood

[428trapay]

when the loco is burning you can tell that its a replica cuz there isnt anything inside

[90Blakey]

you know. somehow the first time i watch this movie. when the train tipped over and i said "wait for it...its gonna happen *train explodes* Op! i was right" lol

[lpbulldogs1]

A real train wouldn't derail at that little of a angle my dad didn't really like the movie cuz the trains supposedly at 70mph and during the movie the trains only goin like 30mph

[smk8er]

There not real. They are full size props of the locomotives. At the end of the slide show you can see the thin metal tubing used for the skeleton. Very realistic but they were not the real locomotives!!!!

[Redlance71]

Based on events in Ohio, film shows Penn. Anyways, amazed to see this shot was not miniatures, looked pretty real. Good waste of SD40's though. They are fun to run )))

[Redlance71]

Based on events in Ohio, film shows Penn. Anyways, amazed to see this shot was not miniatures, looked pretty real. Good waste of SD40's though. They are fun to run )

[copperheadmarine]

Someone should have thier asses kicked for trashing perfectly good 40's

[abeemanator]

If i wanted to see picture I would have gone to Flikr

[yourpageitsasheed]

Woow great shots¡¡¡ ¡¡

[sheacd1]

yeah... remembered that right after posting... (facepalm)

[CimarronWestfolk]

@sheacd1 You should read the ENTIRE description. Since it started in Toledo, OH and contunied to travel in Ohio until it was stopped at what point was it in Illinois?

[RCKTBOY7]

@sheacd1 BS, I read the article, it was in OHIO not ILLINOIS!!!!!!

[riverlifeva]

@sheacd1 you should read the link after he said "based on this incident"

[WheelieRider4Life]

why pics and not video?

[BrianEaZy]

WHAT? they used an actual train? Risky isnt it ?

[metroliner89]

Poor SD40's!!!!!!!!!

[AndrewNeilFalconer]

This reminds me of a Star Trek: Voyager plot device where they have to fail dramatically with a fatality before finding the obvious solution. 

[Unclesamslair]

man, gotta love those unrealistically low-flying helicopters

[rockguitarist946]

i love how in the movie in this particular scene the SD40-2s randomly explode after flipping

[harrier331]

they destroyed a perfictally good train poor train:(

[AndrewNeilFalconer]

@harrier331 They had to remove the prime mover and other parts of the SD40-2 pair before they derailed them, to make them light enough to push over.

[lennyos]

How often do you kick yourself for photographing this instead of filming it? Great shots and awesome to see how they did it, don't get me wrong, though

[Bus7777]

I knew my model trains were realistic!

[arrowguy173]

I understand Hollywood ramping things up but come on - they couldn't even throw points on a switch without explosions!

Runaway Train and Emperor of the North will always top my list of RR films.

[GoldenCreekValleyRR]

this never did happen. and engineer did not die! great movie though!!!!

[rc8rsracer]

@GoldenCreekValleyRR yes it did not this particular scene but most of the movie did

[GoldenCreekValleyRR]

@rc8rsracer yah well i know the insident with csx 8888 and how it barraled through north ohio unmanned. And there was a lot of destruction, but no one did die. 

[metraF40PH163]

@GoldenCreekValleyRR There really was no destruction at all in the CSX runaway. Just on broken De-railer

[GoldenCreekValleyRR]

@metraF40PH163 well in my opinion that derailer was a lot of destruction! KA BOOOM!!!

[JJBW591]

I just seen this movie and I enjoyed it very much, I think they did an awsome job and the actors were great.

[AzBaja]

Just go to see this movie, granted it was a net copy, but the Movie SUCKS! Who came up with this junk I have no clue...If I were you I would wait for the Red Box to get it then split the cost with a few pals as a $1 might be too much for this movie.

[DASCO2136]

@AzBaja it was actually based off of a real life incident about 10 years ago. Type up on google CSX 8888 incident

[AzBaja]

@DASCO2136 True, I know the storey and it does not make the movie any better. It just Sucks. If it was close to the true event it might be a little better. But it just Sucks. Lets just call it like it is Snakes on a Train.

[gtasandman]

that was a rc heli made to look big

[iRECKONER]

ha ha nice hydros that derail it!

[Kbob3985]

Great catch! Too bad the sd40-2's couldn't survive.

[CoastStarlight11]

WOW!!!!!

[zequelll]

reminds me of atomic train *shudder*

[LionDusty]

@zequelll We'll see if it works out any better. At least the special effects will have a real budget now :P

[harrier331]

@zequelll it is a mix between atomic train and runaway train

[Dakathi66]

@zequelll That movie was awesome! Also God forbid.

[train52000]

Did anybody notice the derailer on the tracks? Its yellowish colored. thats what made the train flip over. They put those there to keep additional accidents from occuring, like for instance crashing into flammable tank cars.

[train52000]

Did anybody notice the derailer on the tracks? Its yellowish colored. thats what made the train flip over.

[AznBoiiBTW]

hmm.... 0:51.... fire next to some chemical tanks and no explosions..

[SemperFidelis94]

Our trip back from Vo-Tech almost had to take a detour due to the filming, lol. We saw the train a lot on the way there from our school.

[PoopFilm]

Thank you so much, I can't wait for this movie to come out. Does anybody know when that will be?

[CimarronWestfolk]

11-12-10, subject to change.

[PoopFilm]

Thanks a lot!

[1bearcatf8f]

@PoopFilm the movie is comming out 2-15-11