When was the last time you saw Runaway Train?

Movies like those are an insult to anyone's intelligence, who knows ANYTHING about real railroading!

January 1989.  It was the last movie I watched with my dad.  He died a few days later.

 

Rusty

I saw it once, many years ago.

 

Once was enough. 

Saw it in the theater, and not long ago on TV.

Silly plot, no question but I agree it did a good job of showing the power of a runaway.

Any time I'm hankering for a movie with trains worked into the plot I watch "The Train" with Burt Lancaster and it delivers the goods.

 

I've never seen "Runaway Train", but "Unstoppable" was pretty pathetic.

 

Jeff C

 Great movie ! Still have my VHS copy.

I like Danger Lights can be down loaded from the inner net .

I recall reading that the director had a complete mock-up of the F7 built in a studio for close-up action scenes on and around it, complete with wind machines and a rolling backdrop. A lot of other scenes were done on-location. No blue-screen digital composite effects at all.

 

Not a good example for railroading, but the film is a bit of a cult classic for hard-boiled action films. It's just entertainment...

Years ago there was another movie about a runaway.It took place in the mountains it was the riogrand skitrain.I was a kid when it aired on abc.I can,t recall the actors in the movie.Any body rember atomictrain that started out as a runaway.Had a russian atomic bomb on board.

  I would like not to remember Atomictrain ,that was a really bad movie. 

Good chewing gum for the eyeballs.  As for reality - Hollywood's strong suit is entertainment - nothing more. My favorite suspension of reality are the fight scenes. If you have ever taken an accidental punch, kick, etc. in sparring training in karate you know that the movie fight scenes are physically impossible - tho still fun to watch.

With digital TV came 3 channels here that show movies all the time. I saw it twice the last time a month or two ago. I was flabbergasted by the amount of ice caked on everything, no place for me.

I remember both 'Runaway' and 'Runaway Train' Runaway was filmed here in my hometown of Arvada, Co. Back in '73 when they were filming, I remember seeing the GP-40 lettered 'Serra Pacific' and wondering what was that? A couple of days later I found out that the railroad (Rio Grande) was part of a network movie.

 The other movie was filmed on Alaska Railroad.

I saw it once, many years ago.

 

Once was enough.

 

I agree. Williams Shatner did a better job on his RR film.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzOa1lveUp4

Ok. From the overall reaction I guess a better title would have been "What's wrong with Runaway Train?". I'm guessing the most egregious error is how they got away in the first place.

Never.

It may take a while to search for it, but that was discussed at great length here, back when the movie came out.

I remember "Runaway." It came out when I was in high school. I watched it with my mother the night it came out.

 

Here's a piece written about it:

 

http://obscuretrainmovies.word.../09/01/runaway-1973/

 

I remember the silver GP40 waiting in the clear for the train to pass.

 

Bob