Trains in the Movies Goofs ...
Hollywood has been know to do some incongruous things in films - either they don't know, or figure the audience doesn't know, or they just don't care enough to do things proper like...
I was watching Second Hand Lions (Robert Duvall and Michael Caine). When it got to the scene where they were picking up the Purina Lion Chow from the local Ag distributor there was a train passing by in the background. The movie appears to be set in 1960 judging from the automobiles, but the train had a string of what sure looked like modern hoppers in it with one end marked for rotary couplers.
Is it just me, or is that a bit of a temporal anomaly?
Anyone got some other examples?
Charlie
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"Ray"
There was a scene in the movie "Ray", about the life of Ray Charles, where there was a intermodal double stack train passing by. The scene was supposed to be in the 1950s.
Another Temporal Anomaly
Kevin Bacon plays a locomotive engineer in the 2007 film "Rails And Ties". It's set in the modern era, but the locomotive Bacon runs is an F7.. That's a bit of a stretch. The rail scenes were shot on the Fillmore & Western.
Mike
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We Are Marshall, and Remember the Titans
I watch other movies besides football movies! In We are Marshall, the coach points down at a train with UP dash 9's and makes a comment. The movie was based in the early 70's. In Remembering the Titans (also circa early 70's), there is a train going by in the background with some pretty new looking CSX cars. Also in Hoosiers (1950's era) the team gets to the state championship and there is an Amtrak sign in the background. Observation: sports movies are not good at following prototype!
Mike Lozensky
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In the movie "The Bandwagon", Fred Astaire travels into NYC aboard a NYC train, but when the train arrives at the station (the MGM set), all the cars are lettered for the Santa Fe.
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