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Trains mentioned that it was filmed with VIA Rail equipment. Gene Wilder Richard Pryor and Scratman Crothers together as one save the Silver Streak while the diesel engine crashes into the train.

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The climatic train crash at the end of the film was shot in an airplane hangar with a replica locomotive and a replica train station both replicas were built especially for the movie.

. Directed by Arthur Hiller. Silver Streak Movie 4212 views. And the resulting crash in the Chicago station was tremendous especially seeing it in slow-motion when the lead diesel smashed through the reflection glass the electrical systems in the floor exploded under the gift-shop with the overhead lights popping along the hood and the train finally blasted right through that huge marble column without appearing to slow down.

The train crashes through a cement wall destroying a gift shop and much of the station. Trains Magazine send it was one of the 10 best train movies. While the story takes place in the US many scenes from the movie Silver Streak were actually filmed in and around Southern Alberta.

The train supposedly travels from Los Angeles to Chicago but both. Course that could just an excuse since it seems to cheaper to film there than in the US for some reason ie. Silver Streak is indeed an older movie.

Mon Jun 04 2007 710 pm. There was a lot of CP Rail locomotives and box cars. The latter playing second fiddle in the movie was sold to Via Rail Canadas then new passenger train carrier in 1978.

However the actual crash was into a model intending to. In later shots of the runaway train theres no sign of his body or of any blood and the door has somehow closed itself. Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Thursday June 5 2008 1238 PM.

The engine crashing into the station was filmed in two adjoining hangars at the Lockeed Aircraft Plant in Burbank California using a full-sized mock-up of the FP-7A locomotive. 173 that crashed in the baggage room below of the Union Station in Washington DC on the morning of the 15th January 1953 after jumping the. Years ago I read somewhere that it had to be filmed in Canada because Amtrak refused to cooperate with the film because of the obvious negative images of the run-a-way train etc.

Sun Jun 19 2005 618 am. On a long-distance train trip a man finds romance but also finds himself in danger of being killed or at least pushed off the train. But near the end of the movies when they stop the train its clear that it was filmed in Canada.

Hes then hit by an oncoming engine. In truth we are some 1700 km west of there and the. Grover drives away in a stolen Triumph sports car that was on display in the lobby and George and Hilly walk off and want to find a park to stay in.

When Devereaux is shot by the cop in the helicopter hes alone in the Silver Streaks engine compartment leaning out the open door. The Silver Streak is now a runaway train and all folks at the terminal are ordered to evacuate the area. Locomotive 4070 however stayed on the CPR roster into the early 1980s before being sold to a commuter railway in Quebec.

Silver Streak has always been one of my favorite movies. Anyone else catch it. Frankendiesel aka Scott Running Bear.

With Gene Wilder Jill Clayburgh Richard Pryor Patrick McGoohan. Running Bear Sundown Louisiana. Silver Streak 1976 Errors in geography.

A few days ago I purchased the movie Silver Streak 1976 on DVD. George and Grover are supposedly driving east into Kansas City yet the sun is seen to rise behind them. Likely file footage but the scenes immediately before the crash were approaching CNW Station in Chicago.

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The final scene where the train crashes into the Chicago Stations Grand Concourse was based on the crash of Federal Express No. By Gilbert B Norman. In the movie 4070 was accompanied sister engine 4067.

Lots of good train scenes. 15 year veteran fire fighter. Posted by Civil War on Tuesday September 1 2009 1122 PM I just watched the Silver Streak with Gene Wilder.

It will be on again later this week if you get the right movie channels. Its long since retired and scrapped. In the first picture from this then and now series the train speeds past a depot which is marked for Rockdale Illinois.

Credit goes to ThomasRemaker123 and all sound and video clips go to their perspective owners and Not me. It was released in 1976.

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