| Posted by on November 18, 2009 | |
Great paint scheme on those SD's.... What is to be filmed? I seem to be out of the loop!
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Even ignoring the special nature of the train, it is a nice industry shot with good color.
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| Posted by FrankB on November 18, 2009 | |
Filming is for the movie "Unstoppable", dir. Tony Scott.
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Are these former Helm / DM&E (ex-MILW) units?
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Why do they all bear the same road number? Does it have something to do with the movie, or is it part of the way they do things on the AWVR?
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| Posted by on November 18, 2009 | |
Notice the nose of the second unit.
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The AWVR is a fictitious railroad for the movie. They're all the same number so that they can use one for far-away exterior shots and the other two for shots of the actors in the cab or climbing on the locomotive. As you can see, there's scaffolding attached to the second 1206 to place the cameras on. They probably had to get special permission from the AAR to have three locomotives with the same number and fictitious reporting marks.
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That is quite an interesting nose job they've done to the lead unit. Is their any information on it's origin?
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| Posted by on October 5, 2014 | |
No these are not ex DM&E units. These are W&LE units leased to the movie company. They
Leased 5 SD40-2's from W&LE. They leased 4 AC4400CW's from CP. They also leased a GP11 but I don't know who that's from.
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| Posted by on October 5, 2014 | |
No these are not ex DM&E units. These are W&LE units leased to the movie company. They
Leased 5 SD40-2's from W&LE. They leased 4 AC4400CW's from CP. They also leased a GP11 but I don't know who that's from.
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