FILM 1210: UNSTOPPABLE
TRIVIA: The film is inspired by the
"Crazy Eights" unmanned train incident in 2001. The train, led by CSX
Transportation SD40-2 #8888, left its Walbridge, Ohio, rail yard and began a
66-mile (106 km) journey through northwest Ohio with no one at the controls,
after the engineer got out of the originally slow-moving train to correctly
line a switch, mistakenly believing he had properly set the train's dynamic
braking system, just as his counterpart in the movie did. Two of the real
train's tank cars also contained thousands of gallons of molten phenol, similar
to the fictional train in the film.
Tony Scott's final film
before his death in 2012.
Jess Knowlton served as a technical
advisor to this film. He was the engineer who chased after CSX 8888 in the real
incident, eventually coupling up and slowing that train enough for someone to
climb aboard and stop it.
Animal noises were used to make the
777 train sound more menacing.
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