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Just Train Wrong

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Just Train Wrong	comment	These are the examples that make Casey Jones turn over in his grave. Just like works that are Just Plane Wrong, many writers just don't do the research when it comes to railways, locomotives and rolling stock. Easily, the number one mistake is showing a steam locomotive without a tender or bunker and tanks — which usually means that it doesn't have any fuel or water and therefore can't move — or having no rods to move it or a mishmash of rods and wheels in all the wrong places. And even if there is a tender, it often looks like one big fuel bunker on wheels with nowhere to put the water. Other common departures from reality might involve a Runaway Train's safety systems failing without any justifiable reason, or the wrong kind of train or rolling stock for the script. Whenever a train appears, it'll almost always be blasting its horn or whistle (if even that, as sometimes they'll use whistles on diesels and horns on steam engines instead of vice-versa), when in real life trains are only meant to sound their horns and/or whistles at set points along the route such as at level crossings, or if there's something or someone on the track. But, hey, most viewers don't know or care what the proper train would look like, or the ins-and-outs of railway operations. And more often than not, in media that may involve trains or railroads in general as part of the premise, the engineer is commonly incorrectly referred to as the "conductor". Conductors look after trains and make sure they are safe to ride on or operate. Engineers instead operate the trains themselves and focus on driving them from one place to another. Another thing many pieces of media get wrong about trains are the coupler designs. Many of these trains are depicted with a very cheaply designed coupling system with two links held together by a dinky little bolt with only one large cap on the top which makes the whole coupler system look like it came from a tractor and a trailer. It's possible that these couplers are a more simplistic take on the "Link and Pin" couplers from the mid to late 1800s which were the very first couplers used on American railroads, hence why they're used more often than a more accurate "Knuckle Coupler" design which were created in the late 1800s which eventually replaced all link and pin couplers on many modern-day railroads. Cases of anachronistic locomotives and rolling stock are more forgivable, for most of the same reasons given in sister tropes involving ships, aircraft or armoured vehicles. Sometimes there are simply no serviceable examples still in existence, or the surviving examples are stabled at preserved railway lines far from their original area of operation and are too expensive to transport, leaving the production team to choose between this trope and California Doubling. Even when you manage to make locomotive and rolling stock match the period and the location, they're often in a livery from an earlier or later period of their service lifespan, and the owners may well be reluctant to have them repainted for filming, especially considering the expense involved. They figure that only weird railroad nerds will notice anyway. Compare Steam Never Dies, which often involves steam locomotives still running as commonplace in the modern era when they've explicitly stopped being used. Contrast Cool Train. Not to Be Confused with something you do to one of your students as a joke, that's Sabotutor.
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Just Train Wrong / int_109b49e1	comment	The subway train scene in Predator 2 is set on a train in Los Angeles, or rather, a San Francisco BART train being passed off as Los Angeles Metro Rail train. This one is admittedly justifiable since at the time the film was made (1990), the Los Angeles Metro subway line was still under construction at the time, and clearly not yet available for the film, which actually takes place in 1997, by which point the line had been open for 4 years.
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Just Train Wrong / int_109f7814	comment	The Sherlock episode "The Empty Hearse" made the limitations of what filming locations London Underground make available painfully obviously to anyone who knows the network. They summed it up by saying, "the shape-shifting London Underground network is an even bigger mystery than working out how Sherlock survived his fall": The train that one car disappears from is supposedly on the District Line (a full-size line), but the CCTV shots are very clearly filmed with 1996 Tube Stock at the disused Charing Cross station on the Jubilee Line (a tube line). The disused station that Sherlock and John explore is recognizably Aldwych. The exterior of the car they discover is the 1972 Bakerloo Line Tube Stock train that was (at the time of production) parked there for filming, but the interior of the car is a 1978 D Stock car of the kind used on the District Line at the time that the episode was broadcast. Sherlock concludes that the â€œfive minuteâ€� journey between Westminster and St Jamesâ€™s Park must have somehow been made to last ten minutes. The journey takes less than two minutes in real life, and with 28 trains per hour on that line, there's little room for delays and no room to divert a train without a significant backup.
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Just Train Wrong / int_1828b8a	comment	In The Swarm (1978), the driver falls against the brake, shoving it forward, causing the train to speed up and crash. Pushing the brake forward applies it, and applying the brakes is how you stop the train. Then, when the train crashes, the unpowered coaches explode and burn instead of just the locomotive.
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Just Train Wrong / int_1a89d675	comment	Unlike in Railroad Tycoon, there is no distinction whatsoever between passenger and freight locomotives. They just keep getting faster and more powerful. When the Gresley A4 comes along, it actually becomes your best choice for heavy iron ore trains. The sole exceptions are three multiple units because short locomotive-hauled passenger trains become too expensive around The '50s.
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Just Train Wrong / int_1d5482f	comment	In "Wild and Woolly Hare," Bugs and Yosemite Sam are charging each other, playing chicken with locomotives. Sam chickens out first, before Bugs pulls a lever lifting his train up on extenders. Except.. aren't all the wheels still on the same rails? Rule of Funny.
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Just Train Wrong / int_1d792986	comment	The franshise's 2021 reboot, Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go, takes this trope all the way up to 11 and beyond, with the engines and vehicles being far cartoonier than just colors and faces (the engines flat out use their wheels or buffers as limbs at times), and at times can seem like they are made of rubber rather than metal. The size discrepancies between the engines are also worsened. There's a good reason the page image is (currently) a screencap from the series.
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Just Train Wrong / int_1df8f66b	comment	Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, from the first season episode Murder on the Ballarat Train onwards. Victorian Government Railways of the time used Old Irish (5'3") gauge track, and the trains in the series are Cape gauge (3'6"), as they - and, for that matter, a lot of Australian productions needing a steam train - are shot on the Bellarine Peninsular Railway, which is Cape gauge. The trains are mostly very un-Victorian, given that they come from all over Australia, in a variety of liveries (ignoring, for the moment, the hapless tank engine roped in to play Thomas yearly) including distinctively Tasmanian, Queensland, and Western Australian types and some from industries such as a Broken Hill smelter and a Queensland sugar mill. The railway is a preservation line that doesn't go anywhere near Melbourne or Ballarat, beginning at Queenscliffe and travelling to Drysdale.
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Just Train Wrong / int_1efbca4e	comment	Death Line: This 1970s horror film set on the London Underground Piccadilly Line was filmed in real locations, but there are a couple of noticeable issues: The underground platform and corridor scenes supposedly set at Russell Square station were filmed at Aldwych station (which was still open at the time, but only used in weekday peak hours). In many platform sequences there is a prominent sign directing passengers to the District Line, which one would not expect to see at Russell Square â€” this was in situ at Aldwych and referred to the separate but nearby District Line station Temple. Not so much an error as deliberate artistic license, but in the discussion between Inspector Calhoun and the transport police detective Inspector Richardson, Richardson says that the City & South London Railway was constructing the proposed line that was abandoned after the cave-in disaster, causing the company to go bankrupt. In the real world, the City & South London was the company that constructed London's first deep tube railway line, but it never had any involvement in construction around the Holborn-Bloomsbury area, and continued to operate until 1913, when it was taken over by the larger Underground Electric Railways of London Company.
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Just Train Wrong / int_20409a0a	comment	The Defenders (2017): When Matt Murdock, Luke Cage and Jessica Jones take the subway to return to Midland Circle after staging a jailbreak from the 29th Precinct, they are clearly on a Port Authority Trans Hudson train passing for a New York Subway train. When Luke is watching White Hat pick up Cole and some other men, he's supposedly in Harlem, yet he's standing under the elevated BMT Jamaica Line in Brooklyn. (There are a couple of short sections of elevated track on the IRT in Harlem, but otherwise there is very little elevated track remaining in Manhattan.)
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Just Train Wrong / int_213742cf	comment	Flags of Our Fathers: At :43:05, this EMD "F" unit can be seen pulling a train into Manchester, NH with New Hampshire hero Rene Gagnon aboard. While EMD was indeed building this style of locomotive starting in 1939, A careful inspection of spotting details reveals the lead loco to be an EMD F9, a post-war model not introduced until 1953. A more appropriate streamliner would have been an EMD E7, preferably in Boston & Maine paint. Not only are the diesels the wrong model, but their paint scheme is incorrect as well. The scene takes place in Manchester, NH in 1945 so the locomotives should be painted in the Boston & Maine Railroad's famous maroon and gold "Minuteman" paint scheme. Instead, the engines are painted in an early 1990's Burlington Northern paint scheme. Burlington Northern didn't even exist until 1970. This is somewhat understandable given the filming location (Glencoe, Illinois) and the almost non-existent availability of Boston & Maine diesels, however a working Boston & Maine streamliner operates at a tourist railroad in New Hampshire. Glencoe, Illinois stood in as Manchester, NH and the town's Metra station◊ is visually similar to Amoskeag Depot, a railroad station that still stands in Manchester. However, when Rene Gagnon arrived in Manchester in 1945, he arrived at Manchester Union Station◊ (which was torn down in 1962), not Amoskeag Station. Plus, Glencoe is far less urban than the City of Manchester.
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Just Train Wrong / int_2231d13a	comment	In episode 6 of Cuffs, the opening sequence involves the rescue of an elderly woman with dementia from a heritage railway. Where this trope comes in is that in between two shots, the steam engine flips around so that it's facing backwards rather than forwards.
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Just Train Wrong / int_24e3c086	comment	The movie The Iceman is set in the late 1960's—1970's. But a modern-day train is clearly visible in an establishing shot of the New York City skyline.
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Just Train Wrong / int_25abb662	comment	Assassin's Creed Syndicate seems to get some of it right, but there are a few glaring errors. These include the right locomotives but in the complete wrong livery, said locomotives being used too early, and having London Victoria as a through station instead of a terminus.
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Just Train Wrong / int_2675c915	comment	An episode of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. set in Italy shows multi-track electrified track in stock footage... and single track non-electrified in the footage featuring the actors on the track. However, the train was running from Italy to Croatia, so unless the footage was interspersed, it could be explained as the train crossing into Eastern Europe. (There are vineyards in Croatia) Less forgivable, is the presence of an EMD F7A unit at the head of the train, when they could have just about got away with an SD40, a version of which was built in Yugoslavia (this is all a case of California Doubling as the train scenes were shot on the Fillmore & Western Railway in California).
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Just Train Wrong / int_28724fb2	comment	In Titanic, in the scene at Southampton, an American switcher is briefly seen on the dockside. Not quite the glaring error it appears to be, as the Southern Railway company did operate a few S100-class switchers bought as war-surplus from the US Army Transportation Corps, but they weren't even designed until the middle of the 1940s.note Plus the Southern Railway didn't exist until the 1923 grouping of Britain's various railways into the "Big Four" that existed until nationalization. Someone in the set design team was trying to be too clever for their own good.
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Just Train Wrong / int_28c6afce	comment	Thomas & Friends has some examples. Whilst the author of the books, Wilbert Awdry, was a railway buff who made a point of getting the details right in his books, there are many examples of unrealistic railway operation in the TV series, particularly in later seasons, as advertising new toys took precedent. Crane tank engines (such as Harvey) are not capable of locomotive salvage (they are used mainly for lifting and loading cargo). A Japanese engine such as Hiro, or an American locomotive like Hank, would not be able to run on traditional British rails. US engines have a much larger loading gauge than on British lines, and so would collide with the first bridge or platform it encountered. Whilst Japanese steam engines are a similar size to those in the UK, they were built for a narrower track gauge, and changing the gauge would make it too wide (as the cylinders, the widest point, would have to move out). Engines cannot switch tracks of their own volition, as the point-work is controlled from levers, either as an open frame or in a building, beside the line and not from aboard the engine. The sole exception are tramways. This is later averted in later productions, as either the drivers will leave the cab to switch the points manually or the engines will shout for a signalman to change the tracks if a signal box is nearby, though in real life they would have to use a specific whistle code rather than just shouting. It would be impractical, if not impossible, to build a railway line over a dam. It's dangerous to push trains that aren't designed to operate that way. It's extremely dangerous to push trains in a snowstorm. It's even more dangerous to push trains in a snowstorm without a brake van. A "grabber" style crane would not be used in the scrapping of a railway locomotive. The entire climax of The Great Discovery: Standard gauge locomotives are not allowed to work in mineshafts. It's physically impossible to suspend railway tracks in such a way to support a steam locomotive. There's no water current strong enough to propel a locomotive down a river. The infamous Ramp Jump scene is impossible in itself. Thomas shouldn't have had any steam left at all; it should have gradually leaked out. You can't just move coal from one engine to another and expect it to start a fire — especially one whose firebox was previously flooded. It's impossible to operate a steam engine without a water injector. The general weirdness of the Misty Island railway: The zipline and the Shake Shake Bridge. Diesel wouldn't have been able to outrun Thomas, as Class 08 shunters have a max speed of 15 or 20 mph, whereas the LB&SCR E2 Class tank engines, which inspired Thomas's design, were capable of traveling at least 70 miles per hour. Diesel would never have been able to keep his balance on the edge of the bridge. His spinning wheels would have caused the rails to bend, making him fall. It's unsafe for steam engines to travel underground over long distances. The smoke and steam would make the air toxic and suffocate the engine's crew. A steam locomotive running out of water wouldn't stop like a car out of petrol: its boiler would explode. If it was short of water in the boiler the fire would be put out to prevent such a thing happening (and are designed to let water from the boiler into the fire if the level gets too low); such a scenario occurred in an early book, and whilst unpleasant the engine could continue with a reduced fire. In "Fiery Flynn", the narrator specifically states that Thomas' firebox was on fire. It was as if the writer for the episode had no idea how a steam locomotive works and just assumed kids would be stupid enough not to notice this glaring lapse in logic. Either that or something else in the cab caught fire (like the gauges). The franshise's 2021 reboot, Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go, takes this trope all the way up to 11 and beyond, with the engines and vehicles being far cartoonier than just colors and faces (the engines flat out use their wheels or buffers as limbs at times), and at times can seem like they are made of rubber rather than metal. The size discrepancies between the engines are also worsened. There's a good reason the page image is (currently) a screencap from the series.
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Just Train Wrong / int_2ab52cee	comment	In the 2018 BBC adaptation of The ABC Murders: In the London Underground scene towards the end of episode 2, the train is obviously the 1972 Tube Stock train kept at the disused Aldwych station for such filming purposes, with its large window panes and brushed-aluminium finish, neither of which would have been seen on any train running in the 1930s. In the scene in episode 3 with Cust being chased across the railway tracks, there are some mildly unconvincing CGI trains, including a loose-coupled freight train hauled by an express passenger locomotive which would not have been seen on such lowly work in real life.
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Just Train Wrong / int_2bbcacd9	comment	Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: Any Wile E Coyote And The Roadrunner short involving a train as one of the gags. One short had Coyote placing a set of fake train tracks and signal to try to get at the Road Runner ... except that Wile E. gets hit by a real train that comes out of nowhere! In another short, Wile E. chases Road Runner into a train tunnel and is scared back by the lights of an approaching train ... only to find it is the Road Runner wearing a miner's helmet; it traps the Coyote into a false sense of security when he chases the bird back into the tunnel and he refuses to budge because he thinks this train is a fak ... OOF! And don't forget the time Wile E. painted a train engine, complete with tracks ... and even going so far as to place fake tracks in front of the "tunnel"; after starting another chase, the Road Runner races into the tunnel as though it was there ... but guess what comes bursting out moments after the Coyote runs smack into the side of the tunnel and he walks off in a daze. In "Wild and Woolly Hare," Bugs and Yosemite Sam are charging each other, playing chicken with locomotives. Sam chickens out first, before Bugs pulls a lever lifting his train up on extenders. Except.. aren't all the wheels still on the same rails? Rule of Funny. 1937's Porky's Railroad has Porky's tiny, very old fashioned (even for the late 30's) steam engine being powered by a measly candlestick sitting in its boiler. Moreover, "Toots" is a 2-2-2 "Single" type—a locomotive of which was rarely used in the United States (being more commonplace in Europe), while the engine in charge of the "30th Century Limited" is shown as a 4-4-2 (with an animation goof later depicting it as a 2-6-2) at a time when the 4-6-4 or the 4-8-4 would have been a far better choice for fast motive power—it's even only hauling a single passenger car! Likewise, a train cannot physically jump an open bridge and land on the other side unscathed that easilynote There has been a few rare accidents where engines have jumped the tracks and landed back on them perfectly. In one such incident, a train running past a red signal jumped the split-frog derail and its train managed to rerail itself, though the opposing train still t-boned it anyway, nor does a rampaging bull have enough power to completely junk the entire consist and smash the locomotive all the way to the other side of the yard and crush it to smithereens in the process.
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Just Train Wrong / int_2d316bc0	comment	In the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012) episode "It Came From The Depths", the turtles decide to use one of the Kraang's power cells to power up a train car and escape a group of Kraang, which causes the train to go at unnaturally fast speeds. Although the car manages go all the way down the track and onto the road, in real life, the car would derail immediately on the first turn.
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Just Train Wrong / int_3409b655	comment	Chuggington has taken a lot of artistic licence with regard to railway operations: The steam locomotive characters lack tenders (one had one, but it wasn't used and rusted away), and apparently take on water directly into the boiler. Olwin takes on coal by opening her cab roof which allows the coal to fall in. Locomotives are much more dynamic than any real locomotive, and can jump off the rails and bounce back down perfectly.
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Just Train Wrong / int_3544ad11	comment	In the first episode of season 2 of House of Cards (US), Zoe Barnes is killed by getting shoved in front of a Washington Metro train at the Cathedral Heights station. Although there is a neighborhood in Washington DC called Cathedral Heights, it doesn't have a WMATA station, although the Red Line does service the nearby neighborhoods of Tenleytown, Cleveland Park and Woodley Park. The station also lacks the vaulted ceiling present at all inner city Washington Metro stations. The train◊ also looks nothing like a real◊ Washington Metro train◊. The reason for all this is that, because WMATA doesn't allow scenes with violence to be filmed in their system, the scene had to be shot at Charles Street station on Baltimore's subway line. Averted with an earlier scene where Frank Underwood has a covert meeting with Zoe in the Archives - Navy Memorial station on the Yellow and Green Lines, which was filmed on location.
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Just Train Wrong / int_37564412	comment	Pickle and Peanut: In â€œRunaway Trainâ€�, McSweats in a train costume (with wheels!) is barreling down a path of active tracks after being switched off of old ones, and thereâ€™s a train heading in his path. Despite being an old steam engine resembling the Union Pacific 119, it has a diesel engineâ€™s air horn, it has no tender, and is pulling modern hopper cars.
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Just Train Wrong / int_377e9b66	comment	Transport Tycoon is a multiple offender. Just like in Railroad Tycoon, steam locomotives that should have a tender don't have one. Blame it on the engine that doesn't allow for articulated vehicles. Just like in Railroad Tycoon, electric vehicles don't need catenary. Unlike in Railroad Tycoon, there is no distinction whatsoever between passenger and freight locomotives. They just keep getting faster and more powerful. When the Gresley A4 comes along, it actually becomes your best choice for heavy iron ore trains. The sole exceptions are three multiple units because short locomotive-hauled passenger trains become too expensive around The '50s. Most tender locomotives are identical-looking 2-6-0s. The Gresley A4 is the same 2-6-0, but streamlined. Even the only two electric locomotives look identical. As proven by countless third-party vehicles from the TTDPatch/OpenTTD user community, this could have been avoided even with such small sprites. Monorails are depicted as a futuristic upgrade on railroads that can haul just about everything over just about any distance. In Real Life, there are good reasons why they've only ever been used in theme parks or as fancy urban transit. Also, grade crossing for monorails and maglevs. This is the only point on the list that TTDPatch and even OpenTTD haven't fixed yet because the engine has yet to allow for Locomotion-style elevated rail.
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Just Train Wrong / int_3b34143f	type	Just Train Wrong
Just Train Wrong / int_3b34143f	comment	In the Harry Potter series, students get to Hogwarts by taking the Hogwarts Express from King's Cross station, departing from platform 9Â¾. This platform is reached by walking through the seemingly-solid barrier between platforms 9 and 10. The only problem is the real King's Cross station doesn't have a platform between tracks 9 and 10. Rowling later claimed that she had mixed up the layout of King's Cross with that of Euston station...which also doesn't have a platform between tracks 9 and 10. To get around this in the films, platforms 4 and 5 were temporarily renumbered 9 and 10 for the King's Cross scenes. Further complicated by the lore given on Pottermore that explained the Hogwarts Express was stolen from Crewe Works in 1830. Crewe didn't open until 1840 by the Grand Junction Railway, later becoming part of the London, Midland, and Scotland Railway system. The locomotive that primarily portrays the Hogwarts Express in media is Olton Hall a Great Western Railway (a rival railway of the LMS) 4900 Class engine built in 1937 at Swindon. If the Hogwarts Express were an accurate 1830's engine it would look much more like Stephenson's Rocket than the larger and more modern engine it was depicted as on screen. So in "lore" the Hogwarts Express was an engine stolen 100 years before it existed at an engine shop that wouldn't exist for another ten years and operated by a railroad that never rostered that particular locomotive class! This isn't so egregious in the movies, where a modern steam engine running in the 1990s would be expected in Britain, but in Hogwarts Legacy, which takes place in the late 19th century, Hogwarts Castle sticks out like a sore thumb.
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Just Train Wrong / int_3b735a50	type	Just Train Wrong
Just Train Wrong / int_3b735a50	comment	1937's Porky's Railroad has Porky's tiny, very old fashioned (even for the late 30's) steam engine being powered by a measly candlestick sitting in its boiler. Moreover, "Toots" is a 2-2-2 "Single" type—a locomotive of which was rarely used in the United States (being more commonplace in Europe), while the engine in charge of the "30th Century Limited" is shown as a 4-4-2 (with an animation goof later depicting it as a 2-6-2) at a time when the 4-6-4 or the 4-8-4 would have been a far better choice for fast motive power—it's even only hauling a single passenger car! Likewise, a train cannot physically jump an open bridge and land on the other side unscathed that easilynote There has been a few rare accidents where engines have jumped the tracks and landed back on them perfectly. In one such incident, a train running past a red signal jumped the split-frog derail and its train managed to rerail itself, though the opposing train still t-boned it anyway, nor does a rampaging bull have enough power to completely junk the entire consist and smash the locomotive all the way to the other side of the yard and crush it to smithereens in the process.
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Just Train Wrong / int_3b73f906	type	Just Train Wrong
Just Train Wrong / int_3b73f906	comment	The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh: "Babysitter Blues" begins with a Fake-Out Opening where Pooh, Piglet, and Tigger hitch a ride on Christopher Robin's train to escape from prison. When the train goes down a steep hill, Piglet has to hit the brakes; the control he activates is not the brake lever but the rope cord, which is what makes the whistle blow. "The Good, the Bad and the Tigger" is full of this. It even provides the page quote. The tender seems to lack a water tank and Tigger can walk through the whole train even though it includes a boxcar. And the train does some physical impossibilities like braking so hard that the cars flip through the air and land back on the rails, facing the other way. After Pooh and Tigger rebuild it with only half of the parts, and with some parts from a handcar mixed in, nothing it does should be possible. Then again, as Pooh put it, "It's a fantasy".
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Just Train Wrong / int_3bc91429	type	Just Train Wrong
Just Train Wrong / int_3bc91429	comment	A Doctor Who Magazine Seventh Doctor story had a London suburban train stolen by evil aliens who planned to eat the passengers. The artist created very detailed and realistic drawings of the train — unfortunately it was of a very distinctive design which was constructed for the suburban railways in Glasgow and never ran in London.
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Just Train Wrong / int_3bf5c9f7	type	Just Train Wrong
Just Train Wrong / int_3bf5c9f7	comment	The Polar Express: Things like the rolling stock bending around a mountain peak or a 100% decline, the length of the train keeps varying from five to about a dozen coaches etc etc. And let's not start on the scene with the train crossing the frozen body of water and slithering across the ice like a snake while being steered by changing the rotation of the drivers on the locomotive.note The usage of alternating forward and reverse to control the train's sliding is actually more plausible than the most glaring issue to rail enthusiasts: that being that the violent, sudden manner in which the engineer repeatedly switched from forward to reverse and back again should have torn the running gear to pieces. That said, it was explicitly stated to be a "magic train." In a more egregious example, the Know-It-All Kid misidentifies the locomotive as a Baldwin S-3 Class Berkshire built in 1931. The locomotive used as the model for the locomotive, Pere Marquette 1225, is actually a Lima N-1 Class Berkshire built in 1941. He was right that Baldwin built the S-3 Class, but they did so for the Erie Railroad in 1928 while it was Lima that built the same class number for the Nickel Plate Road in 1949note Of which only one from the latter railroad, number 779—the last steam engine built by the Lima locomotive works—survives, in the city of its birth. However, due to the Van Swearingen railroads (Nickel Plate, Erie, C&O, and Pere Marquette) using an almost similar design between its 2-8-4s, they do look similar in some respects. Just about the only things correct about his statement were the locomotive's wheel arrangement, weight, and pulling power. Then again, he's a Know-Nothing Know-It-All, and part of his Character Development is acknowledging that he doesn't know everything.
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Just Train Wrong / int_3ebf2a09	type	Just Train Wrong
Just Train Wrong / int_3ebf2a09	comment	Runaway Train from 1985 has quite a few errors: The entire reason the train runs away is because the engineer suffers from a stroke and falls off the locomotive. The railroad would never have allowed any engineer to serve if he was in failing health, since they require company physicals to check for such conditions every year. The dispatchers allow the train to run onto the mainline when they learn of the runaway. No dispatcher would make such a bone-headed move of letting a runaway onto active tracks, especially where there are a great deal of lives at risk. The second unit on the train is an EMD F-unit, which hadn't been in service for years when the movie premiered, except for excursion services on select railroads and in museums across North America. It's true that there were still a few around, but not to the level they'd be used by Class 1 Railroads.
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Just Train Wrong / int_417eae9f	type	Just Train Wrong
Just Train Wrong / int_417eae9f	comment	All Creatures Great & Small (2020) is usually quite good about the period details, but James travels from Glasgow to Yorkshire in the 1930s on a train made up of a Great Western Railway steam engine and postwar British Railways coaches. Great Western (GWR) goes nowhere near either Glasgow or Yorkshire, being confined to the far southwest of England and Cornwall; and British Rail wouldn't come into existence until a decade after the show is set, being formed by the nationalisation of the railway companies in 1948.
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Just Train Wrong / int_41804317	type	Just Train Wrong
Just Train Wrong / int_41804317	comment	SL Man and Poppo-chan from Sorieke! Anpanman. Despite being in a fantasy land, they seem to run without a coal tender, which is required for engines like them. Also, SL Man can go underwater, which would've washed out his firebox.
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Just Train Wrong / int_43cce8e1	type	Just Train Wrong
Just Train Wrong / int_43cce8e1	comment	The Illusionist (2010) generally does a brilliant job of capturing early-1960s Britain... apart from some very French-looking railway carriages in the background at Kings Cross station.
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Just Train Wrong / int_44726b75	type	Just Train Wrong
Just Train Wrong / int_44726b75	comment	The Huffin Puff Express: When the Huffin Puff Express is ascending a hill, the side rods are shown crooked in a way that should not have allowed the driving wheels to turn.
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Just Train Wrong / int_489ce4ff	type	Just Train Wrong
Just Train Wrong / int_489ce4ff	comment	In The Legend of Zorro, the driver of the bad guy's train is hit by a piece of wood and falls against the throttle, shoving it forward and causing the train's speed and boiler pressure to dramatically increase. Pushing the throttle forward would actually close it, making the train slow down (and eventually stop) while a rise in speed would cause the boiler pressure to decrease.
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Just Train Wrong / int_4ae414f0	type	Just Train Wrong
Just Train Wrong / int_4ae414f0	comment	Babylon Berlin: The first season is set in 1929, but the locomotive of the hijacked freight train used for smuggling purposes is a Class 52, a distinctive stripped-down design introduced during World War II to reduce the amount of metal used. Annoying since there are locos of similar type produced in the 1920s that are still in working order.
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Just Train Wrong / int_4c095a1f	type	Just Train Wrong
Just Train Wrong / int_4c095a1f	comment	The Transformers: Astrotrain's locomotive form has no tender. More forgivable in this case than in others, because of the whole "really an alien robot" thing, but it still ruins any chance of him passing as a proper locomotive. Notably, his Siege toy from 2019, the first time he's been depicted as a steam engine since the original, gives him a tender. A little less forgivable in his spotlight episode "Triple Takeover", set in 1985, where he tries to assemble an army of trains at a busy station — and almost all the trains look like 1930s' diesel locomotives, including a few experimental models (one of which resembles the Burlington Pioneer Zephyr), scrapped or retired decades before events of that time.
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Just Train Wrong / int_4c597ac1	type	Just Train Wrong
Just Train Wrong / int_4c597ac1	comment	Hurray for the Dorchester!: The titular locomotive is shown in drawings as a 0-4-0 tender engine. The actual Dorchester had a 0-6-0 wheel configuration.
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Just Train Wrong / int_4cc1bcfc	type	Just Train Wrong
Just Train Wrong / int_4cc1bcfc	comment	The scene at Aldwych tube station - a station on the Piccadilly line - in Patriot Games is so full of inaccuracies it would be easier just to list what they got right. But here goes: Trains from Aldwych station only ran to Holborn, yet an announcementnote which never happens on the Underground anyway reads out a string of stations following it. The announcer reads out two tube stations - Oxford Circus and Marble Arch - that aren't on the Piccadilly line and another station - Hampstead Heath - which isn't even a tube station. The correct order for the stations being called at is Leicester Square, Piccadilly Circus, Green Park, Hyde Park Corner (not "Hyde Park"), Acton Town, Hounslow East and Hatton Cross. Also, all trains on the Underground call at all stations before they terminate. And after the announcement is read out, another train is heard arriving at the station. Between 1917 and its closure in 1994, only one platform was used. The other platform was used as a filming location; ironically, this was one of those filmed there.
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Just Train Wrong / int_4ec6798d	type	Just Train Wrong
Just Train Wrong / int_4ec6798d	comment	On The Wild Wild West, the characters are able to move between cars while the train is in motion even though there are only couplings and not walkways of any sort between the cars.
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Just Train Wrong / int_51203907	type	Just Train Wrong
Just Train Wrong / int_51203907	comment	Mission: Impossible The fight scene in the Channel Tunnel. In real-life, the Tunnel consists of two single-track tunnels (and a service tunnel for electric vehicles) The line is also electrified with overhead catenary throughout, which would cause big problems for both a helicopter flying in the tunnel and anyone standing on top of the train. The helicopter could not get close to the train in the tunnel without being hit by high-speed winds created by the train moving at high-speed. A regular French TGV is used in place of the Eurostar variant, even being identified as such in the Coincidental Broadcast; in actual fact, different loading gauges and voltage supplies — and in the case of the line between Kent and London at the time, third-rail instead of overhead electrification — make it impossible to operate a TGV in the UK. note True at the time the film was made but not now: the high speed line from Gare du Nord to Saint Pancras is technically and dimensionally capable of taking TGV's, but they still aren't allowed in the tunnel itself because of very rigorous fire safety rules. The train is also depicted leaving Liverpool Street station rather than the actual Eurostar terminus at Waterloo.
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Just Train Wrong / int_54aa665f	type	Just Train Wrong
Just Train Wrong / int_54aa665f	comment	In Murder on the Orient Express (1974), the train copies the above mistake of operating a train from a low platform station (in reality a Paris freight terminal). The consist also includes a Pullman day coach, which never would have operated in the Orient Express (in the UK and Europe, Pullmans are not sleeping cars). The Simplon-Orient-Express, which Poirot travels on, did periodically have Pullman day coaches operating in it, but only from Paris to Milan, not as far as Istanbul. The book also mentions having "ordinary carriages" as part of the consist (the Orient Express typically operated as Wagon-Lits carriages on local trains during the Depression years as a way to save money), but these are not seen.
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Just Train Wrong / int_54aab83e	type	Just Train Wrong
Just Train Wrong / int_54aab83e	comment	Murder on the Orient Express (2017): The Orient Express is pulled by a heavily modified SNCF Class 241◊ during the whole course of the movie. While the train goes through Turkey and Yugoslavia, the locomotive never changes. In real life, regulations at the time would necessitate that the locomotive be changed at every border crossing. The Class 241 was built from 1948 to 1952, but the movie takes place in 1934. When the passengers are boarding the Orient Express in Istanbul, the locomotive looks like a WÃ¼rttemberg C◊. While this is an accurate locomotive that actually pulled the Orient Express, the displayed locomotive number is fantasy. And none of them were sold to the Turkish State Railways.
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Just Train Wrong / int_5507c921	type	Just Train Wrong
Just Train Wrong / int_5507c921	comment	The ending of the Fraidy Cat episode "Meaner Than a Junkyard Cat" has Fraidy watching a trainyard with fast diesel trains passing by him. Despite being diesels, the trains have steam whistle sounds, and steam chugging.
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Just Train Wrong / int_59140854	type	Just Train Wrong
Just Train Wrong / int_59140854	comment	Jessica Jones (2015): The same above-mentioned error of a PATH train posing as an NYCS train happens in the second episode when Jessica is taking the subway to go see the paramedic who picked up Kilgrave on the night of Reva's death. Later, PATH's 33rd Street station stands in for Lower East Side - Second Avenue for the scene where Jessica threatens Jeri Hogarth's ex-wife Wendy and drops her onto the tracks.
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Just Train Wrong / int_5b3356f8	type	Just Train Wrong
Just Train Wrong / int_5b3356f8	comment	In Turning Red, streetcars are incorrectly portrayed with steering wheels despite being correctly portrayed to run on rails.
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Just Train Wrong / int_5c638d89	type	Just Train Wrong
Just Train Wrong / int_5c638d89	comment	The train to Canada in "START", the series finale of The Americans, set in December 1987, is clearly a Metro North train made up to look like an Amtrak train. Amtrak does have a route that runs from New York City to Montreal, the Adirondack, but using the Metro North train is likely due to the series filming in the New York City area for location shots. The train we see uses a modern GE Genesis P32 locomotive painted in the Amtrak Phase III livery of the time when the episode is set, but in real life the F40PH was the main road diesel in that era (the Genesis locomotives didn't come until the mid-1990s when Amtrak needed to replace their F40PHs in favor of more efficient locomotives). Amtrak mainly used Turboliner trainsets on routes that ran in upstate New York at the time, including the Adirondack.
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Just Train Wrong / int_5d4da197	type	Just Train Wrong
Just Train Wrong / int_5d4da197	comment	Spider-Man 2: The traintop fight between Spidey and Doc Ock takes on top of what is clearly a Chicago L train dressed to look like a New York City Subway train. There are no trains on the actual subway that have folding doors. Moreover, the train is signed as an R train, but the R train is underground for its entire route. While there were at one time elevated train routes that ran the length of Manhattannote 2nd, 3rd, 6th & 9th Avenue Els, most of them were torn down by the 1940s-1950s, except for parts of the 1 train (the viaduct that takes the 1 train over Manhattan Valley and contains its station at 125th Street actually provides the one scene of this set-piece where the actual subway appears, when Ock throws Spider-Man off the train and Spidey is briefly dragged along the street as he slings webs to latch on to the train's rear cars).
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Just Train Wrong / int_5ff059fa	type	Just Train Wrong
Just Train Wrong / int_5ff059fa	comment	The Shinkansen (bullet train) is powered by overhead lines, which The Wolverine gets right — the characters studiously try to avoid hitting them — but these overhead lines power the trains by way of very large pantographs, which take up substantial space on the roof the train. We could Hand Wave it as the Traintop Battle occurring atop a part of the train without one, but careful watching suggests that simply do not exist on the bullet train in the film, which is shown zooming along with no physical connection to the catenary above it. Case in point: there are at least two obstacles mounted low enough to pass between the train and the overhead lines, and Logan is forced to (carefully) leap over them. The question of how they got there aside, each of these on their own would have been knocking the pantographs off every train that passed.
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Just Train Wrong / int_617c0643	type	Just Train Wrong
Just Train Wrong / int_617c0643	comment	Public Enemies: The producers decided to show a train arriving in Chicago. While Milwaukee Road #261 and its cars in their orange and maroon livery could be reasonably explained, the locomotive is anachronistic to the 1933 setting of the film. ALCO did not build that particular locomotive until 1944. Also, the orange and maroon livery the cars are wearing is post-war. Plus the 261 is a freight locomotive and would be unlikely to appear at Union Station. The 261 was built as a dual-service locomotive during WWII, strong enough for freight, fast enough for passenger service, at a time the government prohibited building any purely passenger locomotives.
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Just Train Wrong / int_64dd58b2	type	Just Train Wrong
Just Train Wrong / int_64dd58b2	comment	In addition to the platform number issue described in the Literature section below, the Harry Potter films use exterior shots of St. Pancras station to represent King's Cross. This can be somewhat forgiven as the two stations are right next door to each other, King's Cross was in the process of being restored at the time, and St. Pancras just looks more impressive from the outside.
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Just Train Wrong / int_6ab1c05d	type	Just Train Wrong
Just Train Wrong / int_6ab1c05d	comment	Train Simulator Classic (formerly known as Rail Works) usually places a strong emphasis on accuracy, but when the rights agreements aren't there, there can be issues. The biggest, as Dovetail Games had no deal with Virgin Trains, is the Class 390 Pendolino... in BR Intercity livery, which was only used before it was ordered. Even besides that, the game doesn't stop you from running trains on routes they have no business running on and can't run on in real life either. If you wanted to, you could run the UK Pro Range Class 313 EMU on the Hudson Line or New York To New Haven since the 313 has pantograph and third-rail capabilities. The same can be done with the Pro Range Class 315. You can run that on any route that allows the use of pantographs, regardless of the region and even on routes it's never seen on in the UK. Then we have the Anachronism Stew of course. You feel like running a Norfolk Southern GP 38-2 on the Arizona Divide? No problem, you can do that. You want to run an AEM-7 on the Washington To Baltimore Route? Go right ahead, why the hell not? You want to take a Southern Pacific Oil Can (tunnel motor) and operate it along the modern Tehachapi Pass? Well then what are you waiting for, do it! You get the idea. Some of the issues are route specific as well. The Soldier Summit route extension which includes the Union Pacific and Rio Grande stations in Salt Lake City, does not model the full Union Pacific mainline from Salt Lake to Provo. So trains coming out of the Union Pacific station are forced to crossover onto the Rio Grande mainline at the location of the Utah Ore Sampling Company in Murray which in real life would have been rough nearly-abandoned industrial trackage at the time the game depicts... if the connection still existed by the 1980s at all. The game just seems to roll with it, forcing mainline trains to slow down to a 5 mph crawl through the Sampler's trackage.
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Just Train Wrong / int_71825b20	type	Just Train Wrong
Just Train Wrong / int_71825b20	comment	Heroically almost-averted in Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines. In one scene, set in France in 1910, Terry-Thomas lands on top of a train that train enthusiasts will recognize as being hauled by the Scottish 'Jones Goods.' However, while this is not strictly accurate, very similar locomotives were indeed working in France in 1910. In other words, it was as close as they could reasonably get in the late 1960s.
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Just Train Wrong / int_721ebbf	type	Just Train Wrong
Just Train Wrong / int_721ebbf	comment	The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe creates a very impressive representation of World War II-era Paddington Station, with the correct engine and rolling stock... and then has the engine painted in 1950s livery.
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Just Train Wrong / int_72b62793	comment	A whole lot of things went Just Train Wrong in The Cassandra Crossing. While an overnight train from Geneva to Stockholm isn't unthinkable, routing it via Paris is plain idiotic. Not only that, it travels from Geneva to Basel and then to Paris which is an even longer way than taking the direct route to Paris by entering France a few miles after Geneva. The train is zig-zagging its way through Europe. It's absolutely useless both to start in Geneva (because whoever wants to travel from Geneva to Paris would take a direct train) and to continue beyond Paris with a sleeping-car on the train (because it's not like there aren't any trains that can take you from Geneva to Brussels in much less time on a much shorter route). One could think that the American script writers picked some random European cities without informing themselves where exactly in Europe they're located, whether it makes sense to send a train that way, and whether Europe has a much denser network of long-distance railroad lines than the USA. Not to mention that it's impossible to let a train have Paris as a mere stopover because the six major stations in Paris are all dead-end, there is no long-distance railroad line through Paris, and trains from Basel arrive in a different station than where trains to Brussels depart. Trains can only start or terminate in Paris, but not stop.note In 1995, the RER D introduced a cross-city tunnel between Gare de Lyon and Gare du Nord, which could theoretically fit a long-distance train: however, only the commuter trains in the ÃŽle-de-France region use them. Traveling through Paris via train pretty much always involves changing stations via MÃ©tro and RER (which opened a year after the film's release). Unlike American transcontinental trains, a stopover in a dead-end station does not require turning the entire consist from the locomotive(s) to the last car around, European railroads would simply put another locomotive on the other end of the train and continue with that one or just use push-pull equipment, but in Paris' case, it'd require another massive detour to get to the right station or on the right line. Of five regular compartment cars, two are first class. Standard for express/intercity trains between Munich and ZÃ¼rich in The '80s, but a European overnight train would never have that much first class in comparison to the second class. Also, putting the sleeping-car between the two first-class coaches makes absolutely no sense. The passengers from the first first-class coach would have to walk through the sleeping-car to get to the train restaurant. Over such a long distance, one would expect couchette cars on the train along with at least one sleeping-car. There are none, and instead, there are way too many cars fit mostly for daytime travel. In the middle of a train runs a dining-car. This would make it highly difficult to shunt it out of the train, seeing as dining-cars weren't allowed anywhere near the ferry between Germany and Denmark in those days for fear of too much competition for the on-board restaurants. Also, this particular dining-car model isn't too likely to be allowed to operate in Denmark or Sweden. So it would have been removed from the middle of the train in Hamburg's busy main station where otherwise only a new locomotive would have been coupled to the other end of the train to reverse it. Besides, at the film's time, passenger trains in Denmark were heated with steam since the DSB didn't have diesels with head-end power yet. However, the Swiss RIC cars (the two first-class coaches, the three second-class coaches and the dining-car) didn't have steam heating, so they didn't even have pipes to run heating steam through. The Danish locomotive wouldn't have heated anything beyond the first baggage car running right behind it. When the train leaves "Geneva" (which is actually Basel SBB, the train's next stop), two of the three second-car coaches are missing. The second baggage car at the end of the train is there, though. In Switzerland already, the train changes direction countless times. There are many scenes in which the two first-class coaches and the sleeping-car are in the rear half of the train. In some scenes, a train runs through the scene which doesn't have a single vehicle in common with the Europa-Express, neither the locomotive not any of the cars. One of them even contains German cars whereas the Europa-Express is an entirely Swiss consist. Since most passenger cars were green in West and Central Europe in those days, it was believed that the audience wouldn't notice. An infected dog is to be taken out of the train in a basket hung from a helicopter. This is impossible on tracks electrified with overhead catenary like almost every bit of Swiss railroad (and any mainline between Switzerland and Paris). However, when the basket comes near the train (and only then), the catenary is suddenly missing. In these scenes, the train is pushed by an off-screen Bm 4/4 diesel locomotive while the electric locomotive with its pantographs down remains in plain sight. When the train approaches "Nuremberg", it is clearly running under Swiss catenary. "Nuremberg"'s station itself is actually a freight station in Italy. Apparently, the American script writers didn't care because it used to be quite common for Amtrak stations especially in Flyover Country to have platforms not higher than the rails (i.e. you have to climb steps placed by the crew to board the train) or require the passengers to board from the ground next to the tracks. In Europe, however, passenger stations always have platforms at least high enough to reach the steps below the car door. The locomotive that's on the train upon arrival in "Nuremberg" is an Italian E645 poorly disguised as a generic Swiss locomotive on one end◊ to remotely resemble Re 4/4 II 11217 which was on the train all the time up to that point◊ and numbered Re 4/4 III 11363 like the similar locomotive that pulls the train in some but not even most Swiss scenes. It's still clearly visible that the Italian locomotive has an articulated car body, as are the real front windows behind the larger faux pseudo-Swiss ones. The other end remained unchanged except for the green paint◊. This scene with this locomotive made it onto the movie poster. Both locomotives, by the way, would be unable to operate in Germany, the former because of the wrong current, the latter because the German catenary zig-zag is too wide. The sleeping-car has miraculously transformed from a modern MU to a roughly 40 years older Z, probably because the CIWL (Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits = International Sleeping-Car Company) wouldn't let the film crew put those blinds on an almost new car. In "Nuremberg", the locomotive is replaced by a diesel. While in "Nuremberg", it's an Italian D143. A refurbished American wartime switcher which doesn't even have head-end power for the train (in fact, as a switcher, it doesn't have any train heating whatsoever) is supposed to haul it on the rest of its way. Immediately after leaving "Nuremberg" behind, the train rolls through daylight and what is said to be Poland behind a French first-series BB 66000 repainted green so that the differences in comparison with the previous Italian diesel aren't too obvious, although the BB 66000 looks nothing like a D143, and maybe so that it looks more like an Eastern Bloc locomotive. (Originally and at that time still, the BB 66000 were blue.) In one scene at a level crossing◊, BB 66033 has red covers on her headlights, making them tail lights. Also, both baggage cars suddenly run behind the BB 66000◊. The second class is depicted as saloon cars to make it look clearly inferior to the protagonists' first class. The three Swiss RIC coaches which make up the second class are all compartment cars, though. Also, the interior shot shows a first-class saloon car with only one seat on one side of the aisle and two on the other and white headrest covers. When they were sealed, the two first-class coaches morphed into second-class coaches. This is very clearly visible: The first-class RIC coaches have nine compartments and a yellow line below the roof, the second-class RIC coaches have eleven or twelve compartments depending on the type. After "Nuremberg", there are armed guards on the roofs of the car. It's pretty hard to stand on top of the curved roof of a European passenger car, fluted or not, and even more so when the car is moving and you're holding an assault rifle. According to the movie, there is a central electronic coupling control unit under the dining-car (and only there) from which all couplers on the train can be remote-controlled. In Real Life, however, European railroads still use the same manual chain-like couplings as in the mid-19th century. Blasting one's way to that control box by detonating gas in the kitchen is just as much non-sense, for it'd rather rip the Swiss dining-car's aluminum car body to shreds or at least blow the windows out than damage the floor. Besides, Swiss dining-cars have electric stoves. Where'd you get the gas then? What's actually blown up is a not-so-faithful model◊ of a French DEV regular steel dining-car◊ that used to be all red back then. The same model is eventually driven off the Cassandra bridge◊. By the way, the dining-car interior shots (and a group shot of the actors) were taken inside a "light steel" dining-car from the 1930s. Note how the RIC dining-car has one-piece windows◊ and the one used for inside scenes has windows with sliding upper halves. A more realistic way of uncoupling half the train would have been to undo the coupler underneath the footplates between the cars when there is no pulling force on them. A smarter solution would have been to simply pull the emergency brake which can't be bridged on these coaches (or at all in that time). And even if the emergency brakes had been disabled in any way, lifting one of the footplates and then opening the cock on one of the uncoupled main air line hoses or alternatively uncoupling the respective air hoses without closing the cocks would have stopped the train. But no, too easy and not flashy enough. If (not only) a European train is separated while running without properly uncoupling the brake hoses, the rear part will not simply roll out, nor will the front part travel on. When the air brake system is opened by ripping the hoses apart, and the pressure drops, the brakes will apply immediately in both halves of the train. In the movie, none of the two train halves brakes before one of the handbrakes on the separated rear part is used. It's clear from the locomotives and catenary already that only the scenes in Basel are shot on location while most of the rest doesn't even take place in the same country. Most of what should be France or Germany is actually Switzerland, Nuremberg's main station is in Italy, and Poland is actually France. One has to wonder who drives the train to the Cassandra Bridge and finally into the ravine. In Real Life European railroad operation, only a driver who knows that particular line and thus has a permit for it may drive that train on that line. But if he knows it well enough to be aware of the hazardous Cassandra Bridge, he'd know better than to drive an international express train with passengers aboard over that bridge, much less at such a speed. In fact, there must not be a single engineer in Czechoslovakia who doesn't know about the Cassandra Bridge. If the Cassandra Bridge is on the verge of collapsing, why isn't the line closed? Why do the Czechoslovak State Railways allow any train, especially an international express train with foreign (Western even) passenger coaches and passengers aboard, to enter that line and try to cross the bridge? How can they force a train driver onto that obvious Suicide Mission? And no, they can't be forced by the USA because neither the CIA nor the US military could have any saying in an Eastern Bloc country. When the train falls off the Cassandra Bridge (which is actually the famous Viaduc de Garabit in France, designed by Gustave Eiffel of Eiffel Tower fame), among the falling vehicles are the dining-car, clearly identifiable as the only red car in an otherwise mostly green consist, and two second-class coaches. Just minutes before, the dining-car and everything behind it was explosively uncoupled from the train. The movie poster design used on IMDb clearly displays an older American GM-EMD hood unit standing in for the Europa-Express. This DVD cover shows both the Italian E645 decorated as a Swiss locomotive and the model train with the French dining-car standing in for the actual Swiss one.
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Just Train Wrong / int_735dc0dc	comment	Stan & Ollie combines this with Eiffel Tower Effect when Laurel and Hardy arrive in London by train, with Tower Bridge passing close by their train's window. There is no railway bridge across the river that gives such an uninterrupted view of Tower Bridge, and they were supposedly arriving from somewhere in the north of England, which wouldn't involve crossing the river at all.
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Just Train Wrong / int_745c0556	comment	The Reluctant Dragon: In the "Making of Foley" segment featuring future Dumbo star Casey Junior, a storm washes out a bridge before Casey reaches it, and he makes a desperate attempt to stop before he reaches it. The fact he doesn't stop in time is accurate—it's the fact that he jumps over the broken bridge like he's an Olympic Jumper before he crashes that's highly inaccurate. Due to the laws of physics, he would have just fallen off and plunged into the river below, not to mention the fact he was trying to stop means he shouldn't have had enough speed to be able to make the jump anyway.
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Just Train Wrong / int_761a48d7	comment	Iron Fist (2017) season 2 ALSO does the whole thing with PATH posing as the NYCS, for the scene on the platform where Danny fights with Mary Walker and is subsequently captured and taken to Davos.
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Just Train Wrong / int_7d1c83da	comment	Better Call Saul: "Five-O" opens with Mike Ehrmantraut arriving by train into Albuquerque, New Mexico, ostensibly having traveled straight from Philadelphia after killing the two corrupt cops that set up his son's murder. However, 1) he's shown getting off a New Mexico Rail Runner train, which is the commuter railroad that connects Albuquerque to Santa Fe to the north and Belen to the south. In reality, Mike should be getting off Amtrak's Southwest Chief, as that passes through Albuquerque. 2) The scene takes place in 2002. The New Mexico Rail Runner didn't begin service until 2006. (To clarify, for those out there who are not train buffs and might wonder if the difference is really that noticeable, here's a picture of Rail Runner◊ and here's the Amtrak.◊ Can you tell which is which?) This is actually a common goof, as during season 2, New Mexico Rail Runner trains can be seen in the background of a few shots when Mike is working the booth at the courthouse parking lot, again in scenes set before 2006.
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Just Train Wrong / int_7fd1abd5	comment	King Kong (1976) has a scene where Kong stops and destroys a New York City subway train. Kong picks up one car off the tracks, properly causing it to go dark as they are electrically powered via third rail. Then when Kong lifts up another car off the elevated tracks and into the ground, it explodes.
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Just Train Wrong / int_82ff90e9	comment	The 1979 TV movie of All Quiet on the Western Front does this twice in the scene set at Oldenburg station: Not only is the station shown far too small for a medium hub (the actual Central Station in 1914 looked like this, and the current 7-platform Main Station was opened only a year later), the locomotive shown is Austrian. Oldenburg is in Northern Germany.
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Just Train Wrong / int_83224565	comment	Though this is almost always true now, there are things that can go wrong to result in a runaway train. In a particularly infamous incident during the 1950s, a GG-1 locomotive wound up parked in what is now the Washington Union Station food court after some valves on the brakes malfunctioned and others were accidentally left closed, leaving the brakes releasednote It was found on later inspection that the brake valve on the third car was too close to the tracks and had rattled itself shut. Previously, the train, while under New Haven power, had experienced sticky brakes to the point it was late getting into Penn Station, but the issue wasn't discovered until the train had reached Washington's interlocking system.. With that said, the whole affair was surprisingly free of drama (the relevant parts of the station were cleared in an orderly fashion, while most of the passengers just thought they'd had a rough stop), and incidents like that are hardly long enough for even a TV episode. This was the incident that inspired the finale to Silver Streak.
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Just Train Wrong / int_83cbe2ab	comment	Any Wile E Coyote And The Roadrunner short involving a train as one of the gags. One short had Coyote placing a set of fake train tracks and signal to try to get at the Road Runner ... except that Wile E. gets hit by a real train that comes out of nowhere! In another short, Wile E. chases Road Runner into a train tunnel and is scared back by the lights of an approaching train ... only to find it is the Road Runner wearing a miner's helmet; it traps the Coyote into a false sense of security when he chases the bird back into the tunnel and he refuses to budge because he thinks this train is a fak ... OOF! And don't forget the time Wile E. painted a train engine, complete with tracks ... and even going so far as to place fake tracks in front of the "tunnel"; after starting another chase, the Road Runner races into the tunnel as though it was there ... but guess what comes bursting out moments after the Coyote runs smack into the side of the tunnel and he walks off in a daze.
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Just Train Wrong / int_88094fa2	comment	Source Code Trains do not have guns on board, as quoted by Metra's own commuter newsletter, On the Bi Level, "If conductors wanted to wield guns they would have applied for a different kind of blue uniform." Conductors also don't have handcuffs or stun guns, but Metra (like most railroads) does have its own police force, which is equipped with such things. The so called "conductor's compartment" is actually an engineer cab for remotely controlling the locomotive when the train is moving in that direction, and is portrayed on the wrong end of the train car (the engineer must be able to see the track ahead). Even more so from the outside view of the cars since it shows the windshields for the cab on the right end of the car, but the side windows of the cab on the wrong end as well. Not to mention this was a Chicago bound train, so the compartment would not have been empty, there would have been an engineer on one side of the compartment, operating the train. Extra cab cars are occasionally used as coaches, and when doing so, may face either direction. Still makes no sense to keep a gun there. Not all cars on the train have headlights/taillights/red visibility stripes. Gallery cars of the type depicted do not have a bridge over the aisle, they have stairs on either side of the aisle to reach their respective sides of the mezzanine. This is a side effect of shooting the interior scenes in California's Metrolink cars, while the film itself is set in Chicago.
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Just Train Wrong / int_881d3743	comment	Dark Shadows opens with footage of a modern-day Amtrak train, despite being set in The '70s. This is particularly galling as the interior shot of the train perfectly replicates the time period.
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Just Train Wrong / int_891dfbc3	comment	Choo Choo (1937): After Choo Choo runs away, loses her tender from jumping a raised drawbridge, and reaches some creepy old woods past the city, she's already so low on steam that she puffs to a stop. In reality, being cut off from her water supply and running low on steam should have caused Choo Choo's boiler to explode.
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Just Train Wrong / int_892aa56a	comment	Another show that makes this mistake is Murdoch Mysteries, which has twice depicted Canadian trains using stock footage of British and Swiss trains.
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Just Train Wrong / int_8ae673e5	comment	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind passed used New Haven Line M2 / M4 / M6 trains as their Long Island Rail Road M1 / M3 counterparts by putting a large logo over the red stripes.
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Just Train Wrong / int_8b157bba	comment	Stella (UK) has one character make his way from the Welsh Valleys to London in about three hours, a bit of a stretch... but its Season 5 finale, going for a Brief Encounter homage via a kitchen fire, gives Pontyberry a direct service to Middlesbrough on a two-coach Sprinter multiple unit, a journey that takes over seven hours in real-life with four changes.
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Just Train Wrong / int_8b8aeb09	comment	The poster for the film Creep (2004) depicts a 1972 Mk1 stock Northern Line train — the stock was withdrawn four years before the film was released. All but one - The London Underground keeps a single example on the disused Aldwych stub off the Piccadilly line, where Creep (and most other works involving vintage Underground trains) are filmed. It tends to stick out like a sore thumb in scenes set in the present, as it is the only unit left on the Underground still in its original unpainted state.
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Just Train Wrong / int_8c264362	comment	In Skyfall: Part of Bond's foot pursuit of Raoul Silva takes place on a Jubilee line train of 1996 Stock that is trying to pass itself off as a subsurface District Line train, which used D78 Stock when the film came out. Also, due to both Temple and Embankment being cut and cover stations, their platforms for the Circle and District lines are in the same tunnel rather than separate ones. This train is also depicted having a guard in the rear cab. London Underground trains haven't used guards since 1999. In the opening sequence in Turkey, while Bond is chasing after the stolen hard drive; Patrice shoots open the coupling of the train. The railcar Bond is on continues to coast after the train ahead. In reality the separation of the brake hoses on the train would cause the trailing cars Bond was on to begin to immediately apply emergency brakes, bringing him to a quick stop.
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Just Train Wrong / int_8d81f086	comment	In the Monk episode "Mr. Monk and the Buried Treasure," there's one scene where Monk, Natalie, and Troy Kroger's friends are trying to decipher a map whilst parked near a grade crossing. Then a Metrolink train, which can only be found in Los Angeles, roars by, when they're supposedly somewhere in the East Bay like Niles Canyon.
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Just Train Wrong / int_90b916ba	comment	Batman: The Animated Series: In "It's Never Too Late", Arnold Stromwell has a flashback to where he was nearly hit by a train and his brother lost his leg in the resulting collision. The first train that nearly hits him is heard with a diesel horn. It's played more accurately with the second train, which fails to stop in time from running his brother over.
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Just Train Wrong / int_914ddbfd	comment	In Groundhog Day, set in Pennsylvania, a train appears with Cascade Green paint with white stripes. This suggests it's a Burlington Northern train, but BN never owned any lines in Pennsylvania. In fact, both it and its successor railroad (BNSF) operate almost exclusively west of the Mississippi. It's possible this is a locomotive on loan to a company that operates in Pennsylvania (something railroads sometimes do), but that's highly unlikely to occur on just any random train. In this case, it's because while the film was set in Pennsylvania, it was shot in Illinois.
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Just Train Wrong / int_975e8c48	comment	A notorious historic example occurred in Edge of Darkness, involving the symbolic nuclear waste trains that repeatedly appear. The creators weren't allowed to film a real nuclear waste train for security reasons, so they mocked one up by putting a wooden replica of the body of one of the medium-sized diesel locomotives used to haul nuclear waste trains on top of a small shunter. The results were cringeworthy to anyone who was at all familiar with the real thing.
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Just Train Wrong / int_9799ebfe	comment	A shaky dance with plausibility in Back to the Future Part III: In Real Life, the locomotive used, Sierra No. 3, would have a hard time reaching even 65 MPH on a good day, much less 88. Like electric engines, however, steam engines have the advantage of being measured in terms of pure Tractive Effort: their limiting factor is the amount of steam pressure they can generate and how long they have to build up momentum. As the engineer says, if you get the boiler hotter than Hades and have a long stretch of straight track and are willing to risk the whole thing blowing up or flying off the tracks, it's possible — the infamous Casey Jones wreck involved an engine with nearly identical stats pushed to an 80 mph "cannonball" run while hauling a light six-car train (with some help from a downhill stretch of track). Doc Brown states that the logs he has created for Marty to throw into the stolen locomotive are made mostly out of anthracite coal. While anthracite does burn much more efficiently than wood, it can also be incredibly difficult to ignite, especially when it isn't broken into very small pieces. The engine in the film was also designed to burn wood, which allow too much or too little air draft to ignite the coal even if Marty did have the time to sit there and baby it. The Author's Saving Throw here is the "mostly" — if the logs consisted of finely-ground anthracite mixed with a firework-style oxidizer, it would be a rather effective way to force-feed the engine oxygen and fuel. Or blow it up like the test model. The last component is steam generation — you would want as much water in the tender tank as possible, but you'd also have to make sure that it didn't flood the boiler either. note High heat + Empty boiler = KABOOM!... but High Heat + too much water = Also KABOOM! + blast wave of superheated steam! Doc does mention that the boiler will catastrophically explode if it reaches a certain pressure, and during the last minute of the scene, rivets and seams are visibly failing and spewing vapor or jets of superheated water. Also, the train explicitly does retain the tender in the script (Doc commands the engineer and fireman to "uncouple the cars from the tender"). In Real Life, the tenders were often physically attached to the engine and could not be removed without significant effort anyway.
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Just Train Wrong / int_9856ec7e	comment	The film adaptation of The Little Engine That Could featured several steam locomotives that for some reason do not have tenders or tanks to store fuelnote Tillie may be a slight exception, seeing as the engine she was based off of, the C.P.Huntington, itself based at the California State Railroad Museum, stores its coal in a small bunker behind it's cab, so it's possible she stores her fuel in a similar manner. The birthday train does have a tender, but it's never used for anything other than a place for Rollo the Clown to sit back and enjoy the ride. The titular little engine, here named Tillie, is forbidden from pulling trains up the mountain on the grounds that she is "too little". In reality, smaller locomotives would be preferable to bigger ones for going up mountains, because their smaller size and narrower frame would allow them to more easily navigate the narrow pathways and tight turns that mountains are known to have. If anything, of the engines, Farnsworth would be the one least suited to mountain railways because he's too big, especially considering he's primarily built as a passenger enginenote Many passenger diesels, such as the EMD E units, were ill suited to mountain work due to the running gear primarily built for fast-haulers. As such, engines primarily built for freight service, such as the EMD F units, were used in their stead on more mountainous railroads. The Santa Fe, for example, boasted one of the largest fleet of F units they used primarily in passenger service, but only had a very small selection of E units. In any case, Farnsworth would have a very difficult time getting any sort of passenger train up the mountain, especially considering the tight twists and turns he'd have to face, and the speed he boasts about so frequently wouldn't help him here.. One scene involves Rollo the Clown flagging down the snooty Farnsworth and the stubborn Pete for help in getting the stalled birthday train rolling again. Both engines manage to stop in the span of 10-15 seconds, despite Farnsworth being a fast-moving diesel hauling a small train of passenger cars, and Pete being a burly freight engine with empty freight cars behind him. In reality, both would have taken some time to stop—at least up to a mile—and certainly not in a manner of which Rollo only gets planted on the locomotive's front end or is able to side-step out of the way. The same scene has Pete running very closely behind Farnsworth, arriving only a few seconds after the snooty diesel leaves. While it's true that Farnsworth being abruptly flagged down did give Pete time to catch up, railroad safety operations prohibit trains from running that closely together, just in case the one in front has an emergency (like it did here). If anything, there should have been signals keeping the trains further apart, yet they're conspicuously absent in the entire film. This is particularly troubling, since having multiple trains run in single-track territory without signals is incredibly dangerous—it was under such similar circumstances that led to Casey Jones himself meeting his end. When Georgia starts breaking down, she switches onto a sidetrack before her stack explodes. Trains cannot physically change tracks by themselves without someone to throw the switch in front of them (and given the reaction of her passengers, it's doubtful any of them were able to get down and throw the switch). No railroad in their right mind would construct a route over such a dangerous mountain with a poorly crafted bridge and an extremely steep grade after it, especially if they're transporting passengers or high-priority cargo over it. Yet Tillie almost loses her life multiple times during the trip. It's a miracle that a rickety-old bridge held up a heavy engine like Pete or was able to take a speeding passenger-liner pulled by Farnsworth. The Tower refuses to send Tillie out to relieve Georgia on the birthday train, highly fraught in his belief that she's "too little" for the job, nor does he force Farnsworth or Pete (both of whom have already refused to pull the train at this point) to take over. In reality, no railroad would let anyone get away with their employees refusing to send out a relief engine to take over a stalled train, as any train sitting out there and not moving towards its destination is not only costing time, but also money. If any train stalls, they need immediate relief as soon as possible; if the Tower had a supervisor, he would have been fired on the spot for a stunt like that. The Tower is later seen sleeping on the job, another big no-no in railroad operations. Falling asleep, especially in such a safety-sensitive position like that, is bound to lead to disaster, which is why railroads take painstaking efforts to reduce fatigue among its staff. Doc wraps Georgia's busted smokestack in bandages to help her recover. Obviously, no railroader would use such a crude method of repair. When Tillie starts her morning routine to switch the other engines out of the roundhouse, there's a small gap in between the rails in each stall and the turntable. Such gaps are dangerous, as any train running over them could risk derailing if they hit them funny or ran over them too fast. As such, special devices are used to close said gaps—none of which appear on this turntable. The same scene shows Tillie coupling to Farnsworth and Pete using a simple hook for a link-and-chain system instead of couplers. While it could be forgiven in the sense that this is a cartoon, and sentient engines obviously don't need human crews, such a system was retired for how easy they could come apart, and automatic couplers proved to be far more of an efficient means of holding trains together.
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Just Train Wrong / int_99191c20	comment	MTV's Downtown: In "Train Pain" Chaka and Fruity argue with each other with which train is faster arriving to Coney Island. Chaka states you take the "B Train" while Fruity argues you take the "R" because it's faster. The B train did indeed terminate at Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue at the time of this episode (in 1999), but the B train now terminates at Brighton Beach station (since 2004). The R train terminates at Bay Ridge 95th Street. Matt is able to show Fruity that the N Train is the one you take to get to Coney Island using the subway map, and at the West 4th Street Station, Chaka and Mecca board an F Train because Chaka was impatient with the B not arriving (both Fruity and Chaka complaining to their companions how arrogant the other is!). Chaka should have stayed on the F train because that is one of the four lines that goes directly to Coney Island!
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Just Train Wrong / int_994dace9	comment	The rail insertion scene in Sniper is shot in northern Queensland, although set in Central America. You can't hide this when your biggest clue is a train which still has Queensland Government Railways markings, when QGR has always been traditionally a Cape gauge (3'6") system, by sticking up plaques proclaiming it as the property of the Panama Railroad, which was, at time of filming, built to Old Russian (5') gauge, and therefore unlikely to have bought used QGR vehicles to re-gauge.
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Just Train Wrong / int_998cbda3	comment	Daredevil (2015): In "Rabbit in a Snowstorm," Mitchell Ellison tells Ben Urich to do a worthless fluff piece about the subways ("Rumors Bubbling: Will Hell's Kitchen Finally Get a Subway Line?"). He tells Ben to take a poll on what color people in Hell's Kitchen might like, saying "Y'know, we've got a blue line, we've got a yellow line, we're running out of colors." New York City's subway lines are not referred to by colors, but by a letter or number. The line colors, aside from the G train and the shuttles, are based on which trunk line they use in Manhattan. Furthermore, the fluff piece seems to be asking a very pointless question, since Hell's Kitchen already has subway lines: the C & E trains stops at 50th Street and 42nd Street-Port Authority Bus Terminal stations, both in Hell's Kitchen.
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Just Train Wrong / int_99b35817	comment	Super 8 featured a train which was, to all appearances, violating the existing class five freight speed limits...not to mention the fact that the most viable routing for the train (as shown in some of the viral material) was over Conrail tracks in 1979. Why is this a problem? Conrail inherited a broken down physical plant from the railroads which merged into it, meaning that there were slow orders all around. Potentially averted given who was doing the shipping...but given the number of derailments that occurred under the Penn Central in the years leading up to Conrail's formation, an incident of seriously questionable judgment. (Of course, it is worth giving credit to the viral team, who cobbled together a spot-on routing for the shipment (and one which would only involve three railroads, about as few as you could hope to run that train on back in 1979, as UP hadn't taken over about five other Class Is). It's highly unusual for a single truck to derail an entire train in the first place.
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Just Train Wrong / int_9b14ba04	comment	The train scene in Torque is nothing short of ridiculous. In a time when even the once-popular F40PH is being phased out, there's a single blank vintage EMD E unit on a train that would require at least two of them. The space between the coaches is wide enough for a motorcycle to jump through; also, the end doors are open, and there are no diaphragms which means that it'd be pretty windy inside the cars. And the center aisle is wide enough to ride a motorcycle through it at not really low speed. It doesn't really matter anymore that the headlights on the locomotive are off.
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Just Train Wrong / int_9b1636a1	comment	The Imitation Game has visible overhead wire in scenes set at Euston station. While third-rail electrification (on the Watford suburban services) has been there since 1915, overhead wire did not appear there until the 1960s.
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Just Train Wrong / int_9df76a0d	comment	"Body 21" from Waking the Dead features a slam-door train.
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Just Train Wrong / int_a1ea0f34	comment	In the Edwardian-set Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, there is a brief shot of a train from the Great Western Railway. Except it's not, it's actually a rather poorly disguised World War II-era 'Austerity tank'.
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Just Train Wrong / int_a282d9f8	comment	Also, grade crossing for monorails and maglevs. This is the only point on the list that TTDPatch and even OpenTTD haven't fixed yet because the engine has yet to allow for Locomotion-style elevated rail.
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Just Train Wrong / int_a4d7e98a	comment	In the penultimate episode of Canaan the last car is forcefully removed from the train whichnote the train carries on like nothing happened although in reality the failsafe systems should bring it to a screeching halt.
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Just Train Wrong / int_a88d1af5	comment	Mr. Holmes is set in Sussex in 1947, but in the opening with Sherlock Holmes travelling home by train, the locomotive and carriages are in 1960s British Railways livery, the locomotive is an ex-LMS Jubilee class 4-6-0, which did not run south of the Thames, and the carriages are British Railways Mark One stock not introduced until 1951.
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Just Train Wrong / int_a8a40154	comment	Postal 2 features a railroad line for the town of Paradise, and it is a complete and utter clusterfuck. For starters there is no passenger station. A ridiculously small trainyard is at the edge of the town just a few streets from the mall. The switches in the trainyard are positioned in a way that makes no sense. Various freight cars and cargo are scattered randomly all over the place obstructing the tracks and rendering any operation outright impossible. There are even no signal posts so if by any utterly improbable chance a train happened to stray its way into this mess, it would be doomed to derail as the conductor would have no way to tell, whether he can proceed safely or not. The rest of the line leads directly through an intdustrial area, cutting through several buildings and roads, which would spell disaster for the trafficnote not that there is any, as the Postal Dude and everyone else travels on foot, and all the cars are useless exploding props. The entire thing is topped off with a demolished bridge rendering the line out of order and totally pointless.
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Just Train Wrong / int_aa9c8216	comment	Everyone's Hero has a big action sequence where the protagonist goes down to Penn Station to try and catch a train to Chicago to get Babe Ruth's stolen bat back to him, only to end up in a Traintop Battle with the antagonist who stole said bat. The trains are fairly accurate for the era, but they all consist of steam trains in New York City—a place of which steam was explicitly banned from in the early 1900s as a consequence of a wreck caused by smoke making it impossible to see inside the tunnels running under the Hudson River. Then again, had they been more accurate, it would have involved electrical units running under wire, which would have meant for an early end to the movie via electrocution.
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Just Train Wrong / int_ab58aef8	comment	A Snagglepuss cartoon has Major Minor assigned to evict Snagglepuss from his home cave so a railroad can go through. Snagglepuss tries to tell why a train can't go through his cave: 1. "A man's home is his castle," and 2. (Which becomes evident when the Major tries to drive a locomotive through the cave, which itself is physically impossible) there's nowhere to put the tracks on the other side since it's a canyon. It's just the Major refuses to listen until after he smashes the locomotive through the cave onto the other side, where he drives it off a cliff.
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Just Train Wrong / int_aeeee67a	comment	During filming of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, they ran into this trope while filming the Hogwarts Express in Scotland - the engine used was built by the Great Western Railway, which had a wider loading gauge than was normal in Britain. This meant that the engine fouled station platforms when being driven to filming locations. Slightly ironic, given that most on-screen railway inaccuracies could have been satisfactorily resolved by saying that A Wizard Did It.
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Just Train Wrong / int_b4f0a147	comment	Frosty the Snowman: When Karen and Frosty go to the train station to buy a ticket to the North Pole, the ticket master gives them one with multiple transfers up North, all for the low price of $3000.04. In real life, there's no route to a frozen, lifeless ball of ice given how vastly uneconomical and impossible it would be to maintain, let alone run, tracks all the way up there. He might have been kidding given this, but still. The freight train heading up North is a single refrigerator car and caboose pulled by a 2-2-2 Single—a locomotive of which was exceedingly rare in the US and more common to Europe. Such a small load would be a branch line run at best, not a mainline run. If it were, they would have far more cars for priority cargo (it's explicitly mentioned the train is full of ice cream and frozen Christmas cakes, and the special is set on December 24th) and a much bigger locomotive. When the freight stops to take siding for an express to pass, it crosses to the other side of a diamond, with said express being a diesel-powered streamliner with a steam whistle.
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Just Train Wrong / int_b61bbe0a	comment	"Crazy Train", in the seventh season of Modern Family, takes place on the Amtrak Coast Starlight, which the family takes up to Portland for Didi's wedding. At one point Phil and Mitchell go back through the entire train to the caboose. American trains have not been required to have cabooses since the early 1980s, and have thus long since stopped using them, and in any case, passenger trains never had cabooses to begin with, only freight trains.note There was a passenger train in the US that once did have a caboose, the original 1971 - 1981 auto-train, but only because the automobile carrying cars were placed behind the passenger cars and the FRA required at the time for all trains running with freight to have a caboose. And despite that, it was a Washington D.C. - Orlando train.
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Just Train Wrong / int_b84de4b4	comment	Breakfast on Pluto generally makes a lot of effort with its 1970s setting, until the scene at Paddington station when Kitten goes back to Ireland, which has loads of clearly visible modern trains. But the budget probably didn't stretch to anything more authentic.
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Just Train Wrong / int_b87b3b84	comment	The 2012 version of Anna Karenina features Keira Knightley and Jude Law playing Russian aristocrats, and Great Western Railway engines at Didcot doubling as Russian engines in Moscow. Besides the difference in loading gauge, the main problem is the use of a 1920s/1930s-style Great Western engine as a 19th-century Russian engine◊.
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Just Train Wrong / int_b8eb4fe5	comment	Downplayed in the Sakura Wars series. Despite the Combat Revues in Tokyo and Paris having bullet trains as a mode of transportation, there are a few things wrong with that. Japan developed the high-speed railway lines in 1964, with France following in 1981. They also weren't powered by steam, which ended around the same time that the bullet trains were being developed. At least for Tokyo, however, what we now know as the Tokaido Shinkansen originated from its first planning works in as early as the 1930s (still anachronistic, but much less so than the 60s), which did call for steam trains to run. See the other wiki for more info.
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Just Train Wrong / int_baa0410d	comment	Speed: the subway train they're on in the third act has no dead man's brake. That or Payne found a way to subvert it, just like he had with an elevator's emergency brakes earlier.
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Just Train Wrong / int_bd9edbdd	comment	Ghostbusters II features the appearance of a Ghost Train that the titular team encounters. Said train, as Ego describes it, was the old New York Central City of Albany, which derailed in 1920 and killed hundreds of people. The entirety of the train gets a few details wrong: First, the wreck itself. The deadliest wreck in New York City occurred in 1918, as the Malbone Street Wreck, which involved the New York City subway system, not an actual steam train. It was a derailment, but the actual cause was due to an inexperienced motorman (both grieving the death of his daughter and having come down with the Spanish Flu) running a sharp curve on an unfamiliar route in the middle of a union dispute (which is why he was pressed into operating the train in the first place), whereas the circumstances behind this train's derailment was never revealed. The casualties are also slightly incorrect in this regard. 92-107 people did perish in this wreck, but this train lost over 100 or so. Officially, the deadliest train wreck on record (involving trains similar to this one) is the Dutchman's Curve Train Wreck of 1917, in which 101 people lost their lives. Second, the train itself isn't era-appropriate. It has a much more mid-1800s appearance, rather than the more modernized equipment in use in the 1920s. Additionally, the New York Central never ran such a train called the City of Albany. They did run trains out that way, but nothing of that caliber. Perhaps the biggest goof has to be the use of a steam engine in New York City. Since a rear-end collision in 1902 led to a ban of steam engines from the city (given that said collusion occurred due to heavy smoke in the tunnels leading into the city), it wouldn't have been on the head-end of the train around this time.
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Just Train Wrong / int_bdc49dbe	comment	In The Laundry Files, a number of statements are made about the railway system which wouldn't be true of the real one—for example, that East Grinstead is on the London to Brighton line. This has led to fanon that in the Laundryverse, the railway builders had a lot of trouble with Dug Too Deep.
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Just Train Wrong / int_bf3a0285	comment	In an episode of Without a Trace, the Victim of the Week is said to have disappeared on her way to Grand Central Station to catch a train to Virginia. Amtrak doesn't depart from Grand Central Station, only from Penn Station.
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Just Train Wrong / int_c18f1789	comment	Dancer in the Dark: This locomotive◊ appears in the film. Great Northern never owned any of this model of locomotive, which was built by NoHAB in Sweden for the European market, but the film-makers thought it was the closest they could find to an American-style diesel. To be fair, this is a GM EMD construction licensed to NoHAB, pretty much an EMD F7 adapted for Europe. The EMD bulldog noses should be a dead giveaway. Nevertheless, the three headlights, the cabs on both ends and the side buffers and couplings are typical for European locomotives (the only double-cabbed US carbody diesels were six-axle Baldwin shark noses).
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Just Train Wrong / int_c3db8758	comment	The Railway Children is mostly pretty good with this trope - as it's set on a fictional railway, most inaccuracies can be handwaved away. However, the engine that nearly hits Jenny Agutter wasn't built until the 1930s. A theatrical production of the film apparently involved a British Rail Class 08, which is a 1950s diesel locomotive. What's worse is it was apparently on loan from the National Railway Museum, who really ought to know better! However, the 08 was needed to propel the other locomotive involved, an 1870s Great Northern Railway "Single" locomotive incapable of moving on its own.
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Just Train Wrong / int_c4282b71	comment	The engine pulling the train in the revised intro for My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic has neither a tender nor a bunker with onboard water tanks. The coal is carried inside the cab. The train in "Over a Barrel" is similarly lacking in any of these features, and even has ponies pulling the train while still having enough steam for the whistle. In "MMMystery on the Friendship Express" there's a scene involving the fireman (fire-pony?) shoveling coal into the engine's firebox. Pinkie Pie calls this pony a conductor. Conductors do not shovel coal, that's the fireman. This one's easy to Hand Wave as Pinkie not knowing what she's talking about, however. Since season 4, any scene taking place at the train station is accompanied with the background sounds of a diesel locomotive idling despite there only being steam trains in the show. In "Three's A Crowd", one scene depicts a streamlined steam locomotiveâ€¦ with four wheels, a giant funnel, and no cylinders or axles. In one episode, there is a passenger train with a caboose. Cabooses were made so freight trains have someone at the back to make sure none of the wheels get hotboxes (overheated axles)note Cabooses are no longer used on regular freight service, as modern stationary detectors can detect hotboxes, and EoT (End of Train) devices can release the pressure and activate brakes from the rear end.. These are not needed at the back of passenger trains, as people can be accommodated at any point in the train. Also, it seems that the passenger cars only have doors on the left side. The vast majority of passenger cars have doors on both sides, often straight across from each other. One notable exception is the Disneyland monorail, which has doors on the left side only. It has only two stops anyway.
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Just Train Wrong / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who The episode "Flatline" features, in modern day Bristol, two Class 117 multiple units - withdrawn in the 1990s - in BR Green! However, First Great Western have started to paint their units green with white stripes sort of kind of similar to the British Railways DMU livery so it might almost convince in the future. However, the head code (A113, a Shout-Out to the Pixar number) is actually for a trainload of ballast empties via Mountsorrel. In the classic serial "The Web of Fear", Victoria doesn't recognize the phrase "Underground platform" and the Doctor says the London Underground is "a little after your time, I think". Since Victoria is from 1866, he's wrong by three years. Worse in the novelization, where Victoria is utterly bewildered by the idea of putting trains underground, with all the smoke, and the Doctor has to explain they're electric. (The smoke problem severely limited the Underground in Victoria's day, but didn't prevent it.) Otherwise the recreation of London Underground stations and tunnels is superb, with London Transport themselves suspecting that the BBC cast and crew had sneaked in and filmed illegally. The rediscovery of the story did reveal two minor errors - Monument station, on the Circle Line, is wrongly depicted as a deep-level tube station, and Jamie's and Evans' off-screen underground journey from Monument back to Goodge Street would not be as easy as implied.
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Just Train Wrong / int_c7342c4f	comment	Mini Metro: Many of the non-realistic elements can be forgiven for catering to the Rule of Fun. Passengers will accept any destination station corresponding to the icons that represent them, trains can only hold up to six passengers at a time with carriages adding six more each, trains can be easily removed from, added to, or relocated within the system with little delay, and so on. The train network you build need not match the layout it has in real life, nor will you likely be able to match it at all. Want to build BART with multiple Transbay Tubes, including one that crosses over to Marin County to make North Bay residents' dreams come true? Have fun! The recommended way to play the game is to build circular lines that operate in only one direction. This is because it forces 50% of all passengers to take longer trips than necessary, so they have to pay more, and your trains get fuller. However, one particular element stands out: The game refers to the high-speed trains you can get in Osaka as Shinkansen. Shinkansen is the name of the network of high-speed railways in Japan, not the term used for an individual train.
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Just Train Wrong / int_c8452389	comment	The Story of Casey Jr.: The eponymous Casey Jr. is shown without his rods connected to his cylinders, which no steam train can move without. Later, Casey jumps over a broken bridge with the entire circus train behind him, and lands without issue. He may be a cartoon, but normally trains that fall off bridges just plummet to their doom thanks to gravity.
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Just Train Wrong / int_c9fecd11	comment	A fun game to play while watching The Bill is spotting railway trains that have livery you would never see in East London, due to the South London filming location — South West Trains for example.
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Just Train Wrong / int_cb2d2a81	comment	Mario Kart Tour features a Berlin-inspired map with a cute stylised rendition of Berlin Hauptbahnhof as a station you drive through. Parked in this station is an S-Bahn train that appears to be based on the DB Class 420, a train which while historically used on S-Bahn systems across Germany has never been used in Berlin, and would be incompatible with the narrow loading gauge and third rail power of Berlin's S-Bahn anyway.
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Just Train Wrong / int_cb6abef3	comment	In the blockbuster film The Avengers, at the beginning of the Black Widow interrogation scene, we see an establishing shot of a Norfolk Southern freight train with American locomotives passing by the ratty looking warehouse where Natasha is being interrogated conducting an interrogation. The only problem is that the scene is set in Russia, which is not only several thousand miles away from the nearest Norfolk Southern locomotive, but wouldn't even be the correct track gauge if such a locomotive happened to be imported. The producers were aware of problem and digitally removed the NS logo and lettering, but the black on white NS paint scheme is nevertheless unmistakable as well as the North American railroad industrial design. The scene was shot in Cleveland (a good stand-in for post-collapse Russia) and filming a passing train was a spur of the moment decision.
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Just Train Wrong / int_d600752e	comment	The season 3 opener of Ripper Street features a train crash involving two locomotives not even of Victorian design and a character coming from Manchester Piccadilly station (which wasn't called that at the time).
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Just Train Wrong / int_d64bff49	comment	A story in the Doctor Who (Titan) comics featured the real-world Tay Bridge railway disaster from 1879. The interior drawings of the coaches were not too bad (although the side corridor was drawn way too wide), but the exterior pictures of the train were very American indeed.
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Just Train Wrong / int_d68df17d	comment	James May's Toy Stories plays with this trope during the model train episode. In the episode, he revived a decommissioned piece of railroad in Britain using model train tracks. He and Oz Clarke got into arguments about which model trains they should run based on historical accuracy.
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Just Train Wrong / int_d9dabe62	comment	The second volume of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen has a scene in which a Martian tripod destroys Barnes Bridge along with a train crossing it. However, while the train is spot-on for the period, it's a London and North Western Railway design. Barnes Bridge was on the London and South Western Railway, and used very different locomotives.
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Just Train Wrong / int_da448595	comment	The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks: Even to a person with little knowledge of steam locomotives, the artistic license taken by the game is quite glaring. Keep in mind, a lot of it is justified given the game itself mentions the main train itself is magical, as well as the tracks themselves actually being magic shackles binding a demon lord that happen to make great train tracks. The trains in the game are tiny compared to those in real life, with engineer Alfonzo being bigger than them. The Spirit Train has no tender or supply car, instead sporting a cannon of all things, which would likely be top heavy enough to tip the entire train over. The Spirit Train is abnormally clean, with no sign of ash or smoke anywhere save for the pretty white puff-balls discharged from the chimney (which appears to double as a whistle despite a separate whistle being clearly visible on the engine). The train has no visible infrastructure and never runs out of water or coal. The tracks have green ties and yellow rails and are insanely narrow. Also, the ties are arranged in a zig-zag pattern.
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Just Train Wrong / int_dda72858	type	Just Train Wrong
Just Train Wrong / int_dda72858	comment	The Iron Giant features a cross between a Norfolk & Western J-Class steam locomotive and a New York Central Dreyfuss steam locomotive, when in reality a Maine Central diesel locomotive would be more fitting for coastal Maine in 1957. The Norfolk and Western J's never ran up that far (not even when the last survivor of the class, number 611, was restored to excursion service in 1982, and again in 2015, with the farthest it's ventured thus far being up to Pennsylvania's Strasburg Railroad), and all of NYC's Hudsons had been scrapped only a few years earlier.
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Just Train Wrong / int_dfabfce5	comment	By and large, the trains in Red Dead Redemption 2 are fairly accurate for the time period. However, you can encounter British 1930s semaphore signals in Saint Denis.
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Just Train Wrong / int_e035d18d	comment	Blood (1997) has a mission in its first episode set in a train, and as it was a game in the 90s when 3D levels were still a novelty, it's unsurprisingly rather off. Most notably, it's incredibly wide, there are no doors on the cars, there are walkways stretching all over the place, including the cab, there's no water by the tender, and the only controls inside the cab (which has no windows) are a handful of switches that cause the train to derail (at which point the developers were pretty clearly taking the piss).
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Just Train Wrong / int_e38778a5	comment	This trope goes back a ways with regards to the Hudson Line. At the beginning of the 1969 film version of Hello, Dolly!, a cute little steam train, its livery correctly identifying it as one of the New York Central'snote which still owned and operated the line at the time of the film, chugs up the Hudson from New York to â€¦ Yonkers, where the film is set. However, in doing so, it passes the steep mountain slopes and goes through the tunnels and other recognizable sights of the Hudson Highlands â€¦ which are well north of Yonkers, but where Garrison Landing, used as 1890s Yonkers in the film, is. In fact, there are no mountains on the Yonkers side of the river.
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Just Train Wrong / int_e5dde8d5	comment	Unstoppable is a notable aversion. While the film is clearly a dramatization centered around a runaway train; the incident is inspired by the famous Crazy Eights incident. The creators of the film also went to great lengths to accurately adhere to railway mechanics, physics and procedures. However, the producers do apply lots of Artistic License to the road name, cab number and loco model - understandable, since which real railroad would want their brand associated with a runaway train in the first place? Perhaps the most egregious thing was one of the posters, mention "A Million Tons". Consider that a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier weighs in at only a bit over 100,000 tons, while a million pounds is only 500 tons, or about the weight of two locomotives.
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Just Train Wrong / int_e7656139	comment	Wake in Fright begins around a halt named Tiboonda on the way to Silver City. This features a schoolhouse (borrowed from the NSW education department), a pub (a hollow prop) and a pipeline clustered about the halt, which doesn't even have a shade roof. The schoolhouse being in the middle of what was a wye gives a clue that this is actually Horse Lake, on the way to Broken Hill. The halt platform had to be rebuilt with a fake sign, as there hadn't been passenger services there for decades. A train even stopped there before filming, to allow the driver to lean out and call out "Where the $%^&$%^ am I?"
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Just Train Wrong / int_e97e4f97	comment	A Black Widow book taking place in Prague has her landing on and boarding a running train. The artist did their research and looked up an actual modern Czech train. Unfortunately for the artist, their reference images did not show that that particular train type's doors do not have handles at all and open only automatically, with press buttons. Unfortunately for the writer, most trains in use in the Czech Republic nowadays, even those that do have door handles, have a safety blocking mechanism in place that prevents the doors from being opened while the train is going. note They may have chosen this particular train because it appeared in Casino Royale (2006), so it fits nicely into the espionage theme. Its use in the film - as a regular passenger train - however makes much more sense than what the writer did here. There is, of course, suspension of disbelief at play in a comic book, but if we look at it critically... it would probably be logisitically impossible for "the courier" to "buy out" this particular train: It is a type of train only in use as a passenger train in the employ of ÄŒeskÃ© drÃ¡hy, usually limited to specific lines. ÄŒeskÃ© drÃ¡hy do not limit passengers to seats, so even if "the courier" bought out all the "place tickets" for the train, with the way passenger transport by ÄŒeskÃ© drÃ¡hy works they could not prevent more people from getting on board... The company has a limited number (7) of the trains in regular circulation so no matter the amount of potential bribe money, it would simply be difficult to squeeze a completely private train into the schedule. Therefore a less flashy older type of train would have in fact been much more conceivable as a private train in the Czech Republic... most likely elsewhere, too. Regular train schedules and the logistics of moving a limited number of physical trains between places really are a Thing, after all.
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Just Train Wrong / int_edaa765e	comment	The train chase in the Young Indy sequence of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade is filmed at the Cumbres & Toltec in New Mexico, which runs K-36 Mikados, not built until 1925. The scene is set in the 1910s. Moab, Utah where the opening is set at the time had its closest rail connection at Crescent Junction, Utah; over 40 miles north out of town. So to make the opening chase work Indy would have had to run through the desert to the railhead, and then traveled back 40 miles to Moab. Aptly though, the rail line was operated by the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad the same company that operated the Cumbres Pass route; so although the gauge and rolling stock are off at least using the Cumbres and Toltec as the shooting location for the train chase roughly approximated the look of the closest railroad to Moab at the time. The modern day railroad line that passes just outside Moab was not built until the 1960's.
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Just Train Wrong / int_eddc4ca3	comment	Further complicated by the lore given on Pottermore that explained the Hogwarts Express was stolen from Crewe Works in 1830. Crewe didn't open until 1840 by the Grand Junction Railway, later becoming part of the London, Midland, and Scotland Railway system. The locomotive that primarily portrays the Hogwarts Express in media is Olton Hall a Great Western Railway (a rival railway of the LMS) 4900 Class engine built in 1937 at Swindon. If the Hogwarts Express were an accurate 1830's engine it would look much more like Stephenson's Rocket than the larger and more modern engine it was depicted as on screen. So in "lore" the Hogwarts Express was an engine stolen 100 years before it existed at an engine shop that wouldn't exist for another ten years and operated by a railroad that never rostered that particular locomotive class! This isn't so egregious in the movies, where a modern steam engine running in the 1990s would be expected in Britain, but in Hogwarts Legacy, which takes place in the late 19th century, Hogwarts Castle sticks out like a sore thumb.
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Just Train Wrong / int_f0a86c12	comment	How I Met Your Mother spent a fair bit of time on Long Island trains in its ninth season, and the interiors were usually accurate. However, the stock footage used for views out the windows used an image of a suburban train from Melbourne, Australia in one episode, as elucidated here.
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Just Train Wrong / int_f10a65b	comment	Legends of Tomorrow: In Season 7's second episode, the fictional Imperial Railroad is used to transport the time-stranded Legends to Chicago in order to hide the death of J. Edgar Hoover. Their train is pulled by a 2-6-2T—a locomotive of which was not built for mainline service—and is even seen pulling tank first (a practice more common on switching runs and in mainlines in Britain). When it gets stopped on a siding, it inexplicably gains a tender while still having both tanks. The next episode is even more egregious with a train seen in a painting. A local mobster's club has an Art-Deco style version of the iconic 1937 20th Century Limited...in 1925.
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Just Train Wrong / int_f8c24edd	comment	Mission: Impossible â€“ Dead Reckoning: The Orient Express in the film's finale is a mix of Continental European rolling stock pulled by a British style engine with design elements taken from various British Railways standard classes. Gabriel causes a runaway train by attacking the locomotive crew, breaking open the throttle, and destroying the brake handle. He ties one of the bodies of the crew to the whistle cord, causing the train to whistle as the body swings around. Without a fireman tending to the fire; the locomotive would have eventually begun to lose steam pressure and slow down with the throttle wide open and the frequent whistles. The risk of water to dropping below the crown sheet causing a boiler explosion without a fireman to operate the water injector is also possible. When the train falls off the bridge, the train cars hang on to each other through the chains linking them briefly before each one snaps and pulls the next one off the bridge. The horizontal forces on the chains would have likely caused them to snap much faster instead of dangling in the air long enough for Ethan and Grace to climb out of them. When Grace pulls the emergency brake in the passenger car it should have activated the brakes. Train brakes can be operated from any car in an emergency, and don't need the brake throttle like Gabriel had destroyed in the locomotive intact to activate them.
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Just Train Wrong / int_fd275a9c	comment	Garfield's movie has a scene where Garfield infiltrates a dispatcher's room and switches trains willy nilly sending them all on collision courses with one another. This would be impossible as the system would not allow the controller to switch points in front of an approaching train, and the signal system is interlocked to prohibit any movement that might cause a collision. There are two trains mentioned called the "Seattle Wind" and the "Boston Express". No station has direct service to both Seattle and Boston, and such a trip would require transfers at Chicago and New York City. Amtrak's train running up to Seattle is the Coast Starlight, a successor to the Southern Pacific's West Coast and Cascade (which only ran up to Portland, with transfer services offered to Seattle by the Great Northern). Also, in one shot, ten trains are shown with unrealistic consists. They all have Amtrak GE Dash 8-32BWH locomotives (with blurred out road numbers). These are freight locomotives modified for passenger usage. Nine of them are on screen at once, when Amtrak only had 20. At no point in Amtrak's history would this be realistic, as GE made them to supplement Amtrak's aging F40 locomotives while they developed the Genesis locomotive. Later they were relegated to switching in yards. They also have a baggage car with three Superliner cars. Superliner cars are only used on Amtrak's long-distance trains, which are always at least twice as long and have at least two locomotives. These shorter trains could realistically be commuter trains due to their short length and high quantity, but that doesn't explain the baggage cars.note Some commuter trains, such as Caltrain, have "luggage cars". These are normal passenger cars that include a shelf for luggage. For the most part, they look and function like normal passenger cars.
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Just Train Wrong / int_fda9c8b	comment	Some railway-related scenes from Downton Abbey have rather glaring errors. These include using LNER coaches on SR stations (two railway companies whose stock would likely never meet) and using a 1950s vintage steam locomotive in a 1920s show. One or two teak coaches in a rake of SR stock may be forgivable as through coaches and entire trains did run across the company boundaries, using coaches from whichever company. A train from Penzance (GWR) to Aberdeen (LNER) for example, which took 14 hrs. even after the railways were nationalized and singing from the same songbook.
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Devastation (Video Game) / int_1fb947b6	type	Just Train Wrong
Far Cry 2 (Video Game) / int_1fb947b6	type	Just Train Wrong
Half-Life (Video Game) / int_1fb947b6	type	Just Train Wrong
Half-Life 2 (Video Game) / int_1fb947b6	type	Just Train Wrong
Hogwarts Legacy (Video Game) / int_1fb947b6	type	Just Train Wrong
L.A. Noire (Video Game) / int_1fb947b6	type	Just Train Wrong
Mario Kart Tour (Video Game) / int_1fb947b6	type	Just Train Wrong
Metal Slug (Video Game) / int_1fb947b6	type	Just Train Wrong
Mini Metro (Video Game) / int_1fb947b6	type	Just Train Wrong
Postal 2 (Video Game) / int_1fb947b6	type	Just Train Wrong
Railroad Tycoon (Video Game) / int_1fb947b6	type	Just Train Wrong
Return to Castle Wolfenstein (Video Game) / int_1fb947b6	type	Just Train Wrong
Sakura Wars (Video Game) / int_1fb947b6	type	Just Train Wrong
Sleeping Dogs (2012) (Video Game) / int_1fb947b6	type	Just Train Wrong
Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow (Video Game) / int_1fb947b6	type	Just Train Wrong
The Last Express (Video Game) / int_1fb947b6	type	Just Train Wrong
The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel (Video Game) / int_1fb947b6	type	Just Train Wrong
The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks (Video Game) / int_1fb947b6	type	Just Train Wrong
Tomb Raider: Legend (Video Game) / int_1fb947b6	type	Just Train Wrong
Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation (Video Game) / int_1fb947b6	type	Just Train Wrong
Train Simulator (Video Game) / int_1fb947b6	type	Just Train Wrong
Transport Tycoon (Video Game) / int_1fb947b6	type	Just Train Wrong
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves (Video Game) / int_1fb947b6	type	Just Train Wrong
Wolfenstein (2009) (Video Game) / int_1fb947b6	type	Just Train Wrong
Stardew Valley / Videogame / int_1fb947b6	type	Just Train Wrong
Yami to Boushi to Hon no Tabibito (Visual Novel) / int_1fb947b6	type	Just Train Wrong
GTA... but with talking trains!! (Web Video) / int_1fb947b6	type	Just Train Wrong
The Onion (Website) / int_1fb947b6	type	Just Train Wrong
Bolt / int_1fb947b6	type	Just Train Wrong
Chuggington / int_1fb947b6	type	Just Train Wrong
Downtown / int_1fb947b6	type	Just Train Wrong
Frosty the Snowman / int_1fb947b6	type	Just Train Wrong
Ivor the Engine / int_1fb947b6	type	Just Train Wrong
Madagascar / int_1fb947b6	type	Just Train Wrong
Madagascar / int_1fb947b6	type	Just Train Wrong
Oliver & Company / int_1fb947b6	type	Just Train Wrong
Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron / int_1fb947b6	type	Just Train Wrong
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012) / int_1fb947b6	type	Just Train Wrong
The Iron Giant / int_1fb947b6	type	Just Train Wrong
The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh / int_1fb947b6	type	Just Train Wrong
The Polar Express / int_1fb947b6	type	Just Train Wrong
The Rugrats Movie / int_1fb947b6	type	Just Train Wrong
Thomas & Friends / int_1fb947b6	type	Just Train Wrong
Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go / int_1fb947b6	type	Just Train Wrong
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