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A train of some kind is on an out-of-control (or apparently out-of-control) trip to disaster (or at the minimum, expensive damage.) Attempts to stop the train or prevent disaster consist of: Attempting to get from the passenger (or cargo) cars to the engine Attempting to rescue the passengers, possibly by helicopter Attempting to cut the train, disconnecting the passenger cars (uncoupling the train will activate the air brakes, causing them to stop) Rerouting the train onto an unused siding so it will crash in an unoccupied area Using another train to slow down the train, or to put someone on it who may be able to slow it down Turning a switch (ideally at high speed) to force the train on a short track so it will derail Using superpowers Sometimes there is no alternative (or those in charge claim there is no alternative) but to allow the train to derail or crash, even if the passengers aboard are killed. Usually this may result in Stuff Blowing Up. The defining characteristic of this trope is that the train is out of control or can't be brought to a controlled safe stop. Emperor of the North, where Ernest Borgnine as Shack tells the engineer not to stop the train even though there's a danger of a crash if they don't make the siding before the oncoming express, is not an example in this case; the engineer could stop the train. The semi-unrealism with this trope is that the majority of locomotives in the world have some form of a Dead Man's Switch. If a certain handle in the driver's cabin isn't depressed constantly when the train is moving or if no positive action showing an alert operator is detected within a set time period, the emergency brakes will come on. Moreover many trains also are equipped with some sort of speed control device that will apply the brakes automatically if an overspeed condition is detected. In addition, since the 1870s, all trains have used a failsafe air braking system; when the braking lines are pressurised, the brakes are released, the absence of pressure applies the brakes. Therefore, a sudden loss of pressure inside the braking system or an individual carriage getting severed from the rest of the train will cause the brakes to automatically grind everything to a halt. If you're lucky, you'll get a Hand Wave about how something has disabled these failsafes but don't count on it. The fail-safety in train air brakes can itself fail if all of the braking air is used up, though this can only really happen through improper train handling procedure. Also, the air brakes on non-powered rolling stock can be easily deactivated (bottled) or disabled (bled), allowing the cars to move on their own under force of gravity and friction in certain situations. Fortunately the safety systems and operating procedures remove the potential for runaways except in the presence of negligence or intentional sabotage. Expect to see a lot of these trains in desert valleys heading for an unfinished bridge or even a cliff, despite it making absolutely zero sense why these trains would've been on partially-completed/dead-end tracks even before they went haywire. Runaway Train, a 1967 Akira Kurosawa screenplay that became a 1985 Hollywood film, is the Trope Maker and Trope Namer. See also Dead Foot Leadfoot and Track Trouble. If the Failsafe Failure isn't justified, then this may also be a case of Just Train Wrong. Completely unrelated to Train Problem. |
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Adventure Time: At the end of "Mystery Train", Finn accidentally smashes the controls of the locomotive, resulting in the train running out of control towards a broken bridge. | |
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Boo Boom! The Long Way Home: the Series Finale involves one of these. Boo-Boom and his friends have to stop a train transporting prisoners, including Boo-Booms' parents. They do so by unhooking the carriages that contain the prisoners. Unfortunately, since the train was going up a mountain at the time, the now unhooked carriages immediately go back down again, straight for a blown-up bridge, forcing the heroes to come up with a way to stop them before the carriages reach the ravine. They succeed by deploying the brakes of a tank that was also being transported by the same train. | |
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Star Fox 64 features in an interesting inversion; the point of the Macbeth level is to destroy the train carrying weapons. You can do this two ways. 1) you can destroy the train itself, or 2) you can flip a series of switches that causes the train to change tracks and run right into the weapons factory. Throughout the level, the train's engineer has been increasing its speed, so by that point it's Too Fast to Stop. | |
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The Scorpion episode, "Crazy Train" deals with the team having to figure out how to stop a runaway subway train that Paige and Ralph are on. | |
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In the 6th Digimon movie, Digimon Tamers: The Runaway Digimon Express, the Tamers are faced with stopping (Gran)Locomon when the train Digimon appears during Ruki's birthday party. | |
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Rogue stops one of these in a 1980s issue of X-Men, with an ambiguous degree of help from fellow X-Man Longshot, who she grabs and drops aboard the train in the hope that his powers of fabulous luck might help keep the unwieldy passenger-filled series of cars from tipping over, derailing, or otherwise getting people killed as she brings it to a stop before it goes over a cliff. | |
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Avengers: Age of Ultron: Ultron's fight with Cap, Wanda and Pietro on board a speeding train ends in Ultron firing a burst of energy that kills the operator and destroys the train's brakes. The train crashes through a bumper block, and careens through Seoul's crowded streets for a short distance before Wanda uses her magic to bring it to a stop. | |
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The Simpsons episode "Marge vs. the Monorail" features a Runaway Monorail, rendered brakeless by its laughably cheap construction quality. Someone suggests cutting the power when the brakes don't work. Another person says they can't because it's solar-powered. Bitterly, he says, "Solar power. When will people learn?". Homer, the conductor, has to resort to making a makeshift anchor by grabbing the "M" from the Monorail's logo, tying it to a rope, and throwing it onto the street. The anchor eventually gets stuck on a donut shop's sign and successfully stops the monorail, but not without causing massive property damage along the way. | |
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Casey Jones has this happen from time to time, either through the occasional mechanical failure or the act of deliberate sabotage. To name the most notable examples: The Cannonball runs away due to a faulty gasket in "The Old Timer," since it's causing the brake lines to not build up enough pressure. It takes switching the train onto a spur line near the depot to halt it since it rams into the track bumper instead of running clear into the next county. Casey requests to have it fixed, but the next morning, only temporary repairs are done on it. When Redrock, who had been forced into retirement, attempts to bring the runaway Casey Jr. back home and finds the trestle had been washed out, he remembers the faulty brakes and has to place a tie onto the tracks to wedge it into the locomotive's pilot truck, giving it a means to stop before it falls to its doom. Subverted in “The Lost Train.� While the train seemingly runs away, Casey points out that was impossible due to the brakes being set, and that the locomotive's sudden departure was an act of theft. Casey invokes this himself in "The Marauders." Under orders from the railroad to deliberately wreck a train, he is assigned an old clunker due for the scrap heap and is instructed to derail it on a curve so the team of U.S. Marshalls onboard could fake their deaths and ambush the titular gang when they hit the next town. To fool everyone, Casey feigns the brakes are busted when it nears the curve, jumping off and letting it careen off the tracks to its doom. "The Black Box" is an instance where half a train runs away. Here, thieves after the Crown Jewels of Maximillian try to uncouple the last three cars from the Cannonball, then let them roll down the hill onto a sharp curve, causing them to derail off a steep cliff. Fortunately, this is foiled when Casey receives a telegram that the intended U.S. Marshall who was supposed to guard the shipment was found dead, and the supposed Marshall onboard was an imposter. When Casey goes back to confront him, he finds the train missing half its consist and runs the locomotive back up to recouple before the rest of the cars hit the curve. “The Trackwalker" does this to the entire Cannonball courtesy of Vic Hogan, a corrupt fireman. After having spent weeks blackmailing his old engineer, Jeff Roberts to keep quiet about his true identity, Casey forces him off the property, leaving Hogan to sneak into the Cannonball's cab and tie off the throttle while it's in motion. Casey Jr. was checking the steam at the time, so he's able to warn Jeff about the runaway, allowing him to untie the throttle and stop the train while Casey warns an oncoming Northbound Express of their presence. |
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There's one in the sixth movie, The Phantom of Baker Street. Conan ends up fighting Jack the Ripper in a Traintop Battle. | |
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As with the literature it's based on, the Thomas & Friends show uses this a lot, having its own distinct theme music, being an Oh, Crap! moment for the engine in question and usually ending in a crash of some kind. In earlier seasons, these crashes were reasonably realistic, though in the later seasons, the crashes were either less violent (the seventh season episode "The Spotless Record" defies the Laws of Physics) or much more severe (the sixth season episode "Gordon Takes a Tumble" features Gordon coming off the tracks, and crashing into a hay pile, and pile of tires, and a farm house, before coming to rest; through the entire sequence, he never lost speed at all). The Adventure Begins features James' accident with the trucks he was pulling in season 1, except that it also shows Thomas racing over to help him. Thomas tells James's brakevan guard to couple him into said car and the man comes very, very close to succeeding. Anyone who watched the original episode or read the book concerning this accident will know how it turns out. |
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In Miraculous Ladybug, Chloe as Queen Bee causes a train to go out of control by paralyzing the driver in order to show off to her mother. It backfires pretty quickly, as Chloe can't actually make the train stop. | |
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Totally Spies!: Clover and Sam have to stop a runaway train they get trapped on due to one of Lumiere's riddles in "A Spy is Born 2". | |
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Seen in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in the episode "Bebop and Rocksteady Conquer the Universe" when Bebop and Rocksteady's attempt to tie Master Splinter to the railroad tracks goes horribly wrong thanks to Rocksteady pulling out the brake lever. They wind up rerouting the train via a switch so it doesn't run over Splinter, but instead it hits a runaway dinosaur robot and blows up, completely derailing in the process. | |
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In one episode of Adventures in Odyssey Dylan and a deaf kid named Eliot end up on a train with the train's driver having fallen out of the train. Whit calls them on the train's phone to give them instructions on how to stop the train, but Dylan accidentally breaks the phone, so Whit has to shout the instructions at them from his flying vehicle. Dylan isn't able to understand him, but Eliot somehow does and they manage to slow down the train enough that it only gently bumps the train in front of it. Eliot later explains that he was reading Whit's lips. | |
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In the Roseanne episode Roseambo, a gang of women-hating terrorists taken an Amtrak train hostage and deliberately render it a runaway so it will eventually derail and kill everyone on board. Roseanne comes to the rescue, defeating the terrorists and having her friends and family jump off the train, but right before she can go down with the train off a cliff ("That carnival psychic was right!" she wails), she is rescued at the last second by an FBI helicopter with a tire swing. As the entire train blows up underneath her, she yells "Cleanup on aisle four!" It is not mentioned if anyone else was on board the train at the time it crashed (though it is likely the other terrorists were still on the train at the explosion.) | |
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The climax of the NCIS: Los Angeles episode "The Livelong Day" is built on this trope. And just to make it more dire, there's a bomb on the track. | |
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This is the plot of The Backyardigans episode "Catch That Train!" | |
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About halfway through Sonic's story in Sonic the Hedgehog (2006), Dr. Eggman plants a bomb onto a passenger train and causes it to travel down the tracks at maximum speed. The purpose is to keep Sonic occupied trying to save the passengers. | |
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Episode 15 of Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated ("The Wild Brood") features one, complete with a knocked-out engineer, broken bridge, and exploding locomotive (also a shout-out to the train fight and wreck scenes in Back to the Future Part III. | |
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The bad guys in Batman Begins attempt to poison Gotham City by sending an uncontrolled monorail train, which carries a device that supposed to cause fear-inducing gas spew everywhere, towards Gotham's central water source. | |
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The Flamin' Thongs: In "Train in Vain", Holden builds a rail system to avoid having to walk to school, but half-way through its maiden voyage, he remembers he forgot to build stops. When the brakes don’t work, the train just gets faster and no one can get off! | |
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The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh episode "The Good, The Bad and the Tigger" featured an Old West variation of this trope, in a near episode-length fantasy. The accused train robbers Tigger and Pooh (both of whom apparently "borrowed" the train, mirroring them borrowing Christopher Robin's toy train in real life) wind up rendering the train a runaway, mostly due to Tigger fooling around with the controls in the locomotive. Pulling all the levers and switches doesn't stop the train, pressing the brake only results in the train flipping over and going the other direction, and then it eventually rams into Sheriff Piglet's speeding handcar and blows up, but nobody dies. Later Pooh and Tigger try to put the train back together, but the train comes to life and start zooming around the town without any rails and Piglet ends up stuck on the front of the train. Tigger paints fake tracks on the ground, under the logic that trains can't resist following tracks and then decides to wait for the train to run out of steam. Several days later the train is still going so Tigger causes it to crash with a banana peel, and Piglet is ok. | |
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The Polar Express becomes a runaway on glacier gulch when the throttle lever breaks off. | |
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Runaway Train, a 1967 Akira Kurosawa screenplay that became a 1985 Hollywood film, is the Trope Maker and Trope Namer. The engineer has a heart attack and falls off the train, leaving only two stowaway convicts and an innocent woman aboard. It makes a touch more sense in that the "train" in this case is just a set of 4 locomotives with no cars attached; and though the brakes DO come on, the engines easily generate more pulling power than the brakes can stop resulting in them burning off after a few miles. | |
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Thunderbirds Are Go: International Rescue have to stop a runaway experimental train in "Runaway". | |
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One of these is created as part of an escape plan in Grandia. The heroes lure the villains into the train engine, where they had stoked up the fire really high and then broke the brakes. Then they detached the passenger cares, trapping the villains in the engine. While nobody was hurt, by the time the engine had slowed down enough for the villains to safely leave, they were too far away to be an immediate threat. | |
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Our heroes try to stop one in Final Fantasy VII that's carrying a piece of Huge Materia. | |
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In World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor, player characters board a goblin-engineered train in the Grimrail Depot instance. After the final boss fight is aced, the players sabotage the train and cause it to derail. | |
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Near the end of Panda! Go Panda!: The Rainy Day Circus, a train stuck in a flood goes out of control and starts barreling toward a city after a young panda and a tiger cub accidentally start the train because of their antics. | |
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On X-Men: Evolution the Brotherhood create accidents so they can save the day. Their final act is trying to stop a runaway train. They leave after being reminded that there is a second train that will cause a collision. | |
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One episode of Johnny Test where Johnny and Duke took up full-time superheroics featured not less than five of these over the course of one episode, including two on a collision course. Dukey lampshades this by the fourth one. | |
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One of the original optional Grand Theft Auto missions works with this trope. It also has a bomb on board. Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas has the classic Wrong Side of The Tracks mission, where you must take Big Smoke to the train station where he proceeds to shoot a bunch of gang members trying to make their escape on top of a speeding train. |
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"Blood on the Coal" by The Folksmen (the folk incarnation of Spinal Tap). As all folk bands have a song about either a mine disaster or train wreck, the Folksmen decided to combine them by having a song about a runaway train in a mine. The song features on the soundtrack of A Mighty Wind (although it predates the movie). | |
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In Spider-Man 2, Dr. Octopus sends a train on a runaway course. "You have a train to catch!" At least Doc is a physicist and engineer (he built his cybernetic arms) and is seen doing specific damage to the controls, opening up the throttle to full sped before ripping it out, also damaging the brakes. | |
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One of these show up in Resident Evil 0, where the Ecliptic Express is rerouted onto a dead-end track by Birkin and Wesker so that it will crash. Naturally, stopping it requires solving a math problem on two different computer terminals found on opposite ends of the train before you're allowed to pull the brake. The train still derails. Similar situations happened earlier in Resident Evil 2 and Resident Evil 3: Nemesis, the latter with a cable car. | |
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The train battle stage from Jitsu Squad ends with the gang realizing the train is out of control... because the mook in the operator's room had fallen asleep, accidentally pushing his hand on the accelerator in the process. Cue everyone jumping before they crashes. | |
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MAD, in one of their signature crossover parodies, combines Thomas & Friends with Unstoppable. | |
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Dreadnought. The armoured train Dreadnought is racing at full speed to keep ahead of the much-faster Confederate train Shenandoah, which is on a parallel line. When the latter pulls ahead everyone realises that the Shenandoah could use its guns to blow up the tracks ahead and derail the Dreadnought killing everyone on board, so they need to stop the train. Unfortunately the Dreadnought is so heavy and powerful that even with every brake applied in the locomotive and every carriage there's still a question as to whether it will stop in time. | |
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In the 24th movie, The Scarlet Bullet, Conan and Sera find themselves trapped on the "Japanese Bullet," the world's first vacuum-tube super-conducting linear train, when the villain sends it racing out-of-control towards the stadium where the opening ceremony of the World Sports Games is being held. | |
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The ending of Total Overdose, after missiles destroy the train trestle. The train can't be saved, but Ram can rescue his de-Actioned Love Interest from her bondage at the front of it. | |
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A similar thing is the concept of Blast Corps, but instead of a runaway train, they have a truck set on an automated course. A truck with nukes. | |
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In Money Train, two guys who are transit police are robbing the train that collects all the fare collections, and bleed the airbrakes so that central control can't force-stop the train. | |
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One of the sequences in Sucker Punch has the girls attempting to steal a nuclear bomb guarded by robots off a runaway train. | |
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Happens in a sequence in Heroic Trio when a bad guy takes over a train station as bait for the heroes. | |
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Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas has the classic Wrong Side of The Tracks mission, where you must take Big Smoke to the train station where he proceeds to shoot a bunch of gang members trying to make their escape on top of a speeding train. | |
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The Cassandra Crossing, where a biological agent is accidentally released on a train, the military take over the train and are under strict orders to take it to a quarantine site, but the track goes across a dilapidated bridge which might not sustain the load. Watch for O.J. Simpson in the role of an Interpol Police officer. | |
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Color Classics: "Play Safe! Play Safe!" | |
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The Reluctant Dragon features a passenger train (which would later make a reappearance in Dumbo) attempting to jump a broken bridge in a thunderstorm at one point, but ends up in a railway accident just because of this. | |
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Zootopia has an old runaway subway car that plays out this trope (the villains have been using it as a hideout/laboratory.) Nick and Judy are able to successfully reroute the subway car to avoid colliding head-on with a speeding freight train, but the car ends up derailing and exploding when it tips from speeding on a curve and reaches the end of the line. Played more realistically in that the train does have a proper Dead Man's Switch; Nick is stuck more-or-less stationary keeping the train going, requiring Judy to protect Nick, the subway car, and herself. | |
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In Under Siege 2: Dark Territory, terrorists have taken over a passenger train in which they've mounted a satellite control system that can trigger earthquakes. | |
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In Atomic Train, a runaway freight train carrying hazardous materials, including an old nuclear bomb. The cause of being a runaway? An air hose breaks and then the train's brakes become useless (in real life, this would automatically apply the emergency brakes and stop the train, but this film is full of errors and continuity goofs!), causing it to speed up towards Denver. They try all the old "how to stop a runaway train" bits, but to no avail, even though no one even gave a thought on uncoupling the freight cars from the locomotives. Eventually they set a derail at a sharp curve, and inevitably, the train crashes and the atomic bomb explodes, destroying Denver! Oops. | |
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Silver Streak, where a sociopath trying to steal a fortune through faked documentation of art has disabled the emergency brakes and is pointing the train toward downtown Chicago. | |
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In Danger Girl: The Chase, Abbey attempts to escape by leaping on to a passing train. The bad guys employ knockout gas that renders the crew unconscious, leaving Abbey on a runaway train. | |
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Disaster on the Coastliner is a Made-for-TV film where a man takes over the engineer's console of a passenger train running from Los Angeles to San Francisco, locks the other train running from San Francisco to Los Angeles on the same track, and has both hijacked the LA-Bound train's radio to come into his phone so the engineer thinks he's calling the control center and sabotaged the computer system at the railroad control center so they can't switch the signals to red so the unaware engineer would stop his train. The man taking over the first train is using the threat of an unstoppable wreck to blackmail the president of the railroad (Raymond Burr) who was unaware of the misconduct, to publicly admit that the railroad killed his wife due to negligence and intentionally bribed the inspector who investigated the accident into saying it wasn't the railroad's fault. | |
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Dad's Army used this trope in one episode. The unit had to move a train out the way of an incoming one after the drivers got drunk, but ended up with a runaway train after it turned out they'd left the brake wheel back at the station and that the line was all downhill from that point. Cue Captain Mainwaring climbing over the train roof, the warden, vicar, and verger on a handcart trying to bring them the brake wheel, and then them having to go damn fast the other way after the platoon accidentally put the train into reverse. | |
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The climax to The Adventure Zone: Balance's Murder on the Rockport Limited arc has the party trying to stop an out-of-control locomotive before it can collide with a populated city and cause massive destruction. They actually fail to stop it; massive destruction is only avoided by teleporting the speeding train elsewhere. | |
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In Breakheart Pass, the carriages containing the troopers are uncoupled from the train and roll out of control down a steep section of track. They eventually derail and kill all the troopers. | |
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In Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, there are two shots that establish the hero career of Spider-Man (one for the blonde Peter Parker of Miles' universe and one for the more jaded Peter B. Parker) stopping a runaway train, both meant to be a reference to the iconic scene in Spider-Man 2 where he stops a runaway train during his fight with Doc Ock. | |
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Batman: The Animated Series: In "Christmas with the Joker", the Joker blows up a railroad bridge as a train approaches. Batman and Robin arrive in time to disconnect the locomotive and rescue the engineer so that only the empty locomotive is destroyed. | |
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"Runaway Train" by Soul Asylum reached number 5 in 1993 and is used as a metaphor for runaway children/teens. | |
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CSI: Cyber: In "CMND:\Crash", the bad guy hacks the computer on a subway train and disengages all of the safeguards. The Cyber team has to work out how to board the runaway train and shut it down before it reaches the end of the line. | |
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Back to the Future Part III has one deliberately set up my Dr. Brown and Marty, as an out-of-control train is the only way to get the crippled DeLorean up to 88 mph. The point where the train goes from a controlled time-travel experiment to a runaway is when they notice Clara has snuck on board, and the train is going too fast to stop before reaching the gorge with the incomplete bridge. | |
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A 1980s Gumby episode "Wild Train Ride" has the Blockheads intentionally set this up with the train Minga and Granny are riding on. They lock the train's engineers in the station restroom, start up the engine and hop off before it pulls out, and since the trains in the Gumby universe can travel anywhere they want, carrying their tracks wherever they go, the train leaves a path of destruction and can even enter books the way characters can (naturally, Cloudcuckoolander Granny enjoys it, and Minga is initially scared, until she compares the train crashing through a house to a ride at Disneyland! Things get worse when the train ends up in a book about the Rocky Mountains and ends up on a railroad track route with a washed-out bridge. But luckily Prickle (who was planning to ride the train with Granny and Minga but missed it due to the Blockheads starting it up early) phoned Gumby about the runaway train, and they arrive in a helicopter with the train's engineers, lowering them onto the locomotive and stopping the train just in time. Granny's comment on the whole experience is this... | |
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In Episodes 3 and 4 of the Taiwanese action drama Black and White, Gao Yi, having gone full bore psycho through regular use of his own drug Dreamer, hijacks a subway train, disables the remote brake system and disables everyone by means of releasing the drug into the vent system. It's up to Wu Ying Xiong and Pi Zi to stop the train before it crashes and kills everyone on board. | |
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In the old Superman Theatrical Cartoons Billion Dollar Limited by Fleischer Studios, the Billion Dollar Limited train carrying a huge amount of gold to the mint is rendered a runaway when the bad guys manage to toss the engineers out of the locomotive. Attempts to reroute the train into a freight car full of dynamite and to send it off a damaged bridge are foiled by Superman, but he is unable to retrieve a bomb tossed into the locomotive by the bad guys, so he manages to save Lois in the nick of time before the boiler explodes and the now-totaled locomotive derails. He then pulls the cargo cars of gold the rest of the way to the mint by himself. (Guess he really was more powerful than a locomotive.) | |
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Runaway, by Cordell Barker: The main train engineer gets distracted by a beautiful lady, and heads to the toilet room with her. The train then hits a cow, knocking the stoker onto one of the many levers causing the train to accelerate out of control, and him unable to stop the train. The train speeds through and demolishes a bridge before going up a steep incline - and running out of fuel before starting to slide back. The stoker asks for more fuel from the passengers (the rich people pay the poor for their wood items and clothing, before detaching the back segment), with it eventually coming to rest at the apex. The engineer eventually gets back to the engine, but gets distracted again while the train accelerates downhill. | |
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Seen in the beginning of Toy Story 3, where Woody tries to stop a driverless train but fails. Cue Buzz catching the train as is falls off a bridge | |
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Happens in The Rugrats Movie when a group of circus monkeys take control of a circus train and render it a runaway while the engineer and ringmaster are Stepping Out for a Quick Cup of Coffee. The train eventually derails on a sharp curve and crashes into a forest, but nothing blows up this time. | |
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Played almost perfectly straight in one of the later (and far sillier) episodes of SeaQuest DSV, with a trans-Atlantic mag-lev. Underwater. They even had to get it to jump the tracks... | |
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Fear Effect have this occurring in the waterfront stage, when Hana accidentally triggers a stationary train into moving. Then Hana's partner Glas suddenly runs up, shouting that the bridge ahead is down, causing Hana to jump off. Their third member, Deke, on the other hand is on top of said train, and need to outrun the crashing train carriage-by-carriage. | |
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Due South did this in 'All The Queen's Horses'. The brake was tampered with, and Buck Frobisher used a rifle shot he and Bob called "The great Yukon double Douglas Fir telescoping bank shot" to nail the switch and force the train onto an empty track before it could hit an oncoming train carrying nuclear material. | |
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Danger Mouse on the Orient Express climaxes with DM tasked with stopping the train before it reaches the Paris terminal as the driver and fireman abandoned it (due to the episode being a low-class farce—their words). | |
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The Scooby-Doo made-for-video movie Scooby-Doo! Frankencreepy has the Transylvania Express rendered a runaway by the main villain, complete with Stuff Blowing Up among derailing (but the gang and the rest of the passengers survive.) | |
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AC/DC: "...Running right off the track!" | |
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In Knightfall, a weakened and crazed Bane is chased to a train by the Jean-Paul Valley Batman, where the former proceeds to murder the driver, slam on the throttle and force the passengers into the back. Batman is able to separate the cars from the train, leaving the lighter train it move even faster as the two fight it out before it launches itself off the bridge it was on and into a building. | |
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In Syphon Filter 2, Gabe Logan escapes the mountain on a freight train, but the Agency blows up the trestle dead ahead, and with not enough distance to stop the train, Lian Xing has to airlift him with a stolen chopper before the train crashes. | |
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The final showdown between Ki-su and the villain that has been tormenting him throughout Quick takes place on board a runaway train that is racing towards a bridge that has been rigged to blow when the train crosses it. | |
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Ra.One has part of the climax take place on a train being temporarily helmed by the Brainwashed and Crazy heroine. | |
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The plot of Speed revolves around a bus that's forced to keep moving at more than 50 miles per hour or else a Mad Bomber will blow it up, with the ending involving a runaway subway train as well. Its sequel Speed 2: Cruise Control had a runaway cruise ship that was played similarly. | |
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The Team Fortress 2 fan-film "End of the Line" has the BLU Team sending a runaway train laden with explosives hurtling towards the RED Team's base. | |
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The Adventure Begins features James' accident with the trucks he was pulling in season 1, except that it also shows Thomas racing over to help him. Thomas tells James's brakevan guard to couple him into said car and the man comes very, very close to succeeding. Anyone who watched the original episode or read the book concerning this accident will know how it turns out. | |
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The first episode of Digimon Adventure: (2020) involves a swarm of Algomon causing a train to run out of control with Taichi's mother and sister on board. He and Agumon have to work together to save them by fighting off the Algomon in cyberspace. | |
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An episode of Little House on the Prairie featured a runaway train with children on board. | |
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An episode of Digimon Universe: App Monsters centers around an infected Resshamon nearly causing an actual train to crash. The protagonists barely manage to stop it in time and the episode is heavily based on the Tamers example above. | |
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During season 4 of Yu-Gi-Oh!, Yami and Téa duel Weevil Underwood on an out-of-control train. | |
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In Derailed (2002), Jacques neutralizes Cole's henchmen in charge of the train's controls. He disables the cell jammer, and puts the real conductor back at the controls. However, the brake lines have broken, preventing the train from stopping. | |
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Detective Conan: There's one in the sixth movie, The Phantom of Baker Street. Conan ends up fighting Jack the Ripper in a Traintop Battle. In the 24th movie, The Scarlet Bullet, Conan and Sera find themselves trapped on the "Japanese Bullet," the world's first vacuum-tube super-conducting linear train, when the villain sends it racing out-of-control towards the stadium where the opening ceremony of the World Sports Games is being held. |
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The Dark Tower has a suicidal AI speeding a train to runaway doom. The ka-tet of gunslingers can only save themselves by matching wits in a riddle game. | |
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The focus of the first episode of Forever. The story is kicked off with Henry dying in a subway crash, waking up again, and getting caught up in the police investigation. | |
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Superman, naturally, has prevented a lot of these in his career, being more powerful than a locomotive. | |
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In the Pound Puppies (2010) episode "The Ruff Ruff Bunch", Lucky's team must stop a train in which the episode's eponymous club is on after the train's conductor was accidentally knocked unconscious. | |
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The Legend of Frenchie King: because of the titular bandit's shenanigans, Maria has to stop a runaway train in a scene that establishes her badassery. | |
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In The Legend of Korra fanfic Book 5: Legends, the villain arranges one with the Republic City Mag Rail to distract Korra, forcing her into a Sadistic Choice between saving the passengers or capturing the bad guys. Not surprisingly, she chooses the former. | |
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The Book of Boba Fett. In "The Tribes of Tatooine", Boba helps the Tusken tribe he's joined to attack a land speeder train. Unfortunately the droid conductor fuses out the engine while gunning it in an effort to shake the attackers off the roof. When Boba busts into the control room and demands the droid conductor bring it to a stop, the conductor looks at the sparking control panel for a moment before diving out the window. Fortunately, Boba is able to crashland it without killing everyone on board. | |
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The Reverend W. Awdry's The Railway Series features several incidents of runaway trains, mostly involving a steep incline, due to either a broken coupling on a train going uphill or the weight of the train overcoming the force of the brakes heading downhill. Justified as the trains in question didn't have automatic braking systems, only handbrakes on individual vehicles. There is also an incident of a runaway train caused by children interfering with the controls. As with all incidents in the series, this was based on a similar real-life occurrence. The train in question, James, is caught when an inspector on another engine, Edward, hurls a lasso around James' buffer and catches him, allowing the fireman to jump over to apply the brake. |
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In The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, the hijackers disable the safety features and create a runaway subway train to cover their getaway. The New York City Subway's safety systems eventually stop the train without harm, however. | |
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Anastasia has one of these, thanks to green glowy devil thingies. And of course, our heroes survive, and the train plunges off a damaged trestle into a gorge and explodes spectacularly due to all the crates of dynamite. | |
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In Honoo No Alpen Rose, a bridge in the frontier between Austria and Switzerland is severely damaged. The train in which the main characters travelled was able to barely stop, but there was another coming towards them at full speed. Jeudi and Lundi help as much as they can to get the other train to stop... but there's an explosion and Lundi disappears. Jeudi has to go to Austria on her own, thinking that Lundi is missing and possibly dead. He survived but barely, and they're not reunited until several chapters later. | |
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In a 2017 issue of Ms. Marvel (2014), Kamala has to deal with a runaway train after its brakes are taken out by some kind of power surge. It's only doing about 25mph, which she notes is hardly "action move" speed, but she doesn't have the level of Super-Strength to stop it by herself and the emergency brake would make the whole thing crash. Upon realizing it's a slow-motion trainwreck waiting to happen, she grumbles about it being an on-the-nose metaphor for her whole life. | |
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The movie Looney Tunes: Back in Action has one, but it was deliberate and an attempt to run over the hero's father tied onto the tracks, but eventually the train hits some dynamite and blows up. | |
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A sort of reverse example occurs in Jak 3, when the player must start a runaway train full of explosives(!) and clear its path so that it crashes into a blocked gateway which must be opened. | |
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The entire plot of Unstoppable. Very Loosely Based on a True Story, namely the "Crazy Eights" incident mentioned below. The plot of the movie is that, while the brakes on train 777 work, the Dead Man's Switch is disabled due to other brakes not working, and there's nobody aboard to stop the train, which is now blasting across the rails at 70 miles an hour, carrying dangerous chemicals, and headed towards a city. In addition to trying to slow it down by coupling to it from the rear, certain things go awry such as a train derailer failing due to the weight and speed of the train. While many of these details are exaggerated for television (for example, nobody died in the real incident), certain things are true, such as the train derailer failing to stop the train and that the train was carrying very dangerous chemicals. | |
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In the Yu-Gi-Oh! game, this might happen to Dekiochi the Battlechanted Locomotive In-Universe a lot. Not only does its card art suggest it, but the flavor text for its companion, Bokoichi the Freightening Car, states that "It can transport anything, but most cargo arrives broken." | |
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