![]() The film was saved, however, and the crash is in the movie. One of the trains derailed right into a Panavision camera and took out about $100,000 worth of camera equipment. Not bad miniatures at all.ĭirector John Frankenheimer found out how much more 'controllable' model trains were in wreck scenes, when he was directing a full-scale wreck in his great WWII movie THE TRAIN. One caused by indians tipping a water tower over on a racing train, the other in a snowy mountain pass. Pretty spectacular-almost as good as the model train wreck in deMille's GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH.Īnd speaking of deMille, the two train wrecks in his 1939 UNION PACIFIC aren't half-bad, either. Obvious models, but they 'hit' like the real thing. Good miniature crash-the head-on train collision in a 1945 movie with Gary Cooper called SARATOGA TRUNK. In TEXAS, yet! Where are there any cliffs that size in Texas with railroad tracks, I ask you, LOL! All those pretty AMTRAK models bouncing down that little miniature cliffside. The country hang Stoney’s North Forty is returning this summer to Santa Fe Station at 4949 N. And of course, we can't forget the fact that the train derails as it is going UP a grade. Station Casinos is setting up taps in an untapped market.
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