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  1. Sep 7, 2024 · Explore the real-life incident of CSX 8888, the runaway train that inspired the movie 'Unstoppable.'. Learn how a 47-car freight train in Ohio became an uncontrolled locomotive on May 15, 2001, and the dramatic events that followed.

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    Just a few months before the 9/11 National Disaster, a runaway train in Northwestern Ohio created a day of havoc and fear throughout the state. People were glued to their television sets and radios, fearing the train full of hazardous materials would crash through their communities.

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    All historical films are historical fiction somewhere along a continuum of degree, unless the dialogues are taken 100% from written and audio records. None of us were at these settings (as Light of Other Daysallows us to be) -- We cannot get it all right, and sometimes the filming and the physics (Ye canna change the laws o' phsyics, Jim...) won't ...

    Disaster on the Coastline (1979): Lloyd Bridges, Raymond Burr.
    Runaway! (1973): Ben Johnson
    Runaway Train (1985): Jon Voigt, Eric Roberts.
    Silver Streak (1976): Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor.

    Patty Inglish MS (author)from USA and Asgardia, the First Space Nation on July 15, 2017: Hi Ryan - That is exciting to know about the trains and tracks coordination for the film. Sounds like a big job and I hope your patient had a good time with it all! I love this movie. Ryanfrom Louisiana, USA on July 14, 2017: I love this movie. One of my patien...

  2. Nov 12, 2010 · As for fact vs. legend, the movie is loosely based on a 2001 incident where an unmanned CSX consist — a locomotive and 47 freight cars, two containing hazmat — traveled more than 60 miles, at speeds approaching 50 mph, for two hours through northwest Ohio.

  3. Aug 8, 2024 · Directed by William Goldenberg —an Oscar-winning editor known for his work with Michael Mann, Paul Greengrass, and Ben Affleck — Unstoppable follows Robles as he becomes a high school wrestling...

  4. Unstoppable is a 2010 American disaster action thriller film directed and produced by Tony Scott, written by Mark Bomback, and starring Denzel Washington and Chris Pine. It is based on the real-life CSX 8888 incident , telling the story of a runaway freight train and the two men who attempt to stop it.

  5. Aug 14, 2024 · Answer: Yes, the 20th Century Fox film Unstoppable is inspired by actual events, but very loosely. On May 15, 2001, an unmanned train -- CSX Locomotive #8888, which was later nicknamed "Crazy Eights" -- with 47 cars left Stanley rail yard in Walbridge, Ohio, and took off on a 66 mile.

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  7. Nov 5, 2010 · In 2001, Hosfeld stopped a runaway train that traveled nearly 70 miles from Toledo, Ohio to Kenton, Ohio. It’s the kind of story of which Hollywood blockbusters are made.

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