RUNAWAY TRAIN STUNTS

A look at a few of the action sequences in this 1985 thriller.

[@IronmanKMSA]

this is definitely the most under rated movie of the 80s

[@mikeytrains1]

Ironman KMSA The thing I mostly hated is the use of Electro-Motive Diesels..Couldn't have fuckin' hurt to use just one U-36-B "U-Boat" built by GE.And another problem is the gray locomotives..The could have used some Canadian Pacific paint,or maybe something different..Like British Columbia Rail((BC-Rail))You agree?

[@skullcrusher301]

Eren Jaeger That's because it was shot on the Alaska Railroad, which at the time of filming and a roster of mainly EMD and a few Alcos. Since the railroad is landlocked it wouldn't have been worth it to ferry a U36B up there for a few weeks then send it back. The second is the railroad told the film company no ARR logos. They wanted the runaway to look as menacing as possible so the engines were painted in black and rust brown.

[@brotherlove9374]

You right. Did you catch at the end how Rankin let himself out of himself, and showed care and compassion for the Punk and the girl, that Manny might do something . . . Rankin likely knew he was or had to be some kind of SOB, but still his heart wasn't completely black . . . .

[@paulpatane2439]

Ironman KMSA this and Live and Die in LA

[@williamgallop9425]

Yeah, i say yeah!

[@babymammoth34]

Before CGI was a thought, people. This is so cool yet terrifying.

[@abloogywoogywoo]

CGI poorly done ruins everything. People have made their arguments for and against it. But nothing can deceive the camera or the human eye. We know if something isn't there in front of us.

[@leighnassau1158]

That s what made Jaws scary, the fact that it was actually a life size Physical Prop, like part of a train ! (in this case , the Janney coupler ) , Makes it look more real because its THERE ! And wasn t edited in later and its easier for the actors to ACT , Without being confused by a Green screen! Hollywood has defiantly lost its ability to make Solid movies like this one !

[@dathorndike4908]

@@abloogywoogywoo - CGI ALWAYS pales in comparison to real effects.

[@syrophenikan]

One of my favorite films. Under-rated, to be sure.

[@OwlEye2010]

Seeing Manny's fingers crushed and severed between the couplings like that still remains a painful-looking image.

[@tthomaselli2]

OwlEye2010- I agree... From 3:21-3:29, you have to think "That had to hurt!..."... I can only imagine how much pain Jon Voight had to've been in during that part. I literally can't watch that part every time I watch this movie just because I know at any given second, it's going to happen.

[@itsjusttyler5315]

@@tthomaselli2 wait did they actually cut off his fingers?!

[@fatwalletboy2]

That was all filmed in a very well put together sound stage with mocks up of the two loco ends and a track that was like a big conveyor belt underneath to look like the trains were actually speeding along outside and believe it was in the baking Californian sun not the icy wilds of Alaska. Fabulous stuff.

[@OikPoinFive]

@@fatwalletboy2 umm spoiler lert !!! Grrr

[@Albrecht8000]

Imaging beeing in his situation: I say you try to grab EVERYTHING! ;-) Greetings from germany

[@ReadingAreaRailfan]

Fun fact, their was also a GP38 that led the train. It led the train untill the crash scene, and then it was swapped out for a GP40-2. The 2 high hood GP7s weren't actually high hoods eathier, they were GP7U's that had plywood built up on the low hood and a piece of sheet metal covering the windshield

[@jdanderson915]

Genius. so realistic and has you on the edge of your seat...as intended.Jon Voight, Eric Roberts and Rebecca De Mornay are brilliant. The Russian director and 2nd director are very, very talented.

[@alicegrant3731]

CGI has it's place.. but I definitely miss seeing older films with the great stuntmen earning their pay cheques. Great footage 👏

[@dathorndike4908]

CGI blows. If CGI was never invented films would be so much better for it.

[@jericarolinem2789]

Great film! Great acting! Voight should have won an Oscar for this role! As sinister and evil as he is, he still demonstrates some humanity in his character.

[@mariekrikava2294]

Eric roberts should of won the academy award too!

[@fatwalletboy2]

Has to be the best runaway train movie ever made. Youre never left thinking oh thats so unreal.......love it and we all loved to hate Rankin! "I need shoes Manny.....I need shoes"

[@kennymcgowan5160]

The coolest movie ever

[@ben45506]

Best movie ever made

[@stevenbrooks1243]

When he crushed his fingers between the couplers man that was brutal!!

[@nssteampunk4865]

This movie turned 30 in 2015. (1985-2015)

[@ohioandnortheastern]

Erich Diebold now it's 32

[@nofrankrelax6593]

Now 35

[@dannywickens3368]

37 now but still great

[@jeffmatuszak477]

Best single acting performance in movie history. MANNY! MANNY! MANNY!....(C,'mon, Riker, I'm right here!)

[@elpoison626]

I was 6 years old when my cousin showed me this movie,an man was it a thriller looking forward of watching it again at 40 years old one of my favorite movies

[@The_Fat_Controller.]

Always wanted to see how they did the scene with Manny getting his fingers crushed by the couplers. Still one of my all-time favorite movies.

[@budekins542]

Saw this yesterday on a home projector! Superb photography and stunt work.

[@slowpoke96Z28]

Jon's laugh at 7:49 is the best.

[@rhettscal]

Surprisingly, no mention of the tragic loss of helicopter pilot Rick Holly while on location.

[@aerialshot985]

WOW, that is very true. As I was there

[@djsash77oldmanradic]

what happened?

[@jochenkraus7016]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runaway_Train_(film)#Shooting (...) Richard (Rick) Holley was killed prior to start of principal photography when the helicopter he was piloting hit power lines while scouting for shoot locations in Alaska. The film is dedicated to him during the closing credits.

[@LostSoul6318.]

Wait what ? ??

[@AllanLoveJr]

Wow! I really loved the movie.

[@fatwalletboy2]

Amazing to see inside the studio where theyve mocked up the faces of two locos coupled up with the moving track illusion underneath for Jon to act his scenes on....on film it all looks very convincing. A cracking movie. Big balls to the stunt guy strapped underneath a real train as it moves along at speed. One false move or a strap breaks its goodnight vienna......

[@tthomaselli2]

3:21-3:29.; That had to hurt... I can only imagine how much pain Jon Voight had to've been in during that part.

[@CAC2024USA]

God blessed stuntmen, you are the key of each action movie guys

[@kassandraflores4267]

Charles-Alexandre CARTRON not for jackie chan

[@mampe8898]

Excellect movie. I like it and the last scene when manny is top of the train ....

[@dathorndike4908]

OMG. Even if it was a stunt double. To be dragged underneath that train going at full speed just inches from the steel wheels is insane. Plus, with ice and snow making everything wet and slippery... no wonder those stunts in the movie kept you on the edge of your seat. They were real!

[@djsash77oldmanradic]

awesome that there is footage of this

[@jaroslavdrahokoupil9839]

This movie saved my mind too...

[@a.lilchicboysmith2952]

This is one damn great movie. Terrifying, but great.

[@kreepyits-o7761]

Being that this movie was made in the 80s theirs no computer green screen or cgi crap to make a reality look like a fantasy this was all real and they worked hard to build a movie with pride and the stunts were dangerous because it was real 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻this is how real movie were made not like today

[@quakecon2009]

This is one of the best films of all time.

[@bryanpalmer9660]

Have this 💎 on DVD,brillant movie with a great plot,cast and crew-all the lead actors were excellent and Eric Roberts deserved his nomination at the years awards Auckland New Zealand 2023

[@MichaelChernik-zf2fy]

no CGI this was a real train

[@fatwalletboy2]

the way it was all cut together looked pretty damn believable to me.........presume the studio staging featured a moving track that was mounted on some kind of looped roller mechanism that was just constantly spun around to mimic the train moving along....genius really.

[@williamkalal7793]

The only other movie that compares is "First Blood" for actors who pushed beyond what they believed to be their physical human limits, to make a film. Even if you have seen the movie and hated it like Gene Siskel, appreciate that people really risked death...alot, to make this..screen debut of Danny Trejo. Rober Ebert said this was damn near a perfect film. Agreed.

[@N00N01]

Props to them for goint realistic with setpieces and made a 1:1 cab front piece,unlike most studios today

[@jetshull]

Yep one of my all times faves

[@user-jf1fh3uy6l]

1985....this TOP Film will be 40 in 2025 🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@TheRrxing]

Very interesting! Best runaway train type movie ever! The background pic on my iPhone happens to be a old Penn Central e unit same color.

[@jagc1969]

IN the uncut version after the guy hits the windscreen you can see him falling under the wheels...

[@matthewmarsillo4872]

Excellent behind the scenes stunt hiwork always wondered how they are able to accomplish mlthat stunt of the rescue man falling through mlthe train mlwindow and Mannie falling underneath nothe train!!! Even mlthough it obviously a prosthetic hand VNwhen Jon noVoight gets his mlfingers crushed between the lead VNand VNsecond NM engines has noalways gross me out nofor it is so completely realistic!!! Great HNKmovie about the human condition on a disaster situation!!!

[@squirrelslockdowngamingani1284]

matthew marsillo whats with these random vn letters

[@chrisst8922]

Really good this. In other videos, some of the production staff come on youtube and comment themselves. Proud of their work after all these years.

[@thelastdefenderofcamelot5623]

if you are familiar with diesels locomotives, they all have a guard on the front bumper which serves as a snow plow so it is impossible for a human being to fit under a locomotive. he is actually underneath a generic freight car bogie but to the typical audience they wont notice.

[@rafidhiyaulhaq1107]

yeah.. Only a railroad formers,railfans would noticed this xD

[@lasvegassnowman5505]

I agree

[@visionist7]

Such a classic film

[@kayzeaza]

And they still don’t give out awards for stuntmen

[@KidDynamite6]

the train was dragging its big balls…its called a russell

[@eswnl1]

Back when characters looked like real people.

[@Sameoldfitup]

Forgiveness is the intentional and voluntary process by which a victim undergoes a change in feelings and attitude regarding an offense, and overcomes negative emotions such as resentment and vengeance (however justified it might be).

[@sandsoftimegamerstreaming7393]

Where were you able to get this footage. I like to see more if it exist?

[@ElJefeDeTexas]

The Runaway Train had no animation or cgi, it was all stunt after stunt, balls of steel and bravery, i for sure won't sign up for it

[@behindthestunts]

A similar runaway train film was made with Denzel? Unstoppable. You could see what they wanted to do, but was full of cgi. The original is head and shoulders above the rest

[@Sameoldfitup]

Top movie

[@haro82]

Finally coming on bluray in march!

[@Senna-78]

5:37 did he say WALTER WHITE?

[@carolmitchell3436]

No

[@bryanlarocque7627]

Have DVD !

[@georgehanson1658]

They parked the running engine behind my place at night on the tracks going through Girdwood . Not good to idle those engines for long periods of time s they tend to "soup up" pulling oil past the rings. Used to operate one of these 20 cyl. engines in Prudhoe Bay powerplant. Still some plywood mock-ups laying around my old "diggings".

[@user-dw8uw7th8y]

Uhhhhhhh..... Yea COOL MOVIE!!!

[@user-dw8uw7th8y]

Whenever you make a another train can I be in it?

[@mile290productions3]

The crashing window part was seen in unstoppable 767's right windshield got broken by a man from a heli. (Sorry spoilers)

[@rafidhiyaulhaq1107]

Yeah.. maybe the Scott the director of the unstoppable film took an inspirations from this

[@HOTRAILProductions]

I would like to see how they made the scene where it went through Eastbound 12's caboose!@

[@mikeytrains1]

CSX Productions Let me ask you this : DO you think the grey part is annoying?Like they could have used Alaska Railroad,Or BC-Rail....And maybe just use one GE U36-B "U-Boat" locomotive....You agree?

[@HOTRAILProductions]

You mean the grey on the caboose?

[@mikeytrains1]

CSX Productions No,for like the four locomotives that hit it..Oh,my god,I love that scene to!

[@IGaveUpSecondsAgo]

I like the gray, and I don't. I think it gives them character as their own railroad (like AWVR in Unstoppable), and it feels uninspired. They just made them gray rather than a fictional roadname.

[@mikeytrains1]

Takumi Fujiwara They should have painted the locomotive in Eastbound 12's paint(Old ALASKA RAILROAD Paint) Which that IS a real ALASKA RAILROAD livery!So yeah..And they could have used some fucking GE locos.But AR only uses EMD.

[@JuanGamer0202]

Hey just a joke on the movie here but at 8:12 the recording crew openned the front door of engine two XD

[@ianmangham4570]

Manny i need shoes, i need shoes 👟 manny 😂🙏

[@ghfdfhfdndxhcg2312]

What I want to know is, in the movie, why couldn't they just stay on the two GP7's and uncouple them from the F7 unit instead of struggling to get to the front? I know that wouldn't have made for a very good movie, but I'm just trying to figure out how this film is still consistent with logic and reasoning.

[@abloogywoogywoo]

Its sorta "hand waved" away that the couplers levels are on the other side of each loco, meaning whoever pulls it is still stuck abroad the runaway, and not a choice anyone would make if there's reason to believe they can stop it. Then of course, there's Rankin to deal with, whenever it stops, where ever it stops, he's there waiting to kill the convicts.

[@TravellerTinker]

@@abloogywoogywoo i always thought it was because the couplers were frozen

[@user-mr3ct1dm9p]

Because, it's too LOGICAL, and the movie would end sooner.

[@stephenswift5531]

See that he fell into the 2nd unit of the runaway train not jump

[@bryanlarocque7627]

Is not under a locomotive in the movie now i know.

[@61936]

They really dragged a guy under train for this

[@lemmykilmister873]

🤔

[@creepynightmangamer6105]

3:21 Someone tell Me, This is Real or Prop? 🤔

[@mile290productions3]

Yeah what about his *_hand._* It looks like some skin ripped.

[@DK-nv9zu]

The runaway girl kind of reminds me of the waitress from Always Sunny w that haircut and nose. Guess she finally got sick of Charlie