This is a Mission Impossible scene filmed recently in Derbyshire, its quite a stunt.
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Very cool! Thanks for sharing.
-Greg
Sad if they actually did this.
@feet posted:Sad if they actually did this.
It's a diesel powered mockup with steam effects.
Amazing!! The Brits construct two new steam locomotives from the ground up, yet they totally destroy a perfectly good old one.
@RickO posted:It's a diesel powered mockup with steam effects.
Not even good steam effects!
Buster Keaton's iconic bridge collapse scene in "The General" was reputedly the most expensive shot in silent movie history...
Gomez Addams could do a better job!
I've seen flying steam locomotives 30 years ago! You haven't seen 'Back to the future' part 3?
Reminded me of “Bridge On The River Kwai”
Is that Eastwood Ravine?
@Chuck Sartor posted:I've seen flying steam locomotives 30 years ago! You haven't seen 'Back to the future' part 3?
Rusty
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Mitch
More videos from different angles:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wprHi90jKLQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01ryzBWDpYY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GSrzEMcIJQ
At the end of this one the engine appears to be under full "steam" but is being pushed by a diesel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5zRG5m3i-w
Ken
@Bruce Brown posted:
Fantastic footage.
Almost looks too good to be true for 1902, until I read the description.
However, it has not slipped its earthly bounds...
Rusty
Odd how we can get better steam effects on our O gauge models than they did on a full size mock up.
I wonder why the Mission Impossible movie has a steam train in the plot? Now, if it was for the upcoming Indiana Jones movie (which does feature a steam train in the plot) I would understand it...
@jhz563 posted:Odd how we can get better steam effects on our O gauge models than they did on a full size mock up.
I'd wait until this raw footage goes to post where the VFX team goes to work. Same with the audio (foley, etc).
@BenLMaggi posted:I wonder why the Mission Impossible movie has a steam train in the plot? Now, if it was for the upcoming Indiana Jones movie (which does feature a steam train in the plot) I would understand it...
I would think monorail, HSR, maglev.....
Rusty
Are you all sure it's a mockup? Looks an old, non-powered, but actual steam locomotive that is accelerating under gravity with a smoke unit and fan in the smokebox. : - )
@PRRrat posted:Are you all sure it's a mockup? Looks an old, non-powered, but actual steam locomotive that is accelerating under gravity with a smoke unit and fan in the smokebox. : - )
That ain't no petticoat pipe in the smokebox.
The prop departments are getting pretty good at building mock-up locomotives.
And notice the "bridge" is set up like a launch ramp. No bridge goes upgrade like that past the embankment.
Rusty
Well at least no class 59s and 66s were damaged/destroyed in the making of this film.
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