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One of the issues I have with the lash up that causes the derailment and follow up explosion is this. Diesel fuel has a flash point of 120 degree F. In most cases, diesel fuel will not explode. However, for the movie, it does explode. I know it is for dramatic impression.

HERE IS MORE FLASH POINT DATA...
http://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/flash ... d_937.html

BACK IN THE NAVY DAYS [4-66 TO 1-70] WE WOULD TRY TO LIGHT A CUP OF THAT THICK BLACK GOO THAT WAS BURNED IN THE BOILERS. AS I REMEMBER- WE WASTED A LOT OF MATCHES WITH NO SUCCESS.

You guys know it's all a movie, right?. At the beginning it says inspired on true events. Yes it had its plot holes, but all movies do.

i995impalass wrote:You guys know it's all a movie, right?. At the beginning it says inspired on true events. Yes it had its plot holes, but all movies do.

WHAT, YOU MEAN ITS NOT TRUE??????? AWE POOP!!!

sd70accsxt700 wrote:

i995impalass wrote:You guys know it's all a movie, right?. At the beginning it says inspired on true events. Yes it had its plot holes, but all movies do.

WHAT, YOU MEAN ITS NOT TRUE??????? AWE POOP!!!

Lol about as real as my Mr. Fusion on my DeLorean.

i995impalass wrote:

sd70accsxt700 wrote:

i995impalass wrote:You guys know it's all a movie, right?. At the beginning it says inspired on true events. Yes it had its plot holes, but all movies do.

WHAT, YOU MEAN ITS NOT TRUE??????? AWE POOP!!!

Lol about as real as my Mr. Fusion on my DeLorean.

Still waiting for those to come out, I've been stockpiling banana peels and other random pieces of trash.

I watched the movie the other day. Of course there were all kinds of little things wrong about about it, but the one I found the funniest was that their made up town of "Stanton" in southern Pennsylvania was shown to have a population of 750,000.

Congrats to Stanton on being the 16th largest municipality in the United States...

Also thought it was funny that when they attempted to derail the train that a whole bunch of police and other emergency vehicles were parked right next to the tracks

I learned another thing about the 8888, I'm not sure if this has been posted in this thread. Today I learned that since the 8888 was an ex conrail, shooting the emergency fuel line cut off would not work because on conrail you needed to hold the button for 3 seconds.

This was because on the NEC people would run up hit the button and then steal stuff from the train cars. So shooting the gas shut off would not work... Unless you can hold it for 3 seconds

Bumping this post, I was bored and found this , CSX 8888 has since been rebuilt to a SD40-3, which is now numbered 4389. Apparently there were museums that attempted to save the locomotive but CSX determined that there wasn’t enough historical significance behind it. I think it’s historical but CSX was probably trying to not commit PR suicide. #4389 is currently working locals around Jacksonville/Waycross.

Follow the even more interesting story of CSXT 8887!!!