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* Somehow the photo that Will has of Darcy on his phone as a caller identifier (visible when he sees the "missed call" notice from her in the cab after he stops the train) is ''exactly the same shot'' that the main film's camera takes of Darcy when she is looking at Will later at the press conference! Can Will's phone photograph THE FUTURE?!?!
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*** Pumping up the air doesn't apply the brakes, ''releasing'' the air does; railroad brake systems are designed to apply the brakes if the trainline is separated (such as a broken coupling). However, when cars are being switched in the yard, the brakes are disabled by closing a valve on each car, retaining the pressure and holding the brakes off.[[note]]Incidentally, failing to close this valve and shoving the cars around with the brakes applied results in flat spots on the wheels, which is why some cars make a repetitive banging sound as they go past.[[/note]]. Even if the trainline was connected, the isolation valves on each car would have to be opened before the brakes would be effective.
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** The front engine kept, for lack of a better term, bouncing off of 777 - if he timed his jump wrong he'd be killed.

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** The front engine kept, for lack of a better term, bouncing off of 777 - if he timed his jump wrong wrong, he'd be killed.



*** RuleOfDrama is in the driver's seat here...Judd's not one of protagonists, so he gets to be the RedShirt.

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*** RuleOfDrama is in the driver's seat here...here… Judd's not one of the protagonists, so he gets to be the RedShirt.
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* The movie would've gotten much, much darker if 777 ''actually'' hit that trainload of children.
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** Connecting the trainline would have been a useless gesture if the angle cock wasn't closed at the other end (between the two lead AC4400CWs and the rest of the train), which it likely would not have been. If the angle cock was open, any air pumped in to the train line would just escape out the open end of the hose.

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** Connecting the trainline would have been a useless gesture if the angle cock wasn't closed at the other end (between the two lead AC4400CWs locomotives and the rest of the train), which it likely would not have been. If the angle cock was open, any air pumped in to the train line would just escape out the open end of the hose.
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** Connecting the trainline would have been a useless gesture if the angle cock wasn't closed at the other end (between the two lead AC4400CWs and the rest of the train), which it likely would not have been. If the angle cock was open, any air pumped in to the train line would just escape out the open end of the hose.



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** The whole running thing is impossible at such speeds anyway. He would get blown off the train if he tried it.
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* Once 1206 is coupled to the rear of 777, why not try to hook up the air brakes to the train? Especially once the locomotive brakes are burnt out. It wouldn't be easy, but surely less risky than running along the roof of each car.
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*** RuleOfDrama is in the driver's seat here...Judd's not one of the the defacto heroes so he doesn't get the benefit of PlotArmor.

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*** RuleOfDrama is in the driver's seat here...Judd's not one of the the defacto heroes protagonists, so he doesn't get gets to be the benefit of PlotArmor.RedShirt.
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*** RuleofDrama here folks...also the people trying to stop it were not the defacto heroes so PlotArmor for their position.

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*** RuleofDrama here folks...also RuleOfDrama is in the people trying to stop it were driver's seat here...Judd's not one of the the defacto heroes so PlotArmor for their position.he doesn't get the benefit of PlotArmor.
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** Justified, most railroad inspectors do not have control tower or rail-hump training, they do exclusive field and on-the-job working directly with the grunts and the ordering offices.
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*** RuleofDrama here folks...also the people trying to stop it were not the defacto heroes so PlotArmor for their position.
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*** Only because they were trying to slow the train down using that second set of engines. If they'd just matched speed with 777 instead of trying to slow it, there wouldn't have been any bouncing and someone could just walk across. Plus, the engines have walkways. The gap between the locomotives would have been less than it is between unpowered rail cars, as train crews do need to pass between locomotives from time to time, so there wouldn't have been any need to make a dangerous leap.
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** The front engine kept, for lack of a better term, bouncing off of 777 - if he timed his jump wrong he'd be killed.

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** Jumping onto a moving train from the side might just be easier to execute than trying to jump onto it from the front. Especially considering that every time those two engines collided, there was a fairly violent jolt. Granted, they wouldn't be ''trying'' to connect, but it'd be too easy to do by accident.
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** Jumping onto a moving train from the side might just be easier to execute than trying to jump onto it from the front. Especially considering that every time those two engines collided, there was a fairly violent jolt. Granted, they wouldn't be ''trying'' to connect, but it'd be too easy to do by accident.
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** It's quite likely he never had to go to a dispatch office or control center before, he probably exclusively did field work.
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* When they put another locomotive on the track in front of the runaway train, trying to brake it from the front, why didn't they have a second guy on the platform at the back of that locomotive just cross onto the front of the runaway train, go in the cab, and stop it? That's exactly where Will ended up climbing aboard at the end of the movie! Why have the guy hanging from a helicopter, when he could just cross from the front engine to the back one?

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