Line #13 Fridge/Unstoppable


1	!!FridgeLogic
2	* 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?!?!
3	* Why is the head welder Ned giving the press conference at the end? Forgiven because he is just that awesome.
4	** [[FridgeBrilliance Actually]], "he's just that awesome" ''is'' the reason he's giving it - [[spoiler:he's just played a major role in stopping a runaway train with explosives]]. It's also implied that he's being interviewed and not heading the conference because when it's asked what caused the whole incident, someone else steps up.
5	** Also, the scene begins with a reporter explicitly directing the next question to him.
6	* How'd he get into a suit?
7	** It's implied time has passed - enough time for a press conference to be set up, and for Will to get into a cast.
8	* The Federal rail inspector knows cargo characteristics and railroad physics, but he doesn't know what the red lights on the dispatch office monitoring board mean.
9	** It's quite likely he never had to go to a dispatch office or control center before, he probably exclusively did field work.
10	** 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.
11	* 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?
12	** The front engine kept, for lack of a better term, bouncing off of 777 — if he timed his jump wrong, he'd be killed.
13	*** 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.
14	*** RuleOfDrama is in the driver's seat here… Judd's not one of the protagonists, so he gets to be the RedShirt.
15	* 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.
16	** Connecting the trainline would have been a useless gesture if the angle cock wasn't closed at the other end (between the two lead 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.
17	*** 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.
18	** 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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20	!!FridgeHorror
21	* The movie would've gotten much, much darker if 777 ''actually'' hit that trainload of children.

Context Fridge / Unstoppable