Silver Streak - videos, teasers and stills from filming

All videos, teasers and footage from the filming of the film "Silver Streak"

Silver Streak (1976)

Timing: 1:54 (114 min)

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All about film

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Actors and characters

Silver Streak - Trailer

English

3:90

What's left behind the scenes

Initially, it was planned to film in the United States, but the railway company "National Rail Passenger Corporation" feared for its image and refused to cooperate with the filmmakers. The film had to be shot in Canada on the Canadian Pacific Railway with its slightly camouflaged equipment.
The interiors were filmed in studio pavilions, in sets mounted on rubber wheels so they could be rocked. To show the shadows of trees standing along the railway, members of the film crew carried large objects in front of the lights behind the windows of the wagon sets, moving from one window to another in turn.
The train crash in the film's finale had a real-life prototype. On January 15, 1953, the braking system failed on a train from Boston arriving in Washington. Two miles from Union Station, the engineer managed to radio an emergency, and the station services managed to evacuate the building. The GG1 electric locomotive broke through the stop barrier at a speed of 25 miles per hour, continuing to pull two passenger cars behind it (the rest of the train separated upon impact and stopped). The locomotive and two cars literally entered the first-floor hall, causing its floor to collapse and the locomotive to fall into the basement. No one was killed, and there were no serious injuries. To remove the 24-meter-long locomotive, its frame was cut into three parts, then reassembled and put back into service; it is now stored in a museum in Baltimore.
The final train crash was filmed in an aircraft hangar using train and railway station mock-ups created specifically for the shoot. The scene of the locomotive crashing into the station buildings was filmed in two hangars connected to each other at the Lockheed aircraft assembly plant in Burbank, California, using a full-size FP-7A locomotive mock-up. The station set occupied several acres. The train crash was filmed with nine cameras, and only 14 seconds of footage made it into the film. The cost of the sets, filming, and equipment totaled $500,000, or approximately $36,000 per second.
Initially, the film was to be shot in the United States, but the National Rail Passenger Corporation feared for its image and refused to cooperate with the filmmakers. As a result, the film had to be shot in Canada on the Canadian Pacific Railway, using its slightly camouflaged equipment.
The final train crash was filmed in an airplane hangar using specially created models of the train and railway station. The scene of the locomotive crashing into the station buildings was filmed in two hangars connected to each other at the Lockheed aircraft manufacturing plant in Burbank, California, using a full-scale model of an FP-7A locomotive. The station set covered several acres. The train crash was filmed with nine cameras, and only 14 seconds of footage made it into the film. The cost of the sets, filming, and equipment totaled $500,000, or approximately $36,000 per second.

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