PRR steam crashes into Army tank on film!

Preview of the Season 2 of the CBS series Jericho. A train with the invading troops of neighboring New Bern, Kansas, is headed toward Jericho. Only steam engines work after the EMP. Where they got a PRR steam engine in Kansas, they don't say. Perhaps a tourist line. And they don't explain why it has a diesel horn. Obviously the producers didn't consult foamers for this. It's about two minutes into the clip.

Anyway, take a look!

http://tv.msn.com/news/article.aspx?news=298118

Reminds me of a real incident told to me by my Russian History teacher back in college. He served on the Eastern Front in WW II with the Wehrmacht and actually saw a Stalin tank blocking a track shoot it out with an oncoming German armored train. If stopping the train means winning, the tank won.

The PRR steam engine looks like CGI to me. Like the diesel horn, the PRR steam engine can be chalked up to poor research from the writers. At least it wasn't like the General and the Inyo or something. Looks like they merged "Band of Brothers" with "Train Simulator" to get that one!!

-otto-

Visit: http://www.cbs.com/primetime/jericho/vi ... =true&cc=2

There's a behind-the-scenes video behind the train wreck. The tank was real. The track was sorta real- only about 100 feet of it laid for the shoot. The rest was CG. The train was shot at the Los Angeles Live Steamers, a 1/8 scale model of a steam engine shot on blue screen. That's why the train shot was so tight.

http://www.lals.org/

P.S. I thought the locomotive was an E 6 Atlantic.

It's a model of one of the two PRR K5 4-6-2s with modernized front end.

Yeah, well if the tank runs and cars run and the helicopters run, any non-computer diesel should run just fine. Meaning pretty much anything into the 80's... if anything they should run easier than say a car because they can run on crappier fuel and the diesel takes longer to go bad.