msb@lsuc.UUCP (Mark Brader) (02/05/85)
bjf@utcs.UUCP (Bruce Freeman) writes in net.movies (edited to remove spoiler): > ... I remember that when I saw SILVER STREAK that > it was amusing to see the train leave Toronto ("Los Angeles") at the beginning > of the movie and then arrive at Toronto's Union Station ("Chicago")... Actually, it was better than that. The opening shots around the station really were Los Angeles. But when the train pulled out of the station, it was leaving Toronto's Union Station going east. The Toronto skyline is quite different from LA's! After that, Toronto's station doubled not only for Chicago as stated, but also for Kansas City! (KC was downstairs, Chicago upstairs plus the tracks west of the station.) Mark Brader Please confine any further followups to net.movies OR net.railroad as appropriate, by editing the Newsgroups line.
cb@hlwpc.UUCP (Carl Blesch) (02/05/85)
Yes, the "Chicago station" in Silver Streak was Toronto, but the tracks that the Silver Streak arrived on were really in Chicago -- at the Chicago and North Western Station. As the train is barreling into the station at however-many-miles-an-hour, you can see the bridge for the Lake Street El overhead and the pedestrian tunnel to the Lake St. El, dubbed the "Northwest Passage," on your right. It's also interesting to note that the same station was used in the movie, "Continental Divide." Blair Brown and John Belushi (may he rest in peace!) got on the Empire Builder at North Western Station. The Builder really leaves two blocks down the road at Union Station, as do all Amtrak trains, but I can accept that poetic license. The grevious error is that they were taking the Empire Builder to Wyoming! If that was the case, shouldn't their train have been named the San Francisco Zephyr? Carl Blesch