Tuesday, February 26, 2019

Next time, take the plane

Sounds awful: 183 passengers have been stranded on an Amtrak train since Sunday. Having had some unpleasant experiences with Amtrack delays, I can certainly relate. I hope everybody gets rescued soon.

Puts me in mind of a very good western, Breakheart Pass:

7 comments:

Steve Skubinna said...

Never saw the film because the book was one of Alastair MacLean's unsuccessful efforts. Too British. He kept using British terminology to describe the Wild West (for example, calling the train cars "waggons").

However, if you recommend it I shall seek it out for viewing. And I'd better enjoy it, or I shall jolly well know what to do about it, by Jove!

Paco said...

C'mon, man. Charles Bronson! Ben Johnson! You can't go wrong. I don't remember any Britishisms in the film, although that may be bad memory on my part. I'm thinking the scriptwriters probably got the stuff out.

Gregoryno6 said...

I say, is that Sam Elliott getting a bullet through his noggin?

Paco said...

I ran that scene twice, because the same thing occurred to me. Upon closer examination, I don't think it's him (also, his filmography doesn't indicate an appearance in this movie; although, I suppose it might have been Elliot in an uncredited role).

Jonah said...

Sheesh, from where that train was stuck would be a 5 mile hike to town in 7 inch snow.

Jonah said...

And a 50 yard struggle and over a barb wire fence to Interstate 5, where truckers were fighting for their lives! as they sat there unable to move because of government mandated electronic logbook restrictions forbidding their movement from where they were stuck. And California mandates that trucks can't idle more than 5 minutes so that trucks registered there have a shuttoff thing. So freeze to death.

Yeah I'm a California trucker & I bailed out but I'm the only one. I've got no respect for the trucking industry anymore.

Paco said...

Jonah: Glad to hear that you retired from the industry before its regulations wound up doing you some mischief.