Runaway Train: Difference between revisions

== Anime & Manga ==

* In the 6th [[Digimon]] movie, ''[[Digimon Tamers]]: The Runaway Digimon Express'', the Tamers are faced with stopping (Gran)Locomon when the train [[Mon|Digimon]] appears during Ruki's birthday party.

* There's one in the fourth [[Detective Conan]] movie, ''Captured in her eyes''. {{spoiler|A [[Trauma-Induced Amnesia]]-affected Ran is thrown in its way, Conan pulls a risky [[Diving Save]] to rescue her.}}

== [[Comic Books]] ==

* [[Don Rosa]]'s ''The Three Caballeros Ride Again'' has the trio fighting a villain on the flatcars of a train when the driver detaches the flatcars in order to save himself. Once they've defeated the villain, they remember that the other direction of the track is incomplete, and indeed ends right at the edge of a huge cliff.

** The track incidentally is real one, completed in the early 1960's. Unfortunately for the protagonists, all Rosa's comics are set in the 1950's.

* Rogue stopped one of these. Longshot (another X-man at the time) jumped aboard to use his luck to help protect the passengers (and possibly assist Rogue, although that was not mentioned.)

== [[Film]] ==

* ''The Cassandra Crossing'', where a biological agent is accidentally released on a train, the military take over the train and are under strict orders to take it to a quarantine site, but the track goes across a dilapidated bridge which might not sustain the load. Watch for O.J. Simpson in the role of an Interpol Police officer.

* ''The Silver Streak'', where a {{spoiler|sociopath trying to steal a fortune through faked documentation of art, has disabled the emergency brakes and is pointing the train toward downtown Chicago.}}

** Justified, There was at least one visible crate of dynamite onboard the train when it plunges off the cliff

* In ''Atomic Train'', a runaway freight train carrying hazardous materials, including an old nuclear bomb. The cause of being a runaway? An air hose breaks and then the train's brakes become useless (in real life, this wound automatically apply the emergency brakes and stop the train, but this film is full of errors and continuity goofs!), causing it to speed up towards Denver. They try all the old "how to stop a runaway train" bits, but to no avail, even though no one even gave a thought on uncoupling the freight cars from the locomotives. Eventually they set a derail at a sharp curve, and inevitably, {{spoiler|the train crashes and the atomic bomb explodes, destroying Denver!}}

** At least Doc is a physicist and engineer (he built his cybernetic arms) and is seen doing specific damage to the controls.

* In ''Money Train'', two guys {{spoiler|who are transit police}} are robbing the train that collects all the fare collections, and bleed the airbrakes so that central control can't force-stop the train.

* [[Batman Begins|"I won't kill you... but I don't have to save you."]]

* Seen in the beginning of ''[[Toy Story]] 3''.

* The premise of the Canadian NFB [http://films.nfb.ca/runaway short] [[Runaway]].

== [[Literature]] ==

== [[Live Action TV]] ==

* ''Disaster on the Coastliner'', a [[Made for TV Movie]] about a man who sets up a train that can't be stopped, to get the president of the railroad to admit he committed some criminal acts that caused the man's wife to die.

* In the ''[[Roseanne]]'' episode '''Roseambo''', a gang of women-hating terrorists taken an Amtrak train hostage and deliberately render it a runaway so it will eventually derail and kill everyone on board. Roseanne comes to the rescue, defeating the terrorists and having her friends and family jump off the train, but right before she can go down with the train off a cliff ("That carnival psychic was right!" she wails), she is rescued at the last second by an FBI helicopter with a tire swing. As the entire train blows up underneath her, she yells "Cleanup on aisle four!" It is not implemented if anyone else was on board the train at the time it crashed (though it is likely the other terrorists were still on the train at the explosion.)

* One of these show up in ''[[Resident Evil]] 0''. Naturally, stopping it requires [[Solve the Soup Cans|solving a math problem]] on [[Malevolent Architecture|two different computer terminals found on opposite ends of the train]] before you're allowed to pull the brake.

* A similar thing is the concept of ''[[Blast Corps]]'', but instead of a runaway train, they have a truck set on an automated course. A truck with nukes.

* The ending of ''[[Total Overdose]]'', after missiles destroy the train trestle. The train can't be saved, but Ram can rescue his [[Chickification|de-Actioned]] [[Love Interest]] from her bondage at the front of it.

* ''[[The Simpsons]]'' featured a Runaway Monorail in one episode. Someone suggests cutting the power when the brakes don't work. Another person says they can't. Bitterly, he says, "Solar power. When will people learn?"

* In the old Superman theatrical short ''Billion Dollar Limited'' by Fleischer Studios, the Billion Dollar Limited train carrying a huge amount of gold to the mint is rendered a runaway when the bad guys manage to toss the engineers out of the locomotive. Attempts to reroute the train into a freight car full of dynamite and to send it off a damaged bridge are foiled by Superman, but he is unable to retrieve a bomb tossed into the locomotive by the bad guys, so he manages to save Lois in the nick of time before the boiler explodes and the now-totaled locomotive derails, and then he pulls the cargo cars of gold the rest of the way to the mint by himself.

* As with the literature it's based on, the ''[[Thomas the Tank Engine]]'' show uses this a lot, having its own distinct theme music, being an [[Oh Crap]] moment for the engine in question and usually ending in a crash of some kind.

* [[Color Classics|''Play Safe! Play Safe!'']]