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* [[Fictional Counterpart]]: AMRoad, for Amtrak. The "Silver Streak" itself is presumably based on Amtrak's "Southwest Chief" train. The train scenes were actually filmed using the thinly disguised Canadian Pacific Railway "Canadian".
* [[Giant Mook]]: Reace, played by Richard Kiel.
* [[
* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: Scatman Crothers as the Conductor of the train.
** Fred Willard as the Chicago train station controller.
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* [[Salt and Pepper]]: The first of four team-ups between Wilder & Pryor.
* [[Shoe Shine, Mister?]]: The police are looking for George, so Grover buys some shoe polish from a shoeshiner at a stand at the train station to use to [[Black Like Me|disguise him as a black man]].
* [[Spiritual Successor]]: To ''[[North
* [[This Is Reality]]: George is surprised as to how quickly a gun runs out of bullets.
* [[Thriller
* [[California Doubling|Toronto Doubling]]: Many of the railroad station scenes (supposedly Los Angeles, Kansas City, and Chicago) were actually filmed in various parts of Union Station in Toronto. Also, Alberta stands in for the Midwest in several places.
* [[Traintop Battle]]: George has one of these against Reace about halfway through the film. (Footage from the scene, with Wilder - or rather his stunt double - dangling from an overhead railroad signal, was later incorporated into the opening credits of ''[[The Fall Guy (TV series)|The Fall Guy]]''.)
* [[The Windy City]]
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