Unstoppable (2010 film)

Unstoppable is a 2010 American disaster thriller film directed by Tony Scott, written by Mark Bomback, and starring Denzel Washington and Chris Pine. The film, loosely based on the reallife CSX 8888 incident, tells the story of a runaway freight train, and the two men Washington and Pine who attempt to stop it. This marks Scotts final feature film before his death in 2012.

While moving a train pulled by engines 777 and 767 at the Veteran Allegheny and West Virginia Railroad AWVR trainyard in the fictional city of Fuller, Pennsylvania, the two hostlers, Dewey and Gilleece, take illadvised shortcuts and accidentally allow the engine to leave the trainyard on its own power without the air brakes engaged. Initially believing the train to be a coaster, yardmaster Connie Hooper orders Dewey, Gilleece, and chief welder Ned Oldham to drive and catch up the train to stop it. When Oldham finds that the train has already passed where it was supposed to be, they realize that the train is running on full power and now poses a dangerous threat. Dewey and Gilleece manage to catch up to 777 using a highrailing truck, but fail to board the train in time. Hooper alerts Oscar Galvin, director of operations for AWVR, as well instructs the local and state police and sheriffs to secure all the grade crossings to prevent injury. Visiting Federal Railroad Administration safety inspector Scott Werner finds thatcars being pulled by 777 contain molten phenol which would be a major disaster if the train should crash or derail in a populated area. News of the runaway train soon becomes a media event.Hooper suggests they purposely derail the train, but Galvin disagrees and believes they can safely stop the train by lashing it behind two slowermoving diesel engines helmed by veteran engineer Judd Stewart, slowing it down long enough for AWVR employee and former U.S. Marine Ryan Scott to descent from helicopter to 777s cab and stop the train manually. Though the lashing initially works, 777 jumps ahead, knocking Scott out and pushing the two diesel engines off track, where they explode killing Stewart. They realize that 777 at its current speed will certainly derail on Devils Curve, a tight, elevated portion of track in the middle of the city of Stanton on the eastern side of the state. Plans are made to purposely derail the train outside the town of Arklow usin

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