Passenger car on tail end of NS 38E - Transformers Movie

[TrainWatcher]

LIGHTS, CAMERA, and ACTION................ The oddball passenger equipment roaming around Detroit is for the next Transformer movie being shot around the old Packard plant on East Grand Blvd. That is all.

Well I can say thats good news. But what do you mean by oddball passenger equipment? Thats the only car anyone has spotted. What others are there? And for heavens sake I hope they do not blow them up. That car looks like it still has some life left.

[sd70accsxt700]

James that "car" looks like it has as much "life" left in as the chicken I ate for lunch.

[TrainWatcher]

TTAM, Im under the impression that if a car is still rolling at trackspeed (30+ mph) in a freight train and has been all over the system recently, it is still good as far as the FRA is concerned correct?

[sd70accsxt700]

James just because it is "structurely sound" dont mean it has "life", but yes in order for it to move it has to be mechinacly sound.

[ptrain56]

well at least thats not a car for a new commuter service..it would keep commuters in their cars and off the rails..no matter how much that car is refurbished it is still a disaster.

[CAT345C]

James just because it is "structurely sound" dont mean it has "life", but yes in order for it to move it has to be mechinacly sound.

The inside prolly smells like racoon urine, or the movie studio prolly bought the car so they could blow it up. If i owned a run of the mill passenger and somebody wanted to buy it I'd let em.

[ETR#101]

Found these two photos on the wonderful photoblog detroitfunk.com. You can see here that as of now it's in one peice. The car is at the old Packard plant that's being used as a set.






Me thinks Amtrak is gonna take a hit in this movie

[ETR#101]

I also found this posting on another great forum Detroityes.com

"renf - posted Sept 5, 2010
Two weeks ago I spent a night at a railfan bed and breakfast in eastern Pennsylvania. I met a man there who had putchased three used passenger cars from the Long Island Railroad for use in Transformers 3. He was supervising their trip to Detroit. Two of the cars were scheduled to be destroyed in the filming. He intended to savve the other Long Island car for resale. I got a message from him last week saying that the Norfolk Southern approved his cars for transit to Detroit."

I guess that car wasn't postitioned like that. From what I read on that forum........she careened out a 4th floor window
Seeing how she's not folded in half....I'd say she was still in pretty decent shape!