It happened in Ohio, not Pennsylvania, in 2001.
Also, the movie made it seem like the train was on the run all day, when really it was only for two hours.
Based on a real runaway train incident. On May 15, 2001, a 47-car CSX locomotive left a Toledo, Ohio rail yard without an engineer and wasn't stopped until it had run 66 miles through three counties. No one was injured in the incident.Answers.com
Thomas Edison was in his mid-twenties when he saved a 3-year-old child from a runaway train in 1867.
Do you believe this nonsense. There was no runaway train. a kid might have been trespassing in a railroad yard, when Edison might just have been on the scene in time. this sounds like the (dangerous) -if not suicidal Franklin Kite and Key anecdote and is probably- a myth.
Over a thousand train accidents occur per year in Canada. In 2009 alone, there were 1038 accidents. Almost 50% of these were non-main-track train derailments. Almost 18% were crossing accidents, and these crossing accidents resulted in 19 fatalities.
It didnt happen in PA. It actually happened in Ohio. The train number was 8888 and it happend in 2001.
"Runaway" was released in 1983
No, if the 17 year old isn't where their parents expect them to be, they are a runaway.
According to the US DOT, about 1000 deaths occur each year from train crashes. Of those, some 600 are due to train/automobile accidents.
He is not a runaway at 18, he is legally an adult.
If you leave home without your parents' permission you can be declared a runaway.
If the 17yo is a runaway, yes. It's illegal to help a runaway from home.
Of course it is!